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April 05, 2013

She's so cute

April 05, 2013/ Brian Beker

Just a 15-second video postcard of little Kahoo. There's a backlog of video to post, but there's been so much work to do, with finishing a job and of course making sure that Bearface, Jr. gets her exercise. We're unexpectedly off to Seattle to see about buying an old truck on Saturday. 

April 05, 2013/ Brian Beker/ 3 Comments

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BLOG  INDEX

Teaching Orville to fly

All the animals are all right

Today's Stray: Campground Kitten

Evidence of the mend

In which I sit there and listen to Cat Stevens scream about killing Jews

Over the hill? Roo?

Roo caught in flagrante delicto

How the Ming Dynasty was killed off

Thunderskunk

Roo and I get into a terrible fight. The worst we ever had. I won.

This photo is titled "Thank God for barbed wire"

How one overcomes the struggle to emerge in three easy steps

Snakes and crackers

Dispatch from snake country, or how I survived a 10,000,000-volt electrocution

One of the duties assigned to me by Roo

Sort of a before and after pair of shots of puppy Roo

How I think dogs think

Still Life with Tail

Waking up is hard enough...

This is how the mouse wins

This is how Roo rode home from the vet the other day

The Good, the Bad and the Rooki

The light at the end of the culvert

Okay. The snakes win.

Update on how Roo is feeling

VIDEO: Roo tables a motion to take her for a walk

They're back

Something's wrong with Roo

I found another deer. This is a story of cruelty, so you may not want to read this any more than I wanted to write it.

Rock, Scissors, Paper — Roo Style

Note to readers of The Dog in the Clouds

Classic Roo: The Struggle to Wake Roo Up

Dog Dynasty

How Roo and I became filthy rich today

Looking for a beautiful girl

Master Dog Training Tips and Tricks: Getting your dog to stand still in the middle of a shake

What I've been working on

Eleven-Dimensional Checkers Played on the Biggest Cracker Barrel of Them All

HRVC Presents Roo's first time

On the occasion of Roo K. Beker's sixth birthday

On the road again.

The Historic Roo Video Collection - Roo's favorite dog in the history of dogs

The Historic Roo Video Collection - Roo's first time at a dog park. Also a squirrel update.

Notes From a Squirrel Rescue in Progress, Part Two

The Historic Roo Video Collection: Roo watches video of herself for the first time

Notes from a Squirrel Rescue in Progress

It was a bad mistake, and a nightmare

At Your Home for Yellow Journalism, if it bleeds, it leads.

The Historic Roo Video Collection: Roo sees herself in a mirror for the first time

A cheap substitute for DNA testing

Do not mistake that for the nose of an old dog

The Historic Roo Video Collection: Brave new rescue puppy Roo learns to get in the car

Do NOT tell me this is a picture of an old dog

The most ferocious tiger of all the jungles is one hell of a good girl

Roo, The Oldest Dog Who Ever Lived

How to lose a dog and make sure no one calls you when she's found

In which I rub salt in Roo's latest wound. Literally rub salt.

Roo begins training to swim the Channel

Roo committed what might be her greatest act of perfidy yet.

Multiple choice: Which photo doesn't belong?

Roo crosses the bridge, just because.

The face of misery

Another PSA from The Dog in the Clouds as Brian's case of TMDS advances

Something everyone needs to know

Roo's Threefold Path to High Consciousness

TRAVELIN' DOG BLUES

Roo and the Wolf

From Tadpoles to Pterodactyls: Roo's Delicate Interactions with Nature

Pro tips for mouse hunters: Proper body position is essential

Analysis: How Trump anti-science juggernaut kills urgent need to edit dog genes and the mysterious parable that explains Everything

Roo has had it up to here

When Roo was Deathly Ill

Ticks Declare Intention to visit Switzerland

Hell

JAILBREAK!

 

Today's Strays: More dog trouble, and it could be bad this time

In which my pilot Tony calls my Jimmy Breslin story and raises me a Cary Grant

PHOTOS: Chicken Creek, Utah, last spring

The night I got the nod from Jimmy Breslin

 

BREAKING: Two, possibly three, tragedies, involving world's smallest horse and world's largest suspected mouse averted by quick action taken by Roo K. Beker

Google Maps Hospital Review

Roo's jailhouse tat

How do those tail hairs know when to stop growing?

From Tadpoles to Pterodactyls: Roo's Delicate Interactions with Nature

The first good thunderstorm in five years

BREAKING: THE DOG IN THE CLOUDS JOINS TOP TIER OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM, DRIVES FINAL NAIL IN COFFIN OF TRUMP-RUSSIA LIES

BREAKING: NORTH KOREA ATTACKS ROO

How about that Patreon campaign?

If you know what's good for you, you'll knock on wood

Mad dog in the middle of the night

Negative test results. But now what?

Midnight Reruns: The New Rooki Kahoo

Another day, another test for Rooki

Roo goes back for more

Quick update on Roo's health

Son of a bitch

Handbasket #3: Mad Dog Cow Patty

Handbasket #2 - Roo update and a convenient one-stop analysis of the apocalypse

Roo is really not feeling good

Bearface can run, but she can't hide

What you've been waiting for: Your chance to become a major philanthropist

And a good time was had by one

Today's stray: Never a "Little Shit" Again

Orville at the pillar to commemorate Buddha's birthplace and Roo at the pillar to commemorate Orville

Back on the Run

Today is Roo K. Beker's Fifth Birthday

Roo's dream

Apologies and yes, Roo is okay

Ouch.

A fox stopped by

They Roam the Earth Still

Roo, The Queen of Roughing It, seen here dealing with an emergency snow stop

You know that whole "Road Less Traveled" thing?

You need to be limber for this line of work

Roo models for Abercrombie & Fitch

Top of the World, Ma

Roo's a little shaky these days

My unbelievably brilliant and informative newspaper column is out

Since many of you didn't believe HOW ginormous the snake was

Look at this ginormous snake we just tangled with

We are fleeing weather

Update from the Traveling Comedy of Errors Road Show

My newspaper column is out at the Citizen-Times

Eufaula, Alabama

Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Roo's one-dog crime wave heats up

Bonnie & Clyde & Roo

Roo emerges after the deluge

To Benadryl or not to Benadryl

Foiled again: Researchers rob us blind

Roo has a cut in webbing between toes — need vet advice

Commerce Scores Another One Over Art

Tonight will be for Roo like today (and every day) is for the rat of her dreams

When it gets too wet for Roo, it's wet

Roo does it again

Petco? PETCO?! I don't need no stinking Petco!

Roo and the Government Bear

Roo discusses hedgehogs

My new column is out at the Citizen-Times

They ain't kidding when they call it Roaring River

Roo gets blasted

Rooki is Four

Someone called it a self-satisfied smirk

On the etymology of Chiggi

A smart little girl who knows better than to get too close to a wet Kahoo

Here's what I meant by driving 600 miles so Roo can get a good night's sleep

Roo steps out of the light

Sign Language

No introduction necessary

BREAKING: Roo develops terrible thirst, resorts to extreme measures to slake it

The shot that could have made me a millionaire - and it's out of focus!

Roo Goes Viral, Advises Everyone to Go Jump in a Lake

Roo's New Complaint

Snakes!

How to deal with dirt that isn't ground in deeply enough

Not An Easy Dog ™ in Maine

Roo's deadly stare

North Carolina vs. Pennsylvania

On the run

A cute little snake

Roo in turmoil

Roo Falls in Love...

This is the blanket we spread upon the ground

BREAKING: Roo makes two front pages in one paper in one day, still not satisfied.

No, this is not Roo at a Confederate flag rally

Three years ago today

Where's Isis when you need them?

A toast to all the dogs suffering in hot shelters tonight

BREAKING: Roo Rattles Braincase, Head No Longer Fits

BREAKING: Roo Rattles Braincase, Head No Longer Fits

Throw out your Colorado Pet Treats Jerky from Petco

Cellphone Wallpaper Download

Smiley

Look – up in the sky! Is it a bird?! Is it a plane?! It's... The Duck in the Clouds!

Please note how freshly brushed and groomed Roo is in the beginning of this video

Esther Williams, Jr.

This will come in handy when Roo and I hit the road again

Why I can't share a computer with Roo any more

Hot Dog

Not An Easy Dog™ picks up a few burrs

Roadside Roo

Snakes, thunder, needles in the gut, a lonely dog and 90 degrees. It's my blog and I'll complain if I want to.

If you use that beak to bite the bee, the bee will bite you back

Back to our regularly scheduled programming

ALMOST AT A HUNDRED GRAND FOR NEPAL QUAKE VICTIMS

JAI NEPAL

At least one good thing happened today: A little bird just crashed into a window

Roo Presents Mouse Detection and Hunting Techniques for the Advanced Afficionado of the Outdoors

Roo still deals with her issues every day

Is this Golden Retriever doomed?

Paws

This little bird flew into the house

Today's Stray - and why my blood is still boiling

Fleas and snakes and ticks, Oh, my.

This little bird flew into the house

Paws

Is this Golden Retriever doomed?

When Nature doesn't cooperate

Hammerhead

How Roo Rolls

Fish Oil

Mud Puppy Strikes Again

How to tell Roo is frustrated

Rooki's rollover smile

Selfie

International film festival to fête Mademoiselle Junior

Roo's first time off leash in two weeks

VIDEO: Roo greets me after I get out of the hospital

Roo's having a blast!

Roo at boarding

They don't build 'em like they used to

Roo knows something's up

Warming a nose; Pre-operative instructions

Between those fuzzy ears

Roo: Freezing, neglected "Outside Dog"

The best way to set your watch

The view from the top

Where does Roo get her crystal meth?

And now for my next trick, I will be sawed in half

Roo and the Grave Markers and the All Hat No Horse Hippie

The Squirrel Who Knew Too Much

Roo trapped under a mountain

Little Bear provides hint to age-old mystery concerning regular bears

Roo on a long drive

Not An Easy Dog™: Dog Shaming Roo

If Looks Could Kill. ..

Not An Easy Dog™ Redecorates

Not An Easy Dog™ Considers a New Hobby

Not An Easy Dog™: Why I rarely need to wash my hat

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

Today's Edition of Not An Easy Dog: Roo Wanders into Chemical Munitions Dump, Enjoys Herself

Fond Memories of the Civil War

Why, a long time ago, I gave up on trying to keep the car clean

VIDEO: Mug Shot of Roo, AKA The Kahoo

Roo Crosses the Bridge

Today's pretty picture of What's-Her-Name

BREAKING: Roo Shatters Personal Record, Smashes Ice Barrier

Future inmate of the Home for the Mildly Touched

Roo takes it on the chin

Quick! In the water before it boils!

How not to photograph a dog

Ye Old Forest Bear

Roo's birthday present picks her out

Happy Birthday to Roo

Roo reaches the age of reckless abandon

A coupla howling dogs

Voter Frood in North Carolina

Dogs in Nepal

Surgery Day: Good News and Bad News

Roo on Lake Powhatan

Science Experiments You Can Conduct On Your Dog

At least it's not Roo going to the hospital this time

Sweetie (a fable)

Roo considers moving out.

VIDEO: How delighted Roo is when I play the piano

RINO Roo

VIDEO: Roo, though seeing double on benadryl, refuses to neglect responsibilities

And now THIS?

Roo wants to know: Which one is it legal to kill?

Roo Pounces

Quickie Snakebite Patient Update

Roo right before and after the snakebite

Roo in recovery mode

Snakebite Update

Roo is home

Snakebite sends Roo to the ICU

Roo comes to the fork in the road, meets devil

Roo comes out to check how the world is doing

Yay! We get a second Fourth!

Dial M for Mosquito Murderer

Catablanca

VIDEO: Miss Roo's Deep South Watermelon Eating Etiquette class

VIDEO: Roo challenges a raging river to a duel - twice

VIDEO: Mud Puppy strikes again

VIDEO: The struggle to wake Roo up

VIDEO: Extreme Guard Dog: Roo Edition

Roo's Great Grand Uncle Orville

Normandy with Orville

News from the storm front

My cats

Thunder this morning

Roo Van Winkle

Shaky start in a new house: Roo's bad nights

What happened with today's stray

A picture of Roo's last time digging in the desert

Four score and 664 hours ago

The truth is I'm a big, fat liar

VIDEO: You scratch my back and I'll scratch mine

Roo's contribution to the moving effort

BREAKING: MAJOR HOTEL CHAIN TO BE RENAMED FOR ROO

Dog Tired - back in Asheville

Roo's friend Tilly

An unplanned encounter

Update and Contest Announcement

RESCUE: Seagull saved from horrible death in Venice

The Most Honorable Dog in Los Angeles

A poem sent to Rooki & Me

Prayer for an eagle

Roo improoves her housekeeping skills

What some guy in Tennessee just said about Roo

And - they're off.

Roo is ferocious - in her dreams 

Just Hard on Dogs, I guess

Today Svengali, Tomorrow the World

Los Angeles Times runs hatchet job on Karma Rescue

The Brevard stray

Oh, no. Night rabbits

Roo meets the Swami

On the road again

BAD NEWS: Roo picks up a monkey on her back in Mexico

Sammy the Bull

Juju Bear

This wasn't even what nailed Rooki

Roo's paw sliced open by one of the world's many morons

Running scared? PETA Deletes their Tweets to TDITC

Thank you for my pool, Daddy. Not that you're invited in.

How about a moment of silence every day for PETA's dead?

BREAKING: ROO PASSES OUT FROM WORK-RELATED STRAIN

BREAKING: ROO GLUES CHIN TO CAR

Maybe Kahooki thinks that pillow is PETA

Face in the rocks, and Roo's imitation thereof

Roo dreams of revenge on groomer

World Bear contemplates her highest jump yet

I'm afraid this is it: financial ruin strikes the Kahoo

VIDEO: Roo jumps off another cliff

Roo Enters Her Juvie Phase, Breaks and Enters a Tree

Roo's List Logo Art by Larime Taylor

Roo's List - a little controversy and a moment of terror for Roo

Welcome to Roo's List

Graffiti Roo

Egg Nog à la Dog

On a mountaintop in the snow

Roo and the horse next door

Maybe this is why Roo has been acting embarrassed

A few pictures of Roo from the last few days

Roo's Day of Reckoning - Part Two

VIDEO: Roo's Day of Reckoning - Part One

Resting in Peace: Orville, Born This Day

Goodbye, Little Miss Rastafarian Hippie Wood Nymph

Dogs and biplanes, then and now

Pot of Golden under the rainbow

Roo challenges me to a duel

What it's like to be Roo

Top 'o' the world, Ma!

Roo rescues a little dog

Roo's good mood

Roo and me nail us some varmints at the OK Corral

The last thing Linus the Lab did was learn to swim

PHOTO: Roo dreaming with her tongue out

Sneaks

Roo's Electric Mouse

A Million Bucks and a Bottle of Morphine

When the wolves attacked

My Rookulele

An apology.

Roo and the tipsy hitchhiker

Already a rattler

VIDEO: A  sneak, her dinner and her birthday

Really? I had to introduce Roo to ice cream?

VIDEO: Roo versus a snake much bigger and more dangerous than that turtle

Wishing you were here in sunny Cabo!

VIDEO: Roo ferrets out the info

Roo in the snow again

A noteworthy chicken

Rooki has it up to here with Einstein

World Bear and the Earth Pigs

Paroo has died

Roo and the Parrot - Part Two (with video)

How Roo got a parrot named after her 

Travel newsletter for dogs from Tony Bill

We picked up a stray today

Counting deer to get to sleep 

One-Year Anniversary of the day I met Roo

Roo Graduates with Honors

TDITC Wins Petties Award for Funniest Blog

Let's throw some money to the dogs! 

The Fourth 

Sneak Milkshake Thief 

This just happened

 VIDEO: For all the dogs who don't like having their nails clipped

Would you buy a used car from this dog? 

Out Cold 

VIDEO: Poor, Poor, Weary Little Roo 

Wiggly Kahoo 

Mud Puppy 

Roo's Education Begins 

VIDEO: Before the Blog: Waking Roo 

Moving Day 

Elegant Diner 

Books all in the mail 

Roo Meets Another Roo with a Hairdo 

VIDEO: Rolling in the Sweet Arms of the Snow 

Pawprinted copies of book available 

Contest Winners 

Roo determined to go over Niagara Falls in a Barrel

The Roo Controversy 

Roo gets stuck on a ledge 

Careful using Apple's Map App 

Roo, Guardian of bunnies and Squirrels 

Roo runs away (with cliff-jumping VIDEO)

Land Roover

Roo's built-in nosewarmer 

Roo meets Mini-Roo

Roo is not delighted by being left alone in the car 

She's so cute

Study of a Snow Bear 

Traversing the Oregon Territory 

Update and book news 

Roo & Brian 

Happy as a pig in - well, let's just say a poke 

It's hot in them thar hills 

Roo's blood-curdling scream 

She's in the doghouse now

Roo, Choo, and leaving Mexico 

Roo's fear in the night 

Roo picks out something to wear 

The world as seen by Roo 

Advice to Writers? OK - but from me? 

Little Miss Smarty Pants 

Roo in a Desert Sky 

VIDEO: Roo addresses the crow and vulture problem 

VIDEO: Roo's first time at the groomers

A rambling update from Mexico 

La Rukiña de México 

Update: Skunks, Kindles and Mexico 

Brief Update - Getting ready to leave AZ 

Another dog appears in the clouds - for Kordy 

VIDEO: Roo's encounter with a UFO 

More dogs in the clouds 

Rooki's nose is rapidly changing color 

VIDEO: Roo dominates colossal prehistoric reptile 

The Golden Archipelago 

Roo lends a helping hand 

VIDEO: Orville and The Oldest Person Ever

VIDEO: Roo's Last Mission Late One Night

VIDEO: Roo turns into a mule, brings in drugs from Mexico

VIDEO: Roo's first time in the snow

BREAKING: Roo attacked by cholla

VIDEO: The struggle to wake Roo up


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RECOMMENDED BOOKS

I'll post books here that I love.

One of the most beautiful, but wrenching stories of courage and cruelty and what integrity means. Stunningly written by a great master, The Crossing.


All the Pretty Horses is the book preceding The Crossing in the trilogy. If you're going to read all of them, start with All the Pretty Horses. If you might not, read The Crossing. All the Pretty Horses is a magnificent story (made into one of the worst, most botched, poorly directed movies ever committed to celluloid, so don't let that stop you) of young courage, integrity and learning how the world really works. It is a top-flight masterpiece. Your life can not be complete without reading these two books.


An inventive, funny, romantic, well-written page turner about a 1920s magician. His love and respect for animals is central to the wonderful story of how Carter Beats the Devil.


Perhaps the greatest work of literature of all time, The Gulag Archipelago is a lengthy, detailed history in which the extent of human cruelty and absurdity is painstakingly recounted. As difficult as it is, this should be read by everyone in the world.


I loved Mondo Canine so much that it was the only book that, as many others came and went, remained on the coffee table in my hangar for over ten years. I never got tired of this compendium of dog stories, excerpts, quotes and images. One day, I met the author, Jon Winokur, and we've been friends ever since. Not a plug - I love this book, and every dog lover will, too.


W. Somerset Maugham's story of a young man who finds his way to a simple life in complicated times had a large effect on my whole life. If you haven't read The Razor's Edge, you're in for a treat.


Alan Furst has a magical talent for recreating Europe in the days before and into World War Two. This is probably my favorite of his books, as the story of a young NKVD agent who long journey though war and the violent and clandestine life of a Soviet spy, is close to my heart. A rich and absorbing novel that places you everywhere from Bulgaria to Moscow to the Spanish Civil War, then Paris and New York in the 30s and 40s: Night Soldiers.


Reading this The Glass Castle made me consider giving up writing.



The word 'masterpiece' may appear often in these blurbs, but it's because I'm putting favorite books up here. Robert Littell wrote  intelligent espionage potboilers. In his 70s, he wrote a novel based on the life of a Russian Poet. This book is brilliant. In a heart-wrenching historical novel, Littell evokes the Stalin-era Moscow intellectual scene, the terror of the Communist gulag, the injustice, the absurdity. The writing and story are superb. Read this book.