Livestock drama

   “Let’s put pool noodles on the goat’s horns!” says a teenager.

“Why would you,   ” I begin, but they have already stampeded out of the house. I shrug.

   It turns out that when someone puts pool noodles on a goat’s horns, the goat doesn’t really care. They’re very light, after all, and she can’t see them. You know who cares? Who cares a LOT?

   the HORSE. Hero took one look at Nutmeg wearing pool noodles and ran away. You know who doesn’t want to be left alone, ever? Nutmeg. Who went trotting after Hero because he was leaving her.

   Hero, seeing that the eldritch abomination was after him, picked up speed. Nutmeg went into a full run. My kids started chasing Nutmeg to get the pool noodles off her, but could not catch her, because she’s surprisingly fast. The dogs were bringing up the rear, just happy to be going for a pleasant run. Hero was in a panic, leading a parade that he did not want.

   This all resolved. One noodle feel off; the kids eventually cornered Nutmeg and removed the other one. Just - a day at a farm, I guess.

10/02/20

When your enrichment’s too scary…..

Anatolian shepherd dog puppy in training

“Hello, I understand you are the new assistant manager, just checking in to make sure you’re ok.” -@firesidoni

The sheep find him irresistible.

@igneouskit

My fave parents before they became gHoSt pArEnTs

Hey @hauntinghyrule I’ve seen that you base a lot of the Link’s sleep patterns off of their trauma? Which gave me the idea that somewhere along the line they could adopt a therapy dog. I don’t think Blue and Vio would be comfortable sitting with people and talking about it so it would be a nice alternative for when they’re struggling :)

Thinking a Saint Bernard, chow, or Caucasian Shepherd dog. Something big and securing but with lots of love!!

Haha I hadn't meant to get into the trauma so much (originally it was stuff like "Red sprawls like a starfish" and the thing about Green being a flail-y sleeper 'cause Wind element), but Blue started me off in that direction, and well... xD

But omg yes therapy dog!! Big soft fluffy friend to hug and confide in. Somebody to talk to who will never judge.

Friendly and playful, reminding Green what it is to just be himself sometimes, not always The Leader with the weight of a team (the weight of the world) on his shoulders. A reassuring bulk at Red's side so he doesn't have to be alone in big crowds. Thick warm fur for Blue to hold on to when it's cold out. Puppy eyes begging to go for a walk when Vio's shut himself in his room too long again. Unconditionally loving, never treating Shadow any differently than any of its other favorite people.

“So my mom just got a puppy…“ 

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@igneouskit

Fitz and Fen meet a dog

His ball froze to the ground and he didn’t understand why he couldn’t grab it

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Maned wolf in Brazil

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I will always see maned wolves as some kind of Avatar The Last Airbender hybrid animal. Fox-deer.

Oh.

Its bigger than I thought it was

this is what happens when you put shoes on a Hobbit

So one of my neighbors has a lawn Roomba or whatever they're called, and this thing trundles around looking like a background robot in the background of the original trilogy, and ABSOLUTELY BAFFLING THE DOGS.

They have concluded, I think, that it's some kind of prey animal because right after this video ended they decided to crouch down and stalk it, which means I'm 90% sure I'm going to have to stop Arwen from eating it at some point.

Of course it's a prey animal it fucking eats GRASS

While I can’t fault your reasoning on robot taxonomy, apparently we’re both wrong:  Arwen, as much as she is a high-prey-drive animal, is foremost, a herding dog, and has decided that the Lawn Roomba is a SHEEP.

What happened is the lawn roomba belongs to the guy that does most of the maintainence on the neighborhood park, and he had it out grazing on a different section of lawn when my parents came down for a walk and Arwen was siezed by 200 years worth fo Kelpie Instincts, rolled out of her Harness and proceded to herd the shit out of this tiny, oblivious robot.  

Everything was on display- mock-stalking, intimidating eye contact, barking, running in front of it to try to get it to balk, the scariest barking she can muster (which is actually.  pretty scary if you’re not used to Loud Dogs), looking back at my parents for directions.  or rather, looking at my Mom while Dad tried unsuccessuflly to capture her.

After about ten minutes they realized she wasn’t biting it, and decided to let her play Sheep Simulator 5000 for a while. She eventually figured out that 

Conent that this was apparently some kind of blind, deaf and particularly stupid sheep, she could now manage the robot by smacking it if it got too close to the creek bed or fence for her liking, and was eventually content to sit on the highest point of the field and Supervise (TM) it.

“Hey.” Said Roger, owner of the robot. “Do you think if I put the ramp down she’ll herd it into the back of my pickup?”

Arwen was mostly asleep in the afternoon sun as roger put the ramp down but woke right up when mom Whistled, then pointed at the truck.  She immediately went after the robot and did something that wouldn’t have occured to me, an allegedly more intelligent being: the robot is roughly triangular, and when it hits an obstacle, will change direction so that one of its other sides (rather than points) is now the ‘front’.  So to get it to move in a straight line in the direction she wanted, Arwen would smack the two sides of the robot that she didn’t want it to go in in quick sucession, and got it across the field, over a small hill and up the ramp as fast as it’s clumsy little wheels could go.

“I didn’t know you had a fully-trained sheepdog!” Said Roger

“Me either.” said Mom.

So Arwen now has a Semi-Weekly Appointment to play with Sheepbot.

Well this is just beguiling

It also just goes to show that all the dudes who have fretted about the Robot Apocalypse for generations needed to hang out outside with dogs more

I have something extremely important to say

My aunt’s dog has a paw print on his paw

Now that has to be the absolute sneakiest Clue ever.

killing machine? more like loverboy…

i highly extremely appreciate fun questions that give me drawing ideas, i cant do this on my own,,,

In Nepal they have a festival that honours dogs and thanks them for being our loyal furry friends.

WHAT GOOD PUPPIES

@iwak

Dogs on TV always look so stiff. Like they’re supposed to be just sitting there but you can tell that the dog is like “!!!! Am good boy!!! Am hold position!!! Am look off stage at handler!!! Hi handler!!! Ready your finest treats for the good boy!!!”

My favorite are dogs who are supposed to be fierce but are so clearly playing at it. Just dubbing in growls can’t change that butt-wiggle of “I’m doing THE THING and soon I’ll get PRAISE and play with MY TOY”

Yes. This too.

In the Lion the Witch and the Wardobe movie (the one with Tilda Swinton, not the BBC one) the wolves all have CGI tails. Because they’re actually Malamute or Huskie crosses and wouldn’t stop wagging their goddamn tails all the time because they were so excited to be playing with all these nice people on this nice set with their nice handlers just out of shot holding lots of nice sausage.

i knew this was gonna be good from the freeze frame but i had NO IDEA

wHAT AN EXCELLENT PUPPY

I might have gone a bit crazy w this one bUT I really… love how it came out……. so Ade and her puppy going for a walk on an autumn night