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1. about 21 hours ago on FurBabies

   That water is cold. Hopefully little, innocent Syrius won’t get a cold. My first dog would often get wet and we always had to dry him, specially his big, fluffy ears: he was an English Sprocker Spaniel (Sports Springer dad and Sports Honey mom) and yes his big floppy ears required extra drying but carefully, they were delicate. He was a Sports rather than a show who loved chasing birds and playing catch, but still was fuzzy about his ears and tail. He was a black and white velcro dog with sad “puppy eyes”. Current dog hates getting wet, and baths, he is a lab mix rescue who was found abandoned as a days old puppy and had to be fed with a bottle. Grew up to be a beautiful yellow lab and mystery mix with airplane ears. Syrius reminds of him when he was still a puppy. He is also a velcro dog but instead of being attached to one person he is attached to everybody in the family. He does not have puppy eyes but his gaze reminds you of Jimmy Steward for some reason, if he was human, he would be able to play the main character in a remake of Mr. Smith goes to Washington.

2. 1 day ago on Dogs of C-Kennel

   Nah! Give an orphan dog a home and he’ll love you to the ends of the world, buy a mutt from a fancy breeder and he’ll growl and bite if he did not get more expensive toys and treats.

3. 1 day ago on Dogs of C-Kennel

   That’s why I’m a dog person… labradors and Springer, including sprockers, are my kind of perfect pooch. The later preferably the sports kind. Don’t need a prima dona canine: Spaniel usually are anyway, they like things their way…

4. 2 days ago on FurBabies

   The water is also warm at South Padre Island on October and there are still days above 80F that make it possible to go for a quick weekend get-away. In North Yucatan the sand is pearl white or more like an ivory-tan whitish tone and is not as soft as Caribbean sand, feels a bit more rough (a combination of crushed coral and conch shells), but the sand like in the Caribbean is cool since it has a bit of oxygen in it (“air conditioned sand”) and the whitish tone reflects the sunlight, so it does not “bake”. The water is always above 80F year long, rarely in January or February it can get into the upper 70s, but that is only during the odd cold front and it’s rare. Usually even during cold fronts it stays at least between 80F and 85F. The regular temperature of the water is 85F to 90F so it basically feels like bath water, and it also powers hurricanes so you don’t want to be around when those twirling megacyclones are around.

5. 2 days ago on FurBabies

   Would you believe it if I tell you I’ve never been on a natural lake, except for Ox Bow lakes. The closest has been a dam. I’ve been on an all pebble river beach on a fast moving and already deep stream. There was a beach with a natural dam that kept the current slow. I could not go for a swim there, I tried but the water was somewhere in the range of 50 to 40 Degrees (Fahrenheit). Did brought a few round river pebbles with me as a souvenir though.As for beaches, I’ve been to beaches in the Gulf of Mexico, Sea of Cortez and the Caribbean. The Caribbean beaches were a beautiful site with their powdery white sands that feels like talcum powder and crystalline light blue sea, but I prefer the Gulf of Mexico beaches, the sand is brown and feels like sandpapers and it can get hot when it is far from the shore, but there is a plethora of shells and sea minerals to collect. Also you can find all manner of crabs and other critters in the beach. Including a borrowing shrimp (not sure if its eatable) that borrows right in the shoreline and yes! you can find the famous crabs who live on a shell. Plus all manners of small aquarium type fish… as a kid I had a great time there.

6. 2 days ago on FurBabies

   It’s a lake not the sea… therefore you cannot be a seadog…. arg! (says Pirate Crabby, the crabbiest buccaneer who ever sailed the Great Lakes, he is crabby because he never went out to sea and therefore he was never a “sea dog”).

7. 4 days ago on FurBabies

   I tried and failed quite a bit in my youth, from my childhood to my early twenties… never made the BP Award as a Rover (top award for senior scouting) but I also had some successes. I did some dune steps at 18 that came out rather well and made whip “antennas” in college from small pieces of old coaxial cable to watch air TV (before digital TV) from anywhere, even using sometimes paper clips I made mini-antennas. Used to do that when a TV was in the classroom for a planned video lesson and the teacher wasn’t around, I managed to always watch that way a bit of a game or quiz shows or even news before the teacher was back. Sometimes the other Students saw me as a kind of do-it-all.

8. 4 days ago on FurBabies

   LOL remember I wanted to create a “channel” for a Sand Castle that would draw water straight from the sea and tried to from 11 all the way to 14 years of age , it took that long to realize the tide would always fill it out with sand, I tried for three long summer weekends in South Padre Island and it took me until the summer between 8th and 9th grade to finally give up. As a result the sand castles never came up, except for a few badly made sand mounts. Then at 15 I tried to make a sand wall that looked realistic… well, I never grew up to be an architect or an artist… I draw a bit… but I would not make a good sculptor much less a sand sculptor… since all I got were more sand mounts.

9. 6 days ago on FurBabies

   I’m sorry to hear about the change. The “old” method, while I admit harder for the artist to fill, it’s a throwback to pre World War II comics, specially the early comics from the 1890s to the early 1930s in which the typical weekday strip was six frames instead of four (1920s) and the graphic department of newspapers, despite the much more difficult methods to transfer pictures to frames to print, would adjust to the choice of the artists who could use six, twelve or one large frame, specially true of early comics in which there was no format and the artist chose how to divide his artwork. Fur Babies by Beaman and Dark Side of the Horse by Samson were until now a throwback to early comics.Anyway, we cannot move back. So good luck to the artist and keeping my fingers crossed.

10. 7 days ago on FurBabies

    This is so innocent and representative of childhood (from a human angle): two young boys searching for pirate treasure… which classic children’s story does not include a pirate hunt, a “saffari” or some type of quest with all sorts of “adventures” and “plots” in the imagination of the young protagonist of the story.