otherwise 1) In another way, differently; 2) Under other circumstances; 3) In other respects.

5Nov/090

Good Dog, Smart Dog – NYTimes.com

Cool story, with a very cute illustration. I gotta get more practice drawing dogs.

Good Dog, Smart Dog - NYTimes.com
Life as a Labradoodle may sound free and easy, but if you’re Jet, who lives in New Jersey, there is a lot of work to be done.

He is both a seizure alert dog and a psychiatric service dog whose owner has epilepsy, severe anxiety, depression, various phobias and hypoglycemia. Jet has been trained to anticipate seizures, panic attacks and plunging blood sugar and will alert his owner to these things by staring intently at her until she does something about the problem. He will drop a toy in her lap to snap her out of a dissociative state. If she has a seizure, he will position himself so that his body is under her head to cushion a fall.

Jet seems like a genius, but is he really so smart? In fact, is any of it in his brain, or is it mostly in his sniff?

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3Oct/080

European dogs

Check out my "European Dogs" photo series on Facebook. A sample:

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17Sep/080

Dogs of Europe


"Going Separate Ways"
On a country road outside Amsterdam.

More dog photos from Europe here. ;-)

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23Sep/071

Celebrity sighting #2: George attacks Jenny Schecter’s dog

We were walking home this morning from a little run & swim (for Puca) at the dog beach this morning, when George started expressing... how shall I say... an intense dislike for a black dog ahead of him. For no reason. He kept pulling and huffing and puffing and making such a scene that the dog ahead of us and the woman walking her stopped to see what the fuss was all about. It was Jenny Schecter:

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Photo from Wikipedia. She wasn't dressed up like this walking her dog, obviously.

You know, Mia Kirshner who plays the irritating, neurotic writer named Jenny Schecter on the I-can't-believe-I-keep-watching-this-racist-crap L Word on Showtime.

She said her dog would be okay if I wanted to let George say hello. And because I was busy wondering in my head, "am I talking to Jenny Schecter?!?" I stupidly let George approach her dog -- which was clearly not a good idea since George has been hyperventilating with an inexplicable desire to attack this dog. He tried to bite -- a little nip around the knee since that's as high as George could get -- and Jenny Schecter's dog sort of flicked him away like, "what the hell is wrong with you?" And then Jenny Schecter's dog must have thought, again, "what the hell," because she then emptied her bladder right there in the middle of the sidewalk.

In the meantime, Puca was in one of those "everyone-is-after-my-tennis-ball" paranoia phases, and barked at both George and Jenny Schecter's dog to lay off her stinky ball. It was craziness all around.

So, all in all, we probably seemed to her like a gang of barely-combed, sweaty girls with a vicious little Maltese and a mud-covered ball maniac. In contrast, Jenny Schecter -- or Mia Kirshner -- was calm and collected and plenty pleasant, despite her total bed head. And quite friendly.

She told us that her mother has a couple of Malteses, and asked if George barks out the window all day, too. She looked mildly horrified at how poorly behaved our dogs were. Heh. And you know me -- that's gotta be one of the most embarrassing things. If the dogs behaved this badly in front of Jennifer Beals, for instance, I would have walked the rest of the way home crying. ;-)

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19Sep/075

Conservative T-shirts

I noticed this ad while browsing some conservative news media:

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Hillary, a Communist? Really? I check out thoseshirts.com, and see these as well:

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But you know what's not cool?

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That's just wrong... Poor dog.

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16Jul/071

Random: dog vs. dog paw

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11Jun/074

George photocopied

Just for fun, I photocopied George a few months ago. Don't worry -- he's fine. The result, photoshopped:

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21May/075

Puca learns to roll over

The video is too dark, but it still cracks me up. Especially the last almost-roll-over.

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18May/073

Bath time!

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3Jan/071

Happy New Year!

Puca says, "Woof, woof!" (Translation: "Happy Year 2007!")
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