Double Dog Day: Sirius the Beagle and Harvey Black the Labrador Retriever Mix

These two are good friends, but they’re not above a little friendly rivalry. The beagle is Sirius, posted way back in April.

Tricolor Beagle and Black Labrador Retriever Mix With White Socks

These two dogs have enough personality to fill up a whole dog park.

Black Labrador Retriever Mix With White Socks

White toes! I like the expression too.

Black Labrador Retriever Mix With White Socks and GIANT DOG NOSE

SURPRISE DOG NOSE ATTACK!

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Dog of the Day: Patches the Border Collie/English Springer Spaniel

My notes on Patches say ’11 years old, super-soft fur’.

Black and White Border Collie/English Springer Spaniel Mix

This is one of those mixes that I like to think I would have been able to guess myself, even though I see very few English springer spaniels.

Black and White English Springer Spaniel/Border Collie Mix

Smiley dog.

Black and White English Springer Spaniel/Border Collie Mix

The person in the background is Autumn. And yes, that purse has a pug on it.

 

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Dog of the Day: Doggie Bag!

I believe this to be Mini Cooper Bocephus Conrad Lincecum Pell, Mini Cooper (or ‘Coop?’) for short, who is a ten-year-old chihuahua/Boston terrier mix. That’s a lot of names for a dog who fits in a bag!

Black and White Chihuahua/Boston Terrier Mix

He fits amazingly well. I wonder if she still has room for the usual stuff (wallet, hair brush, and so forth) in there too?

Black and White Chihuahua/Boston Terrier Mix

It’s quite a stylish bag, too.

Black and White Chihuahua/Boston Terrier Mix

That’s mom. The two seem to get along great, and Cooper doesn’t even seem to mind the bag.

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Dog of the Day: Barkley the Labrador Retriever Puppy

Two puppies in a row. I am totally spoiling you guys.

Edit: So frustrating: I wrote some totally adorable hovertext for this guy, but the latest update to WordPress made the editor eat it without a trace and I can’t remember what it was. BAH!

Edit x 2: Figured out how to retrieve it, only a year and two months later!

10-Week-Old Black Labrador Retriever Puppy

Ten weeks old. What do you think? Height of cuteness?

10-Week-Old Black Labrador Retriever Puppy

Lab ears are so soft. Lab puppy ears are even softer.

10-Week-Old Black Labrador Retriever Puppy

Barkley has a white spot on his chest. I guess that occasionally happens with full-blooded labs.

10-Week-Old Black Labrador Retriever Puppy

With those eyes, I bet someone gets what he wants, most of the time…

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Dog of the Day: Juno the Border Collie/German Springer Spaniel Mix

Three months old, and just a giant ball of fluff, love, and curiosity.

Red and White German Shorthaired Pointer/Border Collie Mix

I caught up with this pup at a coffee shop, where she was being ridiculously good.

Red and White German Shorthaired Pointer/Border Collie Mix

Look at the spotty nose. And the fluff!

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Dog of the Day: Jemma the Cool

Autumn occasionally dogsits for someone with a pair of Bernese mountain dogs, Dasja and Jemma. They are both lovely cuddly dogs, although Dasja’s getting old so Jemmy is definitely the goofier of the two.

Bernese Mountain Dog in a Hat

Jemma is also quite tolerant of goofinesses perpetrated on her.

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Caturday Supplement: Notes from Al-cat-traz

I got to visit these kitties in their PRISON in the back room of Macy’s. Won’t someone free them from this terrible, terrible bondage?

Incidentally, I just did a little research trying to figure out why the black kitty with the half-tortoiseshell face looks so striking, and it appears that it is due to a phenomenon called ‘X-inactivation‘, where the chromosomes they receive from one parent are deactivated, but which parent’s is deactivated is more or less random… and, on cats like this, it’s random depending on where on the body it is! So she looks like her dad some places and her mom some places. Neat! (WARNING: Huge oversimplification.)

Q: Which half is cuter, the tan half or the black half? A: BOTH HALVES ARE CUTER!

Q: Which half is cuter, the tan half or the black half? A: BOTH HALVES ARE CUTER!

Cream Tabby

My god, that coloration makes me think of the word ‘decadent’.

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Dog of the Day: Jinxster the Corgi/German Shepherd Puppy

Here’s Jinxster! I thought I was posting pictures of him once before, but that turns out to have been bad note-taking on my part. This is him, in all his six-month-old adorable cuddly glory.

I’m trying out something new: apparently my version of wordpress now supports ‘galleries’. I have no idea what they look like, so you get to find out at the same time as I do. Voila!

Edit: Well, I’m going to call that experiment a failure. Probably would be fine if I didn’t like long captions though.

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Double Dog Day: Toby the Spaniel Mix and Piper the Havanese

Huh! My third blog-o-versary passed me right by without my knowing it. So belated celebration: I’ve been blogging daily for three years and two weeks now! That’s well over 1000 posts, and over 3000 photos. Pretty good, if I do say so myself. What’s three in blog years equal, I wonder?

So, in celebration, here is a cute pair. Toby is a spaniel mix of some sort. (Maybe cocker spaniel/lab? Some of the google images for cocker spaniel/lab mixes look a fair bit like Toby.) And he’s fifteen years old! He doesn’t look or act anywhere near that old. Imagine: in some states he could get his learner’s permit! His friend, Piper, is a 4-year-old Havanese.

Black Shaggy Long-Haired Cocker Spaniel Labrador Retriever Mix

Poofly tail!

Black Shaggy Long-Haired Cocker Spaniel Labrador Retriever Mix

Gorgeous eyes, soft ears, good smile… he even still has good teeth. Those’re some good genes right there!

Black Shaggy Long-Haired Cocker Spaniel Labrador Retriever Mix and Small White-And-Cream Havanese

What’s black and white and cute all over?

White and Cream Havanese Dog

Don’t know much about Havanese dogs. Only met a couple. They seemed a little less hyper than most smallfluffywhite dogs though.

 

 

 

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Dog of the Day: Porter the Goldendoodle

Don’t have any notes for this guy. He could also be a labradoodle but there’s just something about him that makes me think ‘golden retriever’.

Large Brown Goldendoodle

Look at that giant teddy bear.

Large Brown Labradoodle

Bear nose!

Big Brown Labradoodle

I got a sniff, and then he turned his head so fast that his ear flopped up. Floppy dog ears are goofy.

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