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My Mum has been visiting for 2 weeks and we have been out hiking a lot. Cooper of course has been with us, sometimes on leash, sometimes off leash. We borrowed a friends Easy Walk harness (Coop is somewhat of a puller when excited) and she walked beautifully 

we have seen beaches

fantastic views…

If you have liked the videos I have posted--you'll LOVE these. The first one shows "sugar donut" who just may be the world's cutest puppy, ;) trying to get his sleeping brothers to play.

Link to the first video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFdxvqBEPJ8

The second video is so much fun--lots of wrestling action in this one and everyone gets involved!!

Here is the link:    …

I have been MIA lately....sick as a dog (is that a good term to use, really??)!

Anyway, I think last night was the worst. My cold was terrible and I was just crying in bed. Could not get comfortable.  DH said he was going to the couch to sleep and that made me more upset :( 

Just as I was at my wit's end and thought I would be up all night, Peri jumped onto the bed and got RIGHT next to my head and licked me.  I started petting her and fell asleep within…

I'm so glad Traveler is finally getting some coat back after he was shaved a couple of months ago!  Maybe his face was trimmed into a 'poodle cut,' but he just looked naked and miserable to me. 

We lost our big yellow tabby cat, Felix, a few years ago to cancer.  He was Holly's best buddy and they would play for hours.  We really had no intention of replacing Felix but, we visited a cat show in San Diego this weekend, just to look at the various breeds of cats for fun and education.

We saw a kitten that we almost adopted.  He was half Maine Coon and half Norwegian Forest Cat and was a beauty with a white face, dark tabby back and a wonderful personality.  He was also…

This is my first blog here & for some reason the first thing I find to write about is the puppy crusades.

The Puppy Crusades topic got brought up by a conversation I had with a friend & how she doesn't approve of Doodles based mostly on shelter & people behavior of over breeding the market.

She made it sound so bad because so many are breeding anything dog with a poodle & how this makes Doodles a mistaken breed bc there IS NO breed, no markers…

We adopted our LD, Chili, last March through IDOG.  He's been such a joy, that we decided to double the love.  We were working through DRC to adopt a second rescue.  We had already been approved and were "finalists" in the running for a different doodle.  Jeannine from DRC…

It started out as a little grooming session, but....

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Julie

Or maybe my daughter and Ollie were just howling at the moon!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mavinkurve/5372500263/

These Doods have a way of keeping me laughing.  After Murph's Vet visit on Wednesday, I've been kind of "bummed".  I just have been feeling really bad for him, but the antics of these guys just always cheers me up.  Murphy is a true dichotomy....one minute he's "ferocious" and the next minute he's a big baby.  This week we got our Bocker stuffed Doodle in the mail, and the dogs were really interested in it (thinking it must be a new toy for THEM).  Just to be sure it didn't end up…

It snowed in Nashville yet again and the roads are actually solid ice today.  Luckily DH and I live close to downtown/midtown where we work so we both went in.

Peri's daycare day is always Friday. Plus I made an appointment for her at the spa today (grooming time!) - her hair is 3ish inches long right now and I think it is time for the short 'do.  She never gets cold anyway.

I digress.....so DH just called me and said "I think she might be the only one there…

It seems like I have been posting a lot of blogs about Vern and not so many about Fudge (and I apologize to Fudge), but here goes another one. Last night, my DH commented that Vern is like a big, goofy boy and I think he hit the nail on the head. I came home from grocery shopping and Vern kept trying to inspect the groceries, so I asked my DH to entertain (yes, these are the words I used) him while I put the groceries away. Outside they all went and pretty soon, I could hear Vern barking…