At the museum

May be an image of tennis, ball and indoor
A Golden Retriever at the Museum, 2013,
Painting by Pittsburgh, American Artist, Tom Mosser

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13 responses to “At the museum”

  1. tigger_the_wing Avatar
    tigger_the_wing

    Awww, that’s lovely! Thank you!

  2. Rob Avatar

    Lovely! And it made me laugh.

  3. Omar Avatar

    That hound is possibly watching a green, white or black bug that is walking across the painting, and getting ready to deal with it by digging it out of the scene with both front paws; in the vertical plane. Which could bring the whole damn painting down, setting off alarm bells and automatically shutting and locking all exits and summoning the police and fire brigade.

    Could well be that it’s all happened before in the hound’s experience. A fun time. Maybe it could all happen again. Worth a try, surely.

  4. Lady Mondegreen Avatar
    Lady Mondegreen

    I thought that was a photograph, at first.

  5. iknklast Avatar

    From the back he looks like my Irish terrier, which gave me an additional smile; I could imagine him doing just that.

  6. Omar Avatar

    iknklast: Then you might like the following from Australia’s master story-teller, Henry Lawson (1867-1922).

    https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Loaded_Dog

  7. Papito Avatar

    Omar, I suppose that painting is working for you if it’s so remarkably suggestive.

    https://www.tommosserdesign.com/museum-series

  8. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    He or she! There’s a Golden just up the street from me and she’s as ball-focused as any dude Golden.

  9. Sastra Avatar

    Heard this presumably true story once (or something like it):

    A man was taking a walk in an unfamiliar area and, as he approached a warehouse, an attack dog suddenly came running out and towards him, teeth bared, growling low, and clearly ready for blood. Terrified, the man froze, and then said the first thing that popped into his mind.

    “Where’s your ball? Huh? Huh? Where’s your ball? Can you get it? Can you? Go get your ball! Go get it! Come on …”

    The vicious dog stopped in its tracks, hesitated a moment — and then started to wag its tail, bounce, bow, spin around — and run back to the warehouse.

  10. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Heh I think I know that dog!

  11. Papito Avatar

    Sastra, that story could be about me. Some punk tried to sic his pitbull on me once and I had that lovely pittie rolled over for a belly scritch before he could catch up with her. “Ooh, who’s a cutie? You are! Who has a really dumb owner? You do!”

  12. iknklast Avatar

    Oh, dear, I hope I didn’t misgender that poor dog! They’ll never get over it! I do have a tendency to call dogs that remind me of my dog “he” because my dog is a he, but that doesn’t mean all dogs that remind me of him are.