Doggy Diaries

Interesting link...

2011-08-17T12:19:00.002-04:00

Here's an interesting link. Frozen treats for your pup :-) and they're healthy ones too!! You can buy the kit to make them and then the refills if you like. I know my crew LOVE ice cubes so I just may try these. https://fidodogtreats.com/freezy-pups

"Pupsicles"

2011-07-06T12:29:00.000-04:00

Indulge your dog this summer with fresh, frozen "Pupsicles," which are as healthy as they are yummy. Dog-tested and from Woof Report reader Adrian and her treat taster, Benny, they're easy to make and all natural.

Ingredients: two mashed bananas, one cup strawberries (fresh or frozen), one cup organic apple juice, and two cups yogurt (plain or vanilla). Instructions: Puree all ingredients in a blender, pour into ice cube trays or small plastic cups, freeze for one hour or more as needed, and thaw just so slightly before serving. Bone Appetit!

We have a lot of catching up to do...

2011-01-28T10:06:00.003-05:00

Life hasn't been cooperating for our family this past year and mom intends to give everyone a big update soon however..... for now she asked me to publish this note. Please do not leave links to websites that sell stuff. Whether it's for doggies or not! Mom doesn't advertise stuff on our blog that she doesn't use herself. The only place she recommends for doggie products is BoBo's at College Park (Carlton & Yonge Sts) in Toronto. Or for exotic birds, The Menagerie on Parliament St. in Toronto. In future, any comments that have links to websites for pet supplies or that sell anything, we will delete the link prior to posting the message. Thank you....

4 of us....

2010-08-29T22:27:00.010-04:00

There used to be six of my babies. Then Auntie Charlotte took Precious home. We see her every day though :-) Then Auntie Sheri took Tiny home. They haven't had a chance to visit again yet. Mom said a nice lady is coming to take home another one of the babies this evening so she took these pictures of the 4 of my babies left. Kawaii (So Cute), Bubba (mom named my one little boy Bubba and the poor little thing answers to it), # 5 and # 6. We are a happy little bunch.

Someone is lickin their chops here!!! Check out the lip action on the back puppy. And Bubba is leaning against the fridge like a drunk.

And of course, Bubba always has to show off and jump up! :-) They are a happy little bunch though.

Mom was right, a nice lady came by with her 2 daughters and her niece and they sat down and played with all the babies. Her youngest daughter fell in love with my little # 5 so that was the baby they took home. Mom cried when they left and swore she will never let me have babies again, it's too hard on her when they go to a new home. She knows that # 5 will have a happy home though. It seems a bit empty here without #5 but we are glad she found a good family who will love her lots. Here is the last picture we have of # 5, she's with her happy new family getting ready to leave to go to her new home in a place called Barrie. Hi # 5!!! We love you and will miss you. Her new family said they will keep in touch and will let us know what name they give her. Mom never named her or # 6 because it might confuse them when they go to new homes later and get a different name. Anyway, here is the picture of our sweet number 5. Maybe # 5's new family will send us pictures now and then so we can see how she is growing up. Mom gave them the blog address so they can check out this picture.

The material no longer works but the new wall does!

2010-08-29T22:10:00.006-04:00

Every time mom raised the level of the material gate we learned yet another way around it.
If my babies weren't jumping over it, they were finding ways around it.

So, since the babies kept escaping mom ended up going to the last resort and this is it!! It's a wall!! Well kinda, sorta it is. It's a big piece of plywood with a door cut in it for mom to come in and out of. Doesn't matter much though because every time she opens the door to go in, the babies come running out! lol Still works for the most part anyway and mom doesn't have to climb over it anymore which is a really good thing.

GOOD MORNING!! lol

2010-08-21T10:20:00.003-04:00

Hi Everyone, Good morning!! This is how my babies greet us all in the morning. The video is dark, sorry. Time mom uploads the newer camera to the laptop and try learning how to use it instead.
and here's more......... lol

bit of an update

2010-08-11T16:09:00.012-04:00

Busy, busy, busy chasing these little babies of mine and of checking on Nanna. Nanna came home 3 weeks ago tomorrow and we love having her home but she is requiring a lot more care than we thought. Mom has had to get some agencies in to help with her so she has a bit of time to do other things that need to be done. Like... playing with me, rubbing my tummy, playing with my babies, feeding them, cleaning up after them lol. You should see it when they (mom and Auntie Charlotte) try to take us all outside at once! Holy moly! It's hilarious.

Auntie Sheri took her baby home with her so we had to say goodbye to Tiny (named after my Nanna - her nickname all her life has been Tiny) but she will be visiting us every time Auntie Sheri comes to Toronto to visit Nanna. When Nanna picked out her baby to keep she was named So Cute. Nanna and Mom have kind of changed that though. Officially their baby's name is now "Kawaii" (rhymes with Hawaii). Kawaii is Japanese for "So Cute" :-) Our friend David who owns Bo-Bo's Pet Boutique at College Park told mom what the Japanese word for "so cute" was. Mom told Nanna and they both really liked it. So she will get called Kawaii when she's in trouble and So Cute when she's not :-)

My babies are getting really big and strong now. They are 10 weeks old and mom had to make a new gate yet again. This one is 20" high now because my little devil dogs can get over the old one. She is finding it very hard to train them when she has 4 puppies here all the time. Auntie Charlotte took her baby home a couple of weeks ago so Precious Lee now lives down the hall from us but she comes every day for play time or I go up there to play with her. Here are a couple of pictures of the 3 babies that mom is trying to sell now. I'll have to get a photo of me and Kawaii as soon as I can and post that too :-)

These are my two other little girls and my only sweet boy. My little boy is the one standing up looking at the camera. He looks a lot like his dad and mom is thinking of keeping him too but it's still up for debate. He sticks his little pink tongue out and smiles :-)

updating soon

2010-08-08T11:36:00.001-04:00

We will be updating soon. Nanna got home from the hospital 2 weeks ago and we have been very, very busy with her. Mom promises to get some pics ready and to give me some computer time soon. :-)

off to the vet!!!

2010-07-16T20:15:00.006-04:00

On Wednesday July 14th we took my babies to the vet for their 2nd full exam and their first shots! We had to transport them in my old crate and guess what? They loved it!!! Here are a couple of pictures of them resting and waiting for us to go.

Off we went in a taxi and they enjoyed the ride as much as I do. Good to know they don't get car sick. When we got there mom put me on the scale and I'm down to a svelt 6.6 k's. I've lost all my baby weight and I've only got a bit of milk now too. I don't feed the babies myself much any more. They love the puppy food they are getting. I love it too!! :-)

Since my babies look so much alike Daddy Chris (Grandpa to them) decided to get a felt marker and number my babies in the flap of their ear. We thought this was funny but a good idea. Turns out though that permanent marker isn't so permanent on puppies. Two days later it was gone! lol Mom and Auntie Charlotte had to figure out who was who and renumber us.

All my babies got a great clean bill of health. They had their paws checked, their eyes, their ears, their little hearts and were checked for hernia's too and all were perfect. Mom discussed putting them on kibble now since whenever one escapes it heads right for my bowl and steals a piece of my kibble. He said it was ok. This will mean less wet poop and less poop all together. Yippie!!!

We had a separate folder made for each baby and as they were examined and got their shot, mom weighed them and it was all documented. Their weights are:

#1 = 1.47 kg or 3.2 lbs chunky monkey! This one is Auntie Charlotte's baby and she's named her Precious Lee

# 2 = 1.19 kg or 2.61 lbs

# 3 = 1.04 kg or 2.28 lbs and this one is "SoCute", the one Nanna picked out to keep

# 4 = 1.38 kg or 3.03 lbs and this is our only little boy, another chunky monkey

# 5 = 1.10 kg or 2.4 lbs our other little baby that will be going to Auntie Sheri probably

# 6 = 1.19 kg or 2.61 lbs

When we got home from the Dr. mom decided to give paper a try for training. hahahaha Mom is a silly girl for sure! My babies played and growled, and snarled and ripped up that paper until 3 a.m. Mom got little sleep. I on the other hand was snuggled up in the bathroom snoozing away. Come morning though things took a turn for the better and now this evening (Friday) everyone has seen them get up, leave where they are laying, go to the paper, squat, do their thing, then go back to where they were!! Let's hope this continues :-)

Ready and waiting....

2010-07-14T11:25:00.004-04:00

This picture was taken yesterday. 5 of my 6 babies are ready and waiting for their breakfast! #6 is behind the box lol It's gimmie, gimmie, gimmie when it comes to food. They haven't learned any manners yet. At least they've already learned that this is where they wait to get fed.

Mom is seriously considering putting newspaper down at this point. She's really getting tired of mopping the floor 20 times a day and newspapers would make it a bit easier. Then again, when she tried the pee pads they played with them. :-)

Sunday July 11th, 2010 - bathtime!!

2010-07-11T23:03:00.007-04:00

Really, these pictures were taken yesterday :-) Mom found some kong balls for my babies and they loved them. They all started playing with them. She only found 2 and will look for more. All my babies showed an interest in them and are still knocking them around.

It was also bath day on Saturday for my 6 little heathens. They really did rather well. Only one squealer and the rest took it great. One shook quite a bit too until it dried a bit. Mom and auntie Charlotte washed them all one at a time with a little bit of baby shampoo then towel dried them well. Then mom used her blow drier on low for a bit to get them mostly dry. They were then put in my old crate so we can keep them all clean until they were all done. As each puppy was being washed I stood below watching them to make sure they did a good job :-) Then I went to the crate with them and waited as they placed each baby in there. I had to make sure they were ok. Auntie Charlotte got a really good idea and put my blanket in there so my babies could smell me.

This is one of my poor wet babies.

Today is Sunday and my babies had a new toy. Uncle Gary came to help mom take all the glass stuff off the wall unit. Last weekend they ripped up all the wall to wall carpet and next weekend Mom is having a new floor installed. Something called Laminate. She says it will stand up to the puppies and me better and when Nanna gets home, it will be easier for her with her walker too. Anyway, Uncle Gary took his sandles off in the kitchen and my babies chewed on them most the day. One actually crawled in on and fell asleep. Mom was going to take a picture because it looked so cute but it woke up before she could get the camera. We love Uncle Gary :-)

More pics.. and how tired is our people mom???

2010-07-09T10:28:00.012-04:00

1-2-3-4-5-6!! We hear that a lot around here. Mom is wondering what the neighbours are thinking every time they go by our door and hear her say.. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 . They must think she's a bit slow and can only count to 6. :-)

Hey!! Mom and my Uncle Brenton and Auntie Katie brought my Nanna home for a wee visit and to pick her puppy on Tuesday!! She picked the holy terror of the bunch. hahaha My little leader of the pack. Tiny but spunky. Here is Nanna and "Socute". (so cute)

My baby is a dirty little girl about to have her first bath. This should be interesting. Mom is disgusted with my babies at times, they pee then run through it. lol This is Nanna holding SoCute. Nanna has ouchie hands but is able to still hold her. :-)

This is us learning how to use pee pads!!

And last but not least....... how tired is our people Mom??? Well she went to see Daddy Chris our Vet and told him we had yukky worms! She said she saw something in our poop and it looked like rice. He asked her if it moved and she said no but since my babies are 5 weeks old now they can be dewormed. He made us up our medicine and some for me too just in case. We got our medicine and the next day Mom is making up the 6 little bowls for breakfast when she looks in the can and guess what? It has rice in the puppy food!! She's been feeding it to the babies for a week and a half and just noticed it had rice in it. Worms... lol blah... get some sleep mom.

What goes in....

2010-07-02T16:00:00.003-04:00

Must come out! Oh my, since we started feeding my babies solid food (canned Medi-Cal Preventative) my babies are not only peeing machines but they're pooping machines too! They are very smart though, they don't do their business in the box, the get out, do their business and then get back in the box! Mom is going to start to put down pee pads and see if they will start to try using them. I betcha they play with it instead! Mom is going to take more pictures and give a list of everything other people mom's will need if they plan on having puppies in their homes. She says it's been a real learning experience. :-)

one last playtime one..

2010-06-30T12:52:00.002-04:00

another vid

2010-06-30T12:47:00.003-04:00

video's

2010-06-30T12:35:00.003-04:00

Here are my children, the little wicked ones :-) Sorry it's so dark but this was taken at night when they like to play the most...

I'm such the Diva :-)

2010-06-30T12:04:00.004-04:00

ooooh, busy, busy, busy. My social calendar is filling :-) Last night Mary Ann (my boyfriend's mom) and her daughter Monica came to visit. We had lots of fun. I got cuddles and they paid lots of attention to me and they also played with my babies. Monica and my little boy fell asleep on mom's sofa. Mary Ann says she sends my blog out to all her co-workers at Campbell's so I will wave HI to everyone there! You should let me know you're here by commenting. I would love to hear from others.

While waiting for Mary Ann and her daughter to come for a visit our neighbours Shimon and Aref came over to see me and my babies too! Aref washed his hands (so they didn't transfer the scent of his own dog onto one of my babies) and he held one of my babies. They brought Malka over too. I love Malka as well. I like to chase her everywhere but she's getting older and doesn't like it much when I do. Malka visited my mom and Charlotte while Shimon and Aref visited my babies. They were away on vacation in a place called Turkey! Yummy... Turkey!! I want to go there! I love Turkey!

Then while they were all here, Shimon, Aref, Greg and Charlotte a knock came on the door and it was Laurie! Laurie came to see my babies too. She says they are beautiful. Laurie's doggy had puppies 2 weeks ago and mom was telling her what she's in for.

Earlier in the evening Auntie Charlotte and Greg came to visit too! Greg loves me :-) I love him too. He did me a big favour and he made me a ramp! We had to make the gate higher because my littlest girl, the leader of the pack, discovered how to get the gate down and let her and her siblings escape in the middle of the night. Mom's had enough of that already so we raised the gate but that made it more difficult for me. So Greg went home (down the hall) and made me my
very own ramp! Mom gave him an old towel to cover it with. It works wonderful!! Here is a pic.

As you can see, the gate looks different too because mom went to the fabric store and bought some cheap cotton (it was called 2nd's but worked perfect for this) and made a new long sleeve to cover the tension poles. This is because the leader of the pack discovered her claws worked wonders when climbing up the screening mom had originally used. So mom got smart again and bought cheap cotton that they slide off. hahaha The next problem though, little smarty pants realized that if she got her paws up there on the top tension pole and put all her weight on it and jumped.... voila!!! it fell and everyone escaped again! So.... mom spent the night up again. Now they have put a new stronger, bigger tension pole on the top and it stays in place and my tiny terror can't bring it down or climb over any more. At least for a while. :-)

I have so much news.... My babies are now eating their very own food! I don't like that though. I want to have some too! hmmp! The nerve, feeding them and not me! I get very upset when they do that and I talk and mumble at them. Greg has never heard me talk before and he couldn't believe it when I sat behind him talking away because I wanted the puppy food too! Mom says it was very funny. We tried feeding the puppies from just 2 bowls but that didn't work too well so mom went to the $ store and picked up 6 little individual dishes. They are cat food dishes but who cares. So, here is a picture of all of us (except one that charlotte is holding) eating away. My babies knew right away how to eat solid food from a bowl. We were all amazed.

Now they are all eating, they are also all pooping. Oh joy! Speaking of pooping. My poor bum-bum. The medicine Daddy Chris gave me is working some but not enough and this morning he called my mom to tell her the results of the cultures he took to the lab. They are growing some ugly bacteria. Mom asked how? He said I could have picked it up way back and it was growing inside until it finally took over and gave me the bad runs all the time. So mom had the choice of going to pick up two new medicines for me or to take me every few days for a needle of penicillan so she said she will take the medicines. With Nanna in the hospital it will make it hard to go every few days and mom has a good way of pilling me. She says everyone should go out and buy an inexpensive mortar and pestle to crush pills. That's what she uses, her one for her kitchen stuff but she crushes my pills easily in it then sprinkles the crushed pill in a bit of soft food that I love and gobble up! Tricks me and gets my pills in me easily. I will stay home with my babies while mom runs to Chris again for me. She also called the pet insurance company to find out our deductable and is going to have the vet staff count up the bills and submit them for her to get some of the money back. She uses a good place and gets back 80%. She will have to get a policy for the baby we keep too. It pays for itself in the long run.

Everyone have a Happy Canada Day tomorrow! Mom will post a couple of video's here too for me. I have to go check on my babies now.

Monday...

2010-06-28T10:43:00.003-04:00

Now I know why my mom hates Mondays.... we were both up all night running after me and my runs :-( At 11:00 pm last night we thought my new medicine was working but nope... at least not yet. And at about 3 am last night I was going in to feed my babies and when I jumped over the gate to get into the kitchen I knocked it down!! Babies... babies.. babies.. everywhere escaping! I barked for mom and she came and helped me get them all. She says I really wasn't much help considering I stood right in front of her while she tried to gather them up and get them on the other side of the gate again. lol Odd, she wasn't amused. Maybe it was the time.

I then left her one final huge stain on the carpet around 6:30 am. She is very happy she made the decision to have the carpet ripped up this coming weekend. Somehow between 6:30 am and 9 am I managed to hurt either my front paw or knee cause now I'm favouring it and mom doesn't know what to do. She will watch it and if it's not better by the end of the day, off to the vet again. She already has to go some time today to get my new food and the puppies food. The babies will start to eat now. They are old enough.

Mom is heading out for the day, Auntie Charlotte will babysit because one of my babies figured out how to literally climb the gate now and escape so mom has shopping to do and errands to run and make a new cloth gate instead of the netting. Seems their little claws work wonders in helping them climb that screening material..... mom never thought of that.

see ya later...

Sunday June 27th, 2010

2010-06-27T23:49:00.002-04:00

Well, we went to the vet again today and he did another swab (I wish these people would leave that end of me alone!). Other than the fact it was runny, he said it looked good. This is a long process to find out why I have the runs. It's a process of elimination (pardon the pun). Dr. Chris thinks I may have developed an allergy! Since my regular food causes the runs and I eat only food that can be purchased strictly from the vet, and now the new "gastro" diet has me running too.... he is wondering if it's chicken I've developed an allergy to! Imagine that! He gave mom a sample of a new food, non-allergenic food and gave her a pill to make my poop back to regular. Boy, what a discussion. It's embarrassing. I wouldn't even mention it but it might help someone else in the long run. So we are waiting to see if the new food and new pill help.

In the meantime, we weighed my babies again. They are 30.8 oz, 26.3 oz, 25.6 oz, 23.7 oz, 23.7 oz, & 23.6 oz or close because they are getting to active to keep still very long. Oh, one has at least one tooth too and it likes to sink it in my mom's ankle! hahaha

That's all for today, mom is watching the news absolutely disgusted with those ugly people that were violent here. The whole city is really angry with them. They should leave our city like our Mayor says. It's the first time mom has agreed with him in a long time lol

night, night.

June 25th & 26th, 2010

2010-06-26T14:29:00.007-04:00

Have to play catch up here. :-) Yesterday (Friday the 25th) mom turned into Linda Blair from the Exorcist. She was not happy. She went shopping for me, my babies and my nanna and when she came out of the mall (College Park) this is what she was greeted with!!

A wall of police in full riot gear!!! She never has seen so many police in this City. Not even when the Queen came to visit us. This is all because of the G20 summit in Toronto and mom is fuming about it. All that money wasted and this all makes Toronto (or Canada for that matter) look stupid and unsafe and we have even seen tv reports in the U.S. that say to stay away from our beautiful city!! I swear I saw green stuff flying out of mom's ears about this. I think her eyes rolled back in her head too! Here is also what greeted her..

She couldn't get past. She couldn't even move! Mom says this kind of thing doesn't impress her in the least and she doesn't support it either. Almost every store in the mall was closed due to this but mom didn't know why it was that way until she left the mall and was confronted by this. So, all those people that worked in that mall had to take the day off. Who is going to pay them? There are several small independant stores in there and they all had to close for the day. Mom says if you have an issue (which she does about this summit too, she thinks everyone that voted to have this summit here should lose their jobs lol. She actually thinks these gov't leaders should do these summits by video conference and save us all the grief and expense) then find another way to get your point across without causing other people hardships like losing a day's pay or an entire day's business. Mom had to stand there forever waiting for all these people to finally get past so she could get to the hospital to see nanna. Boy was she mad. Did I just see her head spin????? hmmmm

Well, onto bigger and better things... my babies!! :-) Here are some pics we took today. All of my babies can escape from the box now with ease. I had to wake mom up in the middle of the night again to help me put them all back in. I couldn't get them all together myself.

My babies have found one of my favourite places to be. Right in front of the refrigerator. Sneaky ones! They have taken my place there.

And of course, my little trouble maker. My smallest baby who seems to have figured out how to at least peek over the gate!!! Mom will have to raise the gate now but it will make it more difficult for me to get over it now. This baby is a little devil. :-)

I'm still a sicky little girl myself and we are going back to the Vet tomorrow to see Daddy Chris. I had mom up 3 times last night with wicked poopies. Mom said she never saw a dog poop water before and it wasn't nice. She felt very sorry for me and gave me a bit of pepto bismol at 4:30 am and so far, so good. I hate that stuff but mom took some Pure Bites Chicken and literally dipped it in the pink stuff and I ate it that way. It was the only way to get it into me because when I saw her original idea, in a syringe, I ran away! It was pink! I know what that colour means, stinky yukky stuff. Mom took a "sample" to the vet's office yesterday and they are going to grow cultures to see what, if anything, is going on. We have been back and forth but samples so far are showing nothing. We are all wondering if it's just the stress of the puppies and mom away a lot and nanna away all the time... and it's been pretty hot too but mom always leaves at least the fan on us if not the A/C.

Friday June 25th, 2010 they're loose!!!

2010-06-25T10:07:00.002-04:00

Oh good grief. Mom isn't the smarty pants she thought she was. That package of paper she put on the inside of the kitchen for me to use as a step was not a smooth move. All my babies are on the move now. All of them!! So Wednesday evening my mom was standing in the diningroom watching them with glee as they pranced and wobbled around the kitchen when my littlest one decided to make a bee-line to her. She got to the package of paper and mom thought that would stop her in her tracks but she was wrong!! Baby crawled up on the paper!! Not only that, baby climbed up on the top of the makeshift gate and hauled herself over! Down she went, tumbling down onto the diningroom carpet between the stupid gate and the package of paper on that side.

ahem.... needless to say, mom had to move the package of paper I was using for a little stair in the kitchen. lol duh mom... my babies are acrobats!!

Last night I was frightful and around 3 am went charging into mom's bedroom barking my head off. Think I kind of like waking her like this, scares the you-know-what out of her. hehehe Any way, I'm barking my head off at her and she jumps up thinking something is really wrong. I run out of her bedroom and she follows me into the kitchen and there they are... all 6 of them... now running and prancing and jumping on each other on the kitchen floor! I couldn't control them and needed help. Naughty babies. Mom picked them all up and put them back into their box and I followed them and fed them. Mom thought it was rather funny watching me trying to corral them all and them running underneath me and around me and I was getting dizzy trying to get them all in one place. Not funny mom... serves you right to step into a little pee puddle by one of them. :-)

Tuesday June 22nd, 2010

2010-06-22T23:15:00.010-04:00

I'm not feeling well. I have the poops again and I even threw up. Mom just discovered it. It must have been that yukky pepto bismo she gave me. It's enough to make anyone throw up. If I'm not feeling better in the morning mom will take me to see Daddy Chris my Vet. Here are some pics we took yesterday and today :-)

This is how we sleep. We like to always be touching each other. Cuddles for everyone! In the picture with me you can see one of my babies is even hugging my leg.

This is one of my little one's :-) Adorable eh? What a perfect little baby.

And this is mom's invention to stop the great escape! She is such a smarty pants. She went out to Crappy Tire (Cdn Tire) and bought two tension poles that went to 75" long and then bought some screening. She sewed it up and threaded the poles through it and voila! A gate. Since I was hesitant to jump over it mom grabbled two packages of paper and put one on either side so I had a little step to use. Now I jump in and out of the kitchen to my babies. They are now relegated strictly to the kitchen because they are now able to climb out of the box. At least 2 of them are cause I woke up mom all excited in the night and she came and looked and there were two out of the box at 5 am. Mom took 2 "pool noodles" and cut them up and stuffed them in all the places where my babies might crawl into, under the microwave cart, under the fridge, stove, etc. etc. You can see it all there, the blue stuff. She's a smart cookie my mom is :-) She stuck a bottle of water between the stove and the cupboards too. Says she is going to get something else but for now, that will work. My babies should be ok now if they get out.

ok, I'm not feeling well so I'm going to go lay down now and get some rest. Those babies are on me all the time. They are also starting to interact with each other and pawing each other and play biting each other. It's fun to watch at times.

Sunday June 20th, 2010

2010-06-20T13:52:00.004-04:00

Hi :-) I have a movie for you. This is one of my babies. She is learning how to walk. She seems to do circles very well lol.

And here is a picture of the great escape...

Friday June 18th, 2010

2010-06-18T22:37:00.003-04:00

Ack! They're peeing all over the place!! Yesterday this started. My babies are peeing more and more and more! Dirty children. Mom is appalled. Just disgusted. Wait till she sees what's next hehehehe. And guess what??? My babies are up and walking more or less. Mom is going to try to remember to take a video in the morning of them trotting around the carpet. She is having her carpet ripped up week after next so I wonder how they will take to the hardwood floor underneath? Maybe they'll slide all over the place :-)

Yesterday all of them were weighed again too. They are now: 23 oz (chunky monkey girl), 19 oz (chunky monkey boy), 17.4 oz, 17.2 oz, 16.9 oz and 16.3 oz. Mom is falling in love with the littlest one but she's trying not to. She wants Nanna to pick the baby that stays with us.

Tomorrow she has to try to build up the sides of the box we are in because we are climbing on each other and escaping. Our neighbour that watches us while mom's at the hospital with Nanna says he found one of the babies escaping again by standing on their sister and heading over the edge of the box they're all in. Bad babies......

Speaking of bad. I have my nights mixed up with my days and due most of my pee-pee's and poops in the middle of the night and I make sure Mom knows it too! She's getting grumpy from lack of sleep. I have also been ripping up more garbage. And tonight, mom brought home a corned beef on rye from the deli for dinner....... yummy!! hahahahaha She's not impressed.

Hi Nanna!!

2010-06-15T21:47:00.003-04:00

Our Nanna is still very ill. Mom is going to meet with her Dr. tomorrow to discuss stuff. In the meanwhile we made a couple of pictures for her and mom printed them out and took them to her yesterday. She loved them.

Tonight, Tuesday night, Mary Ann and her daughter came to visit us again. They wanted to steal my babies!! I let them hold them though. I love them, Mary Ann is my boyfriends mom :-) They can't believe how big my babies are getting either. Mom thinks she will weigh them again tonight or tomorrow and see how much they've gained. Hey!! Some of my babies are opening their eyes!!! They have beautiful eyes :-)

Well, off to eat again. Those babies are on me 24/7 so I eat a lot to keep up with them. I am on a special diet for a little while but that's ok, I like it. I made mom get up at 3 am to give me some!

Oh, I've also been a bad girl. I don't like all this alone time when mom is at the hospital with Nanna so I threw the garbage all over the place the other night and ripped open a box of steel wool soap pads and destroyed the box. Then last night I ripped the kitchen garbage bag open and there was thawed fish in it and I ripped the end of that box off too but the fish juice ran all over my head! Mom went to pat me and she thought I smelled like pee! ewwww she was freakin out. After she washed my head and her hand I went to bed. lol That will teach her for leaving me alone too long.

Mom might take me quickly to Nanna tomorrow. She thinks I will perk her up. Nanna is somewhat confused these past few days but I think she'll remember me fine. :-) If we go I'll blog about it.

We had our one week birthday! Thurs. June 10th 2010

2010-06-10T17:01:00.011-04:00

Lots has happened this week, some good, some not so good. Nanna took another bad turn and ended back in the other regular hospital. She is back in the rehab hospital again now but is still having breathing problems because she has fluid on her lungs :-( She will get better though, they gave her something to pee! hehehe

In the meantime we have been little devils. All of us. Mom took nanna to the other hospital and didn't get home until 6 am today. I didn't like being left all alone and not being in the bedroom with mom at night so I left mom a little treat. I left her what Auntie Sheri calls a DQ Swirl (Dairy Queen). A great big poop in Nanna's room on her throw carpet!!! Mom couldn't believe it when she saw it. I'm also on a barking binge. Mom has no idea what started it on Wednesday but she thinks the man that came to fix her scooter might have scared me a bit with all the noise he made and now I'm barking at everything, even in the night. The slightest sound sets me off. Mom says she's going to pull her hair out soon if it doesn't stop. I don't listen to her about this. My babies are starting to get a little louder too! They make a sound almost like a little kitty. grrrrrr No kitty sounds! Maybe that's why I'm barking??? :-)

And my babies! Well they are all just getting to be chunky monkeys. And monkeys they are, all over the place they crawl on their tummies. And they are greedy little things. Always hanging off me. Even when I stand up!! They don't want to let go. They turned one week old on Tuesday. Mom and our neighbour Greg weighed them all today and they weigh in ounces: 16.75 !! Yes, one is over a lb now! 14.20 oz, 12.00 oz, 11.65 oz, 13.00 oz, and 12.35 oz Here are some new pics.

This is my sister, I love her :-)

Everyone in their place :-)

Someone is missing! Mom is always taking a head count. ooops there she is... look closely between my two front paws. One always hides here or by my bum.

We either sleep this way, or like the next picture.

Poor mom almost had a heart attack......

2010-06-06T20:28:00.003-04:00

We almost gave poor old mom a heart attack tonight. She went to see Auntie Sheri to her car and then checked the grocery store hours and back home. Took all of maybe 20 minutes. When she got back in she leaned over and counted heads... 5!!! She counted again... 5!!! Now she's thinking one must be under the blanket so she takes a couple more steps closer so she can see the whole box and WOW..... a baby has escaped!! There was one of my chunky monkies on the carpet between the box and my toys!! Mom has no idea how I got there because she hasn't seen mom pick any of us up yet so the only thing she can think of is I was laying with my back against the side of the box and one of the babies crawled up on me. This isn't all that unusual but this one must have made it all the way up and somehow was fairly even with the box edge and managed to waddle out! Plop to the carpet below! Mom is now paranoid.... and constantly counting heads.

more... I want more!!

2010-06-06T18:02:00.007-04:00

Think if I pull on this any harder I'll get more???

more weekend.......

2010-06-06T17:47:00.004-04:00

Check out the leg and tail action on these two :-)

Sunday June 6th, 2010

2010-06-06T17:00:00.010-04:00

We were busy this weekend. Auntie Sheri came to visit! I really love my Auntie Sheri and I let her pick up my babies and didn't bark at her. On Saturday Auntie Sheri and Mom took Nanna in a wheelchair (with oxygen) to the hairdresser. It was a beautiful day out and Nanna said she felt like a million bucks after getting her hair washed & done. Then they wheeled her home for a little visit to see me and my beautiful babies. I love Nanna and really miss her. I let her pick up my babies and I went to her for snuggles. We had lots of loves until Nanna had to go back to the hospital. I hope she will come home for a visit again soon.

Another day.. yawnnn

2010-06-04T14:08:00.006-04:00

Here are pics mom took yesterday of my sweet babies...

Wow, it's Friday already. Yesterday Mom, with the help of Charlotte, took us all to see Daddy Chris (gramps lol) at his animal hospital. Waiting for the taxi we met a very rude man. He said my a*s was green! Well it is, from all the amniotic fluids but still, it was rude. Mom said not to worry, the green will come off but he's ugly! hahahaha

My babies had their dewclaws all done. Poor things but right after it they were fine. No wimpering, no nothing. Mom watched and almost cried. Daddy Chris was very gentle with them and used silver nitrate on them so no boo-boo's would come of it. He weighed them all for us on a proper scale and here are the results as of Thursday night:

Females are: one @ 9.88 oz (what a chunky monkey!), three that are 7.1 oz, and one at 7.8 oz. My one little boy weighs in at a healthy 8.5 oz! He said they are all very healthy and strong. He checked me over too and weighed me and I'm down to a svelt 7.6 k's (16.5 lbs roughly). He said I may still lose a bit of weight and my uterus hasn't gone back into shape quite yet but will soon. He also embarrassed me by taking my temperature again. geezzzz I wish people would leave my bum alone. Even my babies, always crawling around there.

Auntie Charlotte left today for the U.S. for a visit with her daughter and grandkids. She will miss me very much and I will miss her too. Mom made her a yahoo email account and promised to send her pics to see of my babies :-)

Mom's friend Linda came by today too. She's known Linda since she was 12 yrs old! That's a longgggg time. Linda has wanted one of my babies since she found out I was pregnant so mom thinks one will go with Linda when it's old enough. Linda will take very good care of my baby and make sure it has everything it ever needs.

Last night I drove mom nuts. She got maybe 2 hrs sleep. I was up all night. I even barked at her! I growled, barked, whined. I kept getting out of my babies bed and wandering around the apt, looking at everything. I even had 3 big poops!! lol Mom was shocked. But she was also upset at me for keeping her up all night. I even started digging in the baby bed. I scared mom too cause I went up to the head of her bed and barked at her! I was pulling the blanket out of the baby bed... you name it, I did it and was driving mom nuts. She has no idea what has gotten into me. Even today, I was digging at my blanket in the baby box. Mom has to watch that because I can cover the babies.

Here is a short video mom took this morning: cha cha cha :-)

Visitors

2010-06-02T21:05:00.002-04:00

Today we had visitors. Our friend Ali from next door came to see my babies and I jumped out of my bin and barked, barked, barked at him!! And our neighbour across the hall came later too and I did the same to her! Mom says I'm weird. lol Mom went to take the trash down and I ran out of the apt. after her. We stopped at Charlotte & Greg's and when they opened the door I ran in all happy to see them and stayed there for a while then ran home to my babies. Later in the early evening my boyfriend's mom, Mary Ann, and her daughter came to see us. I haven't seen them in 2 months, not since Gambit and I did the horizontal mambo but I didn't bark at all at her! Nothing. As soon as I saw who was coming down the hall I took off and ran half way up the long hall to meet them and I was so excited to see them. I even let them hold my babies :-) Btw, we checked to see and I have 5 little girls and 1 little boy :-) And we didn't weigh them quite right. One is about 6 oz, four are 7 oz and the last chunky monkey is 8 oz. My babies are healthy and very active. We are now staying in the livingroom where it's much cooler. I'm eating like a little piggy and drinking water more now too. My babies are always eating :-)

HAPPY BIRTH DAY!!!

2010-06-02T00:07:00.010-04:00

And wow what a surprise it was!! June 1st at about 7:34 pm I popped out my first baby :-) Then between then and an hour later I popped out the other 3 !!! I now had 4 beautiful little babies. 2 boys and 2 girls :-) It was now 8:30 I was doing good and so were my babies so mom and Charlotte (the lady that watches me when mom is at the hospital with Nanna) decided the best thing to do is to give me a quickie shower because I'm lookin pretty gross. After that I went running back to my babies :-) But mom and Charlotte saw something.... they saw a contraction!! So mom quickly called my vet again (poor Goran, she already talked to him 5 times tonight lol) and she talked to him again. Goran (vet's tech) told mom it would be the placenta that I would expell at some point. If I hadn't by morning to bring me in. So they waited. And waited. About an hour and 20 minutes after I had my last baby I shot out another!!! That's 5 now. Boy, you should have seen the look on their faces!! hahaha And mine! Finally Charlotte thought she should go home for a bit since it was around 10:30 pm. Charlotte's boyfriend Greg came over to see my 5 babies :-) At about 11:15 mom saw I was pushing my babies away and fidgeting all over the place and then I stood up and hunched my back like a cat! Mom wondered what the heck was going on and all of a sudden she saw a gush of blood and then baby # 6 flew out like a bullet and not even in a sack!!! Holy cow, she and Greg almost had a puppy of their own when they saw that! So... I'm pooped. Very pooped. I have 6 beautiful little babies and they all seem strong and healthy. Each one weighs 7 oz :-) I keep licking and licking and licking them. Mom just had to give me another bath and I didn't like it at all. I'm wet and not happy but I wouldn't let her dry me. I needed to get back to my babies. Here are some pictures: My babies cry a lot and I'm not great at helping them all find boobies yet either. My babies need to be washed because they all have disgusting afterbirth crap on them and they look almost black some of them !! I have it all over me too. Mom says she is going to go out and clean the carpet now since I decided I needed to pee and ran out to the livingroom where my pads are beside the balcony door and I was covered in black from the afterbirth and now mom's cream coloured carpet isn't cream coloured any more! She said then she's going to bed now I and my babies have quieted down a bit. She is hoping all is well in the morning and that I don't lay on any of my babies and they all find a boobie cause every time she helps and finds them one, they let go or I start to lick them and knock them off. I think this is going to take a lot of practice. I'm also wondering if I'll ever be white again....... Once mom gets me all cleaned up and my babies too, she'll take a nice picture of all of us :-) Night Night.

Me and Nanna!!! :-)

2010-05-30T20:47:00.008-04:00

No babies yet so Mom decided to take me today for a brief visit to Nanna. We took her a thick fresh raspberry milkshake that mom made her! Mom makes her a big ol fattening milkshake fresh every day loaded with cream, french vanilla ice cream and a ton of fresh fruit. Yummy! (Well at least the ice cream, mom lets me lick the spoon. She says the calcium is good for me right now.) While there, after I snuggled with Nanna for some time, I let Evelyn play with me for a little bit too. I like Evelyn, she helps the lady across the room from Nanna.

Doesn't my Nanna look good?? She is getting stronger. She can now go about 15ft (5 meters) on her own with a walker now!! And every day she goes to physio and does it all !! She is trying to get some weight back and muscle too so she can come home to us and my babies. The hospital says maybe in 8 weeks she can come home. We'll be so happy to have Nanna home with us. As you can see in the pictures, I'm very happy when I'm around her and I really miss her. She misses me too and I make her happy. Once my babies come I can't see Nanna for some time until they are a bit bigger and can be on their own for an hour or so. Maybe in a month.

La La Land

2010-05-30T10:43:00.002-04:00

Look at me! lol I am so tired a lot of the time and can't seem to get comfy these days. Mom's scooter looked like a good place to lounge. This is how she found me. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz I was out like a light and dangling off the edge of it. Is there no privacy here? Lemme sleep.

We're ready to go :-)

2010-05-28T17:46:00.003-04:00

Mom went out and bought a new camcorder the other day. Nice little one. Canon of course because she swears by her Canon camera's. It's very little. FS300. And she took me to see Daddy Chris (my Dr.) today too and he gave me a good check-up and said I am ready to go soon. Maybe June 1st. I don't do much these days. Mom says I waddle like an old woman and boy have I gained weight. Today I was up to 9.3 k's. That's 20.46 lbs!! No wonder mom is calling me Chunky Monkey these days. Today she also went to Crappy Tire and bought me a container to use as a new bed for me and my babies. Now she is going to make Nanna's daily fruit milkshake and we are off to visit her in the hospital tonight :-)

We've been very busy...

2010-05-23T21:44:00.010-04:00

In more ways than one, we've been busy, busy girls. My nanna is very ill and has been hospital most of this year on and off. She has been in hospital steady for 8 weeks now and is suppose to be in for at least another 8 weeks :-( I really miss sleeping with her and playing with her but mom can take me to the hospital because I have all my shots and am healthy so they let me in. They even let me in when Nanna was in i.c.u. ! She started to cry when she saw me she missed me so much and she wanted to come home but I spent the day with her on her bed snuggled up and she was much happier :-)

Now about me..... I've been a naughty naughty girl. I met a boyfriend and his name is Gambit. This is Gambit... Isn't he handsome? Gambit and I had a few playdates *cough* *cough* I teased that poor boy unmercifully until he did a commando crawl across my livingroom.

This is me these days...... I'm all tuckered out hauling this excess weight around. Guess that will teach me to tease.

I have awfully big boobies now too see???

Here I am at my friend and neighbour Greg's. He and his girlfriend Charlotte doggysit me most every day while mom spends time with nanna at the hospital. Greg spoils me! And Charlotte's grandson Ryan lets me sleep on his bed :-)

See my girly figure??

Mom took me to my Dr. and he did an ultrasound of my tummy and said there were 4 babies in there!!! He printed a picture of one of them and we took it to the hospital to Nanna for one of her Mother's Day gifts :-) She loved it.

My babies are due approx. June 1st. Mom says this is the only time. Her timing sucks she says. One day I'm mated and the next day Nanna is rushed into the hospital.

Now the babies are sitting on my bladder so I'm up several times in the night to go pee-pee. Of course, every time I go on my pee pads I have to run into mom's bedroom and talk to her, with a big grin and waggin my tail until she wakes up. Then I expect her to go see what I've done and praise me and get me a treat. Only then is she allowed to go back to bed and get a bit more sleep before I start all over again. Mom says she's getting old fast...... hahahahaha wait until she gets a load of my babies!!

I'm a naughty girl......... and in heat lol

2009-09-23T21:48:00.005-04:00

I'm still looking for a boyfriend, my mom is picky..... so until then, my humpy doodle dog will have to do. :-) hmm looks darker than my camera shows it. Time to use the new camera!! This is at night so I look dark when I'm actually still all white. Went to see my Dr. today and got all my shots for the year, obviously it didn't bother me! :-)

Hi !!!!

2009-06-27T19:34:00.016-04:00

Hi Maggie and Mitch :-) Thanks so much for checking up on me. I'm well on the mend, want to see? Click the little movie below. I had my stitches out on Tuesday and I was a very good little girl. Now mom and nanna have to get me used to my old food again. *sigh*, I like the new stuff, it's soft.... :-) Anyway, today was around 80 and not a cloud in the sky so we all went out on an adventure for the day. I ran into these two young men who played and played with me. I was running around in circles around them and playing with them for a long time. Then two of their friends came along and I played with them for a bit too.

It was a day of adventure alright. We decided to go to the music garden at the lakeshore and bow wow wow two streetcars crashed!! After looking at the crash (no one was really hurt, mostly just shaken up and scared), we went to the music garden. We love the music garden, so many pretty things to smell and see. I saw the swans again today too! And the Canada Geese. On the way home we got food. Nanna gave me a little bit of her hotdog. yum yummy in my tummy! Mom gave me a couple of little liver treats too cause I was such a good girl all day. We were out for almost 7 hrs! I had lots of nice cold water to drink too while we were out. Mom always carries water for me and ice water for herself so she mixes the two so my water is nice and refreshing. Now we're finally home for the night and I'm pooped and am going to lay out on the bedroom floor under the ceiling fan :-)

All's well !!

2009-06-23T23:50:00.002-04:00

Finally. After a run-in with no pee-pee, no appetite and a fairly good fever Christaligia is on the mend. She was force fed once which she took really rather well :-) Today she went back to the Dr. Her own Dr. was back from a conference so he was really glad to see her. The staff had been keeping him up to date on her while he was away. Today he took her stitches out and checked her out once more and sent her home with flying colours :-) She can go to the groomer in a week's time. Karen ought to have some time trying to even out her coat with her tummy shaved and part of her side shaved. And she can start to eat bits of her old food now too mixed in with the soft diet for a bit. We have to slowly get her back on her normal kibble diet. She can have limited treats now too!! She likes that. Ohhhhh and the best thing is....... no more lampshade!! Yippee for her! People would laugh at her and call her "conehead"! Poor baby. But the Dr. says she should be completely mended in another 2 weeks.

I have a fever :-(

2009-06-16T23:39:00.003-04:00

Today mom decided to take me back to the Dr. She talked to one of our clinic's Dr's late last night and he said I wasn't eating enough. Today when we got there I still hadn't eaten much but I did eat a little more than yesterday. But it was discovered that I had a fever! Mom says that explains why I just want to lay around and not do much including eat and pee! It was high but not seriously high. The Dr. took more blood and gave me a pill to induce my appetite. Dr. Elizabeth also kind of force fed me some to get some in my little tummy. I didn't fight her much. She says I'm a sweet dog.

Later in the day we went for a nice walk and I ran ahead of mom most the way! Her and nanna were glad to see this, I was acting more normal. I even barked at a lady that wouldn't pay attention to me this evening and then she played with me a bit :-) And I howled at the fire alarm when I heard it.... heheheh I hate that thing and I reminded mom and nanna just how much I hate it :-) So around 7:30 pm the Dr. called mom again to check up on me and see if I ate yet but mom told her no. Not long after that around 9;30 mom called the Dr. to tell her that I peed!!! lol and I also ate some without the pill! Mom told her that she thinks I'm feeling better because I was running and playing a wee bit. By the time we got home I was really wacked out though and slept on the sofa. We are all hoping tomorrow is a more normal day for me and Dr. Elizabeth said she will call in the morning to check on me again and to give mom the results of the new blood tests.

Monday June 15th, 2009

2009-06-15T23:02:00.002-04:00

I went out for a short walk yesterday and did my "duty" :-) I got lots of praise. I rode on mom's scooter a lot too. I didn't eat much yesterday though. Today I wasn't all that hungry and mom and nanna took me for another short walk. I did well but only did a little peepee. hmmmmm mom doesn't like that but since I'm not eating much again today she said she'll accept it. She put in a call to the Vet though since my appetite isn't much and we are going tomorrow to get something from the Dr. that will give me an appetite so I eat more. It may be the medicine's I'm on. I'm on a pain patch and it's strong and I'm on an antibiotic so they may be making my tummy a bit upset. I'm sleepy a lot too but that's also probably the pain patch. Tomorrow afternoon we'll go see the Dr. and I'm sure I'll start feeling better from there on. Mom says I seem to have a case of the whines whenever one of us isn't within sight lately. This morning I whined and cried until mom got out of bed then I stopped. And this afternoon when nanna left us while we were out I tried following her several times. And then tonight when mom was at the door talking to our neighbour and I couldn't see her, I started to whine again. Mom thinks maybe I'm just scared I'll be left alone again like at the Vets. She thinks it will take me a bit of time to get back to normal. I got a bit excited tonight when Tom came for a visit. He's mom's computer techie and he's very nice. He stopped and petted me for a bit so I was happy and wagged my tail :-) Now I'm off to bed for the night with my nanna.

I'm home!! update... June 13th, 2009

2009-06-13T17:06:00.006-04:00

Well our little girl is home. Don't think she could care less though. Once we got her home we could barely get her off my scooter. They applied a pain patch to her before we left the vet and it really got her stoned.

Then the poor baby tried to drink but that collar was in her way so I adjusted it and boy did she have a nice long drink. After that she wanted on her spot on the sofa. She has a leopard doggie blanket with pillow in the corner and that's her space.

Again the poor thing had an issue. She wanted up on the sofa but with the collar on she couldn't. So we removed it for a brief minute and the little bugger tried to lick her wound.

Seems she is going to have to wear this thing all the time whether she likes it or not. You can tell in this picture how drugged she is.

I came home with lots of instructions. Including the fact she can go out for walks and such!! Great news but obviously not today. She had anti-biotics and the pain patch. It will last her 4 days then her pain should be pretty much over.

Her incision is long as you can see. We go back in 10 days to get the stitches removed. She gets a special diet until then as well which they tell me she's taking well. Of course she is, it's like a treat, it's soft food!! :-)

As one would think, we must watch for itchy, runny or redness and go right back. Over the next few days we'll get her out a bit at a time.

It's been a couple of hours since she got home, had to stop and go out for groceries. She's awake now and has even eaten. She seemed very hungry but we stuck to what the Dr. said and she gets a bit every few hours. 4 small meals a day.

Now the little devil is trying to scratch with her back legs so I'm going to have to put socks on her or a t-shirt or something so she doesn't claw at those stitches. Can't have her pulling any out!

another update:

2009-06-12T21:38:00.004-04:00

Earlier today we went to the Vet's office and paid Ligia a little visit. She was totally unaware though. We had one of the staff take a couple of pictures for us instead of going in. We thought she would get too excited if she saw either of us and too upset if we didn't take her home after she saw us. So....... although it felt cruel not to go in, we think it would have been meaner to her if we had and then left without her. Here are her pictures: The top one you can see her leg is all bandaged but this is because she has an i.v. in and they don't want her to be able to bite it off. She looks so sad and in pain. The bottom picture is a bit better. I don't know what's all on her chin, maybe something from when they put the tube down her throat??? Don't really know but the way she's standing she looks awkward and in pain. They are giving her narcotics for the pain. The reason she doesn't have the cone on around her little neck is because they had just tried giving her some water. These pics were taken about 24 hrs after her surgery.

Earlier in the day they tried some water and she wouldn't take any. They tried a bit of very watered down soft food and she took a couple of licks. This evening around 7:15 pm my cell phone rang and it was the Dr. She told me Christaligia took some water finally and those few licks of food. This was good. She wouldn't take the food or water in the cage, they had to let her out and then she ate a bit :-) She took a very short walk earlier today in the clinic too and pee'd. :-) Hopefully they took out her catheter. She's still on i.v. and pain meds. The Dr. told me we can bring her home tomorrow (Saturday). We can't wait. She is not to get her tummy wet at all. She'll have antibiotics and they're going to shave her back and apply a pain patch that will last her for 4 days. By then she should be over the worst of the pain I hope. That will be 6 days. Ligia can ride home on my scooter. The Dr. was worried she'd get off but she never has jumped off before. (I use a mobility scooter, I'm not talking about a motorcycle type scooter). I'm going to take her bed and put it on the floor of the scooter and slowly ride home with her. I could take a cab however I'm not comfortable with picking her up and carrying her right now with such fresh stitches and I can't carry her from the cab all the way upstairs, I'm not able to. The scooter will be fine, I'll also put her pink blankie in there too, it's nice and soft as well as her bed. And bumps along the way that we feel should be buffered for her with how slow I'll drive and the blanket and bed. Matter of fact I'm taking both her beds and maybe will use both so she's double soft.

Anyway, she's to be fed 5 times a day, tiny meals of special food so she can disgest it and it won't hurt her little tummy incision. This will be for about a week then we can start to introduce her normal food back in slowly with this food until we are all her old normal food. She's not allowed to jump or play right now. I'll make her some stairs so she can get on the sofa to her favourite place in the corner. We take her back in about 10 days to get all her stitches out. I'll get more directions tomorrow I'm sure.

I'll try to get some more pictures tomorrow after she rests a while at home. I'm sure she's going to be upset with us for some time and it will take her a while to trust us again. After all, look what's she been through, she's been held in a cage for some time, and all strangers and lots of pain. Poor thing, I feel really guilty although there is nothing I could have done. I'm thankful she's ok now and on her way home to us.

update:

2009-06-11T21:00:00.002-04:00

Christaligia is doing ok. I spoke to her Dr. at around 5 pm this evening and she was pretty drugged up. She's on an i.v. pump and narcotics for the pain. As well as an antacid to protect her little tummy. When Dr. Elizabeth opened her up she found a very large bone. Like a beef bone!!! What's more, it was literally stuck to the inside of her tummy. It may have been her saving grace that it was stuck to her tummy and not moving because the Dr. said she would never have been able to pass such a large thing. I asked how on earth she could have ever eaten such a large thing and was told small dogs can swallow large items, it's just when they're inside they can do considerable damage and even kill a dog when and if it tries to pass it. So..... we're hoping that she doesn't wake up this evening and not find herself in her nanna's bed with nanna and be really upset. I think she'll be on enough drugs to sleep the night through. The Dr. will try to give her a bit of water tomorrow and if she takes that, later in the day she'll give her a wee bit of a gruel type food and see if she can take that. We plan on going to see her tomorrow but to protect her, we'll give someone on staff my digital camera probably and have them take some pics for us. If we go in and she's awake, she may be very upset if we don't take her home and that's not good for her. If all goes as planned, we will bring her home sometime Saturday. Thank goodness she's ok and thank goodness for pet insurance! This was a whopper of a bill although I'm more than willing to pay anything to help our little girl.

I'm a sick little girl

2009-06-11T12:04:00.002-04:00

Last night my mom got home from a meeting at 8:30 and I was on the sofa waiting for her. She didn't know if but I wasn't feeling well. When she went into the kitchen nanna yelled out to her that I was throwing up. Mom ran to me and it was really yukky! It was orange!! Looked like treats but I hadn't had any treats. And there was an elastic in it!!!!!! Mom was freakin out. I curled up in my corner of the couch and then started again. This time it was a peachy/orange coloured foam!! I didn't look good. Then I did it a 3rd time and it was much the same as the second but this time my little teeth started to chatter too! Mom grabbed the phone and called the Vet. They were going to close in about 15 minutes but told mom to bring me in. So she did.

My vet wasn't here, he's on a trip so he always has 2 other vets in his clinic so I saw the nice Dr. Elizabeth. Mom brought what I threw up and even the vet said "yuck". She checked me over good, I had no fever but my gums were a bit pale. She took an x-ray and there it was!!! Something else is in my tummy! It wasn't an absolute emergency so mom was able to take me home for the night and bring me back early in the morning.

I sleep on my nanna's bed and I'm sorry but I barfed on her bed a little bit in the night. She loves me though so it's ok. :-) Mom and nanna took me to the hospital this morning and my surgery will take about an hour and a half and I'll have to stay there 2 days too. The Dr. took another x-ray because it wasn't in my morning poop. Whatever it is, is still there. It isn't even moving. Mom said it looked like a man's wedding band sort of and the Dr. said it was bigger!!

They have no idea what I ate or when for that matter because I'm closely watched. And even though I normally don't pick stuff up, occasionally I do and boy I'm a fast little girl. Mom and nanna are very worried about me..... mom will write more here later.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MOM AND NANNA!!

2009-05-11T00:37:00.004-04:00

Quick....... while mom's not at the computer. Happy Mother's Day to mom and nanna and all the other doggie mom's out there!! Speaking of Doggie mom's... my mom and nanna are looking for a boyfriend for me! Auntie Sheri wants a "Ligia" baby. hmmmmm does this mean if they find me a boyfriend I'll get fat?? I think I might want a baby, hope they can find me a suitable boyfriend. I want one that looks a lot like me and is a smart cookie too!

Speaking of extended family, the birds (no names yet) must be getting used to us. I only barked at them once or twice today but mom kept catching me giving them the eye. They're moving around more and making more noise. At least they sleep all night. Yesterday Nanna said they did quite the performance while mom was out. Mom missed it. We are keeping an eye on them since they both were outside in the wild for a bit. Mom took a movie of them today :-) Here is one of the movies:

Hey!! This is my house...... OUT!!

2009-05-09T00:51:00.022-04:00

The weather has been great so we have been out a lot and my mom is really busy with lawyers and such getting her own non-profit charitable # for her seniors program so we haven't been blogging lately but I just had to blog about this! They tell me it's Karma but I have another word for it.... yuck!! This is my home.. my territory and I'm very protective about it but my mom says I have to be nice and quit barking at our new family members. They better not ever try taking my place on the sofa! I am Queen of the sofa!!

A week ago my mom and nanna were going along our street when they reached some old Victoria homes and a pizza place up the street. Well the pizza guy was about to start his car when my mom starts yelling at him and waving her arms for him not to go. There on the road, right in front of his right front tire was a bird. I was curious since it didn't look like any bird I've ever seen before. Mom started to try to catch it. There was a nice man outside one of the houses and he helped her. The little birdie didn't seem to be able to fly too high up or for long distances so somehow they managed to catch him/her. They put the man's sweater over the bird and then another man came out of one of the houses and he had a bird box!!! Like one when you buy a budgie bird!! Mom was shocked, she couldn't believe it and he gave it to her to put the little birdie in.

From there mom and nanna took the little bird to a local exotic pet store and the man opened the box and was shocked!! His eyes got realllllll big and he got a big smile on his face too. He told mom she had an African Fischer Love Bird! Wow..... mom was happy to learn what the little bird was. The man asked her what she wanted to do and she asked him if he could keep it for a while to see if someone claims it. So the man said sure and if no one comes for it mom can keep it and that the bird looked a bit dehydrated and he'll care for it for a week to see if someone comes for it.

Every day we looked for lost notices but didn't find any in our area. I think mom was hoping there wouldn't be any. Thursday night mom called the man to see how the birdie was and he said it was great and there was another one now too!! HOLY MOLY! Two of those things??? He told her that a few hours after she dropped this birdie into the exotic shop a man came by and did the very same thing! He asked mom to come today and pick them both up.

So..... that's were we were today. Mom went and picked up BOTH these birdies!! She bought them all sorts of stuff. She had a cage but she bought them toys!! And food, and treats!! Only I am suppose to get those kinds of things, I'm Queen of the house!! I'm 2 whole years old now and this is my domain. grrrr

While mom was setting up this big cage for them I found them in their box........ I growled and I started to bark at them. Mom just about pitched a fit. She told me that it was bad to bark at the birdies. They were my friends. Well..... huff huff I don't think so!!

I kept barking and barking. Even when mom took the birdies out of the box and put them in the cage. Bark bark..... I must let them know who is Queen here! Mom and nanna tried to take my mind off them but they kept chirping and fluttering around so I kept barking.

We went out again and I was away from them for a few hours and when I came home I didn't bark at them at all :-) Mom and nanna gave me lots of attention and loves and even treats. Oh, and mom bought me a new ball too when she bought the birdies some toys.

Here I am watching them....... I have to keep an eye on them to be sure they don't try to take over my territory. Mom was saying to nanna that she hopes tomorrow is a bit easier with my "jealousy" and "being territorial". And that I knock off the barking at the birdies.

Mom told me that she is signing me up at "Who's Walking Who" for some extra training, even though I am a good girl. Just to smooth up those rough edges I still have.... hehehehehe

I'm going to try to be a good girl tomorrow and not scare the birdies so much. And not bark so much either.

Btw, we don't know if they are boy/girl or girl/girl or boy/boy. Turns out these type of love birds are identical and the only way to really find out for sure is with a DNA test. So.... if we get an egg we'll know and Auntie Sheri will be getting a bird! lol

Look at me!!

2009-02-15T15:44:00.003-05:00

hey....... *waving hi* Mom finally tried making a little movie of me. I on the other hand, discovered the camera :-) hmmmm seems she didn't do too good a job, it's got pixels. oh well, HI !!!

December 12th, 2008

2008-12-12T22:42:00.003-05:00

My mom is so bad, she hogs the computer all the time. Last month she hogged it so much her hard drive fried. So now she has a new puter.

I had a wonderful summer, out all the time, touring the city and enjoying it. Now it's really cold and I experienced real snow for the first time this year. Bow wow...... it was great!! Mom was shocked and Nanna laughed and laughed while I pranced around in the snow and sniffed it, and ate it!! And I kept running and running and running through it. But I had to stop because it started to really clog up on my legs and then turned all icy..... wahhhhh I tried to bite it off but it wouldn't work so they took me home, put me up on the counter and mom used her blow dryer to melt it off slowly. Boy I was such a mess but I had a great time up until it all clogged up.

I'm going to go into heat any time again now too. Mom thinks it's going to happen during the holidays. She thinks she found me a boyfriend but if it happens during the holidays we'll have to wait until next time. People keep giving mom their name and phone numbers and addresses cause they want my kids but mom is hoping I only have one so my baby can go to Auntie Sheri who really wants a Ligia baby. :-)

Right now though, mom is thinking of taking me back to the vet yet again. Seems my times are all mixed up again. It started weeks ago when a neighbour was baby sitting her brother's Rottweiler and that dog howled from 10 pm until at least 4 am. Kept the whole floor up and no one was happy. Made all us other dogs on the floor bark too! Since then, every night around 3 or 4 am I wake right up and start to growl and bark until someone lets me out of my crate. I run around a bit, have a peepee maybe and then go to my nanna's bed and lay down there for the rest of the night. Usually. Sometimes I keep nanna up too. Mom can't figure out why I'm doing this and it's driving them both nuts.

Mom is so busy these days but I can't wait for her to put up the Christmas Tree. I really liked it last year and I was very good and never touched it!! In the New Year mom has said she is going to take me for obedience classes cause I still have a mind of my own and I still steal her socks and nanna's boots.

Well, that's enough for now...... mom wants the puter again cause she is having email problems and is cursing sympatico. lol

zzzzzzzzzz

2008-05-06T23:19:00.002-04:00

My mom and nanna need sleep. I have my days and nights mixed up!! For 4 nights I get up around 2 am and start to whine and growl and dig in my crate. Then I start to bark!!! And I bark, and I bark. Mom is baffled. Doesn't know what has brought this on. Nothing worked to calm me down so we made a trip to the Vet last night and mom had to resort to getting me a sleeping pill of sorts. Mom and nanna are not feeling well due to lack of sleep and mom's worried security will show up at her door at 4 am with complaints about my barking.

Last night I got my first 1/2 pill. Wow.... talk about a knock out punch..... lol I didn't wake up until 5 am for a peepee and then when I went into my crate after I started to growl again, and whine a bit but in a couple of minutes I nodded off again. No barking. Mom and nanna are relieved and got some sleep last night although neither one got too much because they were concerned about the pill. Now they know I'm fine with it and it doesn't hurt me they can get more sleep tonight. :-) They got enough pills for a week so I can get back on track and my days and nights back the way they should be.

They have me out for lots of exercise too. I had a great time out running and running today. Last night I was walked (and I ran too) for a few hours!! It was a lot of fun.

Last night Mom and Nanna discovered something weird about me that they never noticed before. I won't walk on anything metal!!! We were going over the bridge and there were metal plates about a foot wide and I jumped over every single one!! Even the sewer plates, the little ones for gas, etc., as long as it was metal I jumped over it except for the manhole covers which I went around cause they were too big for me to jump over. None of these were grates with holes, all were solid, but I would jump over every one of them. I refuse to walk on them. Mom says I'm strange.

Tomorrow if mom has time we are going to go meet a new groomer. This place is much closer to us. Only down the street so mom wants to go over and introduce me and see if I take well to the lady there. I hope so, I need a good bath and clipping. With all this running around lately my little feet are getting dirty.

Me and my Nanna :-) zzzzzzzz

2008-04-21T23:49:00.002-04:00

This is me and my Nanna. Every night I go for snuggles with my Nanna for about 45 minutes or so while mom watches the news or works on the computer. I love my Nanna :-)

oops..... I love my Mom too :-)

Sunday April 20th, 2008 Lots of fun!!

2008-04-21T23:42:00.008-04:00

Look! We went to the University of Toronto the other day and I'm so happy!! I explored and explored. There were still lots of kids there because school isn't quite finished yet for the year but I ran all over the place and even rolled around a wee bit. As you can see, I'm feeling fine and the pill was just a really bad scare. Mom and Nanna are so relieved.

Last Thursday April 17th, 2008

2008-04-21T23:38:00.003-04:00

Here I am at the bingo!! I go every Thursday because my mom helps there and I love the ladies that go. They love me too and we always have a good time. Sometimes they really laugh at me because I can be a silly girl. You can see how I oversee everything :-)

My mom is about to have another heart attack...

2008-04-19T00:11:00.003-04:00

I started to eat one of nanna's pills!!! Every night I go and snuggle up to my nanna for about 45 minutes or so before bedtime. Tonight mom got me and thought I was chewing on something but she couldn't see anything. She took me into nanna and it still looked like I had something in my mouth so she picked me up and oh boy.... she found a capsule!! She started to freak out and grabbed it and it spilled out on her hand and nanna's rug and then on nanna's hand. Mom looked in my mouth and it looked like nothing was in it. Now she doesn't know what to do because she doesn't think I got any in my mouth. She has seen me fuss with a capsule before and how long it takes to get something out of it when I was taking my own anti-biotics. The capsule gets gummy and it just sticks in my mouth. She ran into the other room fearing that there would be a bunch of capsules on the floor because she couldn't figure out where the heck I got one from. It turned out nanna had her pills ready for tomorrow in a little container called a dosset and somehow I managed to flip the lid on it. There were no other pills missing. Just one.

Anyway, mom called the emergency clinic at 980 Yonge Street in Toronto and they gave her the number of the PET POISON CONTROL at 1-800-548-2423. A very nice Vet came on the phone and mom told her what happened and that the pill was Celebrex for nanna's arthritis. The Vet asked mom to tell her the strength of the pill. They do give celebrex to doggies but it's a doggie type, not a human type. The vet was very kind and told mom that it sounded like I didn't get any of it (due to how much fell onto mom's hand and the carpet) but because I'm a small dog I needed to be watched for 36 HOURS! Yes.... 36 hours because Celebrex can lead to ulcers in my little tummy. So mom and nanna have to watch for me not eating, or throwing up, or drooling or any changes in the next 36 hours.

So everyone, please be so very careful of your medications. They can make us very, very sick. Always know what medications you have, and how many, and the strength. And keep the phone number for the PET POISON CONTROL at 1-800-548-2423 in your phone book for safe keeping. Needless to say, medications are going elsewhere in our home. I'm too sneaky and getting way too creative when it comes to getting nosey.

Here's my new friend :-)

2008-04-18T23:36:00.008-04:00

Oh, today we had such fun. Mom and Nanna took me all over the place. Back and forth and back and forth. I rode in mom's scooter basket and then I rode on the floor of her scooter. That was lots of fun. We ended up down on Queen's Quay at Jarvis so mom could go grocery shopping. Nanna and I waited outside in the sun. I went exploring (on my leash) and finished it off with a dirty face. hehehe I met a nice man there who used to have a Bichon too. He played with me a bit. It was such a beautiful day out today and it's suppose to be tomorrow too so we are all going to run some errands then we are going to go over to the University of Toronto if we have the time. I can't wait, I love it there :-)

My new friend Tyson's mom sent us pictures of him so here he is...... he's so cute!

I'm back on track and met a new friend too!

2008-04-16T23:05:00.002-04:00

Today mom and nanna took me to see Dr. D for a recheck. I'm finished 3 of my medicines and have only a couple of days of anti-biotics left to take. Dr. Drabant really checked me over and even took my temperature again just in case. *blush* They keep doing that!! He also showed mom my x-rays again and explained more about the infection I had. He said they (vets) are seeing more of this kind of thing this year. It was a long hard winter and now that the snow is all melting the garbage and stuff that has been there for this long winter underneath it all is making us sick at times. Anyway, I'm doing fine now and got the all clear :-) I saw Goran and Ligia at the Vet too! They are some of my favourite people :-) I'm partly named after Ligia and haven't seen her in a long time because she's not there at night and most of my appt's lately have been night ones.

After the Vet we went to get dinner and on the way to pick it up we went past Allen's Gardens and checked out the new dog run. We were very disappointed. We couldn't find the one for small dogs for one thing. There is suppose to be one for us smaller dogs and one for large dogs, but for another thing, we couldn't even get into it if we wanted to because there wasn't a way anyone with disabilities could get in there! How disappointing.

On the way home we went through the park and I met a new friend!! He is sooooo cute. His name is Tyson and he is a Havanese and is 12 weeks old. He's smart and a lot of fun to play with. He kept jumping on my head! We had lots of fun. His mom is nice too and she said she would email us a picture of Tyson to put on the blog. I hope she does.

Well.... it's been a long day and I'm a very tired little girl. I'm heading to bed and tomorrow I get to go to the seniors bingo and play with the ladies there! :-) Yippie, I really like it there. Then I get to spend the night with nanna as mom has a longgggggggg meeting she has to go to that she's the secretary for. This means she'll be hogging the computer again. :-)

I'm sick sniffle

2008-04-10T23:56:00.005-04:00

Mom took me to the Dr. on Tuesday night. I was very happy to see Dr. D. :-) Mom took me because I was getting her up twice in the night to do my business and it was unusual. Dr. Dabrant took my temperature and listened to my little heart and checked my ears and pretty much everything else. He even did a urine sample and swabbed my little tuccus. How embarrassing!!! He found I have a slight temperature and gave me a shot of antibiotics and a prescription. Mom picked up my food and something she gives me for my coat and a few odds and ends and we went home.

The next day oh my.... my little tuccus was very, very itchy. Mom watched me itch it for so long that my fur got matted :-( and that morning I threw up. She called the Dr. again and back we went. Dr. D. wasn't in that night but we saw a really nice Dr., his name is Dr. Gotovac, and he checked my little tuccus too. Boy, that little thing is getting too much attention! Anyway, he gave mom a nice medicine to rub on it and make the itch go away and told mom to bring a poop sample the next day. When we got home I layed around.

The next day... Thursday mom took me to the ladies bingo again (and at the same time wash my pink bed), I love the ladies at the bingo and they love me. I seemed kind of slow though and not too playful when all of a sudden I threw up!! Yuck... disgusting stuff. When we got home, I threw up on pretty pink bed..... a little while later, in my bed in mom's bedroom I woofed it up again... oh so gross. I threw up 3 times in less than 5 hrs. Mom called the Dr. again!! Off we went. Dr. D. was still away so now I saw Dr. Salama and he was very worried about me. My temperature had gone away but I was throwing up too much and I hadn't even eaten that day. He checked every inch of me over. Goran took me for a little walk and I did my business so they could check that too. My fever finally broke but all this tossing my cookies was not normal and they needed to find the reason. So... I was x-rayed twice (two views), and they took blood from me too. I also got some fluids in me so I didn't dehydrate. I was a very good girl and didn't cry or try to get away. The Dr. showed my mom and nanna what was wrong. I had an infection in my little tummy. They all think I got it from a park I went to last Sunday. I've never been there before and must have picked something up from there. I went home with 4 new medicines and mom fainted at the bill... hehehehhe She says I'm worth it though. The Dr. told mom that if I throw up once more I have to come back, have something called a barium x-ray and then an I.V. put in and I have to stay there!!

Friday I was still pretty sick but didn't throw up any more. Thankfully. I felt so bad that I just layed on the sofa most the day. There were workmen in the hall, they are laying a new floor outside our apt. and even when they hit the door accidently a couple of times and they talked, I did nothing. I just layed there. Normally I bark like mad when I even hear someone quietly walking down the hall. I couldn't care less that day though.

Luckily I've been home since and all the medicine has been helping me immensley. Every day one of the Dr's. phones my mom to check on me and see how I'm doing. She gives them a progress report.

Today is the following Tuesday evening and I'm finally finished most of my medications. I only have the antibiotic to take for a couple more days. Tomorrow we go out again, this time back to see Dr. D. I'm doing much, much better. I'm playing and eating and drinking. Even our neighbours say my eyes are brighter and I'm more myself. I'm glad, I didn't like being so sick.

I'mmmmmmm back!!! April 8th, 2008

2008-04-08T13:10:00.004-04:00

My mom is so bad. She doesn't let me at the computer much. She's always hoggin it. So, I'm going to play catch up here a bit. This winter I wasn't out much, way too much snow for little me and for my mom. Her scooter won't go through it and it keeps her homebound a lot. Mom says naughty words when it snows. She says she hasn't seen this much snow since she can remember. Bad snow! So since we didn't get out much I didn't have much to write about.

There were a few things though. I went through my first heat! I'm a lady now! :-) That was around Christmas time. What a gift eh? heheheheh It was quite the experience for mom and nanna too.

Oh, another thing, I had an awful experience at the groomer late last year too. She shaved me!!! Mom had a meltdown on her. Mom told her I had a couple of mats of hair inside my back legs cause I didn't like her brushing me there while I was in heat so instead of taking the mats out, she shaved me!! Everywhere!! Mom cried. Mom had a meltdown finally when the lady kept telling her it was fine. Mom heard that once too many times and she told the groomer "how about if I go get your shears and shave your head and tell me it's fine"?. The lady knew mom meant business and she backed off. It wasn't a good thing. I wouldn't even look at my mom until late that night and I cried for a couple of days and didn't eat either. I walked around with my tail between my legs for a couple of days too :-( It was traumatic and now mom says she will groom me herself and she bought all the stuff and is learning on my Auntie Sheri's doggie named Ebony. Ebby needed a clipping and Auntie Sheri let mom do it so she got some experience. Mom has since learned that you can trim a Bichon just with proper shears so she thinks she will try that.

I'm over that though thankfully and now my hair is all finally grown back too! It's not great yet because the shears that were used must have been dull because I have split ends everywhere and it's still uneven but I'm nice and furry again and mom is clipping bits and pieces here and there.

I've discovered cheese!!! mmmmmm good. My favourites are Swiss and Havarti. Oh.. and I've discovered broccoli too! Mom won't give me much but she dropped a piece one day on the floor and I snatched it before she could pick it up. Bow wow! It's great! No wonder mom eats it all the time.

Spring has finally sprung and mom let me out to really play on the grounds the other day. Holy cow I was in my glory. I ran and ran and ran, and played, and picked up sticks and rolled around.... heheheh Got my coat all dirty but that's ok, I had a really great time. And we went past Allen Gardens the other day and the City has made a whole new doggie section there! You should see it. Runs for big doggies and another one for small doggies like me. And it's all fenced in too so it's safe.

I gotta get mom to take some pictures. She bought me a new bed, 2 actually. I have a lovely pink one in the livingroom with a matching blankie and toy and a nice plump black and white one for the bedroom which I love too. And I have a new pretty harness as well. I outgrew my old one.

Tonight I go to see my favourite people. Dr. Drabant and Ligia at the Riverdale Animal Hospital. Mom and Nanna are taking me. Time for a check up and to start getting my flea stuff again. Mom says I've reverted to childhood because since I had my 1st birthday (Easter Sunday) I don't seem to be able to hold it through the night and I'm up at around 2 or 2:30 am and then again around 4:30 ish to do peepee. Friends have told her this will happen, I'm still a puppy and I'll still revert back to things I used to do. They say this will pass but mom is getting cranky from lack of sleep and just to be on the safe side she will have me checked out. I don't mind though, I get to see Dr. D and Ligia :-) and Goran too!!

Later this week mom might be getting a new scooter too! Things are really picking up around here. Mom has to be very picky about what one she gets so I can still motor around with her in the basket :-) I like that. Mom also accepted a donated chest freezer for her program and now has to start baking and cooking to fill it full of good stuff for the seniors. I wonder if I'll get any leftovers?? Nah... probably not, mom is picky about what I eat too. She says she now needs to be on the hunt for volunteers :-)

This Thursday, like every Thursday, I get to go to the ladies bingo! They love me there too. I play with them while they play bingo and mom calls the numbers for them a lot. I love going to bingo and maybe mom can take pictures of that too! I'll bug her some. :-) Talk to you all later.....

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

2008-01-02T23:18:00.001-05:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! Look at me! I was the Belle of the Party :-) This is Bill with me. He is one of the Seniors that my mom had a New Year's Eve party for. Lots of people came and they even danced!!! Everyone ate, laughed, told funny stories, and mom had them bring pictures of when they were young and everyone had to guess who was who! We had lots of fun and we played trivia too. Mom stunk at it.... heheheheh

This is a picture of my Nanna and me and Bill. I like Bill, he's always nice to me and gives me lots of love.

I'm still in heat and when it's finished my mom says it's really time for the groomer. I like Carol though so I'm looking forward to it, my fur is getting rather long :-) It makes me look like a dustmop.

It's getting close....

2007-12-23T11:41:00.000-05:00

Mom says some fat guy named Santa is coming soon. In a couple of days! And he'll bring me prezzies!! woof woof. Last night Auntie Charlotte called to tell us that Shyanne was a bad girl but so funny she had to tell us. Auntie Charlotte had earlier wrapped up a few presents for Shyanne and put them under the tree for her. She told Shyanne they were hers but she had to wait until Christmas. But it seems Shyanne had a different idea so when Auntie Charlotte went out Shyanne went to the tree, picked one present (one of her presents) and gently opened it to play with because she was bored!!!! Naughty naughty Shyanne!! But very funny and smart!

I have no prezzies under the tree yet. Mom is scared I'll eat the paper cause I still eat everything in sight. We went shopping yesterday to finish our holiday shopping and we met a nice girl who's doggie is also going through her first heat. I was being a very good girl so the lady said she hoped her doggie was as good as I am during her first heat. Mom keeps telling me I'll have babies by this time next year. I wonder what that will be like.....

Today we are going to the $ store and it's one of my favourite places because beside it is BOBO's!! I loveeeeeee Bobo's. This is where mom gets all my organic treats and rawhides and everything else. It's the only place mom buys my rawhide and treats from because she was so shocked one day when she went to the PU store and to Cdn Tire and read the packages. She tells all doggy mom's to read the packages! If you look at the package of rawhide and read the instructions on even the major brands it tells you to wash your hands after you touch them!!! And you are suppose to feed these to your babies???? Mom won't.

Well.... time to put on my harness and get ready for a ride to the store. Wonder if we'll go to Bobo's and buy me a treat??? hmmmmmm yummy.......

huh? What's that white stuff??

2007-12-16T23:44:00.000-05:00

Well, mom was laid up with her crappy back and so we went out and did some shopping Saturday. What a shock I got! There was this white stuff flying all over the place! I don't like to get wet so mom pulled a blankie around me and I adjusted to that stuff. I licked some! hehe We went shopping and mom bought herself a nice new pot with some of her birthday money and she bought a friend a Christmas present and then she went to the doggie dept...... wow wow bow wow, she bought a whole bunch of squeek Christmas toys for all our friends!! Yeah whooooooo I can't wait to give them out.

Saturday night we all went to our neighbours home for a Christmas party and mom took Shyanne's present for her, a big calico/shearling bone. Shyanne is so smart, she's part huskie, she took her pressie and she held it with one paw and gently tore bits of paper off until she heard it squeek then she ripped it off. It was funny and she loved her new toy. Mom even bought me a couple but I can't see them until Christmas.

Today (Sunday) we stayed inside all day, there's way too much snow. Mom doesn't remember this much snow since she was a kid. hmmmm that's a long time ago! So much snow that mom won't get out for a few days because her scooter won't go through it, it's way too deep.

My nanna and mom have been noticing a lot more changes in me these past few days. I come all the time now when I'm called, and if I've got my nose in something I shouldn't all they have to do is call me and say no and I stop. They say they are overjoyed!

Today we started putting up the Christmas tree. I didn't even bark at it! We have a tree in the apt.!!! This is strange but I was a very good girl and didn't do anything bad. Mom put really pretty little lights all on it and it has cranberries on it and silver, blue and red shiny beads. She says it takes her days to decorate the tree because she likes to take her time. She says decorations are next and they are all made of pewter and hand blown glass and crystal. And then the last step is the little red velvet bows. I can't wait to see it. It sounds really pretty.

Mom says there will be no other decorations around the apt. this year though because she is so far behind. But that's ok, I like just the tree :-)

Oh...... we went to Bobo's again on Saturday and they gave me a treat!! Yup..... it's a all natural cookie and has yogurt on it and it's shaped like a mitten! *lick* I can't wait to have that but mom's gonna put it under the tree for me too.

I hope Dr. Drabant can still come and get me later this week to take me to the groomer, I need it, my fur is really long. I'm still going through "heat" and this is quite the experience for me. Sometimes it seems I don't know if I'm coming or going and I really like to get loves and lots of cuddles more than I normally do but that's ok too cause nanna and my mom lovvvveeee to give loves :-)

Time for beddy-bye for me. It's almost midnight and I still have to go and say night-night to my nanna before I head to my crate. Night night all :-)

ummm what's this???

2007-12-14T10:58:00.000-05:00

My mom left the computer for a bit... heheheh Last night something happened and mom says I'm growing up even more. Seems I am in heat for the first time. It's a wee bit yukky but mom says she knew it was coming because I'm doing nutso things. Like I have a favourite stuffed doggie and a week ago I started humping it! Poor mom and nanna almost fell off their chairs... lol So now I'm a bigger girl and mom tells me later next year some time I'm going to have some puppies. Just one or two times though then I go to see Dr. Drabant and he does an operation on me and I won't have puppies any more. That's ok too though :-)

I've missed everyone

2007-12-08T00:00:00.001-05:00

It's been a long while since I've sat here but a lot has been happening lately. My mom turned 50!! hehehehe she says she's feeling old. My nanna turned 82!!! I found out I don't like balloons. Nanna and mom's friends bought them each a shiny bright helium balloon. I sit under them and bark and bark and bark. They had to put the balloons in nanna's bedroom and when I go in there, I bark at them in there too. Oh...... I discovered the puppy in Nanna's bedroom too, the one in the mirror!! I lay on the floor in front of it and talk to the nice puppy and try to play with it. One day I looked behind the mirror and the puppy went away!

Mom has been really busy with her Seniors program she runs and I'm loving it. The elders love me and let me come to events. They think I'm so cute and funny too. Mom says they don't know the half of it.

Things are changing for me too. I'm a bigger girl now. I am over 8 months old now and I'm now potty trained both inside and outside! TA-DA! *tail wag* Things have been great this way for a few weeks now. Mom and nanna say they're relieved. I dance too! I get up on my hind legs and do a dance :-) I've even changed my food as of today. My mom is still battling those same health issues and now last weekend she put her back out so our Vet felt bad for her and he brought me my new food today!! Wow Bow Wow! Did I ever like it! YUMMY for my tummy!! And Dr. Drabant said he will come and pick me up one day soon before Christmas and take me back to his office and have the groomer make me real pretty for the holidays.

I'm learning how to be sneaky too. Mom has caught me licking up the last of her milk and even her coffee one day! (good thing it sits around and gets cold) She turned her back for a minute. She should know better by now. That's all it takes.

Mom's been buying me things, neat things. She sells Avon and they have all sorts of neat gifts for doggies so she's been putting in some orders for herself. I'll have to get her to take some pictures soon. I got this lovely leopard rolled blanket specially for me on the sofa now. And a flashy light up in the night leash too!! Neato!!

I gotta go..... mom got some extra funding for her seniors for Christmas (to buy them all gifts - whoohooo) so she wants the computer to write the nice people a big thank you for thinking of them and donating the money.

Night night .....

Saturday October 27th, 2007

2007-10-27T17:56:00.000-04:00

We were out a lot again today. It's Saturday and mom and nanna usually run a lot of errands on Saturdays & Sundays. Mom had her Seniors program on Thursday and it was funny funny. Some of the people dressed up in costumes. Mom gave me some pictures to post here.

The cowboy won the best costume prize. It was a 5 cup coffeemaker. And the last picture up here are just some of the people that came for lunch. My mom cooked roast beef, mashed potatoes (her property manager helped with these), broccoli/cauliflower/baby carrots, home made dinner rolls and yorkshire pudding!! And a lady who volunteers for her baked 6 pies for dessert. She also baked a huge birthday cake for some of the seniors.

Mom's property manager also brought her a birthday cake!! Boy was she surprised!! Here is what it looked like. It's not her birthday until November 12th but he surprised her with it.

Today while we were out mom bought me a new monkey. A big stuffed one and I'm having a ball with it!! As soon as I got home I had a big fight with it. Even took it up on the sofa and had a fight with it. heheheh Then I went after mom's kleenex. She didn't think that was too funny. On the way home we met 2 Bichon's..... they were lots of fun! A boy and a girl. Bogey and Blanca. Blanca found a mud puddle to play in. Yeahhhhhh Blanca. Those are lots of fun. I hope we see each other again soon.

Sunday October 21st, 2007

2007-10-22T12:47:00.000-04:00

Yesterday was Sunday and it was hot! Everyone dressed up in their summer clothes and spent the day outside. We went to 2 parks and at one we ran into Butch & Patsy!!! I had fun. Patsy barked at me a lot though but I didn't mind it. I was playing with Butch. Maybe she was jealous? Then we went to another park and I got to play with another little doggy for a bit. We were out for hours in the sun and having fun.

Tomorrow it's suppose to be way hot again so we're going out on Monday too. :-) YIPPIE

October 20th, 2007

2007-10-21T11:01:00.000-04:00

Wow Wow Bow Wow.... I had a great day yesterday. Mom had running around to do for her program and we went to this nice little park near Yonge St. on Isabella. When we were there we saw a nice little girl who was a bit scared of me but wanted to play. She had Down Syndrome so mom kept me there a long time so the little girl could get used to me and finally I layed down so she could pet me too. Her daddy was with her and he was nice too.

Then we met a really nice couple of men. And they stopped and talked to mom a long time about me. They have 2 Bichon's!!! Butch & Patsy. I'd like to play with them one day. Mom was telling them she wants to 'breed' me one day and they told her they bred their doggies and for her to get ready to cook lots of chicken cause I'll need lots of protein if I am having babies. Is that what it takes to get human food from my mom????

And then...... I met Freida!!! Wow we had such a great time. Freida is a 5 month old cocker spaniel and she was so pretty and boy did we ever play. My mom and her dad let us play and jump and roll around each other for over a 1/2 hour I think. We were both wacked out afterwards. There were other doggies at the park too who came along to say a quick hi to us.

This is the same little park where I met Cooper a long time ago. I was hoping to see him again too but I haven't since then. Maybe next time. Mom is going to take me again later today. It's a really nice day out and she wants me to have as much play time as possible.

Well, I have to go. Mom needs the computer because she has work to do before we go out. See you all later. :-) Woof!

October 18th, 2007

2007-10-21T10:54:00.000-04:00

Since mom got her grant and is extending her seniors program I never get to post *whimper* We are out all the time and I even go with mom when she does stuff for her program other than the dinner. I'm not allowed to go to that. She's still sicky too. My mom is freakin a bit because her 50th birthday is coming up real fast. Too fast she says..... heheheh I will be 7 months old in a couple of days myself. I'm growing up but I'm still doing lots and lots of puppy things.

Like the other day.... mom was working on the computer and I was in my crate in the bedroom and mom realized how quiet it was. Uh oh... she went looking for me and I wasn't on the balconcy and I wasn't in my crate in the livingroom, I was nowhere so she decided to go and look in the bedroom crate again because sometimes I scrunch right down the back of it. When she turned around to go look she realized the bathroom door was open. YIPPEE!!! Yup, there I was, a white furball laid out like Queen of Sheba on the burgundy mat and all around me was shredded toilet paper! Mom took one look and busted out laughing. She told my nanna I was laying there, all this toilet paper (it was a new roll) was shredded around me and I looked at her with my head tilted with a "who me?" look on my face and a long piece of toilet paper hanging from my mouth! She ran for her camera but the stupid batteries were dead. Mom says she doesn't want a repeat though just to get a picture.

October 8th, 2007 - Thanksgiving Day

2007-10-08T19:06:00.000-04:00

Today is a special day for humans, it's Thanksgiving Day. (We're Canadian and we have a Thanksgiving day too but it's different from the U.S.) This is my first Thanksgiving and I am very thankful today because mom and nanna took me out for over 2 hrs to play in the parks. First we went to the University of Toronto campus where I found nice wet grass again... heheheh poor mom she had a fit when she saw my green face. She tried to get a picture of it but I wouldn't cooperate.

It was so hot today. Mom says it's Global Warming. It was 30 degree's when we got home (that's 86 F) but with the humidity it was 100 F!!! People are walking around with shorts and t-shirts on and there were tons of motorcycles out. Everyone is taking their last ride of the season today. Two bikers thought I was really cute when they were stopped for a light :-) I made them smile big smiles. The news said it was the hottest Oct 8th on record and the hottest Thanksgiving. People were out everywhere, even on the beach playing vollyball!! Lots of doggies too.

On the way home from the U of T we went over to the park we like by Canadian Tire and I saw Molly!!! Yeahhhhhhhh!!! I love Molly and she loves me and we play, play, play. Look....

This is me and Molly. She is part Yorkie and part Poodle and she's adorable. See us smiling? Molly likes to jump on my head :-) I don't mind, I think it's fun.

You can see more pictures on my flickr page. See the link below on the right hand menu.

Mom's seniors program pics

2007-10-05T11:53:00.000-04:00

Here we go, just like I said. Mom had her Seniors Social on Tuesday October 2nd, and the Minister of Health George Smitherman was there and brought the meal. Actually his assistant Cheryl cooked it :-) Here are the pictures. (by the way, I wasn't allowed to go. No doggies allowed! How unfair).

This picture is of some of the sweets for dessert. There was lots of fresh fruit and a ton of baked goodies. *sniff**sniff* I didn't get any.

This is Minister of Health George Smitherman. He is talking to the seniors before they have dinner. His assistant Cheryl is standing beside him. That's my Nanna in the background in the scooter.

This is George and Cheryl (his assistant and wonderful cook) Cheryl made Chicken Cacciatore for the seniors and one with no meat for mom's vegetarian seniors. Mom didn't give me any of that either!!

These are some of the seniors that attended the meal. Lots and lots of seniors come. Some of the seniors there also come to the Bingo that mom helps with and that I'm allowed to go to. I like the seniors and they like me too.

This is the Minister of Health having lunch with some of our seniors. They are all telling stories and laughing and having a good time.

This is more of the people that went to the lunch. The place was packed :-)

The next day on Wed. we went to Canadian Tire to buy some pots and pans for mom's program and there is a park just around the corner on Church St. before it turns into Davenport. We went there so I can play and Molly and her mom showed up! Molly is 3 months old and she is part poodle and part yorkie and is so sweet. She likes to play too so we were playing with each other for a long while. We had lots of fun and Molly's mom says we can play again another time too. I have to remind my mom to post on my blog when we will be at the park again so maybe Molly's mom will see it and join us.

We are going to Cdn Tire again on this coming Saturday because mom wants to buy me a new crate!!!! One of my crates is still my original one and mom says she doesn't like it any more because I look like an old arthritic lady when I come out of it. It's small and I'm becoming a big girl so time for a new sleepy crate like the bigger one in the diningroom. We might be at the park around 2 pm or so but hopefully mom will remember to post a better time that day before we go because I sure would like to play with Molly again. I'll have to bark at my mom to give Molly's mom our phone number so we can meet now and then and play.

Last night, Thursday, we went to the U of T again so I can play there on the nice grass. Mom couldn't believe her eyes, my paws were black!! And I was all wet!! Again!! I was having a lot of fun *wink*. Mom took me to the groomer last Friday and on Sunday I found wet grass and dirt and now I found it again! hahaha weeeee I had a ton of fun and I now have a white body and black paws! yippee.

I'm feeling much better since I saw the Dr. last Friday too. :-)

I'm forever playing catch up.... sigh

2007-09-30T11:42:00.001-04:00

Mom is always busy on the computer or we are out and about and by the time I get home I just want to eat and sleep. It's been a very busy time and I'm playing catch up again.

My nanna is on the mend slowly, mom is still icky....... and I went to see my namesakes on Friday (Dr. Christopher Drabant and Ligia his technician) and I'm now on antibiotics for a bit of a red throat. Mom thinks I have allergies because I sneeze all the time and Bichon's can get regular seasonal allergies like people do. She says it's gross when I run up behind her and then sneeze all over her legs *snicker* Dr. D. thinks it might be allergies too so he gave me some medicine in a needle and I took it like a big girl and didn't even whine.

So now I get medicine for the next 10 days and mom has to watch and let him know if I'm all better. I'm sure I will be. I got to see Ligia too :-) I love Ligia and Dr. D. While I was waiting to be seen I explored the new kitties in the room. Awwwww they are so sweet and little. Jolene came over and got me and took me to the scales too. Boy oh boy, mom was right, I'm getting to be a little tubby. I now weigh 4.8 k's or 10.5 lbs!!! I'm getting all grown up and I now have all my adult teeth too!

After that I went to see Carol the groomer. I am always very good for Carol and this is how I looked when I got home...

Mom was trying to get my 'smile' but instead it looks like I winked and smiled at her :-) My hair was in my eye. Do you like my pretty yellow bandana?

OK mom..... are you finished yet? After these pictures you can see I ran over to my Nanna for a snuggle. Nanna gives me lots and lots of loves :-)

Can you tell how short my fur is? Mom told Carol to cut it down more. Last time we cut it about halfway down but in 6 weeks it was fully grown back and then some. Even my ears look shorter.

We are getting ready to go out again. Mom is moving around the place getting ready. On Tuesday is her seniors program and the Minister of Health George Smitherman is going to come and be the Celebrity Chef again for her seniors that attend the socials she holds. He has done this before too. Mom says I can put up pictures of it when she downloads them so everyone can see George helping our seniors. So today we do lots of running around doing errands and running in the park, then groceries for the social then visiting...... *whew*, I think mom is trying to tucker me out.

Mom drags me everywhere!!

2007-09-16T12:03:00.000-04:00

Mom has been taking me everywhere lately so I've not had much time to type. And neither has she. Mom is also sick and they say she just might be out of remission so when she isn't running around like a chicken with it's head chopped off she's laying down cause she's really tired at times. She'll find out what is going on soon though and will get all fixed up :-) She says 'been there, done that'..... and she's ok with it.

I've learned how to ride on the floor of mom's scooter!! And I like it too!! And I'm learning how to run beside it as well. What fun that is. Sometimes I run so fast my little legs make me fly almost and mom has to scooter beside me real fast....... varooooooooommmmmmmm

I'm still not doing my business out on the balcony and it's getting cool out so mom is getting worried that I won't train for the winter....... yikes!!! She says I have to learn to do my business on the balcony instead of on the pee pads. So she put pee pads out on the balcony but I find it really fun to rip them to shreds instead :-)

We've been everywhere lately because mom also got a $32,000 grant to run her seniors program so it has meant many changes in what we do. One of my favourite things to do is go to the Senior's Bingo with mom! She calls the numbers for them sometimes or just helps with checking winning cards but I get to go with her and the old ladies love me!!! *grins* I get lots of love from them. So, now mom is shopping. Shopping for things for the new programs that she will be having. The old program is really being extended. Now the seniors will be getting free fresh fruit and veggies to take home, they also will get birthday presents and cake, yoga and relaxation exercises, dances, seasonal activities and I'll be able to go to some too!!!

These pictures are for Precious :-) On the left is Lambchop. On the right is Lambchop and his mom Shari Lewis. See? You can't eat Lambchop.

We have also been in the park a lot playing and making friends. Some silly person gave mom a Tiara and wand and I thought it was really funny and was jumping at it. Mom has a picture somewhere so I'll try to get it to put it here too.

My nanna is getting better but her hip is still really sore. Poor Nanna. And last night at 2:30 am I started to throw up and mom doesn't know why! She says she is beside herself about it. I have two moms???????? I threw up lots of little bits of throw up. Not much but it worries my mom. Then I did it again around 4 am........ and again around 8:30 am..... Mom didn't get much sleep cause she was worried about me but in between, I'm my old self and wag my tail and take her my squeeky toy and lay down and nap. Mom says she's baffled and doesn't know whether or not to take me to my Vet.

That's all for now...... just really busy at this end and out playing too :-)

2007-09-09T11:55:00.000-04:00

I was over at Maggie & Mitch's blog and they were playing a game called Scattergories. So I decided to try the game while mom was getting ready to go out.

The rules are: You use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the questions. They must be real places, names, things…nothing made up! If you can’t think of anything, skip it. You can’t use your own name for the boy/girl name question. I know my name is Christaligia but I answer to Ligia too so I'm using the letter L.

1. Famous Singer -- Luciano Pavarotti
2. Four Letter Word -- LOVE
3. Street – Logan
4. Color -- Lavender
5. Gifts -- Lace scarf
6. Vehicle -- Lamborgini
7. Things in a souvenir shop – License plates
8. Boy name -- Luca
9. Girl name -- Lucrezia
10. Movie Title -- Lethal Weapon
11. Drink -- Lemonade
12. Occupation -- Lawyer
13. Celebrity – Liam Neeson
14. Magazine – Ladies Home Journal
15. U. S. city – Lubbock, Tx = and since I'm Canadian, Cdn City = London
16. Pro sports – Leafs (Toronto Maple)
17. Fruit -- Lemon
18. Reason for being late for work – Lazy
19. Something You Throw Away -- leftovers (old ones)
20. Things You Shout – Look!!!
21. Cartoon Character -- Lambchop

one more post.......

2007-09-03T23:22:00.000-04:00

Whew..... my paws are getting tired...... Last Tuesday I forgot to tell you, I met a man named Laine. He works at a place called "Who's Walking Who". Something about 'dog obedience'.... hmmmm he came over for an hour and a half to our home and taught my mom and nanna some things about how to get me to do what they want. I really liked Laine, we played and he was very nice.

Mom and nanna are really pleased. They say I play well now. I know how to bring the ball, drop it and walk away and sit down so they can pick it up and throw it again :-) This is really good because I used to nip hard when they tried to pick up the ball and throw it to play.

Also, I learned what "down" means too! Now when I jump on the sofa and they say "down", they don't even have to touch me to get me to go down. Occasionally they do still but it's a lot better now mom says. I think this is a game at times still though and jump right back up but I then get right back down too.

And............. I'm learning to do my business where I'm suppose to!!! Lots of times outside and I'm learning to use the balcony at times too. It's still a struggle but is getting lots better.

Laine taught my mom and nanna lots of stuff to teach me to make things easier and mom says she's happy she had him come. He left her a book too to review if things go wrong but so far, so good :-)

Monday September 3rd, 2007

2007-09-03T23:13:00.000-04:00

It's been a very busy few days. Yesterday we went down to the waterfront again. I love it there. I met a nice man who played with me for a while over by the giant sand box with the yellow umbrella's on the waterfront. And I met a little black poodle who was lots of fun. Silly mom didn't take any pictures this day. We went everywhere including the Music Garden. There were beautiful flowers there called "Winter Hibiscus". Huge beautiful flowers. Mom has some pics of them on the computer she'll try and find. Later that night we went to the U. of T. and I played and played with Lily :-) She is a beautiful doggie and boy does she like to play. We ran our little paws off.

Today we had way more fun too! We went to the park over by the U. of T. On the way we met a wonderful new friend named Cooper. Cooper is a 9 month old puppy and we played together for over a 1/2 hour, lots of jumping and playing. People stopped and watched and laughed at us. Then when we got to the U. of T. park there were more puppies!!!!! Wow...... I've never played this much in a day before. I played with Elmo and Pebbles. Elmo was full of spunk and let me jump all over him. He was lots of fun. And another puppy too!

On the way out of the park heading home I saw my boyfriend...... KiKi!!! YEAHHHHH we ran into Kiki and NuNu oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. It's been a couple of weeks since we've seen them and I was so excited!! We jumped all over each other and Kiki and I even got up on our hind legs and danced together!!! I wish my mom took pictures. Maybe next time but I had so much fun it didn't matter.

I can't wait to see all my new friends again and my old ones. I hope it's very, very soon.

Btw, I'm no longer nice and white and fluffy........ I've learned how to roll in the grass and play and play and I'm looking dirty and scruffy but that's ok too mom says :-) I'm getting a bath soon.

August 25th, 2007 (more catch up)

2007-09-03T22:55:00.000-04:00

Wow what a day we had this day!! I learned a new trick. It's called going up and down stairs! Mom says I'm so talented *smiles*..... Actually she called me "smarty pants". I don't know if that's quite the same thing. Look at me!!

See this guy? He was at the top of the stairs. He was rude. He wouldn't talk to me, or even look at me!! I even barked at him and nothing....... hmmmmm

Later that day, in the early evening I found a new friend in the park. We played and played for a long while. See what fun we had!

August 22nd, 2007 (playing more catch up)

2007-09-03T22:30:00.000-04:00

On August 22nd we had company overnight. My mom's sister Sheri, and Sheri's daughter Tiffany, and Tiffany's new 4 mth old daughter Paige. My mom and nanna haven't seen Tiffany for a few years and have never seen Paige yet so they all came visiting :-) This is my nanna's 12th or 13th great-grandchild. This is Paige!!

Isn't she beautiful?? I think she is.

This is Paige having fun in a thing called a "jolly jumper". She was jolly alright. I was having fun watching her and running around her while she was bouncing.

Auntie Sheri also brought Ebony with her!! Yeahhhhh I love Ebony. I love her so much that I jumped on her and she doesn't like that cause she is getting old. Ebby growled at me, and put me in my place so after that I followed her around the apt. like a lost puppy for the next 24 hours while they were here :-) Ebby let me snuggle a few times :-) This is a picture of Ebony and one of Ebony and me :-)

When they all left the next day I was very sad :-( After they packed up and left I went to my crate where I thought of how much I missed them already. It was so much fun having them for a whole day and playing with them, and going for walks. Here is how I looked after they left. Mom said I looked so sad.

Wayyyyyy to long......

2007-08-24T10:10:00.002-04:00

Hi everyone *tailwag*. I'm sorry it's been so long since I wrote but it's been very busy here lately. My mom is a volunteer and runs a big seniors program and she just got a $32,000 grant to run it and has run into problems with her building owner now getting some extra space so she's had her hands full with that. And my poor Nanna fell down and hurt herself so she's still on the mend. She got some wicked bruises :-( Poor Nanna. She hurt her arm and her hip. I on the other hand have been a handfull too........ yeahhhhhhh puppy power!!! I will try to play catch up here now.

As you all know, I went to the groomer! oooooooohhhhhh Mom thought for sure I'd go nutso since I don't like loud noises, especially the sound of the blow dryer.... Well of course I had to make a big liar out of her as she told this to Carol the Groomer. When they came back for me, Carol told us I was good as gold. Through all of it!! Never even growled as my toenails got clipped, in my ears got done, shampoo'd, rinsed, blow dry!!! Even when she put the bows in my ears and the bandana on me. :-) So here are a few small pics (you can see the bigger ones on my flickr acct.) Before and afters. Btw, as soon as I got home I ripped off the bandana. These are my before pics.....

These are my "after" pics....... The scarf is off!!! heheheh

See how "fluffy" I am???????

Now I got that scarf off it's time to play! This is my purple puppy and I loveeeee him. Can you tell?

Friday August 10th, 2007

2007-08-11T17:17:00.001-04:00

Weeeeeeeee another busy day out. Before we went though I thought I'd leave a little gift for my mom and nanna in the washroom. A little lesson about forgetting to shut the bathroom door..... hehehehe Ooooh I'm such a "tiny terror/devil dog" :-)

We headed out to our Vet to buy me some stuff!! Found out there were no toys, just food, pee pads and some of that stinky stuff they spray around where they don't want me to go. Yuck. I did get a chance though to see Ligia :-) My Vet's technician that I'm partly named after. She is beauuuuuutiful!!! and she gave me cuddles that I just loved.

We went up the Danforth though and this weekend is "The Taste of the Danforth"..... FOOD!! Turned out there wasn't any food yet, they were just starting to set up.

Even though they were just setting it up, it was around 2 pm and it was set to start around 4 pm there were still lots of people's around and some doggies!! The smell of the souvlaki cooking was driving my mom nuts, she loves it. Mom says later that night there will be over a million people packed on this stretch of Danforth Avenue over 2 days. Wow..... glad she said we weren't going. That's too many people.

This was on our way home and it was only around 3 pm. Lots and lots of people already.

Later that night we went out to the U. of T. again and I had some fun there in the park.

Mom told me a secret, I'm going to see the "groomer"!! YIKES!! Mom says we are clipping off about half of my fur/hair because it's getting too long and I'm going to have a really good bath too. I don't like this idea at all. Mom is going to warn the groomer that I don't like this kind of stuff and will really growl and may even try to snap at her. That's Monday though and I'm going to try to make the best of the weekend before that happens.

Saturday August 5th, 2007

2007-08-06T23:06:00.000-04:00

This was a very busy day. Again we went all over the place and mom took lots of pictures. More pictures than we can put here but she made a page on the net for them so if you want to see them you can just click here to view them

First thing in the day we went to Crappy Tire (Cdn tire) and mom bought me a new crate. This one was bigger and I'll have more room in it. What mom doesn't know is I'm quite satisfied with the smaller one I'm in and later that night I let her know it. When we went to bed and I had to go in the new crate I growled and barked and dug in that crate. Then I cried and growled more and barked more until mom gave up at 12:30 am and got my old crate, put my towel and t-shirt back in it and then I went in it and went right to sleep... ahhhhh I love my old crate, small as it is. Mom figures she'll keep the bigger one for later some time.

Then we went over to the U. of T. again and wow oh wow...... lots of really pretty ladies were there and they were all in their wedding dresses!

And there were knights there fighting in the park too! Lots of loud banging when their swords hit each other! woooohoooo this was exciting!!

Then after that more fun!! Kiki and NuNu came to the park. Kiki and I love to wrestle and run and jump on each other and NuNu likes to watch us and visit my nanna and mom. This is Kiki and I tumbling over each other.

After we played for a while we headed out for City Hall again. We had lunch over there. Well, I had kibble but it was good too. While we were there we all made a new friend. It was a butterfly!! A "Painted Lady" and my she was sure pretty. She landed on my nanna's head!! hehehe and there she sat for a long, long time. Mom was laughing and grabbed the camera. Painted Lady stayed there for some time and then she flew off and landed on nanna's top! Mom got a picture of that too and then she took off again and landed on my mom's heel!! Here are a couple of the pictures....... After that we went home for a while then back out later that night for a bit more park time.

Friday August 3rd 2007

2007-08-05T12:15:00.001-04:00

These past two days have been so full we are all ready to drop. On Friday we packed up the bbq stuff again and headed over to the islands with a friend of ours named Tom. Tom was fun, he played with me and even took me for a long walk to explore. He even took the grass out of my mouth when he caught me eating it.

I got a real treat too!!! Buddha was watching over me today because while mom was bbq'ing the chicken she went to turn one over and *Plop*! it hit the ground!! Well they couldn't eat it then so mom cleaned it off and put it aside for me later....... yeeeeeeehawwwwwwww people food!! All for me.!!! Wonderful, wonderful.. After the people ate and the picnic table was cleaned up mom picked apart some of the chicken from the dropped chicken thigh, the part with no bbq sauce and no skin on it and gave me some! *wow.... wow..... bow wow*... Can't you hear me smackin my lips??? It was terrific!

We spent hours over there and they breeze was so cool and I ran around in circles and even explored the water pump! I wasn't brave enough to step in it though, the water shoots out of it hard. Maybe next time. Nutso mom didn't take pictures but she swears she will when we go back again and we will go back again. When we got home back to the mainland we all went over to the U. of T. for a bit of playtime before going home and crashing for the day. Well..... except for me because I have puppy power and never slow down! *grins*

August 2nd, 2007

2007-08-05T11:47:00.000-04:00

Whew...... it was so hot today. We left the comforts of home and the air conditioning and went out over to the U of T. I had another day of fun with my friends. I met a new girl named Julie, she is a pug. And Oliver the chihuahua. Ollie is the same age as me, 4 months and he has as much energy as me too!!! Look at us all play......

That's me.... with my big mouth!!!! Looks like I'm trying to eat Ollie's head. I'm not though, we are all just playing. I like Oliver, he has lots of spunk and isn't afraid of me but it freaks out mom and nanna when I pounce on Oliver. They are afraid I will hurt him he's so tiny. His mom and dad say it's ok though because he has a big brother, just like him but 9 lbs!! Holy smokes that's bigger than me, and his brother jumps and plays with him. Mom still gets scared though.

Not enough time in the day....

2007-08-05T11:38:00.000-04:00

Mom says there is not enough time in the day to share this computer with her...... grrrrrr She is rattled because Yahoo is closing down it's photo options pages and she has tons and tons of pictures on there. From back to 2004. She says they give you the option to move all the photo albums over to flickr with one push of the button but she doesn't trust yahoo because one time she used to have a group and yahoo changed their groups and in the process were suppose to transfer all the pictures too that went with the group. Yahoo lost them all!!! So now mom has to sit here whenever she can, which isn't all that much, and download all those pictures in her yahoo albums onto this computer then burn a disc. Then when she knows they are all safe she will push that button for them to download them all over to flicker........ she is really annoyed..... too bad, so sad.

She wanted to bathe me today but looks like I got away with another dirty day!! :-) hehehe

Wednesday August 1st, 2007

2007-08-05T10:58:00.000-04:00

I had lots of new experiences today. First of all we packed up a big bag with food (but not any I was allowed) and we headed for the Island again. Hanlan's Point. BBQ..... boy that bbq sure smells yummy. I get kibble.

At the island I discovered a new delicacy that made my mom go nutso. I found Canada Goose poop! Boy they poop a lot! Mom came yelling and opened my mouth and pulled it out. She said bad words too! oooooohh naughty mom. After that experience they watched every move I made for the rest of the day.

Later, after we came home on the ferry we went to what's becoming our favourite place to be. Over at the U of T. I met a new friend there. Her name is Maddy. That's short for Madeline and she was lots of fun to play with while my mom talked to her surrogate dad. This is Maddy. She's cute. And that white blob beside her is me..... there was some major overexposure going on that day with mom's camera.

Saturday July 28th, 2007 more!!

2007-07-29T11:36:00.000-04:00

I loveeeeeeee being a puppy. And I loveeeeee exploring Toronto. Today we went out and we spent almost 6 hours out and about Toronto. We found a new park and new friends at St. Joseph's St. & Bay St. I had so much fun..... This is part of the University of Toronto.

Here I'm telling my mom to hurry up and take a picture. I want to play!! These two boys are full of fun waiting to happen and I have little patience when it comes to waiting to play.

This is the 3 of us.... are we not cute? Furballs. We played and played and played while the people talked and talked and talked.

This is my new friends Mom. She's beautiful. She comes from a place called Hungry. She picked me up so mom could get this picture. I really liked her and her boys. She told my mom what time she is usually at this park so we can all meet again and have more play time.

After we played there for a nice long time and met a couple more puppies to play with we went over to Toronto's New City Hall. It's not really new, but there's an old one too.

Check this place out!! Mom and Nanna stopped over on the grass for some lunch and I played and played some more. There are lots of what mom calls "tourists" there. Tons of people coming off buses and lots more just sitting around looking at this pretty place. After all this water a girl almost has to cross her little legs!

After that we went back to the park we started out at and I found fun people!! They played with me for some time before going. I think they had as much fun as I did.

Next...... it was off to do groceries. Nanna waited outside for mom as she ran into the store. Next..... off to Allen Gardens on the way home. There were no big doggies!!! YIPPIE!! Lots of little doggies and Terri the poodle wanted to play up a storm. We rocked and rolled and jumped all over each other. If I could laugh I would have. Her siblings just hung around while we had tons of fun.

Finally..... after a really long day out and about we went home. Next stop before we got home was to go talk to a lady about having something called a "Birthday Party" for a man that goes to mom's Seniors program. He is turning 102 in August!! 102!! Wow..... can you believe it? And he still goes out and makes friends! The lady knew the day of this man's Birthday so mom needed it to have his party on his special day. She thought she had the day right but needed to confirm it. I got lots of attention there too. Everyone likes to snuggle with me and pat me :-)

Mom and Nanna thought for sure I'd conk out as soon as we went home but as usual, I had news for them. I played and jumped on mom and stole Nanna's date book. After a while around 10 pm I finally curled up by the refrigerator and snoozed until mom had her late night snack...... then of course I woke up just to bite her toe and bug her. For some reason I'm facinated with mom's big toe when she is trying to have her late night snack while watching the news.... hehehe

I wonder what they have in store for me on Sunday?????????

Salad Head!!! wahhhh

2007-07-29T10:29:00.000-04:00

My mom is so mean. She has nicknamed me "salad head". I forgot to mention this earlier. Friday night Mom and Nanna went to one of their favourite restaurants named Cranberries and they got the Friday night special. According to mom and nanna, the best fish and chips in town. And it comes with a salad. They don't share with me!! So, when I noticed something dripping on the kitchen floor of course I went and inspected it.

It turned out Nanna had a bit of salad left (bad girl, she didn't eat all her veggies) and the take out container was tipped a bit in the garbage bag so it was dripping. Well.... one of my jobs is to keep the floor clean! So of course I did my job but my mom saw me by the garbage and came running. No, no, no she said as I lapped up all the drops of salad dressing heheheheh. What she didn't know until around midnight that night was while I was lapping up the drips already on the floor the stupid container was dripping away on my head! Now my fur smells like salad dressing and my fur is stringy. Mom is going to have to bathe me. So that's why she calls me "salad head".

Bizzzyyyy bizzyyyyy

2007-07-28T12:51:00.000-04:00

My mom has been keeping me so bizzyyyyyyy. When she's finally away from the computer I'm too pooped to participate from scootering around the city and playing in the parks.

Last Sunday we went to Hanlan's Point. One of Toronto's 3 Islands. Wow..... wow..... bow wow.... trees...... grass...... yummy grass!! Oh joy oh joy, I had such fun. Mom BBQ chicken and it smelled so great but I wasn't allowed any but a little lick of it after the fact. I'm not allowed people food really and especially at the table. Mom and nanna want me to have manners when I'm finished being trained so I can go visit other people's homes later.

Here are some pictures mom took.... In the one on the left I'm playing with my leash. I really like to do this. It pulls mom or nanna off balance sometimes.... weeeeeee and in the one on the right is me, all tangled up in my leash. This happens a lot too when I get wild and run around all over the place in circles and jump. It's ok though, someone always untangles me quickly.

In these pictures below you can see how much fun I'm having over on the island. I'm just everywhere. I'm still too young to be off my leash. I just turned 4 months old on the 23rd of this month and I don't come when I'm called most of the time. There is way too much to explore over here so mom knows I won't come if called. Too much other exciting things to look and sniff at.

In the picture on the left that upside down plate had some of my food on it. And the little clear plastic square dish was my water dish. Mom put that and the food on the plate for me and after I ate the food I tossed the dishes.... I had such fun with them. I pounced on the plate and ran around with the water dish in my mouth. Can you see what a piggie I am becoming? I gained 2 lbs (1 kilo) last month and now weight a whole 7 lbs or 3.2 kilos.... tubby :-)

In the right picture I am pouncing on and playing with my favourite ball. This old, now battered, orange squeeky ball.

By the end of the day I was a dirty little doggie.... Mom tried to get a picture of my icky face but I didn't want to hold still. It was all green and black from grabbing at the grass by the roots and running with it. And from rolling around all over the place having fun.

Through the week we went all around and mom had her "Senior's Social"..... Mom runs a program for about 50 seniors every month and Thursday was a special day for them because that's when they all sit down and have a really nice dinner. Mom has "Celebrity Chefs" to her dinners and that's fun. Well it's fun until they make me go upstairs and in my crate for the dinner. yuck..... the food smells really great and I'm not allowed to stay once the food and the seniors gets there.

On Friday we went to Riverdale Park and I had the bestest time there this time. At first we had to leave the part of the park we were at. Over by the kiddies pond because someone had a party and all over the ground were bits and pieces of balloons and I found and tried to eat one. Mom got upset at the people and took the balloon part from me. We then moved over to the other end of the park and there was a little people baby there for me to play with. We had fun. He was there playing with his daddy. Then along came a cute little Terrier named Lucy and Lucy was about the same age as me so we played for more than a half hour, running and jumping on each other and playing up a storm. The people baby was laughing at us and clapping his hands. I liked Lucy.

During the week we also went to Allen's Gardens but mom thinks that we won't be going there as much as we used to. At least not to the part where most the doggies are, in the leash off part. There are too many big dogs and they scare me. The people don't watch their dogs when they are off their leash either. One big black doggie was trying to do naughties with all the other doggies and every time I tried to peepee he would come up to me and mom had to grab me fast so he didn't try anything with me. His dad was not paying any attention to him as he went from one doggy to another and jumping on them from behind. Naughty naughty. And the big doggies bark really loud when they rough play and it scares me. So..... mom is going to start to take me over to the other part of the park where I can still meet some little doggies and play there. It's not leash off but that doesn't matter for me because I'm not allowed off my leash yet.

Mom says someone needs to tell the other people that leash off doesn't mean ignore your dog. And it doesn't mean that it's for big doggies only :-( We have seen other people take their little doggies elsewhere because the big ones don't behave and the parents ignore what they are doing. Bad parents!!

Later Saturday.....

2007-07-22T11:16:00.001-04:00

We went to Queen's Park Circle but we didn't know there was a parade that day for our Indian Culture here so there were too many people. They have built a new Hindu Temple in Toronto and it's .... well I don't know the words for it. It's all hand built of marble, hand carved and put together piece by piece like a puzzle by hundreds of volunteers and is the most majestic and beautiful structure you'll ever lay eyes on. Mom found a link to it on the web and some pictures of it too. The parade was to rejoice in it's opening this weekend. You can see more about this here: Hindu Temple

Mom took some pictures of the parade and there's more on my flickr page too. Mom says she will add them there later after she resizes them.

And the park wasn't really that clean either for some reason so we headed out exploring other places. We stayed to watch the parade though :-) It was beautiful! So many people and so many colours! Wow!! Bow wow!! I loved it.

Later we stopped at a nice grassy area by our major hospitals...... really big buildings!! Mom and nanna had a vendor hot dog and I wanted some too but all I got was my puppy kibble and water. Want to see my water face??? Here it is..... in the first one I'm looking up at my nanna. She was trying to hold my face straight for mom to take a pic but I love my nanna and I was letting her know that. My mouth and chin are soaked..... :-) And in the other pic I'm smiling at mom.

Sat.!!!!!!! I'm finally caught up.

2007-07-21T14:18:00.001-04:00

Mom is busy with other stuff this morning so we can go out BBQ'ing tomorrow on the Islands :-) I'm not allowed people food but mom will bring my food and lots of toys for me to play with.

I added a couple of links here today you should check out. In my "Links we Like" section on the menu on the right you will see "Odie's Pics"......... Odie is adorable and you will love the pictures there. And I also added a link to "cute overload". This is a really cute and funny site. The pictures are the best!

Well..... I'm going because mom has some errands to do and then I get to go to a new park today. If we have time we are going to Queen's Park Circle!!! Wowie.......

Friday July 20th, 2007

2007-07-21T13:55:00.001-04:00

It was an eventful day today. Some good and some bad. This is the good! We went to Allen Gardens again today. We usually go at least once a day to this park. There are usually lots of doggies to play with.

Today though there were some really spunky bigger doggies and they scared me with all their play fighting and big loud barking so I took off and hid on the floor of my nanna's scooter. Here I am, I'm smart, I'm smiling because I'm hiding!! And of course my wonderful nanna is protecting me too.

After a bit on the scooter I was getting tired. I'm still sleeping a good portion of the day so my little head started to get heavy.....

Bonk....... out like a light for a bit......

After I woke up and played a bit with a couple of the smaller doggies and lots of the peoples we went to my favourite pet store. Bobo's!!! I needed new rawhide. The ones they sell are organic and much better for my little tummy. Mom read some of those other ones out there on the market and didn't like what she saw in the ingredients. Some even have stuff in them that will stain the carpet! Yuck Yuck Yukky...... I don't want to eat anything like that.

When we were at Bobo's we were talking to the owner and mom told him about my experience with my Dr. and how I didn't like the clippers. He said that if I ever do that again my mom should hold me down until I quiet down. He showed her how to do it and when he did..... I growled and tried to nip him! Oh boy, that didn't go over well because he then got serious and held me down. I quieted down after that, I didn't like it but mom says it was necessary. I was naughty :-(

Tuesday July 17th, 2007

2007-07-21T11:20:00.000-04:00

My mom took a nice long day off everything and her and my nanna and I went all the way down to Lower Spadina and Queens Quay and spent a lot of the day at the Music Garden.

This is the entrance of the Music Garden. Well not really the entrance but it's a big part of it. On weekends there is a Chamber Music group that plays here!!

This is one of many pathways throughout the Music Garden. Each path is filled with lots of types of flowers and plants.

All these flowers and plants attract other things.......

Like this little guy!!! Mom says this is a bumble bee and to watch out because if you aggravate him he can hurt you. I don't want to be hurt so I just stayed in mom's basket and watched him.

He is awful cute though :-)

There's thousands and thousands of flowers. These are only some of them. If you want to see more of my day and what we saw at the music garden scroll down and click on my 'flickr' badge in the menu on the right of my blog. :-)

And last but certainly not least..... this is "Charlie". Charlie is a Heron and we discovered him over by Harbourfront. The man beside him says he visits every day and just sits there with him. Charlie doesn't mind people for some reason but you can only get so close to him. About 4 feet away then he gets a bit nervous. Charlie was really nice, and he posed for pictures for us too. I stayed very quiet and didn't bark. I was a good doggy.

Dirty face....... (Monday the 16th evening)

2007-07-20T10:35:00.000-04:00

Today was not the greatest day for me. I went to see my Vet whom I just love but all things didn't go so well. He clipped my toenails for me and I liked that! I really needed it too. And he gave me the last of all my needles and I was good for that too! But....... he then decided it was time to clip my fur on my face a bit because it was getting so long and boy oh boy....... I growled like mom's never heard before when that clipper went on. And I barked..... loud..... and I lunged at one of my favourite humans and snapped at him! He couldn't keep me still and had to muzzle me for a bit. I was a bad girl for him. I don't like the clippers.

Later that day I just layed around and I even threw up a bit. Last time I got my shots I did too. :-( That night though I was fine and we went to the park and I found me a nice patch of dirt and rolled in it!! hehehehe mom had a fit. She took some pictures to try to get my dirty little face but you really can't see it in these.

I'm starting to like a dirty face and patches of dirt :-)

Sunday in the park :-) Sunday July 15th, 2007

2007-07-18T10:34:00.001-04:00

Playing catch up as usual. I wish mom could get me my own computer... hehehe I wish I could reach her laptop! She keeps a lot of things out of my reach.... I wonder why???

We went to Allen Garden's again this Sunday. I really like it there, there are lots of other doggies there. A lot of them are big older dogs that are not into playing with puppies with lots of energy but there are also small dogs and puppies there too. Today I met Noa. She is only 3 months old and is a chocolate coloured Standard Poodle. We got along great and we played and played together for about 45 minutes. Boy I had such a good time with Noa. I can't wait to see her again. Her daddy said that I was the first puppy she really got to play with and he was glad we met too.

Later Saturday the 14th....

2007-07-15T23:28:00.000-04:00

Later that night I calmed down and Nanna gave me a new treat she bought me at Bobo's. It's an all natural beef rawhide and I loveeeeee these things. It takes me weeks to get through one and I take this everywhere I go in the apt. I even take it to my crate every night. Mom allows me a toy (my rope toy) and my chewy in my crate at night in case I can't get to sleep right away. Usually I do though. Mom is really proud of me and how I learned to crate and that I even go in there myself when I want to nap at times. That is when I'm not layed out across the front of the fridge :-)

Saturday July 14th, 2007 Still catching up.....

2007-07-15T23:21:00.000-04:00

ok....... so just how embarrassed do I look? What is it with these people? First mom buys me a new hair clip at Bobo's and then of all things we go somewhere else and in the store what does she discover there?????? A stupid raincoat. Who cares if it's raining cats and dogs out there. I'm nice and dry under mom's raincoat, it goes right over mom's scooter and the basket so I'm perfectly dry but she has to go and buy this thing and worse...... she made me wear it...... eeeeeeekkkkkkk

As you can see, I'm not amused when I finally got home and I couldn't get this thing off me fast enough. A lot of the pictures didn't come out that mom took of me trying to get this off because I was moving so fast.

I got a new toy!!! (Friday July 13th, 2007)

2007-07-15T23:13:00.000-04:00

My mom finally got away from the computer. She hogs it a lot lately. I'm playing catch up again! This is me on Friday the 13th. While we were out we dropped into the Menagerie. We did this because I'm still driving my humans nutso because I go on my pee pad once then somewhere else the next time so we went to the Menagerie in search of this stuff to spray where they want me to go! The got the stuff to spray where they don't want me to go now it seem's they have stuff to spray where they do want me to go! Wow...... the puppy business is the business to be in, we found the stuff.... it was $20.00 and when mom got it home she discovered it's pretty much only amonia. She says it better work or she's writing the company. She's real good at that. :-)

While at the Menagerie she found me this really neat ball. It has knobs all over it and I just love it. It's nice and hard rubber and feels just like my kong and it is even coloured like my kong. I'm having lots of fun with this.

Thursday July 20th, 2007

2007-07-12T23:54:00.001-04:00

Wow oh wow..... I met the most handsome little boy today!! His name is Alfie. Alfie lives only a few blocks from me. Imagine that! He is Maltese and poodle and sweet as sugar. I invited him in to the scooter basket with me and his dad is here helping him in since he can't jump that high.

Ohhhhh Alfie..... he is so affectionate.

I'm just goofy over Alfie. I hope I'm spelling his name right, my mom didn't think to ask his dad if it starts with an "A" or an "E". I mean, I know I'm good, and that I can type too but geez mom, I can't talk yet.

I hope Alfie's dad comes to this blog and see's his pictures and comments. If you do pop in Alfie's Dad..... *smooch* to Alfie. I hope we see each other again so we can play together.

This thing is really hard to use. Every time I put my pictures in they go all over the place and knock my words all over too. It's nuts. Being a puppy that types is hard enough.

Sunday July 8th, 2007

2007-07-09T23:28:00.000-04:00

Do you believe this? Check out the pink in my hair. It's only pink now but when it started it was beet red!

While we were out shopping on Saturday this lady just fell in love with me and had to kiss me......... and she had red red lipstick on which obviously wasn't the kind made to stick on for the day!

After she kissed my little head she exclaimed "Oh, I got my lipstick on her"! Duh..... so I went around with a big red blotch on my head for the rest of the day.

In these pics my mom had already brushed my hair a lot so it was just pink now. Nothing would take it out and it's now Monday and it's still there. What is the matter with humans??

Oh, btw, the same day we took that stupid purple ball back to that big named pet place and guess what? They tried to blame it on me! Little me and when that didn't work they tried blaming it on mom. Mom's not going there any more. That's ok, seems everything only has to go back and it's disappointing for me.

Saturday July 7th, 2007

2007-07-07T23:10:00.000-04:00

07/07/07....... today must have been my lucky day because we spent lots of time at parks today. We had a couple of not so nice things happen too though. Earlier in the day mom, nanna and I went shopping to an unnamed store but certainly one of the bigger ones and mom bought me some Milkbones. ummmmmm yummy! Logan's dad let me taste one the other day and I loved it. When mom got them home and opened them though she found them yukky buggy!!! She tossed them on the balcony and intends to call the company on Monday.

Next we went to another store, this one a pet supply store that's another big name store and mom had to take a harness back because they turned out badly made and the manufacturer tried to blame it on me when their logo fell off and stuck to my tummy and my mom had to cut it out of my fur :-( When she was there though she bought me a new ball!! Yeahhhhhh I love balls.

After that little escapade we went over to Riverdale Park! I like this place. I ran and ran and ran and chased the little birdies too! I even barked at them. I met a few doggies briefly there and saw an old friend too. And I met a little girl before we went home for dinner.

When we got home for dinner mom gave me my new ball. ummmmm so much for that thing. Within 5 minutes it was worthless and mom was scared I would choke on it. She says it's going back tomorrow!! And she's never shopping in this big named pet supply store any more because their products are not puppy safe. Now I don't have a ball any more :-( Mom says this store should be call P.U. for stinky!!

To make up for that we all went to Allen Gardens for a couple of hours. What fun I had there. I didn't see any of my friends I normally see there but tonight I met two new friends.

In this picture is Oscar. He was a ton of fun and he's so smart! Mom had stopped at No Frills on the way to the park and got me a new box of Milkbones and Oscar sniffed them out!!

Oscar knows lots of tricks, he's 2 years old. Here he was begging for a Milkbone. He really likes them. He sits and begs too. And he rolls over too. Quite talented. I hope I learn some of those tricks one day.

This is a Jack Russell Terrier I met tonight too. He was running all around playing with me and Oscar. He got all tangled up in my leash.

Ooooooooooh Mom called me a bad name tonight. While she was busy I was playing and I ran into the bathroom when she wasn't looking and took the bathmat. My Nanna's NEW bathmat that now has some holes in the back of it!!! oh boy..... mom says Nanna is not going to be happy. Sorry Nanna, I thought it was a toy.

Friday June 6th, 2007

2007-07-07T22:36:00.000-04:00

I decided to take yesterday off after systematically driving everyone nutso around here the day before :-) Today I had a bit of fun again though as you can see in the picture. There's something about that nice soft toilet paper.... hehehehehe That's my t-shirt in front of it. I have one of mom's old t-shirts to snuggle up to at night and to run around dragging it everywhere during the day.