"If you understood everything I said, you'd be me" - Miles Davis
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell
"Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government." - Lenny Bruce
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" - Homer Simpson

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  Helpless Before the Cute
vera french bulldog puppy cute

Vera the French Bulldog



  Happy Dog
happy chihuahua dog

Sniffing flowers B



  Shy Dog update

Her name is Dahlia. She knows more commands than I was able to remember, including sit, shake, up, rollover, and the mysterious "under". She doesn't like handtrucks because of a car accident with a handtruck in the back seat. She's enlarged her dislike to include most things made of metal, including wire clothes hangers.

Original Shy Dog Post

  Acquaintance
shy dog basenji fremont

This is Shy Dog. She belongs to a shop a couple of doors down from my Fremont stop. She's more indifferent than shy-she basically couldn't care less about people. I can't remember ever seeing her wag her tail. She's been seeing me a couple of times a week for years and all I've been able to manage is a couple of head scritches. It doesn't help that she thinks my hand-truck is made of evil. I started giving her a treat every time I see her, which has earned me rapt attention and zero affection. Still, I have to admire her consistency.



  Dog Story

"We moved to Vancouver in late 1997 and discovered our otherwise macho little alpha dog was afraid of water. I'd jog on the beach with him every morning, and he wouldn't go near the ocean. When my soon-to-be-wife ran a bath (for her, not him), he'd hide under the bed.

That all changed the day we went deep sea fishing off English Bay, and brought the dog along (before kids, you always bring the dog along). He mostly stayed inside the boat, cowering in fear, until we reeled in the first salmon. The moment that fish flew out of the water and flopped back and forth on the floor of the boat, a bell went off in Tanner's head: water equals fish. Fish equals...something I must have in my mouth right now!

He spent virtually every moment of the next decade trying to catch one. The size of the body of water was irrelevant: ocean, lake, river, puddle, bathtub, sink. In Tanner's mind, all water must contain fish. Fish flop. Fish = fun.

No dog obsesses quite like a Jack. Every time I bathed the kids, he would sit on the edge of the tub, waiting for that salmon to leap out of the water and into his jaws. It would eventually happen, he figured. He'd seen it. He had proof.

He would sprint along the shoreline of our cottage lake for 14 hours a day, chasing schools of minnows. In recent years, as my son grew old enough to cast off our dock, Tanner would leap off after every cast, trying to beat the worm to the sunfish.

He never did catch one. But he never stopped trying. Man could learn something about perseverance from a Jack.

Tanner had more success with rocks. Some dogs fetch balls, some fetch sticks. He fetched rocks. Not little rocks. Rocks half his size. Boulders.

One day at The Beaches in Toronto, after we'd moved back east, Tanner drew a crowd of 100, all stopping to watch him "rock-fetch." He'd swim out 20 feet, dive under the water, disappear for 30 seconds, and emerge with a rock twice the size of his jaw. The crowd went nuts. I should have put a hat down and collected tips"

This Dog's Life
Via Fark

  Concentrated Cuteness

Via Neatorama



  Planet of the Cats

Cat House on the Kings (YouTube)
The Cat House on the Kings (Official Site
Via Cute Overload

  Serious Dogs
You Better Have a Pocket Full of Porkchops
Via Snuzzy

  Dog Vs. Balloons

Via Laughing Squid

  I Like Dogs

I ran into one of these guys today one the way to the corner market. He was tied to a little tree in a little raised front yard while his owners were installing new front steps. At first it was hard to tell if he wanted anything to do with me, which is fine-it's his yard and he's entitled to his opinion. What gave him away was one of those little front leg hops. It turned out that "Tank" was just bored and wanted something or someone to play with-like a beer keg, or a small bear, or maybe a herd of elk. He seemed to be made out of superball rubber instead of plain muscle, and had a intense obsession with licking my face. He was a great dog, and now I have some idea of what it would be like to interact with a very friendly baby rhino.

  A Lot of Dog in a Small Package
He has many names: Snorty Mcgee, The Carpet Demon, Condo Ninja. He is Oscar the French Bulldog (YouTube)

  Dawgs
The American Canine Hybrid Club is the home to Schweenies, Chugs, Rattles, and Rottermans.

  More Proof Dogs Must Love Us
dogs in banana costumes

Via Cute Overload

  Cute Cute Cute
Until some genius creates the Puppy Channel you can slake your need for cute at The Daily Puppy

Via J-Walk Blog

  The Pillows Had It Coming
dog attacking pillows
Via Cuteness Overload

  Picture Of The Day
dog rigged for motion capture
That must be one good-natured dog.
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  I Like Dogs
Bee Dogs

Bee Dogs
Via The J-Walk Blog

  Dogs Are Good

I love Dogblog. Two Samples:

2 happy dogs
The Bandanna Brothers here just want everyone who visits this place to feel right at home, especially if every visitor's home contains two really happy dogs who want to play catch so bad they're practically giving off sparks.

ready to go dog
This guy is ready. He's ready for his game. He's got his ball and he's just waiting for his owner to come back outside and they are going to wreck some shit. He's got his ball, and he is prepared. Without that collar on, he is so streamlined, he's beyond motion. He makes a greased-up otter look like a manatee's fat, cough-syrup-addicted momma in steel-belted army boots. This right here is the truest thing that has ever been said anywhere on the internet. I know this.

  Bonnie
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This is Bonnie. She's a bookstore dog. To her I'm not making deliveries, I'm the nice man who drops by 3 times a week to pet her and call her "sweetie". This is the look I get when I have to leave.

  Welcome to Dogbuns.com
We make Hot Dog Costumes for Dachshunds

  Just what I needed

Cute puppies and kittens: Link
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  I like dogs
Cheer yourself up, go take a gander at Sophie-she's a cutie.

  Nice Doggy
Friday night I got wet dog kisses from a pit bull. I love the dicotomy of a dog that looks like it could eat fire hydrants practically wagging it's tail off in happiness.