okay! properly sloshed and soooo ready for bed at 8:15 pm…

blue on her blankey doing battle

my favorite pic of blue of all time – on her favorite blanket, biting lauren’s hand.

you know what I love? I love seeing old black-and-white movies and seeing scenes with dogs, cats, horses, other animals, who happen to be in the scene with the actors at the same time. maybe they’re interacting with the actors, maybe they’re incidental to the environment, whatever. but I know that that dog or cat or horse meant something to somebody, maybe not just the animal wrangler on set but other people maybe not necessarily connected with old hollywood; that they had a name, a unique personality with his or her own proclivities, and I like to imagine a pretty decent life. unless they had the misfortune of having to play stunt horses in westerns. that would’ve been horrifying. but the dogs and cats probably had good and happy lives, with people who cared for them and looked after their well being. but still, animal welfare wasn’t what it is now. and I like to think years from now animal rights and animal welfare, and just our awareness and respect of the human animal bond, will be even better than it is today.

blue and me in colorado