The Dogs of San Francisco

Dog of the Day: Unknown Mixed Breed Awesome Dog

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Adam Lang

Lack of tail and a bit of build suggest an Australian cattle dog to me, but if he is an ACD mix, he’s mixed with something very, very large. Maybe even Great Dane. He has the coloration of some Newfies, but not a lot of the other features. Autumn thinks he might be part Rottie, which would explain the stumpy tail.

Whatever he is, he knows exactly how a Dog of San Francisco should act.

Mixed Breed Awesome Dog With Stumpy Tail

This is from Wags & Wine. And he was very sensitive to attention… he spotted it the moment I started taking pictures of him and came over.

Spotty roof-of-mouth. Never seen that before, but I can’t say as I looked very often.

Autumn got most of these pics, by the way. That’s because that arm is mine. Clearly I was too busy with the important job.

All right, where do I get one just like him?

Something sure caught his attention.

Kind of a Rottweiler-esque tail stump, I admit.

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Dog of the Day: Purse Chihuahua

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Adam Lang

I thought I had a few more pictures of this guy, running around at the Wags and Wine party. But turns out, nope, that was a different but equally goofy-looking pup. Oh well… even if it’s just one picture, this one’s too silly not to share.

The tongue does it to me every time.

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Dog of the Day: Black MUNI-Pomeranian

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Adam Lang

First a meta-Pomeranian and now a MUNI-Pomeranian! When will the streak end?

I found this pup, whose name I forgot to get, on a MUNI train during my commute. He had a small circle of admirers around him, too.

Easy to see why, that’s a dangerous dose of cute.

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Dog of the Day: Boo Radley the Chinese Crested/Australian Cattle Dog Mix

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Adam Lang

If you remember anything about ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, you can probably guess why Boo was named the way he was. (I couldn’t, I read it when I was twelve.) He may well be the second dog I’ve posted who was named after a character from the book, with Atticus as the first. (Or possibly he was named after the Greek philosopher? Who knows.)

Chinese Crested/Australian Cattle Dog Mix in a Sweater

Bet he gets awfully cold in San Francisco, if he goes out without the sweater.

Australian Cattle Dog/Chinese Crested Dog Mix in a Sweater

He’s definitely pretty shy… every time I moved into shooting position he went and hid behind mom.

I figured out the Chinese crested part right away. Boo’s mom said that other people usually get the Australian Cattle Dog part, but I would never have figured that out on my own.

Posted in Dog of the Day | Tagged Australian Cattle Dog, Chinese Crested Dog, Embarcadero, Mixed Breed, SOMA, South Beach, South Beach Park | 2 Comments

Dog of the Day: Herbie the Meta-Pomeranian

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Adam Lang

I have a little announcement: over the next few days I’m going to be adding more designs to the Dogs of SF store! In fact, I’ve already started, although there’s more (and better) in store. Thus far, I’ve added an iPoodle tote bag, and an entirely new shirt design:

If you have a schnauzer, you know exactly what this means.

Please note that the color is just a display color: you can change the color of the tee shirt when yo go to order one… although some combinations probably won’t work out terribly well. Also, please stay tuned, as I expect to have another two or three designs, including one from notorious local artist Lisa Sindorf, in the next few days.

And, for today’s post: I met Herbie down in the touristy area near the Hyde Street Pier last weekend. (For those of you not in the know, that’s between Ghirardelli Square and Fisherman’s Wharf.) It seems that mom made a rather unusual request of one of the local portrait artists. What do you think? Did he capture the spirit of Herbie?

Herbie is a little bitty ball of fluff and prance.

Okay, that’s pretty cute. Kudos to a versatile portrait artist.

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Caturday Supplement: Hyde Street Kitteh

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Adam Lang

I was at the sea music festival at the Hyde Street Pier last Saturday, since Autumn was playing there. (For those of you who don’t know, the Hyde Street Pier is also known as the San Francisco National Maritime Historical Park, and has the distinction of being the smallest National Park in the United States.) And I ran across a kitty, rampaging through the park! Oh the felinity!

And, unlike the majority of wild cats I’ve run into in San Francisco, this one immediately came over and demanded attention.

Brown and Black Cat With Black Head and White Socks

I have never seen a cat with coloration like that before. It’s super-pretty, although it does remind me of my grandparents’ coffee table from when I was a kid.

Brown cat with Black Head and Tail and White Socks

He had some notches on his ears, but seemed pretty healthy over all.

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Dog of the Day: Max the 7-Month-Old Husky

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Adam Lang

Max gets my vote as ‘most handsome dog of the week’. In fact, one of the pictures here (I suspect you can guess which one) is in the running for the DoSF calendar, which I am back to actively working on. (Man, cleaning up pictures for printing is a giant pain in the butt, especially when you have inconvenient things like arms, leashes, and, ah, other stuff to try and edit out.)

A 7-month-old husky is apparently a giant bundle of mischief.

He certainly looks the part.

I’m not entirely enamored of the cropping (wish i had more above and below him) but I like everything else about it. August, maybe.

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Dog of the Day: Doki Doki the Beagle

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Adam Lang

‘Doki’ is apparently the sound the heart makes in Japanese. So Doki Doki is pretty much named ‘thumpthump’. Which seems quite appropriate for a beagle with a very active tail.