Language

For all the talk about making English the official language of the U S, we Pirate Dogs don't get it.  We honestly don't see a lot of difference between what's said here in the Southwest and, say, expressions from Brooklyn.

Case in point---look at these pictures:

Here in Las Cruces we'd say " Look at dos chihuahuas" and in Brooklyn they'd say "Look at dose chihuahuas."  'Nuff said.

Geriatri-Cat

Old age comes to all of us.  Sooner or later, there's that crack in the joints in the morning.  Sometimes these little physical ailments are accompanied by some greying around the muzzle or the brow.  But the geriatric male Siamese known around these parts as Commodore Cody is really having a go of it.

In his younger days, say at around 10 when this picture was taken, he was spry and alert.  You can tell from the expression in this picture that he has a clue of what is transpiring in his environment.

Today, he mostly sits on the kitchen table, looking for food.  When he opens his mouth, he emits no sound.   His lack of volume and teary-eyed look prompted a friend of the humans to insist he be taken to the vet.  Aside from a large amount added to the credit card, the result of that visit was the verdict that the Commodore is a healthy geriatric gentleman who has been prescribed special cat chow just in case he has some possible kidney dysfunction.  (I forgot to mention he no longer relieves himself in the cat litter box but rather he performs this act on top of the cover of the box.)

So Cody, at his advanced age, sits on the table, looks pathetic, and gets loads of human attention and sympathy.  Just look at this picture: 

But we Pirate Dogs know the truth.  Incontinence.  Forgetting how to meow.  The blank stare.  Isn't is obvious???  Commodore Cody is now the Alzheimer's Kat!!!!!!!!!

Misadventures in Grooming

O M G----you expect us to dress for Halloween after the groomer did this to us!!!!

Obviously I can't be Capt. Dreadlocks looking like this.  And look what they did to my tail!!!!

Never in all my life have I had a "poof-y" poodle tail like that.  What do they think I am, a cheer-leader with pom-poms??????  I am Captain of the Nargle for pity's sake!!!!

And poor Weetz--------

The groomer thinks she's part papillon, whatever that is, and left her with that weird long hair sprouting from the tops of her ears.  She looks like Salacious Crumb from Return of the Jedi, not like my navigator on the canine pirate space ship!!

"'Revenge is mine', saith the Lord" is all fine and dandy for you humans but I think this year will be the one where the Pirate Dogs do the tricks and we will get the treats as well, trust me.

posted by Captain 'Roid

Dia de los Muertos, 2010

From Pirate Dog to....

The Pirate Dogs and their cousins have been watching too much media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the terrorist trial of Abdulmutallab, the Underwear Bomber.  

Cousin Seymour Aloysius Siegfried Von Bucksnort, pictured,

has changed his name to Seymour Abdullah, the Dog Collar Bomber.

And Ensign Pablo Frijoles "Little Petey" has done his cousin one better.  Not content with just a conversion, Pobster the Lobster, as he is called, has founded the Symbolic Lobster Liberation Army.  All he needs is a newspaper heiress to complete his dreams.......

Of course the Klingon Kats won't be left out of this.  As one can see from the picture, Clytemnestra has raided the stores of the Canine Pirate Space Ship Nargle.

Can't wait to see what this crew does for Halloween..........

Super Hero II

After some complaints about picture quality in the post about Captain Dreadlocks, i decided to add a couple of pix to clear up any questions.

This is a picture of the Captain freshly returned from her last grooming experience.  Note the highly visible facial features.  One can gaze into her eyes.........

And here is the same dog after partaking of the Magic Cloven Beef Hoof which transforms the mild mannered and soulful 'Roid into the indomitable Captain Dreadlocks, devoid of eye contact and unrecognizable beneath the flowing hair..........

Super hero

It isn't enough for Emma 'Roid to be Captain of the Canine Pirate Star Ship Nargle.  Oh,no!!!  This entreprenurial cock-a-poo has evolved a new identity for herself.

Formerly a sweet unassuming cuddly dog in need of a groomer's touch,

Emma has found the magic Cloven Beef Hoof

which transforms her into that powerful superhero even more feared by Klingon Kats than the Captain of the Nargle,

CAPTAIN DREADLOCKS

The Promotion

 He's done it!!!!  After a furious battle in which he dragged a geriatric male Siamese out of the Canine Pirate Space Ship Nargle and an ensuing encounter in which he verbally assaulted (barked at) another Klingon Kat chasing her into the spare bedroom, Midshipman Petey Pablo Frijoles has been awarded the rank of Ensign in the crew of the space pirate dogs.  See how proud he looks!!!  And in the full orange harness that has earned him the moniker Pobster the Lobster.............