find the pit bull

I haven’t heard a whole bunch about breed-specific legislation lately. However, I was on the website of a local shelter recently, and they had a beautiful dog labeled as a pit mix. They clarified in the description that they didn’t actually believe her to be a Pit (based on my fairly uneducated eyes, she looked very much like a Great Dane, though I think she was too small to be a purebred); they just labeled any dogs that might possibly be thought to be pits as “pit mixes” because otherwise, people may adopt them and then find out their apartment/homeowner’s association/city/county will not allow their dog, because some random uneducated person thinks it looks like a “Pit Bull.”

Interestingly enough, “pit bull” is not a real breed. (Most of you probably already know this, but I’ll repeat it anyway.) When it comes to breed-specific legislation, “pit bull” generally refers to three separate breeds: the American Pit Bull Terrier, the American Staffordshire Terrier, and the Staffordshire Bull Terrier. Sometimes it also refers to American Bulldogs and Bull Terriers.

The American Pit Bull Terrier is the one I most closely associate with pit bulls. It’s the only one that says “pit bull” in its name, and it’s also a beautiful dog. (Sorry, lovers of other pit bull types: they are ugly as hell.)

I’ll be the first to say I don’t know a whole lot about dog breeds. They should be easier to learn than horse breeds, because dog breeds tend to differ so greatly while there are many horse breeds that are essentially indistinguishable to each other without knowing the horse’s history. But still, I thought APBT was one breed of dog I could pinpoint (along with greyhounds, Boston Terriers, Great Danes, Huskies, and a few others).

I was fucking wrong, man.

I found an awesome site to help educate people about pit bulls — or at least open their eyes to the ridiculous, arbitrary enforcement of pit bull legislation.

“Find the Pit Bull” features 25 pictures of different dogs, each a purebred and good representative sample of its breed. Only one of the pictures is an actual American Pit Bull Terrier (though I think there is an American Bulldog in there, too). I’ll be honest: the first four I picked were not pit bulls. I ended up just clicking each picture until I found the APBT.

How’d you do?

new candidate for worst thief ever

is E.xotic L.ove D.esigns (6633749). The “designs” there at the end of zir name is obviously a funny joke, because ze doesn’t even have the design intelligence to remove the tags of actual artists when ze steals their work.

Observe all these “pro pics” posted on zir page for sale:

That last one, while it has the tag removed, is the layout belonging to a moderator (Rynlar). Let’s take guesses at EL’s IQ. Do you think it makes it up into the double digits? I have my doubts.

UPDATE:

Exotic Love’s status now reads, “Please don’t report me. It wasn’t me. My sisiter went on my account and copied them. Please” and ze sent me the following message:

From: E.xotic L.ove Designs || FB Shire Breeder (6633749) [ Send message ] 4/13/2010 5:18:07 PM
- im soo sorry it wasn’t me tho. i told my sister to make graphics on my account and she just copied them. [X]

Now, ain’t that just the most preciously pathetic thing?

farewell dear and faithful friend

Socks, 1987- March 24, 2010

Crazy Angel had to put down her mare, Socks, recently. CA asked me to post this poem in remembrance of her.

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and ell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!”

public service announcement: there is a reason we pay trainers $60/hr to teach us how to do things

It’s so we don’t do this to our horses:

I’ll allow folks in the comments to hash out everything that’s wrong with this, but what the fucking devil, BURN THOSE FENCES SO YOU’RE NOT TEMPTED TO USE THEM AGAIN UNTIL YOU’VE LEARNED HOW TO RIDE.

BEST. EPISODE. EVER.

Even though Hulu sucks and doesn’t have captions up for “Happily Ever After” yet, I watched it anyway and Toby helped tell me WTF was going on.

Even not knowing half the dialogue, bricks were shit.

I mean, honestly, the episode could’ve ended after the first five minutes and I would’ve still called it the best LOST episode ever — because Desmond beats the shit out of Old Creep Widmore with an IV pole. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

In other highlights:

Desmond’s back!!!

Charlie’s back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Faraday’s back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eloise is back, saying stuff that made us go, “OH SHIT, SON!!!”

Perhaps best of all, Jack didn’t cry once. Which means it’s been like 3 episodes since we saw him cry. A RECORD! (For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, you MUST go watch “Jack’s Not Crying”. NOW.)

i’m sure you’ve already noticed

But some shit is screwy with HL the last few days. Apparently the World is down again (no, I’m not going to check), and I haven’t been able to get into Talk (which, if the World isn’t working, is probably a blessing).

I’m not expecting too much, but I have a vague hope that some of the Talk issues are being fixed (most notably, none of the chat history being visible when you enter).

I’m not complaining too much, though — the weather has been amazing in my part of the world this week, so I’ve been spending my afternoons with Zoey (and the boyfriendmonster) at the park or napping in the yard. I hope the weather holds for us to go to the zoo this weekend; I haven’t been to a zoo since elementary school field trips.

help me with some lolcat captions

This has nothing to do with HL and more me begging for help with homework. I know; it’s terrible. But I will give HL coins to anyone who can come up with some good lolcat captions for me!

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you’re not going to believe this

But it appears as if our darling Spruce is a graphics thief as well as an all-around useless person and vote scammer.

Spruce’s status is asking what we think of a certain horse’s new graphic. Let’s check it out, shall we?

Is it just me, or are there some odd things going on here?

Does it seem possible to you that the person who did this is an adult with a spouse and child? Everything Spruce has ever done (including this) screams, “Actually, I’m a 10 year old who is really bad at lying.”

Thanks to vaedore for the head’s up.

WAR! pt 2

part 1

Shit is getting interesting over at the “New Horseland Blog.” For one thing, they keep referring to this blog as the “other” HLBLOG. Considering this blog was started almost two years ago, has over 500 posts and 19,000 comments, and owns the domains horselandblog.com and horselandblog.net, I really feel like we’re never going to be the “other” Horseland blog.

Let’s do a little google test.
HLBLOG: first link is us
HL blog: first link is us
horseland blog: like the whole first page is us (including an Urban Dictionary definition! which I did not do or know about, btw!)
horseland stupid: on the first page
horseland lol: on the first page
horse land blog: first link is us, though the last link on the first page is CH’s blog, which is weird, but the fact of the matter is, folks would rather go to “horselandblog.com/net” than “.blogsmaker.com” (or whatever the hell it is — CH gave so many different urls I can’t keep track)

Oh, and we sent about 30 hits over to CH’s site yesterday, which is probably all the hits ze’s gotten.

Mostly this is just me rambling from exhaustion, because I don’t think anyone but CH actually thinks zir blog is going to be any sort of competition for this one. We have glitter, rainbows, and the chubby beluga. (CH should be really glad we don’t still have Dink, because if we did, CH would no longer be gracing us with zir presence on this mortal coil. Ze would’ve found zirself suddenly alone in a dark alley, no comforting sounds of traffic or pedestrians, as a small, lone figure approached zir through the shadows. The cat’s orbs would gleam golden and she would say, her little meow-voice cold as a winter wind: “This is the end for you, my friend.” CH’s last sight would be the flash of a white paw and then…BAM! time to meet your maker! Which is just an expression, because there is no “maker.”)

(Cristo, I need sleep! Am I hallucinating again?)

None of this is the point. You may think it’s the point, because it’s really long, but it’s not. Here is the point: shit is getting crazy over at the “New Horseland Blog.”

Translation: “Wahhh I’m the only one who should be allowed to gossip and say mean stuff about other people! How could these big jerkyfaces hurt my fee-fees! Wahhhhhh!”

If you don’t watch LOST you’ll be like, “WTF, jules, why are you posting a picture of a random dude in makeup and beat the fuck up in the middle of a jungle saying shit got real? Did he lose his lipstick or something?”

YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET!

In the comments, the admin (CH) elaborates.

Translation A: “I do not understand sarcasm.”
(BTW, omitycassie, I miss your comments ’round here!)

Translation B: “I don’t get that words mean things, which may make me the dumbest person alive. Shit, faggot!”
(BTW, the difference between “shit” and, say, “n-gger,” is that the first is just a word that hurts no one and the second is a word that has been used to degrade, oppress, and enslave people of color for centuries in the US. That’s why one is perfectly ok and the other isn’t.)
(They deleted my comment on the site that said as much, though there were no insults of any kind — I rewrote it almost verbatim here.)

Oh, hey, did you think that CH couldn’t possibly get any more stupid? YOU WERE WRONG! Ze went and posted the rules for the “New Horseland Blog.” SHOCKINGLY ENOUGH, CH steals a complete sentence from our rules. Will the copying never stop?! Apparently not! CH, haven’t you gotten to the part in school where you learn about plagiarism, and how it’s very, very bad? Did you miss the little C with a circle around it down at the bottom of the page? That means the writing here, no matter how stupid, is my intellectual property. That means you should probably take your grubby little fingers off of it.

There’s something else about the rules that’s even better but I’ll just let you read it yourself.

Translation: “1. I’m a big hypocrite, not that I know what that word means.
2. I don’t know what a ‘blog’ actually is, either, because I don’t understand the difference between ‘blog’ and ‘post’ or ‘entry’ or even ‘thread.’
3. I stole this sentence from HLBLOG and have no idea what the words mean, because I tell you not to be homophobic and then say I hate gays. Only straight behavior will be allowed here. What does that even mean? Idk, just no butt fucking in my comments, and don’t even try to tell me that sometimes straight people do that, too.
4. I will rewrite your shit to fit the language standards of the New Horseland Blog, which means grammar, spelling, and any other sort of conventions are out the window.
5. If I don’t like you, I will ban you. I don’t actually know if I can ban people here or how I would go about doing that on this shitty free blog-making site, but hopefully the threat will keep you from being getting gay married up in my blogs, just like abstinence-only ‘education’ keeps kids from doing it. LALALALALALA SRSLY IT DOES LALALALALALA.”

I don’t know if I should take a nap after this or go wash my brains with soap to get the ick off them. What do you think?

can’t wait until this catches on so we can have a WAR!

We first ran into CH when ze was busy falling for and publicizing a really stupid scam. Ze got all worked up at us, sent a variety of nonsense messages to me and bright eyes on HL, and decided to do what plenty of folks have done before: take revenge on HLBLOG by making zir own Horseland blog. GENIUS!

To make sure we were fully aware of this new blog, CH flooded this blog with comments advertising it. Sort of. Because ze only included a URL in one of the comments, and it was a non-working one. Oh, and ze posted under a fake name, because that worked so well for zir the first time!

CH is quickly going to become a favorite around here, I have a feeling. If ze doesn’t get banned.

After giving 4 incorrect addresses (here and on the HL forums), CH finally manages to cough up a good one. Now that I’ve seen it, I really am worried. I might as well just shut down this blog right now. CH’s shit is fascinating.

With thrilling topics like “What do you think of the other horselandblog.com” (um, you do realize there is only one, right? that’s my addy) and “What do you think about Horseland?” and an artistic disregard for the standards of the English language, no one dares compete with the “new and improved bloging [sic] site for horseland.”

(I know CH doesn’t get to choose what kind of advertisements show up on zir blog, but still — a sarcastic thumbs-up for titsvertising.)

Are they talking about us? Dear FSM, please tell me they are talking about us! (I’m using “they” purely metaphorically here. CH is the only one talking. One, singular.)

CH/admin claims ze’s never been to HLBLOG (hey, that’s our fucking trademarked brand, fool, so they better not try to touch that!), despite all that comment spam ze left us here. Starting your blog out with a lie: bad call, my friends, bad call. Telling folks to keep the gossip down and then immediately heading into gossiping about how much another site sucks: a little confusing. Should I gossip or not? Please set a better example, CH.

The following article really takes the cake, though, as far as journalistic excellence goes. The theme, the prose, the profound insight — I wept as I read it.