Sometimes You need a pair . . .

Photos: my dogs, Charley and Babe;

Michael Bay and his dogs (photos from Elle Decor).


So the other day I was flipping through the latest edition of ELLE DECOR (I get way too many magazines--hardly have time to read any of them). I was planning just to flip through and then give the magazine to a friend, but the pictures you see here caught my eye. Someone else has a pair of mastiffs!

Apparently film director Michael Bay has a house in Miami Beach--we're practically neighbors--and a pair of mastiffs. I'd never heard of Bay before, but he directed Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and other films I've seen. This paragraph from the article caught my eye:

"Everything else [in his house] is fair game for the dogs, who collectively weigh in at nearly 500 pounds. The mastiffs schlep from the swimming pool at the edge of the waterway, through the sliding glass doors, and slosh into the expansive living area, leaving a trail of water across the limestone floors and Indian hand-knotted silk rugs. They flail their enormous tongues, splattering nearby furniture. Bay, who is accustomed to micromanaging every aspect of his films to ensure perfection, simply ignores this. "You get used to the drool flopping ten feet up on the walls," he says, laughing. He may control the action on set, but here in Miami, he admits, "the dogs rule."

LOL! I thought I was the only one (well, one of the few) that copes with slingers hitting me upside the head while I'm working. Mr. Bay, if you see this, here's to your great taste in canine companions . . . and your house looks very nice, too. :-)

~~Angie