Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Paper Training Our Little Dog, Frank

I was photographing this guy for a possible image for the book, when he ran over to the papers we have on the kitchen floor. I think he's finally trained.


Click on the image below to read all about the quirky artist who has his wires crossed.

24 comments:

Lilith Silvermane said...

HA.. that is fab!
By the way, I know it wasn't the dancing man and woman on the blog I wrote on you... I was just hoping no one noticed since I sent it over as a guest blogger :)

However, little did I know that you would be there to see it. *blush*

Kathy said...

Love this. Oh, good doggie! Congratulations on the wonderful article about you and your work. Great to see the spotlight on you! Hat's off to ya.

Another Limited Rebellion said...

Ha! Not only is this an awesome piece, but I got a kick out of seeing that you were wearing one of my shirts in the picture!

Jim said...

Hot-dog, that Frank is a well trained pup. Looks like those nasty little surprises he used to leave around the house are just has-beans.

~congrats on the article BTW!

On with the blather said...

Great article! Oh, and good job training Frank! It's not always easy getting your dog to do their business where and when you want. Keep up the good work.

On with the blather!

Angie Weid said...

OMG!!!! This has moved up on my list of all time favorite bent objects.

OUTSTANDING!!!!!

"Q" said...

Very nice! I think you need to whip up an Olympic ode before the games end.

SOe said...

Bad dog! Good article about you. I´m sure your blogpage will be visited by thousand fans more. Some days ago I read a book and the main character loved circus peanuts - I sure had to think of your fantastic creations and even had to laugh at the pure memory!

spleenal said...

he's done his beans on your picture.
depreciation or just defecation

SLD said...

Oh dear, I hope you're not training him to regularly poop on your face!
Love him though!
If only my little hot doggie would be so well-behaved.
Keep up the good work Terry, it makes us all smile so very much.

Terry said...

Thanks everyone for taking the time to comment!

Noah- I thought that'd give you a chuckle.

IBerg said...

I love frank. Being from Chicago, I am very please to see that you did not put ketchup on your hot dog (could use some sport pepper though). Nice write-up. The article seemed to end abruptly. Was there more to it? I tried logging on to the papers website, but I am not a subscriber.

Carol said...

What a nice article! And poor little one, at least he knew to run over to the papers, if not to aim away from the face. Has anyone been able to find these "web extras" of more pictures? I couldn't find them on the site.

Carol said...

Whoops, if you do a search for "terry border," some of them will show up.

Justin said...

I looked at that little pile of beans and went "Awwww!" How cute!

Seriously...genius.

And...congrats on the article! I think they did you justice...aside from not mentioning your DASHING good looks. :-P

darla said...

Good dog, Frank! Did you give him a treat/reward? Like maybe some chips or fries? Super-sized, of course.

Great article!

Carolyn (sea mystery) said...

Terry, I am posting about your blog on my blog tomorrow. It's toilet paper day and I "borrowed" one of your pics to post along with kudos about your new book. Hope you don't mind. I think you are very funny and a genius to take something so simple and turn it into a treasure. Is that the Smithsonian Institute knocking at your door?

cm said...

wow. I find this to be pretty innovative work! I'm speaking about the idea in general. I especially love this "you're fired"-thing. very creative. greets :)

Elena said...

OOOH! Back from "FayCation" and I get to see TWO new posts!

BOth of them very great!

THe beans are a hoot!

Keep it up!

Kellyann Brown said...

I bet you get a LOT of kudos from the other owners of wiener dogs!

White on Rice Couple said...

Terry,
We laughed out so loud on this one, it scared our crazy dogs. This one is not only genius, it really hits close to home for us. If only all "accidents" were as clean looking as baked beans!

Thanks again for brightening up our day!

diane & todd

sarala said...

That is too funny. Wonderful art and humor.
Found you through Self Taught Artist.

yellowbrownies said...

this picture is so surreally believable that i won't be able to look at baked beans the same way anymore :\

Wednesday said...

Would you call that self-defecating humor?