Boy Scout Dog

Dog Blog Post #414: Years ago, when we were first researching breeds that might fit our family and lifestyle, we came across comments that the Golden Retriever was "The Boy Scout Dog".

It's easy to see the connection when you compare the beginning line for Temperament in the AKC breed standard:

"Friendly, reliable, and trustworthy."

... with the Boy Scout Law:

"A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty,
brave, clean, and reverent."

And while not a perfect match, two out of three is pretty darn close, and reliable certainly fits in with the spirit of the law, if not the exact letters (although you could probably piece it together from them if you tried!)

What does any of this have to do with the Daily Shoot, as those who regularly play along here are pretty sure it must?

We're all collectors of something. Find an interesting way to display and make a photo of a collection today.

And the collection? Why the merit badges on son's sash, of course!

The vintage hat was a gift when son crossed over from Webelos (the end of Cub Scouts) to Boy Scouts. One of the mom's scoured eBay for them to give one to each boy. It actually fit surprisingly easily on the boys' heads, and while it would fall off were they to move around, it showed remarkable stability so long as they were just sitting.

Note how solid Henry looks (way up top) - you'd think he was the old pro at hat wearing! He's really come a long way from when I first wrote "There was no way, no how, that the Terrible Top Hat was going to get anywhere the Precious Puppies Head..." back on July 11 on the Top Hat post.

And the scarf? Well, that belongs to the boys, having been purchased for them to wear to troop meetings so they would feel like they belonged. :)

I had a rough time picking which picture to upload, and finally asked son to choose. He immediately went with the shot of Henry, loving how his serious look seemed to mean business.

I have a backlog of Scavenge Challenge shots, which I uploaded in mass today, but will trickle out over the next few days, I think. Here's...

#20) "From teaspoons to seconds, amperes to inches, how do you measure up?"

... and the description I put in flickr...

From Wikipedia:

"In order to be deemed legal for play, the pocket depth must pass the following test: when a lacrosse ball is placed in the pocket, the top edge of the ball must not sit deeper than the lowermost edge of the sidewall."

Finally, we have...

Editor's Note: In comments from yesterday's water shots, I found it interesting that some of the dogs who I would have pegged as hose lovers from all the water shots on their blogs, actually don't like playing in water from a hose, either. Fascinating.

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