Mattie just wants to be your best friend. And your best friend, and your best friend, and EVERYBODY’S best friend!
Cocker spaniel golden retriever mix puppy? Well, that’s my guess. Mom didn’t know, so I did my best.
Mattie managed to get a really good lick in across the back of my phone, just after this picture was taken. Consequently, I have one picture of a dog tongue, very close up.
I ran into two other dogs on my trip back from Indiana to San Francisco. This one, a very happy and friendly Cavalier King Charles spaniel, I ran into at the San Francisco airport. Her mom was busy at a food counter, but several people snuck in brief greetings on the way by.
The other dog was a ridiculously adorable 7-month-old puppy named Ava Grace that I ran into in the airport in Chicago. I was walking down one of the terminal corridors, and I was about 2 hours early for my flight so I was dawdling. I saw a couple carrying around this adorable happy puppy and I said, “Excuse me, hello, I’m a licensed dog blogger, and I’m afraid I’m going to have to take some pictures of your dog.” I got a couple weird looks, but I’m used to that. But when I gave them my card, they said, “Oh, wow, she’s from San Francisco! We’re headed back there right now!” And yes, this dog was on my flight.
And I took over 50 pictures and not a single one of them came out, because the dog was wiggly and the light was dim. DAMMIT!
If that isn’t a doggie smile then you can take away my dog blogger license.
Ran into this fine example of awesome doggitude — the first assistance shiba inu I’ve ever met! — when I was flying out to Indiana for Christmas, in the San Francisco Airport. In fact, as I recall, he was even on my flight. I didn’t get his name, unfortunately, but I do remember that his dad told me he was kind of nervous with the sudden giant crowd of noisy people around him, so I didn’t get too close.
Damn, shiba inus are ridiculously photogenic. You more or less can’t get a bad picture of one.
I gather he had to sit in a carrier under a seat. He seems kind of big for that.
Ears forward, tail up-ish… he doesn’t look too freaked out to me.
I was out in Indiana for Christmas, which was less snowy than I had reason to expect. But that meant I could take a couple of walks and take some pictures. And one of the things that I took pictures of was this ‘lovely horse‘.
I don’t really know what that coloration is… palomino? Champagne? Something like that, anyway. Sure is pretty. Anyone know what the marking on her side might be?
She caught a glimpse of me just as I was taking her picture.
She decided to come over to investigate, but got distracted by something else a moment later.
Two kitties for this lovely caturday, one tuxedo kitten and one that was pure black, and both adorable.
I say ‘lovely’ even though it was raining much of the day and grey for the rest of it, because I was feeling quite a bit better yesterday, and even better today. I hope this means that I’m improving quickly, though it could just be a hiatus. Still, it’s very encouraging, and makes me nearly cheerful.
It helps that we really really really need the rain. I can keep telling myself that when I look outside and it’s spraying down.
I caught the left-hand one in the act of meowing at me.
This gorgeous huskorgi (husky/corgi mix) was so excited to go to the beach that he could not contain himself, so he’d dance up to passers-by and bark and wiggle and just generally show off. So adorable. He just thought this was the greatest thing in the history of all greatest things that could ever happen. I want to feel like that just once in my life, but I suspect that it may not be possible without really, really good drugs.
Half-husky, half-corgi. If that isn’t a recipe for a smart-ass dog, I don’t know what is.
And an awesome dog, too, of course.
I have absolutely no idea what this guy is, but he was just too happy not to include.
This is the last thing you will see before your ankles are licked.
Coco is another one of those dogs that I ran into right outside work, and I was like, ‘okay, well, here is a dog who is going to make me late to work, and work is just going to have to deal with that, because Coco is too awesome to miss.’ She was, at time of this photo, a 6-month-old German shepherd, so for those of you keeping count, that’s two German shepherd puppies in a period of five days.
And for those of you who are not keeping count, darn it, why aren’t you keeping count?
Also… well. The hovertext went in a direction rather different, and rather darker, than I’d expected.
Look at those ears. Coco has dainty little paws, but giganto-humongous ears.
It was a real struggle keeping Coco in one place long enough for me to get some pictures.
That expression is just as she was turning around to jump on dad instead. Unfortunately all those pictures were too blurry to post.
Shiba inu shiba inu shiba inu shiba inu! It has a nice rhythm to it, doesn’t it? Well, I guess it does come from one of those ‘musical languages’. As opposed to, say, English, which, while it does have its good points, isn’t exactly considered among the most lovely in the world.
Work went all right today. The slow normalization of my life continues, hopefully the normalization of my health will continue as well.
I love the little ‘grapevine’ dance step you sometimes get when a dog’s interested in going one direction and his leash says to go in a different one.
We’ve seen Bear the Eurasier once before, here, but that was quite late at night. Those pictures might actually be a bit better, though, it’s hard to say one way or the other, given the shadows going on. Still, it’s clear Bear’s a gorgeous pup either way.
I hear the breed is getting more popular. I can see why… so fluffy, so soft, so pretty, quite smart, and their life expectancy is apparently 12 to 14 years, so very healthy as well.
You can totally see the breeds they were bred from: chow, keeshond, and samoyed.
I love his expression. He looks like he gets the joke, and is inviting you to share it.