Like I mentioned before on this blog, on Saturday I went to meet Rufus, Westminster Dog Show Champion of 2006 and giant dog shaped teddy bear.  He sat regally atop what looked like a throne, but was probably just a box and calmly let himself be petted and poked and prodded.  This is not the bull terrier I know.  I mean he is adorable and a true champion through and through and a therapy dog, but again, not like the bull terrier I know and love.

This is the bull terrier I know and love:

This is what I know and love.  Now this isn’t the bull terrier I used to live with, that ate my comforter and did her business in the pet store, but it may as well have been.  They look exactly alive and this dog also behaved exactly like her.  Why did I get so many gorgeous shots of Rufus?  Because he was sitting still.  This is his granddaughter and she was running around as though she had just been freed from a long confinement.

Why is this picture in profile?  Well, it’s hard to get a good photo when the object is moving around all the time.

And jumping on people: