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[caption id="attachment_2019" align="alignnone" width="497"] Nice work if you can get it! Click the canines to enlarge them.[/caption]

No Lassie-like heroics for these dogs, at least not today; If they discover little Timmy has fallen down a well, they won't immediately fetch help -- they'll sleep on it first.

[caption id="attachment_2088" align="alignnone" width="497"] Toto, the guard dog, with his eyes open, thanks to photo editing.[/caption]

I'm tearing East on 7th Avenue, almost to the bottle depot. I pay attention to my surroundings, I'm a good cyclist -- there's a few cars behind me, some oncoming traffic. On the sidewalk, pacing me, there's a dog in a side-car, armed with a machine gun. ... Okay, I'm armed with a camera.

Gary is out for a ride with his dog Yoda, who has the look of a dog accustomed to travelling in style. Gary is better known a Mad Dog, a multimedia artist, with deep roots in the Vancouver arts and music scene going back to the late 1970s local Punk scene.

Mad Dog built this one-of-a-kind side-car, for his not-mad dog Yoda,  from an old tin baby buggy. You can see an earlier incarnation of it on his Facebook page. He makes this sort of stuff for both his living, and his art. The fit and finish of the work is impressive, and displays all kinds of serious know-how. It's so, uncompromisingly great, on so many levels: concept, engineering, workmanship, steampunk, badass-attitude, sense-of-humour, and don't the ladies just love it! Click the images to enlarge them.

An interview with Mad Dog from vice.com ►

Another side-car-style bicycle trailer ►

[caption id="attachment_1255" align="alignnone" width="497"] Do you have these where you are? Click to the image to enlarge.[/caption]

Suburban coyotes are moving into Vancouver's densely populated neighbourhoods, like Fairview (see the sign above), drawn by three of their favourite things (in no particular order): Pets, pets, pets.