Godog (2024)

11/08/2023

The Sisters Blackcephalic have a new neighbor, who has recently made his debut performance, can we give a warm welcome to Max

Max is new to the big city, and as far as we can tell, new to the social scene ( literally )

Max is an adorable, enthusiastic Frenchie but am evidently inexperienced interacting with his tribe, so with our guidance, and supervision, he is learning how “to read the room”, and take social cues from his fellows in a safe, supportive and measured way.

Dogs have their own set of social codes, boundaries and rules which are deemed polite or impolite in their language systems and their a myriad of manners by which these mores recognized and managed.

My forecast is that Max is going to eventually be the headmaster of The Boerum Hill Canine Charm School.

Bet’cha a bully stick 😉

Max, Morticia and Elvira

Max has displayed encroaching behavior e.g, lingering too long for sniffs,

07/08/2023

We go to the same beard barber.

And dentist…

Is this picture any cooler than a bevy of others in queue waiting for their moment to take center stage ?

No !

But this is INSTAGram and this literally JUST HAPPENED, I’m usually weeks behind. Trying to up my timing game.

26/07/2023

New Kid on the Block, Iggy Pup ! Godfather of Punk-Pup Rock !

Likes strolls through the woods, drooling, orca-ramming friends he likes, wearing a classic halti, living in Park Slope, being a big Pittie mix, and belly rubs on summer sidewalks.

Slide into my DM’s to get all my stats ladies

💎 😘 💪

23/07/2023

The frivolous things we did during the early pandemic ti keep ourselves entertained.

As an 80’s Metalhead teen I was a huge Dio fan, so when I saw this meme with a photo of Rhea Perlman lampoon masquerading as Ronnie James Dio, naturally I had to make a tee shirt.

The back says, Farewell Cheers Tour of 1992 ( yes, the year it went off the air, I looked it up first lol )

Flash forward, I just do happen to be wearing the shirt out first day out with 🥁 roll please

Rhea !

Her owners listen both Rhea Perlman and Rhea Seehorn ad inspirations.

Golden card gems. This gal is making friends with every dog she meets. Photos of her Cy, in the mix.

21/06/2023

The sequel is here. The follow up to our series the 45*Atlantic Giants.

This is the notorious Kareem Abdul Jabbar I mentioned in out last post.

He was the largest GoDoG pup ever at 196 Lbs. Bok Choy in the last post, a distant yet close second ( different aesthetics ) They both hail from the same building, so I don’t what’s in the water there 😝 Careful Alf ! We’ve got a Doodle in that building too.

I can’t seem to locate many pics of our own of Kareem’s so his owners were cool enough to share their own. He loved to just “take a seat” 😂 as you can tell. This is one of my favorites showing just how big he was and how did, he loved to just grab a seat.

I found out during the pandemic, I think I was with a trainee and we were going to pick up Frenchie Sam the Ham, when we ran into another Great Dane and I was raving about Kareem so I showed this woman a pic, and she said she knew Kareem and that he’d passed away. Def not the first or last time I’ve aged tears of sadness while out on route. I loved that big boy, he was like Merle the Pearl handsome lol, and he lived with a cat named Magic Johnson !

So anyway, another twist to this huge dog trope here is that Kareem’s owners now have a new Dane named Shaquille O’neil, I have not met him as they moved BUT…Shaq is apparently friends with our very own Great Dane .berry.boy did you know all this Michelle ? 😃

Alright, need a Jerry feature next. Still have that classic Ample Hills pic of him I don’t ever think I posted.

Miss you Kareem. Remember when we agog that karaoke vid of me singing Kurtis Blow’s Basketball to ya ?! Good ! Cuz I can’t find it ! 😫

04/06/2023

We have a celebrity in our midst .the.woolly ( some 20 plus k followers and rumor has it on TikTok 500k !! ) I say rumor, because we are not on TikTok, I value my mental health 😂.

This guy is so cool he even has his own emoji 🥬.

I want to share with you a very cool story. So, Bok Choy is one of the biggest dogs we’ve ever cared for. I think .berry.boy weighs about 5 more lbs than this guy, but with his fur ( Jerry has a short coat ) he looks by far, to be the most massive dog we ever had ( 140 ).

Here is the kicker. The biggest dog we’ve ever had in our fam’ was a Great Dane named Kareem..AND…get this, he lived in the SAME building as Bok Choy.

What are the odds ? This business offers a lot of really beautiful and uncanny “what are the odds” stories.

To add to the magic, my first day out with Bok Choy we walked by some construction scaffolding and I looked up and it said Jabbar Construction. 🥰

I’d like to think Kareem’s spirit was with us as naturally, his full name was Kareem Abdul Jabbar.

Kareem passed away in 2020. He was the best, and so very missed.

His Ma and Pa also had this beautiful bengal type cat ( forgive me if I butchered that I know nothing about cats) named, Magic Johnson 😂.

Think I’ll find a Kareem pic and put it a story board today, and get Jerry up there too, big boy week celebration.

Welcome Bok Choy ! Miss you Kareem ! Love you Jerry !

29/05/2023

Recently I was in Bed Stuy to visit a pup for my friend and mentor Dani and to say hello to my friend Stephanie .

So I’m walking along and I see these two lil nuggets with a young woman not familiar to me, but I recognized the dogs as Rocky and Billy, who were two daily clients for a couple of years, prior to 2020, and even a bit into the summer of 2020, when I’d come visit them. We had like no business that summer, so any all visits are memorable and we were so grateful for the work.

We served part of Bed Stuy before the pandemic hit, but we needed to distill our service area and some neighborhoods were shaved off.

In any event, I hadn’t seen these boys in a few years and it never ceases to melt my heart just how dogs remember people, places and things.

Billy is the schnauzer mix, he was happy to see me but is generally a bit aloof. Rocky had a meltdown 🥰 when he saw me, and I needed to es**rt them home because he was so vocal, giddy and anxiously excited to be with me, and he was being walked by the nanny, who was taken aback by how emotive he was. He was kinda causing a scene 😂, it was adorable.

I was so touched. Love these two. Amazing how they remember.

09/05/2023

So overdue on this one. It’s like a busy Peter Bruegel painting 😂. Many of us likely know that addy on Third Street.

Quadrupeds:
Jojo,Georgia,Finn,Cy,Rosie

Bipeds:
Nikko, Giulia

Very proud of our Borzoi puppy Cy as we’ve worked with him to build his confidence during these early formative months. He’s gone from scared-of-his-shadow to man about town.

And Rosie far right, whose leash reactivity and tension near other pups on the sidewalks of Brooklyn has been transforming into a feeling of safety and trust.

Last pic courtesy of her owners, screenshot close-up, they were marveling at her happy smile.

10/04/2023

Late morning’s with lil Lebanese meatball “Kibbeh” and the “Apple” of his eye, mean walks up the slope with Steph to Prospect Park for some romantic grappling 🥰.

Happy Honeymoon Travels to this sweet couple’s Couple !

See the pups when you return !

03/04/2023

“Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one.
When you gonna give me some time, Sha-Kona?

Ooh you make my motor run, my motor run.
Gun it comin' off the line Sha-Kona”

Kona’s got “The Knack” for 🤔 is she protecting our city from alligators or is she protecting our alligators from the city ?

You decide !

31/03/2023

It takes a lot of courage to take just up and decide to say one’s piece at moment’s inspiration. To get on one’s soapbox I’m public, and speak your mind, when theirs a message in your heart.

Lola has this brave voice.

Perry kinda wants to just go home but Lola moved by the mis en scene; the empty bottle of liquor and the powerful words of the great Indian wisdom keeper Jiddu Krishnamurti.

It reads.

“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society”

An addendum states “Materialism is a disease”.

Lola is a gifted orator. Sort of a cross between Martin Luther King Junior and Moon Unit Zappa

Did I mention Perry wants to go home ?

Traffic was at a standstill when Lola began to preach. Crowds gathered, I was threatened if I filmed anyone.

I felt safe, the 78ty precinct was nearby.

Incidentally, it’s a bottle of Terremana Reposado Tequila. Was.

🤷‍♂️

Your guess is as good as mine.

hernamewaslola and .nyc
.lola.walk

26/03/2023

Haven’t posted since Dirk’s passing.

A 109 Day Instagram-Shiva 😂 I miss him so much.

Time to start sharing what we’ve been up to, im backlogged !

Semi-Newbies Yumi, Alf and Akko ! Two Doodles and a Spitz ! Working on a new band DoodleSpitz ! 80’s SoCal Synth Pop.

Yumi sings lead and plays keytar, Akko sings and plays bass, Alf on the drums !

First single dropping next week called Barclays is Rad.

Alf was a stray in Philly, his name was Axel at first, then the owners said he told them it was Alf, there ya have it.

Akko lives with Yumi. Alf is the third wheel. Akko wasn’t to happy with Alf and this idea of a thrupple, but he’s recently come around thanks to the skill of walkers Steph and Giulia and the insistence of Yumi, who loves her TWO Doodle Studs, and it’s all about the music after all.

Yumi meaning “abundance and beauty” in Japanese

Akko meaning “light, shine” in Japanese

Alf stands for Assisted Living Facility as well as Animal Liberation Front
Also, Alien Life Form 😂

Godog