and I shouldn’t have. Took Apollo over to my brother-in-law’s today to play with their dogs. I’ve posted video of him there before, though its been a while. They’re the two dogs, one’s a 100lb mastiff/golden cross, the other is a 12lb shitz-shu. Last time I posted video, he was about half the size of the larger dog. We’ve been over there several times in between, but its been a month or so since the last time, and today it finally struck me how much he’s grown. He barely weighs 100lbs himself, but he makes the large dog look small. The difference was striking. His size just hadn’t struck me before today, cause I’m so used to him. But wow. Poor Loki looked so small, and he was NOT amused at the fact that Apollo was bigger than him. Apollo got reminded of his manners a couple times. Rosebud, the shitz-shu, however still thinks Apollo’s the greatest playmate ever, the two of them play tag around the fenced yard at (Rosebud’s) top speed, having a blast. Gotta remember the video camera next time!
Ruth
There was snow yesterday
Apollo was quite thrilled, me not so much. At least it was all gone this morning!
Well I WAS going to link to the Atomic Nerds
cause I wanted to post on something they’d done a great write up on, but either their blog is wonky this morning, they’ve converted to Islam and decided to help spread the good news, or they got hacked?
Edited: and since I’m sure they’ll fix it as soon as they figure it out (unless I’m right about the convert to Islam thing), here’s a screen grab of the current page:
Lets repeat: just cause you found it online doesn’t make it real
I’m NOT reposting this one, its nasty to look at.
But really, a photo of a pair of young men holding a puppy off the ground by a string around its neck is horrifying yes, and I appreciate that you want to help possibly catch the two shown in the picture. But maybe you need to stop and look around first. The photo in question appears to have been originally posted online as far back as 2008, and there are reports that it was passed around via email for several years before that, AND that its possibly been “retouched” a few times. Reposting it everywhere you visit asking people to “help spread the word so we can find these people” is not effective, and makes you look stupid and alarmist to folks who know how to look up such things.
Leash rack
So, Apollo has gathered an impressive collection of leashes and collars for a single dog. 1 30′ leash, 1 6′ leash, and 1 4′ leash, plus his prong collar which also needs to be stored between outdoors occasions and his spare collar for just in case. So I went looking for a leash holder, or rack of some kind. I knew they made them. I wasn’t prepared for the prices on them. $30 and up, usually very fancy, or with cute decorative carvings. Totally not what I was looking for.
So today I went down to my local Lowes, and spent just under $19 in supplies, and then spent about an hour total between a single coat of stain on the wood (not counting dry time), and putting it all together and hanging it.
Gotta dig out the 6’leash and spare collar from wherever they wandered too, but I think I’m prepared now!
(couple of the hooks ended up not quite straight, and the whole thing ended up just a hair off level on the wall. We’ll see how much it bugs me before I’ll bother to pull it down and fix it.)
Intact male dog
In rut (since Tibetan Mastiffs only have one breeding season. Techinically he’s fertile any time of the year, but breeding season is better). So far we’ve not had TO much trouble with the local bitches (though the psychotic GSD female almost got a visit the other day…..), but I HAVE noticed he’s smelling ALOT stronger than usual this past month. As in, he got a bath early cause I couldn’t stand it any more. It COULD just be the antibiotics he’s been on, or maybe he rolled in something extra pungent, but could it be the rut season too? I tried Google, but since most domesticated dogs don’t have a true “breeding season” no one appeared to have an answer. I suppose I could ask his breeder…..
To the major news network…..
…..who’s name starts with A(BC). If, when I click on a link to your site, you show me a page telling me about your new nifty iPad version of the site “click here to go to the iPad optimized version of our site”, then you can damn well ALSO give me an option to NOT go to the new nifty iPad optimized version. And when I go back and try the link again do NOT automatically load the iPAD optimized version of your site. Mobile versions of sites suck, your’s is no different.
Only one link today
But reading it made me want to pound my head into a wall. On the other hand I figured out whats wrong with the OWS crowd……
Quick morning thought
Weekend Pundit linked to a page where someone asked for differences between the US and other countries, things that really struck those folks when visiting the USA. So of course I had to go read. I am less than halfway through the page, and about to be late for work lol, but I had to comment on this one, less than halfway through the page, and its been repeated 4 times already with mimimal variations:
Yah, its bad when the non-citizens notice it that clearly too.