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2.3.12 6:01: How long is a dog day?

03 Feb

Sofie waiting on the step

Sofie keeps an eye on the front door waiting for me to come home.  She likes to watch the world go by from this vantage points (and she has also figured out that it is an effective blocking strategy so that the cats can not get up the stairs). I think it is interesting how dogs react when their humans return whether from a 20 minute trip to the grocery store or a 5 day trip out of town.  My dogs greet me with great joy and the feeling that I am the most important human in the world.  Sometimes I wonder how dogs perceive time.  They appear to have a rhythm to the moon cycles but do they perceive time as the period between sleep?  Is a day maybe one feeding to the next?  If a human has gone away is the day over when the human returns (no matter what the length)?  How long is a dog day?  Just another DogDaz morning back home with my zoo ❤

 
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Friday’s Baby Panda

03 Feb

Researchers dressed in panda costumes put a panda cub into a basket before transferring it to a new living environment. Source: blogs.reuters.com

 
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Posted by on February 3, 2012 in Animals

 

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2.2.12 5:54: Puppies!

02 Feb

hippiesandgypsies:

Nikkolette (look alike from the internet)

Still traveling, so today I thought I would focus on my puppies.  Baby animals are sooooo cute.  Sometimes I wish they would stay little forever.

Nikkolette (aka Nikki), my buff Cocker Spaniel, was 8 weeks old when she came to live with me.  She was the first dog I ever got on my own and the youngest puppy I ever had.  That was a real experience. I learned a lot about dog care and about getting up in the middle of night (I recommend you think twice when you live on the second floor of an apartment building and have to take a puppy out to pee several times a night).  I remember in the middle of one cold New England night, carrying her down the indoor stairs (I think there were about 20 steps to my apartment) and falling down most of them with the puppy in my arms.  Not a scratch on her, but boy did I hurt in the morning.  Ah, puppies.  Nikki was an easy going and sweet dog.  Except for the time that the cats (Alice and Gertrude were kittens then) knocked a plate of brownies off the counter for Nikki to enjoy (and proceed to get sick all over the house) while I was out. In general with Nikki there was very little puppy damage. She shared her life with me until she was 18 years old.

Puppy Lulu

Louise (aka Lulu Belle) was about 5 or 6 months old when she came to me.  I still had to potty train her but she was a fast learner.  She was mistreated in her early days (she had a flea collar embedded in her neck, was covered with dry mange, and was afraid of everything when she was rescued) but she was the cutest thing,  It did not take her long to learn that she was safe here and no one was ever going to mistreat her again. Louise is a really smart dog and I enjoy watching her figure out things.  Her puppy time went quickly and I only lost my favorite boots and a 12 roll case of toilet tissue to her puppiness.  Lulu is 2 1/2 years old now, but in many ways, she still has a lot of puppy in her.
The current puppy, Sofie Bear, turned 1 in November.  We rescued her at about 12 or 14 weeks.  I always wonder why a puppy ends up in a kill shelter, but I guess we will never know.  From the way that Sofie acts, I think she may have run wild until she was brought into the shelter.  If it was up to her she would still run wild today.  Sofie is the most strong willed little bit that has ever come my way.  She loves to carry around my slippers when ever she can and has a real affinity to chewing on things she shouldn’t.

Sofie Day 1

Ah! Puppies…..

Just another DogDaz morning from the road ❤

 
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Posted by on February 2, 2012 in Dogs

 

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Thursday’s Brothers

02 Feb

magicalnaturetour: Photo by Johanna Beltighofer

 
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Hold My Hand Daddy!

01 Feb

Source: nationalgeographic.co.id

 
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Wednesday’s Busy Penguin

01 Feb

Source: nicotumblr

 
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2.1.12 5:41: Wiiiiiiiii

01 Feb

Since I am on the road and can’t see what is going on at the zoo, I thought I would take a trip down memory lane, hope you don’t mind.  So I went through my pictures and I came upon this one of Squash helping me exercise.  You see, I bought the kids a Nintendo Wii video game machine for Xmas a few years back.  Figuring they should not be the only ones to have fun, I asked for a Wii Fit for my birthday.  The Wii Fit is an exercise game that uses a balance board.

Squash helping with Wii Fit

So I get on this little white board and hold the game controller in my hand and try to do the exercises it tells me to.  As you can see in the picture, Squash figured he would help.  The only problem is that the devices weighs you as it goes.  Maybe that is why I carried an extra 50 lbs. for years?

I don’t know what happens in your zoo, but every time I try to get on the floor to do exercise, I end up with multiple animals thinking that it is just a lot of fun to jump on the human.  Truthfully, I am not someone who likes to exercise, so my zoo makes it really easy for me to find an excuse to do something else (not that I need much of an excuse),  LOL – Just another DogDaz morning from the road ❤

P.S.  All my business colleges are down at the hotel gym working out and I am here typing to you.  At least my fingers get a good workout,

 
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Posted by on February 1, 2012 in Dogs

 

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