"So what was on the menu for the lost dog? It wasn’t especially appetizing."

"'She probably was eating the forest feces from all the other animals in the forest.... That’s how they survive. And they can survive for months and years like that.'"

From "Luna, a Dog Who Was Lost in Yellowstone for a Month, Is Found Safe/A 10-year-old Jack Russell Terrier/Chihuahua mix, Luna lost half her weight but was otherwise healthy after several weeks in Yellowstone National Park" (NYT).

Like a kid in a candy store: a dog in the forest.

It wasn't easy trapping the tiny dog: "She’s a very typical Jack Russell terrier. She’s got opinions, and she’s got energy, and she’s tenacious, and she is not going to give up easily. And that is why she’s alive."

Misreading.

It was never about pulling him up....it was about you joining him down there🤣 pic.twitter.com/P9kq1yjJJV

— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) February 21, 2025

They're shovel-killing the dogs.

"Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel/Revealed: former colleagues claim Kevin Roberts told them he killed a neighbor’s pit bull around 2004" (The Guardian).

“My recollection of his account was that he was discussing in the hallway with various members of the faculty, including me, that a neighbor’s dog had been barking pretty relentlessly and was, you know, keeping the baby and probably the parents awake and that he kind of lost it and took a shovel and killed the dog. End of problem,” said Kenneth Hammond, who was chair of the university’s history department at the time.

"Joe Biden’s dog Commander bit Secret Service agents 24 times."

The London Times reports.

[N]ewly released documents... only cover a nine-month period and members of the Secret Service, rather than all presidential staff, the true number of incidents could be much higher than the documents reveal. Previous reports had put the number of biting incidents at 11....

"Zeus"/"He smiles..."

Photos from an East Village walk today.

At the Snow Dog Café...

... you can write about anything you like.

Sunrise with birds and a dog and, no, that's not my Cane's cup (and not my canid).

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The parsley harvest.

(Meade and I separately photographed the parsley. The first photo is mine, taken while he was out collecting the second bowlful. The second photo is his.)

Oktoberfest, Denver.

Photo from last weekend in LoDo.

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On the frozen Weeping Rock Trail.

At Blue Mound State Park today, we walked over the narrow bridge, along icy path, and across a frozen waterfall.



ADDED: Meade's view of the waterfall:

"Stuckie the dog is eternally grasping for freedom that will never come."

Half a century ago, a dog ran up the center of a hollow tree. The tree that killed him preserved his body, and both tree and dog are on display in the Southern Forest World Museum, Newsweek reports.


SCOTT BEAHAN, SHUTTERLY PERFECT PORTRAITURE

Speaking of dead bodies preserved in action and just to balance the beast/human respect for the dead, there's also this in the news today: "Buddhist monk ‘still smiling’ two months after his death."

ADDED: The tree preserved the dead dog, and the dog preserved the dead tree.

"I'm so sick of ads using overly feely music to manipulate us so I changed the music. Now instead of feeling sappy emotions you shall feel terror!"