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choosing the first dog…

Time has a pictorial of dawgs in the white house from George Washington’s fox hound to the current occupant’s Scottish Terrier Barney, who recently bit someone…

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1830236_1746240,00.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/11/10/DI2008111001088.html?nav=rss_liveonline&referer=sphere_related_content


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/08/AR2008110800805.html

Thank you, Barack Obama and family for saying that you will be getting a rescue puppy… a lot of people have been weighing in on what kind of puppy the first family should get… and Cici and I think they should get a Dalmatian/pit bull mix, for obvious reasons… a pit bull mix would be great to show the world that pit bulls can be GREAT sweet loving gentle dogs not the monsters some in the media have turned them into… here is what the LA Times, NY Times, Washington Post, and others have to say about the First Puppy….

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-obamadog15-2008nov15,0,1817929.story

Wanted: Presidential First Puppy. Should be less than a year old. Only hypoallergenic dogs need apply. Poodles and doodles especially welcome. Yorkies, bichon frises, Cairn terriers, Westies, cockapoos and wheaten terriers also encouraged. Must be doing time in a city or county shelter, foster home or private rescue facility. Will be vetted by incoming first daughters, Sasha,7, and Malia, 10. Position is highly competitive.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/the-search-for-the-first-puppy/

Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, have been talking about a dog for a while.

A goldendoodle (Photo: Rob Bennett for The New York Times)

He had said a year ago, while campaigning in Iowa, that his older daughter, Malia, now 10, had been investigating breeds and decided that because of her allergies, she wanted a goldendoodle, which is a cross between a golden retriever and poodle.

He said his daughter thought the goldendoodle “the optimal dog.”…

…In June, during an interview on Good Morning America, Mrs. Obama said they would get a dog next spring because by then they would be settled, no matter how the election turned out.

…“The deal on dog is a year from now, because what we know about raising a dog is that you have to be pretty stable, so you don’t drive your dog crazy,” she said.

the cutest puppies…

http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.45.swf?cid=317016

…What kind of dog do you think the Obamas should get?

here’s a word from the blogosphere..


http://www.blogs.com/2008/11/06/search-for-the-first-puppy.html

Name that puppy,,,  Hope?

http://www.nameobamaspuppy.com/

A Jack Russell?

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grooving on a Sunday afternoon … rolling in the grass is a gas…

we have been in oregon for the past week, came here to escape the smoke and instead got right in the thick of it… finally, the smoke left the air for the holiday and it’s been clear this weekend… and Cici has been having fun in this dog friendly place… there is a dog trail and dog park a short hop skip and a jump, in walking distance to where we are staying.  Every day she has met, played with and encountered other dogs.

Yesterday morning, however, this man drives up at 6-7 am on a Sunday morning with all of these dogs yowling… we were just stumbling along, well, I was, half awake, Cici was rollling on the grass, stalking squirrels and sniffing around… the guy almost ran us over, got out of his car and I asked him if he saw us and he said yes, duh… then he said that he was going to let eight that is 8 dogs out, could we please leave, the nerve !!!  I am paying a fortune to stay in this place and he comes there with his eight dogs…we left though… did not want Cici to get ganged up on by a bunch of crazy dogs… like their owner…

then we ventured into the dog park, too many dogs there, but she did find one friend, a black lab who she chased and played with for a few minutes… then I whisked her away…

doggie heaven…  they love her at the bank and feed her treats… mostly, people here have been wonderful regarding her but on occasion, there are those who are still afraid of dogs and/or pit bulls…

The Washington Post apparently did a wonderful photo gallery of the Michael Vick dogs rehabed and sheltered at various animal sanctuaries including Best Friends in Kanab Utah and Bad Rap in northern California…

here’s the link and a few other links… the other day this guy in a laundromat asked me if my dog had a locking jaw, I was stunned… cici was wagging her tail, kissing feet and doing her usual social butterfly routine and he wanted to know about her locking jaw… there is no such thing as a locking jaw… it is a myth (see below, there is a link to myths about pit bulls)… the jaws of pit bulls are the same as any other dog, K9, period end of story…  otherwise intelligent people believe this baloney… media hype and hysteria about super dogs…  yeah, she’s a super dog all right… super smart, super friendly, super silly, super loving, and super playful…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/galleries/vickdogs/


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080128-vick-dogfighting_2.html

http://www.pitbullsontheweb.com/petbull/breedinfo.php

http://www.realpitbull.com/myths.html

Myths

“Pit Bulls have locking jaws.” The jaws of the Pit Bull are functionally the same as the jaws of any other breed, and this has been proven via expert examination.

The few studies which have been conducted of the structure of the skulls, mandibles and teeth of Pit Bulls show that, in proportion to their size, their jaw structure and thus its inferred functional morphology, is no different than that of any [other] breed of dog. There is absolutely not evidence for the existence of any kind of ’locking mechanism’ unique to the structure of the jaw and/or teeth of the American Pit Bull Terrier, says Dr. I. Lerh Brisbin of the University of Georgia (from the ADBA booklet, “Discover the American Pit Bull Terrier.)

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