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Games & Jokes / Find out how "old" your dog/cat really is
« on: April 05, 2006, 08:49:39 am »
Has anybody else seen these sites?  It's interesting to try out at least, it takes a few minutes.  YOU HAVE TO BE HONEST!!!  If you feed your pets table scraps, say so.  If your pet is a little "chubby", say so.  It will just give you a better final tally.

http://www.dogage.com

http://www.catage.com

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Newfoundland Discussions / What the Heck is this for?!!!
« on: March 23, 2006, 03:08:18 pm »
I am curious to know what the heck this hanging layer of skin under Newf's chins is for?  Even when they're really skinny, they have it!!!  Info please!

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General Board for Big Dogs with Big Paws / Tripod Pooping
« on: February 28, 2006, 12:30:37 pm »
Drake has picked up a weird habit.  On his morning walk, he will be doing his usual lifting of the leg to pee on the neighbors plants, and then all of the sudden, he will lift his leg on a bush and start pooping!  Usually, it ends up sliding down his one leg and makes a disgusting mess in his fur.  :P  Has anybody else's dog done this?  It's so weird!  He doesn't always do it, but it happens quite often.  Is he just so caught up in lifting his leg to pee that he just does the same to poop?  I pretty much just chalk it up to him being a Goofy Newfie.

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Fellow BPOers,

I know some of you live in Newfoundland and Labrador and disagree with this, but I'm going to post it anyway.

With more than 317,000 seals killed for their fur in 2005 alone - 98% of whom were babies under three months of age - Canada's harp seal hunt is the largest commercial hunt of marine mammals on earth. It is certainly the cruelest.

Although many Canadian citizens don't support the seal hunt, the fishing industry and the federal government have refused to end it. With the recent election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, there is renewed hope that 2006 will be the last year that seals are clubbed and shot to death on Canadian ice for their fur.

More than 220,000 seal supporters have already pledged to boycott Canadian seafood, sending a clear message to a fishing industry that makes only 2% of its income from killing seals. In the months since the boycott was launched, more than 400 seafood wholesalers, restaurants, and grocery chains have pledged support for the campaign. Already, the value of Canadian seafood exports to the United States has declined by more than $150 million. More and more, the citizens of the world are showing their opposition to the seal hunt, as the growing success of the Canadian seafood boycott and the recent bans on seal products in Greenland and Italy show.  The hunt is not only cruel and inhumane -- it is economically unnecessary.

As Prime Minister Harper begins his term, we have an
unprecedented opportunity to influence the Canadian government and save hundreds of thousands of baby seals.

Please take action today to help end the cruel Canadian seal
hunts by going to the link below and sending an e-mail to Prime Minister Harper immediately.  Thank you!

https://community.hsus.org/campaign/harper_protectseals?rk=edaFC7p1SXEPW

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General Board for Big Dogs with Big Paws / I Love Big Dogs Because....
« on: February 15, 2006, 01:15:03 pm »
they elicit smiles, good will and overall happiness among humans, like no other type of dog.

Keep this one rolling people!  I think this is a good topic to dwell on.

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Groans, Gripes, Brags & Boasts / HACKERS SUCK!!!!!
« on: February 07, 2006, 05:54:20 pm »
I just had my portfolio site hacked by Iskorpitx, the Turkish Hacker.  Arrrrgh! 

http://www.ryanbrumley.com

What an @ss!  It looks like the damage isn't permanent, but it's an inconvenience.  I googled his name and quite a bit came up.  Now, I can see hacking into Microsoft, or Anchorage Airport, or the Vietnamese Travel Bureau, but a website that is just showing images of artwork?  WTF?  Oh, to inflict some physical punishment on that little a-hole would be very gratifying.  Get a life loser!  Move out of your Mom's basement, learn to talk to girls, maybe you won't be so lame and maybe you could apply your computer skills to a practical use.  Anybody else had this happen to them?

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General Board for Big Dogs with Big Paws / Dogs & Children
« on: February 05, 2006, 07:11:16 pm »
Some of the cutest, funniest and most memorable photo images I can think of are of dogs and little kids interacting.  Staged or not, it's something special to see.  Here's a shot I saw on the NCNC website and also a shot of my Niece and 1 Cool Newf named Drake!  Feel free to share some of your own.  I'm sure someone's already done a thread like this on BPO, sorry if this seems like a repeat....

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Bills & Other Legislative Acts / Check the Congress Voting Score
« on: February 05, 2006, 02:26:13 pm »
The Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund has posted the voting results from the last batch of Conservation bills that have gone through Congress.  It is pretty interesting to see the results and I am really disappointed in some of the results.  As a registered Republican and an animal lover and Environmentall y concerned citizen, I am disgusted by the voting by Republican Senators and Representative s.  Almost all of them voted No on every single bill.  Granted, some of the bills may need to be reworked, but not ALL of them.  What is the resistance towards Conservation by the Republican party?  It's things like this that are really making me rethink my Party affiliation.  Not to the Democrats, because I totally disagree with many of that party's stances on Domestic issues, but to the Green Party or Liberatarian or some other third party.  I thought some of you would be interested in seeing how the people, who are supposedly representing you, are voting. 

http://action.defenders.org/site/VoteCenter?page=voteList

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Fellow BPO-ers,

I felt it was not only necessary, but my duty as a dog owner and animal lover to share this with you all.

Under Alaska's barbaric aerial gunning policy, marksmen can shoot wolves from the air or use airplanes to chase them in deep snow to the point of exhaustion then land and execute them at point blank range.

But we can stop aerial gunning at the federal level, if Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton would enforce the Federal Airborne Hunting Act (FAHA) in Alaska - join me in signing the petition to Secretary Norton today!

http://go.care2.com/71234

Thank you!

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Collars, crates, & other cool things / How long til Calendar arrives?
« on: February 01, 2006, 06:52:39 pm »
After ordering your calendar, how long did you guys have to wait?  It's going on 2 weeks for me.  Just wondering....

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Book Club & Noteworthy Reads / Heroin Hidden Inside Puppies
« on: February 01, 2006, 01:42:22 pm »
Just another example of the lengths drug dealers will go to make a profit.  It is a sick, sick world out there....  :(

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060201222309990009&ncid=NWS00010000000001

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I received this picture as well as some others from a friend via email and thought it was a very moving image worth sharing.  In a perfect world, there really would be more kitten petting and less killing.




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Big Dogs with Jobs / Pictures From Sunday's Dog Show
« on: January 29, 2006, 02:31:17 am »
We had a great time at the Golden Gate Kennels's annual dog show in San Francisco on Sunday, it was a great event.  We unfortunately had to leave Drake and Yogi at home, but they enjoyed each others company.  We arrived just in time to catch the Newfoundland judging and we got to see our favorite breed strut their stuff.  Afterwards, we wandered around, eating lots of food, browsing through the many vendors and meeting many of the different breeds that were on display.  Of course, we had to spend some time at the Newfoundland booth and we got to talk to some of the breeders that we know.  We also got to meet a really sweet Brown Newf named Seamus.  It was great to see a lot of the artwork I had created for the 2005 Newfoundland Specialty and the Health & Rescue society.  It's one thing to create artwork but it's a whole other thing to see a complete stranger wearing it on their clothes.   Afterwards, we returned home to our boys.  We fed them some Prime Rib bones from the night before and then we took them swimming in the Bell Marin Keyes in Novato.  They quickly forgave us for leaving them behind to hang out with other dogs all day.  Enjoy the pictures!

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Anything Non-Dog Related / Willie Nelson at the Fillmore
« on: January 25, 2006, 12:08:26 pm »
Went to see Willie Nelson play at the Fillmore in San Francisco last night.  WOW!  That man is incredible!  80 years old and still rocking, his fingers are as nimble as ever and they ripped it up.  I had always wanted to see him so when he came to town, I coughed up the $50 to see him.  They were going for $100 outside before the show!  It was a great show.  The Fillmore is an amazing venue to see shows, small auditorium with balconies, chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, very cozy and intimate.  A tradition they keep from the 60's to keep things communal, they have free apples and water for everybody and they give out free posters at the end of the show.  Everybody from Janis Joplin, The Doors and Jimi Hendrix to the Foo Fighters, Van Halen and Ween have played there, the posters from all those shows have become major collector items.  So I'm glad I finally got to see Willie play, well worth it, I won't have to regret never seeing him after he's gone.  That will be a sad day when there's no Willie Nelson in the world....

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General Board for Big Dogs with Big Paws / Try Walking One of These!
« on: January 24, 2006, 07:06:53 pm »
I looked up these pictures after seeing the first one in the insert of the new Gorillaz album.  These are pretty striking and troubling images and I thought they would be worth sharing since Hyenas are "dogs".  I guess in Lagos, Nigeria they have such a problem with people owing money, that "debt collectors" go around with these Hyenas as well as Babboons and Pythons and intimidate people into paying up.  I'm not sure that's the whole story but that's what I took from a few articles that I read.  These guys look like thugs that exploit and abuse animals for their own selfish means.  Although Hyenas are cruel scavengers in the wild, that's their place in nature and I feel sorry for them for being chained up and abused.  There's a photo essay and you can read more about this topic at:

http://www.pieterhugo.com/index.html

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