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Meet Walter

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009


I know everybody loves my musings on media, music, sports and whatever, but this has kind of taken over my spare brain space the last few days…

Walter (a temporary name we’ve given him) is looking for a permanent home. He is a 13 pound terrier mix and about one year old. I found him wandering the trail by Chabot Equestrian Center last Thursday. I’ve put up posters in the area, a CraigsList ad and a Fidofinder ad, but no one has come forward.

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This doesn’t surprise me. He was not neutered, did not have any flea medication and had two “cherry eyes,” an ugly tear duct problem that requires a simple $500 surgery. My hunch – and that of everyone who’s met him – is that he was probably dumped up there because of the expense of taking care of him.

The good news is the good folks at Montclair Veterinary Hospital were kind enough to do his neutering and his eye surgery for free. This was done yesterday and he is recovering well. He should be back to full speed in about a week.

Walter will be a good dog for someone who is active, but not exceptionally so. He has a very mellow energy, but loves to be outside. When we return home from walks, he looks at our front stairs with disappointment; “what, here again?” But while we’re home he mostly sleeps and relaxes in our sunny backyard. Despite being a small guy, he’s pretty tough on the trail. We’ve done mostly-flat hikes as long as 2 miles and he enjoys it, though he’s pretty pooped at the end. I don’t think he’d be happy as a dog who stays in the house all day long every day.

n575019725_1615351_5889200I think his ideal situation would be with either an adult who is home a lot or with a family with small children.

He looks pretty scruffy now and he’s not allowed to have a bath for a week until his stitches heal. After he gets a haircut and shampoo, though, Walter’s going to be a handsome little boy!

He will definitely need to go to training class. He is polite, has learned that he has to be patient to get his food and is surprisingly not food-focused for a pup.

We are working on crate training him, but I’m not sure he gets it yet. Walter does have a little bit of separation anxiety – scratching at doors and whining – but this may disappear with training and his own growing confidence. (He has, after all, only been here six days.) The crate training may present a solution for this.

Walter gets along just fine with other dogs, including my adult female who outweighs him by 2x. I took him to the small dog park in Alameda on Monday and he did great. He seems to be fairly submissive, getting jumped on more than he jumps on others. He will take up challenges, though, and wrestle. And it should be noted that he is very much a Boy Dog, trying to mark every tree & bush on our walks.

n575019725_1615352_2210067He seems to get along well with small children. In fact, when I originally found him on the trail I then brought him back to the stables where he was immediately surrounded by four 8-year olds who surrounded him and all put his hands on him. He submitted to this.

I do not know how we would be with cats.

Although I’m not sure it’s correct to declare him officially ‘Housebroken,’ we have had no accidents in the house.

He is already a devotee of car rides. He doesn’t like getting in the car, but once that window is down, he is way into it!

If you would like to visit Walter to see if he’s the right dog for you, please E-mail back to arrange a visiting time. We have grown quite attached to him so we are going to try to be careful to place him in the best possible home. I expect that we will wind up with multiple interested parties, so please be prepared to tell us about your experience with dogs, how you expect to live with him and why your home could be a great fit. If we are unable to find a fit ourselves by May 21, we will have him registered with a local rescue group (though we will likely remain his foster home).

Daily Digest for April 23rd

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

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Shared Lush Life 3:05pm | via Readernaut
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Shared Remix 3:07pm | via Readernaut
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Ad Age reports that ‘recession beards’ are a trend, an act of "playful rebellion." And thus I have just shaved mine off. [#] 6:01pm | via Twitter
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@dennisroy Congratulations!!!!! [#] 7:05pm | via Twitter
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Please recommend books like Lawrence Lessig’s Remix and Henry Jenkins’ Convergence Culture. #crowdsourcing [#] 7:09pm | via Twitter
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"Tech savvy Newsom announces run for Governor": using Twitter and Facebook is tech savvy? Nice work, SF Chronicle. [#] 7:17pm | via Twitter
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There are few things more disappointing than hanging for an entire 5-hour baseball game that ends in a loss. #A‘s #oaklanda‘s [#] 10:07pm | via Twitter
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RT @sonicboom1234 I just found the twitter music motherload: http://tinyurl.com/cwuq3t [#] 10:43pm | via Twitter

Daily Digest for April 17th

Friday, April 17th, 2009

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New blog post: The Quaker Oats Bellwether http://entroporium.com/?p=405 [#] 4:09pm | via Twitter
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Today’s earworm, courtesy of KFOG on the alarm, is Margaritaville. Friends & countrymen, I will spare you the blip.fm link for this one. [#] 4:20pm | via Twitter
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World Cup World Tour #3: South Korea

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

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SeoTaiji And Boys – Hahyoga (Betrayed By You).mp3
extracted from the curiously named Goodbye Best Album

More on SeoTaiji here. "He’s sort of the Korean Michael Jackson as far as level of fame and being not-right-in-the-head goes."
Thanks to Lena for this track.

“Top Five Elvis Costello Songs”

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Combine my high school musical theater years with my experience working in the punk rock record store, add 25 years and some business acumen. Shake, stir, pour…

MercuryNews.com | 04/26/2006 | `Fidelity’ bound for Broadway

No “nattering nabobs of negativism” here

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Top 100 Speeches by Rank

American Rhetoric provides links to its 100 top American speeches of all time. Save yourself a trip to the library, spice up your interactive book report, get inspired. If you like the ‘nattering nabobs’ line, check #50.

Link provided courtesy of LHB

12 really unlucky people

Tuesday, January 11th, 2005


Drug-Sniffing Dogs Take A Bite Out Of Jam-Band Cruise; Police tipped off by posts on cruise’s message board

Hey, my Burning Man peeps, maybe we should take a Mah Jongg cruise instead this year!

Winter comes to the city

Monday, December 27th, 2004

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The dog got me up before 7 this morning. The rain yesterday prevented her from getting much of a run. Now today it’s even worse out and she’s going bonky. This is one of my first true tests as a dog owner. Any suggestions on what to do?

I’m enjoying my first true day off for a while. My office shuts down the week after Christmas and now Susie and I will try to knock out a bunch of projects before I am lost to a rather severe-looking January at the office. But now it’s cold and wet and the kind of day you dread in a Northern California winter — just awful enough to be miserable, not quite awful enough to avoid going outside or going into full “blankets by the TV” mode. I’m supposed to drive to Tahoe in my little Jetta, but I’m thinking that might not happen now.

Here is something for a quiet winter day:

[Soundtrack]
Shuttle 358 – Frame.mp3

Humble!

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004

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This is one of the best pictures I’ve found in a long time.

Sorry, no MP3 today. Having my iPod break for the third time in six months is putting a serious crimp in my style.

“For your new lifestyle”

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

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This just plain makes me sad
. Now you can have a dog without playing with it or feeding it or any of that crazy stuff.

Be sure to check out the promotional video to get the full effect. (Warning: slow download)

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