May 2013 Blog Posts (76)

We are home again, safe and sound and Quincy is enjoying having my son home, too.  We had quite the adventure with my good boy proving in the end, he is still a puppy! 

He was sooo good on the nearly 8 hour car ride up, sitting high on his…

For years, Jack London’s Call of the Wild was one of my district’s required novels at the seventh grade level. So for years, the story was an important part of the curriculum in my seventh grade language arts class (special education – we read an abridged/adapted version). I know the story well, but in case you don’t, here’s what I need you to know about the plot in order for my blog to make sense:…

I'm sure many of us have received this email from PetFlow, but for those who don't subscribe to their service, I thought I provide a copy of it here. They are providing fee shipping for those orders placed with them for delivery to Oklahoma shelters in need after the tornader.

Petflow%20Donations.pdf

"Baby Spuds" as my son calls him, is resting  by my feet as the 2 other dogs sit quietly in their window seat!!! We are all in the same room and everybody is CALM!!!  

Spuds has been having issues with separation anxiety.  He hates his crate, and will cry and bark and drool and foam at the mouth when I put him in it.  I tried to leave him loose in the laundry room or the bathroom, with tv left on for noise, toys water ect. with a closed door, but he scratches on the door, barks and…

Our backyard is both a blessing and a cursed.  We are blessed to have a 100+ year old pecan tree lovingly looking down on our house. …

So tonight we had just enough time to run into Lowe's... took Rigby with us...Never go to any store with your Doodle if you have "just enough time to run in quick"! LOL. We were 5-10 min. late for our other appt. If it wasn't Rigby stopping every Tom, Dick, and Harry for attention, it was someone else stopping me to pet him and ask what type of dog he was.

I'm was WalMart buying a bag of dog food for my dog. While in the check-out line, a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. Why else would I be buying dog food, RIGHT??? So on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Dog food Diet again, and that I probably shouldn't because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in intensive care with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it…

Guess who is 1 year old on Wednesday!  Can you believe it? It seems like yesterday that I was complaining about the 10 week old puppy and suddenly he is 1! 

Auggie is such a happy boy! And a good boy as well. Very patient, very soft with his mouth. Loves to play a lot; he will be one of those eternal puppies. I've discovered that Auggie loves water so my next task is to take him swimming. 

Happy Birthday, puppy Auggie! Thank you for being so patient with me.…

Scenario:

You live in an area called "Tornado Alley" and your town has already experienced two devastating F-4 and F-5 tornados over the last 12-years.

Would you not expect your schoold to be equipped with tornado safe shelters or non-flooding basements?

Or... are not the lives of Oklahoma kids worth the few thousand dollars it would take to protect them?

Along the same lines...  A non-intrudable security door would have protected the kids at the Sandy Hook,…

So mommy was nervous, but Buddy and Kona knew where we were and what we were there for!  They were all business and went right to work to find their odor and alert me.  I think Buddy took all of 17 seconds, and Kona just a little longer. 

Everyone get's 3 minutes…

We were at a rescue event in Irvine, CA and a woman came up to us and asked if she could trade in her dog for a smaller one.  I thought at first that she was joking but, she was totally serious.  The dog at ten pounds was bigger than she wanted.

I told  her that we would accept her Maltese as an owner surrender but there would be no way that she would get a dog from us.  She was indignant and said, "I haven't had the dog all that long, just 9-months!"

There…

Prayers and thoughts for all of you who are effected by this massive tornado in Oklahoma and hoping you and your families are safe.

Many of you may have read my discussion about Taquito the chihauhua.  We are having to really train him (never did because he is so little - hasn't been a problem - etc...).  So now we are trying to "teach an old dog new tricks" - I mean, he has never even sat before.  Meanwhile, Peri the doodle has had pretty extensive training, passed her Canine Good Citizen, etc...

So…

I am on my high horse this morning again and as often happens when I am up there; I like to make sure everyone knows why I am sitting high. I am sure many of you have read the comments the CEO of a certain clothing retailer had to say about overweight teenage girls and the “not cool” crowd.  Allegedly (see what I learned on Regis and…

I wanted to share my experience with a Pet Nutritionist that I went to on the weekend. It was a fundraising event for a dog cancer program Nikki's Journey which included a 3+ hour (it went long) talk on Dog Nutrition by a local Hali-famous Pet Expert. He was doing the lectures for charity traveling around the province to spread the word.

*** Rodney owns a Pet food store, He studied Pet Nutrition over seas for 6 years. He blogs on Dog…

In an effort to improve our backyard, I have been frequenting Home Depot's Garden Center.  I thought Milt looked pretty darn cute sharing the backseat with this big, 'ole fern. …

When I tell you this has been an emotional post for me to write, I am telling you the “doodle truth.”

Leo turned three this month, (my goodness, it’s even difficult to see it in print!) and time has flown by so fast it feels as if I’ve missed a year.

When I realized his birthday was near, I actually got confused about his new age. I had to calculate the dates on my fingers because I was positive I was wrong. But I wasn’t.

Leo was born on May 13, 2010. One of a…

I like this fellow's career advice columns although I am surely not looking for a career. This week he talks about something that really bothers me in others and yet to some degree I too suffer from technology obsession. Is DK included I wonder? Anyway here is a link to an article to ponder.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/jobs/career-coach/commentary-part-3-obsession-technology

His…

I was reading an article about a couple in Texas yesterday who are worth 4 Billion dollars and are looking for ways to give it away.  They were currently interested in a nutritional study on how we lose weight yaada yaada really I stop reading too closely after I noticed their names....John and Laura (sic) Arnold. Some of you ( really, only some of you?) may be following the adventures of Fudge and Vern and most particularly their mom, Laurie  (and DH John) who is obviously an alias for this…

I would just like to personally thank Laurie, Doris and F and everyone who contributed their  “two cents” to one of the best blogs I have read since I have joined DK. To begin with, it was an awesome story of people coming together and sharing the one love we all have in common, our Doodles.  Even though most of us have never met and we live all over the country, after a few months on DK we feel like neighbors.  Laurie’s original blog, F’s “Back Side of the Story” and Doris bringing us to…