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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.
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.
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.
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.
Ah ha! I remembered correctly! Good to know.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dad tells me they are awfully sweet. Even if one farted every time he picked her up.
I remember Gus Pong!
Maceos's more handsome than cute now? I'd call Dev cute. Mister Kitty is...handsome. He has an air of dignity. Which he loses pretty quick when he gets really needy or tries to hump your shoulder, but....
Bassets were badger hounds, weren't they? Low-slung and built for digging? Or do I have that wrong?
lori, I haven't had a dog since I was a kid, but I love them to bits, and I always hung out in the TT dogs thread, so I remember you from there, too, as well as Buffy and elsewhere.
sara, thanks for having my back--and TC's. Sadly, the cats thread at TT these days has lost a lot of the funny people--Theo and sara, and even Deb.
Ack, okay time to find some dinner.