Archives: August2009

• A Year?!

  I wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t have the calendar sitting in front of me, but Layla is a year old! Time just seems to fly by when you have a puppy. With Layla, though, I think it’s been even harder to keep track of, since she never seemed to grow up. She is now smaller than Dare at 14 weeks. To us, I think she’ll always be the “baby” because she’s so tiny. Anyway, here are some new pictures [...]

• Zack is Back Again

  Our old foster boy Zack is back again. He’s here just for the week while his family is out of town. He still is just the same old Zacky boy. Incredibly stubborn, yet, endearing. He will be here till either Friday or Saturday, so I guess his stay is actually nearly over. He fits in so well that I don’t really notice that we’ve got an extra dog here most of the time. Zoe doesn’t share my opinion though. She [...]

• Obedience Trial Update

  As usual, it’s taking me about a week to get settled back into routine after being out of town. I meant to post sooner, but never had the chance. Twist was entered in three days of Obedience this past weekend. Unfortunately, he didn’t qualify any of the days. The good news was that each day he did better. On Sunday he had finished all the exercises and was qualifying and actually in first place with a 191 when we went [...]

• Incredibubbles!

  Since I’ve been trying to expose Dare to something new each day, I’ve found myself buying all kinds of silly things. The other day I saw these Incredibubbles on Clean Run and thought that they looked too fun. They are advertised to be long lasting, (they don’t pop right away), and they are scented/flavored to be appealing to the dogs. I have to say after letting Dare and then the other dogs try them out, none of my crew were [...]

• First Time to the Lake

  We survived the crazy weekend! Everything went as well as I could have hoped for, especially when you’re trying to cram a million and one things into such a short time frame. Yesterday after everyone went home, we decided to take Layla and Dare to the lake. This was Dare’s first time at the lake. She did really well. She’s definitely not afraid of the water, but she thought that all the things on the shore were more interesting. I’ll [...]

• Another Busy Week

  It’s already Thurs. and I don’t know what’s happened to the first part of the week. A friend of mine is having a yard sale tomorrow and Saturday, and is letting me take some stuff that I’ve had sitting around here over to throw in with her stuff. There are just a couple of hitches to that. She wants to set everything up today, and it’s still cloudy and when I walked outside to take care of the boarders a [...]

• Don’t Forget the Simple Things

  I know I sometimes forget to appreciate the truly simple things. I think animals in general are great reminders for us, of how much enjoyment we can get from something that we don’t even notice. Puppies are especially talented at this. They seem to be able to find so much fun and satisfaction in things we take for granted. For instance when Layla first came to us one of her very favorite toys was an empty plastic fruit/pudding cup. She’d [...]