Friday dog blogging

I attended a staff meeting Tuesday at the home of our associate publisher. Her two Chihuahuas, Chuckie and Jackie, were enthusiastic meeting participants, although they had trouble focusing and staying with the agenda. They also had trouble posing for photographs, so I don’t have a good photo to post. (I offer a link to an alternative photo below.) In any event, I bring this up because I happened upon an item in the LA Times this morning, which says the Chihuahuas’ popularity seems to be waning. The article says that San Francisco Bay Area shelters are overwhelmed with the little dogs–to the extent that shelter personnel are flying them as far as New England for adoption. So if you are looking for a dog, this could be an opportune time to adopt a Chihuahua or two. For more information and the cute picture, see “Animal shelters seeing glut of Chihuahuas.”

I posted earlier today on an item from the New York Times Magazine’s “The 9th Annual Year in Ideas” special section. If you are not in the market for a Chihuahua, you might want to get a glow-in-the-dark dog, which the special section describes here.

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