Whoof. Tired today, not really sure why. Here’s a quick pic of a winking pup. Might be… a collie/Aussie?
Still going to mention the contest, though. Take pictures! Send them to me! Win tee shirts and/or bandanas!
Yes, he only has one eye. No, he doesn't let it bother him at all.
Edit: I am officially adding a ‘cat’ category for the contest too, complete with its own t-shirt and dog cat bandana. Woot!
Second Edit: Contest has been extended until June 30!
Well, I finally went and did it: I ordered a few of the tee shirts I designed. I’m pretty proud of how they came out. And so I’m going to give away a couple of them to a couple of you. And, since Autumn has just ordered a whole bunch of nifty dog-bandanas for her business, I’m going to filch a couple of those to use as prizes as well.
So, let’s have a little photo contest. For the next few weeks, I want people to send me pictures. There will be two categories: creative, cute, or otherwise noteworthy pictures of dogs, for the first. Pictures that are evocative of San Francisco (though they need not be from San Francisco) for the second. First prize from each category will be a tee shirt (I have large and extra-large… if you need a different size, let me know and I will see what I can do). Second prize will be a Pup Scouts logo dog bandana. Or, if you win first prize and would prefer the bandana, which I admit is totally adorable, I won’t be offended, just let me know. (I will be mentioning the contest in every post until the submission period is over, but I’ll try not to let it get too terribly tiresome.)
How to enter: either upload your picture(s) to one of the photo sharing sites (such as imgur, flickr, or any other one) and leave a link in the comments of my blog, or email me the photo at the address ‘alang’ (at sign) ‘dogsofsf’ (period) ‘com’. (Sorry about the obfuscation, but I deal with enough spam in my day job.)
Details: Only two pictures per person, please, although the pictures can be in either category, or in both (e.g. a picture of a dog posing in front of the Golden Gate). Please submit pictures of no less than 1024×768 pixels, and the larger the better. Pictures must be submitted by Monday, June 11th. Autumn and I, possibly assisted by other parties, will narrow the pictures down to a small group (3? 5?) for each category, and then visitors will be able to vote on them. (Submission of a picture allows DoSF a limited, non-exclusive license to display your image on the blog.)
If you have any other questions about the contest, feel free to drop them in the comments below. And I hope we’ll get at least a few entries, otherwise I’m going to end up feeling rather silly, and with several extra tee shirts on hand.
Enter the contest! The power of cute compels you!
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.)
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.
This seems to be her favorite tree. In a few months she is going to be bigger than it is.
Her ears make flapping sounds when she runs. (Okay, that's a lie. But it's a cute one.)
She's a lot less wrinkly than I expected from pictures of French mastiff puppies on the Internet.
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.
Adorable tableau, even if the stuffed animal is a little on the goofy side.
She'll grow into it, I'm sure.
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.
Yes, that giant thing is my hand and my camera.
Yes, that is my giant head. Also my hands, my camera, and my hat. Yes, it has ear flaps.
And yes, that's another guy in the background with a very similar hat.
Someone is sneaking this way… you’ll see more of her Sunday, including a short video of her adorably ridiculous (and ridiculously adorable!) snore.
All right, who can guess what breed she is? And no fair answering if you know her already!
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.
Someone has a bit of a ball fixation. And a big goofy 'I'M AT THE PARK!' grin.
Juno liked it under that bench. Even though she clonked her head on it several times.
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.)
She doesn't have 'down ears'... she has 'up and down and back and forth and all over the place' ears.
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.
Funny, she looks a surprising amount like a collie.
Got twelve pictures of Lilah. Four of them, she was blinking.
Someone deserves a smooch right between the ears.
You gotta be quick in the dog blogging business!
I know you're not supposed to let your dog stick their head out the window, but they enjoy it SO MUCH...
Look at that face. How can you say no to that face?
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.
He's got the 'canine sprawl' down pat.
Gotta love that expression.
Hooray for spotty puppy belly.
Found another cache of Macy’s kitties, so I have enough for a few more caturdays yet.
Someone lost half a tail.
Yellow eyes plus black facial markings makes for a rather grumpy-looking cat.
I like the little down-arrow nose.
