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(h/t Cute Overload)

Courtesty of jigzone.com, a dog named “Rusty” makes quite a puzzle……

(Click the Play arrow in the bottom left corner of the puzzle to scramble Rusty and re-assemble him at Jigzone.)

SIX DEGREES OF KEVIN BACON’S DOG AND OTHER E-DOG NETWORKING TALES

Toronto Cockapoo Annabelle took social networking to a new species with the introduction of Facebook add-on Dogbook last June. Designed by her assistants Alexandre and Geoffrey Roche, more than 91,000 dogs have personal listings which allow them, with a little help from their humans, to send meet, greet, and pet one another.

Facebook, as you may know, is a place to meet and greet. Surpassing My Space as the college and high school internet networking spot of the moment, Facebook is the sticky cyber black hole that sucked this house into its vortex about eighteen months ago . Lured into building a profile by my son Gavin and his brother-for -a-year, our wild Siberian exchange student, Edik, I found Facebook an easy way to send and receive photos from relatives and keep up with the travels of our foreign student friends, as well as check out the latest postings from LOL Cats. After a year on Facebook, my list of friends is a big fat twenty-two.

Last summer, shortly after Dogbook went live, I posted five profiles for our pups and within a week, they were getting friend requests from every continent. Searchable by geographic area, breed, and name, our Malamute -cross, Cootie Bug was in contact with Rocky Balboa (Rottmann, Norway), Hagrid (Husky-Wolf, Canada), Face ( Rottie, Turkey) and twenty other dogs in a few weeks

Invited to be a friend of British Border Collie Pippin, our recent addition, Boo Radley ( Border Collie-Great Dane) was a conduit for me to the British short coated Border Collie subgroup where I learned helpful breed-specific health information.

One particularly appealing feature of Dogbook is the instant notification feature which allows lost dog information to be circulated instantly to everyone registered on Dogbook. Whether this would be very useful, I don’t know, but a quick check of the “dogs nearby” feature, showed fifty-four Dogbook registered dogs within a 2.5 km distance. Who knows how many people would pay attention to the posting, but I would certainly take take advantage of the service.

Dogbook crested the 1 million member mark only nine months after signing on. Scrolling through online albums posted by their ardent caretakers, it’s evident that this puppy networking spot has touched a warm spot .

If you’d like to learn more about Facebook and its Dogbook application, go to: http://www.facebook.com/home

You can add the Dogbook application after you register for Facebook. For help setting up Dogbook, EHow.com has a helpful article : http://www.ehow.com/how_2154793_use-dogbook-application-facebook.html

When your dogpack is registered come over and say Hi! Just browse for Cootie-Bug, Boo Radley, or Pansy. They like to get mail.

(That’s Pansy)

Dog park administrators take note: A cheap and easy dog poop bag dispenser can be cobbled together in about an hour with PVC pipe with the aid of a saw and some sandpaper.

Build your own poop-bag tube

Talk about wide open spaces. With 43,000 acres and 143 miles of trails through stupendous scenery and a municipal government with a canine-friendly worldview, Boulder, Colorado remains a dog lover’s Nirvana. For the past eight years, Boulder area residents have been able to buy a special tag allowing their dogs to run off-leash in all areas administered by the department of Open Spaces and Mountain Parks (OSMP).

Dogs sporting the tags were considered “legally free” by park rangers and assumed to be under “voice and sight control” which means that when called, the dog is expected to respond immediately, despite any temptation. While this program had been applauded by dogowners and generally considered successful, rising complaints about behavior of dogs and owners on the trails caused the dog community to partner with the OSMP to try to come up with a plan that would address the concerns of all trail users

The Voice and Sight Dog Tag Program (TAG) , the educational outreach program introduced by local lawmakers in 2006, resulted from negotiations between the parks department and the local dog lobby, Friends Interested in Dogs and Open Space (FIDOS). In an update of the original regulations, registered dogs wear special tags which indicate their human has watched a ten minute video explaining the Boulder “voice and sight” ordinance and has reviewed basic dog/human etiquitte. What seems to be the most difficult part of the regulation, the “come immediately” command, has been part of this progressive dog community’s sweeping off-leash ordinance since it was first enacted in 1996. 94 percent of OSMP trails remain open to off-leash dogs as detailed in the department’s website osmp.org

Ranger, the Longhaired Dachshund

But not, at the moment, a favorite of Scurry’s:

…contain graphic images of alleged Puppy Abuse and the emotional testimony of its victim. Gentle readers may wish to turn off their computers.
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First, my mom took me by the neck…

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Then, she pulled my ear:

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Then she grabbed me by the leg:

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…and when I tried to escape she ran me down like a wolf with a rabbit:

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…and threw me down on my back and started tickling:

I am SO SUFFERING here! Somebody, please, CALL ANIMAL CONTROL!

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