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This is the biggest snowfall Mochi's seen so far (although it's been a pretty lame winter on the snowfall front here in New York.) He seems to like the snow, but he definitely hates getting salt between his toes - there's a lot of hopping around on three feet at times.

It's the little pooper's 1st birthday today. We've had him in the house for about 8 months, and it's hard to believe how much he's grown since his puppy days. He's more than doubled in weight (from 12 lbs to 25 lbs) but his favorite morning routine remains finding a patch of sun and sleeping in for an extra hour or two after breakfast.

You too can make money off the green energy revolution. Talk to our in-house biogas consultant on how you can covert inexpensive dog food into the kind of raw energy that will drive the masses across the entire living room.

"If I were locked inside the bathroom all day, I'd swallow the shampoo, too. Although most animal-behavior problems are believed to have genetic roots, their expressions are typically triggered by the unnatural lives that people force their pets to lead."

The NYT has a great article for this weekend's magazine section on pharmaceuticals for pets. Dog diet pills may be a joke, but other pharmaceuticals are definitely merited; it's unfortunate though that some people will choose pills as a shortcut for proper training, exercise and discipline.

As for Mochi, he stays off the drugs. That leaves at least one kind of small object that he doesn't continually have in his mouth...

Just a little weekend fun with Photoshop. (I'm really more interested in seeing Pixar's Wall-E, but he wasn't going to be as amusing with Mochi's head on him.)

Every day I gently toss a treat (a mini size Old Mother Hubbard "Just Vegg'n" dog biscuit, to be precise) in the hopes that eventually he'll learn to catch it out of the air like other dogs. And every day, it bounces off the middle of his forehead as he watches it fall towards him.

Today I tossed the treat, and he ducked it. I'm not sure that's progress, although at least he's figured out how to avoid getting beaned once a day by a dog biscuit.

(On another note, yesterday the dog day care called M and said Mochi was "a little under the weather -- but he's not lethargic." We had them double check they were calling about the right dog, since Mochi and lethargic are pretty much inseparable if he's not at the dog park.)



Obviously, no second career as a dog whisperer is likely...

Mochi (in the red harness) tears it up with some buddies at the park a few weeks ago.

Mochi enjoying the sun on one of the last days in my old apartment a few weeks ago.

(Taken with the D70 and 24mm F2.8 lens I've owned for a decade. Every one in a while, that setup surprises me - the shots in this series are clearly sharper and crisper than what I'd get with the $900+ 12-24 zoom.)