October 2010 Blog Posts (83)

My dad fell about 3 weeks ago and suffered a bleed to his brain. He was doing well and was released from the hospital, but started gettting worse about a week later. He lost a lot of his speech and had numbness in his arm and face. Luckily he has improved greatly, but is now in a nursing home/rehab center for rehabilitation. They allow dogs to visit! :) I would like Hudson to be a therapy dog one day, so it was exciting to be able to take him. He handled everything he encountered (wheel…

Rooney here - just wanted to let you all know that the K9's have not come to break me outta here yet. I remain hopeful but in the meantime I have been having a whole bunch of adventures. Last night "mom" & "dad" gave me my dinner - Orijen just like Breeder did, yum yum. Then mom took me outside to "get busy" several times but I just wasn't ready so I showed her my zoomies, she calls this frapping - what ever. So no poop. And mom wants to go for a bike ride with dad and take me in this…

Hi Doods!

It's Shelby here! I know it has been a long time since I blogged... there is so much to catch you up on! I have to start with the most recent event.... my Birthday - I turned 1! Yesterday was my birthday.... mom kept saying "it's almost your birthday" but I didn't really know what meant. Then yesterday - we woke up and Mom said "Happy Birthday Shelby" and gave me lots of loving!!! We went to the dog park in…

My next door neighbours little lab mix dog died in his sleep last night at the age of 13. My neighbour was driving along a highway near Detroit approx. 13 yrs ago when the people in the car in front of him threw a puppy our the window. Ed swerved to miss the flying object and pulled over to investigate. To his shock it was a puppy!! Ed picked him up and took him to an animal hospital and was told the puppy was barely alive and needed extensive surgery...Ed told them to do whatever…

Bella has been with us for one month now and it's definitely getting better around here! We have gotten the potty training down pretty good, she has gone to the door since about her 2nd week here (12 weeks old). She hasn't had an accident for over a week now, so that's been nice. We have been wiping her with baby wipes after she pees and she will even lift her back leg for us.

She has learned to stay…

Here is what happened – I was born at this great place where there was a big dog that had these totally awesome milk machines on her tummy. I loved those milk machines and she let me have all that I wanted. This dog taught me all that I know about being a puppy, how to jump, wag my tail, all kinds of stuff. Then there was this lady named “Breeder” she was super nice and when me and…

Throughout my time here on DK I've been hearing about doodle paws smelling like fritos. Whopper definitely doesn't have Frito smelling paws. I've also never met any doodles (or at least smelled the paws) of ones with Frito paws. So, needless to say, I was really beginning to question whether they do in fact exist. Well...they do! Simba, our new addition, has FRITO paws. I even had my husband smell them to make sure I wasn't nuts. Simba must think we are both nuts as we now sometimes call him…

I just dropped Phoebe off at puppy day care because I have a friend coming over (all the way from IN, we are in MN) with her two small children (ages 3 and 5 years) who are precious but wild. I thought it best that Phoebe be out of the fray--we have an open concept house with no real way to gate her somewhere where she would not want to be part of the action plus, this is the first time my friend will be here so we need to do the house tour and such. I am such a worry wart. This is the first…

National Geographics Travelers Magazine has selected Newfoundland's Avalon Penisula as its top rated coastal destination.

The magazine's November issue says the peninsula, the easternmost point in North America, is a "blustery realm" that is home to "brightly painted fishing villages and the lively city of St. John's."

The magazine says visiting the Avalon is "like going back in time — close-knit communities, a strong local…

Ollie is quite the spunky doodle today.The name the breeder gave him is perfect for him during the day. He is 'Valiant' during the day and curious about everything. Nothing really scares him.He even does well in his crate when I go out without him. At night however, his bravado disappears and he is a whiny little baby who needs his human mom/dad. He is still whining and screaming his head off in the crate at night. I know all the experienced people here are saying this is normal but it is…

First published on the Kid-FreeLiving.com Blog!

Mike and I started walking about three miles each morning with our dog, Gordon. If you have a dog, you know that if you do something twice in a row, you’re in a pattern. If you have a dog, don’t start something

with the dog if you don’t plan on doing it for the rest of your life at

exactly the same time of day and in exactly the same…

Tigger went to the vet today for his post surgery check. All is well. He has pooped out all the pieces. My daughters are feeling much better also. Thanks for all your well wishes to Roo's post.

The day of Tigger's surgery just before he was scheduled, a Boxer was brought in who had swallowed an entire wire coat hanger, clothes and all. He went first as he was in acute distress. Tigger really only had his belly skin opened and the small intestine "run" (twice) by the vet's…