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Aw, jeez

2008-06-26T17:12:16Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAn7QbThWAg

Sweet dog, sweet man. He kind of chokes up at the end... maybe I did, too.

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PUPPY BOWL!

2008-04-08T23:39:59Z

Oh my hell, if I'd been home on Sunday, my eyes would have been glued to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfITaZ1Ndj4

Feisty Jack Russell Terrier! Stubby-legged Corgi! The Burmese Mountain Dog that, in proportion, takes up thirty yards of the field when he sits down!

100% awesome. Everyone wins.

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My pictures

2008-03-28T19:26:52Z

Hi friends,
Check out my photos. I have some additions, both happy and sad.
Dogs rule!
wiggle wiggles

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Oh... god.... puppy crush!

2008-03-25T09:06:37Z

"Tank is now 17 months old and weighs 142 lbs."

http://dailypuppy.com/index.php?itemid=1770

Look at his furrowed brow! His giant paws! His velvet ears! His poochy tum!

I am helpless.

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Aaaaaaadorable!

2008-03-10T21:55:21Z

A lady just walked into my studio with a doggie carrier & I couldn't see though the mesh so I asked her about her "companion".

When she unzipped it looked like a teeny tiny darker Miles!
She was only 9 weeks old! They wern't sure, but she thought a Corgi Beegle mix.

I had to walk down Miles' memory lane to check out a puppy picture.
http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/234/38a/23438ae9-4f1d-49a4-8910-7caff328b315

so freakin cute!

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Help Animals in Need!

2008-01-19T03:27:36Z

In recent times, my desire to give BACK to the animal community has grown in bounds. I always think, "I wish I had more time in my schedule so I could volunteer!". As most of you know, I'm busy running Holly's Hounds 24/7, working on commissioned works of art in my studio, or collaborating musically with friends. Hence, I came up with a simple solution. I went online and made some Holly's Hounds buttons that are for sale! (or if you prefer, I made some stickers too)

Click HERE to see the image -------> http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9946/hollyshoundsweblogoqa2.jpg

100% of the funds raised through the sales of these buttons (or stickers) will be donated to animal foundations, shelters and rescue centers such as Milo, Hopalong, and the Oakland SPCA.

Click HERE---------> http://www.zazzle.com/hollycejones
and you'll be directed to the site where you can acquire these lovely gems!

Think about it. The $ spent on these items is like... one less beer or glass of wine. :D

Thanks Fur Everything!
Hollyce Jones of Holly's Hounds

P.S. Pass this on to anyone who might give a hoot! xoxox

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ISO good behavioral specialist in LA/Pasadena area

2007-08-08T13:11:34Z

i'm moving to LA on the 16th, and would like to find a behavioral specialist in the area to help my pup out with some aggression (fear/protective) issues. can anyone recommend someone that you have had good results with?
i've googled some, and want to see if any of them show up in what i hear from you.
please PM me if you have any information or suggestions- thank you in advance!

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kittens and the Boxer

2007-07-23T20:55:27Z

Last week Ifound two kittens. I was trying to place them since I have four dogs and two rabbits and although I love cats, the situation just didn't bode well. They have pierced my heart and I do want to keep them. They are healthy and happy, but they have to spend most of their time shut up in one room. They love to play together so they are not lonely and when possible all the dogs go out and the kittens romp through the house. I have introduced them to the three smaller dogs and although they may give chase I don't fear their safety (but they won't be left alone together till I know the cats are old enough to fight back and flee vertically). The problem dog is the boxer. He is a big baby, but his aggressiveness toward the kittens is disturbing.

I heard that boxers are a breed that is known to be aggressive to cats. Anyone heard this? Experiences? Suggestions?

Am I being selfish and unrealistic?

Should I push to find a new home before they get too much older or try to make it work??????

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Oh yeah! Basenji Forums!

2007-07-06T23:10:53Z

I mean, come, the fuck, on! http://www.basenjiforums.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/655/size/big/cat/

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looking for a male goldendoodle in the San Diego Area

2007-07-06T14:57:06Z

I am looking for a male goldendoodle (standard poodle mixed with a golden retriever). I would like him to be active, healthy, good with other dogs, hypoallergenic (having poodle-like hair) and housetrained. If you know of any dog in need of a home, please contact me.

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miles and his new bone controversy

2007-07-03T00:01:14Z

ok, so yesterday i went grocery shopping and bought miles a chew bone, came home, made him sit and lay down - and he was very happy to get his bone. he took it to the living room and i did dishes. about 5 minutes later i heard miles go devil dog on dottie, and i laughed thinking that it was funny that he should be protecting his bone from a tiny tiny kitty. well, the afternoon wore on, and every so often i went and checked on him, and there he was in the same spot guarding his bone, not even enjoying it, but just having a mexican standoff with dottie.
now dottie of course, isn't even big enough to lift the bone, nor does she really want it. it's clear that she's egging miles on.
but he wouldn't let it drop -- he nervously laid by his bone for the rest of the day and when ric got home from work i clued him in and he witnessed this bizarre behavior. it was really amusing and we sat in the living room watching miles be anxious and freak out every time dottie pranced by. what's really odd, is that he never protects his regular food from her.

and normally miles isn't so aggro over bones - he'll usually carry it upstairs and hide it. he used to steal bella's bones and hide them. that's the weird thing - he made no attempt to hide it, just left it in the middle of the living room floor and wanted to defend it to the death from the cat. weird.
he actually slept by it all night.
really weird!

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Har!

2007-06-30T02:12:26Z

http://www.scaryideas.com/print/2889/

I can't help but picture Miles in this costume..

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Michael F.

2007-06-12T19:47:46Z

I'm keeping my whiskers crossed. Hope he comes through with a clean bill of health.

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SKUNK JUICE!!!

2007-06-11T15:43:32Z

My Dog Gizmo (lab/retriever) was sprayed by a skunk last night!!!
Does anyone have any remedies that work on skunk juice removal???

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how do your pets resemble you?

2007-05-14T21:48:34Z

you know what they say.

i'm curious about whether we feel the adage holds true.

here's an example.

in two separate incidents, michael was parted from a total of four or five of his itty-bitty front teeth. so now all his nibbling action happens off-center.

thirty years ago or so i got yanked off my feet by a big german shepherd that i was walking. he took off after a cat and i hit the street face-first, with one palm down and the other arm being jerked upward with the leash. the impact chipped my two front teeth--the new adult ones. that wasn't so bad--no loss of functionality--until one day about twenty years after that happened, a dentist thought he'd do me an aesthetic favor and even out the chipped edges of my teeth with the side of his drill. it happened so fast that it was over before i could say anything at all.

so now my front teeth don't meet any more and i can't do things like cut threads or trim off a hangnail.

and all my nibbling action happens off-center.

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Poisoned Dog Food- Recall

2007-03-23T16:13:50Z

I hope everyone has seen this. It appears that rat poison has gotten into some dog foods between December 2006 and March 2007...make sure you aren't feeding your dog bad food. This link shows the latest brands etc. that have been affected.

Yay Dogs! I miss the boy. Kiss Miles for me.

http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_dog.html

Wait, I get to see him Sunday...sweet. I'll kiss him myself, or rather he'll kiss me. Yay.

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Wet dog

2007-03-08T23:21:49Z

I gave miles a Bath just now. He's running around in circles and rolling on the carpet to try to wipe the wet off.

he's cute

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Miles and Tallulah CUTE off!

2007-03-06T18:51:00Z

That was intense yesterday. They were both turning on the epic cuteness. Damn those a two adorable puppies.

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Miles hates the mail man

2007-02-25T19:01:40Z

He was slumbering happily on the couch watching poltergeist a minute ago and then the mail man came...

He is still grumbling about it even though the mail man's been gone for 5 mins. What is it about people in uniform?

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sleepin' with the pup

2007-02-25T19:00:55Z

Tallulah does the sweetest damn thing when we sleep.... she'll stretch A-L-L the way out (she's incredibly lanky) and push her back against my leg. Like she wants to get the MOST contact possible. Then she'll top it off by setting her little chin on my foot.

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miles is being cute right now.

2007-02-04T00:48:35Z

im eating mac and cheese and
he's asleep.
i put a nooodle on his snout
and he hasent noticed.
its still there.
OMG

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dogs do see color

2007-02-02T01:34:45Z

yo doods, this came up at the last waits rehearsal--i dredged up the article for your collective delectation. xx

--excerpt: "These experiments showed that dogs do see color, but in a more limited range than that seen by normal humans, who see the rainbow of colors described by "VIBGYOR": Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and Red (plus hundreds of variations on these shades).

"Instead, dogs see "VIBYYYR" (Violet, Indigo, Blue, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, and Red). The colors Green, Yellow, and Orange all look alike to dogs; but look different from Red and different from the various Blues and Purples. Dogs are very good at telling different shades of VIB apart. Finally, Blue-Green looks White to dogs."

--full text of article: http://www.puplife.com/dogcaretips/howdogsseecolors.html

--citation: "The key publication describing this classic work is: J. Neitz, T. Geist, and G.S. Jacobs (1989), "Color vision in the dog", Visual Neuroscience Vol. 3, pages 119-125."

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You know what?

2007-01-31T17:13:41Z

I've been looking at Miles a lot lately and I have to say, that dog is fucking adorable.

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2007-01-18T23:37:57Z

Miles is cute.

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Miles and Dottie

2006-12-14T23:27:30Z

They LOVE each other now. They play all the time. Dottie is fearless. Miles likes to push her into the corner with his nose and then sit on her, and she keeps coming back for more. Dogs and cats living together!?! It's crazy.

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Kitty relations

2006-12-02T01:30:23Z

Miles is adjusting to the new kitty. Last night they were actually playing with each other a little. After a while he was done, but she kept pouncing on his tail and running around trying to get him to chase her. He grumbled and looked at us like "Honestly people, can you do something about this?"

This morning as we left the house he looked at us with an expression that said "are you seriously going to leave me alone with this annoying creature all day?"

Baby steps.

We'll see how much they destroy the place while we're gone. Yikes

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for a dog he's very literate, you know

2006-12-01T15:56:37Z

over t-day weekend my gran asked me how many commands my dog understood. he had just wowed her by closing our front door for us while we were at the table having lunch.

i think i spent a good four or five minutes relating the words and phrases that he understands. even i was impressed by the end.

i wonder what critical mass is for a dog--when do they know enough english to put stuff together enough to follow a conversation rather than sort of discrete, rote recall? i could try to graph it and then compare him to an ESL student from my office.

hmm.

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Who needs TV

2006-11-27T17:26:48Z

Last night Heidi and I sat on the couch and watched Mile sleep on the chair for a solid 10 minutes. it never got boring. Of course we were drinking.

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Sleepy time

2006-11-18T01:07:11Z

So, we put a little bench at the end of the bed so Miles can hop up and down much more easily. He's been sleeping with us more and hofgging the bed. Last night he was snoozing on top of the covers and I got a few pics and posted them here. Pretty god damn cute.

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Oh my god!!!

2006-11-16T18:42:53Z

Look at the new photos.

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Miles and Tallulah

2006-11-13T20:44:36Z

This weekend they reinvented the word "cute".

Heidi and I realized on the way home that Miles somehow got a little bit cuter after hanging out with Tallulah for so long.

Weird.

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czech it out, maybe this is my pooch!!!!

2006-11-08T16:53:37Z

http://search.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=7240201

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Dog Walk

2006-11-06T22:36:10Z

My Old Friend Carmen and I just took our dogs for a long walk along the Bay near my place.
There was a combined sum of 5 poops and about 15 pees.
Her dog puked once.
They both ate grass.
Tallulah got a lot of treats and was good.
Just thought you'd want to know.

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Sleeping in the bed.

2006-11-06T21:12:08Z

Well of COURSE our dogs sleep in the bed! What kind of assholes do you think we are?
Tallulah hops up on the bed, marches straight up to the head of the covers which you then lift up for her to burrow under (unless, of course, you want a Basenji staring at your face all night).
Last night she did the "elongate myself against dad's leg" manuever.

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Rainy Day

2006-11-02T21:37:18Z

Today is a day where I am REALLY HAPPY, that I'm not the person who has to take Tallulah out to play.
Have I mentioned that Basenjis are desert dogs and hate water like it's acid?

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Doggy psychology

2006-10-31T18:44:35Z

So, this weekend Miles got to spend some quality time with Julie, he was extremely happy and so was she. The quandary here is that after she left on Sunday afternoon, Miles slipped into a melancholy state. A similar thing happened when he spent the weekend with her like a month ago. When he got home he was slinking around, un-energetic and depressed for several days.

He's a moody dog anyway, but I can tell that he goes into a dark place.

Obviously I'm not going to restrict her from seeing him, but it makes me wonder if the happiness he feels when she pops in is worth the sadness and separation he feels when she leaves again.

Any thoughts?

Kelly, did or does Tallulah go through any emotions like this with your Ex?

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Lunch Walk

2006-10-24T15:46:52Z

So I went home and took Miles out for a walk at lunch. Down the block we came across a old man walking his Dachshund (the Dog Heidi want's to get). They sniffed each other.

They looked good together.

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Tallulah at Work

2006-10-20T20:20:48Z

I brought Tallulah to work today. She's not crazy about it, but at least I get to pet her between dealing with the assholes.

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Cute

2006-10-20T18:16:07Z

So we were practicing with Aaron last night and Miles was really excited and hyper for a some reason. At one point he fixated on Heidi and demanded love in the middle of a song. He was circling the chair she was sitting on and trying to jump up on her lap. Unfortunately it's hard to play melodeon with a 26.5 lb dog on your lap, but Heidi's a professional, so she made it work.

Cute bastard.

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Poor Miles

2006-10-20T15:39:44Z

So my brother got a job (which is great news). However that means that everyone in the household is at work or school during the week now. So as of today Miles is locked up downstairs alone.

I took him for a walk this morning and then instead of taking him upstairs to hang out like he's used to, I took him down. I pet him a bunch and rubbed his belly, but I could see in his eyes that he knew I was buttering him up for something. Then I grabbed my keys and said "Stay. Good boy."

He just sat there in the hallway looking utterly betrayed.

I brought the Van to work, so I am going to go home for lunch today and take him out.

Poor boy. :-(

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I mean, c'mon!

2006-10-20T00:39:30Z

That dog is fucking adorable! This weekend, I got out of bed for a little bit and she climbed up to the pillow and plopped her head down on it and slept like a people!
I mean, Jesus fucking CHRIST that's cute!

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