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Take this dog and stuff it
from ohmidog!
on Wednesday January 25th, 2012 at 11:23 AM
Im as absorbed with taxidermy and its variations as the next guy (unless that next guy is Charles Speedy Atkins), especially when it comes to using it to preserve our pets. I was fascinated enough to make it a chapter in my book, and curious enough to take a peek at American Stuffers, Animal Planets [...]Haunted by their dog-killing pasts
from ohmidog!
on Monday September 19th, 2011 at 11:05 AM
What do Tom Otterness and Michael Vick have in common? A lot. They both killed dogs, then went on to even greater achievement, fame and fortunein their respective professions Vick as an NFL quarterback, Otterness as an artist. But bothare still dogged by their pasts, and both seem toimply thats wrong that those [...]Too Many Pesky Pills
from My Funny Dad, Harry
on Monday August 15th, 2011 at 11:54 PM
Keeping track of ones pills can be a bit confusing. Those plastic weekly pill containers worked good to help my dad remember to take his pills every day. He had three separate holders for his morning, lunch time and evening pills that he clearly marked. He would fill up the containers On Sunday and that way he would know if he took his daily pills or not. The only problem was that if he fell asleep, sometimes lunch time wouldnt be until 3:00 or his evening pills would be really late which he...Woof in advertising: Brain Strong dog
from ohmidog!
on Sunday August 14th, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Brain Strong is a DHA supplement that promises to nourish your brain, helping you remember all those things little things that keep slipping your mind like where you put your sunglasses.
In this ad, the dog, in addition to being a mind reader, has all the answers.
Of course, thats no help at least until they invent a pill that lets us understand what our dogs are telling us.
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It’s a scarf! It’ a memento! It’s Bella!
from ohmidog!
on Monday August 1st, 2011 at 10:50 AM
Its not something the typical dog owners does, but with enough sheddings and some hard work you can make a shawl out of your shiba inu, a cowl out of your collie, a scarf out of your Schipperke, or even an afghan out of your Afghan.
Denise Rothwell of Great Falls, Montana, has turned the fur from her two Great Pyrenees Bella and Windsor into scarves and throw blankets, with a litle help from her mother.
Shirley Rothwell spins Bella and Windsors hair into yarn, and her daughter does the...
How Do Dogs Perceive Time?
from (dog)spired
on Saturday July 23rd, 2011 at 02:00 PM
Most dogs are never late for a meal they know exactly where to be at the same time every day. They also know when to expect their owner home and, like clockwork, place themselves patiently at the door for that arrival.
When you witness this behavior, you assume dogs have a sophisticated understanding of time. But what is time really like for a dog?
They say a human year is equivalent to about seven dog years. But what does this common theory tell us about a dogs perception of time? Actually,...
Montana: The love affair continues
from ohmidog!
on Wednesday November 3rd, 2010 at 07:43 PM
John Steinbeck and I in addition to traveling with our dogs, being about the same age when we set forth on our journeys, having the same first names, and a lot of the same letters in our last ones share something else as well.
A mistress.
I have trysted with her three times as a reporter in the early 1990s, as a visiting professor in 2007, and as whatever it is I am now. Shes as beautiful and inviting as she was the first time we met and, Im sure,as she was 50 years ago, when she seduced...
From black sheep to favorite son
from ohmidog!
on Tuesday October 26th, 2010 at 08:26 PM
The signs at Exit 127 of Interstate 94 in Minnesota let drivers know whats ahead: McDonalds, Subway, Jitters Java Cafe and the Sinclair Lewis Interpretative Center.
What weary motorist couldnt use a jolting cup of Joe, a$5 footlong and a peek into the life, times and works ofa long dead novelist?
Exit 127 in Sauk Centre spills you onto Main Street and its not just any Main Street. Its THE Main Street.
The Sinclair Lewis book of that name, published in1920, was though labeled fiction based on...
Study Proves Dogs Recognize Their Owners’ Faces
from Dog Files
on Tuesday October 26th, 2010 at 01:32 AM
Photo: Robert Occhialini/Flickr
By John Platt for Mother Nature Network
Does your dog watch you and follow you when you walk around a room? Its studying, and recognizing, your face, according to new research published in the journal Animal Behaviour.
The study, led by Paolo Mongillo from the University of Padua in Italy, found that dogs can not only recognize their owners faces, but they also rely on their sense of sight more than previously understood. Not only that, they use their eyes to...
For love of food, or for love and food?
from ohmidog!
on Wednesday September 15th, 2010 at 10:15 PM
Ace remembers.
Ace remembers the park he used to play in, the places he liked to poop, the street he used to live on, the people who gave him treats. Ace remembers which rowhouse windows cats lived behind, which dogs once snapped at him, where his favorite bar is, whos a friend, whos a foe and, most of all, how to get a handout.
Ace remembers, maybe, even better than me.
Watching him back in the old neighborhood, after a three month absence, I was impressed with just how much he remembered from...
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