# Hey It's National Dog Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977 "2015-08-26T19:09:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/1 "2015-08-26T19:09:18Z")
Purely coincidental but we just got ourselves a new dog yesterday from the Anti-Cruelty society. It was a whirlwind few days for Delilah as she came up to Chicago from Oklahoma, got to the pound on Saturday where we first saw her (and my wife and I began cyber stalking her…), she got fixed on Monday and we got her on Tuesday. She’s still a little trepidatious but she’s peed on three rugs already so she’s got that going for her, which is nice. So here’s to all you dog rescuers and good pet owners. I raise a [glass](http://io9.com/the-strange-history-of-bottled-drinks-marketed-to-dogs-1447639773) to you. The dog days are over The dog days are done The horses are coming So you better run (Damn, that sounded better when I was singing it in the shower) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/2 "2015-08-26T19:13:05Z")
That link is not a picture of Delilah! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/3 "2015-08-26T19:20:25Z")
Here’s a [pic](http://jokideo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/545273_10150953290482870_640259414_n.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/4 "2015-08-26T19:21:26Z")
Ooops, wrong [pic](http://images.yuku.com/image/jpg/64a1627df9309f571d3e07ca581127c24cfd0040_r.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![JcWoman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jcwoman/32/2889_2.png) [@JcWoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JcWoman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/5 "2015-08-26T19:27:41Z")
Here’s to you as well! Delilah is a little cutie! ---
**Author:** ![TMartee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@TMartee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TMartee)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/6 "2015-08-26T19:29:22Z")
in honor of National Dog Day here’s a pic of my old [girl](http://postimg.org/image/y79jqomyv/) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/7 "2015-08-26T19:30:48Z")
**IG** , good for you. Shelter dogs try harder–heck, she had to drive up to Chicago from OK. Many happy years bending to your new overlord. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/8 "2015-08-26T19:32:42Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Here’s a [pic](http://jokideo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/545273_10150953290482870_640259414_n.jpg). I would totally name that dog Large Marge. > [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Ooops, wrong [pic](http://images.yuku.com/image/jpg/64a1627df9309f571d3e07ca581127c24cfd0040_r.jpg). Aww! That tail is just a happy blur! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/9 "2015-08-26T19:37:32Z")
This is [our Lilith](https://www.flickr.com/photos/45215582@N06/8516722946/in/album-72157624282803681/). She is sick and won’t be with us much longer, but while she is, _every_ day is Dog Day. ---
**Author:** ![TMartee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@TMartee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TMartee)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/10 "2015-08-26T19:42:28Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > This is [our Lilith](https://www.flickr.com/photos/45215582@N06/8516722946/in/album-72157624282803681/). She is sick and won’t be with us much longer, but while she is, _every_ day is Dog Day. ohhh she is a pretty girl. Is she a dobey with natural ears? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/11 "2015-08-26T19:43:26Z")
I’m really sorry to hear that, **DB**. Spoil her like crazy! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/12 "2015-08-26T19:47:41Z")
> [@TMartee](#): > > ohhh she is a pretty girl. Is she a dobey with natural ears? Yes, and thank you! **burpo** , she’s been spoiled since day one. When we found out she was sick it went into overdrive! She rules us with an iron paw, and we feel lucky in our servitude. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/13 "2015-08-26T21:39:58Z")
It’s pretty obvious from my screen name that it’s a party day at MY place. 🙂 I don’t have pictures here at work of my canine triumvirate, but I’m going to salute them here anyway. Rocky, retired bird dog, 11 years old and still going, cancer surviver, and my biggest baby Pepsi, foundling, 5 years old, bossy bullfrog, tattles on her brothers, and is my staunch defender Daragan, 1.5 years old, devil child dog, gorgeous redhead, still a work in progress Love you guys so much. In honor of all the dogs gone before, here is a quote from literary dog lover, Albert Payson Terhune: _Soon or late, every dog’s master’s memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives._ ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/14 "2015-08-26T22:27:51Z")
Happy Dog Day, everyone!! I’ll join in with a kind of update. Some of you may have read [my thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=741377) back in November 14 when I adopted Mollie. Here is a [puppy pic](https://flic.kr/p/qVT5or) of Mollie at about 5 weeks old Well, here she is [now](https://flic.kr/p/wwivrz). And again [here.](https://flic.kr/p/xbyjxY) I was so curious what kind of mutt she was, I did the DNA analysis thing. They say 3 main breeds in her are Chow, Collie, and SharPei. Chow I can see, muzzle shape, black hair, and black spotted tongue. Collie (as in Lassie kind) I can see in her coat pattern and tail shape, as well as the touch of gray color on rear legs. SharPei I don’t see at all. But she is a super happy, loving pound rescue baby! Happy Dog day, everyone!! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/15 "2015-08-27T02:53:32Z")
I followed my doggies around all day with a camera. But not really a camera, it was my iPod Touch that has no front-facing camera (like, a real camera) just a self-facing camera and no flash. So I got a lot of shitty pics of my dogs, but they ended up making a decent Facebook album. Here’s some good ones… [Morgan in the car](http://i.imgur.com/PJmlVTO.jpg) [Grady and Morgan on their walk](http://i.imgur.com/fDtKcmu.jpg) [Fighting](http://i.imgur.com/pbHOhir.jpg) We didn’t do anything fun or unusual today. Grady went to school. Thursdays we go to doggy beach so we’ll be doing that tomorrow. I did a DNA test on Morgan. Says 50% pit bull, 25% yellow lab and 25% pure mutt. Doesn’t look like a pittie to me - she “passes” lol Grady looks like Mollie, but less fuzzy. I need to get him tested. I bet he’s part chow too. I’m feeling a little down today too because it’s this time last year that I was rapidly losing my Dolly (just like \*\*leftfield6 \*\*lost his pooch). So I am having flashbacks of when she was sick and missing her. But it was nice to see all my friends’ dogs on FB today - some people never post pics of their dogs. AS IF!!! ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/16 "2015-08-27T03:58:03Z")
Ah yes. I’ve read it suggested (seriously, not metaphorically) that humans aspire to have the moral code of dogs. Not that we do, but that we’d like to. Here’s to ours: Sweet Simone, nine years old and getting a little wobbly. Special needs, but a wonderful personality. She [likes to sleep in the sun,](https://www.flickr.com/photos/pinfeatherphotos/20905415132/in/dateposted-public/) but [she can still get revved up](https://www.flickr.com/photos/pinfeatherphotos/20727044670/in/dateposted-public/) for a hike. Diamond, our project. About 16 months, all enthusiasm and teeth and no judgment whatsoever. [Pulled from a public shelter on her kill date](https://www.flickr.com/photos/pinfeatherphotos/16259445767/in/dateposted-public/), now [sacked out on the couch](https://www.flickr.com/photos/pinfeatherphotos/20727180648/in/dateposted-public/). ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/17 "2015-08-27T12:17:03Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > but [she can still get revved up](https://www.flickr.com/photos/pinfeatherphotos/20727044670/in/dateposted-public/) for a hike. Oh my god, that picture is hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/18 "2015-08-27T13:02:11Z")
Yesterday was a good dog day for us. Breck (-enridge) had been in training for 3 weeks while we took a couple of vacations and we finally got him back after first going through training ourselves in his new commands. It’s an impressive transformation, he was always eager to please but now many of the directives are automatic, he just knows when to heel, sit, lay down etc in addition to leave it, place, etc. [Here](https://dumpyourphoto.com/photo/PZoerBqYps) he was as a wee puppy. And [here](https://dumpyourphoto.com/photo/M5nAYesgJs) at 5 1/2 months he’s ‘taking my kid to school’ today. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/19 "2015-08-27T13:23:53Z")
Yay, dogs! [Here’s my 11-year-old Greyhound, Tough](http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z300/romansperson/toughrunninmarch2014_zpsd6803e98.jpg). He still runs all-out, every day. [Take a tennis ball, leave a tennis ball](http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z300/romansperson/ROMANS-LAPTOP/Pictures/people_are_good_10_zps854e5740.jpg)(this is from the dog beach on Honeymoon Island in FL). ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977/20 "2015-08-27T14:21:27Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > Yay, dogs! [Here’s my 11-year-old Greyhound, Tough](http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z300/romansperson/toughrunninmarch2014_zpsd6803e98.jpg). He still runs all-out, every day. Wow, that guy look like all run and muscle. So far Delilah’s coming along AOK, she likes chilling in the kitchen and she went to her cage last night without a problem. She didn’t want to go in this morning though and she sure has a lot of pee in her. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-national-dog-day/728977.md?page=2)