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UPDATE:

We have regrouped and now Owen is under new management.

1.  He is no longer allowed on the step as pictured below. We figured out he uses it to enforce his dominance... he wouldn't move for people or Kona to go up or down the steps. I don't know why we never figured that out before... guess it has to do with cuteness. 

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Well, the neighborhood Crazy Puppy Lady is only getting crazier. At least, I'm pretty sure that's the word on the street.  

It was a beautiful day today and I was perhaps feeling just a bit too spunky with my return to good health.  This newfound zest for life gave me the ambitious idea to take Rooney down to the playfield near our house, with a long lead, to play a little fetch and do some some general running around.  I figured he'd love the extra room to exercise his legs and the…

I have just been infected by a malware program which disguises itself as: S.M.A.R.T Repair.  It pretends that the hard drive is failing through a virus and that you must purchase their S.M.A.R.T. Repair program to salvage the computer!  Then it hides all of the iformation contained on the hard drive so the hard drive owner thinks that the hard drive has failed.

I did not buy into their scam and would not let my computer install…

It's hard to believe it has been almost a year ago since we had this surgery done on Remington. Over that past year I have been contacted by people all over the world (seriously) about giving them advice on what they should do concerning their own dogs. I have also been overwhelmed with responses from people on DoodleKisses wondering how Remington is doing now, telling me they think of us often, and wondering what life is like for us now. It is so nice to feel so loved by people you have…

Hi!  I have Baxter, a Teddybear Goldendoodle who just turned one last month.  Almost from the time he came home at 8 weeks, we've been trying to teach him how to give us his paw to shake or high 5, to no avail!  It made no sense!  He was super intelligent, always wants to please, saw our lab shake paw a zillion times, seemed so advanced in so many ways, yet this one simple command was just never understood!  Recently a friend told me that dogs can have a dominant paw the way a person can…

Hi all -Roo here.  Mom has a new job (editor's note: volunteer) and she is always at the computer.  I can't get a paw in edgewise.  But finally.... Big news is that I am fine.  I have Addison's disease.  I felt awful for about a week.  Couldn't even eat!! Now that is really feeling foul.

 You still guarded your bowl though, you could have shared with me. 

  Tigger, you had your own food and I needed to let Mom know how horrible I felt!Whatever...

Anyway, every…

Thanks for coming back for part 2….

So last week in “part 1″, I focused on the boys eating so much grass! They aren’t sick (at least not to my knowledge) when they ingest the “green blades of yum”, yet they continue to nibble when we’re outside. As I surfed the net looking for information, I began to think about all the other “bad things” they could get into to include inside our own home.

In my internet travels I stumbled upon a phone app (right now…

Remington may be 3 years old and 80 lbs... but he's still a puppy to us and shows this side of himself during play time. We usually take him to the school by our house to play in the big open area over there. We bring his kong Frisbee and all is right with the world :)…

Some of you may know that my DH had surgery to have a spot on his thyroid removed two weeks ago.  We were told there was a 20% chance of cancer and well, 20% to me is pretty darn big, so he decided to go through with removing his left thyroid.  No risk in chancing that, especially with Baby S coming in October!

Let me rewind to August 2011.  It was a Monday night and we were relaxing after dinner, as usual.  All of a sudden, Conor tells me he cannot see and had lost most of…

This morning I called my mother like I do almost every day and got her just before she had to leave to go exercise.  The times you can call her are very specific because she is either leaving to play Bridge, watching Matlock, watching The Price is Right, or out the door for some other reason.  I could be in the middle of telling her I was having chest palpitations and could she hang up and call 911 for me and I can assure you I would be screwed if it happened during one of her…

Today (or maybe tomorrow) is Coopers 3rd birthday. Her Mom Amber went into labour on the evening of the 25th. Some puppies were born naturally, some were delivered by C-section in the early hours of the 26th. It was a weekend so the paperwork was done on the 27th... different documents have different dates, so Cooper kind of has 3 birthdays! But we celebrate the 25th

Every birthday, each of our pets get a can of yummy food all to themselves. Cooper usually gets some Merrick…

As stated in my previous blog post, I am crazy about my little Labradoodle, Rooney.  And, as I also mentioned, this has come as a bit of a surprise to people who know me well.  Not the fact that I like my puppy.  I have always been a "Dog-Liker".  It's the fact that I love my puppy and have not generally been known as a "Dog-Lover".  But in fact, my deep affection for my Rooney has actually increased by interest and attachment to all dogs.…

If every command worked as well as “sit” – what a wonderful world this would be! Puppies must be “wired” in some form or fashion right before birth to understand and obey the word “sit.” Think about it, just about every dog ever born knows to put his backside down on the floor when he hears that word.

It’s the command that makes us all feel like “Dr. Doolittle.” I remember when Harley first “sat” down for me. I  was so excited – think I…

For the past 7 months we have been living with my inlaws, after we moved half way round the country. Time has come to get our own place. We have paid off our credit cards, and saved $3000 for rent, deposit, bits of furniture, and emergencies.

For the past 2 months we have been hoping to move into the ground floor of a house DH's best friends Grandparents own and are renovating. Unfortunately it still is not ready. They say they are now hoping for mid may. But DHs brother is…

Day 2.  We're both exhausted and one of us is soaking wet.  Silly rain.  If she just went potty when we took her out, she wouldn't have to go out in the rain again and again.  She's finally warming up to "daddy," and finds his fingers to be tastier than anything else, other than my toes.  Won't, ahem, go all the way to the bathroom today; just this morning after midnight.  We tried leaving her alone for a whole hour and opened the door to crying...her, not me.  I think she's the most…

One early morning Camus met a coyote...and invited him/her to play. 8-0

It was still dark and when an animal ran across a big grassy area I thought it was a dog, but there was no human around. Camus ran after the animal wagging his tail. When a coyote stopped, Camus made a bow and invited him to play. The coyote stopped intrigued and stared at Camus until I grabbed my pup and walked away. I was the only one who got scared, I guess. Silly, silly and friendly Camus! 

I have had this blog written for a long time, but I did not want people to think Fudge was sick now.  This happened shortly after we brought her home and goes to show that having a sick dog/puppy can be very scary. Since we have lots of new puppy owners, I thought it would be fun to share.

When Fudge was pretty small, she got sick. She stopped eating and drinking, was very lethargic, and I was beyond…

Chewie got bit in the face by a labrador who was off-leash today :(

It happened at our weekly Obedience class. The labrador (name Tara) belonged to a former student of the class and the owner brings her here pretty regularly and she's always off-leash. I've seen both of them a few times before. Chewie even played with Tara 5 minutes before the incident.

5 minutes before class started, I decided to take Chewie for a "warm up". He was heeling nicely when we walked pass Tara…

Why am I here?

Of course first and foremost, I am here because I am a Doodle owner.  That's a given, right? But I've been a dog owner for twenty years and have never dipped a toe into a site like this before.  So, why now? 

Because my Rooney has turned me into someone even I do not recognize.  My sister, who has always been the true blue animal lover of the family, can hardly contain her amusement/shock when I prattle on about the latest dog book I've read, or my ridiculously…

So... last night Luna started excessively licking her lips and making hiccupping/gagging noises... and her tummy felt a bit tense.  My first thought was "OH NO, it's bloat!".  We rushed her to the local vet E.R. (5 minutes from our house!)

After a thorough check (and $170) she was just having an upset tummy (she's a bit of a garbage can - probably ate something on a walk that didn't agree with her).  The vet "prescribed" us to go get some Pepcid AC from the drug store and feed…