A view you don’t usually get: Nine looking at Stella.
I can not imagine a life without cats. Happy Caturday.
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5.10.13 Follow Up Friday: A Week In Balance
Today is Follow-up Friday hosted by Jodi from Heart Like A Dog. This is where we review the week behind so that we can launch into the week ahead (or something like that).
Angel 9
The snoozing Nine got a lot of attention on Caturday. Yes, even little devil angel cats need their beauty rest.
People saw the Yin-Yang of Louise and Sofie, in their Sunday Black & White photo. Yin and Yang symbolizes dualism, the state of life: balance. My dogs are opposites in more than their colors; Louise is shy, Sofie is outgoing; Lulu is quiet, Sofie is loud; you get the idea. I could not have 2 totally different personalities in dogs. For me they are a perfect balance.
This is like what Lao Tzu says of Yin and Yang in Tao Te King:
“Tao engenders One;
One engenders Two;
Two engenders Three;
Three engenders all things.
All things carry the yin (femininity)
while embrace the yang (masculinity).
Neutralising energy brings them into harmony.”
On Wednesday I found out that I had to take down the Sunday Cartoon from last week because Peanut’s cartoons are copyrighted and you can not reproduce them on the internet. So, I replaced Snoopy and Charlie Brown with a dog house, because DogDaz is in the dog house for being a bad blogger.
I absolutely loved the ideas you all came up with about why Sofie took her Airdog toy down to the old Cherry tree on Monday Mischief. Nellie thought she just forgot to take it out of her mouth. Binky and Jodi felt she took it so that no one else would play with her toy. Cupcake was projecting that it was for security reasons. Easy thought that Sofie would play fetch with the tree (that was pretty out there, Easy). Roxy felt it had something to do with a squirrel, and Doggie was sure she was protecting everything, the tree, the squirrel, the toy. And many many more saw it as an spring offering of some sort. Whatever it was, Airdog comes and goes, in and out, on a regular basis. Thanks for all your thoughts. Sofie definitely keeps me amused.
We were excited to join the new hop by Dogs N Pawz called Tuesday’s Tails. where every Tuesday we are going to focus on animals that need homes. I love it and will try to participate every week. Won’t you hop with us to get homes for all the homeless?
Wordless Wednesday was pretty wordy, but I am glad that you could see the fun that the dogs were having with their best friend Mo. I think friends are important for animals, as well as humans. I grew up with a singular dog (Louise Pierre Andre the 14th of Edgewood Lipton – we all wanted different names I guess). I don’t remember Louie every interacting with any other animals. I am not saying he was unhappy, because he had his humans and he loved us, but, I think that maybe animals should have other friends besides humans, when possible. What do you think?
And finally this week, Louise and I have been working through some fear stuff. Well, I have been working, she has been fearing. Maybe it is because I am not in a great space right now and she is picking up on my energy. I try to always listen to the lessons from my zoo and Thankful Thursday focused on what I have learnt from my little scaredy dog.
That’s it for the week. Thanks for playing along with us. Check out the hop below and you can go play with others.
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5.7.13 Tuesday’s Tails Blog Hop
Dogs and Pawz started a new Blog Hop last week called Tuesday’s Tails! DogDaz is joining today and if you are interested, new posts go up on Tuesday but you can link up and post whenever you want all week long. The whole purpose is to feature cats, dogs, rabbits, birds, etc. so whenever you link up is up to you! Even pets from PetFinder, are fine. Let’s just get them all homes! Dogs and Pawz said “I also want to encourage all of you to share each other’s Tuesday’s Tails posts on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and whatever other social media channels you use. The more we share the more likely we are to get the word out!”
So let’s hop to it!
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Tuesday’s Tails pets of the week that are selected by the staff at the Anne Arundel County Animal Control. The selected pets will be available for adoption Wednesday morning. For more information about the Pet of the Week program please call (410) 222-8900.
Please remember that all of our pets need loving homes. If you are looking for a new pet to take home, please come visit the Anne Arundel County Animal Control today!
Teddy
ADS: 221299
NAME: TEDDY
SPECIES: CAT
BREED: DOMESTIC SHORT HAIR
MIXED: NO
INITIAL STATUS: GIVEN UP – RTS
AGE (Estimated): 6 YEARS
SEX: MALE
ALTERED: YES
COLOR: BROWN / BLACK TABBY
ADOPTION STATUS:
Smokey
ADS: 221816
NAME: SMOKEY 3
SPECIES: CAT
BREED: DOMESTIC MEDIUM HAIR
MIXED: NO
INITIAL STATUS: STRAY-CITIZEN
AGE (Estimated): 12 YEARS
SEX: FEMALE
ALTERED: YES
COLOR: BLACK
ADOPTION STATUS:
Caitlyn
ADS: 221288
NAME: CAITLYN
SPECIES: CAT
BREED: DOMESTIC MEDIUM HAIR
MIXED: NO
INITIAL STATUS: STRAY-CITIZEN
AGE (Estimated): 2 YEARS
SEX: FEMALE
ALTERED: NO
COLOR: BLACK / BROWN TIGER
ADOPTION STATUS:
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5.4.13 Caturday: Sleeping It Off
Is there anything more peaceful than a sleeping kitty?
Yes – A sleeping Nine, who is the terror Sweetheart of the DogDaz household.
I can not imagine a life without cats. Happy Caturday.
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5.3.13 Follow Up Friday: Co-Hosting Fun
We are so excited to be co-hosting today’s Follow-up Friday with Jodi from Heart Like A Dog. Thank you. We are honored to be helping co-lead the fun today.
Last Mischief Monday, when Sofie was eating cat toys, we found out that a lot of dogs like cat nip. I was wondering if there is anything similar for dogs, like DOGNIP, or will they eat cat toys anyway just because they belong to the cats? Sofie actually sucks on the cat toys (not chew). Maybe it is catnip tea?
Spring has sprung here in Annapolis, so on Tuesday we showed off the fresh blooms through the reflection of our front door (with animal noses). But Sofie is not enjoying the pollen. Everyone was pretty amazed on Wednesday with the PINK SNOW. It is actually cherry blossoms, which are a big favorite here in the Washington, DC area.
Chidorigafuchi_sakura
Internet photo
“Each year, the National Cherry Blossom Festival commemorates the 1912 gift of 3,000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to the city of Washington, DC. The gift and annual celebration honor the lasting friendship between the United States and Japan and the continued close relationship between the two countries.”
Thursday brought us our weekly thank you, especially for all the wonderful awards we have received. Our blog friends are the best and we love you. Even the cats are kissing dogs these days…
That’s it for the week. Thanks for playing along with us. Check out the hop below and you can go play with others.
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4.29.13 Monday Mischief: 3 Choices
This is the scene first thing in the morning between my bathroom door and my bed room: Louise’s marrow bone, Sofie’s airdog, and Nine’s cat toy
This is the scene after my shower: Nine and Sofie, outside the bathroom door with a new configuration of the toys.
Can you guess which toy Sofie chooses most of the time to suck on ?
Don’t try to to figure this dog out? She prefers her toys with that catnip taste.
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4.27.13 Caturday: Missing Kitty
I was missing Miss Constance Kitty today.
Some past posts about Kitty: CatDaz Presents Connie Day & The Cat Dance
I can not imagine a life without cats. Happy Caturday.
Just another CATDogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
4.26.13 Follow Up Friday: We Are Family!!!!!
Today is Follow Up Friday, where does the week go?
We are so excited to announce that we received not one, but two, I AM PART OF THE WORDPRESS FAMILY AWARDs this week! WOOOOF! We are so grateful. Thank You Thank You Thank You!
We received the first Family award from Vicki Flaherty at This Abundantly Delicious Life. Vicki is actually a colleague of mine and I am so impressed with her view on life, No matter what is in her way, she has found a way to look on the ‘bright side’ of the day. Vicki is new to the blogosphere and has jumped in with both feet. I am glad to be part of her cyberfamily and definitely recommend you hop on over and get a taste of her delicious life.
Then yesterday we received a wonderful second Family award from Misaki, The Misadventures of Misaki. We blogdogs go way back and we are so glad she includes us as family (thanks for not coping out, Misaki). She lives in the UK, which seems weird for an Alaskan Malamute, but I guess her ancestors got around. Follow her daily misadventures.
This is an award to celebrate those other WordPress bloggers who inspire, help and encourage us – just like a family does:
Rules:
1. Display the award logo on your blog – done.
2. Link back to the person who nominated you – thank you Vicki and Musaki.
3. Nominate 10 others you see as having an impact on your WordPress experience and family
4. Let your 10 Family members know you have awarded them
5. That is it. Just please pick 10 people who have taken you as a friend, and spread the love
My blog family is very large and I know that rule said to nominate only 10 blogs that inspire me, but I could not get it down lower than 14 sorry (and that does not including the 2 that nominated me who are family too):
(1) Speedy The Cheeky Rex Rabbit
(2) Bassa’s Blog
(3) Dakota’s Den
(4) bumpyroadtobubba
(5) Cupcake Speaks
(6) Heart Like A Dog
(7) The Cat From Hell
(8) Long Life Cats & Dogs
(9) My Three Moogies
(10) Golden Woofs
(11) Pepsi Smart Dog
(12) jmgoyder
(13) Gizmo
(14) EasyRider
I love reading your blogs, and though I may not have a lot of time to comment, I am there in your visitor stats, behind the scenes, every week.
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To recap the week:
Last Caturday, we went sailing with Nine in the SS Stella. Everyone loved the boat I built. I found the kit at PetSmart. It took about 40 minutes to put together and a month until the cats trusted it enough to play in it. I think that toys like that really add to an indoor cats enjoyment of life.
Sunday’s Black and White picture of The Muffin Man and Sofie in the kitchen window brought back sweet memories of a great cat.. We don’t seem to have any lap cats now and that is makes us miss the ones that have passed on. Muffy, Zack, and Cuddles all were lap sitters, the current crew are not.
By the time Monday Mischief came around the cold front had past and the windows were open again. Stella and Nine are still waiting for the skinks, which should be out shortly, but he was chasing dandelion fluff on the windowsill this morning, which I think he thought was one.
Monday’s Contest – No winner, sorry. But several of you were close. The little critters were….. drum roll please ….. baby muskrats! So cute!
Tuesday had the dogs basking in the sunshine and enjoying the slow coming spring. But by Wordless Wednesday they got busy and started doing the job a dog should do: guarding their toys from intruders. Readers were very creative in what they thought they were doing, but most people agreed that Sofie and Louise traded guard duties at noon. Barking Out Loud. 
We found this incredible story on Thursday about Wild Dogs in Moscow that ride the train to find food. We are grateful to the people of Moscow that let those strays have a calm and full life. (I do wish they had homes though.)
That’s it for the week. Thanks for playing along with us.
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