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I've mentioned Jim and shown one picture of him sleeping, but I haven't talked about him much. He's a rescued puppy (8 or 10 weeks? I can't seem to remember) that is living with us getting house trained and socialized with our dogs and will eventually belong to Alex, our good friend and dogsitter. The idea is that she will be able to bring Jim with her when she dogsits. She's also getting a crash-course in dog training from Alexis, and is taking Jim to various different places to socialize him (I think this is also forcing Alex, who is rather shy, to get some socialization training as well) so that he'll be people-friendly to people of all types.
He is a Boston terrier, but I don't like to use that term for the breed. Usually I call them "Bostons," which isn't confusing if people know you are talking about a dog. The breed is derived from "bull-and-terrier" stock during the great "breeding dogs to kill one another" experiment that resulted in the American pit bull terrier and the English bull terrier. It turned out that Bostons were crap at fighting, but were intelligent, social, and (to people who like flat-faced bulldogs) attractive, and so the breed was developed as a lap dog. Jim is in my lap at this moment. It's the first breed developed in the US and the state dog breed of Massachusetts. Why was Jim's mom tossed out the window of a moving car between Alamogordo and El Paso? (see, you should have read the link under 'rescue' above) Well, there are idiots everywhere. My dad says "Boston bull terrier," which is more accurate, but I think that would confuse people.
Charlie likes Jim and actively solicits playtime with him (but he also likes Jim's delightful, undestroyed toys) but Maggie is very nervous of the little alien. I think will lots more supervised play time she'll get over it. Jim likes to jump up and bite Charlie's face as a game and Charlie tolerates it. Maggie, not so much.
Here's a picture of Jim and his sister Emily that Alexis took when she went out to pick him up.
On this day in 365 Urban Species: Yew.
He is a Boston terrier, but I don't like to use that term for the breed. Usually I call them "Bostons," which isn't confusing if people know you are talking about a dog. The breed is derived from "bull-and-terrier" stock during the great "breeding dogs to kill one another" experiment that resulted in the American pit bull terrier and the English bull terrier. It turned out that Bostons were crap at fighting, but were intelligent, social, and (to people who like flat-faced bulldogs) attractive, and so the breed was developed as a lap dog. Jim is in my lap at this moment. It's the first breed developed in the US and the state dog breed of Massachusetts. Why was Jim's mom tossed out the window of a moving car between Alamogordo and El Paso? (see, you should have read the link under 'rescue' above) Well, there are idiots everywhere. My dad says "Boston bull terrier," which is more accurate, but I think that would confuse people.
Charlie likes Jim and actively solicits playtime with him (but he also likes Jim's delightful, undestroyed toys) but Maggie is very nervous of the little alien. I think will lots more supervised play time she'll get over it. Jim likes to jump up and bite Charlie's face as a game and Charlie tolerates it. Maggie, not so much.
Here's a picture of Jim and his sister Emily that Alexis took when she went out to pick him up.
On this day in 365 Urban Species: Yew.
