My own personal crack den

So, here I am looking at puppy porn: Rescue orgs for my favorite breeds have galleries of rescued dogs and puppies up for adoption.

I'm trying to stick with California, so that I won't be tempted, but look at these cuties: Boots and Chola. The catch here is that it's two dogs, not one dog. (Two two two for the price of one). Lovely though they are, I only like boy dogs (redundant) and it's two well-developed boxers. Not in this house.

I'm also interested in Bullmastiffs (remember the Looney Toons dogs?), but I just found out that they are particularly prone to dog-napping. What? It hadn't occurred to me that that happenned. Now, I had a really really big dog, one that looked a lot like, well, this is actually him:

This is a better picture for showing what the breed looks like, but it's not Mo. This is a rescue dog, if you're interested.

It had occurred to me that if someone actually succeeded in stealing him, then he'd have something valuable, but who would be stupid enough to approach a 180 lb. dog that comes up to your waist? So, as a dog owner, I stopped worrying about it. Now here I am contemplating dog ownership, and this is the first Bullmastiff specific thing I saw (there are genetic disorders and stuff, but I just hit this first). Now Bullmastiffs are supposed to be smaller than Old English Mastiffs (that's what Mo was) but they are still pretty fuckin' big, so maybe I'll return to investigating boxers.

It has just occurred to me that I have a number of really cool pictures of my dog in my storage locker.

Gosh, I have tons of art to put on the walls if I'm willing to frame photographs and collages, and now I've given money to the Library of Congress for more photographs. I'm really excited about that though. I hope they have some good printers there because they, after all, have the original negatives.

Oh, and if you looked at all the cute bullmastiff pictures, I'd like to point out that most of them involved dogs that were lying down. All varieties of mastiff seem to be very lazy compared to what one associates with, say, a Golden Retriever. They don't get up unless they are urgently needed elsewhere, and since they are a dog and not a cat, that reason is usually obvious to you, the owner.

Damn xeney for getting me on to the dog porn.