Getting back into it
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furtechJust a miscellaneous post to get back into the swing of posting...
What it looks like fitting four large dogs (two of which don't get along) and two people into a Prius: Indy (the dark husky) found her place under the dog-hammock (you can only see her tail) and London (the grey husky) somehow managed to squeeze into the front seat well.
On a recent dogwalk in the wash, we came across some graphitti that was a little -too- literate to be authentic. Probably CalArts or CoC art nitwits trying hard to be cool .
On another walk in the (then) dry wash, Roz found some tracks she had a hard time identifying...possibly toad. I said maybe if we follow it long enough we'd find the answer and... Voila! Kind of sad, actually...but what was interesting is that the sharp-eyed will notice the second, intersecting set of tracks in the last photo: it looks like two toads met and fought, leaving the loser for us to find. We felt all CSI when we figured this out!
Got rooms in the ghetto hotel for SDCC, but at least they're on the bus route (and the view is nice). They really need to find a better way to get the reservations made.
Thank goodness the local elections are over...I'm really not looking forward to more LJ political scraelings like those in 2004.
Next up is a recap of FC.
Here are pics of Apache and Rondo just because. At some point I'll go over Apache's obedience school and why I hate the Koehler method with such a passion.
What it looks like fitting four large dogs (two of which don't get along) and two people into a Prius: Indy (the dark husky) found her place under the dog-hammock (you can only see her tail) and London (the grey husky) somehow managed to squeeze into the front seat well.
On a recent dogwalk in the wash, we came across some graphitti that was a little -too- literate to be authentic. Probably CalArts or CoC art nitwits trying hard to be cool .
On another walk in the (then) dry wash, Roz found some tracks she had a hard time identifying...possibly toad. I said maybe if we follow it long enough we'd find the answer and... Voila! Kind of sad, actually...but what was interesting is that the sharp-eyed will notice the second, intersecting set of tracks in the last photo: it looks like two toads met and fought, leaving the loser for us to find. We felt all CSI when we figured this out!
Got rooms in the ghetto hotel for SDCC, but at least they're on the bus route (and the view is nice). They really need to find a better way to get the reservations made.
Thank goodness the local elections are over...I'm really not looking forward to more LJ political scraelings like those in 2004.
Next up is a recap of FC.
Here are pics of Apache and Rondo just because. At some point I'll go over Apache's obedience school and why I hate the Koehler method with such a passion.
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Date: 2008-02-11 09:06 am (UTC)Such nice-looking dogs. :D Rondo the Miscreant is looking particularly cute. ^^
R. brought his honking-bigass-lens & fancy new camera to the dog park today to test it (he has to test this new camera setup loads, because he is doing the official California tour photography for a top-level Japanese Taiko group later in a few months.) Anyway, I'm nagging him to post the dog shots to the internet. There was this little 4-month-old attitude-y black Scottie named James Bond, and a gorgeous husky-mix dog also named Kaiya, and... and... ^^
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Date: 2008-02-11 04:52 pm (UTC)His schtick is that he was a big Hollywood dog trainer. Truthfully, he could claim to have invented organized dog training for the ordinary person-- I think his first book was published in the early 60's.
I'm all about positive conditioning, treats, etc. so philosophically, we're at opposite ends of the spectrum. Training techniques are a personal choice: many people are vocal proponents/disciples of his techniques and whatever works for that person-- more power to 'em.
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Date: 2008-02-11 04:53 pm (UTC)