Friday, June 13, 2008

New Puppy!



We got a new puppy last night. His name is Kirby. He is a Yorkshire Terrier/Miniature Dachshund mix, affectionately called a Dorky. He is tiny, roughly 1 or 2 pounds, and shouldn't get bigger than 6-10 pounds.




Now bask in the glory of Kirby. Tremble at his sheer cuteness.







22 comments:

_J_ said...

Kirby cannot fight Bowser. Kirby could fight King Dee Dee. But Bowser? Never.

Though, Kirby could inhale bowser and get awesome bowser powers.

_J_ said...

In a puppy related tangent, I've begun regularly watching this show in Animal Planet called...something...like "Either the Dog goes or I go". Every week this dog trainer lady who wears high leather boots goes to the homes of british dipshits who can't control their fucking dogs and she tells them things about how to control their fucking dogs.

It's sort of like the Dog Whipper, only everyone involved is british.

What I've learned is that dogs are mostly inert and people fuck them up. So if one simply observes the situation they can fairly easily fix the problem.

Unknown said...

For most part you are absolutely correct. The dog can only do what is in its nature. It is the owner's who fuck it up and alter the dog's behavior by not properly seeing the dog's needs.

Unfortumately, this is a lot easier in theory than in practice. People, myself included, communicate, often times unkowingly, through body language. Dog's not capable of understanding language have only our body language to read. Unfortuantely, our body language often times contradicts what we say and want. this is probably the largest disconnect.

_J_ said...

The body language thing is awesome. If you watch other people it's fairly obviouse what they're doing wrong (at least as portrayed in the show) but the people are in no way aware of it.

Also, I like that dogs (and seemingly animals in general) can sense stress and being tense. That's delightful.

The odd part, to me anyway, is that human beings (animals) can sense those things as well. We just..forget...or something...because we never shut the fuck up and just body language our way through things.

Unknown said...

Yeah, it's great isn't it?

Mike Lewis said...

pictures!
where are the pictures!

Unknown said...

pictures will be up tonight when i get home. We didn't get home with him till almost 10 last night, and I was tired.

_J_ said...

The internet has pictures of dogs of that breed. They are adorable little abominations.

I think it would be enjoyable to own a small dog...until I think about having to walk it and pay for it and clean up its shit and the dog hair.

Still, adorable.

Unknown said...

for the most part he looks like a mini dachshund with a wide rib cage.

_J_ said...

Teh internets has dorkies

Some of them are adorable.

Some of them need to be put out of their misery.

Unknown said...

Kirby's litter mate Milton looked a lot like Baily. Kirby, however, doesn't really look like any of those dogs. He is almost pure black with tufts of white on his chest and chin. And his fur is mostly short all around. Pictures will be up in a few hours.

_J_ said...

Yorkshire Terriers were bred to kill rats.

Dachshunds are, apparently, badger dogs.

So what happens when you breed a rat killer with a badger killer?

Marmot killer? I think so.

Unknown said...

Sweet! I hates marmots.

_J_ said...

Your marmot problems are now solved.

Roscoe said...

King DeeDeeDee!

Goddamnit!

Unknown said...

Actually, if i remember right it is Dedede, isn't it?

_J_ said...

King Dedede

Roscoe said...

is Kirby the blackest Black to ever Black?


He sure seems like a well of ink.

_J_ said...

So adorable.

If only Bowser were that size.

Bowser seems very confused. It will be interesting to see how they interract.

_J_ said...

Does Kirby do things other than sit in one place?

Unknown said...

As of right now Kirby does three things, he sleeps on my lap, he wags his tail, and he looks adorable.

He is black as can be, but as I mentioned earlier he has two small tufts of white fur, one on his chest, and one on his chin.

Mike Lewis said...

OMGOMGOMG - soo cute!