Whippet Snippets

Joint Resolution

Now, whippets, for obvious reasons, do not make the same New Year's resolutions as humans do, ie. quit smoking, lose weight, get more exercise. But they do enjoy partaking in the annual tradition, all the same.

Ribsy's resolution? To stop peeing on his own leg. It's an ongoing issue. He's got quite the graceful arch, but sometimes - most particularly in the morning - he just hasn't got enough stretch to arc beyond his goalposts. So that poor, poor front leg gets sprinkled. Occasionally even doused.  But that is a little more than you really needed to know, wasn't it?

And Mirabel's resolutions (note pluralization)...where to begin! To stop barking at Ribsy during mealtimes, to stop eating poop, to not tug like an ox all easily spring to Girl's mind. But of course, Mira doesn't feel she has a need to make any resolutions whatsoever. When pressed by Girl, she scratched her slender head thoughtfully and finally came up with:

"To not get caught surfing the counter."

Happy New Year everyone! See you in 2009.

Looking ahead

Mirabel looks forward to a 2009 filled with even more fun and frolic with Ribsy, Boy and Girl. Now this is a pack she can run with.

Yes we can

With the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the U.S. only three weeks away, Ribsy became all shook up with Obama fever once again. To help calm his whippet nerves, he pawed onto Logobama and made his own special logo, seen here:

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

Whippet watch

Vancouver-like rain is melting away the snow, which means it's horridly swampy and disgusting at the parks. Ribsy and Mirabel prefer staying indoors. Ribsy sleeps while Mirabel likes to amuse herself with videos of whippets and wolves.

Whippets love Vimeo from WhippetGood on Vimeo.

Photo finish

Ribsy sometimes starts a bone and doesn't finish it. He's all over it the first few minutes, and then something distracts him, like a squirrel or a warm bed or the need to take a poop, and he doesn't come back to it. It's easy to start, so hard to complete.

Girl considers herself a completist. She doesn't leave a Sudoku puzzle unfinished. Nor a cup of coffee half-empty. When she picks up a magazine she has to flip through it from cover to cover.

Yet for some reason, she bought three brilliant art pieces from the wonderful Marc Johns many moons ago, and never got around to framing them. They sat in a box, yearning to be showed off to the world. Or at least breathe.

Well, awesome Boy surprised her by getting them framed for Christmas. Yay for thoughtful husbands!

Christmas New

Ribsy and Mirabel model some Christmas new. Thanks RNOF!

Taken moments before Mirabel snatched his scarf and ran away...

...even though she clearly has her own.

"Was I the muse for this stocking?" wondered Ribsy.

Big prezzie for Boy.

"Can we have our antler treats now? Oh please? Oh please? Oh pleeeeeeeeease?"

Jingle Whip Rock

This is what happens with too much wine and too much time on Christmas Eve.

Jody Bell Whippet Dino Rock from WhippetGood on Vimeo.

Merry Christmas

Happy holidays everyone!

(Photo of Ribsy by Mirabel)

Santa and his reindeer

Merry Christmas from Whippet Snippets' part-time stars, Daphne and Niles!

Years of Refusal

So Morrissey still hasn't come back to Canada. It's been awhile. Girl fears that these 'years of refusal' (ironically the name of his new album due out in February) will never end. Luckily enough, she managed to score second row seats to his show across the border in Buffalo. Yippee!

So how does Girl justify sneaking this non-whippet albeit exciting bit of news into Ribsy's blog? She unearthed this quote by Mozzer from November 1990, in which - clears throat - he says the following:

"Even people who quite like me feel slightly weighted down by all that solitary monkishness...No I haven't found religion, no I haven't found love. I haven't even got a whippet."

Hey Morrissey, what are you waiting for? You wouldn't even have to come into Canada to get one.