Hate to break this to you but while the dog might very well be quite happy, he's leaping like that because he's hunting.

"Curly was suffering from high blood pressure, hypertension, a retinal hemorrhage, and obesity."

Hypertension = high blood pressure

I'm with AJ:

"I love the “closed” system of blogging where a single or group of bloggers act as gatekeeper. When we readers find a gatekeeper we like, we become faithful readers of that blog. It is why we are here."

I read Neatorama and Boing Boing for the quirky choices of specific personalities. Blogs have a "feel" or sensibility of sorts that is a result of the individual bloggers.

blogs have an open community of readers not writers.