January 2011 Blog Posts (116)

I've got a little Houdini over here...

Going to have to grease the front doorknob.

Mulligan is just four months old and he's already gotten the front door open... on his first try!

He uses his little paws to turn the knob.  Hopefully he just got lucky that one time!  yeah right...  

I'm in trouble with a capital T!

Caught in the Act!…

This  year I've set some pretty lofty goals for myself and my family.  One of them is that we've all agreed that we want to spend even more time outdoors   We are a pretty "outdoorsy" family as it is. We camp , travel and hike when we can but now that we've added two doods to the family, we're ready to kick it up a notch.

I've actually been trying to get something started here at DK but I'm not having much luck.  I think I'll email some of my HDA's here @DK and see what they…

In the early 1800's a man called John Gray, a gardener, arrived in Edinburgh with his wife and son looking for work. The weather was cold, however, and the ground was hard, so there were no gardening jobs available. He took what work he could find, and became a member of the Edinburgh Police Force - a Constable.

As a condition of his job, John Gray was required to have a dog. He bought a Skye Terrier and named him Bobby (Bobby was the nickname for Constables in the Police Force).…

My Mum has been visiting for 2 weeks and we have been out hiking a lot. Cooper of course has been with us, sometimes on leash, sometimes off leash. We borrowed a friends Easy Walk harness (Coop is somewhat of a puller when excited) and she walked beautifully 

we have seen beaches

fantastic views…

If you have liked the videos I have posted--you'll LOVE these. The first one shows "sugar donut" who just may be the world's cutest puppy, ;) trying to get his sleeping brothers to play.

Link to the first video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFdxvqBEPJ8

The second video is so much fun--lots of wrestling action in this one and everyone gets involved!!

Here is the link:    …

I have been MIA lately....sick as a dog (is that a good term to use, really??)!

Anyway, I think last night was the worst. My cold was terrible and I was just crying in bed. Could not get comfortable.  DH said he was going to the couch to sleep and that made me more upset :( 

Just as I was at my wit's end and thought I would be up all night, Peri jumped onto the bed and got RIGHT next to my head and licked me.  I started petting her and fell asleep within…

I'm so glad Traveler is finally getting some coat back after he was shaved a couple of months ago!  Maybe his face was trimmed into a 'poodle cut,' but he just looked naked and miserable to me. 

We lost our big yellow tabby cat, Felix, a few years ago to cancer.  He was Holly's best buddy and they would play for hours.  We really had no intention of replacing Felix but, we visited a cat show in San Diego this weekend, just to look at the various breeds of cats for fun and education.

We saw a kitten that we almost adopted.  He was half Maine Coon and half Norwegian Forest Cat and was a beauty with a white face, dark tabby back and a wonderful personality.  He was also…

This is my first blog here & for some reason the first thing I find to write about is the puppy crusades.

The Puppy Crusades topic got brought up by a conversation I had with a friend & how she doesn't approve of Doodles based mostly on shelter & people behavior of over breeding the market.

She made it sound so bad because so many are breeding anything dog with a poodle & how this makes Doodles a mistaken breed bc there IS NO breed, no markers…

We adopted our LD, Chili, last March through IDOG.  He's been such a joy, that we decided to double the love.  We were working through DRC to adopt a second rescue.  We had already been approved and were "finalists" in the running for a different doodle.  Jeannine from DRC…

It started out as a little grooming session, but....

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