LOL! A photograph from Stephen Barnard of Idaho, regular contributor to “readers’ wildlife,” with the caption:
I don’t expect you to post this on your ailurophilic, misocynistic web site. 🙂 (Look it up.) I’m emailing it only because I like the photo. Deets is my best friend and constant companion, but he hates to have his photo taken. He’s cool with cats.
Note to readers: This site hasn’t changed, so don’t inundate me with pictures of d*gs!
Deets is a beauty!
(What can I say — I’m bipetual.)
In case any more delicate readers need an immediate feline chaser, though, here is one:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/caitlinburke/6897938352
Bipetual – love it! Count me in, too.
Me three! Lovely kitteh.
A cutie!
Those eyes! Those whiskers! What a beauty!
(“What? Who, me?” with only slightly feigned humility)
My parents had a BC with one brown eye and the other eye half brown half blue. Some have really striking blue eyes.
If you had to be a dog – that is what you should look like.
Your short sentence says it all.
Border Collies are the best!
Bravo!
Classic portrait of a classic d*g.
“Constant companion” is good. More than “good.” I was actually without Baihu all morning…he had his teeth cleaned. And it’s actually a bit terrifying at how the house was instantly not home without him.
But he did great and all his teeth cleaned up sparkling white. And he’s already spent lots of extra time on my shoulders this afternoon and inhaled his food even more vigorously than usual, if that’s even possible, so all is well again.
b&
My dog had her teeth cleaned when she had her canine tooth removed (she killed it – went black – I suspect from dragging a huge bed of hers around the house). I figured they might as well clean them while she’s under.
I give her chews from the vet that have enzymes in them. They recommend 2x a day but I give them only 1x day except on Sunday (for Jesus). They are $30/package & a package lasts a month this way. They seem to help too. Cuts down on tartar & her teeth are a nice white. Of course, she also chews nylon bones, a nylon spikey stegosaurus & sticks from outside.
I was given a few of those enzyme chews from my vet recently as one of my pooches had a lot of plaque. They gave them as a “sample”, but after chewing one a day for three days, I didn’t notice any difference to his back teeth (where most the plaque was). Maybe I need more than 3, but I’m glad to hear that you’ve noticed a difference. I guess I’ll just have to buy a package of them to find out for sure.
I think what is supposed to be good about them is they get in between the teeth when they chew. My dog still has plaque on her molars but not as bad as my other dogs I’ve had & her other teeth are nice and white with no plaque on them.
Thanks for the added info. I’ll have to pick some up.
Are they called dentastix? Currie lives her “toothbrushes.”
These are called Virbac CET. Here is a link. My dog is crazy for them.
Thsnks, Diana. Those look great. Do you need to get them at a vet’s?
We’re currently in Augusta, GA, for a graduation. Hiked bits of the Appalachian Trail on the way down, where it was colder in sw Virginia than home in Southern Ontario.
Muttnik gets a bit neurotic about eating when we’re travelling and I forgot to bring her toothbrushes. She tips her bowl of kibble over with her nose, all over the motel carpet. If we bring her back enough leftovers from our restaurant meals and put these on top, she might deign to eat the combo untipped-over. Sometimes Ramen works, praise his Noodlyness.
Yeah for some reason you can only get them from a vet. I’ve looked all over for them elsewhere, hoping to find cheaper ones. I have to get the XL because my dog is gigantic. There are some for kittehs too & they have veggie based ones.
Good. I’ll get some for Currie and Fred when I get home. Do you need a Rx? If not, i can maybe get some more cheaply down here.
Nope, no RX needed.
I have great luck with these:
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=9819
There are many other brands. I use them once every other day; simpler than brushing and just as effective, IME. And they last forever.
Merilee–nothing like a roadtrip in winter with dog. You have an adventurous spirit. 😉
By “last forever” I mean one jar lasts a long time. Each wipe is only used once.
I WAS wondering:-)
Houndie loves joining in the adventure:-)
Verrrrrry interesting.
I have a friend whose cat got…plugged up…from eating too many “greenies.” One of many reasons why I’ve not gone anywhere near the tooth-cleaning chewable treats.
But Virbac / CET is the same company that makes the toothpaste that Baihu already loves. May well be worth a package.
Thanks!
b&
Normally I wouldn’t give my dog rawhide but these seem to be good and I only give one a day (except on Sunday for Jesus). I was impressed with them.
Well, both a package of CET cat tooth treats and CET water addition are on their way from Amazon, so we’ll see how the experiment works out….
b&
Awww what a good looking guy. I bet he’s smart too!
What a nice looking d*g! Deets looks very much like our beloved ‘best of d*gs’ Max. We used to have to spell a lot of words around her since she knew a very large vocabulary of human words, and she was always very intensely watching and listening to us.
Of all dogs, Border Collies are the most worthy candidates for honorary cat status.
Wow. I never expected that, Jerry. Deets thanks you. (No, he really doesn’t. He’s cat-like that way.)
Bipetual is a new word for me, and I suspect for many others — one that well describes my frame of mind.
Is any member of the animal kingdom not unbelievably gorgeous in your photos?
+ 1
Agree!
We could test that idea, if we could talk Stephen into photographing a slug.
Slugs are cute!
I suggest, maybe, a hagfish. (Next time one shows up in ID…)
Deets objects to being compared to a slug. (No he doesn’t — he doesn’t know what that even means.)
Banana slugs, which I used to see often when I lived in CA, are beautiful creatures.
I wouldn’t call banana slugs beautiful…especially when there’s a whole bunch of them crawling through your compost:-(. I guess they are doing their job
Try a leopard slug
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leopard_Slug_Somerville_MA.jpeg
(not my photo!)
We sometimes get them inside (d*g knows how such a big beastie gets through a crack in the door)
I carefully put them outside – they are quite handsome creatures
How long is thst sucker?? I’ve seen huge banana slugs in California, but they are not nearly as “handsome” as this beastie.
Deets is gorgeous!! My west highland terrier MacLeod (there can be only one) sends his regards to Deets. It takes all my restraint to follow your wishes and not inundate you with a photo of Cloudy Boy. (MacLeod loooves to have his photo taken, so I have no shortage of them…)
Border Collies are such wonderful friends. Beautiful photo, and it has made me think of my dear friend Cosmo – a rescued BC who only wanted to be good.
There’s no better reason to suspend normal operations around here than a beautiful Border Collie.
How’d he get his name, Stephen?
He’s named after the Danny Glover character in Lonesone Dove. Great miniseries.
Oh, yeah. I liked it too!
Aha…I thought that name sounded familiar. A great novel as well…books are always better, right 🙂
Indeed. But adaptations of McMurtry’s work have been better than most.
The Lonesome Dove mini-series was excellent.
Beautiful portrait! I always enjoy your photos.
the dog has a feline look.
maybe it’s a case of transspecies/species dysphoria?
Thanks for the two new words.
I had a dog like that once. It used to bite anyone whose surname began with “M”
Paul Dudley
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Most cat-like dog I ever met was a little black schipperke who ‘co-housed’ with a couple I knew. Neat, alert, quiet, devastatingly efficient destroyer of rodents, and most of all self-sufficient.
A friend of mine have had a series of collie woofs and, I have to say, they are absolutely wonderful d*gs and amongst the most intelligent. (Having said that the current collie, Sam, is a complete muppet and decidedly soft in the head …….)
Interesting to note he appears to have picked up some seeds on his fur. That is a good way for plants to spread…
Excellent.
What a nice looking pooch! My dog is my constant companion as well. I often wake up with her on the bed, waiting for me to get up. As soon as I’m awake she nudges me and snuggles though sometimes she slaps me with her big paw too.
Beautiful beastie. I love Border Collies.
The power of black-and-white photography. What a beautiful portrait.
Very nice portrait. B&W was the perfect choice.
We have a couple German Shorthair Pointers (my parents breed them). I don’t leave home without them…well, most of the time anyway. But my wife and I are also bipetual…we just don’t have a kitteh at the moment.
My Deets is a beautiful d*g, well put together. He’s independent, and only barely tolerates me telling him what a good boy he is, although deep down he likes it.
He looks like the dog that miraculously showed up in a piece of ice a few days ago. It was a prophecy!