Action shots of Payton
Finally switched modes on my camera, so I got some good shots of the puppy in motion today!
The basketball is obviously Auggie’s, but Payton loves this toy. I need to go get him a football one… I’m pretty sure they make one that’s identical but a football instead of a basketball.
One of his ears has come partially undone, I dunno if you can tell in the photos.
It’s funny because the toy is almost as big as he is, LOL. It drags on the ground unless he holds it just right.
And Auggie with his strawberry. He usually has limited interest in the plastic toys. Today he was obsessed with his plastic toys because I’ve been giving them to Payton to play with, and of course he wanted them because Payton had them. (I’m not actually complaining, I would like him to play with these more. They were slightly expensive even though I bought the majority on sale at 50% off.)
Auggie loves strawberries so it’s appropriate.
And Pay inside with the artichoke. The artichoke was the first one I bought because it was just too funny!
Baby’s First Bath
Apologies that several are blurry – unfortunately I can’t give the puppy a bath AND take photos at the same time, so my mom was nice enough to grab the camera. Also, he’s wiggly, so getting a non-blurry shot is a crapshoot to start.
Ahhh, a wet puppy! His paws look disproportionately HUGE when all of his fur is wet down, LOL.
I don’t think I like you anymore new MomLady.
And obligatory sheltiesaurus pics… LOL.
My poor dogs.
RINSE! Look at his nice neck. He actually HAS a neck. I bet the first time he goes to see the chiropractor she’s going to tell him he has a nice neck like the rest of his family.
Is abuzed.
sooooo abuzed…
somebody start singing “Angel…”
And then I grabbed a pink towel to wrap him in, LOL. Oh the inhumanity.
SHAKE!!
Also, baby is no longer nameless – I tried many many MANY names but the only name that really, truly fits him… is Payton. After #34.
So now both of my boy dogs are named after local sports players. Which leaves Miss Pepper as the special case when she comes home to join us, LOL. Which she just plain is the exception… so I actually kinda like it that way. (Though I could start calling her “Peppers” and say she’s named after Julius Peppers, haha.)
More of the nameless baby
Still kicking names around. Every time I think I come up with one, it ends up rejected because it sounds too much like another dog’s name, or I know a dog with that name, or or or…
But first, Auggie being adorable!! (overexposed, boo =<)
Shark doooog, shaaaark dooog…
Stupid sunlight screwing up what would otherwise be a REALLY lovely photo…
I need to switch my lenses and switch my settings, because just about everything is coming out blurry, LOL. So far Auggie likes his little brother, except sometimes he is really annoying. I am secretly enjoying the fact that Auggie is annoyed by the puppy, since I told him for a long time that I was going to unleash an annoying puppy on him as payback. On the other hand, whenever Auggie decides he REALLY wants to play, sometimes the puppy is in turn like “OMG TOOOOOO MUUUUUCH” because clearly Auggie can still be really obnoxious with the best of them. But they are getting along well on the whole and the puppy just loooooves his big brother. He follows him all over the place. If Auggie is looking at something, the puppy has to be looking at it, too. This is actually kind of helpful because the puppy is learning quite a bit just from poking around after Auggie.
The Newcomer
An as-yet-unnamed monster brat has joined your party!
A match made in heaven…? Or just two little brats plotting together?
Couch Potato
Normally he curls up next to the armrest… not last night. Nope. I came up from taking my shower and walked past the couch to see this.
Spoiled. brat.
(I’m guessing it was cooler to sprawl in the center of the couch, directly under the ceiling fan, instead of curled up by an armrest.)
Sock Monkey
Auggie has some kind of infection going on with his foot right now… there’s a nice big swollen bump between two toes on one paw pad. First I coned him. He could still reach his paw even coned. So then I got out a sock and socked him. This worked (although he continued messing with the sock) but my socks are HUGE and he is tiny. We tried one of my mom’s socks and even that was rather large.
So I bought him some toddler socks from Target.
They even match his blue vet wrap that I’m using to keep the sock on.
Also Auggie thinks vet wrap is delicious. He has ripped it off, chewed it into a tiny little ball, and eaten it three times, and was unhappy that I made him throw it up all three times.
Me & Pepper
love this one.
she likes to put her head back and try to slobber kisses all over whatever she can reach – usually your eyes and/or nose.
her face in this one hahahaha
and just to prove she can ruin a perfectly good shot… stupid tongue!
LOLOLOLOL
I wish Auggie weren’t in the background ruining this one… this is the Pepper I wish the world could see. This is how I see her. She is so funny when she’s not busy being afraid of things. I feel like I’m the only one who sees her for how she really is right now.
Playing with her bro – he went after a squirrel (almost caught it, too, because it nearly fell off the fence and right into his open mouth.) and she ran after him, then they bounced around for a while.
little peppy girl.
Success with the wait command, and family photo attempts
Hurray!! I have started pushing “wait” with Pepper the last week or so (they have to wait before they get released to their bowls) and it looks like it’s starting to pay off! She is still very new to it, I can’t make much noise or anything or she’ll get up and come to me, but she at least has the general idea now. Unfortunately this means I can’t do much to get her to focus on me (she hates the camera and thinks it’s evil) or try to make her look a bit more excited, LOL.
Testing… testing… how far back do I dare go?
I’m maybe ten feet away and kneeling. HURRAY!
Except she’s eating grass.
Grass chew… wait for it…
graceful CHOMP
“Pepper stop eating the gr- crap.”
Okay, so I called Auggie over. He was having NONE of this.
“At least try to look like you like each other,” I said. “No,” said Auggie.
*facepalm*
Pepper is losing interest… Auggie still loathes me for ever bringing this bitch home…
Pepper got up so now it’s Auggie’s turn for solo portraits.
Except he hates me. Hates. me. from the bottom of his soul. (This one cracks me up.)
Sigh…
Grudgingly looks at me…
One nice shot, aaaand-
now he’s done.
Try #2 with them both. Uhhh…
“Pepper don’t eat the-
– crap!!!”
Auggie then took pity on me, or decided to show off. I’m not sure which.
Lookin’ at the flower…
Obviously weighing in his mind how much he hates me versus how much he loves me.
Oh, be still my heart. He can be a handsome little monster when he wants to be.
Or a big cutie!
And then I had to ruin it all by bringing Pepper over.
Ummm… can we both look in the same direction?
oh LOL Auggie and your stinkeye.
Then Pepper had to blink, apparently.
Semi-nice… the focus is not very sharp but it’s close…
aaaand then Pepper makes a ridiculous face that looks like somebody drew on her with marker…
Aaaaaand Pepper’s outta here! Game over.
Good boy Auggie sat there until I said “good boy, come here.” He’s a very good little monster who will hopefully not kill me in my sleep.
Moar Panties
Baaaahahahahaha…
Playin’ in panties…
Auggie does not want the panties.
Pepper likee. Apparently she thinks Auggie is sexy in his panties. Flirt flirt!
Here she goes again. Dang it all Pepper STOP FLIRTING.
They were playing in the other room and I hear “Auggie… Auggie you can’t hump her… AUGGIE… ….ummmm…”
So I go in there and there’s PEE on the floor. But Pepper is wearing her diaper, so it HAD to have been Auggie. I thought this might have happened last time but it made more sense to have been Pepper, but now I know for sure. Auggie is trying to hump her and then pee on her like he used to do with his puppy bed. That all stopped after he was neutered but now that Pepper is around with all her girly hormones going, I guess we’re back to square one.
Freaking. hornball.
Pepper’s Sexy Pants
I bought these just to be prepared for bleeding.
I would like you all to know that Auggie tried to rip her panties off.
(Apologies for the bad photos, these are from the P&S. And also the camera appears to be a sign that she needs to glue herself to me so I can’t get good photos.)
Why you put these on me? Why?
Actually she doesn’t really seem to mind them. I was laughing when I put them on her so she was wagging her tail and has only taken a nibble or two at them. Otherwise she doesn’t really care.
Unless Auggie is grabbing them and attempting to rip them off her, that is.
I would also like you all to know that I bought a two pack and therefore I also put a pair on panties on Auggie, but I don’t have any photos because I was laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe and I thought I might pass out. Also he seemed to think the panties were a magical force that stopped him from moving and he could no longer walk with the panties on.
More photos from today (sans derpy Pepper)
Auggie and his RIDICULOUS coat that I still can’t figure out where it came from.
Seriously, WTF. Apparently Pepper gets the testosterone rolling for Auggie even though he has no balls and then this happened? That’s all I can think.
Pepper thinks it’s hilaaaarious.
This is the look she usually gives me.
Squintyfaec.
Lookin’ in the garden. Some of my co-workers told me they can’t tell the difference between Auggie and Pepper. How can you NOT tell the difference?! LOL. They are almost literally like night and day…
Attempt at Pretty, Round 2
Sigh… really? What kind of face is that?
I would kind of like something that doesn’t look like every other photo I’ve already taken.
The one semi-pretty shot we got.
The rest of them all looked like this because as soon as I started to get down towards ground level she would jump up, run over, and climb all over me.
No Auggie photos because he was off somewhere eating grass this time. Or staring at a rock. I found him in the back of the yard just staring intently at a rock. I think there may have been a bug on it or something and it crawled away and he was waiting for it to come back. At least I hope so, because otherwise he was just staring intently at a rock for no reason.
I’ve discovered another one…
Yet another rare, undiscovered species of dinosaur.
The Peppysaurus.
It is a very sad species of dinosaur.
Photo Attempts
I have a pretty girl dog so I should be able to take pretty, girly photos now… right?
Uhhh…
Dang it all.
Auggie would like to demonstrate how you do this whole “pretty photo” thing.
And I mean he was pullin’ out the big guns and everything. Sheesh.
I gave up on trying to get pretty photos and just started throwing the tennis ball instead. She has her very own pink tennis ball but I left it in the house (I don’t want it to get gross), and I was kind of surprised she was fetching this one for me. It’s nasty and gross and I’m sure it tastes of Auggie slobber and outside-ickiness. But she was game, so we kept playing with it until it started thundering and I packed it in to go back to work.
If you didn’t know better, it might look like they’re playing
Hurray!
She’s too slow – and if you only knew the struggles Auggie & I have been having you would think it very funny that Pepper is too slow for Auggie…
PEPPER DERPFACE
What you don’t see is that Auggie actually turned around and ran the other direction around the jump chute to me after this because he finally realized tearing after her at top speed wasn’t actually going to influence her to play with him.
She did actually grab the tennis ball in her mouth ONCE and took a few steps towards me with it in her mouth. Unfortunately as a result of seeing her actually grab the tennis ball in her mouth I started throwing a “OH GOOD GIRL PEPPER!!” party and I think that terrified her, LOL. *facepalm*
Between Auggie, who apparently thinks the best way to initiate play is to divebomb her at top speed from across the yard, and me, who hasn’t yet learned that when she does something slightly brave that loud and exciting is probably NOT the best way to encourage her, I’m pretty sure she’s right – she IS living in a horror movie, and the Crazy Banzai Twins are ruining her life…
Needs More Pepper
I purchased… some things.
Pink things.
In preparation for this:
Pepper has returned for Attempt #2.
She is pretty much stuck like glue to me so I couldn’t get far enough away to take many photos of her. I took a few that would have been great if they weren’t overexposed, because like a moron I started shooting based off my settings from a previous overcast day, so I lost about 15 photos before I realized I was off. And yeah, I realize even some of these are overexposed too.
My dog is incredibly undignified.
These were after I took some shots and told Pepper “You’re so pretty!” I guess he wanted to prove how un-pretty he is.
And seriously. Can you blame her for not wanting to play with this thing? I mean really.
Attempt at a pretty Auggie…
Auggie and I have decided we are going to basically carry on our lives as though she is no big deal, and she’s just going to have to deal with it. If she won’t play with him, too bad… we are going to play and she can just sit and watch!
BALL
Ball is smelly (and also it needs some more air put in it.)
Auggie is perhaps a little unimpressed with all this, but he’s being a good sport.
Kinda.
Awkward expressions brought to you by… Pepper!
Another attempt at pretty Auggie.
MOAR BALL
Pepper thought she MIGHT want to play… then changed her mind.
Auggie: YAAAAAAAAAAAAY
Pepper: God you are so weird.
This is just how it is, LOL.
I love that she has white whiskers.
If Auggie were a show dog…
and got his coat all floofy dried out, I guess it might look like this.
Except slightly less deranged looking. Well, maybe not.
Can you see this?? His hair is EVERYWHERE. He slobbered all over the place playing with his ball, then got out his giant sheep and started throwing it around, and his mane went *KER-POOF!* I had to take a picture but maybe you can’t see it very well in photos.
He looks like a moron.
What Auggie really thinks of Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day sux.
This holiday is sooooooo boring. More candy plz.
I don’t wanna go to bed
but I’m… sooooo tired…
I think I’ll just… lay on this pillow here…
Problem: I dumped the pillow there in a hurry so it’s folded almost in half. Dog is too big for pillow. And also IT’S ALL OF A FOOT FROM THE CRATE. JUST GO TO BED AUGGIE.
I thought for sure he’d get up when I stood up to get the camera, and usually when I turn it on and the lense extends he moves, but he lifted his head and looked at me… then put his head back down. Sooooo tired…
You can see his crate door in this one. Seriously, he’s that close to it. I actually had the pillow laying NEXT to his crate a while back and he would still lay on the pillow instead of the crate. Just a change of scenery I guess…
How can this be comfortable…?
Okay seriously. There’s no way that’s comfortable.
Little feets hanging off the back.
“Hi baby. Why don’t you just get in your crate? You fit in there.”
“No,” he said, and puts his head back down.
He stayed there for another ten minutes and JUST NOW finally got up and got in his crate. Weird dog.
For Sale
One small fuzzy monster. Smells a bit. Very annoying. Can communicate with wookies.
The old ones only sell when they are on clearance because they are not cute tiny puppies anymore so you have to clearance them.
And also he is defective. Like not right in the head. And he has funny front feet.
And he may or may not try to devour you. Feet first!
Blanket Fort
Normally you get no snow days in radio. Never mind the fact that I rarely got snow days when I was a kid in school too, but there’s pretty much no such thing in radio. You have to be there every day. The show MUST go on.
We had an impending snow storm coming, so Tuesday I made it to work (and was the only one of my co-workers in the front office who made it there) and not only did Tuesday’s work, but on the suggestion of our business manager, I did Wednesday’s work too – just in case I wouldn’t be able to make it in on Wednesday.
Tuesday night I was scoffing. “This is ridiculous. EIGHTEEN INCHES of snow they said. There’s maybe a couple out there. MAYBE a couple. How stupid. And I did all that work ahead of time! Now I’m going to be soooo bored at work with nothing to do all day!”
Wednesday morning I woke up to discover my dad couldn’t even get out of our street in his truck and almost didn’t even make it back to our house and up the drive once he gave up and decided to come back home. No way was my Impala going somewhere if his truck couldn’t make it out.
Soooo… SNOW DAY!
And what do you do on a snow day? Well, besides shoveling a ton of snow once it stops snowing and digging out your car from under all the snow so you can get to work tomorrow if they finally plow your street, you build BLANKET FORTS.
Do not enter the Blanket Fort. Do not disturb the puppy monster.
My hair is a mess from being stuffed underneath a hat a couple times.
A remote shutter release would be very, very handy.
Black & White Photos… or Photo 101 Deja Vu
These were shot while working on the black & white theme for the 52 Week Project, and most of them weren’t really spectacular or interesting enough to even be in the running for the winning shot, but some came out cute so I thought I’d share…
Chew chew chew leg
I really wanted something cute with that soccer ball involved, but he just wasn’t having it.
I believe this is Auggie’s turtle impression?
More chew legs.
If the focus on this one had been better it might have been in the running for my pick for the week, LOL.
Tired little boy. Agility practice makes for a tired dog, and that makes me happy, except when I’m trying to get some interesting photos and he’s trying to sleep on the job.
I almost wanted to use this one… I just set the camera down and clicked.
The shot I liked but with the focus reversed.
I was trying something new and got a few cute shots, but my light was on the other side of the blanket here so almost NONE of them came out properly focused. This is the only one that come out okay. I got some good shots that weren’t in focus, too. =P
Hello Ladies.
Look at your dog.
Now back to me.
Now back to your dog – now back to me.
Sadly, your dog isn’t me. But if he stopped using minty-flavoured chewies and switched to bully sticks… he could smell like me.
I’m on a horse.
(This is why all the bitches love Auggie.)
