Dog Show Dog Dhow Dog Show!

Even my cat Biff loves watching dog shows (seriously -- he will sit and watch the entire thing).

http://static.flickr.com/38/73964793_9b5b382ea6.jpg?v=0

(ok, you can't really see the tv -- but believe you me, it's the freaking westminster dog show from a couple years back)

much as i love dog shows, i have to avoid watching them with other people as there's always at least one segment involving service dogs or dogs who have done amazing things to save people or what have you and i end up blubbering.

SHOCK AND AWE
http://www.akc.org/image?key=63996&type=large
(call name: "Sarge")

some of the pit bulls are named after Harry Potter's professors, and the Shiba Inus are in incoherent japanese.

I agree with you! My mom used to have poodles, they are really cute, sweet, smart dogs but that HAIRCUT they force them to wear. The historical basis is slightly silly because they version they wear is so exaggerated at this point from the original version. I like them so much better when they are just wearing shorn short hair all over their body and have kind of poofy parts on their head (if that makes any sense), that is the cutest poodle look.

My sis-in-law has a cute black toy poodle with short curly handsome hair and big mohawkish head explosion. They look like cute little lambs when they're short hairs and not that fucking mad stupid naked fluff expolision.

yes! that's how we keep our poodle styled - fairly closely shorn with a modest pompadour (plus a little poofball for the tail). i like the "puppy cut" the best, which is a slightly bushy body with clean-shaven feet and face, but it's harder to keep up as the dog gets big and would probably start to look a bit ape-like.

also bad for poodle public image: overbred tiny toy version.

Whippets and greyhounds are great too. Don't let the size of greys put you off, they actually require little exercise and curl up to sleep a lot of the time. They sleep about as much as cats and have all that lovely soft hair. They are quite needy though, but the big advantage of them from apartment point of view is that they don't bark much.