This is not the Margaret I thought I knew.
UPDATED very importantly
We took the dogs out to my parents’ place this weekend and I discovered whole new aspects of their personalities involving hot weather and a cool pool, such as what you see above. She is very, very angry at the water and spent quite a long time trying to kill it.
I have many more pics from this adventure but it’s time to go to class so the rest will be published as Very Important Updates to this post later today. You can’t wait. For your Palin fix, there are approximately 7 trillion fine blogs feverishly covering that as we speak. I figure, here, what we need is some crazy-ass dogs.
UPDATE #1
Before we get back to Maggie’s water-murderin’ shenanigans, some commenters asked what Sunny was doing all this time, so let’s go over that for a moment. You see, Sunny is a lazy animal. Even when you entice her with activities and stimuli loved by dogs all the world over, she’ll typically choose to do something like this instead:
Man and other dog doing something fun? No thank you. I prefer to remain still.
I won’t punish my entire front page with dog pics so the rest is below the fold.
She will swim in lakes, but pools are a little too freaky-deaky for her tender psyche so this is the best she can muster:
That water looks like it wants to levitate and drown me. Must. Watch. Carefully.
The rest of the time?
She’s not depressed and she’s not sick; this has been her way since the day I brought her home seven years ago. She’s just…contemplative.
that is the angriest happy dog I’ve ever seen. That picture has me cracking up!
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 amgrrrr water. I fart in your general direction. No, not angry enough. Need to come up with some more whargarbl-esque.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:09 amRachel,
Did Sunny swim, too? She seems like she would be quite…buoyant.
: )
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 amYeah, I picture Sunny just floating around like a giant turd in the pool, with Margaret running around past exhaustion, generally being a psycho.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:28 amcujo?
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 amThat is one mean looking bitch.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:50 amNot to induce the spectre of CLASS WARFARE, but does Sunny have her own pool floatie?
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:18 amSee this? It used to be ours. It used to be nice. Note the price. Unfortunately, humans have not been able to use it for many years. It was commandeered by a big furry brown Jabba The Mutt that likes to loll around on it and sun itself while ringing impatiently for the pool boy.
As soon as I saw this picture, I thought of this picture I recently saw of another Maggie. I originally changed the canine to black and white to match the other photo, but I prefer the color.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:47 amholy crap that’s a scary dog!
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:50 amI don’t know how you do what you do, 14k. But I like it. I like it a lot.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:54 amMaggie Barracuda
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:17 pmapotheosis has it right. When I saw that picture, first thing I thought was “This is Cujo after TrimSpa.”
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:18 pmmy puppy loves the water, anytime we walk by the pool she STARES at it and wants to go dive in
scary part is I think she would swim and swim until she sunk down then I’d have to dive in and save her
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:25 pmwhy does it look like she’s missing a couple little front teeth?
also, dogette:
found this while Googling “Cujo”:
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:09 pmDang you’re quick with the camera. Do you just sit there and click non stop to get these amazing shots? I tried to take shots of Kodiak eating while laying down on his doggy bed this morning…none of which turned out remotely as cute as he actually was. *sigh* I have no Rachel skilz and I is sad.
But that Maggie photo is hilarious. More please!!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:19 pmIf you don’t blog about Palin, the terrorists win.
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:49 pmI hate to say it but that bitch is crazy!
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:55 pmThat photo looks like Sarah Palin shaking off all the drivel flung her way in the last couple of days. She don’t look happy and I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of her anger.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:35 pmDid someone soak a possum in that water?
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:51 pmThis post made my day!
I love how dogs take things so seriously sometimes. The things they find threatening crack me up. An example: My dog growls at realty signs.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:04 pmThat last picture is too funny.
Contemplative. Thinking of pork I will assume. After seeing these pictures it really puts perspective on the actual girth Sunny possesses. I think, however, my blubber butt cat could give her a body fat percentage challenge.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pmFor some obscure reason, my dog barks at reflections of light on the cieling. Which is a problem, because every morning the sun comes in the kitchen window and reflects off my stainless steel sink. Hence the dishtowels covering my sink in the morning. *sigh*
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:33 pmWWOT [way way off topic]
I deem this the first ever Rakl Lukis comment made with Google Chrome.
Yes, I know they’re leftist pinheads, but their technology works, dammit.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:48 pmBlech - Google Chrome… I already have to code for 3 browsers, why make it 4?
(No offense intended - if Chrome works for you, more power to ya. As a web developer, I just hate-hate-hate coding something, especially something cool, and having it not work in one of three browsers. Now there will be four - and I’m sure Chrome will do it “right,” but that’ll conflict with the other three “right” ways…)
And Tennessee lost last night too. Man, what a crappy day…
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:08 pmRe-commented, very importantly:
Sunny, no offense girl, but in that topmost photo you look like a big sarsen stone in Salisbury Plain.
Seriously, I just wanna eat Sunny up, she’s so damned adorable.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:09 pmPunish? Why say you this?
More dog photos at once, or off with thine head — chop chop, peasant woman! It is mine god-given right as queen of the internet to demand dog-blogging from ye, peon! Thee will sit on the left side or thy chair today as thee bloggeth thou confession, and thee will damn well like it, or thee will suffer the iron maiden, wench! Witchery, goodpeople! Dunk said vile woman until she doth confess!
[we can haz moor goggies 4 2 capshun, plz? ktxbai]
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:32 pmI love your dogs,Rachel.
Sunny is hysterical.
Our dog just goes psycho crazy at the water at the beach,she tries to bite at the water.
Haven’t tried her with a pool yet.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:39 pmHow do we know Sunny is not a full-blooded Ridgeback? She got her feet wet. She’s got the ridge alright, but her face looks exactly like my old dog who was a rottieX.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:47 pmWould ya look at the size of the ridge on that back? Is that like an Everest amongst ridgebacks?
Does that ridge give her much greatness and mana amongst her breed?
Is Sunny to ridgebacks like Phelps is to swimming?
Or am I just easily impressed?
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:47 pmMy dog used to bark at waves. Ripples, really, not even an inch high, on a lake. They really disturbed her, but then so did water meter covers and curbside mail boxes. She was odd but she was very very pretty so it was OK.
More dogs, more dogs, more dogs. Anything but more Palin-blogging, please.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:03 pmSonny, you’re such a fat ass, that when you walk down the street they go, ‘God dammit that’s a big fat ass’
-Kyle
Sorry, Rachel! You KNOW I had to put South Park in there! I love Sonny’s obese rump! *hugz*
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:15 pmSunny!
LOLrus.
Reflexion.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:44 pmIs it me or does Sunny look like a seal waiting on a fish in that last photo?
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:55 pmCaption: #!%!$#%#!$&^*&$^ WATER!!! I WILL DOMINATE YOU!!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:14 pmEpic.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:59 pmBath
Friend
Dirty Maggie
Oh Crap!
A picture really is worth a thousand captions.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:09 pmMore like a polar bear waiting on a seal….
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 pmShort man went to bed (school tomorrow, of course), but he asked me to submit this one that he and ‘Becs put together, Rachel. They say it’s better than “Epic”.
They LOVED the pics, and want to know how you did it!
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:55 pmAnyone read the privacy statement for Google chrome?
OMG THEY KNOW WHO YOU ARE
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:25 amAt work, can’t upload.
Title: Unclear on the Concept
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:17 amCaption: “But I _am_ smiling for the camera!”
Awesome, Rich Jordan, you can’t help but think of more, with the awesomeness of this shot …
Might I add …
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 am14 karat, you are a truly evl jeanyus. I wish you would post something at Neanderpundit so i could send you emails of my undying love for your high powered snark. (trying not to sound too much like a stalker)
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:58 pmOg:
Thanks. You know I’m just snarky because I am a bitter, gun-toting, isolationist, racist, sexist, speciest, white trashian redneck, right?
But (once) Obama gets elected, I’ll be farting rainbows and spewing cotton candy — all my widdle dweeams will come twue — and thus I will become EVAH-so-much fun to be around … until then, thanks for the invite, and I will head over for a look-see/bomb drop.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:43 pmYou might indeed add!
(I got noticed by 14 Karat! Heh!)
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:33 pmYou should have known, Rachel, that Sunny would be a contemplative girl by the question mark curlicue on her back. It’s not like you weren’t warned.
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:36 pmAwesome photos! Your parents are so nice to let your dogs have the run of the pool area.
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:33 pmAt work, can’t upload.
Title: Here Moose! Here Moose!
September 4th, 2008 at 4:50 pmCaption: “Sarahcuda killed Moose. Just think what Maggiecuda could do!”