Monday, June 05, 2006

Ruthie Monday VIII

Dinner Time
Billy Sothern feeds the pooches:*

Max, the camera hog (always looks straight into it) is a dog Billy rescued from a New York Shelter when he was a teenager.






















Mabel was rescued from the streets of the Irish Channel here in Nola. She was running with a pack of really, really big, mean dogs. She was so tiny, I thought she was a crazy Chihuahhua who had no idea she was little...

Mabel = Basenji + Whippet






















What I thought Mabel was:






Mabel a few months after I found her...looking less like a chihuahua, of course.



And of course there is Ruth-Anne, my little piebald** sausage dog.


*BONUS: a Slimbolala original, on the kitchen wall. Billy gave him an old-fashioned ice-crusher and Dave drew it. When B saw the drawing, he asked for it and D obliged...


**piebald comes from this kind of coloring on a horse: