No idea what kind of flower this is. I just know it’s pretty.
Edit: according to my expert consultants, this is “Freesia laxa, better known in gardens as Anomatheca laxa . A variant is white with red spots. It is a pretty weed from South Africa.”
I love the two-tone color. Anyone know what this is?
So… I’m back! And if not in fighting trim, at least in one piece, for the most part. To celebrate my triumphant return, and (mostly) to apologize for my prolonged absence, I present to you Bella the 4-month-old German shepherd puppy. (I prefer to think that she was named after this Bella.)
My health isn’t great, but it’s better than it was, and honestly it shouldn’t have been keeping me from posting to the blog. I’ve just been kind of depressed and annoyed with the world, and then when I finally got up the initiative to post something, that exact day, the blog went kaboom because I hadn’t been keeping my eye on my SSL certificates and they expired (for my non-technical readers, that means ‘my blog went sproing and pieces flew out in all directions’) and I had to fix that and then I was even more annoyed and…
Anyway, I am hopefully on the mend now. Yesterday I felt the best I’ve felt in a while. Much of today has kind of sucked, but tomorrow’s another day. And I’m in a cafe with a really quite tasty chocolate tart and some tea and, if I am feeling not so great, at least I have been able to sleep reasonably well for the last week, and presumably things will continue to get better. And just a few minutes ago I met the most adorable Bernese mountain dog puppy who licked my face and my right ear and maybe things are okay after all. (No pictures, unfortunately… it was way too dark. Hopefully I’ll get lucky again soon though.)
Look at the ears on this pup. And the puppy ‘fro. Oh. My. God.
Some dogs, there’s more or less no way to get pictures of them without getting their fans too.
Not that she has any complaints, clearly.
STREEEEEEETCHY-dog.
I love the expression, the tongue, and the ear fluff.
I can’t remember the name of this kitty but she’s a client of Autumn’s (along with her brother, a dog), and is the biggest sweetheart ever to purr. I went over to visit her and the pup, to take my mind off my trials and tribulations. While I was there and petting her I thought I felt a tick, so I told Autumn, “I’ll hold her down, you get the tick.” Well, the tick turned out to be a scab that had almost completely fallen off, but she didn’t even mind that I held her down… she just hung out there, looking up at me every once in a while like, “Hey, let me know when you’re about done, okay?” When I let her up, she just lay there. “Eh, no problem, I hadn’t planned to go anywhere anyway.”
I’m feeling pretty good today, better than yesterday after a few days of getting worse. I don’t know if this is going to be a steady improvement kind of situation — it sure as hell wasn’t three weeks ago — but I have my fingers crossed. Hopefully you’ll be seeing a bit more of me.
She’s also a gorgeous kitty with a pretty pink heart-shaped nose.
Not shown: the ‘purrpurrpurr’ going on while I took this picture.
When the little bunny puppy Jobin comes hip-hop-bobbin’ along, along… Jobin is an adorable French bulldog puppy who occasionally looks like a bunny. In these pictures he’s only 15 weeks old, but that was a couple months ago so he might be a bit older now. Or younger. Or cuter, though that’s hard to imagine.
Man, I get a shocking number of my pictures from Huntingdon Park dogs. I should branch out a bit, maybe? But it’s just so conveeeeeenient… just a short walk down the street from home.
No, really, doesn’t she look like a bunny? Especially seated this way. One like this one, with small ears.
The marbled pink-and-black nose!
Spotty puppybelly too.
Someone is about to get puppy-smooches.
I need more happy things in my life. So here is a very happy shrub. It has no worries. It can just sit there and photosynthesize.
I admit, I got a good chuckle out of this when I saw it.
An adorable pit bull puppy for you today.
I am sorry for my temporary absence. I am going through some pretty rough times right now, medically speaking, and things may be intermittent for a while yet. I will do my best to post regularly though, because sharing cute pictures of dogs is part of what keeps me sane, especially in trying circumstances.
Wish me luck.
The sidelong glance. It usually means ‘oh yes, there will be smooches’.
Yup, here they come.
Finally, something that Congress agreed on and Obama signed that I think we can all get behind… and wouldn’t you know it, it involves dogs! It’s a sort of military dog retirement benefits package: it seems that up until this bill (actually a Defense Authorization Act rider) that guarantees military pooches a ride home — previously they were just adopted out in the country they were serving in or required huge amounts of paperwork and special permissions (and cash) to take home — and gives first dibs on adoption rights to the people they were serving with.
Yay! Bring those puppies home! If anyone in San Francisco reads this and has brought back, or will be bringing back or adopting a military dog, I want to take some pictures! Drop a note in the comments. (Although obviously there aren’t a lot of these yet, given how tough it was up until this bill passed.)
This Siberian husky pup is the official greeter at a local nail salon. Well… more of an official sleeper, really. But adorable nonetheless.
I guess this is what you do if you’re a dog and your nose is a little TOO cold?
Aren’t those facial markings amazing?
Go go Mango! Four months old, and winning the hearts of every passer-by. At least, those with hearts.
He looks so attentive.
A remarkably photogenic puppy.
Disapproving Bunneh! Actually he’s not all that disapproving, is he? He just looks kind of tired to me. Perhaps that was because he was handled by dozens of people through the course of what was for him a very long day. I hope he was adopted by the end of it, poor guy.
Apparently bunnies are among the harder-to-place adoptable animals at the SFSPCA.