Because we haven’t seen one in a while.
An anecdote I ran into on reddit recently (here):
I was at a dog park after dark the other day, and I spent a good two minutes 'dancing' with a border collie. I'd jump right, and he'd jump over in front of me. We never touched each other, just mirrored each other's movements. It was fun.
What's black and white and well-bred all over?
Pitufina apparently means ‘Smurfette’ in Spanish. The things you learn, running a dog blog. Anyway, it’s been a pretty chilly few weeks in San Francisco, and Pity isn’t liking it much!
Fortunately, Pity's got a good friend who is more than willing to help her keep warm on the colder days.
Smurfette? Really?
I find several things about this post hard to believe. First, that Buddy is still adoptable, and nobody has snatched him up yet. He’s so sweet and friendly! Second, that this is not just the first smooth-coated fox terrier we’ve had on the site, but the first fox terrier of any kind! (Although we did have one mix.) And third… just Buddy. Buddy is ridiculous. Look at that face!
If anyone is interested in meeting Buddy, and possibly adopting him, contact Northern California Fox Terrier Rescue!
Buddy is very attentive... for short periods of time, anyway. (Also, double-fluffy-white-bonus-doggage in the background!)
Such a long face! He always looks a little concerned.
This was taken in Bernie's Grooming/City Dog, on Brannan Street. I don't know if that's Bernie, though.
Another breed of dog, like corgis, that I think are totally goofy-looking. It's awesome to have a dog that can always make you smile.
Yes, that's me in the mirror. Holy crap, I never realized I look THAT bald!
It’s getting harder and harder to find dog breeds that I haven’t covered yet, but when I do, they’re often pretty ridiculous. Like this young (well, three-and-a-half-year-old) pup, with ears that … well… I’m not sure what to say about them, so I’ll just let you judge for yourself.
Well, it seems like he can see okay, but I'm not sure I got a whole lot of glimpses of his eyes.
The most luxuriant ear-hair ever!
Well, there I can see his eyes... can't I? No... maybe not.
Some wintery pictures of the honorary Dog of San Francisco, Ceili the wonder pooch. These came from Christmas in Indiana, where Autumn’s family (and Ceili) live. (Actually, a couple days after Christmas… it wasn’t snowy on Christmas.)
Ceili loves the snow, and loves catching snowballs in particular.
Autumn throws the snowballs.
Ceili just adores 'catching' them. And then they disappear. To Ceili, that's just about the funniest thing ever.
Side-catch!
Ceili would have done this for hours if Autumn had been willing.
I've heard dogs can find mice and other rodents that burrow under the snow. Maybe that's what she's doing. But I prefer to think she's trying to figure out where Autumn keeps finding those snowballs.
Found an easier way to fix the problem I was having: I got rid of the text at the top entirely, and just redid the banner with the site title and the logo. And cleaned up the logo. And found a fun (well, I think it’s fun) font for the title.
Please leave feedback/suggestions/etc. In particular, if you have a suggestion for the site title, let me know. I keep looking at it and thinking that the text is too heavyweight for the logo, and then I look again and think, nah, it’s fine! I dunno, I’m not, shall we say, the best layout artist in the world.
Down in SOMA, around 8th or 9th, there’s a big garage-y thing that I wandered by a month or so ago. It was packed with stuff, looked like it might be being used as a studio. And as I walked up, a cat looked up at me from the front of it. I stopped and pulled out my camera, and looked back up, just in time to see the cat wander off. Grr. And then, as I watched, another one came out and looked at me. And here he is!
I petted him for a little while. This is him hanging around in the hopes of more.
And this is him deciding that if I wasn't going to pet him any more, he'd find someone who would.
Ran across these three (two dogs and one man) in South Park, last September. I might’ve caught them on a bad day… they all seemed a trifle testy, although I did a couple of smiles out of Fletch eventually. Still, though, I couldn’t pass up the chance to grab a few pictures of an akbash, our first for the site. They sure are pretty!
Glowy Zoë!
Heh. What a look.
They're just about the same size, but Fletch probably weighs a couple pounds more... all fur.
I think there's a little smile lurking in that face.
Almost looks like a lab, except white, not light yellow, and BIG! (Perspective is a bit weird in this photo... she's a fair bit bigger than your average lab.)
Goofy face.
Pretty cute! The breed mix is a guess, based on head shape and ear floof, and that a similar-looking puppy pupped… er, popped up here a while back. Similarly adorable, I’d say. When this picture was taken (last September) Paddington was 5 months old, and was congenitally unable to stop wagging his tail.
Note big eyes, poofly ears, blurred tail.
Funny look for a dachsund mix, with those long legs, but the head looks SOOO dachshund-y!
Daddy loves his pup. These two were a photographer's nightmare, though. Every picture, either he's looking down at the pup...
...or the pup is hiding his face against dad!
I’m not going to black out my site for it (edit: okay, I found an easy way to black out my site for a day, and so I am doing so after all!), or modify my logo (because I still haven’t figured out how to get the damn thing back up there!) but you can count me as one of the many sites that’s against SOPA/PROTECT-IP. Having read the provisions of it, even a humble little web site that posts only its own content and doesn’t have a ‘foreign’ domain name, like mine, could well be impacted by the law.
I know one of my rules on here is ‘no politics’, but I don’t think it’s playing politics to come out against a law like this. After all, when was the last time the major Tea Party groups, the ACLU, MoveOn.org, and pretty much all of the left-wing and right-wing blogs on the Internet were all on the same side of one issue? (All opposed, of course.)
Please, if you live in the United States, find out where your Senators and Congressperson stand on this and then contact the ones who are for it and tell them that you oppose it strongly. And, if you have time, contact the ones who are against it and thank them. (If you live in San Francisco, I’ll save you the trouble: Rep. Pelosi came out strongly against SOPA/PIPA. However, Senators Feinstein and Boxer are both co-sponsors of PIPA in the Senate. Please contact them and make your voice heard!)
Tomorrow I’ll return you to your regularly scheduled doggies.