Is the fediverse ready for this much solemnity (and cuteness) in a puppy? On a Friday? I think so!

Joni was about 7 weeks old when I took this portrait of her. It looks like it should be framed in a gilt frame and hung on the walls of a staircase in an ancestral home.

*If this looks familiar, I shared it last year on Pixelfed, so those following me there might have seen it. No apologies. We need more puppy cuteness in the world.

Happy Cute Puppy day, everyone! (I bet you didn't know it was that day, did you? It happens every day, which makes things so much easier.)

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Joni II

"In Your Eyes"

It's hard to believe that our lovely, wonderful (second) Joni died 6 months after this was taken (2013). She was such a great dog. She loved to run with me in the snow, just as this present Joni does.

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(The long read. )
Dogs are amazing.

I know that's something most of us agree on.

Here is Joni, 12 years old, a Border Collie, and the least well behaved dog who's ever lived with us. She is beloved of Zaz who will be devastated when she goes.

One of her more annoying habits is to bark constantly while I'm making supper. Or vacuuming. Or snow is being cleared. Or any time, really.

The other day when she was doing just that. I said to her "stop barking and play the 'hide the blue ball' game." In that game one of us hides her blue ball in the kitchen and she tries (or if she's hidden it, I pretend to try) to find it.

She stopped barking, went straight for the blue ball and 'hid' it in the cupboard, standing in front of it as a clue for me to ask her where it was then to praise her lavishly when she 'found' it, which I did, of course.

I was pretty impressed. Steven was also as he was there. Fluke?

Last night the same barking for nothing was going on, but this time I said in a rather conversational tone (barely over the din) "why don't you stop barking and play hide the blue ball instead?" She stopped and picked up her blue ball and did exactly as I had suggested.

Not a fluke. They know so much more than they let on.

Have a Happy Friday, friends.

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Zaz: Do you ever get the feeling you're being watched?

After her beauty sleep and a little hemp milk in a saucer (hemp milk is her favourite drink) Zaz suddenly became aware that she was already being watched. And there's nothing quite like the focus of a border collie who adores you.

Zaz says hello to all her fellow felines including her #teamTabby team mates Pax, Ripley and Jonesy!

Happy Caturday to all who celebrate and all (?Why not?) who don't!

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