{"id":580,"date":"2009-05-12T08:55:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T13:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=580"},"modified":"2009-05-12T09:09:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T14:09:37","slug":"the-puppies-of-jenkintown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/12\/the-puppies-of-jenkintown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Puppies of Jenkintown"},"content":{"rendered":"

My lovely daughter Julia got a new camera for her fourth birthday. It replaces the camera we had given her previously, a lovely Nikon point-and-shoot whose shutter never completely opens. (It created arty little Lomo-esque shots, mostly of her feet, her brother and various toy animals.)<\/p>\n

\"Tank, Grammy wisely eschewed the bulky cameras-for-kids that V-Tech and Fisher Price produces and picked up a purple low-end dimestore point-and-shoot for Julia. It is one of those ubiquitous no-name brands. It was also cheaper, with higher resolution, than the for-kids models and has an essential LCD screen, which I believe all the for-kids cameras lack. <\/p>\n

Of course, as soon as she got it, she wanted to take pictures of puppies. She’s a puppy-lovin’ freak, my girl. Fortunately, we live in a puppy-lovin’ town, so I told her that we’ll take pictures of the puppies of Jenkintown<\/a>, our wee burg, and once we get a satisfactory amount of snapshots, we’ll make a book. <\/p>\n

Last night was our first real Nice Walk of Spring (thanks to the rains), so she brought her camera along, of course. We had a late start, so we didn’t catch the height of the parade of perambulating pups. Our first subject was Tank, who belonged to the nice lady who runs Julia’s pre-school. Tank, a little older now, was a shelter rescue at about a year. She’s a Chihuahua\/Corgi mix and was thought to have been abused. She’s sweet enough, but doesn’t like strange men, hats or hoods. \"The <\/p>\n

A little further up Greenwood, we ran into Shadow and his patient owner. Shadow is part black lab and part Giant Schnauzer<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"Nearer
\nLater, as we headed back from the post office, we passed Bailey, an enormous beast of a Golden Retriever. According to his owner, Bailey just dropped ten pounds. I’m fairly certain he meant that the dog was a on a diet as he didn’t have the tell-tale baggy with him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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