Posts tagged with dogs

A German Shepherd

A German Shepherd

Jack Goldstein, A German Shepherd, 1976

A Princess of Mars for your reading pleasure.

Nuclear Disintegrating Parachutist Canine

Nuclear Disintegrating Parachutist Canine

PETA really hadn’t mobilized their Russian arm in 1935.

( via modern mechanix)

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This is Bud, the first dog to ride in a car across America. He had to wear goggles cause it was dusty and the car had no roof.

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Lord Tweedmouth. Yes, this is a real person’s real name. He also invented the golden retriever.

When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.

—James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss

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Is There Any Greater Pain of the Teeth…

Is There Any Greater Pain of the Teeth...

One of Gustave Doré’s numerous illustrations for Rabelais’ Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel.

Thus, said Panurge; for when with pleasure I beheld this jolly fire, jesting with myself, and saying—Ha! poor flies, ha! poor mice, you will have a bad winter of it this year; the fire is in your reeks, it is in your bed-straw—out come more than six, yea, more than thirteen hundred and eleven dogs, great and small, altogether out of the town, flying away from the fire. At the first approach they ran all upon me, being carried on by the scent of my lecherous half-roasted flesh, and had even then devoured me in a trice, if my good angel had not well inspired me with the instruction of a remedy very sovereign against the toothache. And wherefore, said Pantagruel, wert thou afraid of the toothache or pain of the teeth? Wert thou not cured of thy rheums? By Palm Sunday, said Panurge, is there any greater pain of the teeth than when the dogs have you by the legs?