My guy is half Border Collie half Golden Retriever so he's definitely got some OCD, especially when it comes to fetching stuff.
Couple of weeks ago we were doing Frisbee in the park and he was focused. Along came his friend Daisy who is 100% Border Collie. Her focus was Louie. There we were, Louie focused on me and the Frisbee and Daisy desperately focused on herding Louie (who didn't give a shit). Should've taken video.
And awwwww.....
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
Excellent informative and entertaining series on dogs' work and abilities. I think we found it on Paramount, but it's other places too. Highly recommend.
The urn carrying the remains of Gilbert, the dog of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, is diplayed at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., on Friday, June 27, 2025.
Gilbert the golden retriever was home with Democratic leader and Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband when a gunman fatally shot the couple and mortally wounded their beloved dog. And he was with them again Friday when the Hortmans lay in state at the Capitol in St. Paul.
He is all but certainly the first dog to receive the honor, having been put down after being badly injured in the attack. There is no record of any other nonhuman ever lying in state, and Melissa Hortman, a former state House speaker still leading the chamber’s Democrats, is the first woman. The state previously granted the honor to 19 men, including a vice president, a U.S. secretary of state, U.S. senators, governors and a Civil War veteran, according to the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library.
Hundreds of people waited outside the Capitol before they were allowed into the rotunda at noon to pay their respects. Two pedestals sat between the Hortmans’ caskets, one for an arrangement of flowers and the other, for the gold-colored urn holding Gilbert’s remains.
A memorial outside the House chamber for the Hortmans included a box of Milk-Bone dog biscuits with a sticky note saying, “For the best boy, Gilbert.” ...
Amid the flowers and other mementos left in honor of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman outside the Minnesota House chamber at the state capitol in St. Paul, Minn., on Friday, June 27, 2025, was a box of dog biscuits in honor of her dog, Gilbert, who was seriously injured and had to be put down after Hortman and her husband, Mark, were fatally shot June 14.
... Volunteers from a nonprofit that trains service dogs, Helping Paws Inc., provided a little canine therapy for waiting mourners Friday at the Capitol, working the crowd with cheerful golden retrievers. The Hortmans provided a foster home to dogs as part of the animals’ Helping Paws training, and one of them, Minnie, had graduated on to assisting a veteran.
Metaphorical pall bearers or honor guard.
Helping Paws said in a Facebook post hours after the shootings that Gilbert “career changed.” Gilbert had been deemed ”too friendly” to be a service dog, KARE-TV reported.
Democratic state Rep. Erin Koegel, told The Associated Press after the shootings that the golden retriever had “flunked out of school” and “Melissa wanted him to fail so she could keep him.”
Free himOmg help him !!!
