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3.28.13 This ‘N That Thursday: CatDaz Plays Along

this-n-thatI thought I would join Jodi at Heart Like a Dog and 2 Brown Dawgs for their This ‘N That Thursday Blog Hop.  Usually I do the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop, but I wanted to try something new, I do hope you don’t mind.  

So first let’s start with a THIS:  THIS is almost the end of March in the Northern Hemisphere and THIS week we got our first real snow of the season.  Go figure.  I think THIS was the first snow that Stella ever saw.  She watched it from her bed in the cat room window, while Noel watched from her perch in the living room. 

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That was this, now for that:  It is not often THAT I actually get a chance to read the newspaper.  It used to be THAT The Muffin Man would always sit on it any time I opened it up.  But now THAT he is gone, I guess THAT Noel, has decided it is her place to take over.  So much for reading today.  

I am not sure THAT THIS is what they meant by THIS N’ THAT Thursday, but it was fun. Go to Heart Like a Dog if you want to join the hop (I can’t do the hop code on WordPress, sorry).

Just another CATDogDaz morning at the zoo ❤

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2013 in Dogs

 

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3.27.13 Wordless Wednesday: Mopey Sofie

wpid-IMG953027.jpgI was away last weekend.  Sofie was not happy about it.  Poor Sofie.  That is her moping step.  She waits there until I return, unless of course someone gives her food, or a toy, or a cat wants to get down the stairs. K8 took the picture. She sent it to me on my phone.  BOL.   Happy Wednesday.
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This is a Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop. Thanks to BlogPaws for the hop. Head over there and see what they are blogging about.

Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤

 
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Posted by on March 27, 2013 in Dogs

 

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3.21.13 Thankful Thursday: Playing Tag With Little Binky And You

First, we must say thank you Mother Nature for the spring equinox today.  Love Spring Love Love Love Love.

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And we are thankful this week for AngelWhisper2011. Little Binky and Granny are playing tag with us.  (The dogs especially like to play tag when they can chase cats, so they say a special thanks.)  Binky and Granny have a very special relationship, as Granny has a gift for healing animals and has a special animal that whispers to her from the great meadow in the sky. His name was Angel, when he prowled the earth.  Little Binky is some cool looking cat!  

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Thank you for playing tag with us.  Our youngest zooling, Baby Stella, will be answering for us today.

Here are the Tag Game rules:

1. Post these rules – Done.

2. Post a photo of yourself and eleven random facts about you – Done below

3. Answer the questions given to you in the tagger’s post.- Done below

4. Create eleven new questions and tag new people to answer them.- Done below

5. Go to their blog/twitter and let them know they have been tagged – going, going, tag you are it!!!

Here are 11 random facts about Baby Stella: stella

  1. I sleep in the jungle of plants in Mommy’s bathroom.
  2. I like to eat by myself in the kitten room.  I tried eating in the kitchen with all the other animals, but decided I like to dine alone.  
  3. My favorite spot during the day is looking out the laundry room window.  
  4. When I can sneak into K8’s room, I like to hide on her bed.
  5. Many days you will find me hiding under Mommy’s bed. It is dark and quiet.  
  6. That blond dog, Sofie, chases me even though Mommy tells her not to.  
  7. My brother Nine steals all the toys and hogs everything, all the time.  
  8. I talk to Mommy at dinner time and tell her where I want to eat.  
  9. Mommy thinks I was born in September 2011.  That would make me 1 1/2 years old.   
  10. I eat plants.
  11. I love my family, even though I am shy most of the time.  It is hard being the youngest.     
Stella last night at bed time w/ K8. (photo by K8)

Stella last night at bed time w/ K8. (photo by K8)

Here are Little Binky’s 11 questions for Stella:

1. What do you prefer, water or milk? – There is no milk in this house, Mommy is dairy free. We drink water only.

2. Do you like rain or snow? – I have only seen it through the window, but I think I would prefer snow.

3. Do you believe in Furry-land? – Are you telling me there isn’t a Furry-land? “MOMMY!!!!! Say it ain’t true.”

4. Do you believe in Angels? –   Of course we do. We have several old souls in the house but not any angels at this time.  Mom says the angels only come if we need special help, but the spirit of our past loves are with us all the time.

5. What do you do if you find a lot of money?  I am not sure what money is, but I would give it to Noel, since she is head cat.

6. When are you the most active and when you are the most laziest inactive?  I am pretty quiet most of the time, but I like to play in the late afternoon and right before Mom goes to bed.

7. What do you do if you had to take care of your own dinner? I am sure that Noel and Nine would help me and together we would catch lots of field mice and maybe even a snake. The dogs tend to eat everything pretty quickly so I think we would have to hide from them.

8. Where would you fly to if you had wings? Not far since I am a home buddy.  I don’t even go up on top of the cabinets like Nine does.  I do like jungles, as I sleep hidden in all the plants in Mom’s bathroom at night.

9. How do you show your affection?  I am a very private cat.  I show affection when Mommy is captive in the bathroom or if there is a snack on the bed.  I like to push my little big human, K8, around by poking her in the face when she is sleeping.  Mom is trying to teach me to be held, but I don’t like human touch very much.

10. What color is your favorite?  Brown (I am a beautiful brown, don’t you think?)

11. What smell is your favorite? FISH

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We love our blog friends so much and we are having trouble deciding who to pick for the game of tag (and it is stressing us out)  sooooooo  TAG YOU ARE ALL IT!!!!:  Please answer the following questions to play:

1. What is your favorite hiding place?

2. If you could talk to your human for 5 minutes in their language, what would you say?

3.  What is your most favorite food?

4. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?

5. Do you have a hero?

6.  Do you have a bed time?

7.  What makes you laugh?

8.  What do you do that makes others laugh?

9.  Does anything scare you?

10.  Do you know how to dance?

11.  If you could be any pet blogger, who would it be?

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This is part of the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop from PepiSmartDog.com

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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤

 
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Posted by on March 21, 2013 in Cats, Dogs

 

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2.21.13 Thankful Thursday: Peace Love & Whiskers Shined On Us

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We are Thankful today for Peace, Love, & Whiskers, an amazing blog about amazing animals.

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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.

liebsterawardPL&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,

We would like to bestow on Peace, Love, & Whiskers the coveted DogDaz Pick Of The Litter Award, for all the great things you do.

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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

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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤

 
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Posted by on March 14, 2013 in Cats, Dogs

 

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3.8.13 Belated Noel Birthday Bash

Yesterday was Noel’s 6th birthday.  Mommy was so busy saying thank you to the Three Moggies for the Liebster Award that she forgot to throw a party on-line for Noey (Mom’s nickname for her) until she was already writing the blog.  But Noel deserves a special day all her own; because she is a special cat.  If you are new to DogDaz please go back and check out some history of Noel, the Christmas Cat.  You can read about her very difficult sickly start in Noel’s Story: Near Death to ALpha in 5 Years or see her blogging skills in Dear Reader: Question from Noel.  You could also search our blog using the key word: “Noel,” and then you will see her in a lot of stories.

She is one great cat and gets better and better every year!  Happy 6th Birthday, Baby!  Mommy Loves You!

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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤

 
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Posted by on March 8, 2013 in Cats

 

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3.7.13 Thankful Thursday: Thanks 3Moggies

Three of my favorite blog cats, Oscar, Henry, and Archie, were so kind to bestow upon us an award called the Liebster Award.  If you do not know them yet (which I think is almost impossible for anyone following kitty blogs) check in on them at: My Three Moggies.  

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The Moogies asked us the following questions to qualify for the Liebster Award and Noel, the Christmas Cat, is going to answer for the zoo, since she is the oldest and, of course, a cat:

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1 – Out of the three Moggies which is your favourite?  Archie, because he is almost all white, like me.

2 – What is your favourite treat?  Roasted chicken

3 – If you was not the animal you are now what would you have liked to have been? A white tiger

4 – Prefer cats or dogs? Now that is a silly question: Cats Rule – Dogs Drool

5 – Who is your super hero? Simon’s Cat

6 – Do you get the opportunity to sleep with humans? I could, but the babies are on Mom’s bed, Nine and Stella, so I tend to stay in the hall and watch over everyone.  The goofy dogs are in their kennels, thank goodness.  I wake Mom up sometimes but that is very rare.

7 – How old are you? I am 6 years old today (according to my adoption records)

8 – What is an average day for you? Sleep, eat breakfast in my special spot, sleep, bother Mommy (like I am doing right now in front of the computer screen so that she can not see what she is typing), sleep some more in the office with Mommy while she works, eat dinner in my special spot, sit with Mommy and watch TV, sleep, have a before bed snack on the kitchen floor after the dogs go to bed, sleep in the hall outside Mommy’s room to make sure that everyone is safe.  

9 – Are you a clean animal? White cats are impeccably clean!

10 – What are you having for dinner tonight? Some Wellness dry, mixed with some Friskies Wet and water.  

Thank you my friends.  And now to nominate 3 bloggers who I would like to know more about:

Bacon, of PigLove 

Speedy, of SpeedyRabbit  

Roxy, of @RoxyTrvlingDog 

The questions we have for you are:

1. What is your favorite hiding place?

2. If you could talk to your human for 5 minutes in their language, what would you say?

3. What is your most favorite food?

4. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?

5. Do you have a hero?

6.  Do you have a bed time?

7.  What makes you laugh?

8.  What do you do that makes others laugh?

9.  Does anything scare you?

10.  Do you know how to dance?

Thank you Archie, Henry, and Oscar – this was fun.  

– Love Noel, the Christmas Cat, and the rest of the DogDaz zoo: Louise, Sofie, Nine, Stella, and Mom

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This is part of the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop from PepiSmartDog.com

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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤

 
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Posted by on March 7, 2013 in Cats, Dogs

 

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2.21.13 Thankful Thursday: Love Smiles

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Loving and being loved is so incredibly important to my being.  I figure it is probably important to every being – human and animal (probably plants too).  The other evening I was feeling my usual Mommy guilt because I still can not walk the dogs, so I got down on the floor for a good session of tickle the dogs, and Louise, Sofie and I spent about 30 minutes in a message, scratching, cuddling, (biting each other), rolling session.  It has been a long time since I have seen Louise grin in that special safe way that she does only for me.  She has this little ecstasy grin.  A grin that says “I am in a place that is so special, so safe, that I can relax (for a moment).”  Getting a smile from Louise is extra special because she doesn’t do it often. 

241907_3921861400914_838892707_oSofie is my smiler.  She smiles at everything.  It doesn’t take much to make that girl happy.  But Lulu, she is the challenge.  She never lets her guard down and it is hard to know when she is happy.  My dogs are a true mix of me.  I smile all the time (like Sofie), but very few people know when I am really happy (like Louise).  That is because, like Louise, I almost never relax or let my guard down.  

Here is today’s lesson from my dogs (the animals teach me so much).  My greatest happiness is in the moment.  It is when I am doing things like showing love (like the cuddle fest we had).  At times like that I am thinking of nothing but the cuddle or romp with the dogs. I am focused on the pure moment; relaxed and safe,  If the dogs had the camera instead of me, I think you would have seen who was really smiling.  My dogs make me feel safe, they relax me, they protect me, and most of all, they teach me what I need to do and how to do it.  To find greater happiness and relaxation, I only need listen to the animals.  

Thank you Lulu Belle and Sofie Bear.        

 

This is part of the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop from PepiSmartDog.com

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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2013 in Dogs

 

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2.20.13 Wordless Wednesday: Mine!

2013-02-09_12-51-35_636Another new toy from one of Mom’s recent ‘Guilt’ trips.  Read Mom is Home = New Toy for more info. 

 

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This is a Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop. Thanks to BlogPaws for the hop. Head over there and see what they are blogging about.

Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤

 
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2.14.13 Thankful Thursday: We <3 You!

Louise, Sofie, Noel, Nine, Stella and Mommy have a card for you!valentine 2013We love all our blog friends and what to wish them a Happy Valentine’s Day!  We are thankful for all our virtual friends and also for our physical friends and family that cuddle, snuggle, and feed us everyday.  The DogDaz Zoo hopes that your day is sweet and your evening is joyful.  

This is part of the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop from PepiSmartDog.com

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Posted by on February 14, 2013 in Dogs

 

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2.13.13 Wordless Wednesday: Say What?

2012-12-25_08-07-30_317So what do you think Louise and Sofie are doing?

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This is a Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop. Thanks to BlogPaws for the hop. Head over there and see what they are blogging about.

Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤

 
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Posted by on February 13, 2013 in Dogs

 

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