#its like a corgi borzoi i love it

[nostalgia-artlog]

Hi! Love the blog! We've seen two captains and the trouble they have with their dogs but does anyone else have any issues is everybody good

Thank you so much!Hm let’s see.There are some doodles I’m planning, so I won’t say everything, but here’s an overview:Yamamoto’s collie was originally just a pet, but now helps out with tasks that are tricky to do with one hand. It can close doors, and open file cabinets. Rumors say it can fetch tea and not spill any of it.

Sasakibe has an entire wardrobe for his corgi.

Soi Fon’s dobermann and Omaeda’s Shar Pei actually get along really well, and are best friends. The Shar Pei is a little overweight and can’t play as long as the dobie, which makes the dobie very sad.

Bath days for Rose’s Afghan hound are spectacular in how long it takes to shampoo and blow-dry one dog. Kira helps, of course. The dog is, at least, incredibly well behaved, so it’s not as bad an experience as it could be.

4th’s dogs act as therapy animals for the patients. They are both very protective of all the people in 4th (and of Hanataro’s chickens) and have been known to bite the odd 11th member who was just too rowdy.

Momo’s dog can do everything. Everything.

Byakuya’s Akita is perfect 99% of the time, with the 1% usually being because of Renji’s Kai, who is feisty and bold. The Kai also likes to go swimming in the Kuchiki fish pond, much to Byakuya’s annoyance. Rumors say the two dogs once took off into the mountains and hunted a giant bear.

Nanao’s collie is really damn smart.

Hitsugaya’s Samoyed is a cuddle bug that always wants hugs and pets. And always leaves clouds of hair in its wake. Rangiku’s collie is pretty much the same. Once or twice a year both dogs “blow their coats”, which is to say they shed in clumps. No one in the 10th can keep a uniform black when this happens.

11th doesn’t really ‘keep’ that monstrous prehistoric dog that came from who-knows-where. It just sort of roams the courtyard. People are encouraged to travel in pairs or in groups, particularly at night. They do feed it, if only to discourage it from potentially eating someone. Curiously, it likes Yachiru and it likes her little chihuahua. It’s entirely possible it just doesn’t realize the tiny dog even is a dog.

The little chihuahua knows it’s actually the biggest dog in the entire freakin’ world, and acts accordingly. All tremble before its little kazoo-growl. It seems to dislike Ikkaku especially.

Ukitake’s borzoi is super chill, and will lovingly lean on anyone who pets it. Rukia’s Schipperke occasionally shreds a plushie or a pillow, but is otherwise ok. It does have a tendency to bark a lot, though.

Do send asks for individual characters or squads! I don’t get tired of doodling for this pet AU thing!

[graphicabyss]

NEWS as Dogge

So the Cross-Talk started great already. Since it’s a Dog Year, they had to look at dog pics and decide which dog breed corresponds to which member.

T: Who do we start with? This is fun~

S: Let’s start with Tegoshi. Wouldn’t it be one of the cute types?

M: Like a toy poodle?

K: Yeah, I see it, I see it.

T: Woah, is it ok, me getting such a cute type? Thank you very much~

M: Ah, but the blond hair, isn’t it closer to a pomeranian? 

S: That might be good too.

K: So I guess Pomeranian fits better. Since they’re flashy.

T: Okay, okay~ So it’s a small dog loved by everyone! ♥

K: Shige is ...Borzoi!

S: Which one? Which one? It’s so austere! (laugh)

T: But it looks cool!

K: Siberian husky might be good too. Shige, do you want something cuter?

S: Wait a minute! Borzoi is Koyama! Look at its shape.

M: So thin! (laugh)

K: Hahaha! For real. It’s thin and its legs are long, this is me. Sorry, sorry.

S: Isn’t that Koyama in the photo, not Borzoi? If you take a picture from a distance, wouldn’t it turn out like this?

K: More like “Koyazoi”!

T: How about Italian Greyhound?

K: It’s also so~ thin. (laugh) Well, I look something like this. 

S: Thinking about this is fun.

T: Right? Today’s segment is fun.  (laugh) So going back to Shige, what’s it gonna be?

M: Maybe Dalmatian?

T: The one from “101 dalmatians”? That’s good.

M: If someone who never met Shige asked “What colour is Shige?” you’d explain “He’s a little spotty” (laugh)

K: Isn’t Saint Bernard good too? Like a dog smart enough to be a police dog. It suits, doesn’t it?

T: Ah~ It is like Shige. This one.

M: What about me? I think I’m similar to a Miniature Dachshund.

K: Why is that?

M: Because my legs are short... Hey!

S: You said it yourself! (laugh)

T: I’ll pick one for Massu. ...Newfoundland.

M: Huh? Which one?

T: Find it yourself! (grinning)

K&K: (saw the picture of a dog with even shorter legs than the one Massu picked) Ah, That’s good! (the 3 laugh)

M: Ah, found it! Woah, it’s cheeks are so sloppy. Of course it’s cute. But isn’t it different from my image?

T: No, it’s this one. I know. The dogs of this breed start drooling right away. Just like Massu. (laugh)

M: (bitter smile) I still think I’m more like a Dachshund.

S: Actually, I think a bigger dog might suit Massu. Like Retriever maybe.

T: No, should be one with short legs. So after all it’s Dachshund. ...Ah, Welsh Corgi is good. Look! Look!

M: Yeah, its legs are realllly short! (laugh)

K: Hahaha! True. I guess this one is more like Massu.

M: So let’s go with Corgi.

S: Actually, Shar Pei might also suit him.

T: Ah, Shar Pei is good.

K: Comparing ourselves to different kinds of dogs is fun. So to sum up, Tegoshi is Pomeranian, Shige is St. Bernard, I am Borzoi and Massu is Welsh Corgi. Would a group of these four even interact? (laugh) Ah, I just found pictures of Shar Pei! This is great! (laughing hard)

M: Which one? Which one? Woah, this one leaves a strong impression! (laugh) Its skin is so wrinkly. 

K: Shar Pei is growing on you.

M: Well, since it’s very unusual and cute.

K: Right, right. Any puppy has its own special charm.

T: Yeah, they’re all cute.

It’s odd they didn’t pick pug for Massu, but I like Shar Pei, all that baggy skin. And Borzoi is perfect. But I still like Poodle for Tegoshi and Shige... idk maybe a German Shepherd. It’s smart, sensitive and handsome. There’s more to this crosstalk, I’ll translate another part later.

[larkinthemeadow-blog]

Popular Dogs (~1930)

So, another long post ahead!  

I got another book in the mail yesterday and my dears, it’s a doozy.  It’s not as fun as the Care and Handling Book I got a while back, but this one has a lot more pictures of dogs in it.  Once again, it was bought for a song at abebooks.com. It is...

It’s... kind of strange.  It flew over to me from England and it’s full of old time advertisements for Distemper meds and flea pills, and all of the dog pictures are actually advertisements for kennels.  And it randomly inserts adds for magazines in it haha.  The pictures are A+ though!

It takes care of distemper, jaundice and destroys worms?  All together?  I.. don’t know if I want to give that to my dog, if it does all of that.  

What is in a Distemper Ball? ????

Onward, to dog breeds of old!

Afghans! Not nearly as fluff as you see them often these days.  Perhaps it’s a youth?  I like its fluff~ 

Below the cut, to save your dash, are a lot of pictures of various breeds!  (Below, you will see:  Basset Hounds, Borzoi, a Greyhound, a Springer Spaniel, a fabulous Irish Setter, a Bull Terrier, an Alsatian (German Shepherd), a Rough Collie, a Chow Chow, a Landseer Newfoundland, a Standard Poodle, a Samoyed pack, two Corgis, and Pugs!)

Look at that Basset!   Look at those ears!  Look how it’s not dragging on the ground!  Yes, its legs are a little bowed, still, but it has them! Its belly isn’t half an inch off the ground and its ears aren’t dragging!  FASCINATING.  (I also like that she’s been shown in confirmation as well as being an A+ hunter.  Even of mice.)

Bring on the Borzoi!  Spindly noodle dogs <3

Grehounds!  It’s wild to see confirmation show Greyhounds versus Greyhounds bred specifically for racing. 

Springers!  I’m just really fond of this dog? I know next to nothing about Springer Spaniels, but I like this one’s face haha

My gosh look at that Irish Setter.  I don’t think I’d recognize it easily? There is a family near where I live who have two, and they’re big and beautiful and all flowing fur.  Not used to a sleek, utilitarian style Irish Setter, but I love it.  (And those little white toes.)

I love old style Bull Terriers so very much.  The blurb about Bull Terriers talks about how you should definitely make sure your puppy can hear as by this time, breeders had bred almost all of the color out of them and that “mysteriously” left a lot of the puppies deaf.  (Genetics!)  No egg-shaped head back them, not yet.  The blurb goes on to talk about how they were mostly used to guard your property, and that a dog who cannot hear is no use for that, so get a pup who can hear.

Alsatians! Are they and German Shepherd Dogs the same?  Who knows- a brief google says both yes and no, so who knows haha.  Not called Police Dogs in this book, and it mentions that they come mostly in Black and Tan, versus the other book that says all Police Dogs come mostly in grey, not Black and Tan.  INTERESTING. 

Of course I have to include a Collie~  The little blurb says that Collies are suspicious of strangers and do not like anyone but its family.  Uh- Lark has never met a stranger in his life.  All are his friends.   At least this one doesn’t say I’m killing him by keeping him inside haha.  It mentions Smooth Collies very, very briefly, and then goes on to talk about Bearded Collies!  No pictures of either, though.

Chow Chow!  The author was a bit in love with them- they put a lot of little sketches of Chows throughout the book haha. 

A Newfoundland!  A Landseer Newfie, at that! I know some books and breeders and owners consider them different breeds, but this one does not.  (I mistook her for a good looking Saint Bernard at first haha)

What an... interesting haircut on Champion Tom.  I like the little bit at the end, “They are very good with the gun having wonderfully soft mouths, and it seems a pity that they are classified as non-sporting instead of gun-dogs.”  I want to see a Standard Poodle used in field dog competitions now.

Look at those not-very-fluffy Samoyeds! Much more foxy in the face, and with so much less fluff than what we see these days in the white puff clouds~ They look mischievous.

Well there’s a difference!  At least with the second one- look at those legs! The book talks about how it thinks Pembrokes and Cardigans will be mixed together, and, in the future, be just one breed.  (Well that didn’t happen haha)

And to end if off, Pugs!  With little, not bugged out eyes!  Still smushed faced, but I like the eyes a lot.  

[godshattered]

11 questions tag

Tagged by @eloarei (bless u and ur knowledge of my love for tag memes)

RULES: Answer 11 questions from the person who tagged you and then make 11 more for the next people that you tag.

1. Dream pet, what would it be and how many you’d keep? dogs lots of dogs ideally but right now i want a borzoi and a corgi. id name the borzoi honeydew melon and the corgi would be cheddar bay biscuit

2. Favorite ice cream flavor? ive only met like one other person who shares the same flavour ice cream as me and that flavour is daiquiri ice

3. Tidy or a messy person? supes fuckin messy

4. Weirdest sweet you ever ate? blep i dunno. probably some foreign german candy from when i was in germany?

5. Snowman or snowangel? smen snow men snow man

6. Number of keychains/charms i got three primary keychains all connected on my carabiner  got a lil zoro who holds my jeep key and my utility knife, a lil sanji who keeps my house key and other rando keys i have, and a small mystery machine flashlight that has all the stickers rubbed off so its just a teal brick shaped like a van 

7. Tea, coffee, water? coffe coffe e and flavoured ice cooooooold water

8. Got any souvenirs from your travels? uh yeah tons. none that i can find rn tho

9. Huge or tiny notebook, which do you prefer and why? small sketchbooks, big notebooks

10. Thing that looked really tasty even if it was inedible? (Tidepods don’t count) i always wanted to eat chapstick as a kid i just wanted to munch those things like they were push-pops

11. You see a person walking with a husky, what do you do? i would like to say id ask to pet the dog but i dont hardly talk to the people i am comfortable with in life so i would just stare and say puppy fondly to myself and what, i have to make new questions now? but whta if od ont tag anyone huh i just beat the system how bout that

[ezatluba]

At the Westminster Dog Show: Top Dogs, Top Docs

America’s premier canine competition is not just a beauty contest. Supporting elite  athletes (and their owners) is a growing pack of massage and sports medicine specialists.

Clearing a hoop during the agility round of the 144th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Saturday.Credit...

By Jan Hoffman

Feb. 11, 2020

At least the athlete was able to walk into the medical tent on his own four legs.

Earlier, when he had faced the broad jump during his Masters Obedience Championship trial at the Westminster Dog Show, Finn, a six-pound toy poodle, had tried to settle into his normal pre-takeoff sit position. But he wriggled uncomfortably, struggling to hold something in.

Sensing disaster, his human, Abby Cooper, swooped him up, managing to get him out of the ring just before he vomited and pooped on the sawdust.

Off to the veterinarian tent they rushed.

Official dog competitions typically include a standby vet. But Westminster, perhaps the premier elite canine event in the country, demands a crack medical squad of another order altogether. Special dogs need special docs.

Finn was monitored by Dr. Christopher Frye from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, an assistant clinical professor in the new area of sports medicine and rehabilitation. Also on the 15-member team from Ithaca and its satellite specialty office in Stamford, Conn. were a radiologist and a theriogenologist, who specializes in reproduction — of keen interest to breeders of show and performance dogs.

Throughout Westminster Week, they would be fielding questions from spectators and owners as specific and general as their practices: about breed genetic problems; refractive eye tests (is my Boston terrier nearsighted?), stem cell injections for aching joints; clinical oncology trials; how to care for a first puppy.

Westminster is famous as a gathering of spectacular dogs, with all the people and products attendant with canine beauty pageantry: sprays, mousses, gels, conditioners, curlers, straighteners, bows, hair implants (I’m looking at you, Standard Poodles!) and mascara (flutter those lashes much, Papillon?).

But in the last few years, Westminster has added competitions in agility and obedience, events that bring in a very different crowd — jock dogs and their humans. (“Vanish is not just some Barbie collie,” Aaron Kirzner said of his border collie, which is both a breed and agility champion.)

Those athletes are attended by a throng of health and wellness specialists, including canine acupuncturists, massage therapists and chiropractors, along with vets like Dr. Frye.

Over the last few days, the vets’ cases have included: a broken toenail; a sore toe (stuck in the crate during a long car haul); lots of nauseous anxiety (planes, crowds); a flopped ear (inflammation); and rash (the quality of the hotel sheets disagreed with one top show dog).

Finn was fine, by the way. Dr. Frye excused him from the show and sent him home. “‘Home’ is his pillow on my knee,” Ms. Cooper said, during a relieved telephone call from her hotel room.

Massaging strains and stress

The sign was parked before a quiet, curtained corner of the hall: Dog Massage.

Marisa Schmidt, a certified canine massage therapist from Hazlet, N.J., had all her agility-day slots booked for months. But throughout the day, owners and dogs were lined outside her curtain, pleading to be squeezed into her schedule.

Kyan, a border collie, was on the table. “She has some knots,” Ms. Schmidt informed Deborah Salerno, Kyan’s owner. She leaned into the dog’s spine, lifted a hind leg, working an inner thigh muscle. Kyan’s eyes rolled blissfully.

“These dogs are in incredible shape,” Ms. Schmidt said. “Their owners take care of them like any professional athlete. Would you believe this dog is 12 years old?”

Nope.

One challenge, she said, is that dogs can almost love the sport and their commanding owners too much. “Dogs are so resilient that they will run through the pain,” she said, “and sometimes we may not know right away that they’re injured.”

The athletes warm up

For the Masters Agility Championship, 330 invitation-only elite athletes raced over a course of jumps, tunnels, seesaws, A-frames and weaves. Before each round, the humans were allowed to preview the course once, walking it to memorize the series of hand signals they would give their dogs, which would not be permitted to sample the course. Spitting out rapid-fire voice and hand signals for about 30 seconds, the humans would direct their dogs through the course, the two moving as one, a mind-meld team.

Athletes never compete with cold muscles. Here is the warm-up routine for Chelsea, a gleaming, champion six-year-old black Labrador retriever that, with her teammate Dr. Elizabeth Dole, a veterinarian, has competed for the United States in European agility trials.

Walk: three to five minutes. Pee. Trot.

Stretches: loosen neck and spine by bringing muzzle to hip, both sides. Play bow. Weave between Dr. Dole’s legs. Spins. Back up. Come forward.

Work that core! Sit pretty in a begging position, paws up, hold it, hold it. Release.

More stretches: Dr. Dole leaned on a table, extending a treat. Chelsea put her paws on the table, head up, legs splayed. Hip flexors, shoulders, laterals, obliques.

Dr. Dole pulled out a toy. Tug, release, tug, release. “It’s to give her some excitement but also some control,” said Dr. Dole, who has worked in agility competition for 18 years.

“Some dogs need to be in the optimum arousal state,” she said. “But Chelsea is already so eager to play that we want her to be more thoughtful, so when she walks in the ring she’s not over the top.”

A basset hound?

Dr. Frye took a break from the vet tent to watch some of the agility trials. He makes canine prosthetics, studies gaits, manages pain. He sees the world of canine sports as vast and varied, having worked with athletes ranging from sled dogs to racers to dock divers.

Like any sports fan, he stood in the thick crowd, whooping as the dogs sped in a blur through the obstacles. The crowd racket matched the dogs that barked and yelped as they raced along, in sheer excitement. Unlike the conformation — the formal name for the sport of showing purebreds — agility and obedience welcome mixed-breeds, here simply called All American dogs. That’s because these sports are fundamentally a celebration of the human-canine bond.

Because the obstacles are adjusted for height classes, all sorts of breeds were competing: dachshunds, Papillons, Havanese, pugs, corgis, rat terriers, Nova Scotia duck tolling retrievers, Berger Picards, Belgian Malinois and Doberman pinschers.

Well, maybe it’s not suitable for all dogs. “Sometimes the giant breeds, like the Great Pyrenees and St. Bernards, can’t quite squeeze into the tunnels,” Dr. Frye said.

Border collies, with their laser focus and pliant, quick-cut, low-slung bodies, tend to dominate.

Dr. Frye had a soft spot for one unlikely agility athlete: a basset hound. “It was like a cartoon of itself,” he said. “There’s nothing about a basset hound that’s made for this course! But I loved watching that dog navigate and figure it out.”

And good for humans

Lou Avant, all but vibrating on an endorphin high at the conclusion of her agility trial, bounced out of the ring with Whimsy, her gorgeous Borzoi (tail dyed purple for the festivities).

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“Wasn’t that frigging awesome?” she shouted. “How did the universe put me together with this dog?”

Dr. Avant, a veterinarian from Atlanta, has taken Whimsy and other large dogs for years to many sports, including dock diving, barn hunting, obedience and tricks, where she meets up with a regular circuit of passionate large hound dognoscenti.

“I like running with the big dogs,” said Dr. Avant, 63. “I’m not ready yet for some little old lady dog!”

Emergency!

On Sunday, Tyson, an eight-year-old-miniature American shepherd from Minnesota, needed to go to the vet tent.

Tyson is an obedience champion. He is also an anxious flyer with a sensitive stomach. After arriving in New York, he started vomiting. And kept it up, almost hourly. “I thought, where are we going to find an E.R. vet?” said his owner, Shannon Wacker, who was there with her 17-year-old daughter, Mara. “I was heartbroken for my daughter. They had worked so hard to get here.”

Mother, daughter and dog found the Cornell vet tent, who ministered to all three. “They were a godsend,” Mrs. Wacker said. “And they didn’t bill me!”

A vet gave Tyson a 24-hour anti-nausea injection, which calmed his stomach.

By Sunday afternoon, Tyson was good to go. He did not win a ribbon, but Mrs. Wacker and Mara were thrilled. “Considering all that happened with him, we’re tickled,” Mrs. Wacker said, saying that Tyson had pushed through his misery out of devotion to her daughter.

“We just needed to get his nerves untangled,” she said. “He’s just such a little overachiever!”

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Top Dogs, Top Docs: Minding the Muscles at Westminster

At least the athlete was able to walk into the medical tent on his own four legs.

Earlier, when he had faced the broad jump during his Masters Obedience Championship trial at the Westminster Dog Show, Finn, a six-pound toy poodle, had tried to settle into his normal pre-takeoff sit position. But he wriggled uncomfortably, struggling to hold something in.

Sensing disaster, his human, Abby Cooper, swooped him up, managing to get him out of the ring just before he vomited and pooped on the sawdust.

Off to the veterinarian tent they rushed.

Official dog competitions typically include a standby vet. But Westminster, perhaps the premier elite canine event in the country, demands a crack medical squad of another order altogether. Special dogs need special docs.

Finn was monitored by Dr. Christopher Frye from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, an assistant clinical professor in the new area of sports medicine and rehabilitation. Also on the 15-member team from Ithaca and its satellite specialty office in Stamford, Conn. were a radiologist and a theriogenologist, who specializes in reproduction — of keen interest to breeders of show and performance dogs.

Throughout Westminster Week, they would be fielding questions from spectators and owners as specific and general as their practices: about breed genetic problems; refractive eye tests (is my Boston terrier nearsighted?), stem cell injections for aching joints; clinical oncology trials; how to care for a first puppy.

Westminster is famous as a gathering of spectacular dogs, with all the people and products attendant with canine beauty pageantry: sprays, mousses, gels, conditioners, curlers, straighteners, bows, hair implants (I’m looking at you, Standard Poodles!) and mascara (flutter those lashes much, Papillon?).

But in the last few years, Westminster has added competitions in agility and obedience, events that bring in a very different crowd — jock dogs and their humans. (“Vanish is not just some Barbie collie,” Aaron Kirzner said of his border collie, which is both a breed and agility champion.)

Those athletes are attended by a throng of health and wellness specialists, including canine acupuncturists, massage therapists and chiropractors, along with vets like Dr. Frye.

Over the last few days, the vets’ cases have included: a broken toenail; a sore toe (stuck in the crate during a long car haul); lots of nauseous anxiety (planes, crowds); a flopped ear (inflammation); and rash (the quality of the hotel sheets disagreed with one top show dog).

Finn was fine, by the way. Dr. Frye excused him from the show and sent him home. “‘Home’ is his pillow on my knee,” Ms. Cooper said, during a relieved telephone call from her hotel room.

Massaging strains and stress

The sign was parked before a quiet, curtained corner of the hall: Dog Massage.

Marisa Schmidt, a certified canine massage therapist from Hazlet, N.J., had all her agility-day slots booked for months. But throughout the day, owners and dogs were lined outside her curtain, pleading to be squeezed into her schedule.

Kyan, a border collie, was on the table. “She has some knots,” Ms. Schmidt informed Deborah Salerno, Kyan’s owner. She leaned into the dog’s spine, lifted a hind leg, working an inner thigh muscle. Kyan’s eyes rolled blissfully.

“These dogs are in incredible shape,” Ms. Schmidt said. “Their owners take care of them like any professional athlete. Would you believe this dog is 12 years old?”

Nope.

One challenge, she said, is that dogs can almost love the sport and their commanding owners too much. “Dogs are so resilient that they will run through the pain,” she said, “and sometimes we may not know right away that they’re injured.”

The athletes warm up

For the Masters Agility Championship, 330 invitation-only elite athletes raced over a course of jumps, tunnels, seesaws, A-frames and weaves. Before each round, the humans were allowed to preview the course once, walking it to memorize the series of hand signals they would give their dogs, which would not be permitted to sample the course. Spitting out rapid-fire voice and hand signals for about 30 seconds, the humans would direct their dogs through the course, the two moving as one, a mind-meld team.

Athletes never compete with cold muscles. Here is the warm-up routine for Chelsea, a gleaming, champion six-year-old black Labrador retriever that, with her teammate Dr. Elizabeth Dole, a veterinarian, has competed for the United States in European agility trials.

Walk: three to five minutes. Pee. Trot.

Stretches: loosen neck and spine by bringing muzzle to hip, both sides. Play bow. Weave between Dr. Dole’s legs. Spins. Back up. Come forward.

Work that core! Sit pretty in a begging position, paws up, hold it, hold it. Release.

More stretches: Dr. Dole leaned on a table, extending a treat. Chelsea put her paws on the table, head up, legs splayed. Hip flexors, shoulders, laterals, obliques.

Dr. Dole pulled out a toy. Tug, release, tug, release. “It’s to give her some excitement but also some control,” said Dr. Dole, who has worked in agility competition for 18 years.

“Some dogs need to be in the optimum arousal state,” she said. “But Chelsea is already so eager to play that we want her to be more thoughtful, so when she walks in the ring she’s not over the top.”

A basset hound?

Dr. Frye took a break from the vet tent to watch some of the agility trials. He makes canine prosthetics, studies gaits, manages pain. He sees the world of canine sports as vast and varied, having worked with athletes ranging from sled dogs to racers to dock divers.

Like any sports fan, he stood in the thick crowd, whooping as the dogs sped in a blur through the obstacles. The crowd racket matched the dogs that barked and yelped as they raced along, in sheer excitement. Unlike the conformation — the formal name for the sport of showing purebreds — agility and obedience welcome mixed-breeds, here simply called All American dogs. That’s because these sports are fundamentally a celebration of the human-canine bond.

Because the obstacles are adjusted for height classes, all sorts of breeds were competing: dachshunds, Papillons, Havanese, pugs, corgis, rat terriers, Nova Scotia duck tolling retrievers, Berger Picards, Belgian Malinois and Doberman pinschers.

Well, maybe it’s not suitable for all dogs. “Sometimes the giant breeds, like the Great Pyrenees and St. Bernards, can’t quite squeeze into the tunnels,” Dr. Frye said.

Border collies, with their laser focus and pliant, quick-cut, low-slung bodies, tend to dominate.

Dr. Frye had a soft spot for one unlikely agility athlete: a basset hound. “It was like a cartoon of itself,” he said. “There’s nothing about a basset hound that’s made for this course! But I loved watching that dog navigate and figure it out.”

And good for humans

Lou Avant, all but vibrating on an endorphin high at the conclusion of her agility trial, bounced out of the ring with Whimsy, her gorgeous Borzoi (tail dyed purple for the festivities).

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“Wasn’t that frigging awesome?” she shouted. “How did the universe put me together with this dog?”

Dr. Avant, a veterinarian from Atlanta, has taken Whimsy and other large dogs for years to many sports, including dock diving, barn hunting, obedience and tricks, where she meets up with a regular circuit of passionate large hound dognoscenti.

“I like running with the big dogs,” said Dr. Avant, 63. “I’m not ready yet for some little old lady dog!”

Emergency!

On Sunday, Tyson, an eight-year-old-miniature American shepherd from Minnesota, needed to go to the vet tent.

Tyson is an obedience champion. He is also an anxious flyer with a sensitive stomach. After arriving in New York, he started vomiting. And kept it up, almost hourly. “I thought, where are we going to find an E.R. vet?” said his owner, Shannon Wacker, who was there with her 17-year-old daughter, Mara. “I was heartbroken for my daughter. They had worked so hard to get here.”

Mother, daughter and dog found the Cornell vet tent, who ministered to all three. “They were a godsend,” Mrs. Wacker said. “And they didn’t bill me!”

A vet gave Tyson a 24-hour anti-nausea injection, which calmed his stomach.

By Sunday afternoon, Tyson was good to go. He did not win a ribbon, but Mrs. Wacker and Mara were thrilled. “Considering all that happened with him, we’re tickled,” Mrs. Wacker said, saying that Tyson had pushed through his misery out of devotion to her daughter.

“We just needed to get his nerves untangled,” she said. “He’s just such a little overachiever!”

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💛  pretty asks! 💛

i was tagged by @juhyeol​ thank you !!! 💗💗💗💗

whats your favorite song(s) to sing/hum? right now its crazy, sexy, cool by astro its just so sweet

whats your favorite flower/tree/plant (all 3 or whatever you have an answer to)? uhm idk anything abt plants and stuff but im gonna say monstera bc i have one and theyre really pretty

favorite color(s)? like a really warm yellow

what do you always doodle (if you ever do)? boys from side profile mostly ,, actually just boys all kinds of boys

how do you take your coffee/tea? if you don’t like those whats your fav warm drink? my coffee black, i dont drink coffee often though... and my tea with milk and sugar

favorite candle scent? im allergic to scented candles lmao

sunrise or sunset? def sunrise

what perfume do you wear, if any? also allergic to perfume its so sad ://

whats your go to dance move when you’re alone? idk ???? people have a go to dance move ? i just dance

favorite quote? i cant really think of any ?? nvm i just googled quotes form my fave book “But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”

favorite self care thing(s)/routine(s)? taking a shower, cleaning my face, heading to bed and then do sudoku till i fall asleep

fuzzy socks or house slippers? none??? ppl actually wear slippers ??

what color are your eyes? blue

whats your favorite eye color on others? dark brown

favorite season? why? late summer

cheek, neck, or nose kisses? neck kisses oh my goood

what does your happy place look like? aaah this is a really tough question

favorite breed of dog?

border collie, corgi and borzoi

do you ever want to be married? if so, what colors would you pick for your wedding theme?

nah

cursive or print? def print !

silk or lace? silk

favorite weather? clear sky around 18-20 celsius !

im taggin anybody who wants to do this !!!