Pets...what do you have?

[Buddy]

These two were taken on the same day, with no posing by me done at all. They're a little blurry.





And then a half hour later, I walk in my mom's room to find this XD

[Ali]

OMA!  Bud and Gawen, your pets. Are. Adorable.

[Buddy]

OMA!  Bud and Gawen, your pets. Are. Adorable.

Thanks!

[Sandra Craft]

I'd love to get a Greyhound. Or a Whippet.

But my "dream" dog is a Leonberger.

If you get one of these, you're going to have to take riding lessons too! Criminy, that's a big animal!

That's your basic pony in dog form.

[Gawen]

OMA!  Bud and Gawen, your pets. Are. Adorable.

Thanks!

Budhorse, is that a Whippet?

[The Magic Pudding]

I had a why didn't I know that moment yesterday.
Apparently our iconic Aus cattle dog breed was produced by crossing with dingoes.

The Australian Cattle Dog (ACD or Cattle Dog) is a breed of herding dog originally developed in Australia for droving cattle over long distances across rough terrain.

Thomas Hall crossed his Drovers Dogs with dingoes he had tamed and by 1840 was satisfied with his resulting progeny.

The Australian Dingo is a free-roaming wild dog unique to the continent of Australia, mainly found in the outback. Its original ancestors are thought to have arrived with humans from southeast Asia thousands of years ago, when dogs were still relatively undomesticated and closer to their wild Asian gray wolf parent species, Canis lupus. Since then, living largely apart from people and other dogs, together with the demands of Australian ecology, has caused them to develop features and instincts that distinguish them from all other canines. Dingoes have maintained ancient characteristics that unite them, along with other primitive dogs, into a taxon named after them, Canis lupus dingo, and has separated them from the domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris.

So our dog a Jack Russel / Cattle Dog cross has ancestors that walked the continent a long long time ago.

[Sandra Craft]

Awwww!  He's adorable.

[Asmodean]

OMA!  Bud and Gawen, your pets. Are. Adorable.

[Ali]

I had a why didn't I know that moment yesterday.
Apparently our iconic Aus cattle dog breed was produced by crossing with dingoes.

The Australian Cattle Dog (ACD or Cattle Dog) is a breed of herding dog originally developed in Australia for droving cattle over long distances across rough terrain.

Thomas Hall crossed his Drovers Dogs with dingoes he had tamed and by 1840 was satisfied with his resulting progeny.

The Australian Dingo is a free-roaming wild dog unique to the continent of Australia, mainly found in the outback. Its original ancestors are thought to have arrived with humans from southeast Asia thousands of years ago, when dogs were still relatively undomesticated and closer to their wild Asian gray wolf parent species, Canis lupus. Since then, living largely apart from people and other dogs, together with the demands of Australian ecology, has caused them to develop features and instincts that distinguish them from all other canines. Dingoes have maintained ancient characteristics that unite them, along with other primitive dogs, into a taxon named after them, Canis lupus dingo, and has separated them from the domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris.

So our dog a Jack Russel / Cattle Dog cross has ancestors that walked the continent a long long time ago.

Awwww, your dog is too cute.

My husband had a certain kind of dog growing up that was also crossed with dingos.  I'm trying to remember the name f the breed - it wasn't an Aus Cattle Dog, something else.  Anyway, his whole family liked these dogs, and there were three of them at one time - his family's, his aunt's, and his grandma's.  In honor of their heritage, they were named Addy (short for Adelaide), Ozzie, and Sydney.  Addy (husband's dog) was the only one left by the time I joined the family.  She was a very sweet old girl.  I wish I could remember the name of the breed.  I'll have to ask hubby when I get home tonight.  

Asmo - You like that?  I think I've commited myself to using Oh My Asmo from now on.  I like it much better than Oh My God, given that you actually exist and so far have not proven yourself to be nearly as objectionable as the Christian God.  

ETA:  Kelpie!  She was an Australian Kelpie!

[Amicale]

Awesome pictures, people! You have ADORABLE pets! 

Here's my girl:





To say she's lazy would be an understatement. 

[Guardian85]

Asmo - You like that?  I think I've commited myself to using Oh My Asmo from now on.  I like it much better than Oh My God, given that you actually exist and so far have not proven yourself to be nearly as objectionable as the Christian God.  

ETA:  Kelpie!  She was an Australian Kelpie!

You just haven't met him in person... 

[Ali]

Asmo - You like that?  I think I've commited myself to using Oh My Asmo from now on.  I like it much better than Oh My God, given that you actually exist and so far have not proven yourself to be nearly as objectionable as the Christian God.  

ETA:  Kelpie!  She was an Australian Kelpie!

You just haven't met him in person... 

It seems hard to believe that he's done anything as bad as the whole sale rape, slaughter, and pillaging of men, women, and children that Yahweh is into.   

[Buddy]

Asmo - You like that?  I think I've commited myself to using Oh My Asmo from now on.  I like it much better than Oh My God, given that you actually exist and so far have not proven yourself to be nearly as objectionable as the Christian God.  

ETA:  Kelpie!  She was an Australian Kelpie!

You just haven't met him in person... 

It seems hard to believe that he's done anything as bad as the whole sale rape, slaughter, and pillaging of men, women, and children that Yahweh is into.   

Ahh yes, but you haven't read the Book. 

[Ali]

Asmo - You like that?  I think I've commited myself to using Oh My Asmo from now on.  I like it much better than Oh My God, given that you actually exist and so far have not proven yourself to be nearly as objectionable as the Christian God.  

ETA:  Kelpie!  She was an Australian Kelpie!

You just haven't met him in person... 

It seems hard to believe that he's done anything as bad as the whole sale rape, slaughter, and pillaging of men, women, and children that Yahweh is into.   

Ahh yes, but you haven't read the Book. 

True.  Mayb e I'll read both books (Wheel of Time and the Bible) and then make a sort of "pros and cons" list to figure out who is more evil.

[Buddy]

True.  Mayb e I'll read both books (Wheel of Time and the Bible) and then make a sort of "pros and cons" list to figure out who is more evil.

Yes, but the Asmo has a special book on world domination.