This week’s FRC - my parents’ new cat, Killer:

I know, I know, you were expecting pics of Gracie Kaylee and Penelope Jayne, the newest members of the clan. I’ve taken around 500 pictures so far, but…I’ve taken around 500 pictures so far! As you can imagine, that’s alotta junk to sort through. I’ll have some up soon, though, promise.

I have five dogs now. Crazy.

In carnival news (which I’ll start adding to the week’s Friday Random Cuteness, I’ve decided), the 47th installment of The Carnival of the Green is up at Greener Miami. Also, The Carnival of Empty Cages is slated for October release on Taking Place, but it doesn’t seem to be up yet. Keep an eye out.

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Hey, I’ve had a busy day, catching up on email and scrubbing the house down and all. And now it’s finally time for bed.

Unlike Ozzy, though, I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep a wink. Tomorrow’s the day I’ve been waiting almost four weeks for - tomorrow we get pick up Gracie and Penelope!

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This pic was taken a few years back at Lollypop Farm, the local Humane Society that cares for “farm” animals such as pigs, horses, and goats in addition to your standard “pets”. We lived nearby, and Ralphie loved strutting his stuff around the on-ground trails and into the park next door.

I’d love, love, love (!) to take the three furbabies there while we’re in town, but right now it’s kinda iffy. Shane’s sick, and I doubt I can handle all three of the monsters on my own. Peedee and Rennie have never been, though, so it’d be great if we can make the trip. I promise to post some better pictures if we manage it.

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Shane & I are visiting our parents in New York this week for a wedding, hence the irregularity of posts. Anywho, for today’s Random Cuteness - my parents’ dog, Copper.

Now that’s a real dog!

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Though it’s fun to walk around muttering “Motherf’in snakes! In my motherf’n door!” all day long, it does suck to have to keep said door closed for fear that those motherf’in snakes will wander in and make themselves at home. In the “plus” column, I guess the cross-breeze is no longer necessary since it’s only in the 70s now. Oh, well.

Snakes! In my door!
 

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I’m heading out to meet Gracie and Penelope soon, so I’ll have to make this week’s FRC quick:

Peedee totally ♥s his big bro Ralphie.

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In remembrance of Hurricane Katrina, for this week’s FRC, I’d like to share a photo from FEMA:

Michael Rieger / FEMA Photo 18630

September 6, 2005 New Orleans — Evacuees and their pets receive help at the New Orleans airport where FEMA’s D-MATs have set up operations.

OK, I guess that’s more bittersweet than cute, but hey - I’m in a kinda melancholy mood. Besides, puppies are de facto FRC. Period.

If you’re still craving more adorable animal pics, check out the winners of American Humane’s Pets & Pals Photo Contest™. My favorite? “Sing a Happy Song”, snouts down!

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For this week’s Friday Random Cuteness, I offer you a series of pictures that I managed to snap a few weeks ago, right before my camera broke and had to be sent to Colorado for repairs. (Oh, how sorely it is missed!)

The pictures speak for themselves: Ralphie loves to dig, Rennie loves to lounge. Occasionally she wears herself out so, chasing the ball and such, that she just hunkers down and refuses to move. Even if Ralphie’s raining a dirt storm all over her. She’s a Dirty Grrrl, so why should she care, anyway?
 

 

 

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This week’s dose of cuteness will be served with a bonus story!

Beer saves the planet

It may sound like an excuse made up by someone heading off for a night out – but drinking beer is good for the planet.

And, if you feel peckish after downing several pints, there is even more good news because a separate study reveals curry can boost brain power.

It is not the ale itself that has the green credentials, but the stuff brewers throw away as they make it.

One needs only consume curry once in a while for better cognitive performance

The process of brewing from barley creates a waste product called beer bran.

The bran can soak up potentially fatal and cancercausing chemicals, often used in paint and glues, which end up in rivers and lakes.

Up to now, environment agencies have used expensive carbon filters to clean up polluted waterways.

But they are not environmentally friendly to produce. Beer bran occurs naturally in brewing and is cheap, scientists from Kobe Pharmaceutical University in Japan told New Scientist.

And now, I present Ozzy (Prince of Darkness), who - from the looks of his mushy belly - has clearly had a few too many brewskies.

No big backstory here, just marshmallow and fur.

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If my camera was working, I’d snap a quick shot of O-Ren and share it with y’all. She’s snoozing on a pillow next to me and looks, well, cute. It’s only 88 in Kansas City with 40% humidity - pretty nice considering the weather we have been dealing with - but I think she’s still pooped from chasing the ball ’round the yard this morning.

So I guess this picture will have to do instead.

This was O-Ren when we first adopted her, in March of ‘05: 5 pounds lighter, running at 25% her normal speed, and launching snot rockets all over the furniture. We took her to the vet as soon as the adoption papers were signed, and it just so happened that she had a nasty case of kennel cough. Poor girl! During that first week, we had to force Vicks NyQuil down her throat with a baby dropper every three hours on the dot. Naturally, most of it ended up on her face, and her snout was stained red before long. I was afraid she’d come to hate us before the week was over. But alas, she recovered, and of our three dogs, she’s probably the most attached to me. She’s kind of like a mini-Shadow (so named because she’s my mother’s shadow). So it’s all good.

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