July 2010 Blog Posts (65)

I really don't like the quality of the imagery but, it's just not worth arguing with my wife about.

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DH and I recently went to Ireland for a dream adventure vacation! The dood and chi stayed home with mimi and pops and had a grand time.

We found this sign posted in many places. Apparently the Irish are pretty strict when it comes to picking up after your pooch:

That is one hefty fine! I for one always pick up after my dogs, so I wish they would do this everywhere. People have a bad habit of not picking…

My brother's dog, Layla, was hit and killed by a car last night. He had left Layla in the back yard for the first time. All week he has been sitting outside with her in the backyard and even sitting with her in the dog house that he built for her so she could get comfortable and know that this was her place. She is a real people dog so he knew this would be hard for her (she usually stays inside in a crate when he is not home, but because of some schedule changes he and his girlfriend are…

Hi Doods... Shelby here! It has been so long since I have blogged, mom's been keeping me busy, but today - I told her.... I have to blog - so much has happened since I last wrote.

My mom had to travel to a conference for work and I got to go to "the doggie hotel" as she calls it. It was the nearby boarding facility. I had been there a few times for puppy socialization classes and then for a one night stay when mom went to an out of town wedding. I stayed for four nights, I did…

I just had a scare which could heve turned into a catastrophe. Luckily the catastrophe was adverted by the timely intervention of my loyal computer technician.

I bought a new computer and had the hard drive from my old computer installed as an "E" drive. Well, the old hard drive failed and froze up the entire computer system.

I had myimages backed up on an external hard drive but, not the rest of my data. It is amazing how much "IMPORTANT STUFF" is on a hard…

Dear Guinness,

I was wondering if I could borrow your baby brother for a few days. I know it will be hard for you to part with him for even that long, but we have a problem at our house and I need Murphy to help us fix it.

Guinness, we have bugs!!!!! Lots of these shiny buzzy bugs that fly all over the place- they're even called "flies" 'cause they fly around so much, and they land everywhere! Mom says they are filthy and she is going crazy trying to get rid of…

I wanted to introduce my first foster Toby! What a incredible journey we are having......He is going to be a wonderful guy!! He is settling in nicely. I read so many touching stories of fostering so I took the leap and I am so glad I did. Just thinking about letting him go gets me very emotional already.

So, over the past few weeks, we have pretty much abandoned the crate for Peri. She has been doing great having almost-full reign of the house (we close our bedroom doors and some bathroom doors). We come home every day during lunch to take Taquito and Peri on a walk. Every day, Peri is waiting at the door for us, usually yawning like she has been asleep. We inspect the house every time and have yet to find any remnants of chewing.....(knock on wood!).

I am very proud of my…