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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.

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:

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:
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/

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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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.

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!

• 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.

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/#

• 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.