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I can't wait to post a picture with all four dogs, Mater, Ozzie, Pippin and Harriet!  Mater and Pip are really my first loves, and Ozzie is such a big lug sweetheart!  Harriet is turning out to be a little terror.  Hmmm, I wonder if Terrier and Terror came from the same root word.  The vet thinks she has terrier in her, so I'm just thinking...

Luna came into the DRC rescue program with her (suspected) sister Stella (and they are aptly named...these dogs will be someone's moon and stars!). I of course don't know what happened in their 2+ years beforehand, but some horrible person did a real number on these girls. I had both Stella and Luna for about a month and while Stella is more outgoing and less fearful than Luna, she still had some anxiety issues and was overly protective of Luna. Stella is now being fostered by Eric Nater…

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I wanted to update, so many of you have become so dear to me, I have so many private messages and emails that I have not been able to keep up so I figure a group email in the form of a Blog would do!!!!!

I am very pleased to announce both Jack and I are coming along amazingly well!!!  The day my mom left was hard for Jack and I both. Jack was really acting out at yet another change and well I was kind of terrified at being home alone. Some wise women on here were right, we…

I found a silly hat in the in laws linen closet, and made the dogs pose for photos.... they hated it so the photos are not good, but I thought maybe Id practice ready for next years Christmas card!…

DH and I moved from the west coast of Canada (Vancouver) to Northern Ontario (Sault Ste Marie) 3 months ago... the weather is very different! We are used to pretty mild winters, so its a shock to the system having temperatures regularly in the minuses (Celsius). It has been pretty mild so far, but today is cold - minus 20 C. (-4 F)

Well I took Cooper out for her morning potty and play (fetch). The clasp on her long line (we do not have a fenced yard) was frozen solid so we had…

I cannot believe that my fur-baby turns three years old today.  What a ride it has been this past year and, through it all, she has been my psychiatrist, confidant and quirky jester-always able to get a chuckle out of me despite some not so happy circumstances.  Phoebe has grown up so much these past few years.  My family and I cannot get over how she went from chewing on almost everything and everbody to an incredibly mild-mannered cuddler.  With four boisterous and fun-loving children,…

I just saw the commercial for the ASPCA again...you know the one...the one with all the sad, pathetic, injured animals looking at the camera. As I sit and look out my window at my doods as they frolic and play in the snow I just don't understand how people can have animals and not feel the nurturing urges and joy that come with caring for a furry family member.  My heart breaks for them as I grab a kleenex...again. Animal Cops also causes this same bewilderment and many times brings on tears…

First off: THANK YOU for all of the Christmas & New Year wishes!  I have been MIA - enjoyed almost 2 weeks off and really tried to stay off the computer and away from technology (except for my e-reader) during that time.  i think I was sucessful in that endeavor. My fingers are quite flustered by the computer keypad today due to lack of use :)

The day after xmas, we packed up the dogs and drove 9 hours to Amelia Island, FL, where DH's parent's live.  They live one row…

Now that the dust has settled and the calendars have been ordered and placed on our walls or given as gifts to some lucky recipients, I think it is finally safe to talk about what went on in our household during this process.  Last year, I submitted one picture only of Fudge and after I read the rules this year, I am pretty sure it was not even in the right format. This year, I took it far more seriously and asked my daughter to help me.  I have worked…

Hi All! I've been off of DK for a while, but got so many sweet holiday messages that I wanted to post a quick (it's me, so quick AND wordy!) blog entry to catch y'all up! I've missed my DK "family", but sometimes life just gets in the way!

So, back towards the end of June, I got a foster named Lucy. Poor Lucy was scared of everything (especially me) and she ran away about an hour after I got her back to my house. Needless to say, the two weeks she was missing were among the…

Her birthday was Christmas Day and she shared some ground steak on her kibble with the rest of the dogs in our home.

We just love her dearly and our love for her grows all the time.

Holly is our perfect dog!

So much for "Luxury Apartments". I'm not feeling the luxury right now.

Last night, all was calm, finally. I was in the middle of reading Laurie's most recent blog post, Sophie was puttering around the kitchen, Winston quietly chewing on a toy, Puddles, the dog I'm sitting, just hanging out, tuckered out from wrestling with Sophie.

All of a sudden, out of the blue, Winston jumps up, lets out a loud howel and starts running around in circles in an absolute frantic…

All this time Mom and Dad kept telling us the bed wasn't big enough so we have to sleep on the floor (well, it is mostly Dad that says that) so today we set out to prove them wrong!  As you can see, there is plenty of room for all of us....we even left a little room for Dad over there in the corner - as long as long legs Jake doesn't stretch out too much.

Ciffy even let…

Every year at this time I like to make a little list of things I want to accomplish in the year ahead. I think of them more as goals than resolutions. Some I achieve, some I don't, which is ok. At least I feel like I have some direction. My list consists of everything from the frivolous and mundane to the extraordinary or life alternating. Sometimes I carry things over from the year before, other times I reflect on how my priorities have changed and head in an entirely new direction. The…

We just picked up a puppy from a trailer park in the Los Angeles area who had been rescued from Gang Bangers who were torturing it.  The pup needs a partial tail amputation and its face has been burned.

I am not a forgiving man!  I could easily maim or kill anyone that I caught torturing a puppy like this one. And that is not just an empty burst of anger. I would enjoy doing so!

Anyway, the puppy is at our vet and the vet will amputate the tail partially.  It…

One of the puppies from Lyric's last litter had such beautiful blue eyes that then started to get a bit greenish--well, now he is three months old and loving his life with new owner Corinne Varon-Green (a DKer) and his eyes are still mesmerizing--thought you might like to see this pics of him on his first trip to the beach this past week--it is cold up here in the north, so I give Corinne credit for taking him to the beach!

II am hoping to get some more pictures from the new owners…

My daughter and son-in-law are home for the Holidays from Oregon.  Fudge has not seen my son-in-law since last Christmas and she has not stopped mooning over him since he arrived.  I don’t think I have ever seen her so gaga over anyone.  The first night he was here, she slept outside their closed door all night. I thought she was a genius and remembered their dog, Bonzai, who could not come this year, but now I think she was trying to get into that room to get to her new boyfriend. Fudge…

We met a magical little girl yesterday.  Katie is nine-years old and she and her mom came to our house to meet and possibly foster a Maltese, Maggie, who had been abused by children and who was terrified of them. We have no kids around our house so we thought that this would be good for Maggie if she could take having a kid around.  Maggie's mom told us that if her daughter couldn't make friends with Maggie, no kid could.

I noticed something different about Katie right from…

Yesterday morning Lacey and I did 4.5 miles of 1 minute run/walk/run intervals at one of our city parks. During the walking parts we worked on starts/stops, inside/outside "U" turns and left/right turns and how to stay out from under my feet during these turns. Lacey did very well. When we are working like this she has to concentrate too much to be scared of anything.

There are always lots of other walkers/runners with and without dogs, stroller and/or both that are either…