Pomba from Kinshasa. Say it out loud: it just rolls right off the tongue.
Pomba makes a heck of a good goodwill ambassador.
Someone got an unexpected birthday surprise: she got to pet this fine pup.
The de rigueur nose shot.
Look at how pronounced that ridge is.
I don’t think I’ve ever met even a full Rhodesian with a ridge that pronounced.
I took my car to the ‘Auto Spa‘ the other day for a well-deserved interior cleaning (aka ‘dredge the potato chips from under the driver’s seat’). It wasn’t until I got there that I discovered that this was a true ‘Dogs of SF’ establishment: they have a store dog, Nilla the pug. That, and the fact that they did a great job on my car, officially earns them the DoSF seal of approval.
Yes, he’s missing an eye. Doesn’t seem to bother him any.
There is nothing like a pug for giving one the hairy eyeball.
I know I’m being a bit lazy this week with the editing and stuff. I can only plead time constraints. Work has me coming and going this week.
Shiba being shiba. A little skittishness, a little ‘leaning away’ body language, and a whole lot of cute.
Man, shiba. Would it hurt you to smile a little? 🙂
Well, she looks pretty happy with her pup. And since I can’t tell with shiba inus, I choose to believe that he’s pretty happy too.
Well, with a tail like that, he can’t be all schnauzer. And besides, his eyebrows aren’t nearly ridiculous enough.
Someone has finely developed ‘sucker sense’. He spotted Autumn…
…and leapt to his feet to beg for chin-scratching.
Those ears.
Looks like I’m not the only one who has a busy work week this week.
As I recall, mom had this to say: “It took me almost 20 minutes to get it that far on him, at which point I gave up on straightening it and just said, ‘it’s fine the way it is.'”
For the first post-Swiss post, may I introduce Prince, the glowy golden angel of happiness and cuddles? He likes gnawing ankles (and the rest of you, too) and dancing and smooches and making people happy.
Prince loves you. Yes, he knows about all the terrible things you’ve done. But he still loves you.
The eye-whiskers. Well, I guess he’ll grow into them, right?
Damn shadows.
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.
And just to round out this week, an old favorite. I posted this before, a long time ago, but I cleaned it up quite a bit since then.
If you don’t envy this kid just a little, you probably have no soul. But that’s okay. I’m sure a Bernese mountain dog would be happy to lend you part of his.
After all, they seem to have about four times as much soul as they by rights ought to have.
Rose is a 4-year-old bundle of love. Just one thing that confuses me: Greater Swisses are supposed to be bigger than Berners, but I haven’t seen many full-grown Berners smaller than Rose. Maybe she’s just petite?
Ran into this lovely lady on Union Street, a section of town perfectly suited to her elegant ways.
Wide tongue!
Look at that totally ladylike and dignified tonguetip-curl.
Rose is super-photogenic. I got perhaps three dozen shots of her that I quite liked. Picking the best ones was tough.
Alma is another repeat customer, although last time I saw her I didn’t get to say hi to her dad, since she was tied up outside the Jug Shop.
Two dog behaviors I find endlessly fascinating: shaking water off and scratching with the hind leg.
I guess it’s because they’re two behaviors that humans don’t really have direct equivalents of.
Although the fact that they can look so ridiculously goofy while they’re doing it helps too.
The patented Dog Love Gaze. Guaranteed to melt hearts at thirty paces.
See? How long could YOU withstand that expression?