Sunday Switchup: Surfwatchers

Posted on August 14, 2022 by Adam Lang

Here’s a (panoramic) look at the crowd of dog surf aficionados from last weekend. This should give you an idea of how crowded it really was. Not shown: the ocean. It was only a bit less occupied.

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More Damp Doggies!

Posted on August 12, 2022 by Adam Lang

Funny, I don’t see any of the dogs falling off the surfboards, but the humans seem to be having a certain amount of… issues.

I just wish there were slightly fewer heads in the way for the last couple of pictures.

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More Surf Doggage

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Adam Lang

Surf dog or BABY SHARK? Only his dad knows for sure.

I love the casual pose in the last one. “Not a problem!”

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Surf Dog Day

Posted on August 10, 2022 by Adam Lang

Another surfer-dog and his (in this case) gal.

(The last picture is from their second run, which worked out quite a lot better.)

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Double SURF DOG Day

Posted on August 8, 2022 by Adam Lang

I spent Saturday at the WORLD DOG SURFING CHAMPIONSHIPS, which are just 20 miles, also known as a two hour drive and then a twenty minute walk, away from my apartment. It turns out that they were insanely popular and there was a five mile traffic jam on the Pacific Coast Highway to get there, and no parking within a mile of the beach. It started at 9:00 AM. I left at 9:15 AM. I got there at 11:30 AM. It was supposed to end at noon. (Fortunately it didn’t.)

Still totally worth it.

The last time I went, it was 2016, and there were about one tenth the number of people there. And I didn’t get ANY good pictures of surfing dogs, because at the time I didn’t have a good long lens. Well, since then, I acquired a 100-500mm Sigma Canon-mount lens, and then a Sony camera body and an adaptor for said lens. So now I can take pretty fair portraits from around half a football-field away.

It was damn tough to find a spot where there weren’t a half-dozen heads in the way, but I did manage to get, oh, a few pretty good shots. I’ll be posting them here over the next week or two.

I really need to find a page with all the contestants’ pictures so I can put names to the noses.

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Double Dog Day: Sissy and Bell the Prairie Dogs

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Adam Lang

Weeell, okay. So they’re not actually prairie dogs, they’re Yorkies. They sure have the ‘standing on their hind legs and looking you over’ thing down pat, though, don’t they?

They are also brother and sister. Sissy, on the left, is 1, and Bell is 3, from two different litters from the same mom and dad.

Two Yorkshire Terriers In The Basket Of An Adult Tricycle
They love running around, but they also love taking a little ride on a Saturday morning.
Two Yorkshire Terriers In The Basket Of An Adult Tricycle
They apparently are really good about not jumping out of the basket. That’d make me awfully nervous, myself.
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Dog of the Day: Sohla the Doberman Pinscher Puppy

Posted on August 4, 2022 by Adam Lang

Sohla (a girl, 5 months old) is named after a word for ‘celebration’ in Hindi. She lives up to her name.

Doberman Pinscher Puppy With Ears Taped Up
Cropped ears. I’m not a big fan of the practice, but the antlers are pretty hilarious.
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PS: If I Promised To Post Your Pup…

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Adam Lang

…and I haven’t done it yet, post a comment in here so I know you’re waiting! Sometimes I just need a little prod.

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Double Dog Day: Taro and Yuzu the Pekingeses

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Adam Lang

How did I not get to these two before? Taro and Yuzu were customers of Autumn’s. She called me up one day and said ‘You have GOT to come down here and meet these two,’ so I did. And she was right. They are just hilarious, bread loaves covered with fur, little black faces and little pink tongues, and no visible means of support. They periodically leap on one another and wrestle, and then go back to looking at everyone’s ankles and trying to guilt-trip them into giving them some love.

Again, too many pictures for captions or hovertext: just enjoy all the FLOOFY CUTENESS!

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Puppy of the Day: Polo the Brittany Spaniel

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Adam Lang

Polo was five months old in these pictures, and he is going to be L-O-R-G!

No hovertext or captions, just too many cute pictures. But you need to look at the fourth picture. Look at those lips. I mean what.

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