Typically we have a new naming theme each year. This year I had gotten lazy and hadn't thought up a new theme so Abo ended up having a New Mexico name, even though he was a 2014 dog. Well, now we've figured out our theme and it will be artists!
Klee is a sweet little Rat Terrier mix puppy who's about 6-7 months old. She has a bit of a sad story though for a dog so young. Someone brought her into a vet's office saying they had found a dog on the side of the road. She wasn't walking and seemed woozy. Upon examination the vet determined there was some cerebral swelling but she didn't seem to have any fractures that you would expect to see if a dog was hit by a car or something.
So she was taken to the shelter and placed in their hospital unit to be watched. Over the course of the next few days she was up and moving around, the swelling was gone, and by a week after being found she was moving around normally with no apparent stiffness in her hips and now limps that might be seen if there was bone or joint damage. Whatever caused the swelling will likely remain a mystery. The vets do think it was the result of some type of head trauma but whether that was from being dropped or from a vehicle impact or something else, we will never know.
New Rattitude has pulled her and she was spayed and vetted last week so she'd be all ready for her trip to Washington at the end of the week.
Klee is named for Paul Klee, who was a German-Swiss artist who painted in the early 20th Century and was an instructor in the famed Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His lectures on color theory were incredibly influential on modern art and he was considered a top design theorist in Germany until pushed out by the Nazis in the 1930's. His art was labeled as "degenerate" and 102 of his paintings in public collections were seized.
Klee's art can't be classified as one style and has been associated with Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and Futurism. He and his good friend, Russian painter and color theorist Wassily Kandinsky, are two of my favorite painters.
So she was taken to the shelter and placed in their hospital unit to be watched. Over the course of the next few days she was up and moving around, the swelling was gone, and by a week after being found she was moving around normally with no apparent stiffness in her hips and now limps that might be seen if there was bone or joint damage. Whatever caused the swelling will likely remain a mystery. The vets do think it was the result of some type of head trauma but whether that was from being dropped or from a vehicle impact or something else, we will never know.
New Rattitude has pulled her and she was spayed and vetted last week so she'd be all ready for her trip to Washington at the end of the week.
Klee is named for Paul Klee, who was a German-Swiss artist who painted in the early 20th Century and was an instructor in the famed Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His lectures on color theory were incredibly influential on modern art and he was considered a top design theorist in Germany until pushed out by the Nazis in the 1930's. His art was labeled as "degenerate" and 102 of his paintings in public collections were seized.
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| Ad Parnassum 1932 |
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| Senecio, 1922 |
Klee's art can't be classified as one style and has been associated with Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and Futurism. He and his good friend, Russian painter and color theorist Wassily Kandinsky, are two of my favorite painters.
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| Insula Dulcamara, 1938 |
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What a beautiful puppy, and I love the name! Sad story... so happy that Klee has a new lease on life!
What a beautiful puppy, and I love the name! Sad story... so happy that Klee has a new lease on life!
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