Heavy-handed, borderline offensive, in-your-face dog-blogging. (Rachel Lucas)

Heavy-handed, borderline offensive, in-your-face dog-blogging.

You know you're really passing over into the realm of hardcore dog-blogging (dlogging) when you decide to post five - count them, FIVE - pics in one post. But these photos tell a story, and what is more fascinating and satisfying than a story about dogs and their affection for pig-flavored rawhide treats? I give you Una Noche en la Casa de Raquel y los Perros:

This is how I entertain myself after a few glasses of wine and the realization that summer TV is grade-A crap. First, emotionally abuse the dogs by standing on the couch with two rawhide treats in one hand and camera in the other.

Those eyes....so....evil. They DEMAND rawhide treats. Fine. Drop one to Digger because he is old and how many more opportunities will he have to feel superior to Sunny?

Then, after torturing Sunny for a few more moments just to show her who's boss, drop the other one at her face.

After catching it, she paused briefly to give me a dirty look; I could have sworn she shook her head in disgust and reproach. You could have just given me the damn treat, woman. All that trouble for what? So you can mock me on your blog? Bitch.

She goes to her rug to teach that rawhide strip a lesson about the food chain. She looks so mean and hungry, and I am pretty sure that's a scowl:

I should just leave her alone at this point, leave her with her "kill", but dang if she doesn't look ten kinds of adorable when she holds it down with her paw.

If you had any doubt as to how easily I'm entertained, well doubt no more. Pretty. Damn. Easily. I wonder if this is dogsploitation? Just imagine what this blog would be like if I had kids. Someone would call the authorities.

Posted on July 28, 2007 5:47 PM | Permalink

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Comments (12)

Bonnie B.

What kind of dog is Digger? I might have missed that in your posts somewhere.

I, for one, don't mind the dlogging. It makes for a nice distraction on this end of things, too.

Posted by Bonnie B. | July 28, 2007 7:12 PM

Posted on July 28, 2007 19:12

HurricaneMikey

Grade-A crap indeed. At least I have the Military Channel and Discovery HD Theatre to keep me entertained this afternoon, instead of exploiting the family pets...

Oh, and props for the handsome doggie-rug. It's like the canine equivalent of Marty Crane's recliner!

Posted by HurricaneMikey | July 28, 2007 7:15 PM

Posted on July 28, 2007 19:15

Annie

I happen to own a teenager. Our lives are not that dissimilar.
Toss them food now and again. Remind them who is "boss". Mock them. Photographically document every tard face they make.
Yep, pretty much the same.

Posted by Annie | July 28, 2007 7:16 PM

Posted on July 28, 2007 19:16

Rickbert

Hell, Rachel, half the reason I come here is because I never know what I'm gonna see. The other half is for the insightful tirades. The other half is for the dog blogging, as I currently have none myself. Yeah that's three halves, it's late, sue me. ;)

Posted by Rickbert | July 29, 2007 4:27 AM

Posted on July 29, 2007 04:27

evvybuns

I want to be able to take such great action shots of treats landing in the maws of my precious pups. Your timing is great. What is your secret?

Posted by evvybuns | July 29, 2007 8:50 PM

Posted on July 29, 2007 20:50

rickl

The SunnyScowl™. No wonder the pit bull ran away.

Posted by rickl | July 29, 2007 11:05 PM

Posted on July 29, 2007 23:05

Kensington

Sonny and Digger are so adorable I can hardly stand it. I need a hot poker to cauterize my eyeballs.

Posted by Kensington | July 30, 2007 2:05 AM

Posted on July 30, 2007 02:05

Bad Penny

My favorite dog torture is this: rustle around in the rawhide chewy bag so that both dogs come over to the treat-dispensing area. Give the big old dog something really delicious like a piece of real meat or a rawhide with peanut butter on it. Then give the small young dog a plain old rawhide. The small dog will drop the rawhide on the floor and stare at me open-mouthed. Oh the injustice! Then I give her a treat equivelent to the one I gave the big dog and she takes it happily.

I just think it's really cool that the dog is aware of the relative value of the different treats and wants to have one of the same value as the other dog. She's usually happy with just a rawhide, but if the other dog gets something better, she wants it too.

Posted by Bad Penny | July 30, 2007 12:14 PM

Posted on July 30, 2007 12:14

Alexander

Every time I see dog pictures it reminds me of how cool it'd be to have tapetum.

Posted by Alexander | July 30, 2007 2:02 PM

Posted on July 30, 2007 14:02

Kensington

In that first picture, Sonny and Digger look like Batman and Robin:
http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/news_images/6702_17989_2.jpg

Particularly in the eyes.

Posted by Kensington | July 30, 2007 4:14 PM

Posted on July 30, 2007 16:14

rickl