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Halloween Treats!!
You will notice some party crashers in this otherwise DOG ONLY site but hey, it was Halloween!!
Party Time for ALL creatures!! ...as long as they were cute and funny which they were...













Thanks to my friend Sally Rumble and top dog Ted Rheingold for the pics!
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'Doggie in the Window' never gets old!
Tap, tap, tap...hey there sleepy head!!!

Yeah you!! Open up those windows to your soul, pup!! You've got the most annoying dog lover and photographer to say hi to!

There we go! There's the money shot!!

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Sophia the Fine French Bulldog
Sophia is my name. I am very proud of my wardrobe picked out by my owners Isabel (photographer) and Ramana (a race car driver). I do pirouettes for spoonfulls of peanutbutter and fluff or cheese-itz and takes hypnotic naps on your lap if you pet me aggresively in the little divit above my nose and between those cute bug eyes!! The special occasion was my great grandmother's 90th birthday party, so we were all dressed up at her summer house on cape cod! I have other outfits including lots of butch t-shirts and I want to have one custom made with some rhinestones that say "I stole your boyfriend" but that hasnt happened yet.

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Dog Cartoons!!
I can finally give my leg a rest!!

Stray is the only way!!

Maybe we shouldn't tell him:

Thanks to my brother Edward Harner for the cartoons!
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Bee Dogs!
Why is it that dogs + bees = cute??!!
Who knows and who cares. Here it is - Beedogs.com.

Someone please get this pooch some water!
Thanks to Kristin Everson for the link!!
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Man arrested for sexually abusing his dog.
Puulleeezze, people!!!!!! Can we please spare these poor pooches from our human depravity????!!!!
Neighbors reported that he often slept naked in the doghouse with the family dog, Mayra, the statement said. They said they saw Huizar sexually assault the animal with a broom handle and his hand and heard the dog cry in pain when he was in the doghouse, the statement said.
Neighbors also reported seeing Huizar in his back yard dressed in a woman's bra and panties, dancing with a broom handle, police said.
Huizar was booked at the West Valley Detention Center, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Web site.
The Inland Valley Humane Society took Mayra into protective custody, police said. The family might not get the dog back if Huizar is convicted of sexually assaulting it.
Studies have shown a link between abuse of animals and abuse of humans, said Martin Mersereau, manager of the domestic animal abuse division of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
"A large percentage of sexual abusers start out abusing animals," he said.
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Nothing Cuter than Baby & Pooch
Here's Tex, my friend and serious dog lover Hannah Sharpless Graff's first and newly born baby plus his pooch friend Lindsey!

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First Annual Dog Day Masquerade!!
The First Annual Dog Day Masquerade took place this weekend...check out one pimptastic participant!!

Can anyone find more pictures from the event?? We can't seem to...
Thanks to Melanie Howell for the link!
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You're not as clean as you think.
EW...but still cute...I guess only dog lovers would bury deep in their minds, the fact that pooches regularly drink from toilet bowls, lick their own butts, etc...in order to get kisses and licks from their best friends...
Click for proof!

Thanks to my hubby for this link!!
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A War Dog's Faithful Friend

I'm sure they're BFF but why does Smathers looks scary in this photo??!!...Andrea, stop what you're thinking, I'm sure Pooch is happiest now :-)
...when [Reserve Officer Smathers] got back in March 2004, he was determined to complete a final mission: to rescue Scout, a dog he and other soldiers had adopted, from the increasingly bloody streets of Baghdad and bring him to his Howard County home....
For 17 months, Smathers engaged in a campaign that involved intelligence gathering, secret Iraqi contacts and a foiled border-crossing into Jordan.
Finally, in late August, Scout was driven some 280 miles from Baghdad to Basra, where he was delivered to a British woman who runs an animal shelter in Kuwait.
Within days, Scout was on the tarmac at Dulles International Airport, where he was met by Smathers, dressed in desert camouflage so the dog would recognize him. Scout scampered out of his cage and went straight to Smathers, resting at his feet.
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The cute injustice of pooches in costumes.

There is something tragicomic about a dog in a sombrero. Dogs have a natural way of telegraphing self-defeat with their dumb, mournful eyes, and the addition of a well-considered costume nicely punctuates that expression of exhausted surrender. Take a square look at a beagle-pug mix wearing bumblebee wings on its back and you’ll receive its psychic communication with crystal clarity: ‘I used to run wild, and rule the earth,’ its eyes insist. ‘I chased down anything smaller than me, and several things much larger. I was feared, free, murderous. So, how did I end up in a striped diaper?’ The psychological implications of a dog in costume might be horrible if they weren’t so completely adorable.
Click here to read more!!
Thanks to Cat Savard for the link!!
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Woof Art!!
WoofArt seems pretty cool! I've never patronized them but apparently The Osbournes have as evidenced here:

Oh and I'm sure your little pooch has always wanted to sit on the lap of old Mona!!

You can't say this isn't cute:

And for the pop art fans out there, let's hope your pooch is too!

If you end up with a WoofArt pooch portrait, show us!!
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Police dog sacked for being nice :-(

Buster, a two-year-old German Shepherd, made no arrests and ignored fleeing criminals during his six months with the South Yorkshire Police.
He tried to make friends with people he should have been catching, and in one case, decided to lie down for a bit of a rest while chasing a burglar.
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DogBooties.com!!
No matter what way you slice it, FALL is here so I want to make sure that in addition to a raincoat, your pooch has dog booties!!!
Isn't this what your Modern Pooch does every day and aren't these the conditions he/she braves daily??

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The EZ Digital Trainer...
For your high-tech pooch!
The product repeats the voice of the master to train the pet dog. The master can train his dog from where he is standing. The device uses latest digital recording technique and hence the master’s command is very natural.Since the device uses high frequency waves only the pet dog is able to listen to master’s command and no one else.


Let us know how this works!
Thanks to Dhiram Shah for the link!
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Pooch Back Home After 1,900-Mile Hurricane Trek
~Reunited and it feels so good~

When the Cables met Buddy in baggage claim, he looked a little tired but appeared happy to play with 8-year-old Cody after the 1,900-mile journey.
"He looked happy, really happy, when he saw me," Cody said. "I missed him. I thought I would never get him back."
"I thought it was a prank call at first, because there's no way they could have found him in New Mexico," Debra Cable said. "They wouldn't have found it if it wasn't for the microchip that told them we were the owners."
What do we think about this microchip thing??
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Honda's Pooch Friendly Car!!
Sorry I was remiss yesterday while you lovely and attentive readers were sending me links to this amazing new car from Honda!! We love you Ho(u)nda*!!!
The W.O.W. Concept, which stands for "wonderful openhearted wagon"...We created this vehicle from the point of view of a dog, but it turned out to be a gentler vehicle for the elderly, children and other family members, said Honda designer Katsuhito Nakamura. I bet!!

And it's covered here too!
* Thanks as always to Jodi for the links, the readership and the wordplays!
Thanks also goes out to Chunae & Shane Rankin for the alert.
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Big Paw Designs!

Big Paw Designs has some cute stuff!! What's nice is that it's sweet, funny and inexpensive...didn't I hear it was Buffy's birthday? Muffy's half-birthday? Toto's one year anniversary of being potty trained?? Give the pooch a bone, people!
Here are some of my favorite - sorry, I know it's conventional to now list 2 or 3 or maybe 4 but I'm going to go overboard.
Imagine if a person wore something like this around their collar. Yikes. Much prefer the mercenary pooch:

I am what I am. I make no pretenses:

This is very sweet. You should always rescue! Ok, that's enough preaching for today:

I think your little princess (Spoiled Pooch - LOL!) demands these following two items, am I right?!


For the Garfield in your pooch:

I want something like this for myself!! Is that weird?

And of course, as we all know, pooches never do anything wrong and cats are always to blame. You kind of have to get this for your dog because it's like their mantra:

For the hippie minded (nothing wrong with it!) pooches or their companions:

And for those of us who really want to show our dedication to being dog people, here are paw earrings for you!! I'm a more subtle kind of dog person - I just squeel loudly whenever I see cute dogs...much more subtle.

And here's the blog post equivalent of a dessert - the cute furry friends who inspired this company.
Cute Pooch:

Oh no! How did a kitty get in here?!

Cute pooch:

Oh dear! Not again!

Finally, there's some more fun stuff to be found here.
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Shirley Maclaine, Dog Lover, Crazy
 
Who says you can't be a dog lover AND off your rocker?! Shirley is!!
"I've got better things to do than have another love affair. I look at my dog, and I think the more I know of men, the more I love my dog,"
Ok, so that isn't too crazy of conclusion, especially for people who have had painful relationships in the past right? But then she pulls this one out:
The actress is convinced she knew her pet in a previous life and was desperate to share the pooch's "views" with her fans, leading the pair to "co-write" the book Out on a Leash, Exploring Reality and Love ."
Oh dear.
Or we here at ModernPooch are simply too close-minded...what do you say?
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