Saw this pretty pup outside of Crossroads Cafe. The glare was murder, but I did my best.
Edit: Sheesh, how did I label this a Sheltie in some places and a collie in others? Crazy!
I was on my way to lunch with a friend and ex-coworker when I saw this pup. And then, while I was having lunch with her, I saw a blue merle collie out the window.
You really do just want to curl up with her and bask in the sun for a while.
Vegas is a puggle, and a Very Important Pup: she’s the shop dog at Al’s Attire, a neat little tailor/cobbler’s shop in North Beach. I got a pair of custom-made shoes there, and although the first pair is a little pricey, it turns out they’ll make more pairs for you for significantly less. But I haven’t had to test that, since this pair has lasted me four years so far. Not bad!
Vegas has intermittent cherry-eye, and is a puggle. These two things combine to make her look sad a lot.
Still, I think she’s a pretty happy dog, all things considered.
There are a lot of pretty murals in San Francisco. I’m posting this one in celebration of the fact that there are still grey foxes in the San Francisco Presidio.
It’s not a grey fox, but hey, you can’t have everything.
I ran across this fine feline in the window of Bow Wow Meow. I had no idea they even had a store cat, but there she was, being all cute and stuff. Apparently she hangs out there during the day, but spends all her time hiding from customers.
(Had some technical difficulties during the day. Thankfully, one of the things that they proved is that my backup solution is working quite well.)
Sorry, she’s a little dark, but I couldn’t not post her.
Lulu’s a schnoodle! Schnoodle schnoodle schnoodle-y doo! She was 3 years old when this picture was taken. And, like yesterday’s, this one was also taken outside of Java Beach.
Kind of a funny face. Adorable, but funny.
The ears are totally incongruous.
Another from last year. Brasco (male, 5) was hanging out outside of Java Beach, which is a little coffee shop/restaurant that’s about as far as you can get from my home and still be in San Francisco. Which is a shame because it is awesome, especially its pasties. Yum!
And Brasco obviously loves Java Beach just as much as Java Beach loves Brasco. I love places like that.
He is obviously well known at Java Beach.
She had just taken a picture of him and was seeing if it came out.
That’s a dog who knows exactly what he likes.
Can you see the husky, the German shepherd, and the Lab? They all show through surprisingly well.
One of the most dynamic and noble itches I have ever seen.
His dad treated me to a little demonstration. He made a little howling sound and Brasco went “oh god oh my god yes let’s howl YES I LOVE HOWLING OH MY GOD!’ (Or howls to that effect.)
Public Service Announcement I keep forgetting, I should really say this more often: if I took pictures of your pup, and it’s been a while and I haven’t posted them, feel free to bug me about it in the comments. I literally have a backlog of 5000 dog pictures, of over 1000 dogs, just from the last two years. But if you’re reading this blog, you’re one of a rather rare breed, and I like making people happy by posting their pups. So tell me!
There are typically four reasons that I won’t have posted your pictures yet:
So three of the four possibilities just require a little prod. Feel free to apply it!
Now, with that said, here’s a pair of pups that popped up a full year ago, and I skipped over a couple times for reason 3. Remington and Winchester are NOW well over a year old, but when I took these pictures they were only three months old. They were, then, among the goofiest things (intermittently) on four legs. I suspect that things have not changed significantly in that regard.
The gentleman who was sharing in their journeys was a local artist. I thought about hiring him to design a tee shirt or two for me, but I already have lots of unused tee shirt designs. Maybe someday I’ll get a tee shirt printer and will be able to make all the different designs I want.
The one on the left is Winchester, and the one on the right is Remington.
I find their names somewhat ironic… in that border collies are definitely not ‘gun dogs‘.
Two border collies. I really hope Ben knew what he was getting into.
It still amazes me that they both had the same ear up and the same ear down. Although this guy’s down ear popped up sometimes, just for a change of pace.
Just looking at the pictures makes me tired. Definitely a (double) handful.
Taro is a confirmed half-Cocker spaniel, but he certainly looks half golden. He’s 5 months old in these pictures, and as with most puppies he was hard to get to stay in one place long enough to take a picture. But boy is he a cutie.
A brief moment of stillness in the midst of lots of licked ankles.
Dancing dogs!
Thirty pictures of Rigby… one came out. The rest were all in the sun, and while in person Rigby is positively glorious in the sun, on a camera he is a black silhouette with burning white highlights. I’m surprised he didn’t melt my lens.
A corgi/border collie mix? Rigby can probably herd TREES.
It’s been a very long time (over six years, for those keeping track) since I was the head of IT at Xythos Software. It wasn’t my favorite job, especially after we were acquired by Blackboard, about whom the less said the better.
But I will admit to a certain nostalgia for having my own office. This was the view, nine years ago today, from my office window.
And this was probably the LEAST scenic view of any of the occupied offices.