Auggie in the blankies
There’s a photo I took of Kota when I was in photo 101:
(This is a scan of the print, so it doesn’t look the best, but you get the idea.)
I love this photo so much it’s actually matted, framed, and hanging on the wall in my bedroom, something I don’t normally do with my own art. Auggie was playing on my bed this morning and I thought I’d take a shot at re-creating it with him…
Nnnnot quite. I do wish this was in focus better, because it’s kind of cute.
Closer – but I thought Auggie looked sort of weird without his ears showing, so I tried a different approach.
Tee hee hee no.
Cute, but STILL not quite right… so I went back in the original direction, and… we got the winning shot.
Not exactly the same, but I feel like this one is the same idea but with Auggie’s own personality working for it. And also it’s adorable.
And… is it just me, or does Auggie look like he’s going gray in the face already?? Where is my baby dog? He seems to be missing.
And we lived beneath the waves…
iiiiin our yellow submarine!
WE ALL LIVE IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE
YELLOW SUBMARINE
YELLOW SUBMARINE
Auggie wonders why I hate him. Ohhhh Auggie, you give me so many reasons why…
Apologies for the crappy pics, they’re from the P&S. He’s staring at the floor or the wall because the flash was on to try and get enough light for clear pics and he was trying to catch the flash. I found this at Target on clearance for $2.50 and I just couldn’t come up with a single reason not to buy it. Auggie has a few reasons why not, but he wasn’t there to vote because dogs can’t shop at Target.
Also AUGGIE LIKES SODA YEAH
LOTS OF SODA
He dragged that bottle around for like an hour. It was awesome.
More bad bad bad Auggiemonster
I wanted to take some funny pics of Auggie with his Fetching Tag to send to the company so I got out his Auggles.
Then, while I was at it, we got some outtakes…
And a couple of other good shots.
I’s not up to n-e-thing. I’s good dog. Not brat at alls.
Do you think adorableness is hereditary?
Because if it is… and I get a puppy from Auggie’s brother… I might be in big trouble.
WHY DOES HE NEVER STOP SMILING
AAAAAH
I think my dog has a perpetual happy.
Can I just say that sometimes, “heart dog” doesn’t even seem sufficient as a way to describe how much I love this dog?
Auggiemuffin
First really nice day (summer-like!) in a long LONG time. I am so excited.
Auggie needs his ears thinned out. He’s got his rockstar/dreadlock look going on.
I wasn’t trying to be clever or artistic, I was just shooting.
My dog looks ridiculous when he runs because of all that hair, LOL.
I wish this one were in focus. =<
Little monster…
…is up to something. (As usual.)
Ohhhh hai. I’m a cutie.
Are you ready for this next one? Are you sure? Because I own him and I’m not sure I’m ready for it.
sjguijfsdhjlsh adorable
That’s his paw there. He was up on my legs.
<3
Imma lay down here
I look dis way?
Oh I look over here. (LOL weird face. He was making a face at a bird. Trying to figure out if he could catch it and eat it.)
And then there’s these. I didn’t set this up or intend this or anything, he just lay down and I lay down in the grass to shoot. And I took a shot and realized. So I shot a couple more, then hugged my little dog and cried a bit, thinking of a dog that I miss every single day.
Kota has always been Auggie’s hero… Auggie wants to be Kota when he grows up. Looks like he’s on his way to achieving that goal.
I’m a mean mommy
So I picked up a few things at the store tonight and came home, sat on the floor, and was taking stuff out of packaging. While doing this Auggie came in to see what I was doing, we played a bit, gave kisses, then he was just hanging out watching me.
I was taking the sticker off a bottle and asked him if he wanted a sticker. Then I reached over and stuck it on his forehead and snickered and he wagged his tail and it was funny.
Then I checked my e-mail, put some stuff away, la la la, decided to take my shower… when I got out of the shower and I hear my mom outside the door going “DID YOU PUT A STICKER ON YOUR POOR DOG’S HEAD?!”
OMG! I totally forgot about the sticker and left it there. And he was running around with it on his forehead for AN HOUR.
And then I took a picture of it.
(He’s not really as sad as he looks, he was just looking at the floor because I had the flash on. But it’s funny that he looks so sad because it totally goes with the story.)
Auggie’s goopy eye, and first experience as a conehead
When I got home from work Friday, Auggie’s left eye had a slightly green, very goopy eye booger in the corner. That’s not at all normal for him… his eye was slightly red and he was squinting it just a little bit. Luckily, we were already going to the vet Saturday morning for his annual. All evening long I kept going “Oh my poor puppy! You have a GOOPY!” and he just stared at me and squinted his eye a little…
I left him to go see Daughtry in concert, and when I came back, it was crazy goopy. Wiped it, but it was completely gooped over in the morning and he was starting to paw at it a bit. I wiped it again before we went to the vet but it was already goopy again by the time we got there.
The vet pronounced him “really good” except for his goopy eye, and sent me home with antibiotics to put in his eye three times a day. Then we stopped at PetSmart and got him an e-collar, where he proved his mad cuteness skills by getting a cookie not only from the cashier in our aisle, but the cashier in the OTHER aisle too. *facepalm*
Then I came home and put the e-collar on him. Poor guy looked pathetic. I said to him, “I’m sorry baby. I feel so bad for you. But not so bad I won’t take pictures.”
Saaaad puppy.
I asked him if he’d smile for me. Oooookay. Here you can see how he’s squinting that eye just a little bit.
Auggie wants you all to know exactly what he thinks of having to be a cone-head.
He’s done really well with it actually, except when he’s walking somewhere and tries to squeeze through near the wall and ends up konking his cone on something… then he just stands there looking terribly confused. He tried to get it off right when I put it on, but he’s pretty much left it alone otherwise. Though the first time we went outside he whacked his cone on the door frame and backed up looking startled and wasn’t sure if he wanted to go outside after all. Poor baby.
Auggie loves his food
A few weeks ago I needed to get food for Auggie and decided I’d go to the Pet Supplies Plus, since it was slightly closer than the feed store we usually go to. Well, their prices aren’t as good as the feed store, so I decided to buy the big BIG bag to save some cash. I won’t have to buy food for like six months now. (Though I came up with an excellent solution to the issue of too much dog food… get a puppy! So far this one isn’t going over well with my family. Oh well.)
Anyway, I have no idea why I decided to give Auggie the bag after I emptied the bag into his normal food container, a vittles vault, and then a huge plastic bag… but I did.
This is the result.
I had to remove him from the bag. I think he would have stayed there for hours licking the bag if I didn’t take it away.
Just some photographs
I was thinking I wanted to take some photos of Auggie.
The problem is that I’ve had this dog for nearly four years now, and that’s four years worth of photos I’ve taken. And photos of Auggie playing in the backyard start to look the same after four years…
But nevertheless, here’s a few I took that were a bit different.
Thinking carefully about the sausages my mom is pulling off the grill in the background…
Another attempt at replicating a photo I took of Kota years and years ago. I decided after taking this one that I should quit trying to replicate the photo. It’s not going to happen. Auggie’s not Kota and he never will be. This photo is pretty cute, but it doesn’t really touch me the way Kota’s photograph does.
Look! My dog DOES actually have whites to his eyes! Amazing!!
Lake of the Woods
Took Auggie out to this state park to do some walking and take some photos. Unfortunately it turned out to be way too hot, even though we went early in the morning, so we didn’t stay too long.
Auggie considers ending it all by throwing himself over the waterfall…
Okay, okay, so it’s not really much of a waterfall. It’s entirely man-made, the top part is maybe an 8 foot drop, and the bottom part (shown in the first pic) is probably only a foot drop.
“Hmm, but a drink might be nice…”
He got a nice drink from his Gulpy before taking this one, so now he looks ridiculous. =P
On a lovely little bridge over the small pool below.
“Hmm, maybe I could throw myself into the pool and end it all that way…”
Actually, he was just looking at all the koi fish swimming around below. Several of them were surfacing and making their little popping noises as they fed. Well, he may have really wanted to throw himself into the pool, but it would have been to try and grab those fish. You better believe I had a death grip on his collar at this point…
WHEEEEE HIKING
What is that over there?
Oh? Is there some kind of joke we might be able to make here?
“Hellooooo? Timmy?”
“Tiiiiimmyyyyy… are you in there?”
It wasn’t a real well – it was only as deep as the wall is tall from the outside. Actually, it might have been cute to place Auggie INSIDE the well, but the ground inside the well looked a little less than attractive to place his fluffy butt on, so I didn’t.
Bark For Life – American Cancer Society Event
Auggie and I participated in Bark for Life, a canine version of Relay for Life, an event held annually by the American Cancer Society to raise funds to benefit cancer research.
We were there both to walk, but also as a vendor!
My booth for Dogged Illustration, where I sell prints of generic breed imagery as well as custom silhouettes of individual dogs. You can see my examples on the left there… the big red one is Auggie!
All doggie participants got a purple bandanna. Auggie HATES to wear bandannas… but he happily wore this one all afternoon long.
We walked a whopping mile – not long, but it was pretty warm out; too hot for several of the bigger dogs, in fact. Auggie was a champ and didn’t mind the heat, or the walk, one bit. In fact, he thought it was pretty darn awesome.
Fun times were had by all! After the walk there were contests, like biggest dog, littlest dog, and Musical Sits. I hope Bark For Life becomes an annual event, it was great fun, and of course, it’s for a great cause.
Not Particularly Photogenic
Nothing extremely new or original in these photos, but there’s a couple of nice shots.
This one is a new fave of Auggie, though:
Look at all those flyaways! Yikes! He’s in need of a good grooming.
Proving Me Wrong
I got in trouble with Auggie, because I went outside with him and planned to take some photos, but he wasn’t doing anything fascinating. “I guess when you’ve had a dog for three and a half years, everything he does ceases to be cute and new, so you don’t really take as many pictures…” I said to Auggie.
“Excuse me? What??” Auggie said.
“I can still do cute things.”
“Like this! See? Put me in a wagon and I’m instantly adorable.”
“OMG what just happened??” I keep telling him he’s fat.
I told Auggie he looked like he was up to something. “I’m ALWAYS up to something,” he says.
“Yeeeees, I know I’m still cute.”
“Bring you the ball and sit?”
“Okaaaay!”
“What’s that you say? Oh, you think that’s cute?”
“Is this cuter?”
“Yes? Cute? You liked that one? Good.”
The moral of the story: Don’t tell Auggie he is no longer cute unless you’re prepared to deal with the consequences.
Auggie and a sheep
Forgive my baby talk. We were having a really good time outside today, just hangin’ out, bonding… enjoying my day off together. (And DANGIT I’m sunburned.)
This is the sheep. It was $5. It’s about the same size as Auggie.
Hmmm…
Auggie isn’t really impressed by it now. When I first brought it home I set it outside his crate and he just sat there, staring at it until I finally gave in and opened the crate to let him out.
Okay now he’s laughing at me.
And the rest of the pics from today (not all that exciting):
BLEEEARGH
The Auggles Return
For those of you that have George Thoroughgood in your music library, I recommend you put some on now.
I stopped at PetSmart to pick up a tiny harness for The Mythical Harley since they are on sale this month, and while I was there I spotted something that I absolutely, completely, and totally NEEDED for Auggie.
It was this:
So I took Auggie outside, dremelled his toenails, clipped his whiskers and trimmed up his feet, then stuck this shirt on him. Well, the shirt just needed something more… so… I brought out the Auggles.
Ahhhh, my Auggles!
Pretty nice day for a motorcycle ride, actually. A bit warm, but overwise lovely.
“HI MOMMY I HAVE GOGGLES ON.”
Grimly surveys his backyard… I mean, his turf. (Oh God, his dreadlocks… he needs the hair behind his ears thinned out again…)
All is well on the turf! Smile time!
He could do with a shirt that reads “Bitches Love Me” too. Right after I get that one that reads “I’m A Boy Dog.”
People don’t believe me when I tell them “Bad to the Bone” is his theme song – but YOU guys understand… don’t you? DON’T you? I mean, c’mon. Just look at him.
Tuff guy.
This is like some kind of badass Elvis lipcurl. I am related to Elvis, so maybe it rubbed off on Auggie.
He came up on the deck to get a cookie.
Can has cookie plz?
And now I present to you the newest Favourite Auggie Photo/Best Representation Of Auggie’s Personality In One Photo Ever:
There you have it. Auggie in a nutshell.
Knuckle Bone For The Knuckle Head
After a lot of consideration and recommendations from other people, I decided it would be a fun treat for Auggie to get him a knuckle bone. He has some tartar built up on his teeth that I cannot get at to scrape off (his top tooth closes over the bottom tooth RIGHT where I need to scrape) and I want to do whatever I can to avoid having him need a tooth cleaning at any point in his life.
So I requested the butcher at the grocery save me a knuckle bone, and I went to pick it up yesterday.
The bone is BIGGER than Auggie’s head – but why should that stop him?
Fancy Auggie gets his raw meat on a plate. (I couldn’t think of a good reason to take it off the styrofoam from the butcher before he started chewing it.)
Auggie says “What do I do with this? Do I… lick it?”
“Ohhhh, I do THIS!!”
“This is delicious!”
“Ommm nom nom nom nom”
“Now I nom on this side of my mouth!” (That’s right, buddy, get those teeth clean on BOTH sides.)
“Sinew is a delectable treat.”
It’s gotten nice and filthy by this point…
Dirt is just like sprinkles!
I gave it to him for about fifteen minutes, then washed all the dirt off it, chucked it into a plastic bag, and stuck it into the freezer. He’ll get it again tonight, and hopefully after a few days he’ll be able to start really getting to work and getting his teeth nice and clean!
Don’t go, Mommy…
Auggie knows. He knows.
Last year I packed for my vacation in secret… he was already in his crate sleeping. He did see the bags before I loaded them into the car in the morning, though, and I think that was enough.
I’ve only gone on vacation once since I’ve had Auggie (he is two and a half.) This is my second time… and I knew it was going to be harder on me, because I felt so much closer to him after our first agility trial a few months ago. I can’t explain it, but we bonded so much more just in that one time. I didn’t think I could love this little dog any more than I did before, but I do.
So… I got out the suitcase. I put it on the floor. I opened it. I turned around to grab some things to pack into it.
I turned back around…
He wants to come with me. =<
He didn’t understand why I started crying.
I just got a new camera!
Holy crap I don’t think I could be any happier!! I wish I’d bought this thing YEARS ago!! Some of these were even taken by my mom, who always always always takes blurry photos. She was so excited that she could take photos and they came out clear.
Barking at the neighbor. GRRRRR BIG TOUGH DOG.
This. is. hilarious. I cried laughing. WHY IS HE SQUINTING. I think he felt like I was going to poke his eye.
Glamour shot Auggie!!
This is Auggie’s emo puppy impression…
Auggie Plays Outside
Today I took Auggie outside to play with his brand new frisbee.
This is his new frisbee! It was a dollar at my favourite land of dollar goodies… Target!
Okay, frisbee is really just like fetch, because Auggie doesn’t know how to catch the frisbee in his mouth.
Auggie gets a drink from the garden hose, because I forgot (again) to bring out his new outdoor water dish.
This is Auggie’s transformed stage… he turns from Regular Auggie into… SOGGY AUGGIE.
My little smiley guy.
Laying underneath the bush to chill out for a little bit.
My little guy. If only his front wasn’t soaked in this photo!!
My dog is more hardcore than your dog.
Sup.
Auggie doesn’t know how all those kids walk with the seat of their pants hanging down to their knees. He has enough trouble just walking with baggy sleeves.
Newly Discovered Breed Of Dog
NEVER BEFORE BEEN SEEN IN TEH AMERICAS
HAV FOUND NEW RARE BREED OF THE DOGG
it is the…
SHELTIESAURUS.
(plz to be ignoring the dirty sink… it’s called a “mud sink” for a reason.)
(yes, I am mean. my poor Auggie.)
Swimmy Puppy
A lot of you are probably familiar with ARTLIST, the company that produces The DOG photos. There’s a bunch that they shot without the extreme fisheye lenses, and one was of a sheltie with a floatie ring on.
And then I saw these floaties at Wal-Mart for 88 cents.
Cuteness abounds.
Auggles
I found this awesome pair of knock-off Doggles on clearance at Target. And… I had to. I just HAD to.
On the day I was born
The nurses all gathered ’round
And gazed in wild wonder
At the joy they had found
The head nurse spoke up
She said “Leave this one alone”
She could tell right away…
That I was BAD TO THE BONE.
Alternatively, bomber pilot Auggie!
Growing Like A Flower
He just keeps growing – becoming less of a puppy, and more of a dog. His coat will continue to change for at least another year.
He’s awfully happy all the time, though.
I sit with my paws crossed!
