Jane, Rooney & Stuart's Blog – May 2011 Archive (4)

but if the shoe fits - Rooney is a traitor.  My velcro puppy.  How can this be?  Rooney and I had gone to the airport to pick up my daughter who is here for the holiday.  Roo is always a wagging machine when dh comes home from NYC but what he proceeded to do when dd got in the puppy hauler - OMG!  He wasn't just wagging, he was shaking from head to tail while trying to wag - I've never seen him do anything like that!  He was trying to climb out of his car seat and having a total melt down. …

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DH is working from home today so I thought I would take the opportunity to run some errands and do some shopping, leaving Rooney in his dad's trusty care.  I get home and can clearly hear that DH is on a conference call with the Chinese and as I walk into entry way I see new poop bags strewn about the floor, Rooney has taken them out of the basket by the front door.  As he has now heard me come in the door, Rooney comes running all tail a wagging and with a poop bag in his mouth.  So now I'm… Continue

I was excited for today - an entire day to just spend with Rooney & my DH - it doesn't happen often at our house.  After our morning coffee we headed out with Roo for our usual morning walk, about 2.5 miles on a beautiful, paved hike/bike path through the FL marsh.  I used to be afraid to do it with just Rooney and I but in the past 6 months have gotten over that.  Yes - you keep your eye out for cougars - one was seen just last week, but the black bears and wild pigs have been removed. …

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One year ago today - I wrote out a check, putting me on the wait list for an Australian Labradoodle Puppy.  Little did I know where the journey to that puppy would lead.  We had moved to FL the year prior, our beloved Lab - Bougart had died and with DH working out of state - I was lonely.  I finally told dh that I was either getting a boyfriend or a dog and that I would let him pick, he picked puppy.  I had only ever seen 1 labradoodle before but I had fallen in love with that teddy bear look. … Continue