The Sentinel

Sunflower announcing itself this week.

Approaching 9pm and he’s watching for my specific “tells” which precede me getting up to orchestrate the last yard outing & his bedtime cookie.

AKC Museum of the Dog, NYC “Promoting the Dog Through Photography” with Heidi Hudson Thurs., Nov. 20, 6:00 PM Sure to be a good one! Hudson is the author of “Man’s Best Friend – The hidden treasures of The Kennel Club Collection” #dogphotos #dogs #museum #photography #NYC

Morning cuddle.

Wicked good sale McFarland Publishers’ horror books - including my own “Horror Dogs: Man’s Best Friend as Movie Monster” 40% off ALL horror titles w/ code HORROR40. But hurry—these slashed prices will become ghostlore on Samhain, November 1! 💀🧙‍♀️ #McFarlandPublishing #HorrorSale #horrorbooks

hey hey - pup's got a makeover! cover reveal for new & updated "Inside of a Dog", out 9/2! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Inside...

Main Cabin Door 32,000 feet

This splendiferous book arrived yesterday. Highly recommended to all doggish & dog-adjacent folks. Brava @alexandrahorowitz.bsky.social !

Green Lion

headlining at @bookculture.com on Monday with the new edition of Inside of a Dog, and with Christine Webb. NYC, hope to see you there!

Vigil & Repose

Evening watch

I need five more minutes.

whew, that's a wrap on my recording of the audiobook for the new edition of "Inside of a Dog". I mispronounced many words, laughed a lot, and cried at my own ending

Just chilling in the mud

Terminator Rottweiler! “Rottweiler” (2004) was on DirecTV last week. Very timely as the film deals with a repressive government waging war on immigrants. The cyborg dog is one weapon of terror & subjugation. See Ch. 10 ‘Frankenstein Dogs’ in “Horror Dogs: Man’s Best Friend as Movie Monster” …

My sighthound completely missed seeing this turtle just trucking along …

Julius contemplates-

Are you sure …?

Nap bookends

My friend, Xiphos

@grammargirl.bsky.social Thank you for coining “diacritical bling.” Didn’t know I needed it but glad to know it now!

When you are sorting old dog toys to be donated and the big guy decided he needs to personally evaluate them.

RV Sunset

Must sniff this alien stuff! (youngster’s first contact with hail)

Reenacting The Battle of the North Atlantic in our backyard, captain of the USS Saluki uses sonar to locate a marauding gopher submarine.

petals drift - tax forms, numbers carefully tallied. lovely water spill …

“I have had lots of fun and some of my greatest fun has been among my dogs.” Lord Lonsdale, 1927

Like dogs? Like movies? Well here you go - How Hollywood turned our perfectly wonderful dogs into cinema villains… “Horror Dogs: Man’s Beat Friend as Movie Monster” - now on sale through McFarland! mcfarlandbooks.com/product/horr...

Always suspected the Empire and the Rebellion had something to do with dinosaurs going extinct.

Companionable naps

Just chillin’

Dog names - Two affable English Mastiffs, Conan (not really surprising) & Moses (didn’t look a bit like Charlton Heston).

More dog names - Irish Wolfhound sister and brother - Sunny & Jones (the latter after David Jones from The Monkees - a 1960s pop band (if you’re not gray enough to remember).

Dog names - Yesterday, I met a huge English Mastiff named Becket and his boon companion, Periwinkle (a diminutive Chihuahua).

Either an Alien Ship or else it’s an Automated Dog Tag Engraver …

Siblings

The pleasure of winter sun -

@jillschilpwrites.bsky.social Very cool, clockwork train (briefly) in Wicked !

“… he gives me more than ever he can receive - like all dogs.” John Justin as Ahmed in “The Thief of Baghdad” (1940)

They saved a space for me.

What we do on sunny winter days…

Just dropped - my interview about McFarland Publishers’ Dogs In Our World Series. I get to talk about several of the books including one of mine. 25% Discount code on all the DIOW titles! Do share if you like this ! bestpartofthebook.alitu.com/episode/4a6a...

Podcast interview going live this Friday, Nov. 21st! Watch this space for the link … @susankilby.bsky.social

As a wise person once said, "I aspire to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am."

Young & Old, Yin & Yang