If looks could kill, I think sleeping Sofie would be dead.
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Just another CATDogDaz morning at the zoo ❤ 
Last night the dogs and I went to bed around 10:00PM (22:00). They went into their kennels, as usual on the other side of my bedroom, and I went to sleep. I nodded off around 11:11, because I remember seeing the digital display on the TV. The next thing I knew it was 11:26 and Sofie is whining and barking her head off. I opened the kennels and let them both out in the back yard, at which point I heard the screeching of either a fox or a raccoon. Sofie’s hearing is amazing. I didn’t hear anything until I opened the door, but she was woken by the sound through the exterior wall, through the cover on the kennel. When I got them back in and thanked them for making sure our home was safe, we all went back to bed. Then about 4:30 AM she started the whine again, “Let me out and let me at it!” This time, I ignored her and finally she quieted. (This is one of the reasons not to have your animals sleep in your bedroom, but I digress.) I don’t want to discourage either of my dogs from doing their job of protecting the house and family from intruders, but Sofie can hear a fox two towns away (OK, I am exaggerating, but only a little). Her hearing sensitivity is much more acute than Louise or any other dog I have ever had. At least I am assuming it is hearing and not smell. Do I try to train her out of making any noise when she is in her kennel? She only fusses when she either has to go to the bathroom or there is something like this going on outside the house. She is a hyper-sound sensitive dog and I am trying to figure out how to instruct her when it is OK to bark and when it isn’t. Or is this a losing battle?
I definitely am losing the whine battle. Check out an older post “Would You Like Some Cheese With That Whine” .
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
The dogs and I like to walk on the floating pier and I tell them to “go fishing,” and they run and sniff all the interesting smells around the boats. But there isn’t much to sniff right now. Only one boat appears to be brave enough to be in the water (it is still pretty cold – they are calling for flurries tonight). Boats around here are mostly wrapped in fancy white stuff and on trailers in people’s yards during the winter. But, they will start coming back to the pier pretty soon since the daffodils and crocus are blooming.
The pier is on ‘Breezy Point,’ at the end of my peninsula, and, yes, it is very breezy. The girls are running into the wind, which they love. Talk about mischief! When the wind blows Louise can get into a lot of trouble following the scents on the wind. I love the smell of spring in the air, even if it is below freezing.
Do you get into more mischief in the wind?
This is a blog hop. I hopped it from Snoopy’s DogBlog. Check them out for more mischief.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Did you find the pot of gold yet?
This is part of the Black and White Sunday Blog Hop. Thanks to My Life in Dog Years for hosting. Click here to get to know other wonderful animals and their parents and to see how you can take part in this fabulous blog hop!
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Noel here – Today is Mommy’s birthday so I made her a cake.
It is a dairy free, gluten free, kibble cake, with tofu icing. (Yes, we know our Mom eats weird.) The animals and I all agree that she will love it! I used the Santa table cloth, because you know I am the Christmas Cat, and, it was the only one I could find on FaceinHole.com . We love our Mommy and all year she focuses on us so today we are focusing on her. We let her sleep until 6:30 this morning, as a present.
Just another CATDogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
The “Ides of March” is an interesting day. It is the 15th of March and it commemorates the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE. Why would anyone really want to remember something like that? But Caesar (you know who he was, right?) got himself stabbed to death at work (he was a senator). They say that there may have been over 60 people (lead by guys named, Brutus and Cassius) that were involved. The interesting thing to me is that Caesar was warned that this was going to happen; but, silly him, he went to work anyway. If someone told me that I was going to come to harm if I went somewhere later today, just for the heck of it, I would stay home.
William Shakespeare (one of my favorites), made this prophecy famous in his play called … (of course)… “Julius Caesar.” In the play Caesar is warned by a soothsayer to “beware the ides of March.” Hence, the expression.
For some reason this all made me think about dogs in Greek Mythology (OK, Caesar was Roman, but somehow I made the jump). Which lead me to thinking about the three-headed dog, Cerberus. He was a watchdog. The difference between him and my Louise is that Lulu watches over my house, where Cerberus watched over Hades (also know as, hell, or the underworld.) He allowed people to enter but he never would let them leave. Some people did escape however, like Orpheus, who lulled him to sleep by playing soothing music, and Hermes who used water from the Lethe (a river that ran through Hades). The most famous ‘person’ who got past Cerberus was Hercules (I like him best in the Disney version). Actually, Hercules did not get ‘past’ Cerberus, he wrestled him into submission and brought him to the land of the living. And they say that Cerberus’ saliva fell to the ground during that encounter and that is what produced the first poisonous plants on earth.
You never know where the ides of March will take you. Beware!
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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
We are Thankful today for Peace, Love, & Whiskers, an amazing blog about amazing animals.
Peace, Love, & Whiskers takes extra special care of some extra special pussy cats and doggies and provides us out here in the blogosphere with wonderful interviews. You really need to go visit. Thank you PL&W for the great work you do in highlighting kitties and doggies that need special care and love. Several of the DogDaz rescues, canine, feline, and guinea, have all needed a little extra love to get through their days, but they have brought us tremendous joy. The Muffin Man, our orange and white Tom, had heart disease his whole life (2 pills a day), and was the king of our castle. Miss Constance Kitty was born with a crooked spine, but did great with it in her early years – until the pain got to be too much. Squash E. Bear was a two times a day insulin diabetic, who eventually went blind, but he and I would still walk a few miles every day. Mr. Motto, the king of Guinea Pigs, had pneumonia almost immediately upon adoption. It was very touch and go for over a month, but he lived another 7 years. Noel, the Christmas cat, has feline Herpes but she is doing great and just turned 6 last week. So thank you Peace, Love, & Whiskers for taking up the cause of the animals that need a little extra love.
PL&W bestowed upon us 2 awards; the Versatile Blogger Award and the Liebster Award. We are honored and thankful for that too.
Since we have been very lucky to receive these awards before, we hope you don’t mind but you can find our previous responses to the questions on our Awards page. We love all awards and appreciate them, but Mom is running out of time to get her work done, take care of the zoo, and still write the blog, so she is trying to economize where she can,
You get to pick any award you would like from our Awards page – because you are our pick of the litter!
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This is part of the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop from PepiSmartDog.com
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
