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My Dog Likes My Music

Wigwam Jones

Wigwam Jones

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This is Mollie the dog. She and her brother Milo were rescued from a dumpster in North Carolina when they were roughly 10 weeks old; they're seven now and have been with us since we adopted them. They're pure mutts, but the best dogs ever. Mollie has one blue eye and one brown eye, so I suppose she must have some Huskie or Samoyed blood in her or something along those lines.


100_4151_v1 by Wigwam Jones, on Flickr

She is relaxing and listening to my music. In this case, it was Patti Page (rather coincidental, since this was last weekend, before she unfortunately passed away).


100_4152_v1 by Wigwam Jones, on Flickr

The latest setup on the upstairs installation:

H/K 730 receiver
Perpetuum Ebner 2035 TT with Shure 91 cartridge
Magnavox CDB610 CD player
Infinity ES 82 speakers
PSB 30 MKII speakers
Sony Vaio laptop running Ubuntu / Audacity / Behringer UCA 222 ADC to record from vinyl.

Everything listed above was purchased from various thrift stores for very little money and either worked right away or was repaired by me, with the exception of the Behringer (purchased new) and the Sony laptop (purchased years ago with Marriott travel points). That's how to do it on the cheap.

Happy Days, and Happy New Year!
 
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Rocky, my cat, is listening to streaming jazz and reading the AK threads with me. He saw the pictures of Mollie and grew interested so I read your comments to him (he only pretends to read with me - sensitive about his illiteracy), and he thought rescuing dogs from dumpsters a great idea, inasmuch as some who hang out there have proven to be trouble-makers. He says he'll take your word on her character, but his experience with most dogs has been confrontational, and he isn't sure about that two-color eye thing either - says he'd never know which one to focus upon, and feels it would be awkward. However, he is a mighty opinionated and stubborn cat, so you have to let at least half what he says run like water off a duck's back, and not really even listen to the other half. Despite that, he's good company 'cause he likes most all music and holds back any comments on the little he doesn't prefer.
 
I'm certainly glad you don't spoil them Wiggy. That would be a terrible thing to do.

cubdog
 
Beautiful dog! I'm a dog lover as well and over the years all of my pets have loved to listen to music, and lie on the couch with me when I do my serious listening. I Like your turntable. Doubt if there are many of these still around. Idle drive if I remember correctly.
 
Frannie, our black lab, is always beside me while I work on the bench in the basement and listens to the tunes with me. She's old too, like 12 or 13 but the ears still work.
 
cubdog said:
I'm certainly glad you don't spoil them Wiggy. That would be a terrible thing to do.

cubdog
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:D

Technically, that's their couch. Ours is leather, which they do not like. So they have this one, and they let me sit on it when I'm upstairs listening to music.

They also like to romp in the snow.

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sstring said:
Beautiful dog! I'm a dog lover as well and over the years all of my pets have loved to listen to music, and lie on the couch with me when I do my serious listening. I Like your turntable. Doubt if there are many of these still around. Idle drive if I remember correctly.
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Yes, that's an Idler Drive TT. I picked it up at a Salvation Army for $7.95, but it was missing the cartridge holder, which was a huge pain to track down. I finally found one on eBay about a year or two later, and it works great and even came with a nice Shure 91 cartridge on it, I just added a new Pfanstiel replacement stylus and I was in business. It doesn't do the auto-return at the end of the record like it should, but I haven't torn it apart to regrease the bits and pieces underneath, so at the moment, I just let it be a manual TT.
 
My dog is a fan of ambient electronica. Anytime I have that playing, shes on the couch next to me. Other than that, she doesnt seem to be a fan of anything else.
 
Back in the 80's

there used to be a squirrel that used to sit on a branch just outside our french doors and everytime I played Elvis Costello This Years Model he would rock out undulating up and down and darting his tail about. He gave Armed Forces a tail up too cause he did the same thing when I played it when it came out.:banana:
 
It is weird... how they seem to love it too. As soon as the music starts they come around (our cats that is). Funny too, how they seem to like certain artists and some they seem to ignore. Much like their master! :D
 
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