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They must have been pit bull raccoons….

I’ve now been twice told Sophie’s nose is too long. In those first pictures she was days without food or water and gaunt and dehydrated Then the poor camera angle, because she wouldn’t stop wiggling! gives her a longer looking nose that what it actually is.
Poor Sophie, everyone thinks […]

If “the Holocaust” didn’t happen as some would have you believe then how could Netanyahu be presented with some of the planning documents from Auschwitz?
German journalists handed the Israeli leader, in Berlin for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel, a portfolio of 29 plans from the Auschwitz death camp discovered last year.
Hm…

I am continuing to work with Sophie on the leash and on her recognizing her “kennel” as her safe place. She goes to bed now and no longer whines when I close the door and leave the room unless she needs to go outside. On those occasions when she does wake me at 0-dark-30 […]

I had no idea such things as doggie treadmills ( another) existed but it makes sense if you’re an apartment dweller with a high-energy dog. Probably cheaper than replacing furniture chewed up by a bored and frustrated dog.

I woke up at 4 and Sophie whined so I let her out and she went out and went potty and came right back in. We were up about 8 and let her out to play with the big dogs. At about 10:30 Sophie and Ginger disappeared and at 11 they both showed back up […]

Friday was a work at home day so the puppy got constant small bits of attention. She rotated between rough housing with the big dogs and sleeping at my feet while I worked and following the Missus around just to see what she was up to.
Saturday morning I had to run to town for milk […]

We’d been talking names for the pup and the Missus likes Butterscotch, Spice (so we’d have Ginger and Spice), Sophie and Daisy. I like Lucy or Sophie and a couple of others. Lucy was my preference though I like Sophie which is the Labrador puppy in Dog Eat Doug.
Primarily I wanted something distinctly feminine which […]

Ginger has another new friend, a moose… (courtesy of Rescue Woman!) the pup has an Elephant, but Ginger wants the Elephant, too! She finally worked herself up to going into the cage to get the elephant and put it with her moose.

More funny is Ginger will take the moose and dangle it […]

The puppy, while still not officially adopted, has made much headway in the last few days in firming up her case for full membership. A large part of the headway is the Missus’s slow coming around aided in part by the decision to try crate training to find a way around her concern the puppy […]

People who dine out with me may actually come to think I don’t like tomatoes. But that’s really not true at all - I love tomatoes, I just cannot stand crunchy commercially produced tomatoes.
So this is a great time of the year for me because everywhere real honest to goodness HOME GROWN tomatoes!
Even […]

So we’ve pretty much determined that the dominant characteristics of the puppy are that of a red nosed American Pitt Bull Terrier - the dreaded “pitt bull”! Several pictures of 3 month olds match exactly. The wife is a bit concerned about it due to the damage done the breed by bad owners […]

Here we go again. Not even a half a year after the passing of this years 2nd Annual Meet Your New Dog event and we have yet another petitioning for family membership. And very likely an American Pitt Bull Terrier….

She gets along just fine with the other dogs, even the cat didn’t kill her […]

Not like I needed any further reason to buy Ford, but here’s one anyway…

About that Peak Oil thing… not so fast….

Isn’t it interesting how American education resembles the American auto industry due to union contracts 700 NYC teachers paid to do nothing that cannot be allowed back into the classroom for various reasons. It is bad enough watching the auto industry crumble under the weight of the unions but to watch the public employees […]

Anyone who has ever doubted that statement need only look at the draconian lunacy of Home Owners Associations.
And people wonder why I prefer a shack in the sticks.

I could care less about Coke Zero but have to point out the evolving Zimbabwe of South America….

I bet the Canadians are wondering what Global Warming? I’m wondering the same as I look at the well below average temps now and this time last year - and that this is the 2nd June in a row where 5 days of 7 call for rain. Last year it was July before we […]

A 72-year-old woman was tased by an officer. Not agreeing with the woman’s actions toward the officer but clearly the officer was intimidated by this 4′ 11″ woman which only justified her contempt for him as a representative of “the law”. So now what did this officer gung-ho to write a speeding ticket accomplish but […]

Since the experts can’t figure out the “winged cat” I would question that they’re experts… I have a self-adopted (meaning we weren’t given a vote) feral who looks exactly like the pictures including the wings. On ours those wings are the matted hair being shed and pop up like that until they finally fall off. […]

Oh yeah, great movie. Good story, pretty good acting and lots of bantering tribute to the original series and movies. McCoy was probably the worst of the bunch but good enough I knew who he was after 3 sentences of prototypical “Bones” complaining about how unsafe space travel is. Zachary Quinto and Chris […]

While the various world organizations and governments make sure this “crisis doesn’t go to waste” there are scientists who see this flu strain as relatively mild.
the current outbreak of the H1N1 virus, which emerged in San Diego and southern Mexico late last month, may not even do as much damage as the run-of-the-mill flu outbreaks […]

Best coverage of the Mexican Flu to date.

They finally admit, after years of saying the ice was melting and going to cause sea level rise, that ice is actually growing in the Antarctic. Oh, but it’s still our fault and growing ice is a bad thing too!
First we have Global Warming. Then we discover its actually cooling so we […]