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| Re: Never Work with Dogs and Children [message #14126 is a reply to message #14125 ] |
Thu, 02 April 2009 20:04   |
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PUPPIES!!!
These are FABULOUS pictures. (And fabulous socks! I love the socks. You knew I would. *appreciates Robin's socks* The sandals are all right; they're better than most alternatives.)
The dogs' expressions in that last photo. *loff*
The rest of your day sounds horribly busy and confusing. Good thing there were dogs. (And Southdowner!)
Smooshes!
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| Re: Never Work with Dogs and Children [message #14134 is a reply to message #14125 ] |
Thu, 02 April 2009 20:14 |
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P.S. If you don't see something new and fancy on all Robin's forum posts, refresh your browser. It's new and fancy!
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Smooshes!
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| Re: Never Work with Dogs and Children [message #14147 is a reply to message #14145 ] |
Thu, 02 April 2009 20:49 |
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Of course I never cut the dogs' feet off - I know what the priorities are!!
Chopped off heads? Don't you hear the sound of knitting all around? *manic laughter*
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Never Work with Dogs and Children [message #14150 is a reply to message #14125 ] |
Thu, 02 April 2009 21:12 |
 skating librarian
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Oh, I do love the pictures of dogs and I think the final shot was worth all the hassle.
Robin. would you prefer that we cut your head off ( the remark about hair suggests perhaps that might be more acceptable today).
Southdowner ... nice work. I too am a fan of the South Downs Way. I've walked it in February, June, and August and always felt I was as close to heaven as you can get here on Earth.
Do you know the Kipling poem about the South Downs?
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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Fri, 03 April 2009 00:36 |
niakix
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| skating librarian wrote on Thu, 02 April 2009 18:12 |
Oh, I do love the pictures of dogs and I think the final shot was worth all the hassle.
Robin. would you prefer that we cut your head off ( the remark about hair suggests perhaps that might be more acceptable today).
Southdowner ... nice work. I too am a fan of the South Downs Way. I've walked it in February, June, and August and always felt I was as close to heaven as you can get here on Earth.
Do you know the Kipling poem about the South Downs?
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Hair, hair, hair. . . .I too have been cursed/blessed/learned to live with a wild head of coarse, bushy, ("wow, your hair is so THICK") crazy hair. I think at some point, I just decided it was my own personal statement, and let it go at that. but oh, those teenage years, when all the other kids were perfectly coiffed! Ah, well, we can't ALL be individuals, right?
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| Re: Never Work with Dogs and Children [message #14164 is a reply to message #14125 ] |
Fri, 03 April 2009 08:39 |
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Mrs Redboots
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Lovely photos, Robin! And Southdowner. Actually, especially Southdowner, since you were the one who took them!
Jodi, these are adult dogs, not puppies!!!!! And utterly glorious ones, too.
Robin, are you in the National Park, do you think? My parents are - I shall have grown up (at least partly) in what is now a national park. Actually, wholly, since Winchester seems to be included (I was at school there, although basically I'm Sussex bred. Not, alas, Sussex born, though).
Mrs Redboots
I love my computer because my friends live in it!
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| Re: Never Work with Dogs and Children [message #14171 is a reply to message #14156 ] |
Fri, 03 April 2009 09:44 |
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Jodi, these are adult dogs, not puppies!!!!! And utterly glorious ones, too.
Rosie is BEAUTIFUL. Such character. She exudes it. She seems to know her picture is being taken, too. You're a lucky dogmom, Southdowner.
Rosie, who is a lovely girl and clearly a paragon of patience.
Yes, I AM indeed a very lucky dogmom having Rosie, Hazel and the other 9 miscreants /little angels to live with. And I have to say that some of them are forever puppies to me (I know, I'm very sad!) But it is lovely to have other people appreciate one's dogs 
and Rosie and Chaos did almost play in the kitchen, but it just didn't give Chaos the room to tease then flee in chase-me mode, so maybe it's 3rd house garden next time?
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Never Work with Dogs and Children [message #14174 is a reply to message #14125 ] |
Fri, 03 April 2009 10:55 |
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KateG
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All three dogs are BEAUTIFUL!!!! And so are the rhinestone studded Birks with striped socks. Where does find Birks with Bling??? I'm a great fan of Birks, but mine are all boring plain ones. Striped socks, now that's another subject altogether.
KateG
PS I was travelling and missed your hellhound in the pound excerpt when it was posted. Loved it. And I can't tell you how much it resonated with my own hellhound - or actually monsterdog - experience.
Many years ago I found myself the director of a small historical museum located in a public park in a small, depressed New Jersey, USA city. The local youth were in the habit of pushing the bounds of acceptable behavior by smoking dope in the mens room and other such misdemeanors. This was not always comfortable for me or my cadre of elderly lady volunteers. My solution was to seek out a dog, not a puppy, but a full grown dog. And there, in my local pound not barking, but sitting quietly, was a big black dog with a blunt muzzle, teddy bear eyes and red trim on his paws, chest and snout. He was not available. I kept looking. I came back. He was still quiet, sane and not available. I discussed him with the shelter director. "Oh," she said, "he's a rottweiler, and our board is very cautious about adopting them out." Long story short, they let me adopt him. We started school the next day and he aced every obedience class he took. The first day on the job, we went to talk to the rowdy youths and they took one look at him, said "Oh sh..., a rottweiler" and never gave me a moment's trouble again. In fact we bonded over our pits and rotts. He spent his days quietly under my desk, making both me and my volunteers very happy. And he turned out to be our best asset with school and youth groups, since his idea of heaven was a busload of shrieking 10 year olds (he was congenitally deaf (at those moments I envied him) and trained on hand signals). By the time the kids had met the dog and told me about their dogs, we were all friends and they would pay attention to me and the lesson de jour. He was my constant companion for 10 magical years, and I still miss him. I am now a firm advocate for dogs in museums, particularly small museums in iffy places that are run by women.
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| Re: Never Work with Dogs and Children [message #14181 is a reply to message #14125 ] |
Fri, 03 April 2009 16:51 |
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Susan from Athens
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I have to say all the dogs look lovely, but while the hellhounds are divas: "look at me, I want attention, listen, listen" - it is clear to me, at least, that Rosie is a film star: she knows where the camera is, and poses all the time. She looks good in ALL the pictures. No bad side showing, not a hair out of place. Of course, she was also looking at her human behind the lens, but still, well done Rosie and southdowner!
“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges
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| Re: Never Work with Dogs and Children [message #14184 is a reply to message #14181 ] |
Fri, 03 April 2009 19:41 |
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| Susan from Athens wrote on Fri, 03 April 2009 21:51 |
... not a hair out of place.
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You are very kind Susan, but I must point out that Rosie is taking her time to complete the longest moult known to woman & beast; not one hair but whole clumps are totally misplaced! Thank you for overlooking her mothsome appearance lol
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Never Work with Dogs and Children [message #14201 is a reply to message #14184 ] |
Sat, 04 April 2009 04:41 |
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Susan from Athens
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| southdowner wrote on Sat, 04 April 2009 02:41 |
| Susan from Athens wrote on Fri, 03 April 2009 21:51 |
... not a hair out of place.
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You are very kind Susan, but I must point out that Rosie is taking her time to complete the longest moult known to woman & beast; not one hair but whole clumps are totally misplaced! Thank you for overlooking her mothsome appearance lol
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Shows how much I know about dogs 
I guess the point I wanted to make is that Rosie was camera aware, or was it Southdowner aware. The hellhounds always look gorgeous.
However you can tell that they think the camera is an obstacle between them and Robin: "What you're clicking with that thing again? Come on, now, haven't you had enough already?" and in the photos here they are obviously completely engaged with their hellgoddess. Anyone else is de trop. Which is as it should be, I guess 
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“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges
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