This guy. ♥
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Showing posts with label Cute. Show all posts
Daily Dose of Cute
This guy. ♥
As always, please feel welcome and encouraged to share pix of the fuzzy, feathered, or scaled members of your family in comments.
Daily Dose of Cute
This is how Olivia likes to sit on my lap. "You're not going anywhere, Two-Legs!"
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Daily Dose of Cute
This is the face that Zelda makes when you ask her: "Who has cute ears?"
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Dudley, being inimitably dudleyish.
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Daily Dose of Cute
The sweetest. Just the absolute sweetest.
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Daily Dose of Cute
"Hey cats!"
"Yes?"
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Cat nap.
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"What? I'm people!"
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In case there were any question (there is no question) whether Shakes Manor is a hub of nerdery, here is a picture of Sophie sitting on the box for Settlers of Catan, following the action on the television on which we were watching a video about The Impossible Game.
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Daily Dose of Cute
This is my favorite picture of Dudley.
Today is the fourth anniversary of our officially adopting Dudley. (He didn't actually come to stay until the 28th, because I had some terrible flu, so he stayed with his foster family for a few extra days.) But this was the day we met him; the day he first came to visit Shakes Manor and walked in looking all nervous and confused; the day he leaned his long self against our legs for the first time.
It was just supposed to be a meet-and-greet, and a chance to test him out with our cats. Iain and I were in firm agreement that we weren't going to make any decisions that night.
Two hours later, all the paperwork had been filled out and the check for the adoption fee had been written. He was our dog. There was no use even pretending otherwise.
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Matilda, hanging out in the red chair in my office. Being goofy because obviously.
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ADORBZ!!!
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"It's raining! Lightly! And we've been out here for like 10 seconds!
OH THE HUMANITY! Please let us in!"
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Photo of the Day
From the Telegraph's Pictures of the Day for 15 April 2014: Austrian wildlife photographer Josef Gelernter took this picture of a panda playing with her cub in a swing at Vienna Zoo, Austria. [Josef Gelernter / Caters News]I MEAN!!!
Daily Dose of Cute
Sophie, the wee dragon cat.
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Daily Dose of Cute
Dudley the Greyhound lays sprawled out across the ottoman and half the loveseat, looking at me. He has one ear flipped forward, and one flipped backwards, looking very silly, as usual.This dog. LOL.
"Dudley," I say, "do you have ears?" He looks at me. "Do you have cute ears?" He looks at me. "Do you have silly ears?" He looks at me, then dramatically flops over to one side and licks his lips sleepily.
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Daily Dose of Cute
Last weekend, our doggy friend Lottie came to visit with her guardian, and, as per usual, much cuteness ensued:
"You look like me!" "No, YOU look like ME!"
"Whazzat?"
Big and Little.
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Fuzzy wee sleepy dumpling.
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Daily Dose of Cute
This guy. ♥
April is National Greyhound Adoption Month!
On April 28, 2010, Dudley came to stay at Shakes Manor. On the one hand, I can't believe it's already been almost four years since he arrived. On the other, I almost can't remember life without him, because he is so tightly woven into the fabric of our lives that it feels like he's been here forever, that we've always had a giant, two-dimensional dog strutting about the place and taking up egregious amounts of space on the furniture.
Dogs aren't for everyone, and Greyhounds aren't for every dog-lover. If you want a high-energy dog who can be your companion in cold-weather sporting and run around off-leash, the Greyhound probably isn't your dog. But if you want a low-key dog who can be your companion on the couch and is happy with a walk and the occasional breathtaking burst of speed at the dog park, the Greyhound may be just the dog for you.
In the two years we've had Dudley, I've had people occasionally express surprise that he is so sweet-natured, so friendly, so ebulliently full of life. There is some prejudice about Greyhounds that they are broken, that they are pitiable creatures who need a special kind of owner to love them despite their brokenness.
This is simply not true. Greyhounds are goofy, gangly packages of indomitable effervescence, whose capacity to give love and willingness to receive it, in spite of their beginnings, is extraordinary. They are survivors. And given the chance, they'll rescue you right back.
If you're thinking about adoption, please consider a retired racer. And if you are contemplating adopting a Greyhound, and have questions, please feel welcome and invited to email me.
Video Description: A video I made December 2010 in association with a pro bono project on which I was working for local greyhound rescue, which documents the change adoption makes in dogs' lives. Footage and a still image of Dudley when he first came to us, followed by footage and still images of Dudley over the time he's been part of our family. Set to Angelo Badalamenti's "Love Theme" from the score for Cousins.
Dudley: This is the difference that rescue makes.
Daily Dose of Cute
Zelly is too cute. TOO CUTE.
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