I’ve run into a surprising number of Eskies over the last few weeks. I hear if you brush them daily, you can get enough fur to make a gorgeous sweater in around… fourteen minutes.
I initially figured the pup was hiding back there because he was shy.
Nope. He came out and looked at me with just this expression until I petted him. That expression looks an awful lot like Watson, doesn’t it?
Reminder from yesterday: there will be a Wags-and-Wine event, run by ‘wineluv.com’, at the Wags pet hotel near 14th and Folsom (Rainbow Foods, Best Buy, ASPCA, etc), this Friday from 5 PM to 7 PM. Early registration is $20 at the above link, but since we’re so close to the date, if you mention my blog, you pay $20 at the door, instead of the normal $40. I’ll be there, although possibly a bit after 5.
This guy is a new one on me: a Caucasian shepherd, known as the “Kavkazskaïa Ovtcharka” in (transliterated) Russian, a dog that was apparently bred to hunt bears. Apparently normally they aren’t normally the friendliest of dogs, but this pup, despite his background (rescued from a meth lab in Chicago!) is just a giant teddy bear.
He totally looks like a big softie, even if the husky in the background looks a little dubious.
You can guard my meth lab any time you want, pup.
(Link to the contest is here.)
This was an interesting contest… it looks like Chico the Pit mix and Penny the Beagle/Corgi may have come equipped with their own fan clubs. (And rightly so… they’re both adorable.) Chico took a commanding lead in the 20s within the first two days of the contest, followed by Penny at 16, almost as fast. Everybody else (after a last-minute surge by Devo) came in at between 5 and 7 votes. Honestly, I think this is more to do with the competitors just giving people too many awesome choices; I could have voted for any of the pictures in this contest with no hesitation, and the votes just got spread out amongst all the options.
Thank you everybody for your submissions. I will be contacting the winners of each group over the next two weeks to get your t-shirt information. And as for the bandanas… well, that might take a little longer (we haven’t had them printed up yet!) but once I do have them, I’m going to send one to everyone who participated. (Well, unless you don’t want one, of course!) Thanks, this has been a lot of fun for me.
ALSO! (And I will repeat this tomorrow, this time at the top of the post.) I have another doggie-event to report: there will be a Wags-and-Wine event, run by ‘wineluv.com’, at the Wags pet hotel near 14th and Folsom (Rainbow Foods, Best Buy, ASPCA, etc), this Friday from 5 PM to 7 PM. Early registration is $20 at the above link, but since we’re so close to the date, if you mention my blog at the door, you pay $20 at the door, instead of the normal $40.
Your dog is invited too. There’ll be snacks for both of you, but the wine (several different wineries, over 20 boutique wines) is just for the humans. Not to worry, though: there’ll be doggie bags, and a dog photographer to take pictures of you and your pooch together.
I’ll be there. Hope to see some of you there too!
Some of the more attentive among you might remember Miss Holly from last year’s Bay to Barkers. Well, I ran into her again, and she was just as charming, if a trifle… damp.
Someone just came from playing fetch in the bay.
Fully convertible ears: they can be up like a corgi or down like a golden.
Not shown: Holly distributing smooches to all and sundry.
Yeah… I’m getting a little low on cats. Can you tell?
People will buy the most amazing things.
Some more pictures from Bay to Barkers. Huskies are so pretty.
It’s funny, most dogs I’ve seen with a stripe down the nose have a stripe on their muzzle too.
She’s the color I think of when I think of the word ‘husky’. And that’s more or less the facial expression, too.
Or this expression. This expression works too.
Just a quickie from Bay to Barkers last weekend. These four were out swimming for a while, and then came back and hopped into the truck. They were waiting for mom and dad to give them something to drink, when they spotted me.
I really love the picture as a whole, but the guy in the upper-right-hand corner totally cracks me up.
In case you haven’t read the edit on the contest post above, Autumn’s family’s golden retriever, Ceili, is in the hospital after emergency surgery. Last I heard she was doing okay, and we’ll have more information tomorrow.
So in her honor, I’m posting a golden retriever. This is Lily, the 6-month-old golden. She seems worried, doesn’t she? Well, we all are.
The pictures look a little odd… kinda tilted. This is because the street they were taken on is… kinda tilted.
Man, she really does have that ‘please hug me and tell me everything’s gonna be all right’ expression down pat, doesn’t she?
Concerned dognoses all up in my bidnezz.
This is right outside our local coffee shop, the Chameleon.
Fiona is a repeat customer from way back. I haven’t met Humphrey before. The two of them together are a force to be reckoned with.
Fiona’s the smaller one, unsurprisingly.
Yup, that’s Humphrey. Super-photogenic.
I really have gained a new appreciation for poodles and poodle mixes since I started this blog. They’re such great dogs.
Oh, when you’re smiling, when you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you…
Two different yet equally distinctive happy faces.
Fiona, with AT&T Park (hate that name) in the background. Bisected by a giant white pole, but whatchagonnado?
Edit 5: And the winner is… listed at the bottom!
Edit 4: Sounds like Ceili is doing okay. I’m guessing, based on only a little sketchy information, that the surgery went all right and she’s recovering at home. I’m sure she appreciates all the happy thoughts, as do I!
Edit 3: Autumn’s family dog (Ceili) is in emergency surgery! OMG! The prognosis is tentatively good, but nothing is certain. Please send good thoughts her way.
Edit 2: New daily posts are happening below this post, as with the last two weeks, so that more people will see and vote. Scroll down for the dog of the day.
Edit 1: Argh argh argh. I categorized one of the dogs picture under the category ‘Dgos’. Which means I didn’t post it at first. Fortunately the person who submitted the picture was actually paying attention and set me straight! I did a quick check and didn’t see anything else like that, but if you submitted a dog picture (or more) and don’t see one of yours here, and you haven’t won in some other category, please drop me a note and let me know.
First off, congratulations to both Lucca and Lady Jane: the two tied for first, with 29 votes apiece! Looks like I’m going to be giving out more t-shirts than I originally thought. Not to mention Kaylee and Elly, who got 28 votes, after starting out the weekend at half that! I’m not sure but that the two of them wouldn’t have pulled out in front if the contest had lasted a few more hours.
Second off, the dogs contest voting begins today. I tried to get three separate people to judge the semi-finals of this one, and they all said ‘no’. (Well, two said ‘no’ and one just didn’t answer at all. I would have cadged Autumn into it except she hasn’t been available.) And more than one of the people submitting entries are friends, and I just don’t feel like trying to figure out how to be impartial, so here’s what I’m doing: I’m limiting finalists to one ‘dog’ entry per person (using my best judgement in the case of people who entered two dog pictures.) And I’m leaving out anyone who already won. This narrows things down to seven choices, and I’m just going to hand that off to you guys.
So, here are the entries. Pick the one of these seven you like the best!
ENTRY 1: Penny the Beagle/Corgi Mix, Ecstatic for Memorial Day on Huntington Dog Beach
ENTRY 2: Violet the Schipperke/Pomeranian in her Glamor Shot
ENTRY 3: Bowpi the Basenji Doing the Hula with a Confused Chihuahua Mix
ENTRY 4: Elvis and Priscilla the Basset Hounds Explore the Beach
ENTRY 5: Devo the Extra Cool Terrier (…of some sort…)
ENTRY 6: Chilling Costa Rican Street Dog
ENTRY 7: Curry the 16-week-old Chi-Weenie Grinning Like a Madman
ENTRY 8: Chico the Pit Bull Mix, Being Goofily Delighted at Life, in his Jogging Clothes!
This was an interesting contest… it looks like Chico the Pit mix and Penny the Beagle/Corgi may have come equipped with their own fan clubs. (And rightly so… they’re both adorable.) Chico took a commanding lead in the 20s within the first two days of the contest, followed by Penny at 16, almost as fast. Everybody else (after a last-minute surge by Devo) came in at between 5 and 7 votes. Honestly, I think this is more to do with the competitors just giving people too many awesome choices; I could have voted for any of the pictures in this contest with no hesitation, and the votes just got spread out amongst all the options.
Thank you everybody for your submissions. I will be contacting the winners of each group over the next two weeks to get your t-shirt information. And as for the bandanas… well, that might take a little longer (we haven’t had them printed up yet!) but once I do have them, I’m going to send one to everyone who participated. (Well, unless you don’t want one, of course!) Thanks, this has been a lot of fun for me.