
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Black & White Sunday #11

We are teaming up with You Did What With Your Weiner and Dachshund Nola to host a Black and White Sunday blog hop. Yep, that’s right…Black and White Sunday is now an official blog hop!
Want to join the hop? Just follow the rules below.
1) Link up your blog name and URL using the Linky Tool below.
2) Follow your co-hosts and follow as many other blogs on
the linky as you’d like.
the linky as you’d like.
3) Please ONLY SUBMIT A FEW PHOTOS with minimal or no text, and make sure it’s in BLACK AND WHITE.
4) Grab the “Black and White Sunday Blog Hop” button below and include it in your Sunday Blog post.

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Labels: Black and White Sunday, Blog Hop
Friday, September 21, 2012
Do you have a ‘square-headed’ dog?
Do I have a ‘square-headed’ dog? Do I? While I was out with Luna and Penny today we stopped to say hello to a friendly neighbor. After Luna had fulfilled her personal goal of rubbing her hair all over this man’s pants, he remarked that he used to have a square-headed dog just like Luna. No, he did not refer to Luna as a Golden, or a Retriever, or a Lab,but a square-headed dog. This was an older gentleman, so I thought that maybe referring to a dog by the shape of its head, rather than its breed, was something that people used to do. So of course (for fun) I decided to do a Google search on dog face shapes - and just like people - dogs have one of 6 face shapes: round, square, long (or "oblong"), heart, diamond or oval. Here were the most common results I found for square headed dogs:


In order to ‘prove’ his position to me, he pulled up the AKC’s description of a Golden Retriever’s head:

So when D got home from work today, I told him he couldn’t see the dogs until he told me what shape their heads were. What?!? Yep, that’s right. No shapes, no puppies. “I don’t know,” he said, “they’re both wedges.” BUZZ! Wrong! That’s not an option! “Well, are we talking about the shape from above, or
head-on?” he asked. “I don’t know… head-on, I guess,” I told him. “You mean in order to see my dogs, I have to answer an opinion question ‘correctly,’ but you’re not able to even define the criteria? "That’s not fair.” “Hmm. You’re right. Let’s go see the dogs.”
So from there we went to examine our dogs’ craniums. It’s kind of fun, actually, if you haven’t done it before. You look them straight in the eyes, then pull back their ears so you get an unfettered look at the shapes of their skulls. They’ll look at you like you are crazy, and they might be right (at least in our case, anyway). Personally, I see Luna as an oval-shaped gal (see below), while D says oblong. He’s also accused me of simply drawing an oval around her face in this pic and not really evaluating ‘nuance.’ That’s his way of admitting defeat, of course, as any wife knows. He argued that while, yes, in this picture, her head does fit inside an oval overlay, in reality her head is arched at the top, and much broader across the temples than it is under her jaw.
In order to ‘prove’ his position to me, he pulled up the AKC’s description of a Golden Retriever’s head:
"Broad in skull, slightly arched laterally and longitudinally without prominence of frontal bones (forehead) or occipital bones. Stop well defined but not abrupt. Foreface deep and wide, nearly as long as skull. Muzzle straight in profile, blending smooth and strongly into skull; when viewed in profile or from above, slightly deeper and wider at stop than at tip." “See,” he said, “full of nuance.” “You mean nonsense,” I replied. “Luna’s an oval.” Needless to say, we didn’t get around to Penny… we may try again soon…
Image Credits - http://www.petinsrance.com/healthzone/pet-articles/pet-breeds/Boxer-Dogs.aspxhttp://www.pet360.com/Dog/breeds/all-about-german-shorthaired-pointers/2stUrHHhDkCGUA2nQixCwg?Dogs=German-Shorthaired-Pointerhttp://www.flixya.com/photo/1493149/Labrador-Retrieverhttp://puppies.barkerspetresort.com/french-bulldog/http://blog.sfgate.com/pets/2010/09/10/pet-myths-do-certain-dog-breeds-have-locking-jaws/
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Labels: Dogs with Square Heads, Favorite, Golden Retriever, Musings amp; More, Shape Faces for Dog
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Prost to Oktoberfest!

Bratwurst, Bavarian Chicken, Pretzels and beer… ah, what's better than a great big stein of Spaten Lager or Spaten special Oktoberfest brew, imported all the way from Germany? Okay, maybe actually being in Germany, but this was certainly fun enough.
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Labels: CA, Carmel, Oktoberfest
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Black and White Sunday #10
We are teaming up with You Did What With Your Weiner and Dachshund Nola to host a Black and White Sunday blog hop. Yep, that’s right…Black and White Sunday is now an official blog hop! Want to join the hop? Just follow the rules below.

1) Link up your blog name and URL using the Linky Tool below.
2) Follow your co-hosts and follow as many other blogs on the linky as you’d like.
3) Please ONLY SUBMIT A FEW PHOTOS with minimal or no text, and make sure it’s in BLACK AND WHITE.
4) Grab the “Black and White Sunday Blog Hop” button below and include it in your Sunday Blog post.
10 comments:
Labels: Black and White Sunday
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Another Visit to The Zoom Room

This past weekend Luna and I headed back to the Zoom Room in Monterey, Bay to have another go around on their agility equipment. This time we met up with two other Goldens – both male and very large – and one standard poodle. This meet up had two purposes. One: to give Luna a chance to socialize with dogs her own size while off leash. Two: to see if Luna would again surprise me with her willingness to go on the equipment. Well, just like last time, Luna again gave me the opportunity to swallow any pre conceived notions I had about her fearfulness around the equipment. She worked with A-Frame, ran through the weaves, jumped over bars, sat still on wobbly platforms, and of course socialized like a rock star! I am obviously not giving this dog enough credit, and I feel badly for doing so. You can count on us taking every possible opportunity to meet up at the Zoom Room. I can tell that these meet ups are going to be great confidence boosters for the both of us!





These (5) photos courtesy of The Zoom Room.
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Labels: Dog Agility, Musings amp; More, The Zoom Room
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Black and White Sunday #9

We are teaming up with You Did What With Your Weiner and Dachshund Nola to host a Black and White Sunday blog hop. Yep, that’s right…Black and White Sunday is now an official blog hop!
Want to join the hop? Just follow the rules below.
- Link up your blog name and URL using the Linky Tool below.
- Follow your co-hosts, and follow as many other blogs on the linky as you’d like.
- Please ONLY SUBMIT A FEW PHOTOS with minimal or no text, and make sure it’s in BLACK AND WHITE.
- Grab the “Black and White Sunday Blog Hop” button and include it in your Sunday Blog post.

14 comments:
Labels: Black and White Sunday, Dachshund, Penny
Friday, September 7, 2012
Dogs and Fashion
Just because fashion week is here does not mean that the dogs are left out! It seem like a lot of dogs are getting together to show off the latest dog fashion this week, and the retailers are driving me nuts sporting new canine trends. Is it me, or is fashion finally going to the dogs?

#1. http://gothamist.com/2012/09/04/dog_fashion_show_1.php
#2. http://bananarepublic.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=81615&vid=1&pid=423972&scid=423972002#
#3. http://www.etsy.com/shop/friendlygesture/search?search_query=dachshund&search_submit=&search_type=user_shop_ttt_id_5830732&shopname=friendlygesture
#4. http://instagram.com/p/NlbzRzKb8n/#

#1. http://gothamist.com/2012/09/04/dog_fashion_show_1.php
#2. http://bananarepublic.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=81615&vid=1&pid=423972&scid=423972002#
#3. http://www.etsy.com/shop/friendlygesture/search?search_query=dachshund&search_submit=&search_type=user_shop_ttt_id_5830732&shopname=friendlygesture
#4. http://instagram.com/p/NlbzRzKb8n/#
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Labels: Dog Gear amp; Accesories, Fashion Week
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Black and White Sunday #8

We are teaming up with You Did What With Your Weiner and Dachshund Nola to host a Black and White Sunday blog hop. Yep, that’s right…Black and White Sunday is now an official blog hop!
Want to join the hop? Just follow the rules below.
- Link up your blog name and URL using the Linky Tool below.
- Follow your co-hosts, and follow as many other blogs on the linky as you’d like.
- Please ONLY SUBMIT A FEW PHOTOS with minimal or no text, and make sure it’s in BLACK AND WHITE.
- Grab the “Black and White Sunday Blog Hop” button and include it in your Sunday Blog post.

6 comments:
Labels: Black and White Sunday, Blog Hop, Dachshund, Penny
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