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It’s been, um, a while! So much as happened! Well, not really that much, but there was some excitement. For example, for about six hours recently I had two dogs. A stray wandered into the neighborhood and after a number of various hijinx, ended up at my place. The original neighbor who took him in had a male dog he didn’t get along with at all (found out later from the owner that this is pretty common for him) but he got along fantastically with Greta. Weird, right? So we hung out at my house for a while, had some playtime, got some pictures. Eventually returned Nico the American Staffordshire Terrier to the bosom of his family around mid afternoon. I totally wanted to keep him :((((

Here is his handsome mug as posted on FB while trying to find his people:

Stray dog Picture of a black and white AmStaff dog smiling while Greta tries to photobomb it from the front

As you can see, Greta needed to be in all of the pictures.

Stealing Greta’s spot on the couch:

Nico Making himself at home on the orange couch

Tandem snoozing!

Tandem snoozing Both dogs lying on the floor with their feet towards each other, head to tail

There’s even a vid of them wrapping up a rough housing session with lots of wagging tails and face licking. Of course they stopped with the funny stuff when I got the camera out.

Haven’t heard from his people since he was picked up. Hope everything is going well. Gives me a bit of hope that Greta can act like a normal dog. Of course, a few days later we ran into another neighbor who had been walking her dog during the “Who’s going to take him?” discussion and Greta totally started shit with her schnauzer. *eyeroll*

How fucking gorgeous is my ridiculous dog?

Classic portrait

This last weekend we went to Mason Neck again to go canoeing, not even thinking about the fact that the wind was very high that day. The water was really rough, white capped waves and everything, so they weren’t renting canoes out. Since the tide was out, we decided to meander quite a ways down the beach and let Greta play in the water.

Here she decides to try and rub dead mussel all over her head.

Greta tries to roll on a mussel

Greta did a lot of “fetching”, as demonstrated in this video. video and beach pictures, including a large dead fish )

At the end of the day, Greta is covered in water and sand.

A very wet dog covered in sand

All and all, a successful day.

Mirrored from The Octopus Gallery.

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Holy crap this is cute!

I was browsing through the bull breed cards and found this fabulous bull terrier card. I love the color and the flower outlines around that smiling bully face.

Mirrored from The Octopus Gallery.

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At lunch, I was playing around with some photos and Paint (because my work computer doesn’t have anything more sophisticated) and came up with this fun little card.

I think it’s adore-a-bull!

Mirrored from The Octopus Gallery.

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I’ve posted about my dog a couple of times here. Greta Splendens, née Dolce, was adopted from The Washington Animal Rescue League this summer. She is, we think, a bullmastiff mix, although no idea what the other half is as she really just looks like a mini mastiff, with a slightly less smooshed nose. She has been a joy and a half and even when she’s loudly protesting the presence of the garbage truck, I love that she’s in my life. I hope that if you’re looking for a dog, you consider looking past the hype and check out the thousands of bull breed dogs in shelters. Pitbulls, bulldogs, boxers and their mixes make fabulous pets.

If you already have a bull breed, how about helping convince other people? I’m sure your dog is a fabulous breed ambassador, so here are some stamps to help spread the word.

Mirrored from The Octopus Gallery.

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Bullmastiff Sphinx card
Bullmastiff Sphinx by OctopusPhotography

With having more time on my hands, I’m spending a lot of time with Greta, my bullmastiff. I got to taking pictures of her the other day and thought some of them would make really nice prints. However, since they didn’t quite fit with the fish stuff I have going on at my main Zazzle store, I created a new store for those and other straight up photography projects: Octopus Photography. It’s a little empty at the moment, but there should be some new stuff up in a little while.

Mirrored from The Octopus Gallery.

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Greta the Lobster

This is my dog, Greta Splendens, as a lobster. She had a lot of fun greeting kids tonight, although that might have been mostly because I was giving her treats as well.

Mirrored from The Octopus Gallery.

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