Laurie, Fudge, and Vern's Blog – April 2011 Archive (8)

Yesterday, in the POURING down rain, I took Vern to be groomed. I like to have the dogs groomed on separate days, so I can spend individual time with the other. When I came back to the car minus Vern, Fudge was sitting in the driver's seat shaking and showered me with kisses when I told her she had been issued a reprieve until tomorrow. She did not appear to be worried about her brother. Later, we picked up Vern and he looked fabulous. Naturally, I have no pictures, but take my word for…

I am reading the book Water for Elephants and despite the fact that some of the treatment of animals in the book is hard to read about, I really like the book.  For a long time I have considered writing a blog about volunteering at an Assisted Living Facility, and I love the descriptions in this book about how it feels to get old. Many of the seniors I have volunteered with have expressed these same sentiments to me. When I was younger, 60 and 70 seemed so old, but now I am…

Last night, I was already in bed watching Dancing With the Stars, when Vern came running into the room like he had seen a ghost. Most people in my family know not to bother me when my favorite show is on, but from the looks of it, Vern did not get the memo. He looked so scared and happy to see me that I forgot momentarily what was happening on TV.  Pretty soon, in came my daughter to tell me what happened. Yesterday, it got very hot, so I turned on the air…

I have been back from vacation for one week and I am noticing that Fudge has become very attached to my DH. This morning, I got up very early in the morning and took the dogs out to go to the bathroom in the pouring down rain. When we came back in, Fudge wanted to get up on our bed. As soon as she got up there, she walked right up to my DH and just sat and looked at him so dreamily. He was asleep, so she kept putting her paw on him until he woke up and started…

Last Wednesday, my DD and I left for five days to go home to Indiana. I have lots of family there and we also wanted to get to the Vera Bradley Outlet sale. Fudge and Vern stayed home and my DH took the time off work to care for them and put in a deer fence. I might have been a little bossy, but I asked two things of him:

1.) Do something each day with the dogs and by do something, I did not mean allow them to watch him work in the garage.

2.) Keep them on my schedule.…

Recently, I did a blog on our rescue dog, Honey, but I feel like I have to give equal time to our wonderful dog, Hershey. My oldest daughter came out of the womb chanting the word dog.  We lived in an apartment many years before we could afford our own home and I always told my oldest that as soon as we got our house, she could have a dog. Rule #1: Kids never forget. As soon as we got our house, she started hounding (no pun intended) us for that dog. Of course, she…

Several posts about disposable pets, got me thinking about our rescue dog. They say the right dog finds you, but in our case we have had the right dog find us "Four" times. First, our family dog, Hershey, who we got when our children were young. We did almost everything wrong with her and she blossomed into the absolute best dog. Hershey will be forever the standard for all of our other dogs. The last few years of her life were very hard. She had the audacity to get old. She had trouble…

Many of you know my daughter has a French Bulldog, named Bonzai. This weekend she picked up her new puppy, Jazz. Yes, another French Bulldog.....she does not listen to her mother :) Here is my new grand dog!

Jazz:

Here is Big Brother:…