My notes on Patches say ’11 years old, super-soft fur’.
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.
Smiley dog.
The person in the background is Autumn. And yes, that purse has a pug on it.
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!
He fits amazingly well. I wonder if she still has room for the usual stuff (wallet, hair brush, and so forth) in there too?
It’s quite a stylish bag, too.
That’s mom. The two seem to get along great, and Cooper doesn’t even seem to mind the bag.
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!
Ten weeks old. What do you think? Height of cuteness?
Lab ears are so soft. Lab puppy ears are even softer.
Barkley has a white spot on his chest. I guess that occasionally happens with full-blooded labs.
With those eyes, I bet someone gets what he wants, most of the time…
Three months old, and just a giant ball of fluff, love, and curiosity.
I caught up with this pup at a coffee shop, where she was being ridiculously good.
Look at the spotty nose. And the fluff!
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.
Jemma is also quite tolerant of goofinesses perpetrated on her.
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!
My god, that coloration makes me think of the word ‘decadent’.
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.
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.
Poofly tail!
Gorgeous eyes, soft ears, good smile… he even still has good teeth. Those’re some good genes right there!
What’s black and white and cute all over?
Don’t know much about Havanese dogs. Only met a couple. They seemed a little less hyper than most smallfluffywhite dogs though.
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’.
Look at that giant teddy bear.
Bear nose!
I got a sniff, and then he turned his head so fast that his ear flopped up. Floppy dog ears are goofy.
Ran into this gal back in April, on the exact same day that I ran into ‘Ella the Teacup Great Pyrenees‘. It was a poofly white dog day!
It took me a bit of work to get Blu’s attention. She had more important things on her mind.
We have more than our fair share of arctic dogs in San Francisco, since it rarely gets hot here. I gotta say, I LOVE that.
All the arctic breeds have an independent streak, but they also all seem to love life a lot.
I know someone who insists that ‘dogs don’t smile.’ According to him, that’s not a happy expression, right there. (There’s something wrong with that guy.)
Look at that fluffy butt. There is almost nothing that could possibly be fluffier than that butt.