Finn washes his face like a cat.

[conuly]

...is this normal poodle behavior?

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[alatefeline]

Well...it's adorable...?

[conuly]

Very!

[steorra]

Pardon me asking, but does your username equate to "a late feline", "alate feline", or something else?

[alatefeline]

The latter! My mental image of myself is a tortoiseshell cat with feathered wings; rather whimsical, delighted with both free flight and shared comfort, a creature equally of the hearthside and the open sky. (see icon - this art, used with permission, isn't tortie but it's otherwise close) Thank you for asking!

Do you have any stories you want to share about your username?

[steorra]

Thanks!

My username means "star" in Old English, which is my favourite language. I like stars a lot.

When I first signed up for LiveJournal, I wanted steorra for my username but it was already taken, so I used a different Old English word for a star/heavenly body (tungol). When I got a Dreamwidth account, I took the opportunity to get the username I'd wanted all along.

Just a few months ago, to my surprise, I found that Steorra is actually attested as an Old English name.

[alatefeline]

Way cool!!!

[siderea]

Oh, goodness, I'm glad steorra asked where I could see! I thought it was "a dead cat", and possibly a reference to the finance slang "a dead cat bounce".

[conuly]

A dead cat what!?

[siderea]

When a stock price plunges, there's often s tiny rally in price afterwards, that overly optimistic investors take as evidence that it's still a sound investment. But the fact that the price went up a smidge is not evidence that, allegorically speaking, the falling cat landed on its feet and is still alive and fighting, because when falling from a great height even a dead cat will bounce.

So those little rallies in price are called "dead cat bounces".

[conuly]

How charming.

[alatefeline]

*giggles*

Too late to do back & change it, but if I'd realized the obvious misreading when making my account, I might've gone for a different transliteration of 'cat with wings'!

[miss_s_b]

I have known other dogs to do it, certainly.

[conuly]

That's a relief.

[tentaclecore]

I've had fluffy(-ish) dogs do that before. Something gets snagged in the fur and they just learn to scrape at it with a spit-soaked paw to clean it. I go aw whenever one of my Huskies does it.

[conuly]

It's so adorbs!

[nanslice]

Is Finn a toy poodle? I think toy poodles are more apt to do it than standard poodles, although they can do it too. :3

[conuly]

He is!

[willnot_willso]

Probably. Just don't you start doing it!

[conuly]

Oh, no. I'm careful to only ever wash my face with my feet. It takes me twice as long, but....

(I also eat my peas with honey, and I've done it all my life.)

:)

[monanotlisa]

I see what you did there...

[conuly]

I never understood how the speaker of the poem knew they tasted funny if he's eaten them that way all his life.

[alatefeline]

:D :D :D

[dejla]

Poodles are NOT normal dogs. Poodles are SPECIAL. My parent's Louis loved spaghetti and sauce but hated mushrooms. So he'd be slurping up his spaghetti, and he would turn his head and ptooie! out would go a little brown thing. By the end of the serving, he'd have cleaned up the bowl, have spaghetti sauce all over his mouth and chest -- and a little heap of chopped-up mushroom on the floor beside the bowl.

[conuly]

Oh, my, how adorable!

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Yes, basically. They're very cat-like dogs.