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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 13/10/2026

Nope. Totally normal. Wait, what do you mean "when"?

Pollox sits upright on a grassy bank with a dandelion in the foreground. He holds an orange, bone-shaped toy with a rope handle in his mouth and looks up with his ears perked. He wears a blue collar, an orange-trimmed harness and a yellow leash. Behind him, a blurry lake and a forested mountainside with patches of snow fade into a gray sky. The view is spectacular. Pollox has not noticed.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 11/10/2026

She definitely has the fangs for it. 🤣

Close-up of Lumi, a fluffy gray and black Finnish Lapphund with a cream-colored cheek ruff and windswept fur, against a soft green blur. Her mouth is open, showing a pink tongue and a full set of bright white fangs. Her brown eyes are narrowed and locked on the camera. One ear points sharply up to the right, and the other tilts forward. This is Countess Lumi, who has been spotted in broad daylight, which her lawyers describe as a minor technicality. The fangs, the stare and the nighttime walks in questionable weather all support the vampire theory. Any wooden stake offered to her will be added to the Stickimporters.com inventory.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 11/10/2026

Don't threaten me with a good time

One eye is clearly visible, on the right side of her face as we look at it. A second eye is only just visible at the far edge of her face, near the bridge of her nose. It shows as a thin dark sliver, and most of it is hidden by fur. The visible eye is round and fairly large. The iris is a deep chestnut brown. In the low sun it looks almost red-brown, with warmer amber tones toward the edge. The pupil is black and sits at the center. It is hard to tell the pupil from the dark iris, so the eye looks like one smooth, glossy, dark ball. A small, bright reflection of the sky sits near the upper left of the eye, like a tiny pale window. The surface of the eye looks wet and shiny. The edge of the eyelid is thin and black, like a line of dark eyeliner. It runs around the whole eye and gives it a sharp, clear outline. Around the eyelid the fur is short and dense. Directly above the eye is a patch of pale gray and cream hairs. These hairs look like a light eyebrow. The sun hits them, so they look almost pink. Directly below the eye the fur is dark charcoal gray. Between the eye and the nose, a band of black fur runs down the side of the muzzle. Behind the eye, toward the ear, the fur is a mix of rust, brown and black. A few longer, lighter hairs stick out above the eye. The gaze is steady and focused. No white of the eye is visible. Only the dark brown iris shows between the lids, so the eye reads as a single warm, dark circle. The lower lid is a thin black line. The upper lid is a slightly thicker black line that curves over the top of the eye. Fine, short hairs in dark brown and black lie flat along both lids. She is looking up and away from the camera, into the distance. The eye is open wide, with no squinting.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 11/10/2026

You want canonically appropriate ALT text? You get canonically appropriate ALT text. You're right. This is a lot better without the humor. But wait! Oh no! Seems I don't have to do this just because you said so! I'm so sorry! How about I continue writing the text I want and you go on and block me?

A close-up portrait of a fluffy, medium-sized dog photographed from the side, with the head turned to the left of the frame and tilted slightly upward. The dog looks up and away from the camera with a calm, attentive, serious expression. The picture is taken in low, warm evening light. The light comes from the right and from the front, so the fur on the face, chest and ears glows in shades of copper, orange and rose. The background is a blurred meadow. Tall, dry grass fills the upper two thirds of the background in pale gold and peach tones. Fresh green grass fills the lower left corner. A dark, blurred line of trees runs along the very top edge. The dog's face is long and narrow, with a pointed snout. The nose is black, glossy and slightly damp, and it sits at the far left of the picture. The muzzle is dark charcoal on top. Along the sides of the muzzle and under the chin the fur turns light gray to white. The mouth is closed, and a thin dark line shows where the lips meet. The eye on the visible side is round and deep chestnut brown, almost red-brown in this light, with a small bright reflection in it. Pale gray and cream hairs ring the eye like light eyebrows. Two pointed, upright ears stand on top of the head. The outer parts are dark brown to black. The inner edges are rimmed with long, light hairs that glow orange-pink where the sun hits them. The ear on the right of the picture is taller and closer to the camera. The ear on the left is smaller and further back. The coat is thick, long and slightly wavy. On the head and cheeks the hairs are a mix of dark brown, black and rust. The ruff around the neck and chest is lighter, with cream, beige and pale apricot hairs that curl loosely and look soft and fluffy. Toward the right of the picture and down the back, the fur is much darker, charcoal gray and black, with rust-colored tips wherever the light catches the hairs. The dog sits upright. Only the head, neck, chest and shoulder are visible.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 11/10/2026

It's funny, I've taken the exact same picture yesterday. Hugs to you and yours.

Lumi sits in a deep pile of dry maple leaves in shades of amber, rust, tan and yellow. Only her head, neck and chest show above the surface. Her dark face has a silvery-gray muzzle, and her pointed ears stand upright. Her brown eyes look straight at the camera, and her mouth is open in a relaxed smile. A bright green leash trails through the leaves at the bottom left. A wall of rough gray stone blocks rises behind her.
The Stickimporters.com quality control department has inspected this very large, very crunchy shipment of foliage and approved it for immediate occupation.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 09/10/2026

Pollox? Never heard of that handsome superhero. I'm Pollux, a reporter for the Stick Tribune. Now, did you see a phone booth anywhere nearby?

Pollox lying with his chin resting on the edge of a teal dog bed, wearing a pair of rimless glasses perched on his nose. His black and white face peers out from under a mop of fur, paws stretched forward, mouth slightly open. He looks ready to review the quarterly stick import figures.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 06/10/2026

Yeah, let's face it. He's a cat.

Pollox lying on his side inside a cardboard box that's clearly too small for him, his belly pressed against one cardboard with his legs hanging out over the edge of the box. His neck is bent so much that his nose is in the third corner of the box, his face buried into the soft folds of a dark green fabric bag like a makeshift eye-mask. His tail curls up in the last corner of the box.
He is fast asleep in a pose so boneless it looks like a crime scene rather than a nap.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 06/10/2026

He'd crawl into the case if that were possible.

Pollox sprawled flat on the floor beside a glass-walled PC case, fast asleep, his entire body bathed in the radioactive-green glow of RGB fans and glowing GPU lighting. Legs splayed out loosely, paws tucked against the case, totally undisturbed by sleeping right next to what looks like a small nuclear reactor.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 02/10/2026

It's a pretty good backyard 😊

Lumi and Pollox lying side by side atop a wooden Steg suspended between two training tables, treating the agility equipment as a very long, very narrow sofa. Lumi watches something off to the side while Pollox faces the camera, tongue out and tail hanging off the edge of the plank. A golden winter sky, bare tree line, and a red-roofed club house round out the training field behind them.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 02/10/2026

Lumi showing how it's supposed to work :)

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 02/10/2026

Someone seems to have stolen Pollox' back legs.

Pollox sprawled across a makeshift "Steg" made from an aluminum ladder with its steps removed, a red tensioning strap woven across the rungs in place of a solid walking surface. His hind legs have slipped clean through the gaps in the strap, dangling below, and he could not care less. Mouth open in a wide grin, fully convinced his improvised chaise lounge is the height of comfort. A yard full of training equipment, cones, and a distant kennel fill the background.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 25/09/2026

"Why did you bring that thing into the house?" But then she remembers that she picked him.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 24/09/2026

CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER MY CHARMING SELF!

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 24/09/2026

"Help! I'm being oppressed! Oh wait. From this far above I can hit her on the head with my paws. She's going to like that." It's as if she's talking Finnish at him.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 24/09/2026

Pollox. Buddy. Why? 6 years. Every single morning. He doesn't understand that Lumi doesn't play before breakfast. 6 years.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 17/09/2026

There's bathing and there's bathing. One of those involves shampoo

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 16/09/2026

Over here they can get up to 2 inches in diameter. Those little hooks deeply embed in skin and they love to break off and start to fester.

A close-up of a dried thistle burr, its sharp brown spines fully embedded into the tip of a single finger held up against a blurred green background of grass and foliage.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 15/09/2026

The little guy on the left just found his forever home with his new best friend on the right. Said friend was massively fear-aggressive and we worked quite hard with him and his person towards this.

A tan dog wearing a black harness and a shaggy tan-and-black dog meet on a gray wooden deck, each investigating the other's face and ears with the kind of intense, businesslike sniffing that passes for a formal introduction in dog etiquette. Their tails curl up high, ears half-pinned in the particular posture of two strangers negotiating who's who. A pair of shoes and folded outdoor chairs sit quietly in the background, pretending not to watch.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 15/09/2026

maps.app.goo.gl/VZmd6gQSCpdz...

Google Maps satellite view on a phone. The coordinates 49.515301, 9.788511 are in the search bar and a dropped pin sits in the middle of open farmland. Two dirt tracks curve apart around a small triangular meadow. At the pin there is a low building in a clump of trees, surrounded by patches of bare reddish earth, with green crop fields and tramlines running away in every direction. Secluded setting, private access, mature planting, water feature. It is a muck heap with a slurry pit.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 14/09/2026

I am so sorry, but I have to report the horriblest of all crimes.

Lumi lying flat against the wall in a hallway, dressed in a bright pink drying robe, her expression radiating deep, silent betrayal at the camera. Cardboard boxes and wall cabinets sit in the background, offering zero sympathy for what she's just endured.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 13/09/2026

Nah. Y'all are pretty much desensitized by now. This on the other hand... Her brain really was there right from the beginning.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 13/09/2026

This girl was awake through the 2hr drive to the airport, a 20 minute walk (during which she did not pee), 90 minutes of people fawning over her while we were waiting in the airport lobby. Do you know when she fell asleep? The second when the jet engines powered up to push us into the sky. :)

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 13/09/2026

Because I'm looking through old photos: y'all can have a treat. That's in Helsinki airport on the day we braught her home. In true Lumi fashion she didn't sleep but brought joy to everyone in the lobby.

Baby Lumi lying on a Finnish newspaper at Helsinki airport, a hand reaching in to scratch behind her ear. Her dark puppy fur shows only early hints of the gray and white markings she'd grow into. She has one paw stretched forward and her head tilted curiously to the side. A soft-sided travel carrier sits beside her, marking the start of her very first trip home.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 13/09/2026

I know! 😍🤣 This is an airport roll, and it's in Finland, but it still counts.

A swirled cinnamon bun topped with coarse white pearl sugar, sitting on a white plate in the foreground. Behind it, a white "Kimbo" mug filled with milky coffee rests on a wooden tray. The classic cinnamon-roll spiral and generous sugar topping make a strong case for skipping straight to dessert-for-breakfast.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 06/09/2026

3 weeks after the syndrome. Brain, eyes, and balance have fully adapted.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 06/09/2026

7 days. Physio helps a lot. both with balancing and keeping her neck muscles from locking up.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 06/09/2026

Five days after the syndrome set in. She moves a lot easier.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 06/09/2026

3 days later a first walk. Her head is already adapting to what her vestibular system now tells her is horizontal, but she still walks like fresh from a merry-go-round becasue eyes and verstibular imputs do not match, yet.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 06/09/2026

This was Tara right after we returned from the vet. You can see her eyes moving as her brain tells her the world is turning.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 05/09/2026

I remember how scared I was. Tara's eyes moved sideways constantly for more than a day, trying to find something that didn't move. The head tilt became her new normal "my head is straight". We did a lot of physio to help her muscles. She was happy like that.

Lumi and Tara sitting side by side on sunlit grass, Lumi on the left with her sharp black and gray coloring gazing calmly at the camera, and Tara on the right with a lighter tan and gray coat, her head tilted characteristically to one side due to vestibular syndrome, mouth open in a relaxed pant, agility equipment and a traffic cone visible in the background under warm evening light.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 04/09/2026

Croc twins! 😍 Lumi was born a bit west of Helsinki as Lumi Laulava Listaykkönen, First of her Name, Giver of Sticks, Bringer of the Midwinter Sun, Devourer of Sushi and Berries, Terror of Pollox, Receiver of Scritches. Names have power. She loves snow and screams like a banshee. :)

Pollox, a classic black and white Border Collie with satellite ears, and Lumi, a black and gray Finnish Lapphund, sitting side by side on a snowy rock. Pollox with his tongue out and a bright orange harness catching the light, is looking directly at the camera with wide open eyes like he's the one being interviewed for this photo, while Lumi gazes off to the side with her fur glowing golden in the low winter sun, clearly too dignified to acknowledge the paparazzi. Bare wintry trees and patches of snow fill the forest background under a clear blue sky.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 04/09/2026

No. You don't stop scritching Lumi. Not until she is done.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 04/09/2026

I was asked to please give love to the pups. They thank you very much.

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