Boxing Day 2007

Helping Icy When Seizures Struck; Resting After Passing Out at Dog Beach on Boxing Day


Boxing Day 2007
I scared my Mom, I mean my Bitch, and worried her gay husband at Spanish Banks today when I keeled over at the doggy beach and it looked like quick rigor mortis right there at the beach. I don't know what happened exactly, but one minute I was standing and the next I had fallen over on my side. When I came to my Mom I mean my Bitch was lying in the cold sand next to me with her coat over me and stroking my head and her gay husband was offering to go get the car. But I got up and walked back to the car just fine. Do you think I have a heart condition now? Icy used to have seizures when she was my age and the rest of us pooches would lie beside her, or put our muzzles on top of her tummy when she had them, just like my Bitch did with me. I guess she learned to do that from us. We'd put our heads on Icy until she came to again and she never remembered much. She'd get up and start sniffing around for food almost immediately. She was a cool ole gal. .... Is it possible that one day I won't be here with my MomBitch, I'll just stay in that place where I went when I blacked out? Whose going to love my Mom then? Whose she going to cook salmon for then? There will never be another Mingus, that's for sure!

copyright 2007 Christine Saulnier, Mingusandthebitch

Christmas Day 2007

December 25, 2007.

Normal households get big birds called turkeys on this day every year! Why can’t we just be a normal household on this one day of the year? We got duck breasts from Quebec! I can (could when I could still swim fast) get a duck for myself at Jericho Park if I wanted duck on December 25th!!!! Getting a turkey isn’t so easy!


copyright 2007 Christine Saulnier, Mingusandthebitch

Lead up to Christmas 2007

December 23rd

The food is getting richer around here and more colorful. I had mashed garnet yams in my breakfast this morning and left over lamb, very nice... Why can't I have eggnog in coffee???

Yes, that is me and the old yellow bitch I lived with in the 1990s named Icy, in the group photo on the cover of "Dog City Vancouver". Today, some more strangers made a short film about me with their new video camera. Sigh. I know I should be flattered, but I find sychophancy so nauseating. So I'm beautiful, do you really think that capturing my beauty on film is a worthwhile endeavor? Sigh.

We're listening to Dinah Washington singing "You Don't Know What Love Is", with Terry Clark on tenor sax. I like Eartha Kitt better, and my namesake of course.... my human Mom just saw Eartha Kitt in N.Y. while she was there with her best human friends in the world, T & V and their daughter, who is like her little sister, H…. I know, there are so many complicated relationships in my life…. You don’t have to worry about keeping them straight (so many of them swing in a variety of ways in any case!) I’ll try to keep them all in perspective as I tell my tail, or is that, tale???? of the many trials in my exhausting life! good-bye, my liver brownies are defrosted now.

copyright 2007 Christine Saulnier, Mingusandthebitch