The (Un)Official Permie's Dog Picture Thread

What a great thread, thank you, Tim for starting it. I'll post some pics of my own dogs shortly.

Gina Jeffries wrote: These damn dogs just get so deep into our hearts...

I was just thinking something similar as I read through this heart warming thread and looked at the photos.

Eons ago, ”in the high and far off times, Oh best beloved….”  as Rudyard Kipling said in his “just so” tales about the beginnings of things that are commonplace in our times…

I was thinking that dogs, with their big hearts, their innate caring, and potential ferociousness on behalf of their affiliates, and their innate altruism…. that dogs recognized our potential, and affiliated with us.  

Of course they don’t care in the least that we think we were the party responsible for the transformation of both species into who we are today with for and to one another.

I mean just look at poor defenseless, incompetent and pitiable humans:  we can’t smell approaching predators or much of anything else, our teeth are silly substitutes for real teeth, our jaws are weak, we can barely utilize “ESP” so until recently we couldn’t communicate or coordinate at distance…. and so on.

We’re just lucky they took us on and have taken such good care of us all this time. 😉

We’re lost without them.

Thekla McDaniels wrote:     We’re just lucky they took us on and have taken such good care of us all this time. 😉

We’re lost without them.

I know.....right?!  This photo looks like we are enjoying a carefree cup of coffee on the screenporch.  But Tasha and Kibar clearly are......'busy'.....ensuring that the attack rabbits from under the floorboards aren't going to grab us by the ankles and pull us down into the dungeons of doom!
Ha!    

Another of Gigi.

She is in my dreams often - always misbehaving and an armful. I miss her.
Thank you again,
Jo

This is my teen son’s Plott Hound mix. He has to go for a walk to visit the neighbor’s house every day. He sits by the fence and the horse walks over and they look at each other. The horse eats grass and the dog imitates her.

Here they are: Sven and Lili, our guards.

I never thought that a tiny French bulldog would make the best gardening/farm/life companion, but Rosie does it all. At only 17lbs, she is a rescue from a puppy mill, with a crooked spine, two bad knees, and a botched butthole surgery (I'm not joking). She's been trotting along at my ankles and making me laugh 24/7 since day 1 💕.