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5.10.13 Follow Up Friday: A Week In Balance

10 May

Today is Follow-up Friday hosted by Jodi from Heart Like A Dog.  This is where we review the week behind so that we can launch into the week ahead (or something like that).

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Angel 9

The snoozing Nine got a lot of attention on Caturday.  Yes, even little devil angel cats need their beauty rest.

yingPeople saw the Yin-Yang of Louise and Sofie, in their Sunday Black & White photo. Yin and Yang symbolizes dualism, the state of life: balance.  My dogs are opposites in more than their colors; Louise is shy, Sofie is outgoing;  Lulu is quiet, Sofie is loud; you get the idea.  I could not have 2 totally different personalities in dogs.  For me they are a perfect balance.

This is like what Lao Tzu says of Yin and Yang in Tao Te King:

“Tao engenders One;
One engenders Two;
Two engenders Three;
Three engenders all things.
All things carry the yin (femininity)
while embrace the yang (masculinity).
Neutralising energy brings them into harmony.”

On Wednesday I found out that I had to take down the Sunday Cartoon from last week because Peanut’s cartoons are copyrighted and you can not reproduce them on the internet.  So, I replaced Snoopy and Charlie Brown with a dog house, because DogDaz is in the dog house for being a bad blogger.

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I absolutely loved the ideas you all came up with about why Sofie took her Airdog toy down to the old Cherry tree on Monday Mischief.  Nellie thought she just forgot to take it out of her mouth.  Binky and Jodi felt she took it so that no one else would play with her toy.  Cupcake was projecting that it was for security reasons. Easy thought that Sofie would play fetch with the tree (that was pretty out there, Easy). Roxy felt it had something to do with a squirrel, and Doggie was sure she was protecting everything, the tree, the squirrel, the toy.  And many many more saw it as an spring offering of some sort.  Whatever it was, Airdog comes and goes, in and out, on a regular basis.  Thanks for all your thoughts.  Sofie definitely keeps me amused.

We were excited to join the new hop by Dogs N Pawz called Tuesday’s Tails. where every Tuesday we are going to focus on animals that need homes.  I love it and will try to participate every week.  Won’t you hop with us to get homes for all the homeless?

Winnie_the_Pooh_and_FriendsWordless Wednesday was pretty wordy, but I am glad that you could see the fun that the dogs were having with their best friend Mo.  I think friends are important for animals, as well as humans.  I grew up with a singular dog (Louise Pierre Andre the 14th of Edgewood Lipton – we all wanted different names I guess).  I don’t remember Louie every interacting with any other animals. I am not saying he was unhappy, because he had his humans and he loved us, but, I think that maybe animals should have other friends besides humans, when possible.  What do you think?

And finally this week, Louise and I have been working through some fear stuff.  Well, I have been working, she has been fearing.  Maybe it is because I am not in a great space right now and she is picking up on my energy. I try to always listen to the lessons from my zoo and Thankful Thursday focused on what I have learnt from my little scaredy dog.

That’s it for the week. Thanks for playing along with us.  Check out the hop below and you can go play with others.

Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤

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18 responses to “5.10.13 Follow Up Friday: A Week In Balance

  1. Genevieve Petrillo's avatar

    Genevieve Petrillo

    May 10, 2013 at 05:57

    I have one dog friend in the neighborhood. Her name is Lila, and I like jumping on her head, which is about as big as my whole body. My therapy dog friends are just sniff-and-get-back-to-work-friends, but I like them, too.

    Love and licks,
    Cupcake

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      dogdaz

      May 10, 2013 at 08:12

      You always make me laugh – sniff-&-get-back-2-work ROFBMTO – rolling on floor barking my tail off

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  2. Gizmo's avatar

    Gizmo

    May 10, 2013 at 08:26

    Great roundup today…I really liked your Thursday post TGIF!

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      dogdaz

      May 10, 2013 at 09:22

      Thanks Giz! and yes Thank goodness it is Follow-up-FRIDAY!!!!!!

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    Jodi

    May 10, 2013 at 08:58

    Thanks for joining the hop today, I do love the way you summarized it, “This is where we review the week behind so that we can launch into the week ahead (or something like that).”

    I’ve found the more readers I have the harder it is to respond to all comments while still keeping up with all the other blogs I read, so FUF gives me the opportunity to stay in touch with my readers without overwhelming myself. 🙂

    Sorry about the whole Peanuts thing, there’s a lot of chatter right now about blogs and copyright so I’m sure it’s not the first time any of us will hear about this topic.

    Have a great week and watch out for Sofie’s air biscuits (or something like that.) ;-D

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    • DogDaz's avatar

      dogdaz

      May 10, 2013 at 09:22

      I am having the same problem Jodi. I get to read my fav blogs on the weekend only and I try to at least comment on their current efforts, but don’t get to go deeper any more. I also have a business blog http://thedigitalattitude.com , so I have double duty in trying to keep up. I love FUF and look forward to it every week. Usually, it is my longest post because life has overtaken time at the moment. I do love the picture of your dogs in the purple snow today. Made me smile. Re copyright, I am learning what one can and can not do, especially related to images. I respect copyright, but it is hard to know what is ok. – Enjoy your weekend – Lorian

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    easyweimaraner

    May 10, 2013 at 09:12

    I like the Tao Te King very much, first I always think: WHAT? But when I’m pondering about I can see the truth behind the words :o) Have a wonderful Friday :o)

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      dogdaz

      May 10, 2013 at 09:17

      Thanks Easy. Have a nice weekend

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  5. Sue at Talking Dogs's avatar

    Sue at Talking Dogs

    May 10, 2013 at 10:39

    Great follow up and helped me catch up on my reading in a fun way! Have a wonderful weekend!

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      dogdaz

      May 10, 2013 at 13:06

      Thanks Sue. That is always my hope.

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    mythreemoggies

    May 11, 2013 at 10:52

    Have a great weekend x

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      dogdaz

      May 11, 2013 at 14:58

      You too, Moggies

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    Misaki

    May 11, 2013 at 13:10

    Great round-up. Hope you’re having a good weekend!

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      dogdaz

      May 11, 2013 at 14:57

      You to Misaki. Thanks

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    2browndawgs

    May 11, 2013 at 15:27

    Great FUF. Sorry you had to take the cartoon down. I missed it. 🙂

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  9. Misty Shores Chesapeakes's avatar

    Misty Shores Chesapeakes

    May 11, 2013 at 23:33

    Great FUF. Too bad about the cartoon. I hope you can get Louise past her fears, baby steps.

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    • DogDaz's avatar

      dogdaz

      May 12, 2013 at 08:28

      Thanks Misty. I don’t know if you ever get fearful animals past the core anxiety, but I sense that the more I control the situation, the calmer she can be.

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