Dog of the Day: Harvey the Golden Retriever

Another dog from that same dog park. These pictures are a giant pain in the tukhus, as my grandma used to say. They were shot with a Canon SLR in Canon’s ‘raw’ mode, which means that I have to spend a surprising amount of time screwing around with them. If you shoot in jpeg mode, the camera does all the correction for you… it doesn’t always get it right, but there’s not much you can do about it if it doesn’t. Whereas if I do a bunch of work on the raw images, I can almost always make them come out at least acceptably, but it’s always a lot of work.

So here’s one of a handsome, graceful golden retriever, dancing for you. Tomorrow I’ll have a few more of this pup in other poses.

Golden Retriever

A very light-colored golden retriever, with a very graceful step.

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Dog of the Day: Jake the German Shepherd/Greyhound

We caught Jake in a goofy-happy mood. I am told that he occasionally decides to look noble and long-suffering, but it usually doesn’t last long.

White German Shepherd/Greyhound Mix

Jake may be a lover and not a fighter, but he's definitely got some chops in the area of athletics too, as you can see from yesterday's pics.

White German Shepherd/Greyhound Mix

Jake has a few good tricks, too. He's mastered 'wave', for example.

White German Shepherd/Greyhound Mix

He has also apparently mastered 'eat delicious treat'.

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Dog of the Day: A Challenger Appears!

Another friend for the Great Dane, whose name (I totally forgot to even look for it!) is Soolie, aka Sulimon. The playmate is a white German shepherd/greyhound mix named Jake.

Tomorrow, Jake gets his own day.

Great Dane and White German Shepherd/Greyhound Mix

This pair was having a blast together. They took turns chasing one another.

Great Dane and White German Shepherd/Greyhound Mix

What I love about Great Danes: I could take pictures of one all day and not get two of the same expression.

Great Dane and White German Shepherd/Greyhound Mix

I can't blame him for running, those do look like rather sharp teeth.

Great Dane

One more picture of him. Because it's awesome.

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Happy National Puppy Day!

How in the world did I not know about this?

Here’s a sleeping puppy in celebration.

Puppy

Dream of national puppy day treats, little guy.

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Double Dog Day: Our Hero and an American Bulldog

Aww. Our friend the Great Dane just wants to play, but I think this guy is totally ambivalent. He never even looks up when the Dane is galloping towards him.

Great Dane and American Bulldog

I really thought the Great Dane was just going to run this guy right over.

Great Dane and American Bulldog

I'm not a dog, and I'd be a little freaked out by having that thing gallumphing towards me.

Great Dane and American Bulldog

He really doesn't look like he's used to being ignored, does he?

Great Dane, American Bulldog, and German Shepherd Mix

The American bulldog just didn't want to play. Looks like someone else does, however.

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Triple Dog Day: In Which Our Hero is Teased by a Pair of Standard Poodles

Our friend the Great Dane from yesterday has found a couple of friends. He could handle either one individually, but when they gang up on him, he doesn’t have a prayer.

Great Dane and Two Standard Poodles

And from this we learn that standard poodles really are surprisingly large.

Great Dane and Two Standard Poodles

After a couple minutes of this they had him running around in circles.

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Dog of the Day: A Damn Great Dane

This coming week is going to be pictures from a dog park that I took last month, and only now managed to clean off my hard drive enough to get them downloaded from the camera. Raw images are big!

Quite a lot of the pictures will include this fine fellow, so I thought I ought to, ah, let you see what was coming. As it were.

Great Dane

A fiery dog with the speed of light...

Great Dane

...a cloud of dust...

Great Dane

...and a hearty "WATCH OUT!"

Great Dane

The Lone Goofball rides again!

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Dog of the Day: German Shepherd

Some dog park shots of a goofy dawg, to brighten your day. Autumn and I are both sick, so we need a little brightening.

German Shepherd

German shepherds can look like such noble dogs, but they also can look goofier than pretty much anything else.

German Shepherd

This gal was of the super-goofy-all-the-time variety.

German Shepherd

Lighting problems. Sometimes they're unavoidable, when the dog owner picks the spot she wants the pictures taken.

German Shepherd

This pup was really ball-obsessed.

German Shepherd

Goofy dog. Don't you know dogs aren't supposed to climb trees?

German Shepherd

She likes to take a water dish and drag it around in big circles on the ground. Why? Who knows.

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Dog of the Day: Charli the Australian Shepherd/Border Collie Mix

Charli was a real snorg-hund… she has the ‘I just want your loooove!’ look down pat.

Australian Shepherd/Border Collie Mix

Patient, well-behaved, and yet very demanding.

Australian Shepherd/Border Collie Mix

Can't remember what he was staring at, but he was definitely happier here.

Border Collie/Australian Shepherd Mix

This is an experiment... the full-sized picture is too fuzzy to use, so I shrank it. It's definitely *better* small, anyway... just not sure whether it's 'good'.

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Dog of the Day: Running Doberman

Not sure if I like this picture or not. Kind of interesting, at any rate.

Running Doberman Pinscher

So gangly. Gangle gangle gangle.

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