Mesut, Rocky and Balboa

[suzanne410.livejournal.com]

No time to write words, but really are they even necessary here???? I don't think I can find any anyways... *dead*

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[lovinthelads.livejournal.com]

THERE's A SPACE THERE FOR MANDY TO CUDDLE INTO!!!!

[suzanne410.livejournal.com]

That's probably where she had been sitting before she got up to take the picture. ;)

[lovinthelads.livejournal.com]

it's perfectly Mandy-sized. *sighs at the thought of them all cuddled with the dogs, watching movies*

[suzanne410.livejournal.com]

Wonder if it was Rocky I, II, III, or IV.

XD

[lovinthelads.livejournal.com]

it was "Married to Jonas"

[suzanne410.livejournal.com]

LOL You're too hip for me! I had to look that up! But now I wish I hadn't.

I saw the Jonas Brothers in concert, thank you very much. :)

[lovinthelads.livejournal.com]

SO DID I!!!!!

I LOVE THEM.

I just see Mandy and Mes watching cheesy reality TV

[jenny-jenkins.livejournal.com]

THAT is my favourite fantasy - all thanks to you <3

[ladya-sama.livejournal.com]

God, I almost allowed myself to be swept away by the notion of this being an M&M moment, but considering it's Balboa next to him I'm thinking his sister's the one visiting and also the one who took the picture ... but let's just assume Mandy was just on her way over to hang out with her dog too! :)

[lovinthelads.livejournal.com]

MANDY IS THERE TOO

SHE JUST ARRIVED, READY TO CUDDLE

HIS SISTER LOVES MANDY

[jenny-jenkins.livejournal.com]

BINGO

[lyzame.livejournal.com]

This is so damn adorable and lovely and everything, but that hair on his arm...... I hate dog hair :|

[suzanne410.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA! I love how you noticed the fine, fine, fine details!

Thank you for the heads up about the picture BTW!

[lyzame.livejournal.com]

yep that's me, I do pay attention to details, most of the time involuntarily lol

and no problem, always my pleasure to come up with new stuff :)

[debussy.livejournal.com]

I'm a cat person myself, but this could almost convince me to join the dark side. ;) Cute is an understatement.

[suzanne410.livejournal.com]

I don't like anything (else) I have to clean up after!

[ladya-sama.livejournal.com]

Cat person ... dog person ... Why not both? Awww, come on, be an animal person! (But not a centipede person. Centipedes are the worms of Satan and should be wiped off the face of the Earth.)

[debussy.livejournal.com]

It's not that I don't like dogs! I just... have no desire to own one myself. And I'll admit that large dogs kind of scare me (silly, I know).

Also Centipedes are the worms of Satan and should be wiped off the face of the Earth XD This made me laugh so hard! Hahaha. Honestly, all I can think of when I hear/read the word Centipede is those disgusting movies. :-/

[ladya-sama.livejournal.com]

I'm more of a "OMIGAWD IT'S SO CUTE! AND NOW IT'S MINE!" sort of person, so anything adorable is at risk of me taking it in and loving it until the end of time.

I just ... *shudders*. I can't with centipedes. I just can't. So fast ... all those legs ... twitching antennae ... Eeeuuurrggghhh!! Never understood why so many people are afraid of spiders. Centipedes are the things nightmares are made of! I can handle spiders, but put me in a room with a centipede curled up in a corner and I will chew my way through the locked door if I have to in order to get out.

LOL Do you mean The Human Centipede movies? On the one hand they fall under the category of "Man, you're trying way too hard to be edge and/or shocking". On the other hand, the director/creator is a Dutchman, and anytime a fellow Dutchie does something insane I can't suppress a small twinge of pride deep in me. I mean, come on, we're the people who first inflicted Big Brother onto the world. Frankly, I find the Human Centipede movies less revolting than "reality" TV.

[jenny-jenkins.livejournal.com]

That means his sisters are with him!!

[albatr0ss1.livejournal.com]

I can't get past the fact that his dog has an intact pair of testes. They need to be removed :(

[lyzame.livejournal.com]

what....?

[albatr0ss1.livejournal.com]

LOL, sorry - I used to volunteer with the local dog pound, and as a result I am a passionate advocate of neutering pet dogs. I couldn't help but notice that Mesut's dog has balls...

[jenny-jenkins.livejournal.com]

He'll be sneaking off at all hours to visit ladies in the neighbourhood...

...possibly.

That breed of dog is so apathetic and loyal they rarely leave the house!

So desire vs breeding - which wins out?

[albatr0ss1.livejournal.com]

A stray bitch in heat turning up in the neighbourhood can cause remarkable changes in a dog :). Anyway, why bother weighing up the likelihood of a given dog siring an unwanted litter, when the possibility can so easily be eliminated altogether?

(Well over 100,000 dogs are euthanased over here each year, by both RSPCA and Government-run pounds. I don't know the stats for other parts of the world, and TBH I can do without looking them up. The sheer horrific scale of the problem leads me to my take on the matter - "FFS, just cut your dog's balls off. Just do it!")

Ok, stepping down off my soapbox now :)

[ladya-sama.livejournal.com]

It might depend on where you live, though. Was born and raised on Aruba and we had stray dogs up the wazoo, since dogs are rarely kept inside and are allowed to roam wherever they like.

Different story here in the Netherlands. My 3-year-old Staffie's still intact. We don't actually have stray dogs here, and practically everyone keeps their pet dogs indoors.(We DO have stray cats, especially in major cities, hence why I got my four fixed as soon as they were old enough.) I don't even know if it's allowed to let your dogs roam. If there's a dog out alone on the street Dutchies assume it's escaped or been abandoned and immediately call the animal ambulance if they're unable to locate its home or owner themselves. My Staffie spends all day inside unless I take him for a walk, in which case he's always leashed, so there's no risk of him impregnating other dogs.

The long short of it, am thinking the same applies to Rocky, who appears to be kept mainly indoors. Mesut's house must have some security measures, and English bulldogs, tenacious as they might be, aren't exactly escape artists.

[albatr0ss1.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... point taken. I have to say that I really like the Dutch approach to sightings of solo canines. I'm afraid that many people over here see a dog without a human and think of it as 'not my business / not my problem' (and I live in a city - not a rural area). Many times I've apprehended unaccompanied dogs, and handed said pooches over to 'the authorities' with a silent prayer that the beastie has a microchip (and that the owner's details are up to date!). On one occasion, after apprehending the dog and waiting around for a while (in case someone was searching for him/her/it), I used some rope as a makeshift leash and walked the dog to an area 4km away before calling the Ranger - because I knew that the local pound in the area that we'd walked to had a 'no-kill' policy, whereas the local pound in my own area did not ;). I made enquiries a few days after, and found that the dog had a microchip, the owner had been contacted, and the pooch was safely back home. Then there was the time that there were two fully grown Malamutes wandering around late at night, and one was hit by a car outside my unit block (no obvious serious injuries, but the poor bitch was in shock). Myself, my then-partner and a couple of our neighbours joined forces to get the big beasties into the back of my partner's rather small hatchback car. To our great surprise, the dogs gave the matter some thought for a few minutes, and then just hopped up into the back of the car and settled down to go for a drive to the RSPCA shelter. I followed their progreaa on the RSPCA website, and was relieved to learn that they were both eventually re-homed (their microchips had out-of-date owner info). Um... sorry. I'll shut up with the stray dog stories now, shall I? LOL, don't mind my rambling...

[ladya-sama.livejournal.com]

Not at all. It's great that you will go the extra mile for an animal in need. Sadly, there are too many people who will just walk by without a second glance because it's "just" an animal. Here, seeing a dog without an owner is like seeing a toddler walking without a parent. It just looks alarmingly out of place and it immediately draws attention.

Am very proud of the Dutch stance on animal rights. We do take it very seriously here. We actually have a seated political party called the Partij voor de Dieren (Party for the Animals) in parliament that mainly advocates animal rights and welfare. It's just ingrained in the culture.

[bluemeanie-1.livejournal.com]

That's the first thing I noticed too.

[albatr0ss1.livejournal.com]

There is a slang expression here in Oz, commonly used to describe something that 'stands out' and/or is very obvious - 'sticks out like dog's balls' ;)

[jorzil.livejournal.com]

This is adorable and strangely sexy and the same time!
The best way to start my monday :D

[mello-march.livejournal.com]

Rocky is one well-nourished pet, isn't he? Looks like he always eats up nicely.

[thinkweism.livejournal.com]

how did I not know he had another dog?! and that was black as well? WOW.


random but now I am so utterly glad that I named my pug after Özil knowing he's such a dog enthusiast

[suzanne410.livejournal.com]

Balboa is his sister's dog! Or the family's. So they must be visiting.

[ladya-sama.livejournal.com]

You know those comparison It's Something/Nailed It posts on forums where people see something online (like a do-it-yourself project or a new recipe or whatever) and try it out for themselves, only for the results to be far less impressive? Well, looking at Rocky chilling so carefree on the couch I took a snapshot of my Otto currently lounging next to me and ... well ...



... Doesn't quite have the same vibe, does it? XD XD

[khalidarkmoon.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, oh my!

[khalidarkmoon.livejournal.com]

De-lurking, or de-blurking to say how can one stand this much cuteness in one picture? *dies*