The Dogs of San Francisco

We’re going to skip the Caturday Supplement this week, in order to bring you one more day of Swiss dogs. This is especially important because Autumn informs me that we do actually have an Appenzeller in the archives, from last year’s Swiss Dog Day. The only problem is, I can’t figure out which one he is! Can anyone help?

Contestant Number One! I dunno, he seems a little small… but he could just be young.

Contestant Number Two: a strong contender!

Actually, this is still contestant 2. I just liked this picture.

Contestant number three sure wins in the cuteness category. Look at those EARS. But it’s hard to tell how big he’ll be when he grows up.

In one 24-hour period last week, I ran into: two adult Bernese mountain dogs (common enough in SF), one Bernese mountain dog puppy (ee!), one Greater Swiss mountain dog (rare in SF), and one Entlebucher (VERY rare in SF). If I could only have found an Appenzeller (which I’ve never even seen before) I would have gotten the entire set.

In celebration, I hereby declare this ‘Swiss Dog Week!’ Let the awesomeness begin!

Edit: Ohgod, I totally forgot to mention that Elsa was being walked by a gentleman from ‘Ultimate Dog Walking‘, a competitor of Autumn’s San Francisco Pup Scouts. But hey, that’s no reason we can’t be friendly, right? Even if they are the enemy.

So why is it that Swiss dogs all have such awesome eyebrows?

This was by no means Elsa’s only trick (‘high five!’) but it was definitely a good one.

Elsa is about 100 pounds of pure love. (Plus about a half pound of drool. Yay!)