Did somebody say they missed Holly? I just came across this baby picture of her:
Look at her now:
Also, have I mentioned that Daphne likes her comfort objects?
Yes, I have figured out how to put photos on the blog again!
Ann Leary, author of The Good House
Author of The Good House
Yay!!! Awww . . . CUUUTE!!! We were missing Holly, thanks for the update.
So is anyone else watching “Bethanny Getting Married?” — like a horrible carwreck — I could not look away. Is this woman the most fake, icky, obnoxious, overbearing, ugly, fame whoring, Personal Assistant bashing abomination who ever got a reality show? I think I just answered my own question.
Oh, I can barely stand it — the adorable Holly photos, and Daphne with her “comfort objects”! So sweet of Daphne on the red chair. And the one of Holly leaping for the step is one of my all-time favorites. Glad you can post photos again! What a nice way to start the day.
I love these photos! And if Daphne isn’t the sweetest dog? The picture of Daphne in the chair is my all time favorite.
They grow up so fast…. is that Daphne’s chair?
Ann, I know you’reinterested in what’s going on with the horrible, and unfortunately ongoing, situation at the CT Humane Society. You may have seen a sound bite from a press conference this week where CT State Rep. Diana Urban and her Legislators for Animal Advocacy asked for a moratorium on euthanasia for behavioral issues.
What you probably didn’t hear, unless you caught George Gombossy’s article on his CT Watchdog site (http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/06/16/legislator-calls-for-resignation-of-ct-humane-society-board) was her call for all the CHS board members to resign and allow competent animal advocates to run the facility. I emailed Rep. Urban myself and she is very serious about this and very interested in helping CT animal lovers and advocates get CHS back on track as a place we can trust to care for and rehome the animals that need help the most.
Please read George’s article and especially the comments that follow it. Contact your legislators, the media, anyone that can help. Nothing has changed since Richard Johnston was forced out back in March. Animals are still suffering and being unnecessarily euthanized, employees and volunteers are still being overworked, underpaid and mismanaged. Please help in any way that you can.
jan -
i don’t live in connecticut but am disgusted at what i’ve read about the CHS. thanks for being an advocate for those animals!!
Oh, the pictures of the pups are so cute!!!
Pictures of Holly and Daphne are a great way to start a Friday. You can’t help but smile. Thanks!
Checking in from my dads’ farm in TN. It is very hot, I mean real hot. Loved the dancing baby, too funny. Ann, have you firgured out if we sent a pic to you if you could post? I would love to scan and send you a picture of my yard. Everyone down here has these HUGE gardens, I love it.
Hi Ann!!
I missed Holly!! She is just something else… while little and now, with that tuff of hair… and those antics!!. And Daphne likes her pillows….sweet….
I will write another poem then!.
Holly just keeps getting cuter. She looks like a stuffed animal.
Oh my gosh….such darling pictures !!!! Thank you for sharing them !!
Yeah — the girls are back!
The pic of Daphne in the chair asleep on her friend is great, but I love them all. I swear I could look at pictures of dogs all day.
I work at a local TV station and Fridays are my favorite day because it’s Adopt-a-Pet day on our noon news and I get to break away from my desk for a few minutes (okay, so one time it was over an hour when it was puppies) to play with and pet some shelter dogs. And then I get home and get the third degree sniffing from my own pooch.
So shelter dogs and pictures of Holly and Daphne — what a great day!
Thanks Ann.
Hello Ann, Great doggie pics! I saw two labradoodle girls at a local farm the other day and they could be Daphne’s sisters! Such cute dogs! Love the whiskery countenance and smiling faces
Holly has a very cute ‘do. I especially like her “top knot.” And Daphne is one of my favorite dogs. Such a sweet face, and the pic in the red chair is just the best!
Ann, I used to grind my teeth, and I wore a mouth guard every night for about a year and a half. I found that it helped to relax my jaws, and I quit grinding my teeth and clenching my jaws in the day time. You might give it a try.
Oh, how stinkin’ cute! How horribly stinkin’ cute! I am a girl who just keeps waiting for my dog to unzip his doggy suit and reveal a 5’10″ male pattern balding guy in his mid 50′s. In this dream, I’ll tell him how much I really love him…
Holly looks great, she’s a month older than J&B, who just turned 6mth today. He’s around 50 lbs. Is that about the right weight for a 6mth male Lab retriever? His dad is 60 lbs and his mom weighs 103 lbs. I doubt she would be that heavy without being overweight.
I like the photo of Daphne. Sometimes I think about mating Jack and the Beanstalk with a standard poodle. Imagine a litter of labradoodles. I’ve always thought Lulu is a striking dog. Part St Bernard and part Airedale, imagine that. It’s hilarious that a reader sent a photo of her dog that looks just like Lulu. I couldn’t tell the difference.I rarely get a good look at Coco, she seems to be hiding in the background.
J&B has ceased being a handful (sometimes) after being trained for the past 2 1/2 months. The difference is amazing. I could just get on my knees and pray with gratitude to every saint – even though I am not Catholic.
Take care everyone,
Gloria
What sweet pics of Holly and Daphne…Daphne looks like she loves her babies…
Love the action shot of Holly leaping up the step!!!!
Great pics, Ann..Thank you for sharing them..:)
Awwww…soooo cute! Thanks for putting these up! Sweet!
And just saw the Samba Dancing Baby, my husband is convinced it’s cgi, I’m not sure, it looks so real. Either way, I LOVE it! Couldn’t stop laughing either!
Ya know, I could just eat little Holly right up, she’s so damn cute.
I love how Daphne has bonded with her little plush toy family. She’d be a great mom, that gal.
Is it just me, or does anyone else find Daphne’s rather large plush toys a little unsettling? I just have the feeling that if she could adopt a dead carcass about the same size and . . . well, maybe that would be Lulu.
Another ‘is it just me?’. . . does anyone else ever have a dream so epic, so cinematical, so beginning, middle, end, that they with they had a movie of it when they woke up?
Here’s an outline of what happened — There was a very comical yet criminal event. A chase scene ensued. I was captured and sent to an insane asylum. I realized that the facility — a group home — was more like a hotel/spa than a looney bin. I settled in and ate lots of ice cream. I decided I was perfectly sane, but I would allow everyone to think I was crazy, ‘cuz it came with a lot of perks — like no responsibility, lots of smoking (the one thing about the group home that bothered me, I do not smoke), shiny red apples, cheese, and (the aformentioned) ice cream, and calming drugs (which I took in lieu of drinking alcohol, which sadly was not on the menu). When I was released from the facility back home to my family, it was like those awesome sick days you faked when you were a kid — day after day of lounging around, TV, sympathy, and meals in bed.
Aislinn you think — Daphne, great mom — I could eat little Holly right up — and I think Daphne really wants to eat Holly, but good girl that she is, chomps on her similarly sized plush toy instead. Call me crazy . . .
I think I figured out the plush toy plan. They will get progressively larger, and bear-like. Crazy like a fox.
No wait. . . Daphne might adopt the bear and invite it in for a smoke, shiny red apples, cheese, and ice cream. Still crazy.
Mary Lynn, you need to do something about that imagination of yours. Either that or stop eating spicy foods before bed!
They’ve posted the full video of the press conference where CT Legislator Diana Urban and members of the Legislators for Animal Advocacy called for the resignation of the CT Humane Society Board, as well as a moratorium on behavioral based euthanasia. Watch it at: http://coalitionforchange.squarespace.com/news/2010/6/19/legislators-for-animal-advocacy-press-conference-full-video.html
Amanda, I know, I know.
I’m a tweeting fool today, can’t stop the little wheels turning in my head — but I also just wrote 5 pages for my screenplay (and the night is young). Yay!!!
Still behind schedule, but I’m catching up.
One of the best things about writing is starting out with such a vague idea of where to start, or where to go, and then the characters just pop to life and lead you on. It’s fun!
Or it could just be the voices in my head . . .
I have to write a tense little scene right now. Does anyone remember what happened at Altamont in 1969? It was a pretty pivotal point in Rock ‘n Roll History. I can’t devote much screen time to this, but I do want to use it, and make the point that the peace and love era came to end that fateful day.
I remember it only too well, as I didn’t live far from Altamont, and if memory serves, my oldest sister attended.
Here is the archival footage of Gram Parsons’ (in Nudie natch) and the Flying Burrito Bros. performing ‘Six Days on the Road’. Keith Richards credits Gram with calming the crowd down, and preventing more violence from occurring.
This is really eerie footage — it doesn’t seem real, but it was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIgMN7Kd7u8
Laughing babies – too funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQo2FJPLeQk
Rescue Me Comedy Show Last Night,, to all the guys, Two Words.. F..king Tastic!!!!
Mary L, sounds like you enjoyed the show!
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Those of you who follow on twitter might know the Morris saga. My friend Julie Klam who wrote forthcoming book, YOU HAD ME AT WOOF and is a dog rescuer in Manhattan rescued a Pit Bull yesterday who had been abandoned, tethered to a tree. The dog had cigarette burns on his paws! But is still so sweet and loving. She couldn’t take him home because her Boston Terriers are dog aggressive and she was worried about Morris, so Julie drove him 3 HOURS ROUNDTRIP to bring him here last night. He is very good with people and dogs. Daphne doesn’t like his energy (she’s getting too old for young, amorous pit bulls) and he’s a horse chaser, so I can’t keep him but am taking him to The SImon Foundation, a fabulous pit bull rescue organization. We’re leaving now. I’ll take videos.
Julie Klam has a huge heart. SHe could have called Animal Care and Control but she was told that he would be euthanized there. SO she drove him here, after spending all day with him.
Imagine burning a dog with a cigarette. Makes me so sad and sick.
What a sad situation for that poor dog. Both you and Julie are to be commended for your actions in this case. Hope Morris will find a good home.
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What is wrong with people that they continue to abuse animals. It really makes you wonder what the heck they could be thinking. Thank God for the Julie Klam’s of the world who keep them safe.
I am heartsick to learn that someone has abused this dog, and Julie deserves an award for doing the right thing. I’m not a bit surprised that Ann has also stepped up to help Morris. I hope he finds a loving home. You two women are my heros of the day.
Good for Julie Klam! Good for you, Ann! As despicable as this story is, and believe me, my heart breaks to think that a human would intentionally harm an innocent animal, I am absolutely amazed by the kindness that is shown by people like Julie and Ann who will do anything and everything to rescue an animal. Ann, you are lucky to have such a friend, and Julie, you are lucky to have a friend in Ann. God bless both of you, and God bless Morris, the poor little darling.
thanks so much, to you and julie. i couldn’t do it…. i’m bawling just reading the tweets and your post here. never met the dog, didn’t see the burns, yet really, really sad. it sounds like he has the heart of a giant, as most rescues do. can’t wait to hear about the happy ending for sweet morris.
God bless Julie Klam – I do hope Morris finds his forever home. It is horrific what people do – just horrific. I spent the entire day today with Susan Marino from Angels Gate and she filled me in on some puppies she had to take in recently because of severe abuse. There are so many truly good people in the world and there are just as many barbarians and they frighten the hell out of me.
Ann, thanks for the pictures….from all the comments, you can tell they make our day! What sweet animals!!