A few of the dogs I met at Howl-o-ween on Saturday.
No idea what she’s wearing, but I do know that that’s Zoey, one year later. Got some more pictures of her a few weeks ago that I’ll be posting… someday…
There were boatloads of corgis at the celebration. I don’t know where they all came from, but I felt like I was totally surrounded by cute.
Pemmie-with-a-TAIL! With a totally inappropriate costume, too: zombies don’t grin like that.
I dropped by the Mission Bay Howl-O-Ween celebration on Saturday. I’m going to be posting some pictures from it for most of the week, but I thought I’d start with the three dogs that the SPCA brought along. No one adopted them while I was there, so they may well still be available if you know anyone who is looking. They were all totally adorable.
I didn’t get any names, but I suspect if you tell them that you saw pictures taken at Howl-O-Ween, and point them to the pictures here, they’ll know who you mean.
Yes, that’s a three-legged Chihuahua mix. And that’s not someone feeding her… that’s someone taking away the food! She had it in her pen for ten minutes and didn’t eat any.
Of course, she got a little huffy when the food was taken away.
Not sure what this pup is, besides ‘adorable’ and ‘super-sweet’. Probably Chihuahua mix, but mixed with what? Shiba inu, maybe?
It’s obvious what this 4-month-old pup is: a super-sweet, goofy pit mix. Named Coco.
Someone was having a good time at the party.
That’s not actually a sad look. That’s a ‘I just heard a SQEAKY TOY and I can’t figure out WHERE IT IS!’ look.
Just a few sea-and-estuary-birds for your Saturday enjoyment.
Canada geese (not ‘Canadian’, apparently) and what I think is a ”great egert’ and the back half of another.
Wester Gull flying. Yes, they’re annoying, but they’re pretty too.
I guess this guy belongs to someone who works on Polk Street, who had him tied up outside the workplace, and was coming out every ten or fifteen minutes to spend time with him. I can’t quite decide how I feel about that.
Low effort post today… work is being more than usually frustrating.
Those ears.
I can’t think of too many breed mixes more random, but it seems like Yuko turned out okay. I think she’s a Taiwan rescue dog, too. These were taken during the one month of the year that whippets and whippet mixes don’t need sweaters in San Francisco: September.
If I had fur that short (which, alas, I do these days) and that little body fat (which I don’t, also alas!) I’d want a sweater too.
A very noble expression, on a very noble face.
And there are the ears!
I ran into Clancy being walked by his owner, a Chinese gentleman who happily informed me that he was named Clancy and was an Irish Terrier. Although he didn’t say so explicitly, I wonder whether he might have been named for the Clancy Brothers (an Irish music group that Autumn dislikes rather intensely).
“And from the light there came the Dog of Day/Who chased the squirrel that stole the moon away!” (No, that’s not Irish. I just made it up.)
They’re very flat dogs, aren’t they?
Mika needs lots of petting and chin rubs and such. (I’m just doing her a favor and passing along this little tidbit, so that if any of you happen to see her you can act accordingly.)
About 5 seconds before this picture was taken, Mika was being totally goofy. It takes me almost exactly 5 seconds to pull out my camera, turn it on, and get ready to shoot. Grr.
Fortunately, I needn’t have worried: there was still plenty of goofiness after I finally got the camera out.
Lucky guy with an utterly awesome zany-dog.
We haven’t had one of these in a while.
I was not aware that dreadlocks on poodles were a ‘thing’, but apparently they are. All rightie, then.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything look more like a mop. And that includes mops.
Well, he’s trying to look at me…
Ah, there’re the eyes. And the scrawny little legs. Man.
I was walking along the Embarcadero the other day when I saw this distinctive little pup. (I think she’s actually still a puppy although I didn’t remember to record her age.) Am I alone in thinking that she has been Marked By Fate For Greater Things?
Her mom says that she and her partner considered naming her ‘Hermione’ but that got squelched because, well, can you imagine yelling ‘HEEEEERE HERMIONE HERMIONE HERMIONE’? Although ‘Hermione Ranger’, or maybe ‘Hairy Potter’, would be pretty awesome names…
Look at that. I have never seen a marking like that before, and I have seen a LOT of dogs.
Aww… coy look. She’s a real cutie.
A slightly dubious expression. The translucent pink ear just makes it cuter though.
Mookie was pretty tired after a really long walk, so she needed a little pep talk (and some chin skritchies) from mom.
I have to go down to Los Gatos (a town in the South Bay, for those of you out-of-towners) sometime and find a cat to take pictures of. Meanwhile, enjoy these pics Autumn took of a cat she found while she was hiking around Cupertino.
Look at those headlamps. I only wish I had eyes like that.
When I look at her, I get the impression of a woman in a fur coat and an ermine stole. Is it just me?