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Loading ...Here is a look back at some of my favorite dog pictures from the last few months (of my own family’s dogs of course):
Henry the Bassett Hound
Gibson the White Golden Retriever
Benson the Amazing Froggy Doggy
Golden Dishwashers
In honor of the sweet old 44-pound feline (Princess Chunk) that was adopted last week in New Jersey (read the article on MSNBC), MSNBC did a feature called “ Your Pudgy Pets.”
It is quite hilarious. (Especially if you like fat cats and pudge-pots, a little extra love on your furry felines.)
I think my cat Theodore qualifies for a pudgy pet (see below - his head looks so little compared to his wide body). Check out the “ Your Pudgy Pets” Gallery for some more really funny fat cat photos.
Theodore's Pork-Belly
Do you love contests? Giveaways? Free stuff? Well this is the place for you.
Anyone who can come up with a winning caption for the photo below will be entered to win one of TEN copies of “What Dog Are You? Discovering Your Inner Pooch.” (See book review post from May 30.)
Don’t you just love caption contests?
You can either leave your caption in the Comments section or email it to me at ThoughtsFurPaws@gmail.com. Or both. Preferably both.
Here’s the photo:
It’s time for the cutest kitten picture of the week (this is one of my most favorite times of the week)!
These little guys are from the Yukon & Family album from a “paramedio” album on Webshots.com. I love how they are huddled together sleeping. Kittens always do that (in my experience anyhow)…
Here is one of the little ones again. Look at his tongue sticking out! LOL! And he looks so pristine with his little tail wrapped around his legs. How proper of him!
For more cute kitten pictures from Webshots.com, visit the Pets Category page or go back to the “Yukon and Family” album. There’s a whole litter of adorable kittens featured in that album and they are all worth seeing!
P.S. Who do you think is cuter? These little guys or Meepers (mentioned in previous posts)?
Of course there are more than 10 reasons why I love my cats, but here are some good ones…
10. Because they come running when I call them
9. Because they sleep next to my head and curled up in the crink of my bent knees at night
8. Because they love to be cuddled
7. Because they are very talkative and expressive
6. Because of the way they freak out and run around like wild hooligans outside when it’s really windy
Theodore the Fat Tabby Cat
5. Because of all the crazy contortionism they achieve when sleeping
4. Because they greet me outside when I get home from work every evening
3. Because they have made themselves known to the neighborhood and make friends with everyone who lives around us
2. Because there is nothing softer than their warm, wonderful-smelling fur
1. Because there is no sound in the world as wonderful as their purring, vibrating bellies pressed against my ear 
Sasha the Mini Maine Coon
PS. Also because there is just something extra special about rescue cats. Both my kitties are rescues.
Dog Blog Award
Look what we got from Chasing Squirrels With Rusty…. a blog award! Hooray! Thanks so much Rusty.
We want to share this award, too. We are giving it to the following blogs:
Daisy the Curly Cat: Daisy is friends with our kitty-counterparts Sasha and Theodore and she has such a neat blog. There’s always something fun over there and Daisy is an expert picture-taker.
Dogs’ Aye View: We love this dog blog so much. Gomer and Opie always have some type of silly antics going on. They are pure comedy.
Wimsey’s Blog: Wimsey is a fancy-pants NYC dog who gets to romp around Central Park all the time. He is so stubborn - it’s hilarious. We love reading his blog every Friday to see what kind of trouble he’s in or what he’s put his humans through that week.
This past month, a city near me passed some breed-specific legislation (BSL). What kind of dog, you say?
Guess.
Pit bulls. Of course.
The City of Lakewood, Ohio, in late July, passed a bill that does a few things.
1. It requires all pit bulls and pit bull mixes to be registered and compliant with viscous dog laws
2. It bans new pit bulls from entering the city; i.e. a resident cannot go out and buy a pit bull
3. It requires all owners of pit bulls and pit bull mixes to have $100,000 liability insurance policies, 6-foot fences, and muzzles on dogs
Ridiculous? I think so, yes.
This is all thanks to City Councilman Brian Powers, dog-hater and power-tripper who maliciously took words out of context from Pit Bull Rescue Central to make his points clear and arguable. He cannot seem to site more than one source in any of his arguments. He alone convinced the City Council to pass the ban amid rigorous opposition from rescue groups, residents and non-residents.
So this brings me to my point. What’s the point of BSL? There is no point. I have said it before and I’ll say it again. There are no BAD dogs, only BAD OWNERS. If you ignore your dog, treat him like crap, keep him chained up outside and don’t show him love, kindness and affection, there’s a good chance he might turn mean. ANY DOG. I have met mean Golden Retrievers and Schnauzers in my lifetime.
The Humane Society of the United States has this to say regarding BSL:
“There are over 4.5 million dog bites each year. This is an estimate as there is no central reporting agency for dog bites, thus breed and other information is not captured. Out of the millions of bites, about 10-20 are fatal each year. While certainly tragic, it represents a very small number statistically and should not be considered as a basis for sweeping legislative action.”
The group’s official stance on BSL is that they are against it. Click here for their positioning statement. I agree with the following points in this statement:
1. While breed is one factor that contributes to a dog’s temperament, it alone cannot be used to predict whether a dog may pose a danger to his or her community.
2. It is imperative that the dog population in the community be understood. To simply pull numbers of attacks does not give an accurate representation of a breed necessarily.
3. Breed-specific legislation doesn’t work for several reasons: that there are inherent problems in trying to determine a dog’s breed, making enforcement of breed-specific legislation difficult at best; that fatal attacks represent a very small portion of bite-related injuries and should not be the major factor driving public policy; and that existing non-breed-specific legislation already exists and offers promise for the prevention of dog bites.
Perhaps Councilman Powers should have consulted some other resources in constructing his poorly made arguments. Because of him, owners are stuck with ridiculous compliance laws that cost A LOT of money. Who in the heck has money to build a six-foot fence and take out a $100,000 insurance policy?
For the dogs’ sakes, I hope that Lakewood residents who own pit bulls and other “viscous” dogs wise up and take their tax dollars and consumer spending money OUT of the City of Lakewood, and spend it elsewhere where there dogs are welcomed.
I just read the cutest children’s book: it’s called Crash!
Written by Mayra Calvani, Crash! tells the story of a young boy who receives a Golden Retriever puppy for his 5th birthday. After living with the puppy for several days, the little boy still can’t figure out what to name his new best friend. He eventually figures it out after observing the puppy’s antics and silly behavior…
Crash! is a great read and a fun children’s book for any kid who loves dogs and puppies. It’s worth adding to the children’s book collection!
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