Hole in the Clouds

Tag: dogs

Sign of the Times

Oct 14, 2011

This land is your land, this land is my land. From California, to the New York Island.

landscape Alaska dogs tundra protest signage Occupy Wall Street (Image credit: Coldfootfilms via Mudflat)

Our neighbor Carolyn Duffy poses for a snapshot along Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, with her dogs Max and Toby. The big dog, Max, must really like Fairmount Park because he is notorious for making all the decisions with respect to where they'll go on walks and how long they'll stay out. He weighs well over a hundred pounds, and if he doesn't want to go somewhere, it's probably just as well if you don't bother trying to go there.

landscape animals Philadelphia Carolyn Duffy dogs creek park Fairmount Park (Image credit: Sheila)

Friday Morning Critters: Squeakers

Oct 26, 2012

Susan Wiggin writes from Portland, Maine:

Miss Vera had 2 little boy puppies on Saturday night. Here they are on Sunday. Everyone is doing great & they are velvety soft & they squeak.

Portland Maine Susan Wiggin dogs pets puppies

A Meme Bearing Gifts

Dec 3, 2012

I have it on good authority (from a six-year-old....) that pictures of a dog dressed as two dogs or two pirates or two monkeys, carrying a present or a treasure chest or a box of bananas, have been around the intertubes for so long that they're real yawners now.

They never got to my eyeballs till this weekend, presumably because I don't frequent the cutting-edge neighborhoods of the web. I'm old, after all, and out of it. But I'm not too old to recognize a meme worth spreading around once I finally see it.

In this context, however, it may be worth noting that if I tried to put a costume like this on my dog, he'd pee all over it.

dogs costumes pirates (h/t: JJ Stein)

Neighbors

Jan 6, 2013

Some of my next-door neighbors on Kater Street.

animals Kater Street dogs (Image credit: Carolyn Duffy)

Cartoon Dogs

Mar 7, 2013

Omar the Boston Terrier, who is something of a cartoon dog himself, looks worried when the puppy starts to cry in Lady and the Tramp.

Seattle dogs tv Omar (Image credit: Amy Gipsman)

Three in the Bed

Mar 22, 2013

That's our niece Olivia, with Paganini the little red poodle and Dobby the dumb black dawg.

Dobby West Virginia dogs Olivia Paganini Harpers Ferry

After Sunflowers

Nov 25, 2013

Both of these Brittany Spaniels–bird dogs, for certain sure–believe they're onto something, here in a Pennsylvania marsh where just a few short months ago, sunflowers were smiling.

landscape Pennsylvania fall hunting flowers countryside dogs marsh (Image credit: birddogman)

Cuba Libros

Feb 19, 2016

Joe, our man in Havana, is spending the spring semester in Cuba. He visited this bookstore the other day, where there were four people, five dogs, lots and lots of books, and on the floor near the left edge of the picture, a green and gold portable typewriter.

streetscape Havana Cuba bookstore store dogs typewriter (Image credit: Joe Stein

Two Out of Three

Feb 27, 2016

There are two good dogs here, who are paying attention and no doubt salivating over the treats in that plastic bag. But the guy in the back, a young Belgian malinois named Boulder, still needs to get with the program.

woods dogs pets obedience tricks (Image credit: Hank Stein)

Mabel and Zoe Play by the Bay

Jan 29, 2017

That's a couple of wet dogs goofing it up, out there by the Golden Gate Bridge. Zoe, at left, lived in San Francisco until recently, when her boy Patrick moved to Seattle. Hank's pup Mabel visited with Zoe last June and now shares a house in Seattle with her and some other critters.

beach San Francisco dogs Mabel Golden Gate Bridge Zoe (Image credit: Hank Stein)