Saint Jean Baptiste Day

An annual holiday in Quebec celebrating the patron saint of French Canadians

means that Sophie,

who has been very busy breaking in the new dining room carpet,

will be called upon to celebrate.

Chien Interrupted.

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and speaking of being interrupted....

Here's a special note for Wuff Stuff: I appreciate that you are trying to recruit members, but stop posting marketing material in my blog comments. It is making me really not want to join and it is making me twitter things about how much you are annoying me. Don't do it anymore, okay? Asking nicely.

HEY!

So, Sophie may have given you the impression that her park is nothing but water from one end to the other. This simply is not the case.

Sure there's lots of water. You can see it there, through those trees.



But there is lots of green too.



And loads of space for Sophie to practice her yodeling on weekend mornings.

Meet & Greet
a few of my new neighbours

Mika
He's a wacky, young, silvery Doberman

Yuki,
She's young too, but quite mellow and a sweetie pie and holy cute!

Coquette
She lives right across the street and is a pretty chill, happy girl.



There are loads more. Loads! These are only the ones we have pictures of.
Just three doors down there is a lab, a beagle, and a poodle, and across the street, an Old English and ..... wait for it .....a Bernese Mountain Dog!

Mom says I can't kill him. But you know me and those BMDs. I just don't like 'em.

Sophie on the Rocks

Okay, it's just one rock, but for a martini swilling beast like Sophie, you have to admit that was pretty funny.

The Swimmer, 2008

Sophie Brador (Canadian, born 1999)
Mixed media; dog, water, grass on park.
from the collection of Sherry H.

MORNING IN THE PARK

Strolling through her new old park, Sophie meets a lot of dogs.

There are dogs all over Parc LaFontaine and provided she doesn't want to kill them, she gets to say hello.

Check out the fat pug dude.

Check out the fat pug dude swimming.

I can't remember his name, so we like to think of him as Carl.

Go Carl Go

This is Bob Barker

This is Sophie.

This is Sophie and a couple of apes trying to convince Bob Barker to get his feet wet.

This is Bob Barker thinking they are all insane.

This is Bob Barker's Pa Ape ratcheting up his persuasive techniques.

This is Bob Barker realizing that the Pa Ape is never to be trusted.

This is Bob Barker mad as hell.

He did some yelling at the Pa Ape, told him to choose one of three dog bakeries and asked him to guess the price of the special cookie he would buy him. Bob Barker never loses the magic.

See Sophie?

This morning ... a stupidly hot one ... Sophie romped in the lake in her new park, Parc La Fontaine. It's actually her old park, because it is near her very first house in Montreal. She is thrilled to be living near Parc La Fontaine again, because she can go swimming .... sort of .... if the cops aren't around.

Side note: The cops in Montreal suck, for a lot of reasons, but mostly because they give massive tickets to dogs who swim and play. But that's another story for another time.

Sophie met up with these two new pals, Charlie and Shelby. Mere split seconds after this photo was taken, Shelby tried to mount Sophie and Sophie got mad. But it was a short lived spat and let's just say, Shelby won't be trying that again.

More pictures of Sophie's Sunday morning park adventure to come during the week. She met a lot of new dogs today. Her favourite? Bob Barker, a chubby dachsund with no use for the water.

Sophie with one of her birthday presents.

She would like you to know that despite the slightly glazed look in her eyes, she is stone cold sober, and despite the messy floor beside her, she did not spill her last martini.

Finally!

and without further ado

*** A WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO ***

of Ms. Sophina la Brador

Sophie at the Old House on her Birthday from Sophie Brador on Vimeo.

Since moving out of the loft, Sophie has been using it as a dog park.

Our loft neighbour, who is also Sophie's dog walker, popped over with her dogs Tricky and Charlot. Sophie, Tricky and Charlot all have four legs. The dog walker is the one with only two.


This video is in black & white, so as to be suitably artistic for Ms. Beast.

SOPHIE BRADOR TURNS NINE

WORLD PAUSES FOR A MOMENT OF REFLECTION





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Sophie?

Look closer .....

.... same amber eyes, same crazy tongue,
but this beast is Betsy.

*****

Betsy was adopted yesterday by my friend Anjali,
who adopted Maggie yesterday too.

Except for the crazy tongue,
Maggie doesn't much resemble Sophie at all.

Both beasties went home to Anjali's cat Jolene,
who hissed at them immediately but said,
"Okay, you can stay."

Welcome Home Betsy & Maggie!

BTW, Sophie forgives you for the furs you left on me and in her car,
but she is not likely to give them back.

LOOK

We moved into a tree house.

That's right. Sophie and I now live in a 5 x 8 wrought iron box at the top of a maple tree. It gets a little chilly at night and the squirrels try to steal our food, but we are happy here.

Our wrought iron box also comes with the best two bedroom apartment, more commonly referred to as a 6 1/2, in all of Montreal. Sophie has two of these boxes, front and back, which gives her an excellent vantage point on the front street and the lane in the back. We are next to two of the best parks in the city and she has already met several dogs she hasn't felt the urge to kill.

It's been a bit of an adjustment for both of us. I had a week of packing and moving and job interviewing, and the only thing lost was the nobs on the stove. I highly recommend going to your next interview frazzled and with only three hours of sleep. It seems to be just the thing to get the gig.

Sophie highly recommends positioning your booty in the sun. It seems to be just the thing to cure those moving poo blues.

*****

Over the next few days, Sophie will take you on a tour of the rest of her new house, her new hood and her two parks.

The best thing so far?
No murderous cat stalker!
Yet.

Due to the recent move, there has been no time to properly update the beast's blog. However, this photo clearly illustrates her impression of the new digs.