Let the good times roll

[lizblackdog]

This week I am looking after Downstairs Neighbour Couple's little yellow dingo mongrel Buster. This is both fun and heartbreaking - fun because Buster is fucking adorable and I love spending time with him. Heartbreaking because the combination of volatile dog personalities in confined spaces and Buster's cat issues means I can't feasibly put all the animals together; so Buster is spending a lot of time in the downstairs flat all alone. And when I have to leave him he stands up and holds onto me with his paws - not humping, just clinging, and panting with distress. Even if I didn't understand dog moderately well, the "Don't leave me!" would be clear as a bold-printed speech bubble. And I keep having to leave him, and he's so sweet.

I've not been trying to walk all the dogs together singlehanded; my own two are often at least a third of a dog too much for me by themselves, and I'm not quite insane enough to try it with three. But my mum and niece came over today, and I decided that one well-behaved dog, one well-behaved toddler, one Squish and one Buster wouldn't be too much for two responsible adults*.

There were a few near-misses, of the "toddler knocked flying by dogs" and the "Buster's flexi-lead vs. Squish's longleash" variety, but no actual disasters, and we all had a blast. Buster's owners love him and look after him well, but they have limited mobility and I have a shrewd suspicion Buster doesn't get many opportunities for active bouncy play. I did love seeing him enjoy himself.










*...well...

Comments

[mcsassypants.livejournal.com]

Oh! He's cute!!

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

He's adorable - I swear if there were any possible way I could fit another dog into my life I'd steal him, or at least borrow him from downstairs a lot more often. He's not very trained but he has a certain amount of natural good manners, he listens when I talk to him and he's so sweet-natured. Love him.

[mcsassypants.livejournal.com]

Aw. I'd help steal him if I were...you know, not an ocean away. Give him kisses for me the next time you see him.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking I will, actually, borrow him more often after his owners come back. Because although they look after him well and love him, I reckon he could do with more play time and some training, and it would be fun.

[mcsassypants.livejournal.com]

I think it's a good idea, especially since his owners have limited mobility. They might appreciate the extra help.

[moviegrrl.livejournal.com]

Lookit the dingo! Wuffly dog :)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Isn't he! And my dogs actually like him, which almost never happens - okay, Spike completely ignored him, but Spike hates dogs and ignoring is pretty good by his standards. And Squish played with him. SO cute.

[ghost07.livejournal.com]

He's a cutie, he is...:D

I was hoping you'd be in one of those pictures...I hear you have purple hair and I'm dying to get a peek at it...:D


did you see your birthday presents? I think I got Squish right...getting Spike right is easy, Squish was harder...:D

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

It's not as purple as I wanted, but the sunbleached parts are plum-coloured in a good light. My hair is a bugger for resisting being dyed. I may dye it again over the top of it; it ought to take better, but it might make me bald too.

[mbif.livejournal.com]

I have purple hair! I look quite a bit like my HA, actually. Bleach it first; the stunning color is worth the extra effort!

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

...yeeeeah. I know the colour would be. But my hair won't take it. It's baby-fine and stupid fragile, and if I bleach it it disintegrates.

How it manages to combine that with its ridiculous resistance to colour, I don't know. It's just awkward bitch hair XD

[mbif.livejournal.com]

My hair's usually like that, too. It splits if you look at it funny and it's so fine it won't hold styling. But a good vegetable-based purple dye actually helps replenish the hair and keeps it from splitting, and couple it with an intensive conditioning after it's all said and done and it manages to stay healthy.

[huntingdon.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

*love* thank you darling

[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

my own two are often at least a third of a dog too much for me by themselves

LOL!

Speaking of dogs being too much to handle, you might find this amusing. Smallish dogs get into an elk carcass and don't want to leave, and it just gets better from there.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

ha, yes! I've read the story before, but it was a different version... one that (I presume) Annie had written up after the fact, rather than the as-it-happened updates complete with peanut gallery. That was hysterical; this is even better. Thank you!

(also? SO GLAD we don't have elk here. Squish would totally do that)

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

Happy late b-day darling

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

that last picture is awesome. buster is adorable.

[yesididit.livejournal.com]

happy belated birthday! when did you get purple hair? i miss having mine purple.