Tag Archives: Pit Bull

A Fun Surprise + Kibble for Comments

December 22, 2010 By in Lollie Tags: , , , , , , , 15 Comments

***For every comment* left on Love and a Six-Foot Leash posts from December 15th-December 31st 2010, we will donate one pound of high-quality dog food to Lollie’s sugar daddy, the Montgomery County Humane Society. Together, by spreading the word about adoptable Lollie Wonderdog, we can find her a forever home. We are up to 162 comments / pounds of food already!***

Friends of Lollie, you’re going to have to wait an extra day for her second open-forum Q&A session. Thank you to all who have submitted questions; she is working out her responses right now. It’s hard to hold a pen, you know, without opposable thumbs.

The reason for our delay is that something very cute happened last night and we wanted to write about it right away. I came home from work, and was delighted to find a package on our doorstep. It’s a holiday gift from Flash! (For those of you who don’t already know Flash, he is our neighbor’s lovely yellow lab and a key subject of Lollie’s affection.) 

It turns out that Flash, possibly with help from his human siblings, baked doggie treats for Lollie and Ty. Check out these dog biscuits and doggie “chocolates” made of carob (don’t worry, it’s dog-safe). Beautiful, right? 

Well as you can imagine, Lollie was thrilled to sniff this package. 

She could hardly contain her excitement, giving me The Look that Chick has taught her over the past few weeks. 

After a few minutes of posing with her present, she just couldn’t bear it any longer—check out her squirmy “mom, pleeeeeeeeease!!” look: 

Needless to say, she loved the treats. She sampled a cookie and a bit of the “chocolate,” and when I put it away to save for later, she sat by the cabinet for about 15 minutes, willing the door to open itself and present the treats to her once more. 

Thank you Flash, for your very thoughtful present!

*limit 250lbs of dog food

Calling All Questions for Lollie!

December 21, 2010 By in Lollie Tags: , , , , , , 39 Comments

***For every comment* left on Love and a Six-Foot Leash posts from December 15th-December 31st 2010, we will donate one pound of high-quality dog food to Lollie’s sugar daddy, the Montgomery County Humane Society. Together, by spreading the word about adoptable Lollie Wonderdog, we can find her a forever home!!***

First things first. Lollie wants to know: does this hoodie make her look fat? At 50 pounds of pure muscle and bone she is far from it– in fact, getting her to put on weight has been a real challenge. Still, she almost threw a fit when she saw this photo. I think she looks adorable; she thinks she looks fat. Dear friends, please settle our debate.

Second: tomorrow is Lollie’s second open-forum Q&A session for her readers!! You can check out the first one here. We will be accepting questions all the way up to tomorrow morning, so if you have a burning need to know, just tell us! You can post your question in a comment or email us directly at DCPetographer [at] gmail [dot] com.

And last but certainly not least, our dear friend over at Love-A-Bull is offering a cash donation to our fabulous local animal shelter for every responsible pit bull owner’s story in the comments on her blog. If you are a pit owner and lover, please stop by and share your tale!

*limit 250lbs of dog food

Squirrel Watch: the Sequel

December 20, 2010 By in Lollie Tags: , , , , , , 19 Comments

***For every comment* left on Love and a Six-Foot Leash posts from December 15th-December 31st 2010, we will donate one pound of high-quality dog food to Lollie’s sugar daddy, the Montgomery County Humane Society. Together, by spreading the word about adoptable Lollie Wonderdog, we can find her a forever home!!***

*up to 250 lbs of food

Now that winter is upon us and the leaves on our giant oaks have fallen, Lollie’s Squirrel Watch has reached new heights, so to speak. The disappearance of the leaves has further exposed the routines of those furry little beasts to Lollie, who now focuses her full attention on their chasing, leaping, and flying across the treetops.

You may not have already known this about Lollie, but she is a nature lover, a skilled gardener, an avid birdwatcher and protector of all feathered friends. And so, she has been reading a classic gardening book, Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by Squirrels, and she is starting her war on squirrels with the basic, foundational strategies suggested in the book: watch, listen, learn. Here is a depiction of the first few minutes of a typical morning walk:

 Keep it up girly. You’ll get those squirrels someday!

cuddly clown video + kibble for comments

December 17, 2010 By in Lollie Tags: , , , , , , , 24 Comments

***For every comment* left on Love and a Six-Foot Leash posts from December 15th-December 31st 2010, we will donate one pound of high-quality dog food to Lollie’s sugar daddy, the Montgomery County Humane Society. Together, by spreading the word about adoptable Lollie Wonderdog, we can find her a forever home!!***

It’s about time for another Lollie video, just to remind our little girl’s adoring fans that she may be even cuter in action than she is in stillframe.  We wrote about her bedtime antics a few days ago, and here she is, hamming it up for the video camera. This video was taken a few weeks ago, and since then she has learned to control her enthusiastic tongue quite a bit… we think that she was using her tongue to express her affection, and she has since switched over to the “pet me” headstand to show her boundless love.

*up to 250 lbs of food; no multiple posts in a row by the same contributor

Adoptability factor 3: Drop Dead Gorgeousness + Kibble for Comments

December 16, 2010 By in Lollie Tags: , , , , , , , 24 Comments

***For every comment* left on Love and a Six-Foot Leash posts from December 15th-December 31st 2010, we will donate one pound of high-quality dog food to Lollie’s sugar daddy, the Montgomery County Humane Society. Together, by spreading the word about adoptable Lollie Wonderdog, we can find her a forever home!!***

This is the third in our new weekly series on what makes sweet Lollie Wonderdog so very adoptable. Although there are endless adoptability factors we could list, we are limiting this to a weekly series so we don’t overwhelm you too much. 

Adoptability factor archive: 1: Snugglability  2: Trainability

my right side is my best side . . . as is my left side

Nobody wants to admit that they’re superficial, but come on. We all are, a little bit. And let’s face it: Lollie is just a stunning dog. She’s got it all: those soulful, sensitive eyes; that model’s bone structure in her face; those beautifully-shaped, expressive ears; her perfectly-distributed brindle patches; and the rippling muscles in her broad chest and shoulders, tiny waist, and sculpted hips and legs. It’s enough to drive anyone crazy.

 When we take her out, it’s hard to even walk down the street without being stopped by strangers every 30 seconds—“your dog is so gorgeous,” they all say. “And what a sweetheart,” as soon as she turns on the charm. “Indeed,” we reply. “Indeed.”

*up to 250 lbs of food; no multiple posts in a row by the same contributor

Kibble for Comments!

December 15, 2010 By in Lollie Tags: , , , , , , 58 Comments

It has turned cold outside, and we had our first dusting of snow the other night. To Lollie this means it’s time to steal her foster brother’s hoodie, but also to remember all the other homeless animals who are not as fortunate as she is, living in a warm and loving foster home.

warm and fashionable in her brother's hoodie

So, Lollie had an idea inspired by our friend over at Holyoke Home. For every comment* left on Love and a Six-Foot Leash posts from December 15th-December 31st 2010, we will donate one pound of high-quality dog food to Lollie’s sugar daddy, the Montgomery County Humane Society. We are lucky to have you wonderful blog readers celebrating Lollie’s progress and spreading the word about this fabulous adoptable dog. And in your honor, we want to give a little something extra to the homeless animals being cared for by our stellar local shelter.

So please, leave a comment this month! And as always, share Lollie’s blog with friends who may be looking for an adoptable wonderdog of their own!

please won't you help me find a home?

*up to 250 lbs of food; no multiple posts in a row by the same contributor

bedtime antics

December 10, 2010 By in Lollie Tags: , , , , , , 13 Comments

A while back I wrote about how dogs love to get into a rut, and described adoptable Lollie Wonderdog’s emerging routine. Part of this routine is combination play session / snuggle time before bed. I think Lollie looks forward to this time and when it comes, she really hams it up for us. Here are some of her signature moves.

Adoptability factor 2: Trainability

December 9, 2010 By in Lollie Tags: , , , , , , , , 11 Comments

This is the second in our new weekly series on what makes sweet Lollie Wonderdog so very adoptable. Although there are endless adoptability factors we could list, we are limiting this to a weekly series so we don’t overwhelm you too much.

Adoptability factor archive: 1: Snugglability

Lollie is an extremely fast learner. If you have been following her blog for some time, you have seen the cute videos about how quickly she picked up “sit” and “down,” and read my bragging about teaching her “shake” in about three minutes.

Her trainability also manifests itself in more subtle ways: in how she quickly picks up cues, learns routines, and figures out the expected behavior. I believe some people refer to this as intelligence. She hadn’t been with us more than a few days when she learned that dogs are supposed to sit to have their harness and leash clipped on. It took but a few walks to figure out that doing a slolom course on the sidewalk was not the preferred walking method. One of fostermom’s cooking sessions was enough for Lola to know that the kitchen is a good place to hover when things start to smell yummy. As you may have witnessed a few weeks back, Lol advanced quickly from mistrust to Super Jedi Master of the kong puzzle challenge.

 Yesterday we introduced a new challenge to Lollie—the very difficult command we call “wait.”  She totally dominated it.

wanttreats-havetowait-wanttreats-havetowait-wanttreats-havetowait

smellsdelicious-hardtowait-smellsdelicious-hardtowait-smellsdelicious-hardtowait

pleasepleasepleasepleasepleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!!

Lollie the carpenter

December 8, 2010 By in Lollie Tags: , , , , , 12 Comments

At the risk of pointing out the obvious: resident dog + foster dog = twice as many dogs as we had before.

And at Casa Fosterfamily, clutter is always lurking in a dark corner, waiting for us to stop paying attention so it can leap out into the open and take over everything. In its presence, we are so weak. It’s much easier to turn a blind eye and just bake a pan of brownies than it is to deal with the evil clutter monster. But, we try to combat it in small ways whenever we can.

Over the weekend, Lollie helped get the Dog Walk Station under control. We have this nifty vintage mail sorter by our side door, and when Chick was our one and only we used it to store dog walk related things: his leash, a spare key, poop bags, sunglasses, and gloves. With two dogs, though, it was getting a little unwieldy. Leashes, harnesses, collars, hats, and gloves were hung all over the poor thing, like some sort of ill-conceived, industrial holiday decoration.

So Lollie the brainiac helped us come up with a simple solution to keep things tidy. We went to a home restore and found some vintage brass cup hooks, took some simple measurements, and fastened them to the underside of our mail sorter.

Here is Lollie conceptualizing the project . . .

And figuring out the specs . . .

Just a few minutes later, voila! A two-dog solution! Nothing fancy, but it’s these little things that keep us sane while sharing our home with an extra dog.

out on the town

December 7, 2010 By in Lollie Tags: , , , , 12 Comments

This weekend we bundled up and took Lollie Wonderdog out to a busy pedestrian area in Silver Spring to strut our stuff (well, mostly her stuff). It has a pretty urban vibe, with lots of people and tall buildings, but no squirrels or rabbits. This kind of landscape always bodes well for Lollie’s gentlelady-like behavior, and she really hammed it up big time. Despite the strong winds and chill, people just flocked to her in her cute “adopt me” vest, which was recommended by our friend and mentor Maria of Tia’s Promise Animal Rescue. No applications yet, but we are hopeful. With her dashing good looks, perfect manners, and blockbuster personality, how can people resist?

Here are a few shots of fostermom and fosterdad with little miss thing.