Love Spat

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Spunk giving Najar a sissy paw challenge with his left paw.

 

Spunk and Najar had a little spat initiated by Spunk. However, Najar is standing up to Spunk these days and in many cases she is stalking and attacking him first. Spunk doesn’t quite know what to think of being stalked and attacked, since he has been the aggressor up until we introduced Najar into the mix.

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But he was faking and surprises her with a right jab, after she took his sissy paw bait.

 

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But Najar is quick and counters with a right hook.

 

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Spunk comes back with a left, while Najar gives him a punching bag paddling.

 

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Spunk tries to sneak in a kitty kiss with an attempted take down.

 

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But Najar pushes him off and defends herself with an all claws alert.

 

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She finely pulls out the mad dogs and Spunk, seeing she is serious, starts his exit.

 

 

2014 in Review

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When Najar saw the stats from the Word Press “2014 Year in Blogging” she had covered her face. The other two photos are of Spunk trying to win over Najar. That’s an “Evil Schwa” behind Najar.

Word Press gives cutesy analogies about the number of visits to people’s blog’s, like how many times the Sydney Opera House would be sold out from the number of views a blog got in 2014. But let’s get real here! The music video “Gangnam Style” had so many views it broke the counter on Youtube. My blog got 0.00001231161485 views as a percentage of Gangnam Style’s current total views. Which means the number of views my blog got in 2014 stinks, and is statistically insignificant. A more fitting analogy to make my crappy numbers look better would be that the Men’s Room at the top of the escalator at the Louvre has 12 stalls. The number of views my blog got in 2014 would have filled a Men’s Room in the Louvre 2250 times.

I find the top five blogs each year are much more interesting. In 2014, Espresso Fino was number 1. The second most viewed blog was Zipper Spider from 2011. Zipper Spider has been in the top five every year since 2011. The Beauty And The Beer was number 3 in 2014, which came as a surprise to me. But apparently a beautiful woman with a beer is the perfect combination. Number 4 was Portrait of a Young Woman, and Day of the Dead came in at number 5.

Happy New Year!

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A Furry & Feathery Merry Christmas

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Spunk helping Laurie wrap presents.

 

I photographed all the animals Christmas Eve, trying to get them to have a “Merry Christmas” look about them. The birds and Spunk were more than willing participants, Diné was okay with it as long as she didn’t have to get off the heater vent under the bed, but Rosencrantz and Guldenstern took quite a bit of coaxing. Blue, the Boa, opted out because she is getting ready to shed — she has milky-blue eyes and she’s a bit cranky — it’s best to leave a 7 foot long boa constrictor alone when she doesn’t want to be photographed.

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Beaker is still looking great after 22 years.

 

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Guildenstern thinking about making a mad dash to get away from the pesky camera.

 

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Søren was more than happy to get in some time in front of the camera.

 

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Rosencrantz was like “You bothering me boy!”

 

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Diné wouldn’t budge from the heater vent under the bed.