A friend of ModernPooch.com & a perpetrator of golden retreiver puppy superiority.

While I'm absolutely not (only sometimes) a betting woman, I'd put my money on you clicking these little pics for bigger pics!!

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!

Tap, tap, tap...hey there sleepy head!!!

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

Poocher!! Look over here!

No, not there!! Straight ahead!!

Yes!! You're a perfect 10, you old pooch!

"I find him very useful when I visit elderly people's homes as he is a very good hoover for crumbs," said Mr Daldry.

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.

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!

Really big and cute Great Dane!!!

Open your eyes wiiiide so you can take in all 7 feet of him.

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!!

This site is incredibly cute. I could peruse the Dogs Gallery for hours and the photos on each page are great in and of themselves...check out their Our Story page too...and look at these cutetastic pictures!!

And for a peek at the Dogs Gallery!!

Are you ready for the best part??!!

They donate a portion of each tag sale to canine rescue!!

Thanks so much to Viva Antarctica for the link!!

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.

"A large percentage of sexual abusers start out abusing animals," he said.

I love artist Yoshitomo Nara and his drawings of pooches...maybe you will too!

Check out the Pup Cup too!

Here's Tex, my friend and serious dog lover Hannah Sharpless Graff's first and newly born baby plus his pooch friend Lindsey!

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!

Click pooch for info:

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!!

A CHINESE deer, abandoned by his mother and raised by a pair of domestic dogs has been re-introduced to his family in Knowsley Safari Park.

Oh my god!! Look at the deer, snuggling up to the pooch!! This should be Bambi II but without the sad parts...

[The deer] had settled down in the kitchen with the dogs, who took up the role of parents, washing Mi-Lu, taking him for walks and teaching him the rules of the house.

"The fawn learned very quickly the boundaries of acceptable behaviour and the dog told him off as an animal would. Not like a human."

I'm very curious as to how a golden retriever "tells off" anything! :-)

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....

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.

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!!

"He loves to lay in your lap, and he loves to cuddle," said Rick Belyea, representing the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. "He's a real cuddle machine."

"And the animal's demeanor afterwards was incredible," he said. "What they did to him was disgusting. Not only did they try to cut his hind legs off, but he was emaciated."

I can't continue reading the article without crying so I'll stop there.

It's especially when I hear stories like this that I don't understand why people BUY dogs. There are so many pooches just waiting to be rescued and waiting to show their adopters what lovely souls they are.

A wallaby lost her mum, was then raised in a rucksack and then became BFF with a pooch.

"Thankfully my big man, who has injuries from his racing days, was OK," Wallace said. "But my little guy was very sick for a week or more. He was so sick he could not stand up for two days."

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!!

What can I possibly say that could be better than the subject - title of the article?!

Oh, irony never gets old, does it...

Schwartz was instrumental in getting a law passed during this year's regular legislative session that would allow felony charges to be filed against owners of dogs deemed dangerous or potentially dangerous and that seriously injure or kill another animal or person..."But I guess when it happens in your own family, that's another story..."

For those in the New Hampshire area, please keep your eyes open for this pooch!

Apparently, pooch weddings are a dime a dozen these days!!

Having seen this post, a reader send this in!!

Thanks to Carebear King for sharing this intimate photo!!

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.

Poor pooch...or maybe Tinkerbell's happier now!!??

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??

Don't forget to keep cute little me* dry!

With something cute like this ok?!

* Target gets an A+ for picking a cute mascot.

PETA offers $2500 to find dog killer.

"Animal abusers are cowards," said PETA Cruelty Caseworker Kristin DeJournett. “They take their issues out on the most defenseless beings available to them..."

We agree! Find the bastard!

Pooch weddings.

What?! Why is that weird?

Check out the pics!

If you've ever been interested in marrying dogs or your dog getting married, I'd suggest you start believing that anything is possible immediately...

Thanks to Lily Whitall for the linky love!

Phew.

Clearly not for daughters but perhaps not even for dogs?!?!

Join Dogster & (ssshhh) Catster's Online Photo Contest!!

Check out the talent and vote on them too but don't ever think they're just pieces of meat...they're *cute* pieces of meat.

Families come in many shapes and sizes!

Oh dear...do we see something amiss here?!

Let's look a little closer...oh my squirrel!!

This is the face of a pooch that'll give up her teet to anything:

OH MY GOD. I can't even excerpt photos. You just have to click in to see for yourself.

Thanks to Shane Rankin for the pics!!

Add your 2 cents (chops) here!!

Thanks to Kenyatta Cheese for the link!

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!

~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??

WAS GREAT!!!

Gregg Miller mortgaged his home and maxed out his credit cards to mass produce his invention -- prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs...What started 10 years ago with an experiment on an unwitting Rottweiler named Max has turned into a thriving mail-order business. And on Thursday night Miller's efforts earned him a dubious yet strangely coveted honor: the Ig Nobel Prize for medicine.

"Considering my parents thought I was an idiot when I was a kid, this is a great honor," he said. "I wish they were alive to see it."

And don't worry folks, "The silicone implants come in different sizes, shapes, weights and degrees of firmness."

No need to work with "One Size Fits All" Balls here!!

"They actually won't let me put him on a first class seat because he's too big. And they also said, 'We'd only allow it for a famous dog.' Please! He has three websites dedicated to him!"

How do we feel about the three-dog law?

Probably makes sense, right? I mean otherwise, move out of the city and onto a farm, yes?!

I was cruising for e-cards when I came upon this site and to this particular card and was delighted to have found one right up my alley!

Now send it to the coolest person you know - you know they're the only ones who'll be able to appreciate it.

:-)

This is what "Pooch" yielded in Google Images Search:

See for yourself.

To curb drug use on campus and ease concerns, La Jolla High will be the second campus in the San Diego school district to hire the services of a golden retriever that Shelburne refers to as "Bucky the Wonder Dog," a canine trained to sniff out drugs, booze, firearms and ammunition.

Woah, the potheads are not going to like Bucky!!

Join me at the Dog Walk at Riverside Park on October 15th!!

Admit it, you're intrigued. Click for more details!

What do you guys rate the pooch above on a scale of 1 - 10 with 10 being the hottest??

You can start submitting and voting today and of course they state we don't think there are any truly ugly dogs...of course not! But enter yours anyway :-)

Looks like their photo gallery is still pretty empty...the contest is through November 15th so make sure to check back in!

Although I think it's pretty obvious stuff like Treat your dog as a member of the family it's still worth reading.

Any movie involving a loyal pooch is a flick worth seeing!

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.

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.

A Gothamist post on the not so fun experience of slipping on dog poop and suggestions for curbing your pooch.

CURB YOUR POOCH PLEASE!!

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?

A DOG-CRAZY couple driven barking mad by trying to choose a best man have solved the problem - by letting their pets do the honours.

Oh how we love those Brits!

Also, imagine how many spats would be avoided by this solution! It's offically ModernPooch approved!