Not sure what it is bout summers, but I lose my taste for politics. Too much other stuff going on.
This is JenJen bait- the Last American Cowboy on Animal Planet rocks, and the border collies are all amazing. The one that is able to ride on the back of the four-wheeler kills me. He must be going 30 miles an hour and that dog just hangs on and loves it.
*** Update ***
By request:
Also, some talk about Great Pyrenees in the thread. They are wonderful dogs, and my mom, dad, Ginny, and Guesly are all visiting the beach where they stay with their friend and this gentle giant:
He is a wonderful dog, and when there are other dogs around that look hostile or sketchy, he always steps in between the other dogs and Ginny and Guesly to shelter them.
Turgid Jacobian
I get so caught up in it all. Then I remember that only just the tiniest portion of voters pay any attention at all to the details of politics, much less policy. It is all tribalism and the economic fundamentals, and nothing else. I think I will give it up… except I, too, feel some comfort when my tribe wins. Go figure.
MikeJ
I understand spring will be starting soon. Today only got to 63°, but tomorrow it’s suposed to hit 72°, and Wednesday, for the first time this year, it may hit 75°. Of course it will be raining that day.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
Agreed about politics in summer. But I can always get up for some Obot/Prog Peenus fencing. It ought to be an Olympic sport, or at least a blog competition couple times a week.
arguingwithsignposts
Dammit, I post a photo, and you put up a new OT.
Anyway, Lady Smudge:
I can haz rabbits? and
mmmm, fuzzy mouse!
ETA: My personal reason for losing taste for politics in the summer is that most of the nonsense that’s going on makes my blood boil, and with the weather at 90 degrees and 90 percent humidity, I don’t need anything else to make my blood boil.
Something Fabulous
I am home alone with this final document to finish! Too alone with my thoughts! MOAR DAWGS PLS.
Corner Stone
@MikeJ:
It’s 93 here at 8:30CT and feels like 97.
Wanna sweeshay?
debit
@arguingwithsignposts: Yes, what you said. It’s too hot and I’m tired of being angry. My tv is off except for Animal Planet and TWC.
@Something Fabulous: Well, I don’t know if you want MY dog, but here she is after the second walk of the day. http://yfrog.com/i3wz7j
MikeJ
@Something Fabulous:
Throw in a chase scene. That always livens things up. Especially technical documentation.
jeffreyw
Poor Jack gimped back in from a stint outside to do his business. Poor little feller is accident prone. He has been favoring his front left paw for a while, now he’s bunged the other one. Makes for a slow gimp. Mrs J escorted him out to pee a while ago and reported that he nearly fell over when he hiked his leg.
arguingwithsignposts
@MikeJ:
Don’t forget the explosions. And the machine guns. If you can get some karate/kung fu fights thrown in there, all the better.
Corner Stone
@MikeJ:
And palm trees. And maybe a bridge under construction.
Daddy-O
@MikeJ: I don’t know where you live, but it’s going to hit 100 tomorrow, with 110 heat index, where I’M living…
Summer stresses me out big time. I like spring and fall much better.
RedKitten
Ugh…tired. I think I caught some kind of bug this weekend, as I’ve had a yucky tummy for the last few days. Combine that with the fact that for the last week I’ve been working on a 2,000 word article on salt marsh restoration (a topic about which I know less than nothing), and I’m just completely fried.
arguingwithsignposts
@RedKitten:
I see you’re working on your beltway pundit class qualification. ;)
MikeJ
@Daddy-O: Seattle, and the weather is one of the great things about it. I grew up in the south where summer meant 90 straight days over 100. Fuck that. I’ll take nine months of rain anytime.
arguingwithsignposts
@MikeJ:
I was in Fort Worth when they had that stretch, record-breaking shit, and it sucked, even in the air conditioned interior.
Morbo
Shot 10 under par tonight in disc league; beats my previous best by 5 strokes. That felt good.
(Stupid auto-strike)
Betsy
@Something Fabulous:
Oh hey me too! Except I’m in my carrel alone, rather than home alone.
@MikeJ:
YES. This history article TOTALLY needs a chase scene.
demimondian
@MikeJ: Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Me, I’m loving the rain, but I’m happy here during the winter.
Anne Laurie
Hot & humid, north of Boston. We’re back to “spend a full hour watering every day it doesn’t rain” weather, which usually doesn’t happen till the Fourth of July. On the positive side, most of my tomatoes are finally setting fruit. And the potato plants in gro-bags (this year’s new experiment) look like they’re going to flower in the next week or so. The various basils are really taking off, with the exception of the lemon basil — so I moved its pot from the side yard to the asphalted driveway strip, which gets more sun, but also dries out the potted plants quicker…
Mike Kay
Politically, very little happens during summer, in large part because of the Memorial day and 4th of july and month long August recesses.
Of course, this doesn’t mean we have to stop blaming Obama for every broken kitchen appliance.
demimondian
@Betsy: Did you type “chase” when you meant “chaste”? That would be sufficiently bizarre that it might actually draw more readership.
Betsy
@Something Fabulous:
Do cats count? Here’s Ms. Chompers:
mmm, cake.
mmm, vinyl.
demimondian
@Mike Kay: Yup. We’re all going to join the Summertime Kitchen Counter Counterinsurgency!
SiubhanDuinne
@Mike; #2: OK, I’m sorry, but that just makes me sob. Your highs are my lows, for at least the last three weeks. Where the fuck do you live, anyhow? Antarctica? Ulaan Bataar?
Betsy
@demimondian:
Ha, nope, I was responding to MikeJ’s incitement to Something Fabulous to throw in a chase scene.
I suppose that, depending on the kind of history one was writing, that wouldn’t be so unusual. Since I’m writing about the history of social science, it would be rather more surprising.
robertdsc
John, can we please haz new pics of Tunch?
Mike in NC
We just returned from two glorious weeks in central Europe, where nobody gives a shit about America’s deranged politics. Two weeks cruising the Danube, enjoying gorgeous scenery, fabulous food and drink, and the most beautiful women in the world. Pity those people for their peace and prosperity.
Then the plane landed and we had to spend three hours dodging asshole redneck drivers in South Carolina. Reality sucks!
K.
The rest of us lose our taste for your politics.
srv
All sweet and all, but hard to enjoy when Uzbeks are getting burned alive on TV.
Betsy
@Mike in NC:
Well…these days, anyway. Peace and prosperity ain’t exactly what comes to *my* mind when I think of Central Europe. (Hi Poland! How ya doin, Czech Republic and Slovakia? How ’bout them Soviets, Hungary?)
Todd
@srv: Been following that on the Al Jazee. Their coverage has been regular and informative.
beltane
If the commenter called “elmo” shows up I want to thank him/her for the suggestion that my family get a Great Pyrenees dog. We did some research and my husband liked the idea as he is getting sick of chasing wildlife away from our bird coops at 3:00 am.
At the top of GOS’s rec list is a diary titled “Defending Jane Hamsher”. I figure this means that nothing interesting is happening in the world right now.
demimondian
@Betsy: Heh. You must be studying social scientists who are different from the ones *I* used to work with. They had many virtues…chastity, I found, not among them.
Daddy-O
@MikeJ: MikeJ, it rained and was unseasonably cool for at least two months longer than usual this spring here in the Midwest. I was lovin’ every minute of it.
I dislike the phrase “Now we’re paying for that gorgeous weather”, intensely, but it seems that summer has arrived early. If I had to guess, I’d say that El Nina has turned back into El Nino.
Bummer. Time for a visit to the Great Northwest, including a jaunt over the border to Vancouver.
bago
Am thinking some ambush interviews with reporters would quickly go viral.
Something Fabulous
@MikeJ: @Corner Stone: @arguingwithsignposts:
Thanks! KNEW I was forgetting something. That should perk this thing right up!
ETA: and of course all pet pictures, pleeze (for me, not the document. greedy.)!
Betsy
@demimondian:
Heh. Well, I wasn’t commenting on their chastity one way or the other, but I don’t think mine were either more or less chaste than the general academic norm (for women) in the mid-20th-century…make of that what you will.
I do love the idea of a chase scene though. Running around the department with a butcher knife screaming, “Your conclusions are unsupported by the data!”
John Cole
Tunch pics and Great Pyrenees videos in the update.
This is a full service blog.
Comrade Mary
Toronto have been rainy and sticky by turns for the past week or so. Great for the garden — every one of my tomato plants has set fruit — but not so great for cycling. I’ve been sneaking out for midnight rides to cool down, with my bike lit up like a Christmas tree and wearing a dorky orange and yellow reflective vest, but I still had some idiot try to cut me off on the right as I was making a left turn from the left lane.
Mike Kay
@beltane: defending her for what?
Comrade Mary
God love you, John Cole. Pics! Videos! I am happy. Sweaty, but happy.
MikeJ
That first video reminds me of Spike and Chester from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0prUMtBjko
Mnemosyne
Charlotte gets a little carried away sometimes.
Corner Stone
@Something Fabulous: Red BMW M5~series with a sunroof. Denise Richards being held hostage somewhere, preferably tied up and gagged. (for drama’s sake of course) Maybe in a bikini, we’re not clear on that yet.
Swarthy men mumbling something about dirka dirka, and a big red lettered countdown clock in the corner. Next to the shishkabobs. (Meh, no one can tell swarthy men’s nationalities apart).
BethanyAnne
I got a paycheck from the new job, so I could take one of my cats to the vet. She’s getting skinny, and I was really worried that it was kidney failure. Not that, it’s hyperthyroidism. Good news, in a way, as this is treatable. Looks like my 2 options are radioactive iodine or surgery. Does anyone have experience with this? Looks like radiation is more expensive, safer, and takes her away from home for a week. Surgery is cheaper, has more risks, and only takes her away for a day. Any advice is welcome :)
jeffreyw
Poor Jack
Betsy
@arguingwithsignposts:
Smudge is looking lovely. :)
SIA
@SiubhanDuinne:
Hell yeah SD! Fuck that! It’s hot as shit here and it’s only June! Why oh why do I live in the south when I hate the heat and humidity so much??
John Cole THANK YOU for Tunch photo and for the Great Pyrennes videos. All the dog threads have made me think and talk about Maggie so much the past week, but she had half GP and gentle giant exactly describes her. She had the goofy, amiable smile too. One GP person said “Pyrennes don’t obey; they cooperate”. That was Maggie. Maybe Elmo will come across a GP/Golden mix puppy for us in his rescue work. :)
mr. whipple
@BethanyAnne:
We had an old cat that developed that, and we didn’t want to put him through either option. We went with daily medication instead.
Leonard Stiltskin
Over the past month or so, I have really decreased my time online reading political blogs, checking Memeorandom, etc. as work has been, thankfully, much busier.
Lo and behold, in the regular outside world, things are pretty calm, no constant hand-wringing over the latest Obama betrayal, no daily call to arms by lunatic teabaggers.
I think I may stay away until fall. And being less informed means less political “discussions” with family and friends.
beltane
@John Cole: Thanks for those videos. I’ll show them to the kids in the morning. Gorgeous, stoic looking dog.
kommrade reproductive vigor
I also notice some Tunchcams attached to these videos. Dog mayhem and Tunchcam.
What else could a man want?
OK, a beer. And for the temperature to drop by about 10 degrees. And rain before the lawn spontaneously combusts. And … I’d really like to know why Basketball wives topless was in the Google search box when I came home.
BethanyAnne
@mr. whipple: Yeps, that was an option as well. It’s not feasible with this particular cat. I could do it with my other, but not Cheyenne. I’d *never* see her after the 1st pill.
I’ve got to go to bed, but I’ll check back tomorrow. Night nite, everyone.
Tattoosydney
I like you people. You’re all as weird as I am. And that doggie is adorable.
I’m at home after convincing my work that if I can take a few days off my cough might actually go away. It seems to be working. Whodathunkit?
What wisdom can I convey from my sickbed?
The iPad is perfect for the invalid – access all areas without leaving the bed, easy to handle – I’m addicted. Mark Twain’s “Innocents Abroad” is a truly wonderful book – travel through Europe with acerbic, at times virulently racist, but always hilarious asides from old Samuel (available in five volumes on iBooks for free with all original illustrations). A dog (insert furry animal of your choice) is the best hot water bottle.
That’s all. Not bad. I hope you all are having a nice day too.
JMY
Is it sad that I’m wouldn’t mind if they ordered the Nat’l Guard to patrol the streets of Chicago. I love my city, but my people are killing each other left and right and for what? Territory that you don’t even own. A gang – a group of people who once you are of no use to them, they don’t really care about you? These guys are buying guns and can’t even shoot the people who they are targeting.
Annamal
I meet a Pyranees when I was walking in the actual Pyranees, really friendly dog who decided to walk with me for an hour before breaking off to do his/her thing, I was almost tempted into a spot of dog-napping.
Comrade Mary
@BethanyAnne:
We had not one, but two cats develop this within a couple of years of each other.
With cat #1, we tried daily pills at first, as radioisotope therapy seemed extreme. She tolerated it for about a year, but began hiding in the mornings and was getting scrawnier, so we bit the bullet and got the radiation therapy. It cost about $1000 in Toronto in 2003, but this is why God invented credit cards. She stayed away for several days, we had daily calls in to the facility, where she was treated well and got all the canned food she wanted, and when she came home, we just put her litterbox waste in a far corner of the apartment for the prescribed period. She lived another healthy and happy 5 years before developing renal failure. It was worth it.
When cat #2 got the same diagnosis one year after we got cat #1 to glow-in-the-dark status, we immediately chose radiation, much to our vet’s amazement. Cat #2 came through with flying colours, too.
So if you can handle the immediate expense or can budget to pay it off, radiation is more effective and gives excellent long term results, plus it’s also cheaper than pills after a few years.
SIA
@beltane: Pictures, pictures, and more pictures please. You will love your GP. I am so excited for you! Great with kids, great protectors, calm, friendly, loyal and gentle dogs.
beltane
@Mike Kay: For her new fundraising email in which she pledges to work independently of the Democratic party. Didn’t read the fundraising letter and didn’t do more than glance at Slinkerwink’s diary. That whole crew have become parodies of themselves.
Kyle
Pyrs are the most wonderful dogs – instinctively gentle and protective of smaller dogs and small children, a sign of great character. The opposite of a bully, the opposite of a Republican.
Sorry I can’t relate to all your weather woes – the temperature on the California coast is mild pretty much all the time. We pay for it though in our housing prices.
beltane
@SIA: We don’t have one yet. We’re more in the preliminary stages of thinking about adding one to our family. You guys are really selling me on this but I still have to take my lab’s feelings into consideration. She’s a wonderful, loving companion dog, but we could have a pack of coyotes devouring the chickens and she wouldn’t even raise her head.
SIA
@Annamal:
How cool is that!
@Kyle:
It is a well document fact that all Great Pyrenees are Democrats.
SIA
@beltane: I know, I’m just prepping you for GP puppy picture demands! :)
handy
Why oh why do I ever go to the GOS? Good lord what has happened to that place?
arguingwithsignposts
@handy:
Jane Hamsher happened to that place.
I actually find some good stuff on the front page (like Adam B.’s discussion of today’s 5-4 SCOTUS ruling basically fucking working Americans up the ass with a rusty farm implement), but there are a lot of the well-known diarists who I don’t even bother with, slinkerwink being one of them.
dp
How big is that dog? He looks like he could give my 150 lb Rottie a run for his money!
I love me some big goofy dogs.
MattR
@dp: His tail looks bigger than each of the JRTs
SiubhanDuinne
This is too funny. Think Geek apparently ran a fake ad on April 1st for Canned Unicorn Meat with the slogan “The other
white meat” and have received a *12-page* cease and desist letter from the Pork Council. Who are getting rid of the slogan anyhow! LOL, and h/t Sully.
http://thinkgeek.com/blog/2010/06/officially-our-bestever-cease.html
demimondian
@SiubhanDuinne: Seattle. Several of us live in Seattle or environs, and we often talk about our weather. Yes, it really is rarely hot, rarely cold, yes, we really do have 17 hrs of bright-enough-to-read-by natural light around the solstice.
Of course, the drawback is that we have to live in the same metro area as the Seattle Sounders FC, Microsoft, Amazon, the University of Washington, and we have to put up with spectacular views of the Olympic Mountains, not to mention Mount Rainier and Mount Baker.
That, and Dino Rossi’s smile.
SiubhanDuinne
To *John Cole*
If I am not mistaken it is now June 22, and you are having a Significant Birthday. Not giving anything away but I believe it ends in a zero.
Last year, your birthday gift was Lily. This year, it seems to be Rosie, and who knows, she may turn out to be a wondrous present indeed.
Tunch, of course, is the gift that keeps on giving.
I feel pretty sure I speak for most BJers (except maybe for Chuck, Stuck and Fuck) in wishing you a wonderful day. Not to get all sloppy, but I don’t think you have the remotest idea of what you bring to the blogosphere. And I’m pretty much a new kid here, can’t imagine what the veterans owe you.
Indulge and pamper yourself and have a glorious birthday, John Cole.
Betsy
@SiubhanDuinne:
Oh wow really?!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! May you have a glorious day filled with adoring minions and devoted pets.
robertdsc-PowerBook & 27 titles
Thank you for the new Tunch! He iz king!
SiubhanDuinne
@Betsy: I’m going to feel like a first-class idiot if I got the date wrong :-(
handy
@arguingwithsignposts:
It’s really about the diaries and comments. Way too much meta about HRs and upratings, and who deserves which. Honestly if this is the foundation for the future of People Powered Politics™, count me out.
Violet
It’s your birthday, John Cole? HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Hope you have or had a great one!
Your blog is a very bright spot in the blogosphere. Thanks for making it possible and letting us hang out here with you.
burnspbesq
Our two Pyrs, Caesar and Cue, say “yes, you’re right, we are the awesomest dawgs evah.”
They request a moment of mockery directed at the citizens of Sidney, Nebraska. Laettner joins in this request. This is why.
http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20100621/de797675-44d0-40d6-a28a-91cba586d9ba
arguingwithsignposts
@burnspbesq:
I have a solution to the illegal immigration bullshit. This will fix it once and for all. Declare that all immigrants who want to come to the U.S. will be accepted. No ifs ands or buts. But the condition is, you can only become a legalized citizen if you come in through the legalization process. And then you make the legalization process a rubber stamp.
Boom. Done. People who are here illegally will just have to cross the border and come back in and they will be legal immigrants.
Suck on that, Right Wingers. If you want to watch the racism get ratcheted up to 12 (even beyond 11), that would be the way to do it.
Delia
That’s a sweet pic of Tunch. I love to see cats with their heads tucked under their paws.
TuiMel
@demimondian:
I’m down w/or resigned to all the things you listed except Dino Rossi’s smile…
Going to watch the M’s play the Cubbies on Thurs afternoon and naturally it is supposed to rain that day…
TuiMel
Happy Birthday, John Cole!
burnspbesq
So Faisal Shazad, the failed Times Square bomber, pled to every count in the indictment. He is almost certain to get life in prison.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ny-terror-20100622,0,7451663.story
Tell me again about how the criminal justice system isn’t up to the challenge of dealing with terrorism.
Kristine
I loved those videos. They were needed tonight.
T-storms this evening. A tornado watch/warning/whatever just ended. The rain just ended. Not sure if we’ll get more tonight or not. Hi 80s/lo90s tomorrow, and humid. Summer is hitting northeast Illinois kinda hard so far. The heat’s good for the tomatoes, though. If I can get rid of the aphids, I’ll be in business. I’m using insecticidal soap, and it’s a fine line between losing the leaves to the aphids and burning the leaves with the soap.
Betsy
@SiubhanDuinne:
lol, there are worse ways to be wrong. At the worst, he gets a bunch of groupies sending him good wishes on an un-birthday.
Kristine
And HAPPY BIRTHDAY, John! Many more.
Annamal
@dp my impression is that they run only a little smaller than saint bernards…awesome dogs!
suzanne
Happy damn birthday, John. :) I hope it’s lovely… full of food that isn’t good for you and love that is.
Something Fabulous
@John Cole: Thanks! Went out to buy some beans because I CANNOT be without coffee for tomorrow’s review session of this damn unending thing. And all this video was up when I got back! (With a raspberry tart as a bribe to myself to finish. I am weak.)
Yay, full-service blog! Off to add more explosions and palm trees!
(and Happy Birthday, if that’s how you roll!)
Betsy
@Something Fabulous:
Soldier on! Git ‘er dun! &tc. I just finished my article draft and sent it off without proofing the last bits that I added. Living dangerously, I am.
Something Fabulous
@Betsy: Oooh, you *are* brave! Wish I could do the same! Well, only about two pages more of spackle to make the pieces which are fine actually work together, and I’ll be done too. Congrats on finishing!
FlipYrWhig
@BethanyAnne: We’re in the midst of this with a 14-year-old cat. She had a thyroid thing and a terrible respiratory infection at the same time, and she lost like a third of her body weight, and only massive doses of antibiotics and subcutaneous fluids brought her back from the brink. And it happened twice in three months.
Once she stabilized, we set to work on the thyroid problem. We couldn’t afford the radiation treatment for her, and the nearest place that does it is far away anyway; plus, this cat hates strangers.
We started out doing the daily pill routine, which was traumatic to everyone concerned, until one day my wife in total frustration (we were both literally on the kitchen floor crying) decided to see what would happen if she dissolved the pill in water and mixed it with canned cat food into a slurry. It was foul-looking, but the cat actually liked it. No more trauma! (Only unanticipated outcome: we have to give our other cat a spoonful of the canned food to keep him from trying to still the medicated concoction, and he’s gotten pretty fat, or, as the French say, à la Tunch.)
I was worried that the vet would say that dissolving the pill in water meant that the cat wasn’t getting enough of a dose, but the blood tests have been better and better and we have to give her less and less of the medicine.
Ruckus
@arguingwithsignposts:
I remember back in the (I think) 80’s when we had immigration amnesty. Seemed to work pretty well. I remember a little hand wringing on the part of the racists but once it worked out that died off pretty fast. Had a fellow working for me who turned out to be illegal at the time who made the cut and got his green card. It was a good day for him and a good day for the country. He was able to stay and the country got an intelligent hard working person who paid his taxes and liked his new home country. Haven’t seen him in years, I wonder what he thinks about all this BS now.
Seeley
@BethanyAnne:
I helped my elderly mother with getting her cat veterinary care, which included the radioactive iodine treatment. The cat was only away for a day or so, though I had to collect and store the litter box scoopings for a month due to the radioactivity. Unfortunately, the cat didn’t make it. She was already 18 years old, though, and I think she must have had other problems in addition to the hyperthyroidism. So, even though we didn’t have good success with it, I would still recommend it.
You mentioned that your only two options were surgery or the radioactive iodine treatment, due to the difficulty in giving Cheyenne pills. There is an additional option – ear applied medicine. You’ll have to get it made at a compounding pharmacy, and you’ll have to wear a glove when you apply it. But it only takes a second to apply and doesn’t bother the cat too much.
asiangrrlMN
Happy birthday, Cole, if it is, indeed, your birthday. If not, whatever. Thanks for the Tunchie pic. I was jonesin’, and he looks as sweet and cuddly as ever. The dog vids hit the spot as well. The Great Pyrenees is AMAZING in how he handles the JRT.
And, thanks to the commenters for the pics of various animals. They are all gaw-jus!
It’s in the eighties and humid here in MN; I am miserable. Two things I like about summer: juicy, ripe, sweet peaches and people in less clothing. Other than that–only four more months until winter. I just have to keep telling myself that. I really wish I never had to wear clothing.
Jenny
@beltane:
Doesn’t she already work independently of the Democratic party? To my knowledge no arm of the party has ever worked with her.
What a hoot. All her work has been unsuccessful. Why would any national or state Democratic entity want to work for her, especially after her racist caricature of Loserman.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: Because shut up! That’s why! Also in regards to the first article you linked to, notice how they go after the immigrants looking for work but the beef/pork plants are sacrosanct. I think that’s called missing the forest for the trees.
@asiangrrlMN: Mmm…peach season. I may haz to go shopping soon and indulge myself there. Fun fact: peaches are originally from China, although I’d bet money you already knew that. Though our modern version of the fruit is Persian. I don’t recommend telling those good Georgia boys that fact though. They might get a little huffy. I feel the need for a good peach cobbler now.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: I did not know that about China, but I might have guessed. Mmmmm, peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream. I want! How you tonight, hon?
efroh
Who’s a good Tunch-y Wunch-y! Yes, you are!
Happy B-Day, Mr. Cole!
elmo
@beltane:
I’m always late to these threads, dammit. On the off chance that you’ll check back, congratulations!
elmo
@SIA:
“Pyrenees don’t obey, they cooperate.” OMG SO TRUE. That’s awesome, I am totally stealing that.
I’m sorry about your Maggie. With so many Pyrs being owner-surrendered right now, I am sure a Pyr-Golden will end up in rescue as well.
Visit nationalpyr.org — and don’t worry about the distance if you see one you love, that’s what outfits like Peterson’s pet transport and volunteer networks are for.
mike in dc
That GP is gorgeous. The wife and I have a chocolate Newf, 110 pounds, who is 50/50 around small dogs…so long as they’re not all-white and yappy(her previous (Republican) owners kept her outside along with another Newf, while they kept a yappy all-white dog inside–figure that’s why she goes apeshit around them).
And, yeah, Hazel doesn’t obey either, she just chooses to cooperate. She does have me well-trained on when to give her belly-rubs.
BethanyAnne
Thanks, everyone. I’m going to talk to the vet about the radiation. I don’t think we discussed it enough. I had never thought about mixing meds into her gravy / wet food. Bet that would work :)