‘Chicken Stix’ Splayment

by Meg on July 23, 2007

Says Sender-Inner Catherine S.; "this is Flash, our little wiener dog. She’s 10 pounds of hell (cuz she’s 14 years old!) and just luvs to bask in the sun with her chicken stix splayed out. The splaying gives us a cute view of the ‘tockage."

True. True. [nodding with chin in hand]

Beam

Oh, and love the creepy sliver of window in the back—adding depth noooow [sing in Rocky theme]

Beam3

In the end (heh) Catherine S. decided she wanted a ‘tock to go.

{ 60 comments }

1 mervtheflamingo 07.23.07 at 1:19 pm

Aw, a Sr. Cutie.

2 Beth 07.23.07 at 1:19 pm

Doxie tocks are the best!!!

3 ceejoe 07.23.07 at 1:24 pm

in the 2nd pic, she’s like “watchoo doin back there???”

4 Metz 07.23.07 at 1:27 pm

Ohhhh her face, so regal…

5 Theo 07.23.07 at 1:36 pm

Looks like a nice setting, too. Sunbeam, shag rug, leaded glass, Commedia del Arte lounge…

6 Yitzysmommie 07.23.07 at 1:44 pm

Flash, you’re so beautiful that the ‘tocks view is beautiful too!
Nahwming on the chicken leg….

7 jen 07.23.07 at 1:54 pm

you know those little white cooking paper booties they put on turkey legs? i want to put them on poochie’s feets and then neeble on them.

8 Victorya 07.23.07 at 2:12 pm

I love the silver dignigied muzzle and cute widdle pawpads of mischeif!

9 anner 07.23.07 at 2:16 pm

what a sweet little old lady! ’bout time a senior got some cute props; puppehs grow into beloved companions.

10 thepetmuseum 07.23.07 at 2:32 pm

didn’t know dachshunds were such a movable feast! she’s a lovely older dog, i hope you get to have her for a long time.

11 ThreeCatNight 07.23.07 at 2:38 pm

Pass them hot dog buns my way!

12 Lisa 07.23.07 at 2:46 pm

awww…love the dark paw pads and the gray snout!
what a lovely gal…(tummyrubs and ears scratchies)

13 pyrit 07.23.07 at 2:51 pm

Now this is the kind of Flash back I like!

14 Lone 07.23.07 at 3:13 pm

Chicken sticks on a pear head (as some of us doxie owners call them :) )

15 DKN 07.23.07 at 3:24 pm

Jen – I’m with ya! Nummy chix stix! :)

16 girlnextdoortn 07.23.07 at 3:34 pm

Oooh, I love it when my cat does this- I call it his “pancake pose”. ‘Cuz he’s all flat, yanno?

17 NYgirly 07.23.07 at 3:59 pm

LOL at chixen stix ^^

A good friend of mine has a HOOOOGE tuxedo kitty named ‘Gyro’ who will sit upright, with one leg sticking out in front of himself that he licks and it’s called ‘turkey leg’!

*runs and gets a chixen bib and moist towelettes*

18 blair 07.23.07 at 4:01 pm

WIENERHOCKS!

19 Michelle 07.23.07 at 4:04 pm

What a sweet, sweet face. I adore the faces of older dogs. So much character.

These chickin stix look like they could be buffalo wings.

::grabs a dollop of bleu and some celery::

20 Lauri 07.23.07 at 4:26 pm

Wonderful picture!
Big hugs to little doxie and her drumsticks!

21 thedistractor 07.23.07 at 4:31 pm

My corgis do this too. The boy is named Ham (short for Hamlet) so we called his splayed legs “Ham hocks”.

22 jmfausti 07.23.07 at 4:43 pm

When my puppy Pickles lays with his legs all splayed out behind him, I call it ‘frog legs.’ I never thought of chicken stix.

23 Jen 07.23.07 at 4:53 pm

Wow Flash looks great for her age! Certainly better than our hot dog, Babe, who is almost 15 and dying of congestive heart failure. :( But she used to sit like this all the time, and I wondered how is that comfortable?

Adorable pics!

24 Zydekitten 07.23.07 at 5:16 pm

We have a Jack Russell Terrier (Woo Hoo, Terrier Tocks!) who does this and we call it his “broiler chicken” pose!

Too Cute!

:^D

25 Toby 07.23.07 at 5:24 pm

This blog is way to obsessed with animal butts. It’s starting to get disturbing.

26 Ponygirl 07.23.07 at 5:26 pm

Nice to see the old dogs gettin’ their due!

27 Theo 07.23.07 at 5:27 pm

Another excellent screen name! “Zydekitten!” [hears bayou accordion and washboard in head]

28 Theo 07.23.07 at 5:28 pm

Tocks up, Toby.

29 Mary (the first) 07.23.07 at 5:34 pm

This grande dame reminds me a bit of my grandmother.. quite venerable indeed. (not counting the pink collar. Where are the hanging reading glasses??)

30 Theo 07.23.07 at 5:41 pm

Well I think it’s a safe bet that they wouldn’t be on *this* end, Mary.

31 Subhangi 07.23.07 at 6:02 pm

Awwwwww.

32 Mary (the first) 07.23.07 at 6:03 pm

LOL Well no, but on pic. 2 they should be visible hanging from the neck (or perched on her nose):)

33 NYgirly 07.23.07 at 7:02 pm

LOL @ Toby

34 Meggy 07.23.07 at 7:10 pm

Is it wrong that I want to munch on his toes?

If so, I don’t want to be right.

35 A 07.23.07 at 7:31 pm

I’ve got a Dachshund…..Mini B/T. She’s almost 14. She’s got cancer. I am making sure she is without pain at this point. Sorry to be a bummer. If you really know Dachshunds, You will understand.

36 Shannon Johnson 07.23.07 at 8:23 pm

Weiner dog alert!!! I love it.

37 vasco 07.23.07 at 8:24 pm

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nice doggy…

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38 Zach 07.23.07 at 9:20 pm

JUNK
IN
THE
TRUNK!

39 thequeenmum 07.23.07 at 9:30 pm

Awwww so prosh! I have an older dachshie and he does the exact same thing, especially when nibbling on bones! Only a dachshie owner can fully understand the cuteness. :)

40 Aaron DeLay 07.23.07 at 9:35 pm

I like dog butts and
I can not lie
You other puppers can’t deny
That when a dog walks in…

41 Carolyn 07.23.07 at 10:37 pm

I’ve always called them ‘porkchop legs’…

42 Em 07.23.07 at 10:56 pm

Enough the tocks already. They’re not cute. I’m tired of looking at animal and insect butts – they’re really, really, not cute.

43 Sue in NoCal 07.23.07 at 11:08 pm

Sorry, Em, you lose!
I love the matching set of cowlicks on her hiney. Yes. Tock cowlicks!

44 Brak_Silverbone 07.24.07 at 1:41 am

Is it so wrong that I want to gently nibble on those licorice toes?

45 Zydekitten 07.24.07 at 1:43 am

Thanks for the compliment Theo . . .

I do loves me some Zydeco music.

And bring on the Tocks, I say . . . you can never have too many tocks!

;^D

46 Annie 07.24.07 at 1:50 am

Dear A, sorry to hear your beloved puppy is in distress. hugs from me to you and your puppy love.

47 Lola 07.24.07 at 2:30 am

I heard somewhere that when dogs lay like that (with their legs splayed under and behind them like that) that it’s a sign of good hips. Anyone know if there’s any truth to that?

48 Laura 07.24.07 at 3:15 am

DOX TOCKS DOX TOCKS DOX TOCKS!!!!

49 Fred 07.24.07 at 3:33 am

Pantalone?
Arlecchino?
Lounge?

50 Aubrey 07.24.07 at 3:33 am

“This blog is way to obsessed with animal butts.”

I think that I, and every one else here, will be more than willing to offer a rebuttal to that remark.

51 Annie 07.24.07 at 3:48 am

in our house we have cat panteloons. but dox tocks is cute too.

You can never have too many tocks

52 Aubrey 07.24.07 at 3:56 am

Annie, sometimes you can overdo it. And then you have to go into de-tocks.

53 Dawn 07.24.07 at 5:05 am

not a very cute photo.

54 Linders 07.24.07 at 11:55 am

DOX TOX!

55 StormCat 07.24.07 at 12:39 pm

I have a large calico kitty who not only lays on her tummy with her back legs splayed out behind her, but she also crosses her from paws!! She looks so cute that way…

More Tox!!!

56 StormCat 07.24.07 at 12:40 pm

Whoops… “from” should have been “front”

57 Annie 07.24.07 at 1:16 pm

Aubrey are you saying there may need to also be a visit to dox tocks aholics anony-mouse.

My name is Annie and I am a dox tocks aholic.

58 Chris Sherman 07.24.07 at 1:20 pm

When my Great Pyrenees used to do this with her ‘tocks, we’d call her the Frog Dog!

59 kelly 07.24.07 at 1:58 pm

My 15 yr old doxie does the SAME thing.. she argues with the cats for the sun spot the stretches alllll the way out.. i pinch her cute little “cheeks”

60 Kathie 07.29.07 at 6:18 pm

Cute for one, not cute for all? Equal time for all cuteness here! I’m learning more about cute from this blog, and enjoying it immensely!
…nibblenibblenibble…I’ll have to send in my cat’s “chicken feet”…

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