My Dogs are driving me to Drink!

So last night... the dogs are out in the yard. Ava was boobin' and half asleep. The Hubster was, uhhhh .... otherwise occupied. ;) They were out in the yard for a bit, not too long. At one point Buddy barked and I yelled at him to "Be Quiet" from our bedroom. lol

So Hubster is available before I am, and goes to let the dogs in. Only, he only finds Buddy out there. He's like, did you let Dottie out too? I told him I was pretty sure I had. He can't find her. I asked if her looked under the deck. Yep, he did. She wasn't there. Now, keep in mind we have a 6ft cedar fence with padlocks on the gates. There's no where for her to go.

By this point, Ava's asleep in the bed and I'm out on the deck. I'm looking around, when in the faaaar corner I see there is some chewed up fence and a small hole.

I'm like, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... look over there! Little Miss Houdini chewed a hole in the bottom of t he fence and got out!!

He found her across the street in the neighbors yard, but UGH!

At least it was before 5pm, so I was able to call the fence place and get on the schedule for them to come out and replace the boards. Bah.

Oh and keep poor Buddy in your thoughts today. He's off in a bit for the ole' sinpperoo surgery. :-P

TGIF

Yeah, it's a bit cliche', but Owell.


I AM happy it's Friday. Despite the fact that I still had to run out and do some errands. Apparently, the dogs like to have food. Dang them. ;) If not for the fact that there wasn't enough food to last them until Monday, I would've totally stayed home.

Traffic was bad enough today. I wouldn't want to have tried it tomorrow. Plus we are jam-packed with things to do tomorrow too.

As I was standing in LINE at the self Checkout at Wal-Mart (yes, you heard me right) I was thinking that I was glad it was Friday, and that we were about ready to be DONE and on the way home.

J got her 1/2 way progress report for swimmign yesterday. She's doing really well. She needs to work on a few things tho. I told her her teacher said she needs to practice those things, and she says "Mom, how can I practice when we don't have a bog pool"?

Uhhh, ok good point there.

Being the clever Mom I am, I told her she needs to practice them AT swimming lessons. That while her teacher is helping the other kids in her class and she's waiting for her turn, that she can work on some of the things she needs to do.

"Oh, Ok."

I have more to post about T-ball last night, but the hubster is out scaring the killdeer Momma with the lawnmower and needs me to find a clean shirt for him. :-P These are HIS shirts, surely you think HE'D know where they are. That's where you (and I too appparently) would be wrong. :-P

The NewsRoom

I love News Stories like this!! It reminds me of when we got our cat, Lucky. I was about 5 or 6 at the time. She was in a foster home for our local Humane Society. She had been found wandering around, and was very tiny. Thus they names her "Lucky". The Foster homes' pet cat had just had a litter of Kittens. The Momma took Lucky on as her own, and even became her favorite one! LOL

Much more interesting tho, when it's a dog, nursing kittens!

I found this great site called The News Room. They have TONS (and I mean TONS) of news clips and videos from all over. Looking for that clip you saw, and wanted to share on your blog? They probably have it there!

I had a lot of fun looking at all sorts of clips from the Midwest area. It was fun too, seeing a lot of the news anchors I remember watching when we lived in MN. Funny how they haven't seemed to have aged in 5 years! LOL

Signing up for the service is free, and it was really easy to embed the video right onto the blog.

They also offer an incentive program. You can get paid for putting the clips up, based on how many views they get. They also offer prizes too!

Mostly, I just think it's a fun way to share some interesting news stories with your readers and friends!

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells...

... Oh sorry, I got caught up there for a second thinking it was December when I woke up and saw all the snow outside! LOL

I shouldn't complain too much tho. My friend Laura lives a bit north of me and they are supposed to get more than we are. Supposedly it's going to switch to rain sometime this afternoon. However, looking at the forecast for the rest of the week, Thursday is the ONLY day it's not supposed to snow or snow and rain. Bah.

The dogs are having fun. They've been out three times since I got up about 30 minutes ago. Buddy, being the teenager that he is, decided he needed to beat his sister outside, so he LEAPT over her as she was going out the door. Only problem was he didn't account for the snow. I now have a German Shepherd sized skid mark in the snow on the deck from where he slid head first across the deck after leaping over Dottie. :-P

Back to the old grind today. I also need to answer a few questions. ;) Not to mention i still owe you Easter pics. :)

Colds, Car Shopping, and Cats, Oh MY!

The girls are still snotting around. Fun times. LOL Thankfully the weather's warming up, and I've even opened a window or two during the day. We still have quite a bit of snow on the ground that needs to melt, but it's getting there.

Since it was so nice out yesterday, the Hubster talked me into going out to look at cars. It was less than successful. I seem to have champagne tastes on a beer budget! LOL I'm sure we will find something at some point, even if it means pitching in my PayPerPost money to help out! LOL

We also FINALLY got Ava to Stride Rite for her first real shoes. She's less than impressed. Oh and since we had to take the girls' seats in and out when test driving, when we put Ava's back in my car, we put it in forward facing. She was NOT dealing with all this change very well. By the time we headed home from supper last night tho, she seemed to be enjoying her new perspective.

We stayed up way to late last night. I was chatting with Laura and looking at cars online (I even dreamt about cars... UG!) There was some sort of big scuffle between the Dogs, and Wolfgang. The end result was a fluffy, wet cat, and two fluffy dogs. Wolfgang spent the night hiding out under our bed, despite the fact that the dogs are locked up in their crates all night.

We may go car shopping again today, if anyplace is open. I'm not sure if they are ot not. At the very least, Eric will be getting a Sunday paper when he heads over to Walgreen's to pick up a few pictures he had printed there.

I've got a good case of spring fever and decided to break out the girls' spring clothes. I've gotten Johannas' out so far, and am working on washing them. I weeded out some of her size 6 stuff, and put it a bag to bring to OUAC when they start taking Fall clothes. I'm sure she has more things I can weed out too, I just haven't caught up on her regular wash yet. lol

Hope everyone's having a good weekend, and I'm going to try and work on the Blog Party post too! I hope they plan on making it an annual, or even semi-annual event! It was a ton of fun!

Dogs who eat weird things

Having had pets all of my life, I've certainly seen them consume strange things over the years.

Buddy, who is still very much a puppy at 1.5 years old, got into something the other day. We were lucky enough to see the remants of it. YUK! I think it was probably some fluff from a toy and some string from his rope-bone, but after being in his tummy for a while, it was hard to tell exactly. He's aways eating stuff he shouldn't. Like crayons. Usually we don't know about those until we see technicolor poop in the back yard. LOL

That got me thinking about when we first got Dottie. We adopted her from the local Humane society. I wasn't ready to handle a new puppy at the time. Johanna was potty training and I figured 1 trainee at a time was enough. One of our dogs had recently died, and we were so used to having 2 around, not to mention the other dog seemed really lonesome without his buddy.

So I searched their website, and there was Dot, 9 months old, already trained. A puppy still, but old enough to have been house trained.

We had her about 2 days when she started vomiting blood. Our dog that had recently passed before that, had starting vomiting the night he died, and we were completely freaked out. Off to the pet ER we went (because of course these things never happen on a weekday) several $$$ later, and they really didn't know much. They transferred her to our regular vet in the am, and kept her hydrated and sent her home the next day, once she had stopped the vomiting. They chalked it up to the stress of being in a new home, and all that.

We put her on lamb and rice puppy food, just to be safe.

Fast Forward a couple of weeks. I take Johanna out back with the dogs, and a little while later, I look over, and there's Dottie with a collar sticking out of her mouth!!!

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... OK... It was Skye's collar, and it was just dangling, whole out of her mouth. She had apparently yanked it off his neck and started eating it! Good Grief! We weren't sure of she had chewed it up, or just tried to swallow it whole.

It was after 7pm, so off the the ER we went, AGAIN. At this point, I tell Eric, I'm starting to think we should look into getting pet insurance!!! We had the 2 ER visits in a month, plus we had the bill from having to get our other dog cremated... it was getting a bit silly!

Thankfully after a couple of x-rays they determined she had indeed chewed it up into bits, and would most likely just pass it easily.

We never did get the pet insurance, but I really was this-close to getting some after that. Thankfully she outgrew her puppiness and doesn't eat too many weird things anymore! Buddy, not so much, but I'm really hoping that with age, will come wisdom, or at least a small ounce or two of common sense! LOL

Working Dogs

Ok, this is really cool, have you guys ever watched K-9 to 5 on Animal Planet? I've known about dogs that assist the handicapped. There's seeing eye dogs, of course. Those that do police work, and help find people who are trapped or lost. What I didn't know is that there are dogs who can help with the detection of mold in your home! These dogs really need to get on that show!

Mold sniffing dogs! I would've never thought about that, but it makes a lot of sense! Dogs have been sniffing out things we can't smell for centuries! It's really no surprise then that they can detect mold pores and where they are. Especially those lurking behind walls and in places we can't see without ripping things apart.

Advanced Mold Diagnostics is a NJ Mold Remediation company who specialize in this unique service! They've been interviewed on TV and in the papers numerous times over the past 4 years.

Their site is a great resource for not only learning more about mold sniffing dogs, but about how mold grows and how YOU can prevent this from being a problem in your own home!