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Thank you to the good Piggies at Hutch A Good Life, for this wonderful Pigmas video. It will make you laugh
Well here is a pigture of me, and as you can see I am clearly fascinated by something. Something beyond my cage bars. What do you think it is? What has caught my attention? If you guess right you will get yourself a very special coverted prize whee like to call ‘The Winner Whiffle!’
Sorry for the short post. It has been a busy day and Nibbles actually has some news to share tomorrow – not worrying news but Mummy is doing her research so she can help him explain it without panicking you all!
I’ll leave you all with what is frankly THE BEST animal video on youtube! It has all the animals you can think of in it!
Basil
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12.9.12 Another Star For Our Badge
Thank you to The Daily Golden for adding another star to our BLOG OF THE YEAR award. It is so kind of the Golden Tucker and his human, Shannon, to think of us here at the zoo. When you visit the very fun ‘The Daily Golden’ you will learn a lot about the beautiful breed.
Our Sofie is golden and we haven’t the heart to tell her that she will not be a Retriever when she grows up. Shhhhh!
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤ 
12.8.12 Happy HanukkahPaws To All
Sofie & her faux family
We live in a multi-religious household, so we get to celebrate festivals all season long (goody!). Today is the start of the Festival of Lights, called Hanukkah (you may see it spelled many different ways because it is not English). The word Hanukkah means ‘dedication.’ The name reminds us that this holiday commemorates the re-dedication of the holy Temple in Jerusalem after the Jewish victory over the Syrian-Greeks in 165 B.C.E. The temple was defiled and the sacred fire, that was supposed to burn all the time, was out. There was only one day of sacred oil left and people were really upset because it would take 8 days to sanctify new oil. Miraculously, the one day oil supply lasted a full 8 days until the temple was able to be properly rededicated. Cool huh! (Note that the holiday commemorates the miracle of the oil, not the military victory: the Jewish people do not glorify war.) And that is why the celebration of Hanukkah is for 8 days and people eat fried things.
There are 4 special things we do here at the zoo for this celebration: we light candles for 8 nights (away from all the kitties because we really worry about fire and tails), we play a really fun game called Dreidel (it’s a top with Hebrew letters on it and Mommy gives us doggie and kitty treats she calls, ‘Gelt’ when we win), we eat fried stuff (especially potato pancakes called, ‘Latke,’ which we wait all year for because she only makes them once), and ‘Hanny,’ the Hanukkah Fairy, brings special little gifts for us every night (we think this is because a lot of other animals we know get Xmas presents later this month and she does not want us to feel left out).
“Nes Gadol Haya Sham: A Great Miracle Happened There” is what we say. And that is true in our house. Every day we find miracles in our life. We hope you do too.
Interested in more Hanukkah stories – check out the Hanukkah Blog Crawl.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
12.7.12 Furry Foto Friday
Nikki (1989-2007) was the coolest Cocker Spaniel in the world.
She let the kids dress her up anyway they wanted. Nikki was my cuddle bunny.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
12.6.12 Thankful Thursday
If it is Thursday, then it must be Thankful Thursday Blog Hop day. I am hopping this from PepsiSmartDog’s Smart Dog Blog. Pepsi seems like a well educated dog, so go check out the site.
Last week was Thanksgiving holiday in the US, and I know that I said thank you to all my readers and for all the wonderful things that I am thankful for, but the truth is, every day that I wake up I am thankful. I do not think that I ever stop feeling blessed by this wonderful life that I have. My great family, the animals that surround me, my great neighborhood, my friends, my health, my job…. I am just one very lucky person. But since this is an animal blog, I think that I need to look at it from their side. So let me ask some of them:
Louise: I am thankful that I have a family that loves me and protects me; a Mom who understands that I am afraid of a lot of things and doesn’t make me deal with the world any more than I really can. I am also really thankful for being able to get up on the den couch.
Sofie: I am thankful for my sister Louise, and for my cats (that I love to chase), all my toys, and especially for my lovey, Beaver.
Noel: I am thankful for the nice warm spot that Mom leaves in her bed in the morning, so that I can crawl in it and sleep the rest of the day.
Stella: I am thankful for a bed to hide under.
What are you thankful for today?
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
12.4.12 Tasty Tuesday: Peanut Butter Pumpkin Cookies
We are joining the Tasty Tuesday Blog Hop thanks to Hey, It’s Jet Here. Please hop over to visit Jet and tell him DogDaz sent you. Jet, JJ, and their human make some tasty stuff over there in Casa Jet.
So… for our first Tasty Tuesday, we want to share the Peanut Butter Pumpkin Cookies that we made for Sofie’s birthday this year. We found the recipe somewhere on the internet (can’t find the link, sorry) and then improvised the rest. They were yummy good, and since Sofie doesn’t like cookies very much I needed to make sure they were peanut buttery and extra special.
Ingredients for about 25 cookies
- 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 2 tablespoons peanut butter
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Whisk together the flour, eggs, pumpkin, peanut butter, salt, and cinnamon in a bowl. Add water as needed to help make the dough workable, but the dough should be dry and stiff. Roll the dough into a 1/2-inch-thick roll. Cut into 1/2-inch pieces.
- Bake in preheated oven until hard, about 40 minutes.
I cut them into stars. The girls thought they were dog yummy!
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
12.3.12 Monday Mischief: Yard Work
“You won’t mind if we try a little excavating under this railroad tie, Mom, would you?”
“There appears to be some weird creature under the grass and we really want to help it escape from underground.”
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
This is my first blog hop. I hopped it from 2 Brown Dawgs Blog. Check them out for more mischief.
