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This cutie wasn’t our pooch. I saw him walking with his boss one day and I just had to take his picture so when the boss gave an okay nod, that’s exactly what I did. wasn’t he a cutie?!
The temperature that day was quite low thus I thought it was but appropriate for the pooch to be protected from cold. But my husband is opposed to this. Friends, even I, have bought shirts and jacket for our pug but he can never wear them. Why? Because my husband says it’ll cause any dog to be sick because it’s unnatural to clothe them. I think that’s not true! We totally have opposite views in this matter. Why would wanting to clothe your pooch during winter, and when walking outside, cause him death?! I said to my husband that if you wrap your dog 24/7 then that’s unnatural, that will kill your pet. But for a short time and during winter, I feel that it’s a sign of love and protection for any pooch.
‘Bah!’ says the husband.
I said: ‘ you just don’t want to walk the dog when he’s wearing his jacket because he definitely looks hotter than you!
-I won the argument, but jackets and shirts stay in the closet.
This photo was taken a few weeks ago when my family had a weekend vacation. We were on the way to the beach, walking, when this beautiful horse cart or in this case, dog cart passed us by. I thought those two dogs at the back were so well behaved, utterly cute! My pug who was standing beside me also saw the dogs and for a moment couldn’t move but just keep on staring at them.
I sometimes wish that my pug is just as relax like these dogs. Charlie, that’s our pug, is a hyper dog. Many people who see him in the park running can not believe that he is a pug. Because pugs are known to be fat and they do not really enjoy long walks. But not my pug! He likes to be taken out 4-5 times a day and he loves to run and play tag with other dogs in the park. That’s how hyper he is. Last year when we went on vacation, we took him to our friends who promised to take care of him while we’re gone. And they did a splendid job! Charlie was loved and pampered. But they also said that he was a ‘busy’ dog. I sometimes wish he’d slow down, but on the other hand, I am glad that he is healthy, playful, so alive and sweet. Ah, maybe the next time we go on vacation we can just leave him with a professional dog daycare . Besides I heard that if you bring a dog to a daycare, he’ll enjoy it enormously because of the number of dogs he can play with.
Anyway, it’s Friday once again…I wish you all a good, relaxed and safe weekend…regards from Holland!
This is the only type of bird that can get to my pug’s nerve! Maybe because of the sound they make, my pug interprets it as ‘making fun’ óf him. When Charlie my pug sees them, he becomes hard to subdue and would like to attack every crow he sees. Whether on land or if they’re up the trees, my pug thinks he can fly and give them a piece of his mind.
But I must say that crows are rather quite brutal and anti social. But sometimes I can’t help but feel sorry for them, especially during winter time…because food is scarce, they feed on dogs’ poop. :(
Carrion Crow
Of all birds the carrion crow is the most detested by gamekeepers and country people who rear flocks of poultry, because it is the craftiest of egg thieves. Wild birds also suffer acutely from its depredations.
It is the habit of crows to perch like sentinels on the tops of isolated trees, where they can see what is going on in all directions. When birds are building their nests, their activities are observed and remembered by the watching crow, and in due course many nests are wrecked and robbed.
Later, when trees are more leafy and it becomes harder for the nests to be spotted, the crow is quick to observe other birds carrying food to their young and again he makes his merciless pounce when all has been discovered; this time he takes the chicks.
He may be considered a natural regulator of bird populations and to some extent he plays a useful part in improving the chances of birds which can manage to outwit him.
For many years past I have lived in marshy districts inhabited by a good many crows, which nest unmolested in tall riverside trees. These birds take nearly all the first clutches of duck and moorhen eggs that are laid early in the season. In a cold spring, the chicks which would have hatched from these eggs would in all probability die of starvation, whereas when further clutches of eggs are laid in replacement of those lost, the offspring stand a much better chance of survival.
If a bird loses its first eggs, it usually seeks a better concealed place in which to build its second nest and in any case there is always more natural cover from vegetation later in the spring. In learning to escape the vigilance of crows, birds also avoid the attention of some other predators, such as jays and magpies. They also tend to sit closely on their eggs and leave them, when they have to, with secrecy.
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