She's doing all right. She's more dog than Kodos is- more naturally confident, more intense- but at least I don't have a testosterone surge to look forward to down the road. Tom summarized the difference in their personalities thusly:
Kodos: "What is that? I don't like it. I'll bark at it from over here. I'll get more menacing if I have to. Do I have any backup available?"
Kang: "What is that? KREEGAH BUNDOLO!!" *pounce*
Charm and a good sense of humor save her.
Tom's got a bunch of pics on his computer; I've been meaning to get them transferred so I can put more up.
Is the book "Sex Lives of Cannibals"? I remember reading that and laughing my head off at the writer's island adventures, which included numerous tales of the local canine pack.
YES! I don't know why I'm so surprised to find someone else who's reading/read it, but there it is. I have a big weakness for travel writing- I loathe traveling myself (all due to the transport), but I can't get enough of other people's accounts of the back of beyond
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I also love travel writing and much, much prefer to be an armchair traveler. (My idea of hell is not being able to sleep in my own bed or see my pets.) I went through a spell of reading about China a few years ago and read Paul Theroux's "Riding the Iron Rooster" over and over along with Mark Salzman's "Iron and Silk
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I'm a huge Bill Bryson fan, and I've got nearly all of the books in the Rapoport "I Should Have Stayed Home" series; they specialize in getting writers and the writing-talented to tell of their worst travel experiences. My favorite is the one by the field biologists and anthropologists telling of their field fiascoes.
Sophie sounds a bit like Kodos. In the dog park other males tend to assume he's an easy mark because he tolerates all sorts of rude behavior, but if they try and seal the dominance deal by trying to force him to submit, they find themselves on their backs pinned by the neck before they have any clear idea what even happened. He is VERY good at the rapid takedown. (It does not hurt that he's bigger than nearly any dog he meets, and he knows how to use his height and mass to best advantage.)
Sophie sounds like she was a scream as well as a thinker.
The original comparison actually came about with the inclusion of the phrase "...and because of that, the next time any dumbass cable guys hop our fence, if they leave with less than 14 stitches each she's going back to her breeder!"
How is Her Highness these days? She is so incredibly adorable. :)
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Kodos: "What is that? I don't like it. I'll bark at it from over here. I'll get more menacing if I have to. Do I have any backup available?"
Kang: "What is that? KREEGAH BUNDOLO!!" *pounce*
Charm and a good sense of humor save her.
Tom's got a bunch of pics on his computer; I've been meaning to get them transferred so I can put more up.
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Is the book "Sex Lives of Cannibals"? I remember reading that and laughing my head off at the writer's island adventures, which included numerous tales of the local canine pack.
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Sophie sounds a bit like Kodos. In the dog park other males tend to assume he's an easy mark because he tolerates all sorts of rude behavior, but if they try and seal the dominance deal by trying to force him to submit, they find themselves on their backs pinned by the neck before they have any clear idea what even happened. He is VERY good at the rapid takedown. (It does not hurt that he's bigger than nearly any dog he meets, and he knows how to use his height and mass to best advantage.)
Sophie sounds like she was a scream as well as a thinker.
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Hey, you can threaten Kang with sending her to the Islands if she gets too rambunctious. ;-)
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