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Training! Ha!

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This is not my photo. But it is a very familiar site. Our puppy is about 11 months old now and she is a little stinker who *really* likes DVD cases. And the kids' toys... And the garbage... And whatever was on the stove... And the couch... Twice we have come home to find she turned on the gas at some point during the day and our entire home was filled with the smell of gas. Yuck. We are picking up a dog from my sister soon and I hope having another younger dog around the house will mellow her out a little. I hope.

Thor

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Back in 1998 I was walking around the Saturday Market and there on the grass was a couple of hippies with a box of puppies. They were all crawling over the top of each other and stepping on heads and tails. And in the middle was a beautiful golden puppy who didn't really look like his half pit-bull litter-mates (we never did know what the other half was). I was instantly in love and, though I had no plans for a dog, he came home with us. We brought him home and we had trouble picking out a name. He was a very lazy puppy but he was half pit-bull so we knew he might not always be so lazy. We needed a name that would suit him either way. A friend jokingly suggested that if he was so lazy he should be named Thorazine and I said that Thor could work if he grew out of the lazy (he didn't) and he was so named. When he was a few months old he accidentally knocked my small niece down and got a scolding and ever since that day he scaled his playing to the human's size. He woul...

My baby (squeal!)

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No, not this one. Though Wendy is pretty. But I only took her picture with my baby. This is my baby (and my reading material to go with her). And this is my very sad and jealous Canon. It still gets to hang out in my purse, I guess. In my low-lighted living room (seriously, I need a lamp or 12) the shot of Pixel (the cat)just doesn't do well with the Lumix P&S. The flash lit up her eyes too much (and red eye fixes don't acknowlege the yellow eyes). But no flash with the Lumix means I can't see the cat... But my new baby, she's a performer. Now I can see Pixel (and pixels).