Kiba movie!!

[merimask]

 Omygosh I hope this works...


I bought a laser cat toy for Kumo.  Kumo ignored it utterly, as it smelled like neither catnip nor feathers.  Dinah is marginally more gullible and chased it a bit.  Kiba freaking LOVED it and I think it's very revealing that my dog is more prone to pounce at moving objects than the flipping kitties are.  Heh!

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[zipis1.livejournal.com]

Hee! Somehow, it doesn't surprise me that Kiba likes that. He's such a silly puppy, it just seems like something he'd like XD

Spud only likes to chase flies. That's about his only odd playful quirk :)

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Kiba is such a goofball. Every time I think he might just be settling into adulthood, he does another cute puppyish thing.

Spud is at least being useful! Fly-catching is a wonderful help.

[moonphased.livejournal.com]

Eeee!! OMG, *is in a puddle of Kiba-induced happy Kurogoo* So darn cute!! :D We needs a puppy here, we do!!

Wow, the first thing I thought, though, is that he really moves like a cat when he pounces things! Our dobie and shephard-mix pounce things and it looks so much less... dignified or something. XD They're both more like, *WHUMP!!* Kiba looks like a dainty pouncer. **LOL*

And yay for Kumo updates!! :D

One of these days I swear I'm going to show up at yoru door just to have a puppykitty high!! ^_^

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Hee! Isn't he so freaking funny? I turned the toy on & shined it in front of his paws, thinking "no way will he be dumb enough to chase it" but he immediately started to stomp on it.

Kiba is very graceful...which only makes all his clowning around even funnier. At least once a day he gets "happy" and stampedes all over the house like a crazed gazelle; leaping over furniture and bounding straight into the air.

Come any time..we're waiting for you! :-D

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Isn't it fun seeing how different gait and styles of movement can be between breeds, too? Zeus is I think in much the same weight range as Kiba, although more stockily built -- and you wouldn't expect to see it from such a squarely-built little beastie, but he has such a lightly bouncy prancing sort of gait that he almost seems to be minceing half of the time. It's a little comical to see this sturdy beast moving so delicately -- until the first time you see him on deep snow and it all makes sense, because that bounciness has him just leaping effortlessly through drifts like a huge gray bunny.

Jake, now, he really showed the long-haul-endurance nature of mals opposed to sprinter-sibes; he'd move with a very wolfy sort of lope that had not an ounce of wasted movement. Not too fast or flashy but he could just keep going like that effortlessly all day. And Biscuit, well, she just has this funny rolling gait like a sailor who hasn't quite gotten his land-legs back yet. Not the most graceful thing, but she just trundles along like a muscle-bound little tank. :)

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Most of the spitz breeds DO seem to prance a bit. The Samoyed is even *supposed* to prance...it's right in the breed standard that they have a prancing gait.

My Aussies had no-nonsense wolf-lopes...they could keep up a smart flying trot for miles and miles. Kiba is so beautiful in motion though...I swear his gait is perfect. His paw prints are perfectly aligned (back paw ends up in the front paw print every time)and on the beach I've paced off a 12 foot gap between prints when he runs all-out...his reach is amazing. I need to make a movie of him racing around because he coils & uncoils his back like a cheetah.

Pit bulls certainly are like solid little tanks...they're so sturdy. It's a damn shame the breed is being so badly misused & twisted by amateur breeders with bad motives, because there's a lot of good in those dogs.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, more Kiba movies please! I'd love to see him running, those guys are so beautiful in full-on motion.

And it really is heartbreaking what's been happening to the bully breeds, properly bred and raised they can be both grand working dogs and the sweetest family pets you could hope for. Although there are always little glimmers of hope -- I was pleased to see APBTs on the cover of this month's Dog Fancy, for instance, and have you seen Diane Jessup's program to find and train shelter bullies that have sufficient drive to be excellent detection K-9s?

[kls-eloise.livejournal.com]

That is hilarious! I've found that you have a start cats on laser pointers when they're tiny kittens, otherwise they just don't buy it. I also see that your pets don't understand pointing either:

ME: "Becket, look over there."

CAT: "Ooo - sniff Mamma's fingers!"

ME: "No stupid, over THERE."

CAT: "Maybe there's a treat on the fingers."

ME: "Dipshit - the treat is over THERE. On the FLOOR."

CAT: "The hand *smells* like a treat."

ME: "Okay dingbat, she just ate it. You don't understand pointing, do you?"

CAT: "Hey - how come *she* got a treat?"

You could run him around the back yard at night with that thing - as long as he doesn't run INTO anything!

[merimask.livejournal.com]

lol...your kitty dialog is all too familiar (& hilarious). My old Austrailian shepherds were much smarter & I could point to different places & send them off in different directions...but Kiba just looks at my hand.

I was just running Keebs up and down the driveway after the light (we're just calling it "the light")...it works REALLY well at night & he gets pretty tired chasing it. Hooray for innovative dog exercises!

[kls-eloise.livejournal.com]

None of the furballs have ever figured out pointing. I've known a few of the "herding class" dogs that got it, but cats generally just don't care.

[charismitaine.livejournal.com]

Round and round he goes, where he stops, nobody knows!

That's just hilarious. And adorable.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Today I made him so dizzy he fell over. :-) Oh, fun!

I LOOOOVE the icon btw. Did you know that's my very favorite piece of art ever? Hokusai's "The Great Wave". :-)

[charismitaine.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor dizzy puppy!

Thanks! It's one of my all-time favorites too, and the icon makes me happy :)

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Awwww, Kiba looks like he's having a grand old time...handsome as ever, of course! And I am so amused to hear Kumo is chasing the puppy. Just you wait, it's only going to be a matter of time before he's deliberately provoking Keebster into chase-games.

And hmmmm, I have a renewable supply of feathers thanks to my elderly cockatiels, should try making the moltage up into kitty toys sometime...

[merimask.livejournal.com]

That laser toy is endless fun. It's a good thing the Keebster doesn't mind that we laugh at him (because we do, a lot, because he's always cracking us up). He stomps after it & tries to bite the light...He IS pretty quick at adapting, so I'm trying not to do it too much because if he figures out he can never catch it, he'll probably quit trying. Sometimes I shut it off and praise him as if he "killed" it.

Kumo is really an awesome little cat! He's holding his own with Kiba (which is quite an accomplishment), yet he LOVES us & is getting better at the holding/cuddling thing. He follows me from room to room as faithfully as Kiba does, trotting along at my side like a tiny trained tiger...SO freaking cute. I'm so glad I rescued him.

[pzb.livejournal.com]

Heeee....that's adorable. :D I'm always amused when I buy something specifically for one cat, and that cat turns its nose up, but the other is all over it. XD

[merimask.livejournal.com]

You just wouldn't expect the cat toy to become a dog toy...y'know? My dog is so darn strange. :-)

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Oh, Biscuit LOVES the cat toys -- we were playing with one of her squeakies earlier but she kept ignoring it to go for a teeny tiny little kitty-doll. And Jake used to play solo games of catch with a little kitty pompom ball -- a hundred-pound dog tossing a one-inch yarn ball looks pretty darn ridiculous! And all my dogs since Jake have insisted on eating catnip whenever kitty gets some.

[indigos-angel.livejournal.com]

My uncles dog is a huge guy, *he might have some of Kiba in him to a degree* but yeah, he loooooooooves the little red light thing. That's a freaking blast. I'd put little food bits down on the carpet when he wasn't noticing, so once in a while he'd actually get a snoutful of something good. I don't know whether or not he actually bought the fact that the red light was something edible, but it was nice to imagine the doggy shock in his mind when he actually "caught it."