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Dog and Cat Humor

Below are dog cartoons copied from a Facebook pages, mostly Amazing Dogs. The original creator is noted on the cartoon.

Three dogs are playing poker. One starts wagging his tail and then the others fold.

A man is playing with his cat and he has his face on her tummy. A boy approaches from behind ready to pop a paperbag filled with ait. The caption is Scarface: The true story.

Woman says to dog : Just to show yiu I can put my hand in your bowl if I want. In return, dog puts his paw in her wine glass.

A dog is cooking but it's a mess. The dog says "Oh dear, I've eaten all the ingredients again".

Dog enters bathroom and tells dad/master "Go on! Go potty! Go on! Go on!"

Four dogs playing monopoly. One dog pees on the board. Another dog says, looks like Charlie owns Park Place now.

Two dogs stopping at house with a mailbox that says "Rose". One of the dogs says : "We were driving by when Cheryl said, life is short, let's stop and smell the Roses. So here we are.".

Woman sitting at her desk typing and trying to do work at home as a dog and cats are all over her making a scene. The caption says Work-from-home problems.

The focus of this blog is Leonbergers but sometimes I post about books that are not about Leonbergers and when I do it is books that I want to promote. This is another one of those. I just read The Good Dog: A Novella Paperback – March 30, 2023, by Laura Stamps. It is a book that I loved and therefore I want to promote it.

Paperback – Publisher : Prolific Pulse Press LLC (March 30, 2023), ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BXK1Y9FB, ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8987520024, 62 pages, Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.03 ounces, Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.83 x 0.14 x 8.27 inches, it cost $10.00 on US Amazon. Click here to order it from Amazon.com.

The front cover of the book shows a brown Chihuahua sitting in a red purse — Front cover of The Good Dog. Click here or on the picture to visit the Amazon.com page for the book.

Amazon’s description of the book

Ashley is not a dog person. She’s not. Just ask her. Yet for some reason she’s obsessed with Chihuahuas. And she’s not happy about it. No, not at all. Not when she has other issues to deal with. Like chronic anxiety. And panic attacks. And a crazy ex-husband who can’t stop stalking her. Yeah, the last thing Ashley needs is a dog. Or so she thinks. Until a stranger at PetSmart tells her a dog is better than a husband. Could this be true? Ready or not, Ashley is about to find out! Endearing, empowering, entertaining, and laugh-out-loud funny. “The Good Dog” is all of this and more!

If you’ve ever had even the remotest wish to be wild and crazy, take a twirl with Walter and Ashley in this adorable novella. Find out how one little dog can change someone’s life in big ways just by listening and barking a couple of times. THE GOOD DOG will leave you begging for more!

– Nolcha Fox, Author of Memory is That Raccoon

Anyone who takes guilty pleasure in tiny dog sweaters and pup handbags will enjoy this sweet romp into Chihuahua love. Even if you’re a cat person or a bona fide foe of fuzzy, needy critters, you’ll find yourself falling for Walter. Laura Stamps does warm and funny like no one else.

– Lorette C. Luzajic, Author of Winter in June

Like a Chihuahua, THE GOOD DOG may be small, but it is perfectly formed. And like Walter, the good dog himself, this novella has a big heart. Stamps deftly and delicately creates characters to care and root for, as well as handling complex subjects. Written in her trademark short and snappy style, Stamps’ latest novella is a compelling read – one I finished in a single sitting!

– Laura Besley, Author of 100neHundred

My Amazon Review of The Good Dog

Dogs are better than Husbands

Ashley is not interested in getting a dog, but she is obsessed with Chihuahuas, and she goes to PetSmart just to look at them. After a staff member at the store tells her that dogs are better than husbands and that a Chihuahua named Walter did not get a single like on his Facebook page, she buys Walter. How can you reject someone who has been so tragically rejected? Walter turns out to be a very good dog. A second thread in the story is Earl, her emotionally manipulative hypochondriac ex-husband who is stalking her. He doesn’t like dogs. He also thinks that a little red bump on his skin is cancer and that he is going to die soon.

This book is hilarious, and I found myself laughing out loud on many occasions. The book also managed to pull at my heartstrings quite a bit and it had a serious side to it as well. The book is beautifully written and very entertaining. Above all it tells a great story. It is fast paced, and a real page turner, which is why I read it today in one sitting in less than two hours. I highly recommend this book.

Back cover of the book displays the text for Amazon description of the book. Below the text is a brown Chihuahua — Back cover of The Good Dog.

About the Author

Laura Stamps is a poet and novelist who loves to create experimental forms for her poetry and fiction. Author of over 50 novels, novellas, and poetry books. Winner of the Muses Prize. Recipient of a Pulitzer Prize nomination and 7 Pushcart Prize nominations. Published in more than 2000 literary magazines and anthologies worldwide. Lover of Chihuahuas, Yorkies, and cats.

Photos of Leonberger Puppies

This post features ten Leonberger photos. First there are two photos of our Leonberger Bronco from when he was three months old. Then there are three shutter stock photos of Leonberger puppies, who are probably about two months old. We did not take many photos of Bronco when he was a little puppy so that’s why I am including three puppy photos from shutter stock. Then there are five photos of our Leonberger Bronco between the ages 4-5 months to around one year old. He is bigger in those photos but still not an adult.

Color photo of Leonberger puppy. He is wearing a scarf. — Bronco our Leonberger three months old.

Black and white photo of Leonberger puppy. He is wearing a scarf. — Bronco our Leonberger three months old.

Ten Leonberger puppies sitting on a sofa. They are brown with black face masks. — Ten Leonberger puppies. My guess is that they are about two months old. Shutterstock-ID:561107710 by Akbudak Rimma.

Leonberger puppy running through green grass. The puppy has its mouth open, and he is looking straight into the camera. — Leonberger puppy running in the grass. My guess is that he is around two months old. Shutterstock-ID: 629624396 by TOM KAROLA.

Two sand colored Leonberger puppies playing in the snow. The play seems to be a little bit rough. Like all Leonbergers they have a black facemask. — Two light colored Leonberger puppies playing. My guess is that they are three months old. Shutterstock-ID: 2141564415 by AnetaZabranska.

Photo shows a black female German Shepherd on the floor on the left and our Leonberger Bronco lying on his back on the right. They are playing. — Our German Shepherd Baby is playing with young Bronco. Bronco is perhaps 4-5 months old in this photo. He is getting bigger, but he has not yet filled out and does not have a lot of fur.

Bronco our Leonberger is lying on his back. His head is tilted backwards, tongue out, he is asleep. — Bronco less than one years old. He is a Leonberger teenager. He fell asleep on the floor.

In the foreground a gangly looking Leonberger in the dog park. There are two dogs in the background, a white lab and a yellow lab. The yellow lab is our Baylor. — Young Bronco at the dog park. Our Labrador Baylor is in the background. Bronco does not yet look like an adult Leonberger. He will fill out and get more hair.

Bronco, our Leonberger is standing on our red sofa. He is leaning forward giving me a kiss. — Bronco is still young, but he is getting close to being an adult. In the photo he just gave me a kiss and he loved to dance on his back legs.

Photo shows our Leonberger Bronco standing by the kitchen gate. He is wearing a pilgrim hat with a large brim. Our kids put the hat on his head. Our oldest son is standing in the background. — Bronco, our Leonberger, is young but not yet an adult, which we can see from his swanky back. Leonberger sometimes have a swanky back before they are done growing. We had a gate to the kitchen to prevent Bronco from raiding the kitchen. The gate lever had a lock on it because he knew how to lift levers with his nose and open gate doors. The hat he is wearing is a pilgrim hat, the kind of hats the pilgrims wore. Well at least that’s what the pilgrims looked like in our children’s books.

A Typical Day with The Dogs

It was a rainy day today, but we didn’t just sit here all day. In the morning my wife Claudia and I had a French lesson. It was over zoom. We discussed tourism including tourism to cities. I spoke about my visits to Paris and Aix-En-Provence. Daisy, our Pug sat and slept under the computer desk during the class. Her snoring was audible to the rest of the class. Rollo, our mini-Australian Shepherd is very afraid of the sound that rain makes on the roof and on our skylights, so he was very nervous.

A comical cartoon showing a man in a rainjacket and a dog. The dog is saying "Thanks, anyways. But I think I'm just gonna poop somewhere in the house tonight."

Falling in mud

After the class it was no longer pouring, but it was still raining. However, Rollo still wanted to go for a walk so I took them for a walk. Daisy is old, 15+ years old, and she has a problem walking. Therefore, I put her in our pet stroller and raised the hood of the stroller over her. It was wet and muddy and after walking a quarter mile I slipped badly, feet straight up, and landed on my behind and back in a muddy puddle. Daisy’s stroller fell over but luckily, she did not fall out. I was not so lucky though. I was soaking wet; it was cold and my back and behind was covered in mud. I tried to nudge Rollo to go home, but he insisted on continuing. I was worried about what people who saw me would think but we took a long walk.

A photo of my muddy jeans and my muddy jacket — My muddy jacket and jeans after the walk

Our wet mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo in front if the front door. — Wet pup at the door

our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo inside but still a little bit wet — Rollo after the walk

Our pug Daisy in her green and black stroller. She has a coat on. — Daisy in her stroller

A little video of Rollo by the door.

Behold, the vaccine is killing us all

When I came home, I had a text from one of my Swedish aunts. She thanked me for a Holiday Card I had sent, and that she had just gotten. What’s wrong with the post office? She also warned me about the covid-19 vaccine (Pfizer)s, which she claimed have killed 17 million people and given 567 million people injuries for life. In other words, one in ten people who received the vaccine worldwide was injured for life. I know about people in my circle who died from Covid-19, but I don’t know of anyone who died from the covid-19 vaccine. I don’t even know anyone who was injured by it. How is that statistically possible? In addition, my family doctor, who is an extremely good and caring doctor, recommends it, and thinking about it, so does every doctor I know. Most importantly, there are no reliable sources backing up her claim. Her claim was bunk of course.

So, I told her that her information was false and not to worry. When I was young, I did not want to contradict people, but I’ve come to realize that we are drowning in misinformation, and it is very common that people blindly believe whatever seems to support their preexisting beliefs. Therefore, it is important to contradict misinformation when we know that it is false. It is a public service.

Our pug Daisy with her tongue sticking out. She is on top of our sofa. — Daisy after an exhausting day of doing nothing.

We don’t pick up dead animals

After doing the laundry I noticed that the city had picked up our recycling, finally. They are supposed to pick it up once a week, but it took them three weeks. Last week I tried to file a report about the missed pick up. I was not able to do that using the city’s cryptic website, and search yielded nothing useful. I know you can file a report because I’ve done it before. Therefore, I started the chat, and I got a chatbot.

The bot: How can I help you?

Me: The recycling has not been picked up and I would like to make a report.

The bot: We don’t pick up dead animals.

End of chat……

So, the chatbot was useless. It seems like they are always useless. I’ve gotten restricted on Facebook several times, for selling beer outside the marketplace and without stating the price, when all I did was write a beer review in a beer review Facebook group. When Facebook still employed people for those tasks I could complain, get the restriction revoked and an apology. Once all that remained were bots that ended.

Photo showing our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo on the left, then our pug Daisy and then a visiting dog, Oslo, on the right. Rollo is threatening Oslo. — It was Daisy’s birthday (pug in the middle). Rollo is growling at Oslo sitting at the end of the table. It is an old photo.

After I gave the dogs dinner Rollo came to sit next to me on the sofa. He loves sitting next to me and pushing his back towards my side. It seems very cozy, but there’s a problem. Rollo is very possessive and jealous, and he gets aggressive towards others he thinks may threaten his position. Yesterday, he started showing his teeth and growling at Daisy as he was snuggling with me, and I immediately put him down on the floor. He screamed like a choleric two-year-old as I did that. This is one major reason we are hesitating to get another Leonberger. We don’t know how that would play out with Rollo. We have a behavior problem with Rollo that we need to solve. We also set up another baby jail for Rollo.

Picture of our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo inside a playpen. He has a toy and water. — Rollo’s Baby Jail

Our late Leonberger Bronco and our pug Daisy sharing our red sofa. — Photo from the past. Our Leonberger Bronco is sharing the sofa with Daisy.

Towards the end of the day Rollo and I played with his duck, and then he asked for a belly rub. When Rollo wants a belly rub, he lays down on the floor on his side , a couple of legs up, and then he barks one time and then he waits. If no one comes he loudly barks one time and then he waits. Eventually he gets his belly-rub.