December 2011 Blog Posts (88)

Once again my Doodle Addiction is permeating another area of my life!  Lately I find myself singing/humming Christmas Carols as I work around the house only I tend to work the word "DOODLE" into every one of them. For instance:

I'm Dreaming of a White Doodle

Deck the Doods with Boughs of Holly (Ouch!)

Doodle Bells

Here Comes SantaDood

And of course my favorite:

Rudolph the Red Nosed Doodle

This is great fun for me but my DH just looks…

Hi, I'm Sherri, and I'm a doodleholic. It's been 5 days since my last doodle kiss.

It all started a year ago. I had always enjoyed spending time with dogs as a recreational activity. But then I met a doodle and everything changed. He was so sweet and loveable at first, goofy, fun loving, happy, sloppy, shaggy, and loveable. Did I mention loveable? How could I not get drawn in? His name was Kaz, and I started to spend more and more time with him. His owners warned me about the…

So Marabelle is 4 months old now, and I think its time she starts letting me know when she needs to go out for a pee, instead of me guessing all the time lol. 

Now I have noticed all the posts on DK about the pooch bells for the door. Now I know my Marabelle is smart enough to figure these out, and I started thinking, its Christmas there will be Christmas bells and ribbon everywhere.  So I went down to the dollar store, and purchased ribbin and bells lol, I was so excited, I was going…

Well, what a day for little Ember! 

Ember is now nearly 6 months (on Christmas Eve!) and is growing, growing, growing. She's about 32lbs and is just the happiest, sweetest, loveliest puppy I have ever met (yes, I suppose I am biased). She graduated from Puppy II last week and is a master at basic commands of 'sit' and 'down', and is about 95% on coming when called now. She also can 'gimme five' to the delight of everyone who meets her. 

So today, Ember went off to…

Our neighbour down around the corner is looking after Gavin while we are away for a couple of days.  We sent a baby gate as she was unsure how her two cats would react with him.  She messaged me this morning, the gate has been ditched and Gavin has been wonderful with her cats.

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Many of you know that we purchased our first home in March.  It is on 1 acre and has a great backyard for the dogs.  Problem is that it is not fenced!  I have been holding off because of the expense.  I want it to look nice - we can tie into our neighbor's cedar fence on one side, but the rest is up to us! 

On Saturday I ran into a guy from high school who does all types of contract work.  He does fences quite a bit and told me he would purchase the materials at cost, not…

Gio flies to Venice, Italy today with the breeder--we are all nervous but excited. He is such a good boy--almost housebroken and knows some Italian already! I will feel so much better when he is back on the ground. It is sad knowing that I will never see him again, but I look forward to hearing about his future adventures. 

Presto went to his forever home last Friday and has a great big brother named Rocco, who is a gentle black lab. His name is now Memphis and he is doing really…

I love dogs and animals of all sizes and shapes. After having a bird and a guinea pig, Monty is finally my first dog and what a good dog he is. We are hoping to pass the Therapy dog certification with Delta Society in February 2012. In the meantime, I keep his training routine going. While back I got him a dog vest with patches that read: "I'm friendly, ask to pet me. Therapy dog in training." We take Monty…

Saturday, my husband and I got up early and we were out the door and off to West Virginia to see family. The dogs did not get their morning walk.  We left Fudge and Vern in the care of our youngest daughter.  I have written before that I have my dogs on a pretty good schedule and rain or shine we walk our dogs at least two times a day.  I am like the postman and get the job done.

We got home right when it was getting dark outside, but nonetheless, we went to the park and gave…

Today I finally brought home the 2.5 year old doodle I adopted from the shelter! I don't know how anyone could give up such a sweet dog.  I went to pick her up with my sister who has 2 dogs and knows how to handle them (I'm a first time dog owner so I have no idea). Between deliberations on facebook, coworkers, relatives etc, I still could not come up with a name. My sisters dogs are named Cha-Cha and Tango - so she wanted me to keep the dance theme. I'm a big salsa dancer but her…

Because we live in a very rural area, I've always had a very difficult time finding a good dog sitter.  Last year our only neighbor's girl friend moved in with him.  She was great with the dogs.  She would play with them, feed them, exercise them and then email me every day to tell me about it.  It was the most worry free vacation I've had in years.  Then I got the phone call.  My neighbor tells me that his girlfriend has moved out and found another man.  I begged him to take her back, to…

I am so excited about getting a puppy in May. This will be my first pet that is my very own and as my mom keeps reminding me "my responsibility". Although I know it will be alot of work, I am really excited. I love animals, especially dogs and cats. My doodle should be ready by May 2012 and it couldn't come fast enough. Hopefully by that time, I can prepare and get everything that is needed for my puppy. My boyfriend suggested that I have a "puppy shower"…

I had been avoiding taking Chester to an off leash event as he is a bit nervous around other dogs (or maybe his mom is).

For a few reasons-

There had been a few horrible newsworthy attacks by pit bulls in this city which scared me off. He wasn't mr social at the Puppy socialization class (although by the end he greatly improved.) He has recently been neutered and I thought it would be best to wait until that was done.He doesn't have great recall.

Well today DH…

Hi all, So the DH and I have fallen completly in love with Marabelle as you all of course know. She is a 4 month old ALD. We have been both blown away on how much we enjoy her, and only want to inhance the experience by getting another ALD for her, and us.  So I called Barb from Gemstones, many of you know her, she is an active DK member.  Barb is who we purchased Marabelle from.  I told her that we want another pup from her next litter.  Any way Barb has asked me to be a guardian for one of…

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I'm sorry I don't know how else to download a video. This is precious. Our daughters doodle's meeting of his little human sister was calm and controlled. He followed every command and sat and waited for his daddy to tell him to come smell her and then sat when mommy said enough and to sit. That is just the best big doodle brother a little girl…

For those of you who know me I had a little health blip starting a year ago. It was right before Christmas last year that my Dr. started to think there was something wrong with me after a routine blood test. I wont go into all the details however they found that I had leukemia. Went through Chemo and doing very well in remission as of June 8th. Dec. 7th  was my 6 month check up at Sloan Kettering. Needless to say the week leading up to that I was a nervous wreck. Well, I am still in…

Subaru sponsored a dog show today and I took Webber.  Out of aproximately 50 dogs, he got into the final five.  There was an absolutely adorable Goldendoodle there that I couldn't stop watching...he was so cute!  The prizes were $150.00 gift certificates to Target for two winners; Best in Show and Most P…

As many of you khow, I have been expecting my second grandbaby any day now. This is my only daughters first child after years of trying to concieve.  And some of you may know that I am also a Labor and Delivery RN as well as a Lactation Consultant. After helping 1000's of young women have their babies, I have for years waited for the day I would be the grandmother on the recieving end of my own daughter's baby, helping her, guiding her, comforting her and walking with her through this…