January 2011 Blog Posts (116)

I thought you might enjoy checking out these fat little dudes! I have to lock Lyric out of the room for 2-3 hours so they don't eat themselves to death! It's a feeding frenzy when she goes back in there. The apricot pup loves to sleep on his back and it is so funny to see him with such a full belly. The others are also in a stupor and need to sleep it off! I can't wait until the eyes open--should be tomorrow or Saturday. They are very good at following their noses though, especially if momma…

Mulligan is just 15 weeks and already waiting by the door when he needs to go out.  No accidents in well over two weeks.  What a brilliant puppy... but he sure does watch some mindless TV.

Mulligan watching The Situation on "The View" this morning...…

More dog humor or wisdom depending on your point of view.

On the first day God created the dog.

• On the second day, God created man to serve the dog.

• On the third day, God created all the animals of the earth to serve as potential food for the dog.

• On the fourth day, God created honest toil so that man could labor for the good of the dog.

• On the fifth day, God created the tennis ball so that the dog might or might not retrieve it.

•…

It's Murphy's 1st birthday today! (Ronna and Murphy)  His mom didn't post it so we are doing it because we know all Murphy's doodle buddies want to wish him a happy birthday. We also copied a cute birthday photo from his page. So a big Happy Birthday Murphy, hope it is a fun one.

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Great People I cant say enough about them. He will be very happy there and I am sure treated like a Prince.

He is close so maybe after sometime Jordan and he will have a play date.

We loved this experience very much.

There is absolutely nothing fancy or fussy about this video but just wanted to give…

Meet Gus' new brother Rory he's a 10 month old double doodle 14 hr trip yesterday to get him, he's a love.  I've been in such a funk since Bear went over the RB yet I wasn't going to get another dog until Gus was perfectly trained.  When I saw Rory aka Percy on petfinder yesterday a.m. Oh his nose (look out JD you have competition) and his eyes I fell in love.  He's a wonderful puppy only lost a sheet of paper and a coaster today.  Comes when called and sits.  I know his "true self" won't…

On January 10, 2011, our little Vern will be one year old. There was a time in my life that I declared that we were not getting any more dogs. It didn't take long for me to change my mind and I started searching for our next dog. Along came Fudge and we fell head over heels in love with her, but then I got it in my head that two dogs might be better than one.  How very lucky we are that our second dog is Vern. He has filled our lives with joy and his antics never fail to leave a smile on our…

I had fun setting up a "photo studio"  under a skylight and snapping away today--i got some wonderful pictures and thought I would share them with all of the readers out there! Hope you enjoy them!

Let's start with the small black male--he is a quiet pup, but always gets a full belly by pushing underneath all the fatties. He is so cute! I call him "twinkletoes" because of…

My mom was very sick yesterday, my dad said it is something called the stomach flu, she did not look good at all. 

Towards the end of the afternoon she went to her crate which is a lot bigger than mine and closed her door.  I didn't know what to do, I sat outside the door for 2 hours waiting for my mom to come back out. 

Finally I knew what she needed...TOYS! They always make me feel so much better, so I went downstairs and brought up 3 of my favorite toys for her to…

Today is Butter's estimated 16th Birthday!!! ( He came to us when he was a little less than a year old.)

He shared majority of my kids' lives, taught them responsibilities, compassion, empathy, and unconditional love.

Protected us, ( I was by myself and all of my kids were so little...) brought many joy to us.

Each winter gets more difficult for him, and his arthritis seems to progress. But, he is eating OK and still enjoy going outside. He loved the snow and enjoyed the…

Bella is just about 6 months old and has such an outgoing personality! We have only had her to the dog park about 5-6 times and she just runs in there ready to make new friends, canine and human like she has been there everyday of her life.  It is such a pleasure to see how she interacts with other dogs, how she goes up to other people and snuggles near their legs and lets them pet her and how she runs to play and then turns around to check in with me every once in awhile.

Just a joy…

Hi! Laney again! Many of you are wondering how old I am, so I'll tell you. I'm eleven. My dog is two, almost three. Anyway, I want to let you guys know about Tucker at his doggy day care. Well, since I just started middle school, my mom couldn't drive me and my sister to two different schools and go to work before 8:30 and keep Tucker in a kennel all day. I don't believe in doggies being locked up all day, and my mom even feels sorry for him. So, the best idea was to move…

Peri has already passed two levels of obedience with her trainer; however, she has not taken a class since September 2009.  I have been pretty diligent about her training, but she is by no means 100% reliable when she is distracted.  To help us get back into training mode, I decided to sign us up for the next level, which is "Better Family Manners" aka "Advanced Obedience".  That is the next level our trainer offers.

Here's the catch.....the Canine Good Citizen test is…