Dateline Japan: Cute Puppy Wins Heart of Grateful Nation!
 

Chihuahua puppy born with love-heart pattern in fur!

A PUPPY, named Heart-Kun, has been born in Japan with a large, clear, love-heart-shaped pattern in his coat.

To read story and see shocking photo, click here*

Out of curiosity to anybody who knows dog breeding, is coloration shape at all breedable or just pretty much random?

But if so I think I just realized the logical conclusion of the lolcat phenomenon.

It's rare that chihuahas are bred for coat - in fact, it's not unusual to have long hair and smooth coat chihuahuas in the same litter.

My mother used to have a Pom/unknown mutt with a perfect "hidden Mickey" on her side.

Late Breaking Story! Dog Falls at Dog Falls!
 

"Why do they call this Dog Falls and, say, where's Pretzel?"

Elaine Callander was walking Kyle when he fell into the gorge
A dog has been rescued after falling 50ft down a gorge at a Highland beauty spot called Dog Falls.

To read story, click here.

And to think I had no idea before this post that there was even such a thing

I knew about the lolcat thing, but in looking it up on wp, I found out about another term: Snowcloning. I guess this belongs in the other thread, but I am glad someone came up with a word for that.

I found this response to lolcat very funny.

Snowcloning is indeed a very useful word. I'm glad to see the wiki page correctly identifies the Language Log source. That's a regular blog on my reading list so it was cool to be there at the creation of a word and actually see it spread into common use (at least within certain circles).

If you're interested in things linguisticky I recommend that blog (though it does veer into way over my head jargon sometimes.



Man, somewhere recently I read a very interesting article from a dictionary editor on how words are selected for inclusion. But now I can't find it.

So THAT'S what a LOLCAT is.....