Lola and Sam are not in a state of yin-yang right now.
Lola and Sammy have been behaving strangely the past few days and it’s because they know that something is up. Our daily patterns are out of sync and we’re moving things around the apartment. So, in turn, the doggies are more bothered when we leave and they’re hard to control on our walks. Lola seems especially out of sorts. She rarely barks but when we left the apartment last night, we could hear her whines from the elevator. On the way to she got in our way a few times nearly toppling us over.
All of this is happening because we’re in the process of moving to a new apartment. The madness should be over by Saturday and hopefully the dogs will recognize the old neighborhood to which we are returning. It’s amazing how sensitive they are to changes in our behavior. Granted, a move is a drastic change, but they seem to understand that something really big is happening. I wonder if they know that they’re going to spend the night tonight at , too?
The owner of the Yorkie pictured here probably didn’t realize that dogs (and cats) are on the New York City subways unless they are guide dogs or placed in a carrier.
Personally, I wouldn't allow Sammy's paws to touch the subway platform.
But that doesn’t mean your fido can’t experience the underground. The sells collars, hoodies and T-shirts for dogs featuring different MTA subway stations and transit lines. The clothes are adorable, but I have one complaint: the prices are the same regardless of the size you buy. I disagree with paying $28 for a Sammy Sanchez-sized sweatshirt, no matter how cute it is.
Anyway, I confirmed with the museum that the proceeds go to back the museum, not to the MTA. So, the sales of IRT line dog collars won’t do anything to help with the MTA’s debts.
Lola came from a foster environment that was filled with large, dominant dogs. She’s on the timid side, so we think she probably only got to eat whatever was leftover by the seven other dogs in the house. It would explain why she looked so much like — just fur and bones — when we adopted her.
Today, she’s more herself: happy, playful and relatively cured of food-related issues. She snuggles with us in the morning and and sometimes even bares her belly in a sign of submission. Like in this picture here, when one night she fell asleep on her back.
I was going through some old papers and came across several issues of the November 2006 Everyday with Rachael Ray. As I was about to toss them into the recycling pile, I remembered the issue included a in a story about Rachael’s chicken pate recipe!
I was happy to see the full-page photo of them eating together so nicely, and to be reminded of this photo shoot. Truth be told, we were moving to a new apartment the following day so I was super-stressed out, but those few hours at the studio were fun and the doggies behaved themselves.
I was hoping their appearance in a national magazine would catapult them into a modeling career, but it hasn’t quite panned out yet. I’m still working on it.
Credit: Everyday with Rachael Ray; Photographer: Tina Rupp
A funny news item I heard on my favorite radio program, NPR’s
In anticipation of the throngs of foreign tourists visiting for the Summer Olympics, a restaurant owner in Beijing created an English-language version of his storefront sign using a Web-based translation service.
I don’t recognize the Chinese characters, but I’m pretty sure they don’t mean “Translate server error.”
There are a lot stray cats in my Brooklyn neighborhood. On most walks we see as many stray cats as we do squirrels. I suspect they thrive because of the cat ladies who leave cans of food, water and kibble in the parks and around the neighborhood. The meals are hidden to me, but the dogs
sniff them out on our walks.
So, I wasn’t surprised when I saw this sign. A person, or a group of people, will be rounding up the stray cats this week, will spay or neuter them, and then release the cats back onto the streets.
I’m glad that the cats won’t be euthanized (or so the sign says), but couldn’t they be put up for adoption?
So, I wasn’t surprised when I saw this sign. A person, or a group of people, will be rounding up the stray cats this week, will spay or neuter them, and then release the cats back onto the streets.