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New Addition to the Family ... Introducing FRASIER

Meet Frasier.

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He's a Toy-Sized Australian Shepherd. He was born February 25, 2008 and is almost full grown now. He weighs 6.5 lbs. He wont get much taller, but he will fill out a little in weight and get to around 10-12 lbs. He's almost teacup size.

He's not named after the TV show as many might initially think. His color is known as Red Tri-color, which is a mix of red, brown and white. The red is more of a reddish-brown. We wanted to pick a name associated with the color red. The French word for strawberry is fraise, so we chose Frasier as a derivative of that.

Our other dog, Noah, is also an Aussie, but Noah is a standard size weighing approx. 60 lbs. Noah is 2 years old and he is a black tri-color.

The boys are getting along quite well. Noah allows Frasier to take over his bed, eat out of his food bowl and even play with most of Noah's toys. The only toys Noah does not like Frasier going near are his edible toys, such as rawhides, etc. But it's very cute when the boys are cuddled up together and kissing each other.

Frasier is quite delicate and fragile, but don't let his small size fool you. Take him outside and he loves to run ... and run fast. He even chases Noah around the dining room table.

A small dog in the house is very different. We now have to be really cautious everywhere we step, or if we want to roll/move our office chairs around.

Frasier has his own food and water bowls, but he still likes to sneak into the kitchen (not really sneaking if Noah and us watch him) and steals one piece of Noah's food then scurries into the living room and goes into Noah's bed to eat that one piece. When he's done with that piece, he runs into the kitchen to steal one more piece of Noah's food and then runs back to the bed to eat it. Noah and I look at the puppy like he's crazy. Very cute.

Beatboxing Dog - move ovah Snoop

Check this cool flash site from Sweden that lets you interact with this beatboxing and scratching (not fleas, but records) basset hound. Use your keyboard or move your cursor to make the dog beatbox, sniff, pant, growl, scratch records, etc. Then you can record your session.

http://www.beatbox.tele2.se/

My New Fave Video - Campy, Sexy & With Animals, yet SFW

Pan's People do a routine to Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Get Down" on December 25, 1973.

Pan's People were a 1970s British TV dance troupe who are best associated with the BBC TV music chart show Top of the Pops.

In an era before pop videos, they danced to songs whose original artist was not available to perform them live.

They were commonly criticized for an over-literal interpretation of song lyrics into movement.

Watch how the 2nd dog from the left runs for his life about 20 seconds in.

Friggin Best Video EVER !!!

New #1 Song In New Zealand... Can't Be Heard By Humans !!

The Christmas single, A Very Silent Night, has been recorded at the highest frequencies possible for compact disc recordings, so that only dogs can hear it. Artist credit goes to The Underdogs.

A Very Silent Night is a single released in New Zealand exclusively for dogs. As a world first, the single can not be heard by human ears, but can be heard by dogs and other animals that can hear outside the limits of the human ear. The single was sold during December 2007 as a fundraiser for the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). A music video was also made featuring New Zealand artist Dei Hamo. It reached the 'top of the pups' on the 24th of December 2007, and is now the New Zealand Christmas number one.

It is indeed the official #1 Song in the Country of New Zealand, as their current chart reflects: Label Universal Music Group

Track listing
A Very Silent Night
A Very Silent Night (instrumental)

The Film Brewery’s Chris Graham, (award-winning music video and feature film Director of Sione’s Wedding), has directed a music video and TVC for the single. Styled on Snoop Dogg’s ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’, and Scribe’s ‘Not Many’ videos, the cast features 14 dogs, rapper Dei Hamo as Santa and two gorgeous models as elves.



Source [SPCA]

There is, of course, audiophile speculation regarding this. First of all, the video has NO sound. Not sound humans can't hear, just no sound. Even if it was uploaded with the high-pitch sound, the YouTube compression would limit it to audible levels humans CAN hear. But playing this video with a spectrum analyzer reveals no sound. Also, most CD's limit audio frequencies to around 21-22kHz when sampled at 44.1kHz.

Anyone have a WAV file of this?

Hey .. at least it's charity .. and for animals (Spyder likes that)