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4.11.12 I’ve been LOL’ed

11 Apr

I have been honored with a ‘Just Kidding’ Award.  How fun is that!!!

Thank you to Colline’s Blog. She has given us this award in appreciation for making her smile.  Colline describes her blog as a potpourri of thoughts and experiences and it definitely is.  She is creative and follows the “WordPress Weekly Challenges” and mixes them with her religious thoughts and  muses on many different subjects.  Check her out because I think she will make you smile too.

The Award is to thank those who bring a smile and chuckle in our lives; or appreciate our humour and brighten our day with their posts. To receive this award you need to have a good sense of humour, and appreciate others who like to have a chuckle or laugh with you. There are no rules: it’s just fun, fun, fun! As many blogging friends can be chosen as you want – or none at all.

I present this Award to the following people who often bring a smile to my face (I am going to break my usual, only blogs I have not awarded to before rule, since this is such a different type of honor).  Check these blogs out and smile, laugh, and have fun with them, like I do:

Collies of the Meadow

Bumpy Road to Bubba

Dante’s Diary

Bassa’s Blog

These blogs make me smile, a lot!!!.  Thanks again to Colline for honor us with this award.  Pass it on!

Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤

 
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Posted by on April 11, 2012 in Uncategorized

 

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3.30.12 Dear Reader: Question from Noel

30 Mar

Dear Reader – Now that the blog has grown so large I am having trouble keeping up with all my favorite blog posters and also answering all the comments.  So how do you keep up with all your blog work?  Please tell me how you incorporate it into your day?

With all my current duties, keeping the new kittens in line, making sure that Muffin is not bothered, making sure that Kitty does not hurt herself, sleeping 18 hours a day, dealing with the dumb dogs, and of course eating as often as Mommy will let me, I just can’t seem to keep up.  Please share your secrets.

Your feline friend and blogger –

Noel, the Christmas Cat, of DogDaz.com

Just another DogCATDaz at our house ❤

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Cats, Dogs

 

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3.26.12 Thank You for ‘The Versatile Blogger’

26 Mar

Thank you to Debbie at Kindness Kronicles for presenting me with a VERSATILE BLOGGER AWARD. I am grateful for the acknowledgement that others are reading my little rantings and always surprised and happy when someone shows such appreciation to bestow on me an award.  Debbie of Kindness Kronicles is an ex-New Yorker just like me!  She has found one of the secrets to happiness, which lies in the simple lessons you learned when you were very young.  The golden rules such as be nice, play nice, and wash your hands often.  I enjoy her new explorations into the world of being kind, so please do check her out.

The rules of the award are as follows:

1. Thank and link to the person who awarded you.

2. Share seven random facts about yourself.

3. Pass the award on to as many as 15 more blogging friends.

4. Contact those friends and congratulate them!

Wow – 7 things about us that I have not shared before (this is really hard) – please refer to my Awards page for previous secrets (LOL):

1.  I am a workaholic, so I have to write the dogs into my calendar everyday to make sure they (and me) get our 1 mile work (rain or shine).

2.  I am a native New Yorker, but have not lived in the state in 34 years (once a New Yorker, always a New Yorker)

3.  I miss Squash E Bear everyday.  He is gone 13 months now.

4. I like at the end of the day, when all the animals are in their beds (kennels and kitten room door closed), and no one is sitting on my keyboard or lying so close to the wheels of my chair that I can not move it.

5.  I like waking everyone up in the morning and how happy they are to see me, stretch, run, and have breakfast.

6.  Sometime dogs and people at the dog park scare me.  Some people do not think their dogs are aggressive, when they are, or they ignore bad behavior.  (That of course is when I leave.)  I like it best when there are only a few nice dogs there.

7.  I really enjoy blogging and look forward to seeing comments and likes everyday now.  I admit I have been getting a little blue on those days that the stats say I only had a few visitors.

There are so many wonderful blogs that I find every day and I would like to acknowledge a few new ones (you know my rules, I pay-it-forward to newbies for them to pay-it-forward):

Thank you very much Kindness Kronicles…. you are tooo kind (pun intended) – DogDaz

 
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Posted by on March 26, 2012 in Dogs, Uncategorized

 

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3.4.12 I am honored to be a Candle Lighter

04 Mar

Candle Lighter Award & Our Lovely Blog Award

It was sooooo wonderful to receive both the Candle Lighter Award and Our Lovely Blog Award from Sweat Like Mambo.  She has a healthy, get your body in shape, eat well kind of site, that teaches me a lot about all the things I really need to focus on (that I don’t).  Today was Red Velvet Brownie Bites with Cream Cheese Frosting… I could definitely focus on that!

The Candle Lighter Award is for “blogs and bloggers that light a candle in the darkness with their blog.” Please read about the creation of the award at Believe Anyway What a wonderful idea to light the internet with the candles of all the positive attitude blogs out there.  Glad I could be a part of the glow.

And if that wasn’t kind enough, Sweat Like Mambo also presented us with an Our Lovely Blog Award. I am  humbled and appreciate the acknowledgement.  I will refer people to my awards page to view several sets of the 7 things about us and the many blogs from each award that I have passed it on to.

Based on my self-imposed award passing-on rules (I acknowledge blogs that I have not touched before), today I am passing the Candle Lighter Award onto one blog that lifts me up: Kasmango’s World

Kasmango is a stay-at-home mom, veterinary technician, aspiring photographer, football fanatic, and movie lover.  She provides a beautiful and uplifting pictorial window into her world.  This candle is for you.

Just another dogdaz morning at the zoo. ❤ 

 
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Posted by on March 4, 2012 in Dogs

 

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2.23.12 Do you want some nuts with that?

23 Feb

View of plain Stella from behind Nine

I got a comment yesterday telling me that if I wanted more people to follow my blog I should not use such vanilla titles as ‘Dogs and Their Toys.’  That I should go see what people on yahoo and other sites were saying so that I could spice stuff up.  Well, I replied to the nice helpful person and told them basically – “I like vanilla.” I write this blog for you to read, because I enjoy the connection to other animal lovers around the world, and because I really really really enjoy doing it. (Did I mention I really enjoy doing this?)  I did not do it to attract viewers or try to see how many followers I could get.  Actually, I did not really understand the whole follower thing when I started.  I just liked reading about other people’s animals (especially dogs and cats) and also I like looking at great art of all types (which the internet is such a good vehicle for).  I think I was kind of offended that someone, though probably not meaning to offend, would tell me I needed to spice things up.  I am a ‘no-spice’ person.  Really… ask my family. When I go out to eat, I have to tell them to keep all that spicy stuff far away from my food.  Even pepper. Simple, easy going, straightforward, and plain, works just fine for me.  My Mom always said (may she rest in peace), “If they don’t come, they don’t have to go home,” so I guess I will update that to social media speak and say. “If they don’t like, they don’t have to unlike.”  Thank you, dear Reader, for getting this far and tolerating my very simple rants.  I appreciate everyone that watches the antics of DogDaz and comes back day after day, for the vanilla.  Maybe tomorrow I could add some nuts or sprinkles – but not likely.

Vanilla Mutts (notice Beaver in the background)

Just another dogdaz morning at the very boring vanilla zoo ❤

 
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Posted by on February 23, 2012 in Dogs

 

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The Hug Award: How Special !!!

12 Feb

Thank you Misty Shores Chesapeakes for honoring us with a very special Hug Award, you are tooooo kind.  We were really in need of a hug today so it came at a wonderful time.  This is a really interesting award and I was really glad to receive it. Receiving this award sent me to the site it comes from to see what it was all about (http://ahopefortoday.com/2012/01/14/hope-unites-globally-hug-award-guidelines/) and I learned about A Hope For Today.

So, as the rules of many of the awards go, I will tell you more about me: Though I earn my pay in the corporate world, I try to live my life in service for the world good both locally and globally.  To me that means providing hope of a better today for humans, animals, and the environment. I believe you need to be the change you want to see in the world. So, I drive a hybrid (with the license plate ‘GIVEBAK,’ so honk if you see me), I recycle everything possible, I rescue animals (you all know that part), I work with the River Keepers to try and restore and keep my river and the Bay healthy,  I support wildlife (I am a Certified Wildlife Habitiat), I support certain human causes such as Lupus (which I have), Crohns & Colitis (which plagues my family), and all kinds of Cancers (which has robbed me of many family & friends), and currently I am a Commissioner on the County Commission for Women, to improve the lives of women and children.  Yes, I must say that sometimes I do all this for the hugs, but mostly, I do it for the selfish reason that I believe in the law of cause and effect – what you put out there will come back to you 10 fold: to give is the greatest gift I get, and at the end of the day, the only one I want.  I have hope today and everyday, so thank you Misty for reminding me of the greater value in that.

I will pass this along to 5 blogs I have not acknowledged before, who are teaching me something with every blog:

Cats & Co.

2 Brown Dawgs Blog

The Jogging Dog

Walden Marsh

Lead.Learn.Live

Hugs and Hope from the zoo at DogDaz ❤

 
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Posted by on February 12, 2012 in Uncategorized

 

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2.9.12 00:32 One Lovely Blog Award

09 Feb

Thank you sooooo much to Misty Shores Chesapeakes for recognizing us with this very wonderful ‘One Lovely Blog Award.’  I am really happy that other bloggers are reading and enjoying my stuff.  Misty even said that we posted ‘cool’ stuff.  That made me so happy.  I do try to find interesting internet animal stuff to brighten the day. And maybe because I live on the Chesapeake Bay we have a special connection; me and the Chessie dogs.  Misty Shores has 4 lovely Chessies. Cheyenne, Maia, Riva, and Titan, and their purfect cats: KC & BW.  They are a beautiful bunch.

I think the rules of the award are that I tell you 7 things about us and than I pay 5 forward.

  1. Louise snores
  2. Sofie likes to clean the cat pan (gross!!!) when she can.
  3. I would adopt every homeless animal I meet if I could just figure out how to feed and walk them.
  4. I always wanted to ‘mush.’
  5. I miss the dogs a lot when I am gone for more then 3 days.
  6. There is almost always one animal in my office with me at any time (currently there are 4).
  7. Sometimes I stoop to bribery to get Sofie to come inside.

I wish I could give everyone a badge for being so wonderful, but I have selected some blogs that I really have been enjoying lately and that are ‘lovely.’  (I am only going to select sites that I have not honored before, because that only seems fair.)

  1. Onecoolgriff: Rambo, a Petite Brussels Griffon living in Michigan and his family of five dogs (two more Griffs, Pearlie Blue and Jemmie, Atticus the Rottweiler, and Buddy ‘the incredibly-old-but-still-getting-around whatever kind of dog,’ two cats, three VERY BIG horses, and his two peeps, Mom an Dad. This blog is funny and fun and I want to thank them for making us laugh.
  2. Bumpy Road to Bubba: This is a very lovely blog about a single Mummy and her darling 1 year old, Poppy Grace (aka Bubba).  Along with the furry family Bella & Bear.  This is her ‘journey to motherhood – single by chance, mother by choice.’  Thanks for letting us watch you all grow together.
  3. Chancy the Gardener:  With a face to-die-for and an incredible set of ears, watch Chancy, and the cats: Patches, Pooh, and Snookums, get into a lot of trouble fun.  Thanks for the fun.
  4. RumpyDog: Jenny Threet blogs about her rescues Rumpy and DeDe and their cats. I thought my zoo was funny and photogenic, but these guys are a hoot.  Thanks for the stories.
  5. TheNoiseInsideMyHead: Jake and Sabrina share their life with this wonderful young woman, Becca,who has been winning the cancer battle for many years.  I find her insightful, playful, and down right an inspiration.  Thanks for blogging and letting us share your journey.

So once again, we want to thank Misty Shores Chesapeakes for this honor – much love – Lulu Belle, Sofie Bear, The Muffin Man, Noel, Constance Kitty, the kittens, Nine & Stella, and of course, me (the human).

 
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Posted by on February 9, 2012 in Dogs, Uncategorized

 

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