Mom's eye view

gorgeous view of the East River and 59th Street Bridge on what will likely be the last really lovely evening walk of the year. Mowgs and I love mild fall weather.

This message has been sent using the picture and Video service from Verizon Wireless!

Mowgli the Jerk

Molly and Dempsey moved to the city from Alaska last month, and last weekend, we decided to introduce the dogs. I have to say I was not overly optimistic about their chances of getting along, because Mowgs can be such a jerk sometimes. At first, they got along fine, sniffing, and peeing over each other's spots, and walking very nicely together. And then just after I took this picture, Mowgs picked a fight. Because he's a jerk. So now we're trying some new training methods, or different applications of previous methods. Clicker training a deaf dog is not an easy task, let me tell you, but I think he's starting to get the association between the flash of an LED light that I'm now using and the treat that follows. We'll see how it goes. Meanwhile, wish me luck.

Friday in the park with Mowgs

Thankfully Mowgli doesn't know what summer Fridays are because if he did, he'd be totally pissed that he didn't get to spend this whole gorgeous June afternoon in the park. An hour walk before dinner will have to suffice.

This message was sent using the Picture and Video Messaging service from Verizon Wireless!

Bar(ac)k Obama!!!!

It was way past Mowgli's bedtime when the election was called, so I'm posting for him tonight. He'd be really excited if he understood the significance of what just happened, I swear. But I woke him up once already, just cuz I was so excited and I wanted to give him a hug. . . and then he crawled back in bed. So I'm letting him sleep. Maybe we'll do a victory lap around the block for our last walk of the night...