Still denying the Palin urge: more dog-in-pool pics.
As fascinated as I am by the political hijinks going on, I have to pace myself and also avoid hate mail, so I’m still refusing to do anything blog-wise today but post pictures of dogs because that’s the best way I can express my excitement and enthusiastic demeanor.
My parents have a “rover” cleaner in their pool that, if you bring it slightly out of the water, shoots a stream a long distance. Maggie has a penchant for viciously attacking this stream as though it is liquid possum; she also barks at it and does 360-degree spins to intimidate it. You can spray it straight in her face and she doesn’t flee, she simply escalates her tactics.
Yes. I did take video. I’ll have it up in a day or two and you will laugh or your heart is dead.
She has no taste for rules, however, such as No Running Around The Pool.
Again I put the rest below the fold because while I am a belligerent dog-bloggin’ fool, I’m not THAT out of control.
Here she brings woe and destruction to yet more water and what fascinates me about these psycho pics is how little she looks like herself.
Anyone else have a dog that snorkels? It’ll freak you out, it will. She gets on the pool step that places her snout at the appropriate level, and walks back and forth along the step with her nose under the water. It’s MOST bizarre but also charming and piquant.
If you’re still with me at this point, that means either you REALLY LIKE the dog pics or that you’re trying to see how far I’ll go, how obnoxiously brazen I’ll be with this dog-blogging, just to make you feel better about yourself. So here’s one more and I like how she thinks she’s Angelina Jolie or something, just trying to go about her business but some paparazzi is all up in her shit.
What? Can’t a dog snorkel in privacy anymore, asshole?
UPDATE:
And 14 Karat already worked her magic. God I love this woman. Here’s my fave, the rest are on the LOLdogs page and in comments.
Picture #4, totally adorable! And #3 does not at all look like her, is that what she looks like when killing possum?
On another subject, haven’t heard much lately about the Cesar-style roller blades . . . surely there must be a story about that by now?
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:20 pmI bought my chocolate lab a hard plastic kiddie pool for the last few summers (in Oklahoma) She is really funny splashing and barking AT THE WATER.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:26 pmBarking. at. the. water. go figure…
She’s otherwise normal. sort of…
You might think about getting a little pool for your dogs, they really enjoy it.
OK Rachel, it’s been a long time since I commented, but these pics are really great. I love dog pics that don’t always make the dog look “cute,” but like dogs, going about their doggie business. Great stuff. I think they’re more adorable in pics like these.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:28 pmI really like Maggie. Sunny is cool too, but I would prefer Maggie working with me in a knife fight.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:40 pmSpeaking of DOGS!!!
That Sarah Pailn sure isn’t a DOG in the looks department!
She was a real Pit Bull against corruption in Alaska!
She’s not an elitists like Obama, she a regular person with the same pedigree as you and me!
If she gets elected, some lobbyist are sure going to be in the dog house!
I’ll bet she makes a doggone good VP!
OKAY , I GIVE UP!! I tought I could think of ten “dog” related things to say about Palin, but I can’t.
Can we Pleeeeeeease just talk about politics , Rachel???
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:45 pmMare said:
Yeah, especially if you were fighting a possum!
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:46 pmPicture 4
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:59 pmDogubmarine.
OH SHIP, laughy … I’ve been over at cheeseburger making this and one that said “down periscope” … great minds!
Subdog.
Baseball.
Annoyed.
Naughty.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:07 pmThat is one SCARY looking dog, at times.
What happened to the nice pics, maybe of Maggie and Sunny looking cute together in matching bonnets?
If this goes on for much longer, and you keep scaring me with dog teeth and criticizing Obama, as WELL as praising that SCARY conservative Palin woman (did you know that she was once photographed fired an Evil Black Rifle?!?), then I may have to leave and never come back.
Not that you’d care.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:25 pmFun with snorkeling: try tossing some kibble in their water dish. That’s some mad fun right there. Our corgi, who would never deign to actually enter a body of water, will snorkel for kibble. He probably resents the hell out of the fact that his natural gluttony forces him to debase himself this way for our amusement.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:25 pmYep, my huskies snorkel. I think they think they are fishing for salmon. It’s hilarious. You take the best pics of your dogs. MIne just sit there and look pretty instead of doing anything interesting.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:26 pmOnly 9 comments in and I either grinned or laughed out loud at each of them. I’m tempted to award a Chuck Norris Action Jeans Hidden Gusset Award for Excellence in Commenting already. Especially for Para and Rob Farrington.
Rob F. by the way, you get me and you get this blog. Dogette and 14K will both know exactly what I mean but I think you just joined our super-secret club.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:32 pmOh hell, there’s a cool table here, too?
(You’re saving a chair for that Alaska chick, aren’t you. I knew it.)
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:40 pmRachel:
Sadly, the dog-blogging does nothing for us energized, long-suffering conservative GOP faithful - now living in the sunny uplands of Palin-rocks-town.
You HAVE to blog about Palin - you know she kicks butt as much as anyone. Heck - it’s candidates like Palin that CREATE blogs. Remember all the war-bloggers? (I was one of them). Have you noticed all the Palin-blogs that have started? This is a real, honest-to-goodness ground-swell of support.
But if there’s going to be a kick-butt, gun-totin’, libertarian, no-nonsense, Western, female politician on the ballot for national office: who better to blog about it than Rachel Lucas?
Answer: no one.
Bring us home, Rachel. Bring us home.
Go get a burger and some chili at Wendy’s first if that would help.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:41 pmAvoiding hate mail? Good God! I know how bad it can be, and I am sure it is very bad for you. Do not, I repeat, do not, let any emails through that show hate. Do not apologize. Hate means never having to say you’re sorry. I hate hate.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:51 pmI *miss* my dog!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:06 pmMommy! That bad Wachel made me cry! I hate her! Can she come over to play again tomorrow, huh?
Oh, I love the dog-bloggin’. Thanks for the uppers.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:10 pmCome on metro read the archives every one knows Rachel’s a Taco Bell fanatic.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:04 pmROFL OH MY GAWD 14k you are genius. I am literally cracking up sitting here on my couch at home. The dogs think I’m bonkers.
“Anyone else have a dog that snorkels?”
I DO I DO I DO!!! My malamute Trooper Bear does this and it is freaking hilarious. At agility when he gets in the kiddy pool to cool off the other people at training just start laughing at him and his nose diving. How do they breath???
edit…para…that list started off great. Keep working. I’m sure you can get to 10.
More Palin please!!! Screw hate mail. Just forward them on (share them please) and let us kick their butts. Verbally of course.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:04 pmYears ago we had a Dachshund, and we took him on vacation to a lake cottage we rented. He hit the water at full-run and promptly sank like a brick. He managed to get back to the narrow strip of beach we had there, where he alternately dug in the sand (as Dachshunds are known to do) and barked furiously at the waves which flooded his excavations. I was about 12 at the time and I laughed myself into wet pants watching him.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:12 pmRachel! With the very title of this post you are showing you cannot deny “The Palin Urge!” Give in and share the love–! =)
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 pmTaco Bell? When you live in Texas? OK, I’ll admit that Taco Bell has a certain pleasant cheap crack vibe to it, but it’s like comparing Paris Hilton to Uma Thurman, or Steel Reserve to Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA. All will f*** you up, but there’s only one of the two you’ll admit to. Besides, the other will make you have to call the doctor
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:33 pmGod I can’t wait to move to my new apartment so I can finally get a dog. I’ve been without one since about midway through college. Toy poodle that live to be over 18. My parents still have dogs, but I don’t live there anymore and I want one to be mine.
Always love your dog pictures Rachel. They’re hilarious.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 pmHey, Charlie don’t surf, and Frenchies don’t swim!
But a few years ago on the Frenchie Walk here in Seattle a little fawn guy went into the water up to his mid-chest barking and snapping at the little waves rolling in on a lakeside. Abso-friggin’-lutely cracked up 2 dozen adult humans. The dogs must have thought we were crazy!
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:02 pmAdorable, the viciousness…
14K has a place in my heart forever. If something happens to Palin, I’m nominating 14K (heh)
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:37 pmI’ve gotta say Rachel, you are one helluva photographer. And thanks for the dog pics - made me forget about the rest of the bullshit for a few minutes!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 pmI once had an Aussie shepherd who would bark while snorkeling in the Salt River. Of course, the whole effect was diminished when all we bipeds heard was “Bloop! Bloop Bloop!”
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:29 pmDammit, but gin and tonic hurts when it comes out your nose … 8^)
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:43 pmYeah, I can understand the political burnout. I read various blogs all weekend, but by Monday night I had had enough and turned off my computer.
But now it’s Tuesday night, and after a full day’s work, I’m back on teh internetz and still totally stoked about the Saracuda!
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:50 pmMy black lab puts her whole head under water at times when we take the dogs swimming at the river.
Swimming is her absolute favorite thing to do. The golden retriever.. likes it, but not with as much relish as the black lab. Not sure about the third dog yet, she’ll get her turn this week.
Love the submarine loldogs work, 14k. Heh.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 pmI wonder…
Exactly how does a snorkeling dog breath through their butt?
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:21 pmA positive story on Sarah “Barracuda” Palin from NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94100439
I definitely didn’t see that one coming.
Hat tip to NPR.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:55 pmNice catch, metro1!
Oh and para, *giggle*, you’re missing another obvious doggy-related point about the gorgeous VPILF … *wink, wink, nudge, nudge* HEH!
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:08 amI actually found a halfway decent Maureen Dowd column. In the last four paragraphs, she even sounds like she’s channeling Frank J.! Check it out. It’s really pretty funny.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 amI want to see photos of Maggie snorkeling … from an underwater camera. Now THAT would be some funny stuff, I don’t care who you are.
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:22 amDogs and water equals infinite fun. One of our Huskies would play lifeguard on us, of course he would jump in to save us (in ground pool). His other trick was take a tennis ball down to the filter inlet, drop it in, then run to the other end and wait for it.
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:32 amYou made me think of my Speck AGAIN but not crying this time. She was one swimming dog. She would splash and then bark at the splashes. Looks kind of like what Maggie does. And snorkel.
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:36 amAh, Speck. Perfectly behaved dog until we told her it was time to get out of the water. Then it was sudden deafness. Kind of like the “OK Mommy, just let me jump in one more time” thing. We finally had to get stern with her about it after the vet told us that small dogs (border collie??22#??) could get hypothermic, and that was what the chin shivering when she FINALLY got out was about. I thought it was just Speck’s good natured version of a temper tantrum cause she wanted to keep swimming.
Just curious, what does Maggie do if she spots a leaf in the water? Speck thought they were grenades that she had to throw her body on to save her platoon.
About a week or two ago (maybe even three?), as I was pulling up to the house a nice brunette girl was picking up the poop her dog had just planted on the grass strip between the sidewalk and the street.
I rolled down the window and said “Thank You” - she kind of freaked and said she was sorry.
I told her she should only feel sorry if she didn’t pick it up - I was just trying to be neighborly.
I live in Dallas so in the back of my mind I wondered, “could that be Rachel Lucas?”, but the dog wasn’t a ridgeback - I think it may
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 amhave been a boxer.
@para — let’s see if I can help:
MSM barking up the wrong tree with Palin pick.
Palin’s briefing books dog-eared by October 2.
Dead-tree media dog slow in recognizing Palin’s talent.
Obama all bark, Palin all bite.
Palin unleashed at VP debate.
w00f!
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:38 amI don’t know how to post thumbnail sketches here in the combox… but wouldn’t this be a perfect spot for “wharrgarbl”?
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:50 amWow. Theyr’re even fighting about Palin at Pundit Kitchen when I checked in on LOLDogs (I love that place, SRSLY!). LOL cats … meh. LOL dogs, Pundit Kitchen and Failblog WIN!
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 amPersonally, I’m offended at the naked bitch pictures. Maggie should know better. Shaking off the water all alluring like and claiming to be a God believer too. I damn her to heck and her fat friend too, who looks, say, five months pregnant. Slut.
Rachel, spare me your whorish dogs. I’ve had it.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:23 amMore like 12. Or 36. However long a heffalump bakes its bun.
Teh funneh, Melissa!
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:44 amHEHEHEHE!
on my work computer I just googled:
1) “gestation period of heffalump”
2) “whargarbl” in images
I wonder if I should be expacting any WTF emails from the IT guys
also, googling whargarbl in images brings up pr0n, so beware.
also too, I was gonna do up a whargarbl of Mags, per Nightfly, but it just isn’t going to be as funny as the original. Unless Rachel has a picture of Mags where it looks like the water is shooting out her ass.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:02 amThat’s what the intarweb’s for isn’t it? Sesame Street told me so.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:24 amMargaret actually looks rather a bit like Chewbacca in that first picture.
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm