Photo of Kit, a middle-aged White person in a gray sweatshirt and plaid pajama bottoms, holding and hugging Attie, a ~30 lb. medium-hair white dog with black spots on her eyes and a pink belly. Kit's eyes are closed and is smiling triumphantly. Attie has a big ball stuffed in her mouth and has a bulge-eyed look of, 'Oh shit, now what?"

Happy Birthday to the Love of my Life, Kit O'Connor, who makes everything better anywhere. May this be your best year yet!

(Pic: Kit finally catching Attie in a game of Keep Away. 2025-12-13-1004)
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(Pad, pad, pad, pad...) "ATTIE-girl!"

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2025-04-16-0749

Close-up photograph of Attie, a ~34 lb piebald dog with black ears and black around her eyes, sitting on a sofa, staring off to the right into the early morning sunshine. We can only see the right side of her face, and the direct sunlight brings out the beautiful cordovan in her eye.

🎶 Just call me angel of the morning, angel / Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby... 🎶

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2025-01-25-0855

When your dog has great burrowing instincts but also great sitting still instincts, you end up with Attie the Living Statue.

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2025-01-30-1911

Aim for the tree, and you might get a branch.

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2025-01-03-1537

Medium photograph of Kit, a middle aged White person, reclining on a short couch in a cabin. They're surrounded by animals: whiteish cat Zola on the arm of the couch to the left; black cat Langston in a bay window in the left; and whiteish dog Atwood (Attie) on Kit's lap.

Happy Birthday to the Love of my Life, Kit O'Connor, who makes the stars sing and the sun soar. May this be your best year yet!

(Pic: Kit in their natural habitat.)
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2025-01-03-0900

Medium-close shot with a wide-angle lens of Nate and his dog, Attie, sitting on a small couch in their cabin. Attie is sitting straight up and sniffing Nate's face, just a couple of inches away from her, and Nate's eyes are closed and is smiling happily. The afternoon sun streams in from a window behind them, adding a slight halo effect.

Me 'n' my patient pup.

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2024-11-29-1444

Medium shot of three animals on a bed in the light of the setting sun. The mostly-white dog on the left is lying down, facing away from us but with her right ear jutting up as if listening intently; the black cat is in the middle, looking as though he's making up his mind about something; and the white cat furthest away and to the right is just plain zonked out in the narrow sunbeam. I'm the near distance through the window on the left is a small copse of trees and a neighboring house. It's a very relaxing scene.

Sharing a scarce resource.

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2024-10-18-1654

Medium-close shot of a ~35 lb, mostly white dog with black patches on her eyes and ears. She is charging by with a tennis ball in her mouth. The location is a grassy field of a public park. The dog appears happy, as this is clearly her raison d'être.

What a happy Attie looks like.

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2024-10-05-1155

Attie off leash in Estill County. Just like her parents.

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2024-09-21-1511

Long shot of our cabin's back yard, roughly a 1/5th of an acre abutting forest, the morning sun making beautiful shadows through the trees. On the left side, in front of the cabin's wall, sits Attie, a ~35 lb. white dog with black patches on her head, as though she's sunbathing. (Location: Estill County, Kentucky, USA.)

Got us a sundog.

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2024-09-08-1047

Medium-close photo of Kit, a fifty-something White person, snuggling on their bed with Attie, a five-something medium white dog with black patches over her eyes. Attie has a slightly bugeyed expression as if to say, "What do I do? This is AWKWARD?".

To the victor go the spoils!

OK, the spoiled.

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2024-06-24-2222

Diptych of two medium-close pictures of a ~35-lb white dog with black patches around the eyes. The dog is sitting under a gray/black blanket, almost as though it's wearing it as a shawl. In the top picture, the dog's mouth is open in a simulacrum of smiling; in the bottom picture, it has closed it's mouth and looks comically serious.

In theory, the waterproof blanket's there to mitigate unexpected leaks. It reality, it's just another prop in Attie's neverending Theater of Meshugas.

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2024-06-23-2034

Medium-close photograph taken roughly overhead of a ~35-lb, dog, medium-short fur mostly white with black eye patches, lying on mowed grass, looking to at the camera and panting happily. At its feet is a yellow tennis ball. The dog is placed in the middle of the photographer's shadow, which is very sharp and high-contrast. In the silhouette, one can see the photographer's fishing hat and the tennis-ball launcher, a kind of handheld catapult for flinging tennis balls great distances.

I cast a long shadow on Attie's life. (Playing Fetch in *The Park Formerly Known as Panther*.)

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2024-06-15-0947

Photo collage of Attie, a ~34-lb. (mostly white with black spots on the eyes and ears) dog with a recent short furcut sitting on a small bench inside in the morning sun. You can also make out her faint reflection in the window, so it's a little like a mirror shot where you get two simultaneous angles on the subject. She's totes cute, obvs.

Sundog in the window. She thinks it's still 9:08 AM ET, and we don't have the heart to tell her the truth.

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2024-03-10-1008

2-pic collage of a ~34-lb dog (named Atwood) with mostly white, closely cut fur, sitting bolt upright in the back seat of a car. She is wearing a bright green bandana and --to her and her parents' great horror-- matching ears decorations, sometime like a cross between earrings and small antlers.

Attie's had better days.

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2024-03-08-1358

Medium-long shot with a wide-angle lens of a ~34-lb medium hair dog (mostly white fur with black patches over the eyes and ears) lounging on a bed abutting a window. The late afternoon sun brightly illuminates her, and we can see a leafless tree and nearby hills in the distance through the nearby window.

Sun dog doin' what a sun dog do.

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2024-02-23-1609