Do they have ethics?

Little dogs, that is. Or is loyalty an instinct rather than an ethic? And besides, the dog is Chinese so it is inscrutable in any case.

In other words, I don't know.

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OMG! They'er fighting ....

.... well, like cats and dogs.


except cats and dogs are smarter, more honest and a lot cuter.

Veterans

Pictures of the 9/11 rescue dogs. Some still survive. They look haunted, but that is because they are old, and the photographer wanted them to look that way.


what else could it be.

Corgi being bad

Actually, I'm not sure that springing a friend from stir really is "bad" per se....

... you can decide.

Cats can do anything

Here's one who's a gambler and figures out the best why to deal with the bozo who is trying to confuse him.

And here is one who talks like Bela Lugosi giving a puppy a massage. The puppy is not entirely comfortable.

I love how gambling kitty thinks about it all.

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Continuing the beer theme

Also from the "Ugly" web site, a dog called Pabst. Don't know if it is a commentary on the brew or the dog but here it is.

It's so ugly blogger won't let me upload the picture!

The more I see of humans ...

I heard this today from Roy Blount Jr's reading of one of his books on the cd player as I commuted:

Dogs, unless they are overbred, are essentially Southern.

Our little lummox had something to say about this when I told him, but it didn't make much sense.

probably that Wilkes County southern accent I have trouble with.

Doggy heroism

Watch this little video of a dog trying to save another dog that has been hit by a car.

(I got the link from Andrew Sullivan who makes the observation that the blogger who posts it should chill out about the meaning for religion: Francis of Assisi knew all about this. )

Dog Stars

Two stories from The Week magazine this week.

Scott Seymour was debating whether to euthanize his 9 year old bulldog, Brittany, who was dying of stomach cancer. Instead .. he decided to give Brittany steroids to ease the pain in her last few weeks of life. Seymour's decision paid off last week when his house caught fire and a barking Brittany woke him up. Both master and pet escaped safely. "She never, ever barks when I'm sleeping," said Seymour. "She was demanding that I get up. And it saved my life.""

"British police believed they had a hostage standoff on their hands when they received an emergency call in which the caller could be heard whimpering and a man shouting, "Come out or else! I'm warning you!" The line then went dead. When police called back, they reached a woman who reported that Bailey, her 14 month old golden retriever, had stolen her cordless phone and, pursued by her angry husband, taken it to his hiding place behind the garden shed, where he gnawed on its keypad."

Bailey claims he won't be rescuing his owner from a fire.