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She did come from Ireland, maybe she's just rebelling against the catholic church.

you should probably grow a beard to help her get past that trauma

I could never do this tbh, it would just be wispy whiskers. But you're right, we ought to try and sort the problem out.

just get a fake beard

i helped my dog get over a personal trauma once!!!

she got attacked by two very large dogs while i was walking her in my neighborhood once and for about two and a half years would not go anywhere near the corner where it happened, after months of working with her, it's now her favorite corner.

what did 'working with her' entail

just like, veering her closer and closer to that corner till she realized it was safe.

she still freezes up if she hears someone coming from the direction of the house those dogs lived in (they have since both died RIP ruthless beasts)

i have probably told this story before but one of the greatest dogs i have ever known was a rhodesian ridgeback named hemi, he belonged to one of my BFs. he had clearly been mistreated by a male sometime in his youth, so despite being the goofiest friendliest funnest dog ever, he would get super serious and growly whenever there was a male in proximity. one time, i was staying at my friend's place and her roommate's male friend came over: hemi spent the whole time sort of braying at this guy and taking turns sitting protectively in front of each of us the whole time the dude was there.

my other favourite thing he would do: i would be sitting on the couch eating dinner and he would put his head on my knee and give me these pathetic sideways looks till i gave him something.

i really miss him ;_;

I wonder what the cues for "male" are for a dog. It would be interesting to try presenting an androphobic dog w/ men in various types of drag.

dogs can pick up on hormones via scent iirc

yeh, i wondered about that too. especially my dog, multiple migs.

fun fact i learned from the far too many books i have read about dogs: dogs can differentiate between fraternal twins and between identical twins that live seperately but cannot differentiate between identical twins that live together ie. they identify people by both their phenotype and their habitat. fucking columbos.

my morons: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7064/6989961551_ec99259e8c.jpg

Awwww.

Related, I've heard a number of people claim that their dog or a dog they know is very sweet except to black people and I always wrote that claim off as racist Southern BS (I haven't heard that in ages, and I only remember hearing it in NC).

Which reminds me - when I was 18 I was was bored and messing around w/ some black Halloween and I painted my face and neck with it and my Pekingese flipped out when she saw me. She wouldn't go anywhere near me and even after I washed the makeup off, it took her a few minutes to decide I wasn't going to change color on her again.

I don't say that to support the claim that some dogs have inherent antipathy toward people of color since I think my dog's problem was that someone she knew had undergone an extreme and unnatural change in appearance. TBH, my shiny, unhuman coal-black face was very disconcerting even for me (esp. since I was stoned).

imo yr dog thought you were racist

I've heard that rubbish about dogs being racist but my dog goes NUTS when I put rap music on - ANY OF IT. He also prefers gospel and soul music.

took my dog hiking today:
http://i.imgur.com/e2OIS.jpg

she gets worn out sooner than she used to, and we got rained on pretty hard; i ended up carrying her for the last 2 miles

What kind of dog is she, and what size?

I never disliked dogs before, but was always sort of impartial to other people's dogs. I've realized though that since getting one I'm such a huge sucker for any dog I run into that it's actually sort of sad. Dogs are the greatest.

she is 1/4 italian greyhound and 3/4 basenji - about 14lbs

I feel like a lot of animals are freaked out by big bearded bros, I used to think this was a past trauma thing but it's prob more like they think they're bears or sme other predators

Ivy bit the carpenter on the arse today ... I think she might have been distressed by his beard.

When he turned up for work this week, he had shaved his beard off, bless him! And he's had it forever too. The dog still growled and barked at him though and we had to shut her away in the bedroom in the end. :(

From last summer. A friend's neighbor's pit bull who is obsessed with trying to capture tree branches. Taken from a longer video in which he does this like 20 times.

http://cdn.kinotopic.com/system/paperclip/kinos/pics/4f70/7efa/a531/807f/2500/041c/original/4f707efaa531807f2500041c.gif?1332772699

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_WKmopoN50

http://i.imgur.com/466hD.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/X29FE.jpg

Getty Images 3 days ago

A dog runs after the Popemobile passed in Guanajuato, Mexico on March 24, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI is in Mexico on his first trip to Spanish-speaking Latin America which will include a two-day visit to Cuba.

reminds me of that picture of bush on the aircraft carrier with his colourful friends

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m183dhlsAu1r0ykpto1_500.jpg

actual lol

http://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/540823_10150631042472161_716147160_9262526_740330334_n.jpg

ballin

my brother just discovered that his dog (a 4-yr-old german shorthaired pointer he adopted/rescued last year) somehow naturally knows how to skimboard!
amazing

http://sobadsogood.com/2011/08/06/hilarious-dogs-in-motion/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfvxk_n6lgA

:.)

i get physically ill thinking about people doing that kind of shit to dogs
good for him to save the pup

I am with you.

I kind of want to start a thread about dog fighting, bull fighting, cockfighting, and the cultural aspects/considerations thereof, but man that thread would get ugly fast and I ain't no troll.

;_;

Fuck You, Michael Vick

follow-up to my brother's skim-boarding dog tale. today they were at the beach and a german tourist took pics of them. aw.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7237/7174321810_a23dfe95d5_z.jpg

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5111/7174322154_539ceb495d_z.jpg

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5334/7174322282_392d90a2df_z.jpg

<3

Where is that?

beautiful Vancouver, BC
my hometown!

i swear i love that pic of the dog in the popemobile's wake so much, seems like a vision of a better world where we realize that any random dog is more worthy of our admiration and affection than some fucking nazi pope

I need a pool in my house.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m85ntmDTeT1r9aovgo1_1280.jpg

omg shut up with that right now

WHAT ARE THEY DOING?

I assume some combination of butterfly and breast stroke... If not, more simply, doggy paddle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXElh_VM0Uc&feature=em-share_video_user

Dog parkour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6kiFOG_qkM

That video is no longer available, but it's up elsewhere and it's super cute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kui_29j1odo