Some dog pictures, some cat pictures

[summer_jackel]

Hearthside:












Bliss is everyone's favorite couch.

A scene from the last dog show:


It was a pretty, 'only at a dog show' kind of moment; this fellow in a suit rode by on a folding bike, with his beautifully groomed Irish setter.





Coba


Her Majesty the Hound on her couch with her plushie.




Trucker

Comments

[phineus.livejournal.com]

So it's definitely a requirement for all mammals you own to be fluffy, then?

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Hee, fluffy is a plus! With the dogs, I'll admit to loving the texture of a well groomed double coat, and I find the process of caring for and petting their coats therapeutic and relaxing. That said, there are a couple of smooth-coated breeds that I would be very interested in keeping, pretty much all of them sighthounds. I really admire and would love to have sloughis, azawakh and Ibizans, and some day I intend to obtain a saluki (a feathered one, but the hair on a saluki is much less even than Zhava's and does little to warm the dog). In addition to being even rarer than Borzois, though, all of those breeds are from really hot, dry parts of the world, and I live where it's (relatively) cold and wet. Since most of my favorite breeds hail from places even colder and wetter than my redwood forest home, I'm trying to keep with them. A shivering, well sweatered sloughi curled up in front of the fire would be adorable, though.

I have a strong preference for shorthaired cats, but I also take what cats the universe throws me. Trucker and Cyril are fluffbeasts, Magic has a normal short cat pelt, and Tiger, the Bengal, has this lovely, fine, sparkling coat that is beautiful and tropical and does absolutely nothing to keep him warm. Tiger loves the fireplace in December.