One-eyed Jax and Miss Sugar - cute pet pix

(I can be excused - I don't do this very often)

Of course they'd have to be to tough it out in Alaska. :)

I'm glad I could help with the ISO tip. It really warms the photos up to have the more natural light. Plus, I don't care for the built-in flashes on the two digitals I've worked with now. I haven't used my regular (big) flash with my new camera yet, I'll be interested to see if there's any difference.

I like the results


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He looks so whacked out....

Pit Bull. You know how it is. Every once and a while we have the honor of meeting some being who seems to have "something," call it charisma or character, that sets them apart from the ordinary. This individual happens to be a dog. Over my life I've enjoyed the companionship of many dogs, and they have all been special, more or less, in their own ways. But Lucy has the kind of stunning beauty and presence that causes drivers to stop their cars and comment, and the kind of sensitivity that makes her able to serve as a therapy dog with really tough clients, and a personality that makes her worry about stressed puppies on the Animal Planet Channel. Anyway, a picture:

Lucy looks very noble and proud.

He was a stray dog up until February, when I found him running through my neighborhood in a thunderstorm one afternoon. He was scared and abused and afraid of men. I took him to the vet and he had a shattered hip bone and broken teeth from living on the streets.

The vet made sure he did not have one of those chips that would have tracked his owner. And I placed flyers throughout my neighborhood with his picture under the words "found dog."

After several weeks of no response, I confirmed what I already knew; he was nothing but a street dog with no home. He now has a home.

It sounds like he had a life kind of like Jax. Jax is missing an eye because of an infection and also only has a tooth or two because his jaw was broken before he came into Jim's possession. Something about having his jaw wired caused his teeth to become loose, and he keeps losing them one by one.

The vet said Scruffy probably lost his teeth from either fighting with other dogs or gnawing on rocks to quell his hunger. He is still very uncomfortable around strangers and snaps at them when they try to pet him.

Give me a street dog over a pedigree any day.

most expressive face. Do not see how anyone could of left such a sweet thing on the streets, but then I can't understand leaving any animal on the streets, or woods or nearest farm.

Hey, you started the pet shots!:+

Love your pup, that 1st shot is adorable.
Do they get along?

Bob
St Paul

As for Jax and the kitties, they all get along fine. My husband brought the dog up with him when he came up here from Texas to marry me three years ago. I already had the cats -- four of them at that time. At first they were a little stand-offish, but after a while they just accepted him. It seems like they think of him as just a weird-looking cat. They eat his food, he eats theirs. He's not all that much bigger than they are, and I know they don't see him as any kind of threat. So we're all just one happy family. :)

Love the pic in the snow though he (she?) is hunched and seems like he would be miserable the eyes look like he is enjoying it some. My cats would be throwing themselves at the door. Then again they are never outside and the ferals think they should never have to go out into that scary place again. Great pics all.

You couldn't make him come inside on days like that. He is miserable in warm weather, enough so that we considered clipping him one summer when we were without A/C.
He lived his early life on a houseboat on the Mississippi River in Minnesota, and Froze In with the rest of us during the Winter. He LOVED the cold weather. He has since moved into an apartment, and doesn't much care for it. He doesn't understand why we can't "Go Home". It has been better since we got the little gray kitty.
His name is Bug, hers is MaggiePie.
The story is here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=243&topic_id=2668&mesg_id=2668

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=243x4253

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4468103

Thanks for the smiles. :)

cat. My cats have not forgiven you for putting ideas in my head. They still hold secret meetings to plan an overthrow when seeing anything looking like a hoop.I can hoop a couple of the ferrets now though. I have read about Bug. Poor guy, can understand missing his home but not his liking the cold. MaggiePie is a cutey too. Glad Bug is a bit happier having Maggie around.

and you can post pet pics more often, doubt anyone minds. The Zoo Crew here was trying to figure out how to dognap Jax, though the cats almost started a revolution when the ferrets wanted to catnap Miss Sugar, they do love nipping cat toes. Then they saw Raging's pup and I had to send them off to an undisclosed location before they added to the menagerie here.

Great pics of some very lucky and cute furbabies.