Random Pet Photo of the Day - 2026
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Love the scenery and the pups energy @Nordika !
I sometimes wonder "if the best way to bring a young strong male dobe along" socially is to learn from an older female in the household already.
Any thoughts on that?
To avoid going too far OT on this Random Pet Picture topic...
I'll start a separate thread:
Feel free to reply of course at either, but now thinking of adding another in a year or so...-s I think I have "one more big dog in me"
and if "its a big advantage to learn from a well socialized and trained female dobe already in household."
I sometimes wonder "if the best way to bring a young strong male dobe along" socially is to learn from an older female in the household already.
Any thoughts on that?
To avoid going too far OT on this Random Pet Picture topic...
I'll start a separate thread:
Feel free to reply of course at either, but now thinking of adding another in a year or so...-s I think I have "one more big dog in me"
and if "its a big advantage to learn from a well socialized and trained female dobe already in household."
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Oh, Annie, your father is showing!Taking a walk on this beautiful day with Annie. Almost 70° at the moment and it's not even 11:00 a.m. thought we'd stop in the leaves to take a picture.
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Does all of that darkness affect you? We're in northern Minnesota and our short days are difficult but I can't imagine how it is there.
I wish I could have taken a picture of Annie while I was watching a YouTube video. But I was watching on my phone so my camera was in use!
But I was watching a video where people were saying the trigger words for their dog to go for a walk. It was quite a hysterical. Some people didn't even get to the word "walk" when they'd say, "Do you want to go for .......and the dog was already jumping up and running for the door! Or another one was under a blanket and couldn't get out from under it fast enough when they said the word, Park.
I was sitting on the couch in the sunroom with Annie when I realized that she was listening to the trigger words herself! Her ears were perked, her head was tilting from side to side, and then she finally jumped off the couch and ran out of the room!
Hey!!! We're not going for a walk! Get back here! 
But I was watching a video where people were saying the trigger words for their dog to go for a walk. It was quite a hysterical. Some people didn't even get to the word "walk" when they'd say, "Do you want to go for .......and the dog was already jumping up and running for the door! Or another one was under a blanket and couldn't get out from under it fast enough when they said the word, Park.
I was sitting on the couch in the sunroom with Annie when I realized that she was listening to the trigger words herself! Her ears were perked, her head was tilting from side to side, and then she finally jumped off the couch and ran out of the room!
Hey!!! We're not going for a walk! Get back here! 
remy
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That reminds me of this video I have of Remy. “Bone” is one of his favorite words lol.I wish I could have taken a picture of Annie while I was watching a YouTube video. But I was watching on my phone so my camera was in use!
But I was watching a video where people were saying the trigger words for their dog to go for a walk. It was quite a hysterical. Some people didn't even get to the word "walk" when they'd say, "Do you want to go for .......and the dog was already jumping up and running for the door! Or another one was under a blanket and couldn't get out from under it fast enough when they said the word, Park.
I was sitting on the couch in the sunroom with Annie when I realized that she was listening to the trigger words herself! Her ears were perked, her head was tilting from side to side, and then she finally jumped off the couch and ran out of the room!
Annie knows a lot of words and bone is one of them. When I played your video, she picked up her head and gave me this look!!
remy
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Looks like you need to give her one now!
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Yes, we get that Airing-Out-Of-The-Nutsac pose a lot here too.Rainy day vibesView attachment 164591
Complete with smile.
Been walking Bonnie later around/after sunset as its cooler during our little warmer than average heat waves in fall Santa Ana season...
And still hoping we'll get a flyby or two by the Great Horned Owls...hunting for all the critters that come out in the "crepuscular" period...
So if you walk quietly, stop and listen, get your night adapted vision it can be very wonderful...
Maybe catch a coyote in the SureFire* flashlight scan every so often as "eyeshine"...
And because I am training/boosting Bonnie's confidence with walking a little ahead at night..."point man" style,
so I can watch her body language as "early warning system"...like in the daylight.
And still hoping we'll get a flyby or two by the Great Horned Owls...hunting for all the critters that come out in the "crepuscular" period...
So if you walk quietly, stop and listen, get your night adapted vision it can be very wonderful...
Maybe catch a coyote in the SureFire* flashlight scan every so often as "eyeshine"...
And because I am training/boosting Bonnie's confidence with walking a little ahead at night..."point man" style,
so I can watch her body language as "early warning system"...like in the daylight.
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* I have found this amount of lumens to dazzle and deter approaching songdogs, spendy but worth it for "habituation"...
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And retired the cheap $29 "Diablo2" combo stun flashlight discussed elsewhere to be too heavy and awkward in use-at a distance...
And more important in several walking late tests:
the crackling blue sparky snap actually got basically no reaction from a couple different coyotes of our urban adapted version around here...
and the weak light was equally unimpressive, battery life poor.
I'll still keep the stunlight in car...maybe if going to dog park...and no I have not tested the zapper yet on an actual dog...that would be cruel! And likely a crime...
However, I can say it will give you a nice jolt in the tuckus...thru the denim of your cargo pants if you engage by "butt dialing" it...sitting on the bench watching dogs.
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And retired the cheap $29 "Diablo2" combo stun flashlight discussed elsewhere to be too heavy and awkward in use-at a distance...
And more important in several walking late tests:
the crackling blue sparky snap actually got basically no reaction from a couple different coyotes of our urban adapted version around here...
and the weak light was equally unimpressive, battery life poor.
I'll still keep the stunlight in car...maybe if going to dog park...and no I have not tested the zapper yet on an actual dog...that would be cruel! And likely a crime...
However, I can say it will give you a nice jolt in the tuckus...thru the denim of your cargo pants if you engage by "butt dialing" it...sitting on the bench watching dogs.
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