This irks me so much. I don't care what a wild animal would do or not do. If I wanted a wild animal, I'd do some research, get some licenses, and bring home a freaking wild animal. I wanted, and got, a DOG. I am a domestic human living in a climate-controlled house. I sleep on pillows. I eat freakin' Cookie Crisp (tm), which I pour in a bowl, cover ( Read more... )

There are few things in dogdom I hate quite the way I hate the assumption of inherent inferiority of small dogs. Not only does it sell small dogs short (pun intended), it sells ALL dogs short. Dogs are dogs, and they're awesome, and one of the awesome things about them is that we've bred them in different sizes and styles to suit our myriad needs ( Read more... )

My cat and my mice too, but let's face it, mostly my dog. (I'm sorry Duffy, I absolutely adore you, you're the best cat I ever had, and I have dreams about holding you, but I have had TEN YEARS of history with Eppy, you can't compete with that, dude).

So to torment myself feel better, I've been watching all of the Ginga series on YouTube, and ( Read more... )

So, after being a YouTube member for like, what, two years? Something like that... anyway, I decided I'd finally actually post a video ( Read more... )

We got into a really interesting discussion about dominance theory on Dogster today and I got into an idea that I thought bared further mental exploration. I'm therefore posting it here, so I don't forget to look at it again (I probably wouldn't, anyway, but hey, now you all get the joy of more of my lovely babblings, so it's all very win-win, even ( Read more... )

Eppy got stung by a yellowjacket wasp today and her whole bitty face swelled up. We had to give her a benadryl. She wrested a piece of hamburger from them in glorious combat at a family cookout. As she lay on the tile, panting from the heat, she seemed to have no regrets, but from the rapidly growing state of her face we figured it might be a good ( Read more... )