March 2011 Blog Posts (111)

I got this email today and it is incredible.

I don't think Tchaikovsky had this choreography in mind when he wrote "Swan Lake." How could anyone imagine the performance you are about to see.

With a population of nearly 1.5 billion, the Chinese had to locate one great…

Ruby is a sweet (SWEET) 3 year old labradoodle. She was pulled from a high-kill shelter in North Carolina (thanks, Michael G!) where she had been turned in by her backyard breeder "parents". That's right...Ruby was used strictly to breed litter after litter of puppies and then was turned into this high kill shelter when her "usefulness" was gone (If you can't read between the lines, I hate these people. I can't put it into gentler, more PC terms...people who irresponsibly breed dogs so they…

Last week as I was looking forward to DH getting back from China and being excited for our trip to Key West (our Valentine's/Anniversary trip that was postponed due to China) - my phone range and it was the middle child calling to say - suprise - I'm packing up, bringing the new puppy and driving down from Michigan.  I was very happily shocked as this child is the only one that NEVER comes to visit us no matter where we are living.  Soooo, once again the Key West trip is moved back a month…

So i tend to work here and there in Manhattan. Sometimes a full week and sometimes just a day here and there. Whenever my clients need me. I have a friend who has a pet friendly office in Manhattan and sometimes Duncan gets to go there and play but yesterday he was allowed to come to my client's office. So he got to be with me while i worked. It was so much fun. He loved all the attention and basically rolled over for belly rubs for each and every person in that office. And as each person…

I think everyone has heard the expression, "Scared of Your Own Shadow".  Well, I would like to introduce you to Vern, who was in a panic yesterday at the park because he could see our shadows moving along the tree line.

He spent the entire walk on high alert and would growl occasionally if I lifted my arm and my shadow did the same thing. I only wish I had brought my…

Mr. Smarty-Pants Mulligan reads the Newspaper...

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Rosco was outside going potty (#1) and Boca was outside tearing into some kind of dirty rag.  I banged on the back window to disturb Boca's destruction...which ended up disturbing Rosco's pee and he came back in...unfinished..and just as he was about to lie down on the living room rug I noticed pee dribbles on the rug.  And there were MORE in the back entry. …

Today is Murphy's anniversary....one year ago his DRC fairy godmothers helped him to find us.  I will never forget seeing him for the first time....he had me with that first "kiss".  I really fell in love with him on the ride home from New Jersey.  I sat in the backseat with the two boys, and they just cuddled up and slept the whole way.  Murph was a very confident, "full of himself" puppy, but he also had a vulnerable side.  He's still like that.  He's been much more of a challenge to…

This is one of the neatest clips I have ever seen of a doodle!!!  LOL

I'm sure I will be trying this sometime in the future!! 

I was watching the doodle duscussion the other night and I got really interested when they was talking about making your own lemon conditioner.........then they really got me when someone mentioned a bathrobe.....and the store Harry Barker.....and yep.....I got the recipie for the conditioner......and I ordered new bathrobes........are they too cute or what?!!! …

HI all!  Rua here.  Thought I would update you on what has been going on lately.  My Momma already told you about my traveling adventures recently - California to Florida - in less than 2 weeks.  I had a blast!  Everybody was so suprised that I was on the plane, and everyone kept telling my momma how cute I was.  Like she didn't know!

My momma has been sick 4 times since Christmas and I am having a hard time getting all of the attention I deserve from her...she has taken some…

One year ago today, (well in 55 minutes) it will be your birthday. The day that you came into this world to fulfill a promise God made to me. I never knew it, I didn't know you even existed at this point and I am pretty sure I was just considering getting a dog. I wasn't sure I would want such a mess in my house. You know mommy doesn't allow shoes, dirt or anything messy in her house. 

Certainly I could not imagine a dog who's hair is a magnet for grass, weeds and anything…

My DS and his beautiful 4 month old Weimaranar pup have been visiting the last 2 weeks while he works in New Orleans.

Kona had what appeared to be a minor scrape on her hip when he got here...said he noticed it when he picked her up from daycare the last day. Today it was still the same so he took her to the vet. Diagnosis: demodectic mange, a genetic condition.  The vet said that she cannot be bred (not a problem) and that at least one of the parents had the condition and should not…

I brought my babies home almost on the same exact day that DK began!   My ultimate dream for them was that they would become wonderful therapy dogs and that my retirement years would have a purpose!  I can remember thinking that they couldn't even be taken to do their therapy test until they were a year old, and thinking wow, that is so far away ...... fast forward to yesterday and my babies are now three years old ....... I think someone hit that fast forward button a few times to makes it…