I 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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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤ 
What a week it has been. The animals, and humans, gave me the best birthday ever. We ate a lot. Played a lot. And cuddled much. That was perfect. Thank you all for the sweet birthday wishes. That was so nice.
I am glad to say that I am back to walking my mile with the dogs, even though it hurts. I am trying to accept that maybe, from now on, my knees are just going to be a constant reminder that I am alive. As long as the pain can stay on the nagging side and not the screaming side, I guess I will have to learn to deal. At least no surgery! Louise and Sofie are so happy to be back on the road with me. And we even are walking with Mojo rising occasionally (Louise’s boyfriend from next door).
Peanut left last Sunday to go back to school, so of course, Nine ended up locked in her room one night this week mysteriously. I swear that cats can teleport through closed doors, but it seems they can only go one way; they do not seem to be able to teleport out. He was around for dinner and snack, but V found him in the morning frantic. We did not hear a peep all night though. I do wonder what he destroyed in there (sorry Peanut, I will go check).
Many blog friends were worried that Noel would hurt Sofie with her menacing glare. Let me assure you everything is all right. We have never had a cat to dog fight in this house. Only cat to cat. Noel could do some damage if she were to get angry, so I never want to cross her.
Weather has been crazy but we are going down to the water more and more. The Osprey have returned and their nest is up and ready for the family. Amazing. I just read an article that the Bald Eagle population of Maryland has grown tremendously in the area. I haven’t seen any by me yet sadly, and I am wondering if maybe the Osprey keep them away. They sure don’t keep the Turkey Vultures away (wish they did).
Baby Stella has fallen in love with K8 and won’t leave her alone. She is in her room all the time now. I think she needs to be separate from her brother Nine, to have any chance at a voice. She did a great job of playing tag on Thursday with Little Binky of AngelWhisper.
That’s it for the week. Thanks for playing along with us.
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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
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!
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 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
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
We are Thankful today for Peace, Love, & Whiskers, an amazing blog about amazing animals.
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.
PL&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,
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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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
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.
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:
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
Noel Winter 08
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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Following up on Monday Mischief, the dogs and I have started to walk a little again. Recovery is about 50% there, if I don’t screw it up. I tend to try and do to much to soon, because I am impatient. I see the surgeon next week, so we will see what he thinks. I am walking the girls further and further every day. We are all really happy to be getting back to ‘normal,’ especially with spring coming. I haven’t tried to walk down to the water since last month when I had trouble getting back up the hill and started to cry. Maybe soon though.
Louise on her chair
In response to the Wordless Wednesday post on Louise hanging off her office chair, everyone said that I need to go out and get her a dog bed, bean bag, coach, or (my favorite from Cupcake) a Barkolounger. WunderButt offer us his chair, which was very nice. This weekend I definitely need to see what the options are. I think she will still hop up in her chair most of the time because she likes to be up at my level but thank your all for the suggestions.
People were in love with the little Munchkin kitty that I posted a GIF of on Wednesday. They are like a corgi kitty: little legs with a big heart. Peanut turned me on to this newly created breed of cat that was noticed around 1983. The history can be found on Wikipedia – Munchkin Cat.
I can’t believe today is the first of March. That means 20 days until Northern Spring! Yahoo!!!! Birds have been flocking to the feeders and the bird bath.
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Louise in her office chair
I think someone is getting toooooo big for her office chair. She has been sitting with me in the office since she was a puppy. It never looks comfortable, but this is her new position. Click here for the story of Louise and her choice of seating. BOL (Bark Out Loud)!!! Happy Wednesday.
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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Two follow ups for this week. First is on the post I did about Blog Fishing. We got wonderful comments from so many people on what they do to try and handle all the blogs they want to read. Jodi, from HeartLikeADog, suggests Google Reader, so I am going to give that a try. Lots of people say they read only what comes in their email. These are all great ideas to Blog Fish. Thanks for the comments.
And secondly this week we received a lovely “Why I Love Thee” award from our little friend Kirby, at Kirby’s Dawg Blog. Kirby is just the cutest little thing. He is about 10 months old, and he and his human, Lea, really enjoy all things blog. It looks like they have a lot of fun. Thanks for the award, we are honored to be chosen.
The rules of this award are quite straightforward.
First you thank the friend who passed the award to you – thank you very much, Kirby! And link to their blog – see above.
Then, if you’re an animal, you tell everyone why you love your bipeds (your people). If you’re a biped you tell why you love your animal(s), or why you love animals in general, or anything you like about love. (Clowie, of Clowie’s Corner, who gave Kirby the award, who then gave it to us, added the last two because, she said that not all bipeds are lucky enough to have animals living with them.)
Then you pass the award on to at least one other blogger.
Why I love my bipeds – by Louise (aka Lulu Belle)
I love my bipeds because they make me feel safe. Mom taught me that not every biped is cruel and will hurt me. The family, especially the little big bipeds, give me a tons of cuddles and let me sleep on their beds. The best thing about my family is that they are mine. I know that they will always be with me and that they will always protect me, and I them. Also, they brought me my little sister, Sofie Bear, that I love very much. (But Mom, I could do without the felines!)
Now I pass it on to 4 blogs that I love:
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Happy Happy Happy
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.
Sofie 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.
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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Weeks seem to fly faster and faster. I can not believe that it is Friday already. Mom is making good progress with her exercises and her knee rehab. She rode a stationary bike for 10 minutes Wednesday (though she was not happy about it). And the Physical Therapist said that maybe she can walk on the Treadmill today for a while. She is not allowed to take us on the road yet for a walk because they are scared that she might fall, but she is getting close. We said that we would not wrap our leases around her or chase squirrels, but the Doctor said ‘no.’ We can’t wait. We miss our walkies. Here I am helping Mom with her exercises this week.
Lift, Mommy, Lift!
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