Dog of the Day: Ginger the Dogue de Bordeaux Puppy

Ginger is the puppy of a friend (and client) of Autumn’s, so I’ve gotten to help dog-sit her a couple times in the last couple of weeks. She is a super-snuggly squirmy stinky ridiculous ball of love with a totally ludicrous snore. Seriously, the video below doesn’t even come close to doing it justice: if you’re sitting on the sofa and she’s sleeping on the other end of it, you can actually feel her snoring vibrating your butt. I hate to think what she’s going to sound like when she gets up to her full weight, which is liable to be 100 to 120 pounds.

And, in unrelated news: either later today or sometime tomorrow, I’m going to post a contest! Don’t worry, it’ll be running for at least a week, so there’s plenty of time. There will be two winners, each of whom will get one of my ‘iPoodle’ t-shirts.

And speaking of t-shirts, I’ve gotten some art from Lisa Sindorf and am working on turning it into another shirt. I don’t want to spoil the surprise so I’ll just tell you that it’s totally awesome.

And now, without further ado, heeeeeeeere’s the Ginginator!

(Edit: *sigh* Would help if I used the right name.)

Dogue De Bordeaux Puppy

She is an intrepid explorer, even if at the time this was taken she wasn't allowed out of the house/yard until she was fully vaccinated.

French Mastiff Puppy

This seems to be her favorite tree. In a few months she is going to be bigger than it is.

Dogue De Bordeaux Puppy

Her ears make flapping sounds when she runs. (Okay, that's a lie. But it's a cute one.)

French Mastiff Puppy

She's a lot less wrinkly than I expected from pictures of French mastiff puppies on the Internet.

Dogue De Bordeaux Puppy

That's her swimming pool. Apparently there was some disagreement on whether to get her an inflatable one or not. They finally did, and she popped it in the first five minutes. Oops.

Dogue De Bordeaux Puppy Sleeping

Adorable tableau, even if the stuffed animal is a little on the goofy side.

French Mastiff Puppy Sleeping

She'll grow into it, I'm sure.

 

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Caturday Supplement: Pictures of Reflections of Adam Taking Pictures of Cats

These came out kind of funny, actually. Sometimes when you’re taking pictures of Macy’s window kitties, you come out with something a little different than you expected.

Siamese Kitten

Yes, that giant thing is my hand and my camera.

Siamese Kitten

Yes, that is my giant head. Also my hands, my camera, and my hat. Yes, it has ear flaps.

Siamese Kitten

And yes, that's another guy in the background with a very similar hat.

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Dog of the Day: Puppy Preview

Someone is sneaking this way… you’ll see more of her Sunday, including a short video of her adorably ridiculous (and ridiculously adorable!) snore.

French Mastiff (Dogue de Bordeaux)

All right, who can guess what breed she is? And no fair answering if you know her already!

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Dog of the Day: Juno the Weimaraner/German Shepherd Mix

Autumn and I stopped by Mountain Lake Park, in the Inner Richmond, last weekend, in the hopes of seeing the monthly corgi meetup group there. Alas, we must have come too late (although we got there at about 1:50 and it starts at 1!) because we saw no corgis. What we saw instead was an interesting assortment, including Lilah from yesterday, and this fine two-year-old Weimaraner mix.

Weimaraner/German Shepherd Mix

Someone has a bit of a ball fixation. And a big goofy 'I'M AT THE PARK!' grin.

Weimaraner/German Shepherd Mix

Juno liked it under that bench. Even though she clonked her head on it several times.

Weimaraner/German Shepherd Mix

Funny: you can tell she got a lot of her muzzle shape from the German shepherd part, but her ear is 100% pure Weimaraner. (If Weimaraners were about ten times as big as they are, their ears would make lovely blankets. Although they'd be pretty expensive to feed.)

Weimaraner/German Shepherd Mix

She doesn't have 'down ears'... she has 'up and down and back and forth and all over the place' ears.

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Dog of the Day: Lilah the Husky (With a Dash of Timber Wolf)

Lilah’s a thirteen-year-old Husky, with just enough timber wolf (from three or four generations back) to make her even more awesome.

She’s a lover, though, not a fighter. And quite dignified. And gorgeous.

Husky/Timber Wolf Mix

Funny, she looks a surprising amount like a collie.

Husky/Timber Wolf Mix

Got twelve pictures of Lilah. Four of them, she was blinking.

Husky/Timber Wolf Mix

Someone deserves a smooch right between the ears.

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Dog of the Day: Driveby Husky-ing

You gotta be quick in the dog blogging business!

Husky in SUV

I know you're not supposed to let your dog stick their head out the window, but they enjoy it SO MUCH...

Husky in SUV

Look at that face. How can you say no to that face?

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Dog of the Day: Nino the Ibizan Hound Mix

Nino! I would not have guessed Ibizan hound, but once they told me it was obvious. Apparently he’s a rescued Taiwanese street dog, rescued when he was a puppy. He’s 1 year old now, and settling into his new life quite well, although he is still a wee bit skittish.

Ibizan Hound Mix

He's got the 'canine sprawl' down pat.

Ibizan Hound Mix

Gotta love that expression.

Ibizan Hound Mix

Hooray for spotty puppy belly.

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Caturday Supplement: Macy’s Kitty

Found another cache of Macy’s kitties, so I have enough for a few more caturdays yet.

Cat

Someone lost half a tail.

Cat

Yellow eyes plus black facial markings makes for a rather grumpy-looking cat.

Cat

I like the little down-arrow nose.

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Dog of the Day: Lennox the Boxer (and Friend)

Lennox was a bad dog. You can tell, can’t you? (I have no idea what the little guy is.)

Boxer

I can't remember what he did, but I'm sure it was just *terrible*.

Boxer

Boxers are well-equipped for the 'puppydog eyes' routine.

Boxer

Eventually his parents decided he'd learned his lesson (or forgotten what he did, either way) and let him come play with me.

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Dog of the Day: Olive the Maltese/Poodle Mix

Olive is in her terrible twos. Which in her case means that she always wants to sit at the big people table and participate in the conversation.

Maltese/Poodle Mix

She was quite an obedient dog, actually. Stuck to the chair pretty reliably, despite temptation.

Maltese/Poodle Mix

She also, astonishingly enough, was more interested in me than she was in the food on mom's table.

Maltese/Poodle Mix

Olive is a kisser. It's amazing her tongue isn't worn down to a nub.

Maltese/Poodle Mix

Not even sure what that expression is.

Maltese/Poodle Mix

Her biggest failing seems to be a bit of difficulty with spacial relations.

Maltese/Poodle Mix

She just didn't seem to be able to figure out that her tongue wasn't long enough to lick me from there.

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