My niece, who was always in dresses, couldn't crawl because her legs got all tangled up. So, she started using the Bear Walk, with her feet and hands both flat on the ground. She got around like that for a few months before she got up the nerve to stand upright.
Spike: Lots of fuss over one girl. Other things to do around here--important things. Angel: You know that whoosh thing you do when you're suddenly not there anymore? I love that.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Jan 24, 2005 3:05:15 pm PST #280 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
lori - Jan 24, 2005 3:06:47 pm PST #281 of 10002
Not just any doggie booties, but Muttluks!. They were vital to keep her toesies from getting all torn up from the broken granite that we were hiking on.
sarameg - Jan 24, 2005 3:12:57 pm PST #282 of 10002
I wonder if the rescue dogs my dad works with have booties. They are bassets, I think? Mainly the work he does with them is lifting them in and out of helicopter (so they get used to it and don't freak out.) The image strikes me as hilarious.
lori, not Bev, but yep.
Beverly - Jan 24, 2005 3:14:18 pm PST #283 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Yup, lori, Mr. Three-Claw is a Tripod. Or TriCycle, any number of name combinations. He answers to TC. Or Swee'pea, or Pea, or hey!
He does not, however, know Heeeere, kitty, kitty, kitty, because he hasn't been outside since we brought him home, and we have no need to call him. He's usually Right There.
lori - Jan 24, 2005 3:15:10 pm PST #284 of 10002
There's a picture of a basset with muttluks on the Muttluks site. Bear practically wore hers out after a couple backpacking trips in the Sierra, and Kuma's looked unused. Freakish zero-gravity dog.
lori - Jan 24, 2005 3:16:09 pm PST #285 of 10002
Ah ha! I remembered correctly! Good to know.
Beverly - Jan 24, 2005 3:17:36 pm PST #286 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I love the pics of Bear and Kuma--especially Bear's smile. Kuma's a jindo? Akita? What is Bear?
And the talk today of curled-tail dogs made me wonder if Gus Pong and his kind have curled tails.
JenP - Jan 24, 2005 3:17:51 pm PST #287 of 10002
Not just any doggie booties, but Muttluks!.
Muttluks! See, that's just... cute. No way around it.
Yeah, the terrain in the picture looked Muttluks-worthy. Muttluks. Hee.
Jesse - Jan 24, 2005 3:21:09 pm PST #288 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I saw a pair of basset hounds the other day. Man, those are just not city dogs. Can't walk fast enough for the traffic and too big too pick up. They just looked silly.
lori - Jan 24, 2005 3:24:18 pm PST #289 of 10002
Kuma is indeed a jindo. Probably purebred even though we got him from the pound. There's a lot of jindos in LA, what with the large Korean immigrant population. Bear is an indeterminate mix - our best guess is Samoyed/Chow/GoldenRetriever. Way too fluffy for a golden, too yellow for a sammy, only mostly cranky so not full chow.
Gus Pong and his ilk have thick slightly curly tails.