Bang the drum like monkeys do!

[lizblackdog]

Some questions from the divine bloolark:

How much does Squish weigh?

Somewhere between fifty and sixty pounds - and at the moment,could do with losing a few. He still has an upslope underneath but not much of one, and I can't feel his ribs.

If there were no more collies in the universe, other than sobbing hysterically, what other dogs would you want to own and why?

Racepoodle! Because they're smart and have a sense of humour and I could get clippers and give them wacky sculpted hairdos. And German Shorthaired Pointers because they're cuddly and wackly and daft.

Do you like Swedish meatballs as an actual foodstuff for you?

Yes, though I can think of lots of things I'd rather eat. I get better value out of them as dog treats.

Will you watch the sun rise this morning?

Oh yes!

When do you stop doing this, your time? (Like, when is this over in Liz time?)

2pm.

Do you live in or near 'Kent'? Because you sound just like the HR person at work who is from Kent, but I can't remember if Kent is an area of Britain or a city itself, and the Brit in the family is upstairs.

Kent is a county; its main city is Canterbury. Look at the county map - I'm in Dorset, south and west of Kent.

Are you a morning person or a night person?

Night.

Are you for or against naps on a regular basis?

I love my naps!

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you pick?

I've always had a fancy for the Falkland Islands.

Comments

[bloolark.livejournal.com]

Here, a present for your blogathon.

Your very own racepoodle picture, posted no where else (yet, anyways)

http://piantala.org/~lark/zoo/wetracepoodle.jpg

We were playing 'eat the water from the hose'. He loves that game. :)

You can tell my England geography sucks, huh? :) I looked up Bournemouth on the map, are you far from the water?

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

ohhhhh adorapoodle!!! thank you!

Does wet poodlehair smell different from normal wet dog fur?

I'm - I think - three or four miles from the beach. I'm on the north-eastern edge of the town here.

[bloolark.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no. Wet poodle hair still smells like wet dog. I don't understand it because DRY, they don't have any actual smell at all. Wet? Immediate wet dog.

And he's adorable all right. Because you don't have to deal with the fact that he now has mud splattered up to his knees.

[ex-ramona222.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaaaw what a cutie! :)

[ex-ramona222.livejournal.com]

Another kind of dog that would adore you and that I think you'd have a lot of fun with is a Husky. You need a dog with a good sense of humour, and they definitely have those! This is coming, I might add, from a husky owner who is also great friends with a Border Collie (cross? the brain's all border, anyway), so I knows from whence I speaks. :)

This is Raider, the whom of which I speaks, trying to figure out how to herd owls:

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

love love love!!

I've never met a husky in real life. They're certainly very beautiful.

[ex-ramona222.livejournal.com]

They're sociable, funny, cuddly as sin (as you can imagine - mmmmmmmmmm arctic fur), and as a bonus they sing! I don't mean howl, either, I mean sing. Here are a couple Mackie serenades for your long evening:

http://photos.imageevent.com/tattytiara/max/P1010005.MOV

http://photos.imageevent.com/tattytiara/max/P1010006.MOV

...and no, the bearing of the food dish for maximum amplification is no accident. If he can't find that he'll use one of his licked out food cans.

That of course is his Allie serenade. The serenade I get is more along the lines of humming - he lays upside down in my lap and just kinda "hhhhhmmmmmmm haaaaaaaaaaw hmmmmmmmm haw haw hmmmmmmm"... it's more of a lullabye than the arena rock he uses to get Allie barking (his favourite thing to do, lucky me). :D

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I don't dare play that now - it's 5am and I know it'll make my dogs go batshit. My neighbours would kill me. I'll need to save it for when they're not asleep.

[ex-ramona222.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaah hahaha that would be fuuuuuunny!

...but oh yes wrong... very very wrong... yep... :D

[purplewaxhand.livejournal.com]

poodles race?

[ohdeve.livejournal.com]

It's the lesser known part of the Kentucky Derby.

[bloolark.livejournal.com]

That's kind of an injoke, I'm afraid, and it's all my fault. :)

One of my two dogs is a 10 month old male standard poodle named Crow. I used to joke that he was different from the usual poodles, and if they were show poodles, he was a race poodle.

And since most of the pictures that I take of him look like this, the nickname fits. We also call the action of him racing around in the yard 'racepoodling'. Say it out loud. It's fun to say. :)

[ghost07.livejournal.com]

I knew a husky once, he was a cool dog...

I had stayed up north that year, instead of going to Florida, to take care of an injured horse and my boss' son's roosters...I hate roosters, they attack you when you least expect it. This one dominate rooster attacked me everytime I tried to go into the loft for hay or straw...One day, while I was outside the barn, the husky showed up with rooster in mouth...he was a neighbor's dog...

I took one look at him, smiled, and said very quietly...oh...bad dog...yes...you are a bad dog...of course, my tone of voice said YIPPEE! You GOT him! ahem...yes, bad doggie. :D


I really hate roosters.