Every day is the Day of the Dog!

For the ethnic Chinese, the coming Lunar New Year may be the Year of the Snake, but many caring dog owners will agree that -- regardless -- it's the Day of the Dog, everyday. You may have had to sleep late the previous night, but come morning, you have to wake up early enough to feed and walk/poo the dog/dogs.

All because, way back, some smarty wolf ancestor of today's pet dog "decided" to switch its diet:

    

http://news.xin.msn.com/en/weird/starchy-genes-made-dog-into-mans-best-friend-6

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By mid-year, Brady will be 16 years old, which makes him a very, very old pooch. Previously the Senior Dog, he is now the Dog Mentor. He is as good as blind but still cuts a handsome figure:

I tried taking an unusual picture of him (TIF format):

Killer, previously just the young punk runt, is now the Senior Dog, having reached the respectable age of nine. It is harder to take pics of him because he will simply lie down when I point a camera at him:

But, with patience, I got some other "poses" from him, like the "Cleopatra" pose, the "evil" look, and the cutesy look:

But the TIF-format shot, of him coming out from his "cave", did not look clear enough:

Here are two more pics of Killer, one snug inside his cave, and the other a little further out:

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Finally, Ken and Susan, our friends from Calgary, Canada, sent us these two pics:

(There is only one dog.)