This dog is cooler than you

"Don’t use the term 'world music' around Thurston unless you want a 20 minute lecture." -- hipster puppies

I was excited to see that an Atlanta dog recently made the cut on Hipster Puppies, the instantly-popular blog celebrating pretentious canines. (See companion site, Hipster Kitty.)

Thurston lives in Edgewood. He belongs to Austin L. Ray and Ray’s girlfriend, who snapped him up at the DeKalb County Animal Shelter about a month ago. The folks at the shelter estimated that Thurston is a three-year-old boxer/beagle mix, but “judging from his behavior, my girlfriend and I think he’s a little younger than that,” Ray told me.

Thurston made a big splash on the Hipster Puppies blog, prompting a poster on another site to comment, “Would steal ‘Thurston’ if given the opportunity. Dog looks awesome.”

Thurston normally doesn’t wear anything but his collar, but he agreed to pose for this photo while Ray gave him a treat.

“He’s quite the curious chewer. But he’s also very patient…especially when you’re bribing him with a treat,” Ray said.

Ray sent us a photo from that same shoot that they didn’t send to Hipster Puppies:

Thurston is so over it.