Leonberger Activism

I try to avoid politics on my blogs but considering the circumstances I think this is OK. The picture you see above and below is from Trine Helen Løken. Thank you for letting us use it, Trine. It was passed around in various Leonberger Facebook groups and other Leonberger places back in 2022 and now it is in vogue again. It is to show the Leonberger community’s support for Ukraine. I added a couple of somewhat less artistic photos using a couple of photos of our late Leonberger Bronco and a Ukrainian flag that I got from pexels.com Photo by Engin Akyurt.

The picture is an illustration of a Leonberger running and holding a Ukrainian flag in its mouth.
Art by Trine Helen Løken. This picture is popular in the Leonberger community.
Our Leonberger Bronco is looking into the camera. There is a Ukrainian flag in the picture.
Our Leonberger Bronco
Our Leonberger Bronco is standing in our backyard and looking into the camera. The sun in shining behind and above resulting in sunrays through the picture and on top of Bronco’s head. There is also a Ukrainian flag in the picture.
Our Leonberger Bronco, the hero. He found runaway hamsters, saved our Pug Daisy from an attacking dog, and detected an oncoming insulin shock in our Labrador.

Rollo the Politician

Rollo, our mini–Australian Shepherd is not easy to walk. Sometimes he sits and refuses to walk and sometimes he barks his head off at other dogs. Therefore, we started bribing him, and this works. On several occasions, I asked Claudia, my wife, “should I bribe him?”. So, he ended up learning the word “bribe”. Now when you say the word “bribe” he comes running hoping for a handout. In other words, we accidentally taught him to be a politician. Below are a few photos of Rollo.

Rollo is sitting facing left and there is a toy duck next to him.
Rollo, our mini–Australian Shepherd as a puppy.
Rollo is standing on a grey carpet holding a toy duck in his mouth.
Rollo with his duck toy.
Rollo our mini-Australian Shepherd is lying on our bed in between the pillors.
Rollo loves sleeping in our bed, especially on my side. He is taking over.

Finally, a dog and cat comic

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Author: thomasstigwikman

My name is Thomas Wikman. I am a software/robotics engineer with a background in physics. I am currently retired. I took early retirement. I am a dog lover, and especially a Leonberger lover, a home brewer, craft beer enthusiast, I’m learning French, and I am an avid reader. I live in Dallas, Texas, but I am originally from Sweden. I am married to Claudia, and we have three children. I have two blogs. The first feature the crazy adventures of our Leonberger Le Bronco von der Löwenhöhle as well as information on Leonbergers. The second blog, superfactful, feature information and facts I think are very interesting. With this blog I would like to create a list of facts that are accepted as true among the experts of the field and yet disputed amongst the public or highly surprising. These facts are special and in lieu of a better word I call them super-facts.

42 thoughts on “Leonberger Activism”

  3. I seldom blog about politics either, Thomas, but there is a time and place. I think this embarrassing day qualifies. Thanks for your support of Ukraine.

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    1. Thank you for your support Pete. It seems like 98-99% of the world reacted very badly to what happened today, judging from my quite international social media. The President for the Leonberger Health Foundation International, a completely non-political organization came out with a statement condemning what happened today, which surprised me. So I don’t feel too bad.

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    1. Thank you, Kymber. it is good to know it is not too bad to do this. So many people in Sweden, my native country are very upset, and the Leonberger community the world over is reacting. The President of the Leonberger Health Foundation International, a totally non-political veterinary research organization came out with a statement criticizing what happened yesterday and supporting Ukraine. She has never done anything like it before.

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        1. I don’t know. I realize I am very privileged. However, the cuts of NIH might cause our daughter in law, a neuroscientist (PhD in neuroscience) to lose her job. Science is no longer important unless it directly serves the administrations agenda.

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          1. My daughter’s company is service oriented for the community. It’ll affect them, hopefully not my daughter because she’s the payroll manager unless they have AI doing her job, she said. Many of her friends are affected. This administration may have the biggest unemployment!

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        2. Yes, it is not about streamlining or removing administrative overhead or pork projects. All of that is very marginal, much less than 1%. Unfortunately they are recklessly chainsawing right through essential services and support that people need. I read that Mediacaid is on the chopping block. I am sorry about your daughter’s friends and I hope she will be fine.

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          1. He wants to get rid of the education department. Without the education department, how do schools, from college to elementary, get federal funds? It can’t all be the State’s responsibility. When I was the school administrator, part of my salary was from the federal funds.

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