Bring back firing squads for anyone involved. Don’t care who.

News flash: puppies grow fast. Charlie is getting tall!

When the world feels overwhelming & awful, a picture of a sleeping puppy can only help.

Hey, I just donated some $ to help ship whistles to areas besieged by ICE. If you have a few extra bucks, you can too: gofund.me/fec65595f

Toby is Charlie’s best friend. Toby is unsure about this relationship.

Friday vs. Sunday. I thought maybe we’d been spared from too much winter weather, but apparently we’ll be getting more today. 😬

Obligatory puppy pics. 🐶

The Cone of Shame made it difficult for Fifi to eat & drink, so she’s now an orange slice. 😂

This is Fifi. We love Fifi very much, but Fifi is VERY dumb & had to have emergency surgery to remove a foreign object from her stomach, which turned out to be ELEVEN PONYTAIL HOLDERS. We honestly have no idea how she did it. Anyway, she’s home now & recovering, and I’m still totally confused. 🤷🏻‍♀️

So how are the cats adjusting to the puppy? Pretty dang well, I’d say.

Haircut day! 🐶✂️

Releasing this on New Year’s Eve to make sure it gets no media attention & will be forgotten by tomorrow. I’m sure that wasn’t planned or anything.

Charlie is ready for New Year’s Eve in his best plaid sweater.

I think Charlie is basically a ginger Ewok.

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

Someday I’ll get back to photographing my cats (who I swear I still love very much). But right now this is basically what my camera roll looks like. 100% puppy. 🐶

Before & after the first visit from the dog groomer. Charlie is so soft & fluffy now, and he smells delicious. Can’t stop kissing him.

The baby & I are at the vet for his next round of vaccines. He’s not psyched about it.

Look, I love Tim Miller, but if you want to see White Woman Tears deployed, here’s an example. This grifting asshole (Nuzzi, not Tim) wants to play victim. She’s the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral.

Charlie cried/barked while I was in the shower until I opened the door to let him in with me. Then he was surprised that he got a bath too. 🤷🏻‍♀️

So the puppy learned* how to go up the stairs over the holiday weekend. But he hasn't learned how to go DOWN the stairs. So he darts up & then cries or barks to be carried back down. This is great. Awesome. * My brother-in-law taught him. Yes, he knows I'm still mad about it.

Holiday weekend recovery = couch time

FYI: the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan” was negotiated and begun by…. Donald Trump

Still getting used to the whole leash thing, but making progress.

Waiting for someone to use AI to create Rachel's version of Shepherd's pie from "Friends."

Anybody need puppy photos to brighten their Monday? Sure you do. 🐶

If you haven’t already seen Ryan Lizza post the texts that RFK Jr sent to Olivia Nuzzi, just… don’t. I want to walk into the sea.

Charlie hasn’t figured out how to go up the stairs yet. Instead he just looks sad & whines until the person who has deserted him forever returns.

I’m only mildly obsessed with this tiny creature.

So dogs just have an instinctual thing for shoes, huh? A dozen or more chew toys & this boy finds the teenager’s fuzzy slipper.

Charlie is not a big fan of baths, it turns out.

It turns out puppy teeth are a lot like kitten teeth, they feel like needles & can break skin. Which is generally manageable by distracting with chew toys. Until you’re lying on the floor playing with the dog, and he decides his next chew toy is going to be LAUNCHING TEETH-FIRST AT YOUR FACE.

Charlie is almost entirely camouflaged by the fall leaves. 🍁🐶

with the holidays upon us please enjoy my favorite miss manners column (circa 2002)

Took Charlie to our vet to get his latest shots & all that. They deemed him perfect, and the tech took him in the back to meet everybody because he’s so cute. Then he took a 💩 on the exam room floor and fell asleep in my lap. 😂

Sorry not sorry, I can’t stop taking pictures of this puppy.

I’m figuring out this puppy’s routine, and it mostly seems to be either 100% all-out crazy zoomies or sleeping. Zoomies will resume when he wakes up. 😂

North Carolinian here:

First walk was attempted. Made it all the way to our mailbox. Turns out sitting & eating dead leaves is way more fun.

Ways in which puppies are like babies: Charlie played like a maniac this morning, then started whining. I picked him up & swayed until he fell asleep in my arms. Then I set him down & he immediately woke up. 😂 My human children did this EXACT thing.

I swore up & down I’d never get another dog. Turns out I’m a liar. Everybody, meet Charlie.

Texts with my 14 year old.

Before we had our dog put down last month, I had sworn up and down that she was the first and last dog I'd ever have. So of course I'm already looking at rescues on Petfinder. Big ol' hypocrite, that's me.

My boys. 🐈🐈‍⬛

Coworker is angry that I stood up to get some water and would like me to sit back down so he can get back to my lap.

The only thing wrong with this video is that I wasn’t there & didn’t get to pet any of them.

Sleeping like Superman, sitting like the Sphinx.

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

That should say “take.” TAKE pictures of dogs. Not fake. 🤦🏻‍♀️