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.
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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.
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.
sarameg - Jan 24, 2005 3:25:20 pm PST #290 of 10002
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....
Beverly - Jan 24, 2005 3:26:21 pm PST #291 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
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.
DCJensen - Jan 24, 2005 3:30:25 pm PST #292 of 10002
All is well that ends in pizza.
Anne W. - Jan 24, 2005 3:31:06 pm PST #293 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I love all the animal pictures! It's nice to have the mental image for when people talk about their pets.
Jeeves has always been much more cute than handsome. I think he knows how to turn up the cute when he wants something.
sarameg - Jan 24, 2005 3:31:48 pm PST #294 of 10002
Bev, I miss the ttcats too. Now I have to torture everyone here with my cattales.
edit: Jeeves IS cute. I can see him doing handsome, though.
lori - Jan 24, 2005 3:31:58 pm PST #295 of 10002
Even if one farted every time he picked her up.
Kat's bro had a NINETY pound basset. Named Turbo. I'll bet she farted a lot.
I think Maceo is handsome, but Kat thinks he's just irritating. But he keeps himself at a healthy weight because he has to climb the 6ft wooden fence if he wants to go out of the yard to play. And because his food is up in a cubby hole in a 5ft cat tree so the poopers won't eat it.
I still have some Gus Pong stories stashed around here somewhere.