Caught Steve relaxing:
As soon as the puppies saw me paying attention to him, they had to get in on the act, and Steve was not pleased:
And then there were two:
Bonus Video!
What is Lovey doing? Beats me. Polishing her nails after her trim yesterday would be my guess.
Notice how as soon as he is in a picture, Thurston starts posing. I’ll post some pics of Ginger tomorrow when I get some good ones.
Mike J
Jesus christ what the fuck is wrong with you. Nobody has a vertical letterbox monitor.
greennotGreen
Do you see any indication in the puppies that they’re half poodle?
John Cole +0
It’s my iphone camera. Do I need to change a setting or something?
SWMBO
What Lovey is doing is what we call “tamping the grass”. A lot of dogs circle around three times or have some ritual that they do before trying to lay down. When they scratch at the cover and start trying to rearrange it (with her teeth and feet), she’s just trying to get the comfy bits arranged so she gets the best spot. She quit when Thurston got up there to hog it.
RobertDSC (Quad Intel Mac)
@John Cole +0:
Just hold it horizontally instead of vertically. That’s it.
Violet
So cute! Poor Steve. So patient.
Violet
@John Cole +0: Pretty sure you just hold the phone horizontally. You can even turn it in mid-video and it’ll adjust.
John Cole +0
I hate all of you people.
John Cole +0
@efgoldman: You just made the list. Festivus is right around the corner.
eemom
dunno from cameras and shit. Just WANT those doggies.
Violet
@John Cole +0: Hate you right back.
Lovey’s really looking for buried treasure in that sofa, isn’t she? Gotta be there somewhere.
The Ancient Randonneur
@John Cole +0: Gosh you’re making me feel all 2007 and shit.
PurpleGirl
Squee. So cute. Thx for the pictures and video JC.
Jacks mom
Such a happy home. I’m getting there with the new pup (he went to sleep without drama tonight) the cats are still pissed but we are making progress.. Wish I had your animal whispering skills. I think just love them and it will work.
I hope ;)
Tenar Darell
Steve looks so clean and floofy. Video really captures a bit of pups’ personalities. Super cute Cole.
rikyrah
The pictures are wonderful.
Percysowner
OMG, so cute! Thurston is destined to be somebody’s little (or maybe medium) prince. He is going to make himself the center of his owner’s world.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@efgoldman:
Cole’s getting into the Dilbert zone.
Steeplejack (tablet)
Lovey’s got that corkscrew tail of the classic American trash hound (Canis detritus).
Mike J
@Percysowner: Am I the only one who thinks it should be Thurston and Kim instead of Lovey?
I swear their divorce bothered me more than that of some of my friends.
Howard Beale IV
@John Cole +0: Which dog was barking in the background when you
filmedrecorded the vid?Howard Beale IV
Yay! My 77″ Cat tower’s coming tomorrow.
srv
Whoosh.
Y’all should join Nextdoor. It’s a veritable crankfest of balloon-juicers.
Neighborhood robbery, all the kewl kids have home cameras now. So they post vertical pics from their phone taken off a cheap monitor showing the portrait format video. So HD off a 240p video from 4 feet uploaded as some low-rez jpeg.
It’s a wonder they catch anybody.
Mike J
@John Cole +0:
And also with you.
asiangrrlMN
Sir Willie Whiskertons III is so handsome and so patient with the puppies! Man, the little ones are growing fast. They are adorable, especially Thurston.
Yatsuno
Proper authoriahs were alerted. And may be along shortly.
@Mike J: I’ll be in town the weekend of April 17th. I might be considering a diversion northward to visit friends in Canada otherwise a meet-up plan is definitely in the cards. I’ll actually be over that Thursday but I will have plans that night. They involve a Marine and I cannot disclose anything more than that.
Suzanne
Cole, do you have enough lights at your place? I think you need more lighting. I need to come over there and bring you luminaires and end tables.
God DAMN those pups are cuties. Want.
Spawn the Younger is not quite adjusted to our kitty Clarice being gone. She had said a few times that we just need to take her to the doctor to be fixed. Le sigh. I miss my Reesie.
seaboogie
Who’s a good blogmaster….who’s a good blogmaster…? Thank you for the pet pix and the vid.
Bill E Pilgrim
I just realized I’ve been reading Balloon-Juice with the computer monitor turned the wrong way all this time. Now I finally understand what you’ve all been saying, which of course is utterly horrifying.
Mary G
Love the look on Steve’s face. “Weren’t these little ones supposed to be temporary? When are they leaving? Four to one isn’t fair, Dad!”
I can see the video just fine, thanks, and Lovey is just as big of a ham as Thurston.
Another Holocene Human
Ohgodohgod why did I jump into that internet cesspool that is TERFdom? At least there’s one point of hilarity, in that TERFs have their very own Chuck Johnson, Award Winning Journalist in Cathy Brennan, Very Litigious Corporate Law Star, who is so vile that other TERFriffic TERFs call her a “sociopath”.
Wow.
Oh and apparently she’s pissed that people are using blockers to mute her on twitter en masse. Sounds like she has a lot in common with Gamergate. Maybe she should gay marry Christina Hoff Sommers and have her hate babies.
Hal
Off topic, but is there anyway Boehner’s citizenship can be revoked while he’s out of the country.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/20/394313290/boehner-plans-trip-to-israel
raven
@Hal: Six hour old threads ain’t got no topics.
ThresherK
Is it an accurate representation in the photos that the puppies just move faster* than Steve? Or just our blogmaster
shaking the camera“artistic choices” by the photog?(*Except when konked out, in that deep puppeh sleep)
raven
@ThresherK: He does the best he can with an iPhone in a dark room.
geg6
OMG, my baby girl is too cute! Thurston also, but Koda is going to love her Lovey. Same habits already. That’s exactly what Koda does before laying down. Exactly.
geg6
@Steeplejack (tablet):
My sister’s new pup has the curliest corkscrew tail you ever saw. Not a junkyard dog at all though. She’s a Norwegian buhund, a fairly rare (only about 600 total in the US) breed. Her name is Kona, which gets confusing when Koda and I come to visit.
ThresherK
@raven: I was trying to be funny, but on reflection I’m probably not awake enough to have succeeded.
But seriously, I don’t even bother with my tablet’s camera, as it wasn’t a priority in buying it, and by many accounts is piss-poor and I get much better results from my generations-old cheapass digital camera when taking my pet pix.
Baud
@ThresherK:
I had always heard that the iPhone camera was top-notch, but it clearly can’t pass the Cole test.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Baud:
He’s the Joe Btfsplk of camera technology.
ThresherK
@Baud: Well, there is one more that one iPhone. I don’t know that it’s the same as saying “Toyota’s 22R is a nigh-unto unkillable engine, in about every vehicle they put it in”.
I’ll let the bleeding edgers discuss that. The retrogrouch in me is still clinging to my flip-phone until it breaks, especially because “phone audio quality” isn’t really a thing as of late, from what I read.
satby
Oh, the video was fine you old poops.
And Thurston looks like a miniature version of my Clayton, who is part Rottweiler, and the sweetest, smartest dog out of the whole bunch I have.
ThresherK
@Steeplejack (phone): Props for linking to the pre-wingnut era Al Capp.
(Seriously, haven’t Dennis Miller and Victoria Jackson simply taken the same arc as Al Capp did decades before I was born?)
LinusK
There had to be a reason why I go to http://www.balloon-juice.com every morning, the first thing after I wake up.
This is it!
Bless you Mr. Cole and your menagerie.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: When I take pictures, I try to actually use a CAMERA. I got some good sunset pics last night.
This is my camera: http://www.samsung.com/us/photography/digital-cameras/EK-GC200ZKAXAR
JPL
@geg6: Your home is never going to be the same, once that little girl arrives.
I mean that in a good way!
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
That’s a pretty sweet looking device. But can you use it to order a pizza?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
Sure, VOIP. It’s WiFi only.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Damn, now I want one.
geg6
@JPL:
I know! Can’t wait!
WereBear
Those flopped over puppy ears are just adorable.
Thurston! He’s my boy!
Tristan is also a head-sleeper.
debbie
If this can happen in arugula-loving California, then the country’s already lost:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sodomite-suppression-act-california
satby
@Baud: now I do too. And I’m not even in the market for one.
Botsplainer
Wife and daughter got to see Michelle Obama yesterday – they’re staying at the same hotel in Siem Reap in Cambodia.
As I put it – they got closer to Vietnam than either Dick Cheney or George Bush ever did.
Kid got to work on a freshly de-mined archaeological site in the Angkor Wat complex for a few days. That took some major government wrangling. There’s a great shot of her with the workers (who were amused that she was swinging a pickaxe with them) – she’s a full head taller than all of them.
Betty
I agree with satby that the complainers are old poops. We should be grateful that Mr. Cole likes sharing his babies. Also, I agree that Thurston seems to have some rottweiler in his heritage. Question: is it mostly a guy thing to be so rude in comments?
JPL
@debbie: The southern states will be watching closely, to see how it works out.
WereBear
@Betty: Guys tend to be socialized into reflexive head-butting at the slightest opportunity. Plus testosterone, which is a known impulse-enabler. Add a generous helping of wise-ass traits so common in liberal circles, and viola!
Blog host harassment.
OzarkHillbilly
@WereBear:
He started it.
raven
@Betty: The pictures suck, he’s been told that for a couple of years.
WereBear
The black and tan is also seen in Dobermans, Daschunds, Schnauzers and various hounds and can pop up on any line:
The Black and Tan color in dogs
The shortness of his legs makes me think Daschund, but he’s a baby yet. He could go all Muppet as he gets some age on him.
Baud
This is insane.
Botsplainer
@debbie:
I suspect that he’s not mentally ill, but a GOP activist of the Segretti-style ratfucking variety, trying to taint her be making her write the summary.
She should respond by drafting something with language criticizing the initiative, forcing him to stand in front of a court to demand that she be ordered to present it neutrally.
Baud
@WereBear:
I know for me, it’s definitely the immense amount of testosterone that’s the primary cause.
Botsplainer
@Betty:
Take any random group of four guys and put them together for beers and wings, and with an hour, somebody will be getting ribbed as being dickless, pussy-whipped, lame, etc.
It is the way of the world…
WereBear
@Baud: Of course! And now the mysteries of gender-blind nyms will be solved as other men will jump in to claim their T levels blew up the testing lab…
Botsplainer
Take any random group of four guys and put them together for beers and wings, and with an hour, somebody will be getting ribbed as being dickless, pus$$y-whipped, lame, etc.
It is the way of the world…
OzarkHillbilly
@Botsplainer: All you all are the biggest bunch of dickless, pus$$y-whipped, lame, squishes I have ever met, but don’t tell my wife I said that.
Botsplainer
Have settled down for a mindless morning of being mauled by the dog and watching Big Ass Spider on SyFy.
So far, it’s great, but I’m puzzled about how it got into the body bag to make its first appearance in the hospital morgue, and how (or why) it causes the lights to flicker.
WereBear
@Botsplainer: You’ve just given it more thought than the screenwriters did.
Though I am a helpless fan of Sharknado.
Baud
@Botsplainer:
Big Ass Spiders got electromagnetic pulse. Duh.
Randy P
@Baud: Makes me want to reach out and crack random heads together. You disapprove the only sane voice in the room? Based on what you morons? BASED ON WHAT? BASED ON WHAT????!!!!???
Baud
@Randy P: The truth hurts sometimes. Beyond that, I got nothing.
gogol's wife
Thanks for cute cat and puppies. Very nice.
Now could someone please make it stop snowing heavily. They can’t forecast even five minutes ahead. This was supposed to be 1-3 inches, done overnight, and in the 40s by now. There’s a blizzard outside my window. I swear the forecasts were better when it was a guy looking out the window, no computers.
gogol's wife
@Randy P:
I know, I know. I haven’t even been able to enjoy the Obama presidency because of the way he’s been treated. And now I’m dreading the post-Obama era. We won’t see anyone like him again.
WereBear
@gogol’s wife: I suspect President Obama will be a kickass Former President like Jimmy Carter, not a waste of plasma like Former President Bush.
Randy P
@Baud: Clearly I am not one of the sane voices. Simetimes I’m afraid that I’m going to end up going around the bend from one Limbaugh or Cruz or Rand Paul comment too many and start literally doing that. I hope the young men with the butterfly nets and straitjackets are gentle.
Baud
Hey Front Pagers,
I too have a life that I could be living. Some of understand the importance of sacrifice. How about a new post?
SRW1
Puppies are cute, but, ahem, the lighting technique needs some work, Mr cameraman. The wall works as a diffuser, but the light source is too far to the side/back of the scene.
Baud
@Randy P:
To hell with that. The opportunity to be firmly on the right side of history comes to a precious few in this world. I’m going to relish every minute of it.
raven
@Baud: steady in the ranks
raven
@ThresherK: me too
Botsplainer
This is great – they’ve integrated chunks of Alien, Aliens, and the original Star Trek Motion Picture bore fest along with “hide your kids hide your wife” into seamlessly cheesy plot lines.
Now we have hot girls in bikinis.
Randy P
@Botsplainer: I hope there’s a car chase. And zombies. Those go with any genre.
bemused
The pups who have the run of the house are so acclimated to humans and other pets, they will easily feel at home in their new digs.
schrodinger's cat
@Randy P: Dog whistles work, that’s why the GOP keeps using them. I am also quite sure that the numbers would differ greatly from state to state.
ETA: Jackals and hyenas of BJ seem to be mostly immune, so that’s definitely a good thing.
schrodinger's cat
Steve is floofy. I still miss the magnificent Tunch.
Botsplainer
@Randy P:
Security guard sidekick already referenced zombies. And there was just an epic chase scene, spider chasing exterminator truck.
Baud
@Botsplainer:
How philosophical.
Lurker
@LinusK:
Same here. Morning routine: 1) get up; 2) put coffee on; 3) turn on laptop and go to Balloon Juice.
shelley
That’s so funny. In our family we’ve always called it ‘getting the snakes out..’
Judy Bass
Lovey is doing what our dear departed Popcorn used to do, rearranging the pillow to her specifications. We used to call her our inferior decorator.
phoebes-in-santa fe
Love the pictures, particularly of Steve.
WaterGirl
@Baud:
Wow. Thank god I’m a white woman with more than a 4-year college degree, otherwise I would be trying to figure out some way to not be identified with the groups of people represented in that paragraph.
It’s always good to get that first “What the fuck is wrong with these people?” out of the way early in the day.
NCSteve
If I can digress from the critique of Cole’s photographic and videographic skills (which critique seems to be to be a tad counterproductive if the idea is to get him to post more pictures and videos) . . . do we have any idea from the vet about how big those puppies are going to be when they’re full-growed goggies?
Because those are just some big-ass damn puppies to have come out of such a tiny mommy.
Leslie
Yeah, Lovey is nesting, or trying to. In the wild, she’d be doing that to a pile of leaves. We have a bunch of throws we keep around for our little dogs, and they work them all around like that until they can get them properly arranged to curl up in. The big dog (Great Pyrenees/Anatolian Shepherd mix) has a foam mattress dog bed, and it has a hole from him pawing at it.
Thurston is such a ham. A big, chunky ham.
@Baud: Utterly insane.
@NCSteve: I don’t suppose we know who the daddy is? Obviously a larger-than-poodle breed.
kindness
I don’t see any poodle in those two kids.
Pogonip
@Botsplainer: Or short. I work with a short guy who is mercilessly ragged by the talls.