The New Offical Mutts of the House thread

[Burnham]

She is just gorgeous.

 

[Ed L]

A friend had a male GS. Great dog, wouldn't leave the yard....until he smelled a dead deer on my adjoining property. He would then drag it home, one body part at a time and eat it....
We spent many hours looking for Zeuss's "stash" of deer parts.
Yes, I do miss that danm dog!

Ed

 

[Dave Shepard]

This is Owen. He has the focus of a border collie when food is involved. Otherwise, he's pretty adhd.

 

[Burnham]

I guess sunglasses on dogs are a thing . Lookin' sharp.

 

[flushcut]

This is about as much snuggle as I get

 

[flushcut]

I guess sunglasses on dogs are a thing . Lookin' sharp.

And hats, they’re a thing, so are bandannas.

 

[stikine]

I sense another headrest is in jeopardy after that humiliating picture. Haha

 

[flushcut]

Nope that’s the original and still that way to this day. He’s mellowed a bit but he can still be head strong and test boundaries.

 

[Burnham]

My first dog, Josh was his name, was a full-time bandana wearer. Before I was with M, he just had plain old cotton bandanas from the general store. He'd wear them out fairly fast . After, she made some nice wool ones that lasted a lot longer and always looked fresher. It is important for a dog's self-image, to look sharp .

Here's a scanned slide that M has recently digitized. Waaay back there in the old days. That is me circa 1978, 24 years old.

 

[flushcut]

Get a haircut ya hippy! Lol
Pup looks happy.

 

[Burnham]

He was a real nice animal to be around. Gentle as the day is long. Weighed between 85 and 90 pounds and was tall/long legged.

He happily carried as much weight as I could load into his pannier packs; on long backcountry backpack trips he'd start with 25+ pounds, and I'd have 50+ pounds. We went some marvelous places deep in the high mountains of Idaho.

I halfway believe he's the main reason M hooked up with me in the first place. Maybe more than halfway .

 

[biggun]

Up in the mountains at the cabin. Cold, fresh and clear.

Perfect Kira weather.

 

[Maximalist]

Nice cabin!

 

[biggun]

Thanks.

It belongs to Stine’s cousin but we get to use it when it’s free.

Last couple of days have been snowboarding but today was a slow start so just chilling around here and Stine is gonna try skiing with her when they are back from the walk.

She is good for a few hundred metres then starts attacking the skis and my missus falls over. Great fun for those watching, not so much for Stine.

If only I could ski 😜

 

[Maximalist]

Is this a water drain circuit?

 

[biggun]

Most of the traditional style cabins have a chain from the guttering.

I think is serves two purposes. It anchors it to the ground when windy and also helps the water drain down when the temps are very low.

Purely a guess and my observations.

 

[SeanKroll]

We have rain chains instead of downspouts in places.

Not quite as effective at full, full drainage, I'd think, but they downs slowly freeze up, shrinking the effective inner diameter of the downspout.

They are pretty to watch more than a downspout. Plastic are effective enough.

 

[biggun]

Well the skiing didn’t go too bad. I went for a wander to help Stine out and they were a good few Km away.

Doggo is knackered now. Not the longest of tours but at least she calmed down a bit u til she saw another dog running free.

 

[flushcut]

Did she help out on the up hill bits, four paw drive assist?

 

[biggun]

No,

For some reason she wouldn’t pull up hill only on the downhill sections.

When Stine got too fast she just threw herself off the tracks into the powder.

I found it extremely amusing.

 

[Porkbrick]

My last doggo, Mouse. He was a rescue from Salinas. Clipped ears, beat up knees, worn down teeth (presumably from being kenneled and trying too chew his way out).
We took him home and got his skin healed up, but there wasn’t much we could do about his knees short of expensive surgery. He was a great dog. He looked mean, but never once had me worried about having him around my kid. Sadly, he passed from cancer at the end of the pandemic. It was mercifully quick, and fortunately we didn’t have to deal with a long drawn out illness and attempted treatments. We buried him in the yard and planted a heartnut tree❤️

 

[flushcut]

Sorry to hear that. But it sounds like you gave him a good life.

 

[flushcut]

Logs and dog

 

[vharrison]

Oh, that dog. He is so good.

 

[SeanKroll]

I'm having a hard time working out of you like your dog, Rajan. 😉