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My spellcheck tells me it is doggy.

I may or may not remember doggie from westerns..

Spellcheck, I've found, at least whatever spellcheck I have, a mystery to me, is often blatantly incorrect by many other sources.

That could be a thread..

Dictionary.com has this
doggy 1 or doggie
[daw-gee, dog-ee]
Spell Syllables
Examples Word Origin
noun, plural doggies.
1.
a little dog or a puppy.
2.
a pet term for any dog.
Origin of doggy1 Expand

smiles, as I like either, but will resume to doggy..

osso, The doggie you remember from westerns is dogie--a calf.

That occurred to me....Thanks.

Dogu on the other hand are Japanese figurines.

You know more about Japanese culture than me! LOL

Meanwhile, do we not all love Rocky? big boy is a dear dog.

After I came home from Japan, I wrote letters to a girl working in the New Zealand embassy in Tokyo for over a year. She mailed me books; a history of Japan; the historical novel Silence among others. But we drifted apart in the end.

Rocky spends lots of time relaxing by the A/C vent these days. He was overweight when I took him for his yearly exam. They asked me to bring him in to be weighed when I come to buy his heartworm/flea pill. They think I won't take action if they don't pressure me. I believe that vet would seek to have him removed if I did not cooperate. I don't know for sure that she can, but sometimes the law is a ass.

huh - I've no idea.

When I first showed up in Albuquerque with Pacco I hated the close by veterinary practice. Diane and our dogs have since been long cared about with a guy with a practice that has been good to us. I would say the name, but I don't want to be promotional.

Weighing - I think every vet office I've ever been to did that, once you came in the door, part of signing in.

The visit will be on Friday. It will determine if I use them anymore.

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Whoops on Saturday

It's just a little after midnight on the East Coast, I saw the poster and just laughed out loud then immediately heard Ruby bark upstairs. I just love the doggys/doggies.

If I had done the poster I would have tried it first with Joan Baez and Dylan.

In earliest childhood I developed an affinity for cowboy movies. The cowboys I idolized were pure of heart. They only fought when necessary and rarely shot to kill a man. Hopalong Cassidy and Gene Autry stood out for me. Roy Rogers was overly glitzy and did not match my notion of a real cowboy. Hoppy often took time during one of his adventures to have an inspirational talk with the kid in the movie. It was quite a thrill to see him, Windy and Lucky, riding in from the Bar 20 Ranch, getting involved in righting a wrong.

As my early heroes faded there was no shortage of new ones. Gary Cooper in High Noon. Gregory Peck in The Gunfighter. Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda as Frank and Jesse James.

Westerns had grown more complex. In my opinion, the greatest western of them all was the radio and early television versions of Gunsmoke. William Conrad and Parley Baer as Matt Dillon and Chester Goode were totally believable as the tough marshal and deputy team in uncompromising tales of old Dodge City. I was disappointed in James Arness in the TV version, as being too young and smooth, but at least the early shows were faithful to the radio scripts. It gradually evolved into a soap opera.

Gunsmoke has been touted as the ultimate in westerns for so long that the true quality of the others has been dismissed, even by fans of the other films and series. There were "adult" westerns before High Noon and Gunsmoke. They just never had the hype that made them so commercially successful.

Then there are the spaghetti westerns. Most of them are crude and not so well told. I don't even like Once Upon a Time in the West. But, The Good the Bad and the Ugly rests atop the heap as one of the best westerns I have seen.

I watch the reruns, daily, and pick out the bit players and lesser stars these days, often surprised at who they turn out to be. I have gained new respect for many of these actors and have learned the names of some I never even noticed when the shows were new.

I am a fierce gun control advocate, but I will love these gun toting good guys and outlaws as long as I live.

My favorite was "Have Gun -- Will Travel".

I watch Have Gun every day even now. I noticed I failed to mention it, but it has always been a top favorite with me.

I found a few publishers that I can submit my novelette to. I decided to go down the list one at a time, instead of multiple submissions. It may be slower, but to me it's more polite. Lately it gets harder to spot the self publishing houses, but this little list seems legitimate.