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“a poodle is an art form” New York Times

aterrier — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:11:55 +0000

From the New York Times

From “trouble at the dog show” a monologue by David Letterman:

A yorkie was pistol whipped by a rat.

A Jack Russell had to pull out because of tax problems.

I haven’t seen this many roll over and play dead at Madison Square Gardens since the Knicks played.

dog years

aterrier — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:25:13 +0000

Biden’s birthday is Thursday, but Obama surprised his No.2 after their weekly lunch Wednesday at the transition office in Chicago. According to staff, Obama presented Biden – a Delaware senator with decades of foreign policy experience – with a dozen cupcakes decorated with candles and teased, “You’re twelve years old!” Staff reported that Biden, ever astute in the art of politics, laughed at his boss’s joke. He responded: “Maybe in Dog Years.”

Associated Press


(A dog is looking at a series of greeting cards under the Birthday category and they are all sectioned off in dog years, ie: 7 years, 14 years, 21 years, etc.)

Congratulations to the Mutt

aterrier — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:37:51 +0000

“With respect to the dog, this is a major issue. I think it’s generated more interest on our website than just about anything. We have — we have two criteria that have to be reconciled. One is that Malia is allergic, so it has to be hypo-allergenic. There are a number of breeds that are hypo-allergenic. On the other hand, our preference would be to get a shelter dog. But obviously, a lot of shelter dogs are mutts, like me.” President-elect Barack Obama, quoted in the New York Times.

T-shirt from Cafe Press

the dog vote

aterrier — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:31:26 +0000

A dog star comes down to earth

aterrier — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:51:54 +0000

“The story is about Bolt, a white German Shepherd who has lived all his life on the set of a TV show in which he portrays a superhero dog, and as a result thinks that his superpowers are real. Later, he gets accidentally separated from the studio. He then meets a female cat named Mittens and a hamster named Rhino who never leaves his exercise ball, and eventually he discovers that all of his powers are fake.” Wikipedia

Everyman, I will go with thee and be thy guide

aterrier — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:52:11 +0000

Fox terrier, originally uploaded by Antique Dog Photos.

Dogs sell

aterrier — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:18:24 +0000

From The New York Times:

A dog runs alongside a little girl on the front cover of Kate Atkinson’s “When Will There Be Good News?” The same picture of the same dog also appears on the book’s spine. Why does it crop up twice? Possibly because dogs sell books lately.

Steve Allen’s allergies

aterrier — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:11:17 +0000

Photograph by puckotg22

Steve Allen’s comic rhythms were uncannily Grouchoesque, yet totally his own, as wehn he told a physician on the show, “I’m allergic to two things, dogs and cigars, and if I ever meet a dog smoking a cigar I’ll be in real trouble.”

From Seriously Funny by Gerald Nachman

Tasmanian tiger terrier

aterrier — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:46:51 +0000

the last known Thylacine which died in captivity in 1933 in a zoo in Hobart, Tasmania

It was largely silent, its vocalisations being limited to an occasional terrier-like bark when hunting and a series of husky barks when excited in captivity.

From a book on Australian marsupials

Thylacine by Alexis Rockman from the book Carnivorous Nights by Margaret Mittelbach and David Crewdson

A few years ago we began visiting a stuffed and mounted animal skin with something akin to amorous fervor. We didn’t tell our friends about this secret relationship. We feared they would think it was unhealthy to be infatuated with a dead animal.

The object of our obsession resided at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. Best known for its towering dinosaur skeletons and beautiful but creepy dioramas of gorillas and stuffed birds, the museum also housed a library where we did research. On the way there, we would walk through the perpetual twilight of the museum’s halls, passing meteorite fragments, African carvings, and a life-sized herd of motionless pachyderms.

When exactly we first saw this magnificent animal is lost in the recesses of memory, but we remember being instantly captivated by its exotic form. We marveled at its still limbs, at its head posed coyly downward, at its glorious Seussian stripes. It was a taxidermy of a Tasmanian tiger inside a rectangular glass case, and it was positioned in such a lifelike manner, its mouth curved in a friendly canine smile, that we found ourselves feeling affection for it as if it were a long-lost pet. It had 15 dark brown stripes across the back of its ginger-colored coat, which is why it was called a tiger, but the stripes were where that resemblance ended. Its body was shaped more like a wolf’s or wild dog’s.

Carnivorous Nights

a dog’s best friend

aterrier — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:13:36 +0000

world’s ugliest dog

The group became a little larger over the course of about 15 years, with various animal-loving, tattooed bikers in the New York area joining the conversation. One member, Angel Nieves, a 47-year-old retired city police detective, grew up in the projects on West 125th Street and remembered taking in strays from the streets as a boy, as did many of his cohorts. He owns a tiny, white bichon frisé named Cris.Having run in crowds where animal abuse was rampant, often involving pit bull fights, the men volunteered at shelters and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Toward Animals, and they tried to solve cases of missing or abused animals that other organizations had neither the time nor the resources to address.

Next month, the bikers will begin a program in the city’s public schools to educate children about being kind to all animals, even the less attractive breeds. They will be accompanied by Elwood, a small, hairless Chihuahua mix judged in an annual California contest to be the World’s Ugliest Dog.

New York Times