Sunday morning deep napping. They looked so flat. BOL.
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This is part of the Black and White Sunday Blog Hop. Thanks to My Life in Dog Years for hosting. Click here to get to know other wonderful animals and their parents and to see how you can take part in this fabulous blog hop!
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤ 
Mommy is gone for a few days up to New York, picking up Peanut from college for the summer. We are thankful that our little human will be coming home for a while because we miss her. We are keeping Peanut’s bed warm until Saturday. Hurry home Mommy and bring sister human with you.
This is part of the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop from PepiSmartDog.com
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
I am thankful for this incredible fur creature that I call Louise. If any one would have told me that I would have fallen for a fearful black hound/ labby abused puppy, I would not have predicted it. I was always a lighter color, longer fur type of dog person. But ever since this little 4 or 5 month old sweetness came into my world 3 years ago, she has taught me so much. Louise has taught me:
I believe that people and animals and situations all come into my life for the lessons that they teach me (and I them). Thank you Lulu Belle for my lessons in being more aware of the world around me and you, for listening to my instincts more, and for being patient.
This is part of the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop from PepiSmartDog.com
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Bookends
Happy 5th of May!
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This is part of the Black and White Sunday Blog Hop. Thanks to My Life in Dog Years for hosting. Click here to get to know other wonderful animals and their parents and to see how you can take part in this fabulous blog hop!
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
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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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
“It is so nice to just lie here in the sun, Mom”
“What do you think, Sofie, should we get up and chase something?”
“Why would we want to expend that much energy, Louise?”
“Sure is nice sitting here in the sun, Mom”
Just another dogdaz morning at our house ❤
K8 used to actually take ‘real’pictures. You know the kind you develop from film. Here is a great shot of The Muffin Man (RIP) and Sofie Bear in the kitchen window last spring. It was Muffy’s last spring with us.
This is part of the Black and White Sunday Blog Hop. Thanks to My Life in Dog Years for hosting. Click here to get to know other wonderful animals and their parents and to see how you can take part in this fabulous blog hop!
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
A High School friend of mine (via Facebook) contacted me yesterday with an interesting question. She has 8 cats (bless her little rescuing heart) and is considering getting a small dog. She has never had a dog and was worried about several things, but especially about the dog eating cat litter. With 9 pans in her house, I could understand the concern. What I learned in answering her question was that kitty litter could actually be toxic to small dogs (I did not know that). Check out this information on eHOW. I always have had a concern about dog’s eating cat poop, but I did not think about them eating the actual litter. It makes sense that clumping litter could really block a small dogs system, and it contains chemicals that could cause all kinds of gastro distress.
In our house, we have 2 uncovered pans in the the laundry room accessible only through a cat door or by a human, and a third side entry pan by my office, which the dogs can not get into. We try for one pan per cat.
Cats and dogs can make the best of house mates. Notice in the photo above, Mr.Nine last night taking over Louise’s bed. You can see 60 pound Lulu in the corner trying to lie on Sofie’s little dog bed because she did not want to tangle with the 10 pound ManCat sleeping in the middle of her’s. Around here cats tend to have the upper paw. BOL BOL (Bark Out Loud)
Post script: My thoughts and prayers are in Boston today. When will senseless killing end.
Just another dogdaz morning at our house ❤
Puppy Starts Homemade Pesto Business
Pesto is great. You can put it on pasta, you can put it on sandwiches, you can just dip Italian bread in it.
A love of pesto is what’d driving Humphrey the mastiff puppy to put all his savings into a new business veture: Presto Pesto.
“Humphrey has planted a large basil garden in the backyard,” said the dog’s business partner Tony Maggliotti. “He plans to use his own, homegrown basil and to locally source parmesan cheese. But the secret ingredient? He’ll be using pistachios instead of pine nuts. It’s delicious.”
Humphrey will ship his first batch of Presto Pesto in June.
Via mastiffmoz.
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