Happy Valentine's Day!

[furtech]

The dogs wish you their luv from their beloved mulch pile. Hope everybody had a good day!

And for you cynics and bitter singles, get a dog! Or a cat. Fish. Anything! It helps-- really!

Comments

[okojosan.livejournal.com]

Where did they get a mulch pile? Rondo looks SO HAPPY! Such interesting smells!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Their mulch pile actually belongs to the city. It's where they dump their tree chips and plant rubbish. Sometimes the pile is over twelve feet tall and the dogs are in heaven running up and down it; sometimes they've hauled most of it away and Apache looks ridiculous atop her foot-high pile. At least it smells nice (like forest/eucalyptus).

[jonnywoof.livejournal.com]

Hey, I have a dog....and Lady's been stingy on the Valentine's candy hand-outs!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Lady does not serve! Lady is TO BE SERVED!!

Now hop to it! Chop-chop!

[jovino.livejournal.com]

I know this is way off topic, but I really appreciated your presentation at FC this year. I arrived late, but I managed to get there in time for your talk about the NFT stretch furs. I was really surprised at the end when I got to inspect them. They were much different from what I was expecting -- something radically different from the standard fake fur weave. The small runs, and the precision fur naps are quite amazing as well.

Thanks so much for bringing them in!

I have been in contact with a Chinese company that can make fake fur to your specification. They have, of course, a 1000 yard minimum which is quite a bit of fur. I'm really hoping that some day our business will be big enough to be able to have something like that made.

How does this fit in? I remember you saying that I might not get much out of your presentation, but I actually did. Your talk actually helped me understand the manufacturing process a lot better.

Again, I would like to thank you for taking the time to present this information.

Cheers!
And, happy valentine's day.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Off topic=no problem!

You were the late-comer? You should have introduced yourself! You do great work and contribute a lot to the fursuit group here on LJ: I love putting faces to names and chatting/talking shop.

I'm glad you got so much out of the talk: I focused more time on NFT this year and I think it worked out better (than the scattershot coverage I used to do). Because of NFT's high cost, I would hate to have someone break the bank to buy it, and then be terribly disappointed when it wasn't what they thought it would be.

Yeah-- unless you're making a million plush or an army of a type of mascot, it's almost impossible to consider the minimums of the commercial fur mills. One possibility is to work with a distributor like Monterey Mills: some people on the list did this a few years ago with the red fox fur and that got the minimum down to a few hundred yards, which was do-able. Who knows? With the world economy the way it is, maybe they'd consider lower runs.

[jovino.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that. I didn't want to disrupt your class. I cane up afterwards, but you were constantly engaged, and then you had to run out the door. We'll catch up soon.

If we can get down to several hundred yards, we could totally do that. Our last production project required 10 rolls of fleece, so we're getting pretty close to this already. Then again, we're making those huge kigurumi suits, so they eat up a lot of fabric.

We're actually going to be exhibiting at WonderCon, booth 221. If you have the time, please come say hi.

[dogteam.livejournal.com]

OMG mulch!
Our dogs are in seventh heaven since we had a bunch of trails "mulched" on or land. Between that and the "magic dirt", I think they'd be happy just grazing...

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Speaking of grazing, my dogs love to eat grass. Not just once- in- a- while- I- have- to- barf eating, but grazing like a goat. My friend has a smooth collie who was a voracious grass eater! I wonder if it's a herding-dog thing-- I've not seen other breeds/mutts do this.

[dogteam.livejournal.com]

Our labs do. In the summer, they'll munch down long wheat grass like it's going out of style. Even long into fall after it's dead and brown...they'll only stop when it finally get's covered in snow. During the winter it's wood...the half rotton punky wood from the beaver pond, mostly. Their poops are ugly. I'd think some sort of nutritional deficiency, if they didn't get fed better food than us...

[vulpesrex.livejournal.com]

My malamute would do this! We would go on a Saturday or Sunday morning walk to Johnny Carson Park across from NBC, walk back through the Providence/St Joseph Hospital Grounds, and then just sit in the shade of the Team Disney Building, at the corner of Alameda and Buena Vista. The grass there would be particularly young and tender, with that yellowish tint to the green - and White Fang would lay there, and selectively crop at the grass, practically like a sheep, for 10 or 15 minutes, as we watched cars go by. If the grass was tender enough, he didn't regurgitate it afterwards.

The hospital grounds also had a couple of Avocado trees, along Buena Vista; on our afternoon walks, if there were any wind-fall avocadoes, or ones which the squirrels had knocked down and taken a bite out of, he would pounce on one, and carry it for a ways on our walk; by the time we got back to Alameda Street, he would stop and plop down, and commence eating his avocado - though I had to be quick and keep him from eating the pit, as well - and taking food away from a malamute is NOT an easy (nor necessarily safe) thing to do.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Your B. collies? Cutest ever. I have such a soft spot for Apache's markings.

Puppynuzzles from my wolves and microcollieish things and I to you and yours.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Apache's markings and innocent face are to lull you into a false sense of security, allowing her to accomplish her mischief. Don't be fooled!

[iisaw.livejournal.com]

Look at that face! IT'S A LIE!!!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Happy critters increase the smiles!... I hoep your day was excellent too, bud :}