Category Archives: Dogs

Don’t have much time for anything today.  Already made the Vegan Mac&Cheese for C, while V is out picking up the ham for the meat eaters.  Gave the dogs their first Xmas present to keep them quiet, a new pull toy, but they got bored with it quickly.  I don’t like having to leave them in their kennels for so many hours when we go to Grammie’s but I have no choice.  Grammie’s cat does not like anyone and the house is to small anyway.  Now that I am done with the potato latkes for Hanukkah, moving on to the ham for the other side of the family (you know ham isn’t kosher right? – The photo below from Walmart shows how much people don’t know about other’s traditions.) Wishing all my cyber friends a happy day with whomever you spend it and enjoy the sounds, smells, and lights of the season.  It is not just the usual dogdaz but I like it! ❤

(I don’t own this picture, just in case someone cares)

Ah, vacation.  I wish I could say it gives me a lot of extra time, but actually this time of year it may be better to not take vacation since there is so much to do that one can not relax much anyway.  The dogs have been helping me cook and wrap presents.  I can’t use bows or ribbon anymore because the cats come and start chewing on the presents the minute they see them.  But I do a great job of wrapping and bagging.  Whoever came up with the bag idea was an absolute genius.  I remember, for years, trying to wrap strange toys, like fire engines, in paper.  Now, you can use giant bags, and voile!  The dogs and I took a really nice walk yesterday in the very strange 60 degree weather; warmer then the average first day of spring around here.  Weird, but nice.  I gave them some new fangled bone thing called ‘DreamBone,’ that I bought at the grocery store (yes this was the 3rd time I went this week) and they liked it a lot, but this morning, I found Sofie throwing up in the yard, so I think they were not very good for her tummy.  It was suppose to be ‘better than rawhide and digestible.’  To my dogs, nothing is ever better than rawhide, but I know that they are not suppose to have it because it gets lodged in their stomach, or something like that.  All my dogs have loved rawhide.  I am always looking for the alternative chew, but nothing, not plastic or marrow, will do for the long time chewing pleasure.   Not being a meat eater, big beefy bones just don’t work well in my house, and they probably are messy anyway.  Someday I will find that long lasting dog chew that will keep them busy for hours.  Well, here comes the sun after an evening of torrential downpours, so maybe the dogs and I will go play in the mud.  Just another dogdaz morning. ❤

‘Got a bone for us?’

Long day.  Vacations are really hard for me because I am a workaholic, I really do not know what to do with myself when I am not suppose to be working.  So I tumblr.  Took the dogs for a super nice walk this afternoon; through the neighborhood, then to the park.  It was overcast but not to cold.  Lately Louise is really pulling on her harness.  I have been using this chest front Easy Walker since she was little (it was recommended by Larry the Trainer at the PetSmart puppy class we went to), but I don’t think it ever fit her right, and really does not seem to give me any additional control.  I guess if I was the true pack leader (ala Cesar) they won’t pull me anyway.  So much for that!  Sofie is on a Gentle Leader (nose harness), and that works a little better, but not great. She has been trying to get it off her face for a year and people always say ‘that’s so cruel, she hates it,’ which makes me feel guilty. Neck collars are worthless except to hang tags from for my dogs, so the harnesses at least make it doable.  And then I do the 2 leash dance, one hand, pass it around the back, the other hand.  I tried a 2 leash one handle thing and they almost killed me when they went around behind me and each came out the other side.  Better doing the hand dance.  Well, just another dogdaz afternoon. ❤

I tried an experiment last evening and left Louise’s kennel door open all night, even though I put the sheet down. (I keep sheets over the kennels for warmth and also so they do not get disturbed by my walking around the room.)  V was really worried that she would wander around the house and that Sofie, who’s door was closed, would whine because she would want to roam too.  But Lulu stayed in her kennel all night and came to wake me up (put her paws on me from the floor and hits me) about 10 minutes before the alarm went off (5:50 am).  I told her not yet and she went back into her bed. She is such a good girl! When I opened Sofie’s door around 6:15, she actually was still asleep and didn’t come out right away. Sofie still needs to be confined at night or I might find a cat missing in the morning (or more likely my fuzzy slippers).  I figure Lulu is old enough not to be confined.  Lulu won’t get into any trouble. I kennel her at night because she is a fearful dog and that is her safe place, and also so that she doesn’t bark at something that scares her in the night and wake everyone up.  Lulu has the deepest bark for a little 55 lb girl.  Sofie, Miss Fearless, on the other hand, would get into endless trouble.  Just another dogdaz morning. ❤

Louise, about 5 mo old, the day we brought her home (April 2009).  Afraid of her shadow, neglected and abused.

Lulu Belle, today (2 years old), a happy, funny, super girl. (But still afraid of many scary humans, but getting better)