Month: November 2014

How Does Your Dog Rank?

  I found this chart to be an intriguing presentation of complex data, ranking dogs by their public popularity and according to a variety of other attributes such as longevity, cost of ownership, health, intelligence and more. What do you think? Is your pooch was properly positioned? I’ll take a flyer […]

Professor Max Explains It All

Welcome students! Today’s topic: “Why are dogs called “man’s best friend?” Clearly, it is because guys and dogs share so many characteristics. Here is Maxwell’s top 20 list of what dogs and guys have in common. I don’t want to hear much sass and backtalk about it. Facts are facts, doncha […]

Aerial Pooches

  Julia Christe is an accomplished German photographer who has shown her works all across Europe and North America. She lives and works in Berlin. I recently came across a recent collection of her work that focuses on flying dogs. Or perhaps dogs tossed into the air or dropped from heights. […]

Flying Boats and Rolling Sweet Potatoes

Today, Max’s adventure took us to Pu’u Ohia, better known as Mount Tantalus. It’s a lushly wooded, extinct volcanic cinder cone that was part of the immense Ko’olau Volcano that formed the southeastern part of our island of Oahu. Tantalus was named in 1840 by kids from Punahou School while on a field […]

Maltese Morning Coming Down

The day started out rough for the Malt. He had stayed up late savaging his toy hedgehog “Hedgie” and playing chase me – chase you. He should have known that after a wild night comes a morning of remorse and bad photographs. Looking bad, Max. Feeling bad, Dad.   However, a full day was planned […]

Dogs at McDonalds

The video link in the re-blog I posted earlier just refused to co-operate so I deleted the post and, instead, linked the video directly from YouTube. It’s such a funny little scene of two dogs enjoying a vanilla cone at McDonalds. Max loves Mickey D cones, so much so that […]

Kiku-chan & The Latvian Connection

Quick update on our favorite little Yorkie, Miss Kiku. You’ll remember from our last post that Kiku-chan had just embarked on her professional career in the cut throat world of dog shows. The Octagon. Thunderdome. It takes 15 points to achieve champion status and as of this writing, the little furball […]