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Spend enough time on Doggie Blogs and you'll find yet another
incredible and talented artist:
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Claire Hartman
I would hang these all over my house!!! Yum.
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Zoe's Goal...(of many)
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Zoe wants to run away and join the circus.
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She's been practicing climbing atop dogs (which dogs are on top of picnic tables) at daycare and it's well known she's an experienced fence jumper!
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She insisted on a polaroid this weekend to give
the new (really small) circus coming to town...
She knows she needs lots of practice and
she realizes this circus isn't Barnum & Bailey....yet.
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zoe's goal (& art journal)
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Friday, February 5, 2010
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WHO IS YOUR REAL FRIEND?
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This really works!
And to prove it, try this experiment:
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Put your dog and your spouse in the trunk of the car for an hour.
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When you open the trunk, which one is really happy to see you?
...um-hmm!~ ...that's what we thought!
Lia Louise and Zoe Bean Adams
via e-mail from uncle steve hay
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Put your dog and your spouse in the trunk of the car for an hour.
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When you open the trunk, which one is really happy to see you?
...um-hmm!~ ...that's what we thought!
Lia Louise and Zoe Bean Adams
via e-mail from uncle steve hay
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
White Dog Fever
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Zoe: What's goin on?
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Lia: Was just looking at all the white dogs on the blog today.
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Zoe: WHAT? Did she write anything about them?
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Lia: Nope. Just pictures. I wonder what that's about....
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Zoe: BE AFRAID - BE VERY AFRAID. When there's no comments, prose, quotes - then she's "just looking" - and this isn't the first time she's looked at white dogs.
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Lia: I think another dog would be fun - and if it's white she could tell it from me 'n' you cuz we kinda blend.
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Zoe: (...oh...you blend!...)
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Puppymill Awareness in SE Michigan
The Family Puppy opened a new pet store! DO NOT SUPPORT THIS!!!Cross post and forward please.
ACTION ALERT
John Stottele opened another new pet store on December 18th, 2009 at the Genesee Valley Mall in Flint called "The Family Puppy". This will be the first pet store to sell puppies in the county and the local shelters and rescue groups are outraged!
John and Debbie Stottele have been selling puppy mill dogs for years in the Detroit (Brighton, Troy, Roseville and Novi) under the name "The Family of Pets". They have a history with Happy Tails Kennels and Kathy Bauck in Minnesota who was convicted of torture; both kennels are considered "mega mills". They currently have relationships with Amish commercial breeders in Indiana which have shipped to Petland! Reputable breeders to not sell to pet stores like Petland or any other pet store.
We are asking the mall management (Jones Lang LaSalle) to create a "Policy to not sell animals in any of their malls" and to lease space to a local shelter or reputable rescue instead. A mall in Tuscan Arizona allowed their local shelter to rent space for $400 and they were able to adopt out 150 animals in 8 weeks!
Please sign this petition which will allow you to automatically send an email to the mall with your concerns.
Sign Petition
Tell Genesee Valley Mall "No Pet Stores"
http://www.change.org/actions/view/tell_genesee_valley_mall_no_pet_stores
OR
Call the mall management directly.
Please be polite and ask them to not allow this store to sell puppies in the mall.
Client Relationship Executive
David Renninger
678-226-5270
David.renninger@am.jll.com
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note: the sweet Sealyham Terrie puppy photo is from my library and has nothing to do with the petstore.
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This post is NOT about the heartless killer...
It's about the writer of the article below, preceded by our comments ~
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This is a painting of Georgia, a pit - one of so many rescued from the hell life Michael Vick forced upon these poor beings in which they had to (barely) live, fight, kill - and if they didn't perform, they were brutalized. Vick had no remorse for the years of pain suffered by these innocent angels.
Never Forget.
We won't be watching ANYTHING to do with this man. We thank writers as Robert Lloyd, Television Writer for the L A Times - for the review - the warning - and the painful truth in the summary of the last paragraph herein. Thank you Mr. Lloyd!:
Michael Vick, the ex-Atlanta Falcon, convicted felon, formerly dog-abusing Humane Society volunteer spokesman and current Philadelphia Eagle, is the subject of a 10-part series that begins Tuesday night on BET, “The Michael Vick Project.”
The word "project" in the title indicates that we are meant to take this seriously (its meaningless use in "The Rachel Zoe Project" notwithstanding). It suggests hard work and the possibility of transformation. That the subject of the series is also one of its producers is worth noting but also par for the course in the new reality we call "reality."
The game plan is laid out clearly in the opening narration: "Against all odds, one man escaped and uplifted a family. But his humble beginnings led to a very tragic ending. But from darkness he saw the light. Blessed with a second chance, he must once again rise above to heal his family, his community, his legacy." (Heal his legacy?) It is a redemption story, couched in religious terms: "I'm Michael Vick," Vick says over the opening credits. "My fall from grace was tragic, but it was all my fault, and I'm on a mission to get everything back. Not the money and the fame, but to restore my family's good name."
You can decide for yourself whether this process is already, for all intents and purposes, complete. That Vick's Philadelphia teammates recently voted him the Ed Block Courage Award, for players who "exemplify commitment to the principles of sportsmanship and courage," seems to indicate that it is, as does a BET online poll in which 85% of those responding agreed that the quarterback had already done enough to "repair his image." It also indicates that the likely audience for this show is already on the star's side.
Indeed, there are plenty of people in this world who would not regard Vick's adventures in dog fighting as anything to apologize for in the first place -- nothing to go to prison for, anyway, as he did. Many humans are insensitive to the sensitivity of other species. (For that matter, many humans are unconscious of the humanity of whole classes of other humans.) And though Vick admits here that his treatment of his dogs was "inhumane and barbaric," the bloody specifics of his operation are avoided, including the fact that his partners -- and Vick himself at times -- would kill dogs that did not perform well, shooting them, hanging them, drowning them.
I am with the dogs in this but admit that wealthy, feckless, gifted athletes are people too; I wouldn't deny Vick his second chance or question the sincerity of his remorse. We see a few photos of him as a child, to remind us that he was born innocent, and are shown that he came from a hard place that left its mark on him, so that even as he was signing the biggest deal in NFL history, he was still operating under the influence of old bad companions, or at least old bad ideas. And yet, walking around the now-empty house on the property where he kept his kennel and lodged his friends, he sometimes seems more nostalgic than contrite.
We get a brief glimpse of a pre-lapsarian Vick deformed by money and fame, but the man we see interviewed here is pleasant, neutrally dressed and well-spoken -- straightforward if not yet shown as remarkably curious as to the deeper meanings of his story or the darker crannies of his psyche. And because -- apart from a couple of worked-up animal-rights activists, shown in sound-bite clips at demonstrations and easy to dismiss -- there is no one on-screen who is not supportive of him, the show becomes more about what Vick has suffered himself, or at any rate the pain they all shared, than it is about the pain he has caused
Even in bankruptcy, the quarterback remains a valuable commodity; for many, his redemption will be strictly a matter of his playing football well. And if he doesn't, well, at least he won't be shot, drowned or hanged for it.
The word "project" in the title indicates that we are meant to take this seriously (its meaningless use in "The Rachel Zoe Project" notwithstanding). It suggests hard work and the possibility of transformation. That the subject of the series is also one of its producers is worth noting but also par for the course in the new reality we call "reality."
The game plan is laid out clearly in the opening narration: "Against all odds, one man escaped and uplifted a family. But his humble beginnings led to a very tragic ending. But from darkness he saw the light. Blessed with a second chance, he must once again rise above to heal his family, his community, his legacy." (Heal his legacy?) It is a redemption story, couched in religious terms: "I'm Michael Vick," Vick says over the opening credits. "My fall from grace was tragic, but it was all my fault, and I'm on a mission to get everything back. Not the money and the fame, but to restore my family's good name."
You can decide for yourself whether this process is already, for all intents and purposes, complete. That Vick's Philadelphia teammates recently voted him the Ed Block Courage Award, for players who "exemplify commitment to the principles of sportsmanship and courage," seems to indicate that it is, as does a BET online poll in which 85% of those responding agreed that the quarterback had already done enough to "repair his image." It also indicates that the likely audience for this show is already on the star's side.
Indeed, there are plenty of people in this world who would not regard Vick's adventures in dog fighting as anything to apologize for in the first place -- nothing to go to prison for, anyway, as he did. Many humans are insensitive to the sensitivity of other species. (For that matter, many humans are unconscious of the humanity of whole classes of other humans.) And though Vick admits here that his treatment of his dogs was "inhumane and barbaric," the bloody specifics of his operation are avoided, including the fact that his partners -- and Vick himself at times -- would kill dogs that did not perform well, shooting them, hanging them, drowning them.
I am with the dogs in this but admit that wealthy, feckless, gifted athletes are people too; I wouldn't deny Vick his second chance or question the sincerity of his remorse. We see a few photos of him as a child, to remind us that he was born innocent, and are shown that he came from a hard place that left its mark on him, so that even as he was signing the biggest deal in NFL history, he was still operating under the influence of old bad companions, or at least old bad ideas. And yet, walking around the now-empty house on the property where he kept his kennel and lodged his friends, he sometimes seems more nostalgic than contrite.
We get a brief glimpse of a pre-lapsarian Vick deformed by money and fame, but the man we see interviewed here is pleasant, neutrally dressed and well-spoken -- straightforward if not yet shown as remarkably curious as to the deeper meanings of his story or the darker crannies of his psyche. And because -- apart from a couple of worked-up animal-rights activists, shown in sound-bite clips at demonstrations and easy to dismiss -- there is no one on-screen who is not supportive of him, the show becomes more about what Vick has suffered himself, or at any rate the pain they all shared, than it is about the pain he has caused
Even in bankruptcy, the quarterback remains a valuable commodity; for many, his redemption will be strictly a matter of his playing football well. And if he doesn't, well, at least he won't be shot, drowned or hanged for it.
robert.lloyd@latimes.com
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
A Prize for a Pretty Girl
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I felt bad about taking away Lia's chewie in her last film, so we had to do a 'movie' wherein I give willingly.
...and yes, Zoe becomes an (secondary/additonal) happy receipient!
Why not?
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