Double Dog Day: Harley and Loki the Malamutes

God I love malamutes and huskies. They are pretty close to the most photogenic breeds I run across, and they all have such incredibly distinct and visible personalities. I hear they can be giant pains-in-the-ass, but I can’t help but think that they must be well worth the occasional disassembled living room furniture or food stolen off the dining room table.

I’m pretty sure that Harley (girl, 8.5 years old) is the one with the prominent nose stripe, on the right in the first picture. Which makes Loki (boy, 6, and apparently quite well-named) the one on the left.

BTW, someone is ‘scraping’ my web site: downloading all the content. It looks like it’s a person on a home internet connection, which means it’s almost certainly not some kind of web spider thingie. Which I suspect means that pretty soon there’s going to be someone else hosting a ‘Dogs of San Francisco’ web site somewhere. Whee. (Or, at least, that’s probably the plan. We’ll see if they still want to do it after they find out how many gigabytes of picture files they have to host in order to keep a copy of my blog!)

Two Malamutes Looking Goofy

They were hanging out right outside a local music lesson studio thingie. I really wanted someone to tell the girl inside, ‘you can come out and pet them’, but… not my dogs, not my girl, probably wouldn’t have been taken well by anyone. Ah well.

Malamute With Eyes Closed Looking Happy

Like I said… personality. Malamutes have as much personality as ten regular humans, who tend to just look stuffed and fake as soon as you point a camera at them.

Malamute With Blue Eyes And A Pink Stripe On Her Nose Looking Derpy

Those eyes. Somewhere between ‘piercing’ and ‘derpy’ lies the malamute.

Malamute With Blue Eyes And A Pink Stripe On Her Nose Looking Coy

Coy looks…

Malamute With Blue Eyes And A Pink Stripe On Her Nose Looking Coy

…in all directions. (Does that make her a ‘coy-dog’?)

Two Malamutes Being Silly

Didn’t get any good pictures of it, but Loki has one blue eye and one brown one.

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Sunday Switchup: Floating City

Occasionally we get rather large ships into harbor here in San Francisco. I have no idea what cruise ship this is, but it probably has more inhabitants than most of the residential high rises on Nob Hill put together.

Humongous Cruise Ship Docked In San Francisco Bay

If only they weren’t the least fuel-efficient and most polluting form of transportation known to man, they’d be kind of cool.

Cruise Ship Docked At Pier 23, San Francisco

One of these days I’m going to finagle myself a tour of one of those things.

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Caturday Supplement: Marmalade Tabby

It’s been a very long day, full of near-sunstroke and very confusing documentation. Longer, I hear, for Autumn, who apparently had a minor altercation with a parked car. So, a short caturday morsel (of delicious marmalade tabby), instead of the rather larger meal (cat food, naturally) that I had planned.

SPCA Volunteer Holding Marmalade Cat

This was an adoptable kitty who got adopted less than ten minutes after I left. I came back half an hour later and he was gone!

SPCA Volunteer Holding Marmalade Cat While He's Being Petted

You can see why. A real lover, this one.

 

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Dog of the Day: Emma the Pit Bull/Labrador Retriever Mix

Found Emma (whose dad thinks she’s a pit bull/Labrador retriever mix, but that’s just a guess) hanging out in Rincon Park, right near the Bay Bridge. She was, I think, just about all played out (which probably takes a little less time than it used to now that she’s 13 years old) and was just lazing in the grass and enjoying having the ball.

Old Labrador Retriever Pit Bull Mix With Tennis Ball In Front Of The Bay Bridge

I promise, I didn’t pose this. She just sat down right in front of the bridge.

Old Labrador Retriever Pit Bull Mix With Tennis Ball In Front Of The Bay Bridge

She was not impressed with me. As you can probably tell.

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Dog of the Day: Dakota the Airedale Terrier

Dakota (whether North or South is unknown at this time) was hanging out all by his lonesome in front of a restaurant in the Marina district, but I ran into him a little while later in company, which is where I learned his name and the fact that he’s seven. The fact that he’s a total sweetheart I worked out all by myself.

Airedale Terrier Tied To Post

It’s been a good month or so for Airedales… I just posted Duke about a week ago, and I still have two more to post.

Airedale Terrier

Airedales were originally used for hunting otters. Tragic! Fortunately they are no longer forces for evil.

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Dog of the Day: Shaggy Old English Sheepdog

I feel like someone has been a bit remiss in their care and maintenance of their admittedly-challenging pup.

Very Shaggy Old English Sheepdog With Topknot

She looked a little droopy, but she perked right up when I went to say hello.

Very Shaggy Old English Sheepdog With Topknot

Without the topknot I bet she can’t see a thing.

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Dog of the Day: I Have No Idea

I admit it… I’m fresh out of ideas on this one. Any help from the peanut gallery?

Unknown Mixed Breed Dog

The ears look like spaniel. the body shape looks perhaps a bit basset-ish. And the fur is I-don’t-know-what-ish.

Little Girl Delightedly Greeting Unknown Mixed-Breed Dog

Whatever breed he was, this little girl was clearly delighted to meet him.

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Sunday Switchup: Pup Painting

Saw this potentially prized pup painting in the window of a store in Cow Hollow, along Union Street. I’m not sure what the name of the store was, and when I zoom in on the map it tells me it’s at ‘Steamed Sloth Inc.’ I’m pretty sure that wasn’t it.

Dog Matrix Painting

It’s an odd representation. NONE of them seem to be happy.

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Caturday Supplement: Black Snoozeball

So I was walking down the street and glanced into someone’s window, and what should I see but a cat-bed-looking thing with one black kitty-ear extending over the top of it. I could not see into it, but I immediately inferred the presence of a cat (or a resident with a very strange sense of humor). So I held my camera up high over my head and got a picture of a kitty snoozeball! And, as a bonus (penalty?), a picture of my reflection.

Black Cat Curled Up In A Ball In A White Cat Bed

Cats have such nice compact sleeping position.

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Dog of the Day: Duke the Airedale Puppy

Duke’s full moniker is ‘The Duke of North Beach’. At only 3.5 months! A very responsible position for such a tiny Airedale puppy, I think you’ll agree, but Duke seems to be up to the job. Or, at least, he’s up to the ‘meet and greet’ part of the job. And if he’s not up to the paperwork, well, I’m sure he’ll be fully house-trained soon…

Airedale Terrier Puppy In Golden State Warriors Shirt

Given his costume, I suspect you can guess about when these were taken.

Airedale Terrier Puppy Sniffing Camera

Apparently he just went up to people and licked them even if they weren’t Warriors fans, though.

Photographer Petting Airedale Terrier Puppy In Golden State Warriors Shirt

It’s so hard to resist petting them when you’re taking pictures of them.

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