Oh man! Sonbahar (a girl, the name means Autumn) and Drogon (a boy) are two awesome pups! They’re working dogs, livestock guardians and herding dogs for a farm somewhere out there. They’re out there doing work every day, which must be what keeps them so young: they’re 13 and 11, over 100 pounds of muscle apiece, and they’re in amazing shape!
Benze is two, and has his own instagram account: BenzeByTheBay (which he shares with his kitty-sister Macha). Maybe when he grows up a little more he can become a dog blogger like me!
Every time I see a pup like Atticus (2) I think ‘There really ought to be more giant schnauzers around’. They’re big enough to be fun to wrestle, they’re smart, they’re not as hyper as some other medium breeds cough golden retriever cough, they’re not quite as, ah, ‘idiosyncratic’ as huskies… I dunno. I just like ’em. If someone offered me one, and an apartment to go with it, I would snap that offer up in a millisecond.
I ran across someone walking her cute little bun a few days ago, and it turned out to be the little sister of Alex the Great!
Oh NOOOO! I was going to post Boo on her third birthday, but that was the 29th of AUGUST and not SEPTEMBER. Oh where can I hide my face?
Cyrus (6) looks very serious, doesn’t he?
Was poking through old pictures (from 2023) and discovered Rascal, who was 2 at the time, having a day out at the beach. I love his name.
The Pacitic harbor seal varies between black with white spots and white with black spots. I didn’t know that! So apparently that’s what these guys are.
Autumn and I took Bosco out for a hike in the Redwoods last month. We stopped for breakfast at a pretty decent spot in Montclair, where we found a dog that was the very spit and image of Bosco! In fact, they looked so similar that Bosco was mostly too busy wondering where the mirror was to have his usual hostile reaction.
But where Bosco is an Italian water spaniel, Cooper is a dilute-coat Bernadoodle, which I have rarely ever seen before. Coop is also a lot mellower than Bosco, as befits a Bernese mix.
Taffy is nine months old, and is spherical to a first order approximation, and is roughly 90% floof by unit volume. Some settling may occur in shipping. Do not squeeze.
Oh fine, go ahead and squeeze. She loves hugs.
