Mako: Vancouver, BC

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boston terrier running

Mako needs to run

Mako is a Boston Terrier. Like all good terriers, he needs to run between half an hour to a full hour, depending on the weather, the direction of the wind and the alignment of the planets. Not only he doesn’t catch his ball, he doesn’t even try to catch his tennis ball. He runs after it, and when it’s on the ground then …


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Bamboo: Vancouver, BC

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bamboo, a 2 years old mutt

Bamboo loves Kale & Brussels Sprouts

Bamboo is a 2 years old mutt. She’s very nice and very polite. She doesn’t look at people or at dogs in the eyes. She’s very quiet and she’s a weirdo.

Bamboo is the proof that dogs do not come from the wolves. Dogs and wolves are distant cousins, just like humans do not come from the monkeys but we had …


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Deaf and Soon to be Blind: Vancouver, BC

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old pointer

Totally Deaf Pointer And Soon She’ll Be Blind

Freckles is an old Pointer and now she’s deaf. She doesn’t hear anything, not even the thunder. Like most dogs, Freckles used to be scared by the thunder and by the fireworks. She’s so deaf that now she doesn’t react anymore to either the thunder or the fireworks.

Her eyesight is also starting to fail her.

Pointer …


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Tula An English Setter: Vancouver, BC

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English Setter

Tula, an English Setter

Tula is an English Setter. English Setters are quite rare in my neck of the woods. She’s very beautiful dog but she’s another chicken in a doggy suit, see the The Great Chicken Conspiracy for more details. She thinks that if she doesn’t look at the other dogs or whatever looks at her then “it” will ignore her.

There are two type of …


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The Running Spirit and her Prize

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rough collie

The Spirit and Her Prize

Her name is Spirit and she’s a Rough Collie, the Lassie type of Collie.

She runs, runs, and runs, especially when she can chase her ball. Her owner called her Spirit because when she runs, she almost looks like she’s floating.

In the “good old days”, these Collies were herding sheep in Scotland. That was until the mid-19th century when Queen Victoria made …


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Rusty, a Very Rambunctious Boxer: Vancouver, BC

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rambunctious boxer

Rusty, a very Rambunctious Boxer

Rusty, a muscular and athletic Boxer. Rusty exudes energy and enthusiasm in everything he does. He loves to play and jump, always on the lookout for the next game or adventure. Rusty, the Boxer, wants to show all the other dogs that he’s the boss. He tries to steal all the toys from other dogs.

With Rusty, it’s all about “me and me …


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Carrying his Frisbee: Vancouver, BC

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german sheppard carrying his frisbee

Carrying his Frisbee

Cesar is a playful middle-aged German Shepherd. Cesar always carry his plastic Frisbee. He eagerly approaches anyone who crosses his path in hopes that they will play a game of fetch with him. However, his enthusiasm always goes unfulfilled as he never drops the Frisbee on the ground for the person to throw.

The problem is that Cesar, a large German Sheppard, doesn’t drop the Frisbee …


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Another Doggy on a Mission: Vancouver, BC

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doggy on a mission

Doggy on a Mission

This is a busy dog, he’s on a mission. He has to go. I don’t know where, but nothing and nobody will stop him. He’s not running, it’s just a quick walk.

BTW, I didn’t see his owner. Maybe he’s going back to his owner…

He makes me think of Phidippides, from the Greek antiquities, who ran from Marathon to …


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