If we come downstairs before Juno she will often sneak into the bedroom (where she isn’t allowed) and steal socks from the laundry basket. (Somehow she always manages to steal a matching pair!) When she comes downstairs she will then dance around looking somewhat ashamed, with her tail between her leg, as if to say: [...]
While it is still officially the year of the pig, for us 2007 was the year of the dog. Juno was already seven months old when we met her in December of 2006, and we took over full time ownership of her in February of 2007. Young retrievers are a handful, and despite her age, [...]
I don’t have too many good pictures of Big Ears (the black dog) because when she was around the dogs were usually moving too fast for me to capture on film. Either they were running, or they were wrestling and all I photographed was a big ball of fur with black and brown paws sticking [...]
After much deliberation I finally got a Panasonic DMC-LX2. The main competitor was the yet-to-be-announced LX3, and what finally made my decision was spending some time looking at this timeline of camera product announcements which made it pretty clear that it was unlikely for any new camera to be announced before the new year, and [...]
I’ve been meaning to write about training Juno for a while now, but never got around to it. To make a long story short, Juno wouldn’t win any obedience contests, but she is much better behaved than before. Lately, however, she’s picked up some cute-but-annoying new habits. For instance, she used to be perfectly happy [...]
A four second video of Juno playing in the drainage ditch after the typhoon:
Juno finally caught one of those lizards which have been teasing her these past few weeks: Fortunately, she prefers playing with her prey to eating it. After she (reluctantly) dropped the lizard it was a little dazed, but still in one piece. But I don’t think she’ll ever catch a fish: Or a monkey: {dog, [...]
This only thing remarkable about a recent study which showed that “52 percent of elementary and junior middle school pupils in Taiwan, around 1.45 million pupils, have experienced corporal punishment in school in the first half of this year,” is that the article about it also published the survey size and the margin of error. [...]
Bangxi (spelling?) is Bunun for “smelly” and is the name of Juno’s new friend. Bangxi is only 4 months old, while Juno is about one year old now, so whenever they play Bangxi gets sopping wet from Juno’s salvia. Bangxi is being raised by one of my students who lives near by, so they should [...]
Up till now Juno has enjoyed splashing around in the water, but not actually swimming: The other day we saw someone whose golden retriever was swimming in the lake and ran over so that Juno could learn from a friend. At first she was afraid to dive in, but when the other retriever (who is [...]