Week 5 and life is getting better all the time. Her weight is up and her mood is good and the vet says her health is great. Good food has made the dry skin go away and all the itching at night is gone. Skylar is warming to my boys and is sniffing strangers but still jumps away from them. All in all we are still headed in a positive direction.

This past Sunday, my husband, Duncan, and I participated in Paws for the Cause; A dog walk to benefit patient care and research at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. It was a fantastic event! We couldn't ask for more perfect weather, and we were surrounded by dog lovers and pet-friendly vendors. I can't wait to participate next year!

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Milt is like a child to us, so when he has been a good boy, I like to reward him.  This is especially true when Milton has been home alone bored all day while I am at school.  A housebound dog necessitates a trip to Petco after work to alleviate some of the stress after a long, hard day of solitude.  On that note, all Halloween toys are 50% of at Petco, so get them while they are hot! …

This weeks show features labradoodle puppies at 8pm. So excited our puppies are on TV.....We love labradoodles

Somewhere between the intersection of “maternal protection” and “pet parent nurturing”, my clear, level headed thinking “collided” with my bonding and attachment concerns, shoving common sense and my ability to reason into a coma!

Don’t ask me exactly where I got the notion, probably on the “world wide web”, where I surmised once Harley came home to live with us, his crate should be in our bedroom. DH wasn’t exactly “feeling…

Here we are at the end of October.

Back in September we had a bit of an ear mite scare.  The inlaw's dog got ear mites!  Abel was being puppy sat by them for the weekend as we were out of town.  Not only that but he sees her twice a week.  We do not know where the ear mites came from.  Abel was never actually diagnosed but we think…

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According to Wikipedia, a vomitorium is "a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheater or a…

Milton is still on a steady schedule of three days daycare, two days off and loving it!  In the early morning, the Milt drags Jeff inside daycare and leaves him without a backward glance.  Likewise, when I pick him up, he runs out, hardly looks at me, and hops in the car promptly shutting his eyes and falling asleep for the short ride home.  Why is the Milt dog so tired?  What goes on at daycare?  Well, here's a little explanation gained through a conversation I had with a daycare employee…

So Ollie had another opportunity to visit church this week. He was so excited. Since I knew it would be with preschoolers and babies, I wanted to make sure that we got some of that energy and initial enthusiasm out of our system before all the people showed up (It was a MOPS - Mothers of Preschoolers family fall activity night...costumes encouraged...). 

Ollie ran around what we call "BiG House" for a couple minutes and then seemed to be pooped (or maybe just hot...he did have…

I have discoverd the best invention to battling the two dog walk and it was right under my nose the past 2 years! Geez.

A little history. Murphy was a habitual puller when he learned to leash walk and since I needed a running buddy, not a sleigh dog, it was important to me that he be right at my side during runs. That took a LOT of training, a Gentle Leader for about 6 months and then the Gentle Walker Harness to accomplish. So he does a nice side walk now without any pulling. Mission…

This spring when we were checking out our local garden shop for plants and flowers to plant, I spied a 5 foot metal Rooster that I fell in love with and wanted to bring home.  It was right around Mother’s Day and my Birthday and when I asked the man the price and he told me how expensive it was, I told him to hold on because I was sure when I went inside and located John and described the gift I had picked out for myself, he would run right out and snatch it up for me.  “Yes, John, it is a 5…

This past weekend, Jeff's brother Jeremy came into town, so we needed to show him a good time, and, of course, the Milt had to be included too!  Our goldendoodle has really introduced us to the world of outdoor dining.  That night all of us dined at a local restaurant that has a terrific patio area peppered with picnic tables and space heaters because it is finally that time of year in Dallas when sweaters and boots are making an appearance.  Milton and his little buddy, Leo, cozied up under…

I am finally rotating doodle toys from the toy box to the trash! It’s finally time for those worn out, can’t repair, stinks and won’t survive another wash, toys that I’ve held onto far longer than I should have.

Don’t know about you, but shopping in a pet store for dog toys is not my idea of “fun” when I have the boys with me. The three of us, do not do “up and down the aisles” well together! When I learned about …

Darwin's Halloween costume this year... …

This may make you a bit dizzy, but this is what it is like in my yard every day--Lyric and Rio love to run and Rio hides under the bush in the back yard, then comes out and attacks his mom--Mattie (the red one) stays out of the fracas most of the time--preferring to do a sneak attack then run back to the porch to protect herself from Lyric, who loves to HERD poor Mattie by grabbing at her neck and forcing her into a corner. Mattie is smart, though and knows how to avoid it. Rio is too fast…

Ever since my September 10th blog post: DOODLE DAD IN THE DOG HOUSE, I’ve alerted my neighbors to be on the look out for this man – if he’s seen out and about with the boys – “alone!”

After his “infamous” visit to a local charity bike wash, his…

Recently I was driving down a busy street in Dallas, and while stopped at a traffic light, I happened to gaze up to see this sign - Milton St.!  I could not believe my eyes; I had found a street named after my boy.  Me even observing a street name is rather odd because I am quite unobservant, so of course, I had to snap a quick photo of it!…

So yesterday I received notice that they would be testing the fire alarms "sometime after 11am" (what does that even mean?) in my apartment complex. Well, being that Ollie stays home (crated) while I work, and that he has never heard fire alarms before and he is a scaredy dood, I decided that Ollie needed to go on an adventure to my office. Most people in my office were going to be gone today and so it seemed like a perfect time to test it out. :) He did great. He barked a couple times when…

I got some pictures of 6 of the 7 pups that Lyric had last September--they are now 1. You can check out my older blogs to see what they all looked like then! I do not have a picture of Rosie--by the way, Daisy and Rosie kept the puppy names I gave them when they were born!  

Here is Daisy--she was the tiniest but now weighs in at 55 pounds--5 more than her mom!…

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