Pets

[EdH]

Little Miss enjoyed meeting our friends’ new puppy (a miniature Schnauzer) yesterday:

[hjl360]

Sometimes sleepy

Sometimes goofy

[derek111]

@hjl360 amazing. Vizslas are sometimes sleepy, sometimes goofy, yet always crazy somehow. At least mine are! But I wouldn't change a thing about them.

[hjl360]

@derek111 yep, the craziness is constant! I am exactly the same, my first ever dog and to say it's been a learning curve would be an understatement

[Graeme]

@Alex that's right, the rare breeds don't want to associate with the hoi polloi!

Actually, the other two belong to a friend. We'd been at an event in the middle of rural New South Wales, and they were having a bit of a run before heading home.

[SFMCfranky]

Mambo, Miyamoto Musashi and Maasai.
Photo taken on May 16, 2024

[Alex]

[Giles]

Spot Tiger….

[ROman]

@Giles Nice

[twin]

@Giles She is inside her cat box.

[Mizmazzle]

@derek111 fantastic photo!

[CosmoSix5]

Iron Heart guard dog.... Well, she'll at least get in the way.....

[ConBu]

Break during the walk

[ManiacLachy]

I’m dog sitting Bruno for a friend this weekend. My boxer Hobbes passed almost 2 years ago and I’ve missed his company very much. Having Bruno visit is nice, similar but different to Hobbes.

[Oaktavia]

Princess Rosaline of West Virginia

[SFMCfranky]

@ManiacLachy

Every time I see a boxer I think of George Pelecanos.

[CosmoSix5]

This is Sweet Caroline. Rescued(wife rescued) her from the woods a few summers ago. Along with all her kittens in a bag thown in a lake. Found homes for all but one of her kittens. She's turned into our ground mole prevention service. Her daughter is the other cat I'm always posting about. Caroline wanted nothing to do with being an inside cat.

[ManiacLachy]

@SFMCfranky said in Pets:

George Pelecanos

I had to google "George Pelecanos Boxer Dog", I didn't know the connection. I now know it's a book Buster: A Dog, who's a Boxer and it's written from his perspective. I'm intrigued, but I'm worried reading the book will make me very sad. Should I risk it?

[Aetas]

@ManiacLachy said in Pets:

… visit is nice, similar but different …

Can totally understand that, but your smile shows you’re enjoying it!?

[SFMCfranky]

@ManiacLachy

I haven’t read it yet. However, I’m a huge George Pelecanos fan. He got his start as a crime fiction writer. He later moved into script writing for TV. His first show was season 3 of The Wire. He then was show runner and principal writer for Treme and The Deuce. But he kept producing crime fiction as well. All of his crime fiction takes place in Washington DC. But it’s not about politicians. He’s my age and I grew up in the same neighborhoods as he did. I like to say that if you wanted to know what my youth was like, just read the first three or four Pelecanos novels. The only real difference is that more people die in his books than died in my life.
Anyway, a Boxer appears in several of his later novels belonging to the protagonist. I assume George owned boxers as well.