My Boring Life
One more picture of the coyote that I didn’t post yesterday:
And two of Apollo (118lbs, 28″ at the shoulder), taken today. I’m not QUITE in the same spot when I took these, about 1ft forward and 6″ down from where I was when I took the coyote picstures:
Yesterday I saw this post over at Lagniappe’s Lair.
Apollo, in typical fashion ignored it. It takes something special to get Apollo’s attention, like the frog who’s a living toy squeeker.
But Arty, well, Arty had to sing along:
Apollo is coming into his adult temperment. What does that have to do with his new collar, well……
Several weeks ago Apollo slipped his Lupine martingale (a standard slip over the head style). I’ve never seen a dog manage that before, he somehow managed to back out of it such that it didn’t tighten like it normally would have when pulled on, and do so fast enough we couldn’t stop him. He then proceeded to chase the psychotic GSDs (on the property kitty corner to us) into their doggy door. I guess he decided he was tired of being barked at constantly.
That started my search for a new martingale collar, this one with a safety clasp so that it could be sized such that it couldn’t slip over his head, and still be taken on and off easily. Ended up ordering a custom collar from a guy on the mastiff forum I frequent. It arrived today.
Today, hubby was getting ready to take the dogs out for one last potty and sniff the front line before he left for work. Got leashes and collars on everyone, opened the front door, and discovered the UPS guy about to walk up the steps onto the front porch, none of us had noticed the truck pulling up. Apollo DID NOT APPROVE. The UPS guy proved to have enough dog sense to neither run nor freeze, and hubby stopped Apollo short anyway. I suspect however that a large number of our UPS packages will be left on the steps instead of by the door from now on…..
At any rate the collar fits perfectly!
The guy who does these doesn’t have a webpage as such, but he does take orders. If anyone’s interested I can put you in touch!
(disclaimer: I paid for this with my own money and no review was expected or required. The guy who made it did cover my shipping since the style was my idea and he’s sold several of the same style since then)
We had horribly cold temps this week. I’ve dealt with worse, but that doesn’t make it fun. Overnights well below zero, and only warming up to the single digits. Both dogs get Musher’s Secret on their paws regularly in the winter, but even with that the single digits and colder proved to be to much for Arty. Less than 5 minutes outside and he was trying to pick up all his feet at once to warm them up, the result was the highly pitiful sight of him falling over in the snow and crying cause his feet hurt. Made worse because he WANTED to go out, and otherwise didn’t seem bothered by the temps.
Needless to say that doesn’t work well. So off to the locally owned petstore to buy booties for him. He’s still not to sure about these things being put on his feet, but they do help keep his feet from freezing so badly. At least I’m not forced to carry him back in after barely 3 minutes!
Apollo of course is oblivious, and can’t figure out why Arty’s having such problems….
To take my mind off my rapidly climbing Statcounter number (along with an incredibly amusing list of .gov agencies, not all of which belong to the USA), I present the following video.
There’s not much to see, sorry, we had a power outage earlier tonight. It lasted all of 5 minutes. But Apollo took offense. He is now bouncing off the windows in full voice every time he hears something he doesn’t like.
This is what I’m listening to, several times an hour (turn up the bass on your sound system, and if you’re playing this on your phone without headphones or speakers you’re missing out):
I’ve commented before on Apollo’s desire to kill the cat from across the street. Apparently leash laws don’t apply to cats. And so its been an ongoing issue.
I caught this video the other day, if you look closely at one point you can just see the grey and white cat out the window. If you can’t hear Apollo growling you need better bass on your sound system…..
