I’m not sure if I should believe my notes or my eyes. My notes say that Yuki is an Australian shepherd/corgi mix, but those eyes! (Not to mention the ears and the coloration.) He totally looks like an ACD to me.
This is the clearest picture I got of those eyes. No touch-up was done… that’s the natural color. You can spot them from a block away.
Yuki was both quite shy and eminently distractible.
I love the mischievous expression.
A harmonious pair, united in their curiosity and tendency to scurry up to people and investigate their ankles.
Yorkies always look like kewpie doll dogs to me.
And Brussels Griffons are just totally ridiculous dogs.
Someone is just itching to show off his new wheels!
Sad news: my camera, which has been more or less my constant companion for the last 22 months, has bitten the big one. It wasn’t dropped… it just stopped focusing, first intermittently, then constantly. It’s just as well… I’d managed to scratch the lens rather badly, resulting in the softness in the center of the frame that a couple of you have noticed over the past few months. So I’ll be replacing it soon. (I thought it was still under warrantee via my credit card’s warrantee extension, but apparently Visa changed the program, removing it from my credit card, a few years ago. Argh.)
In the mean time, I’ll mostly be posting stuff from my back catalog. I only have roughly 20,000 dog pictures of roughly 1000 dogs, so I’m in danger of running out sometime in 2015 if I don’t get a camera by then!
Someone was just tickled pink to see us, even though we couldn’t actually pet him.
Clearly a vicious guard dog, protecting the car from intruders. Right?
Zachary is one of Autumn’s and my favorite Dogs of San Francisco, and yet we’ve never yet seen him on the blog. Why is that? Well, it’s because we only ever see Zachary late at night, at one of the local laundromats, on weekends or Thursday nights. We have to be passing at just the right time, and even if we are, it’s just too dark to get decent pictures. (It seems that the owner of the laundromat takes care of Zachary on weekends, apparently including Fridays.)
Zachary is awesome. He can often be found sitting in one of the chairs, and waving at everybody who walks by, in the hopes that one of them will pet him. If he hasn’t been told to sit in the chair, he roams the laundromat until he hears someone at the door, and then comes to greet them with many kisses and wags of the tail. And then he proceeds to be as happy as an animal can manage all around (and all over!) them. Totally adorable. But of course he never goes outside, because he is a smart and well-trained dog.
Third thing in this post is a video. Sorry about the quality, but I was holding my phone over my head when I took it. Still, it can’t be too bad, because it has Zachary in it.
Yes, that moving blur is Zachary’s left hind leg. Pet him for around 3 seconds and this is the scene that results. And if you don’t, he’ll beg you until you do. But in a dignified manner.
Zachary sees us off with his best puppy-dog eyes. It’s hard to leave without being tempted into ‘just one more belly rub’.
A friend of ours emailed us a picture of her cat, “The Blob”. (If I say that that name makes me think of ‘El Blobbo’, Steve Dallas’s name for Opus in the ‘Bloom County’ comic strip, does that date me?)
The eyes match the sheets rather nicely, don’t they?
Found this good sport tied up outside a store down near work.
I feel underdressed. All he needs is a tie and a top hat.
That’s a mischievous look if I’ve ever seen one.
There’s the patented Boston terrier smile.
I think this guy’s favorite candidate did not win yesterday. Cheer up, Mr. Beagle, you are still adorable and have a loving family who took you on a trip to the Big Sur.
I wonder how he got his ears to do that?
A repost from a while back, of a patriotic dog. Be like Diggity: go out and vote!
Vote vote vote like an adorably bowtied dog! (It doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as ‘baby stoat‘, does it?)
So pretty. And so nervous. Poor Tally, the world is full of people who just want to pet you!
She kept her tail tucked so far between her legs that Autumn thought she didn’t have one. Poor pup.
I guess she was treated pretty badly when she was younger. Lucky for her, now she has someone to keep her safe.
These two were definitely very different personalities. Bodie (5) seemed very laid back, whereas Andy (2) was a bit, shall we say, focused.
The expressions on these two in this picture really tell you most of what you need to know about them.
Toothy!
The head tilt is due to me squeaking a squeaky toy to get his attention. Also, I think this guy might be a recessive-red border collie. Sure is pretty!