Dodger Takes a Bow - Monday 12/3/2007

He's pretty proud of himself for helping me in my first foray into YouTube broadcasting.

This morning The American in Toronto sent me a link to the following WGA Strike video.




And I-- Well, Dodger and I were moved to respond to this call to arms, which involves animals refusing to be cute on YouTube until the strike is over.

I would just like to note before you watch this that we just shampooed the carpet in anticipation of hosting Christmas and the house is torn up because I have today off (one of my part-time layoff days due to the strike) and I am deep cleaning. Which always involves random boxes, etc.

Okay. Now you can watch this video of Dodger not being cute. That's Charanga Cakewalk's Loteria de la Cumbia Lounge CD playing in the background.

Big Bad Bottle - Sunday 9/30/2007

This may actually be more of an emotional map than a photograph.

Though Dodger's eyesight is probably keener than ours, he might have this feeling about the squirt bottle. We give him a little squirt if he's being really mischievous or putting himself in physical danger.

Well, actually, we don't even have to squirt him any more. We just say "Squirt!" or "Where's that Squirt Bottle? I'm gonna have to Squirt you!"

And he gets off Hydra's towel and back onto the top of the shower stall, or stops trying to explore under the kitchen sink (where all the toxics are stored), or stops chewing on any number of things.

When he gets the chance, though, Dodger will make a big watery sound and head butt the bottle off whatever surface it's on.

Once, when he was younger, he actually disarmed a squirt bottle. Yup, we picked it up, depressed the trigger and "thunk."

Nothing.

He'd removed the spring.