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I almost never actually watch Oprah because I’m never home during the day and because my TV really only gets turned on for LOST at this point, but I can admit that I not-so-secretly love her. As much as I cringe when I see the “Oprah’s Book Club” stickers on novels I’d like to pick up, the woman has revitalized the book industry and gotten a whole lot of people reading — and she isn’t picking crap to read, either. My biggest beef with her is Dr. Phil, who is a total wiener, but I can forgive her that mistake for all the other good she does.

Like her upcoming show on puppy mills. Yeah, I know, perhaps not the most important issue in the entire world, and I’m usually the type to focus more on people-issues than non-human-animal issues. But animal rights activism rarely gets the attention it deserves (unless it’s obnoxious, sexist, racist, anti-Semitic or some combination of the above), and so I think it’s important to highlight fact-based, non-bigoted kind, especially when it’s taken by a mainstream media figure as huge as Oprah. A whole lot of people still buy their dogs from pet stores, and any swipe at the puppy mill industry is cool with me — especially when you spread the word to the kind of people who otherwise may not take the time to find out (or who may be turned off by PETA rhetoric if they did start to google the issue). So good on Oprah and Lisa Ling.

Now, will someone please find a way to deliver this little guy to my door?

Does it get any cuter than this? No, no it does not.

Part 2

She chewed through my phone cord, so I’ve been without internet all day. I finally borrowed a phone cord from the neighbor.

She runs at the desk chair and takes a flying leap at the back of it, then proceeds to spin around in circles.

She has stopped sucking my ear, but now she likes to wake me up by licking my lips.

She sits on my head.

She chases toes.

She aggressively tries to steal pieces of pepperoni from my pizza.

She comes running whenever she hears water running, then tries to stick her face in the faucet. She watches me take showers, then sits in the drain to watch the water go away.

She got ahold of my headphones while they were still attached to the iPod, and was dragging them through the house.

She chewed through my fucking phone cord!

I’m back in Seattle for the holidays, which means I have a dog to blog about. And he is adorable. Even better: Our neighbors just got a golden retriever puppy, and he is BFF with my little guy Ferris. Tell me they are not the cutest things you’ve ever seen:

Coda and Ferris, originally uploaded by JillNic83.

More adorable pups below the fold. And for even more puppy pictures, see here.
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Though it’s actually on Friday for once. The “Why can’t you shut the windows at night, woman” edition.

I just got the Anthropologie catalog, and on page 31, there’s a dog that could be Junebug’s littermate!

Hi, everyone! I just wanted to thank Jill for including me in the Summer of Guest Bloggers. I’ve guest-blogged a bit at Feministe before, and am thrilled to be back. The obligatory quick biographical sketch: I just graduated from law school and finished the bar. After I pass the bar (fingers crossed until knuckles hurt), I’m off to work for US Army JAG. (I worked for them last summer doing criminal law and labor and employment law.) I’m getting married in November to a lovely man hereinafter identified as T, flagrantly misuse parentheses, and am addicted to diet coke.

I will probably also post photos of my recently acquired dog, Bronx, even when it isn’t Friday because she is cute as a button and I like choruses of “awww!”

I’ve been a little absent of the tubes today because I just found out that we’ve been approved for a new puppy(breeders and rescues are particular) and I need to figure out how to get her here. Okay, a blue dane weighing in at 150 lbs is not much of a puppy, but she’s sweet as can be. Our dog Kiwi grew up in a home with 2 other dogs and has grown quite bored with us humans, so our search for her friend is finally over!

Warning: This video contains copious amounts of gratuitous kitty cuteness. Be forewarned!

Watching this video made me want to ride over and give my Republican sister-in-law a hug. If they can do it, why can’t we?

Cross-posted at My Private Casbah