I got this contraption called Rapid Bath to help me bathe my Moose. I saw it awhile ago but it was $70 which seemed rediculous so I settled for this Spray-Away Dog Wash which is really not bad. Then I stumbled on RapidBath on huge sale ($40) so I decided to give it a try. If you watch the demo on their website they tell you that dogs feel that it is a relaxing massage. The dog in the video obviously did not get the memo on that one though! Still if it is faster, that is good for everyone I figure!
So we got moose all ready for bath time (don't tell him I put a naked picture of him on the internets!).
Here is a little video of the RapidBath in progress.
Kinda hard to hold the camera while bathing a dog, but you get the idea... He does not look like he is enjoying it to me but he was glad it only lasted a few minutes!
Then he launched into his post-bath zooomies!
Then he went to bed and demanded he be compensated with an oinkie!
All in all it was pretty good. Very easy! The head swivels around so you can get all over very easily without getting wet. The hose we used was too long and has a connector that probably lowered the water pressure so next time we will try it without that and it will probably be even better. He feels and smells clean but still needs to be furminated, next time if the water pressure is higher we are hoping it will get rid of some loose fur but the jury is out on that!
After a tragic encounter with the leaf sucker upper, Moose's Moose stuffie had to be you thin iced (as RH would say).
You see, he is the same color as the leaves and he got sucked right up and actually jammed up the leaf sucker! This incident reminded me of Hoover's recent loss and his resulting 'Ode to my Duckie'.
So, to compensate Moose for his loss and for spending all day out side with the leaf sucker-upper instead of with him, I got him a new, non-leaf colored stuffie!
When I bring home bags from the store he likes to browse through them and if there is a stuffie he will fetch it out himself.
This is a stuff-less stuffie but once he found that it has 2 squeakers he approved!
Happy 4th of July! We have so far spent the day trying to reclaim the yard from vines and weeds and fallen limbs that took over while I was away. Not much fun! But we plan to cook out and relax a bit later. Moose will likely be hanging out in the bathroom during the fireworks though!
I tried to get a pic of moose with the flag I just put up but he is very difficult!
First he had to be bribed with a Kong to stay put then, as usual, he wouldn't really look at the camera. I have trained 'watch me' but he stubbornly refuses to do it when I have a camera in my hand!
Then when I really try to get him to look he starts in with his woofeling which results in a million pictures like this one! So stubborn!
Hope everyone is having a great holiday and the pups aren't too worried about the sounds.
Hey Fellow Bloggers, we are home from our travels! I have been exhausted from non-stop diving and Moose has been sacked out too, recuperating from a week-long dogs gone wild fest with his girlfriends in Miami! We are both glad to be home and looking forward to a long holiday weekend!
We came back to an urgent plea from LRRoF. Funds are critically low going into a season with notoriously low applications and donations. People are busy on vacation and enjoying summer fun and not generally thinking about bringing a new dog into their family. Unfortunately this does not stop the never ending stream of homeless labradogs!
So we have started a fundraising campaign to try to lend a paw. You should know that LRRoF is completely run by volunteers and fosters foot most of the bill for basic shelter, food and transportation. Donations go directly to pay vet bills that often acompany a neglected or abandoned dog who just need a helping hand to get started on a new life! If you would be willing to make a donation Moose would be forever grateful. Afterall, LRRoF rescued him!
You can donate by going here: http://www.active.com/donate/lrrof/dewdana2009
There are some suggested donations, but please do not be put off by these (they are the default suggestions!) We know that times are hard all over and that many of you have other charities that you support so we would be extremely grateful even if you are only able to donate a few dollars!
Thanks for considering the labbies and have a safe and happy holiday!
p.s. as an added incentive you can see a photo of everyone's favorite troublemaker, TeddyNo, over at the site!
First I want to say how sad we were to hear that Kai from Zoo crew has crossed over the bridge today. Very sad sad sad. He turned 8 back in February which seems so young. He was an awesome guy with such an expressive face that I just fell in love with through his blog. Aside from being a big black dog (what could be better?) he has a bumpkin that reminds me of my moose's! If you are not a follower of their blog, read this post to get a glimpse of what an awesome guy he was. http://zoocrewdanes.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-sweet-old-man.html.
As for us, I am getting ready to leave for a trip and Moose will be headed to Miami to stay with his girlfriends Swissie & Jetta. When I pack Moose's stuff I start by putting each meal in an individual bag. Moose of course watches this process closely and even tries to grab a bite as the scoop is coming out of the bin!
I know it seems like a bit much, but Moose gets lots of supplements and it is less trouble for the dogsitter if they are already dolled out in each meal. For those of you who have dogs that spit out even the best hidden pill, would you believe that moose will just eat them right along with his kibble? These are not special chewable dog pills or anything, this is Glucosamine and other human supplements. I guess it is a lab thing since they will eat anything you give them. It definitely makes life easier, that is for sure.
Anyway, all of that along with kong and oinkies gets packed in his overnight bag with a stuffy (likely never to be seen again!).
Phew! Guess it is time to pack my own stuff... I will be gone for 8 days and will miss my boy terribly. He misses me for as long as it takes my car to back out of the driveway then he goes on about his day with his girl friends and their fun yard as though this is his new home. I guess I could be insulted but it is nice to not worry that he is stressed or unhappy. Of course when I get back I get the long lost friend greeting so it's all good.
When we are out on our walks there is this one patch of grass that we pass that moose goes nuts for! He generally likes to nibble on grass here and there, but this little pasture is different. He grazes a few blades off of a clump then goes to the next and gets a few more then on to the next. I finally have to pull him away. He is so crazy for it that I wonder if we stumbled on Wally's glaucoma stash (http://dogsthatblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/its-for-glaucoma-i-swear.html )! Doesn't he look a bit loopy in that last pic?
I am afraid that summer is my busy season so I have to apologize for not being a very attentive blogger. This time of year I am out on the water working hard most days and come home very tired. Plus I travel some too (next week Curacao) making it hard to keep up with things. Although today is Thursday I have not had time (last week either) to do a True Colors Thursday post and may not do them again until things slow down a bit in the fall. I really enjoy doing them, but they take more time than the average post!
Another thing I have fallen hopelessly behind on is acknowledging awards! It is very ungracious of us and if you have left awards for us that I have failed to acknowledge I am sorry! I keep thinking I will get to them on the weekend but being a new homeowner keeps me busy on the weekends and then I can't remember who left what for us! Please don't be offended if this has happened or continues to happen, we do appreciate them and it is always a nice surprise! I am going to try to keep up with posting and visiting our many favorite blogs (an ever expanding list!) but you may notice shorter and fewer posts for the next few months:-( I have tried to teach Moose to type so he could take over but he has not quite gotten the hang of it. Plus I am pretty sure he would be on here all day asking if anyone knew where his mom went, how to open the fridge and if anyone would like to come take him for a walk. I can imagine coming home to deliveries of crates of oinkies and stuffies and he might even start trolling the web for hot labragals! We can't have that!
Just today my brother started fostering a dog through the Labrador Retriever Club of Potomac. His name is Jake and he is a 5 year old black lab who was found as a stray. We don't know much more about him but my brother says he is a little thin and although he weighs about 70 lbs he should probably weigh a bit more. If you go to their website you can read about how 54 labs were recently confiscated from a bad breeder and are in need of lots of care and foster or furever homes. If you or someone you know is looking for a lab and lives in DC Maryland or Virginia, please check out this site to see if you can help!
For now we would like to welcome Jake, Moose's foster cousin, to the family! Moose wants to meet him but I explained that he is like a thousand miles away! PS Anyone have any advice on how to healthfully put weight on an adult labradog? Is it best to just up the kibble? Will it help to use puppy kibble since it is higher calorie? No signs that he is a picky eater or anything, he probably just has not had good access to food. He is not drastically underweight so maybe normal meals will work best?
On June 9 2007 my Moose adopterated me (as Wally would say) and that very day I started blogging about my boy. Two years ago I took a long drive to Jupiter Florida where Moose was staying at a LRRoF foster home. He had been hanging out there since his owner surrendered him a month earlier. He was livin' large along with 3 other labs and a husky. This is the first picture I took of him when we were loaded up in the car on the way home. He was named Raven when I brought him home but it was a whole week later when he finally told me his real name was Moose! He has been an awesome boy from the start but I think he was a bit uneasy at first. Being a new owner I was not sure what to make of it and worried he was unhappy but he settled in with me and other than our move to a new house, he has seemed happy since then!
To celebrate this anniversary Moose got a special treat! A cheeseburger, some cookies and carrots. He was beside himself excited!
He has never had a full people plate set before him on the floor! He waited very patiently....
...for awhile!
Then... nom nom nom!
He also got a new stuffy! It was not much but things have been busy lately!
True Colors Thursday is a meme hosted by Blue and today's color is Purple!
These are purple sea fans. They are very common on Atlantic reefs.
Here is another lovely reef scene showing some sea fans. This picture was taken in 2002 at a place called white bank here off Key Largo. I am going back there tomorrow for the first time in ages and doubt it will still be so pretty. I think I will try to take the same photo for comparison... if I can find that spot!
This is a fairly rare coral called blue crust coral. Looks purple to me!
This is a Creole Wrasse's purple tail. They were all over where I was working the other day and I tried to get a pic but he turned away and I had to get back to work! I posted a different pic of them on my violet post.
Here are some purple sponges. This pic was taken around 100ft in Navassa Island. Even with a flash it is difficult to see true colors when you are that deep. These sponges are a really pretty irridescent purple when you see them in real life. You will have to take my word for it!
I admit to recycling this one from the recent violet post. It is one of my favorites though since it includes a beautiful thicket of my beloved elkhorn coral! The Moon Jelly in the foreground is a lovely purple. Pretty when they are not so close since they can have a nasty sting!
We could not find a new actual picture of Moose with something purple so we thought we would follow Joey & Zeke's lead and turn to Face in Hole for some help. Here is Moose as Dame Edna with puple hair!
Next week's color is ivory which I think will be pretty difficult but will see what I can do!
Moose went to the vet this morning for his annual shots and to have a lump checked out. It turns out he has not one but two new lumps (in addition to a 3rd one we had checked in the fall)! Doc wants to remove it soon because it feels a little too deep to be a lipoma. I am not going to get too worried just yet but it was not exactly what we wanted to hear! Everything else is fine and he is down to an emaciated 102lbs! The vet says it is a good weight for him but he seems less Moose-ish if he only ways 100lbs! Still it is easier on his knee so that is good.
After that I took my lumpy boy for a quick romp at the dog park since it was on the way home. This is a big deal because he has not been since last fall when he hurt his knee. He was very excited when we pulled in to the parking lot and was very happy to get in the gate. He got a fine how do you do from the 2 dogs that were there and trotted around with them and took a dip in the pool. When 2 more dogs arrived he really started running so we left since I did not want him to over do it!
Here he is with little boxer girl. We did not know any of the pups there but then we used to hang more with the evening crowd. I would love to take him more but I don't want to let him stay long and it is 20 miles away so it is a long trip for a short romp. Wish there was a closer park!
P.S. Our buddy Wally Tamale Corgador went to the vet today to check on his senior moments and other issues that have been causing him to feel poorly. We hope the doc had some good news for him and his brudder Oscar BS Teen who also went to the vet.
I got an update on our dear TeddyNo so thought I would share with all of his fans!. His new dad sent some pics and a few sentences to LRRoF so I only got the update indirectly and can't get more specifics. He is apparently settling in with his dad, brother (older yellow lab with terminal illness) and a cat. It sounds like there have been some adjustments that have been slow (i.e. kitty has not been too fond of Teddy boy!) and he is being crated during the day presumably due to some of his dietary habits (i.e. eating houses), but the good news is that the dad is sticking with him through these adjustments so hopefully this will be furever. He said that he is 'really enjoying him' which I was delighted to hear! P.S. for those of you new to the blog you can check out who teddy is from older posts here: http://dewdana.blogspot.com/search/label/Teddy
After vacuuming up what seemed like an entire Moose worth of furs and getting handfulls of fur when petting my boy I decided it was time to furminate. Holy Cow! I have never gotten so much fur off of him! His coat generally sheds less than other labs I have known, and usually when I run the furminator over him I get a half a handful of fur out. This time it just keeps coming! I stopped b/c we both got tired but I was still getting tons of fur with each stroke! Crazy! Seems a little late to be shedding for summer given that it has been hot for at least a month here in south Florida!
For those of you who were concerned about his brush with raisins... so far so good. If the vet can see us in the AM then we will go. He has not shown any signs of trouble but he has a lump that I want to get checked and it is time for his vaccines anyway.
I was running late yesterday morning and guess I left in such a hurry that I neglected to put away the cereal so I came home to this mess! I had just opened the box of Raisin Bran and when I got home there was less than a cup left in the bag so he essentially ate a whole box of Raisin Bran! Usually he pulls stuff onto the floor so I think I must have even left the box open so when he knocked it over it just poured down onto the floor. It looks like it could just be vacuumed up but I guess his moose drool combined with the sugar to form some industrial strength bonding agent because it had to be scraped hard to get it off!
He tried to deny it but he even had a flake on his head so the verdict is guilty! I am glad that there apparently were not enough raisins to be toxic but there was more than enough bran to cause some problems later! Terrible Beast! UPDATE: Woodrow (of Woodrow Sweetie and MJ) alerted us to the fact that raisin toxicity can take a few days to show up so now I am a little worried for my Moose. I did some looking and found some helpful info on the topic at the ASPCA website (they run animal poison control so I trust them). They say that the lowest reported dose that has been toxic is 0.32oz per kg which means for Moose 15oz and I estimate that he ate almoat 20oz of cereal of which maybe 4oz would be raisins. So I am hoping that my hardy dog will withstand this dose of bad mothering like he has many others to date but in the mean time I am keeping an eye out for the main concern which is Acute Renal Failure (ironically ARF) and symptoms are anorexia, lethargy, depression, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, tremors, and hypovolemia. So far (knock on wood) he has not shown any of these signs but one of the initial responses to toxic exposure is excessive thirst and I noticed he was very thirsty yesterday afternoon. This could also be a symptom of eating 20oz of dry cereal though and he is peeing it all out so I hope all is well. Terrible Mommy!
True Colors Thursday is a meme hosted by Blue and this weeks Color is Cobalt. I am running out of pics to use so most of these were taken while I was out on the water today just for this post. I did not find that much cobalt but then I had my nose to the limestone, so to speak!
These little fish are Blue Chromis hanging out with us on Molasses Reef today with their cousins the Brown Chromis!
This is a juvenile yellow tail damselfish with electric cobalt blue spots. Those spots are even brighter in person! They don't get their yellow tail until they are adults but they lose most of their spots by then! Since they love to hang out on my beloved elkhorn coral you would think I would have good pics of them but they are shy and always darting off to hide.
My dive buddy has cobalt colored fins
and the lettering and fender on our boat are cobalt colored.
And... a special guest appearance from TeddyNo who had cobalt stripes on his collar. No, he is not back, this is an older pic of him 'helping' me with yard work! I have not gotten any updates but he is still with his new family so hopefully all is well!
Next Week's Color is Purple which should be an easy reef color to find! See you then!
I am away this weekend visiting friends so Moose is in Miami at Camp! His fellow Campers are:
Jetta (the smooshy love sponge)
and Swissie (Camp counselor and activities director)!
Moose loves visiting the girls and really loves their yard. Much more interesting than ours at home! Hopefully he will behave and not cause too much trouble. I miss him terribly!
True Colors Thursday is a meme hosted by Blue and this weeks Color is Gray. It was very hard finding good gray stuff that actually looked gray underwater so these may not be so impressive... This is a pile o sharks (who are gray even if they don't look it!) sitting around the edge of a blue hole in the bahamas. Blue holes are basically sink holes in the ocean the sides are steep and go straight down hundreds of feet. They are pretty cool and often have some interesting critters hanging around and this picture was taken along the edge of the hole.
This is a moon rise somewhere in the Grenadines, since it is a full moon and the sun had just set and the moon was bright making the sky look very grey. When you are out in the middle of nowhere it is shocking to see how much light the moon puts out!
Here is my Dive Buddy with a Barracuda. It looks like she is saying how it was but that is just a coincidence (plus it is not a big barracuda, they get much bigger!). I have no idea what she is doing and she could not tell me either when I asked...
Here is an old gray faced donkey we came across on the island of St. Vincent who was tied to a fencepost and all alone. So sad :-(
Here I am petting a dolphin! This was taken in Curacao at the Seaquarium where they have a pen that holds these dolphins that are specially trained for therapy. When we get in to go to our dive site we swim by their pen and they come up to see us! It is pretty exciting! I don't like the idea of dolphins being penned up but these guys are 'walked' every day by the staff who take a boat out into the ocean and the dolphins follow them and come home voluntarily so they seem to have it pretty good!
The only thing gray on my Moose is his beak furs so here they are up close and personal!
Here is Moose and his gray beak resting on the grey seat cover in they gray interior of my car!
Since both of those are recycled pics the only way I could get a new pic was to use this black and white pic of him lazing about. He is being my office assistant here which means lounging on the sofa in my office. It's a tough job but someone has to do it right?
Next week's color is Cobalt Blue so maybe that will be a little easier! See you then!
Bonus Grays: This is some video of the same dolphins in 2006. Be sure to turn your speakers on so you can hear their squeaks and clicks. Since there may be small children watching I won't tell you what they are doing but when we came back in 2007 there were 3 dolphins ;-)
Thanks to everyone who sent get well wishes for my moose. He seems completely fine now. So I guess whatever the trouble was has passed! I think he knew I was worried so just to show me he was ok and 100% back to normal he decided to open the pantry and pull some people foods out while I was out today. I had suspected that he could open the door but it is now official... The pantry is not safe. The stuff he pulled out must not have seemed interesting (uncooked pasta and such) because he did not open the packages. The good stuff is way up high since I had a feeling he could get in there (it is a bi-fold type door so I think he can nudge it and it pops open!).
I am posting these pics to show how my boy is sitting these days.... His back right leg still sticks out to the side (after his knee surgery). His Buddy Parker just posted his sitting (& Birthday!) picture and he seems to be recovering a bit faster. He had the surgery a week or two after my moose but he is a young pup of 4 compared to my 7 1/2 year old Man! Aside from sitting sloppy, my Moose has to be bribed to stay in the seated position because I think he is more comfortable standing or lying down so that is why you see a treat in the first pic and a "Woofel!" face (i.e. gimme the treat already). He has the funniest snaggle toothed face in that one so I could not resist posting. Anywho... as you can see he appears to be back to his normal Mooses self!
P.S. Here is how Moose sat back in the good ol' days before knee troubles. And um, if it is not obvious, Moose is the one on the right! His girl friend Sarah (mini-Moose) is on the left.
Moose has had some sort of sickies today. He has been drooling and had a sort of glassy eyed look. And his nose is dry and warm and he has been making terrible smells. He will still perk up for a cookie but something is definitely not right. Hopefully it will pass. On another topic, it is finally raining here in South Florida! We have had the driest dry season on record (I think ~1 in of rain since December!). So last night after kibble time when Moose asked to go out I opened the door to pouring rain and lightning and he decided it would be best to stay in until it stopped, then came bedtime and the same thing 'No thanks Mama I'll wait'. So at about 4 am he decides that the time is now and he must go out and he did and took his sweet time spending 15min out in the rain getting drenched while I waited to go back to bed with a wet dog!
Word on the street is that the Relentlessly Huge Mango maintains a bachelor's quarters here in south florida! I did not believe it until I saw him baking in the sun the other day in front of his seedy place! Now I assumed there must be an innocent explanation, perhaps he was starting a Hotel for Dogs after his recent screening and review of the film.
However, later I happened by and found him out front obviously trolling for mastiff gals with his irresistible Mango Man look! I wonder if DOH knows about this?
UPDATE! This just in... Randi has reminded me that last June her peoples discovered he was moonlighting in Naworlins! I wonder where else he hangs out?!
Moose here, I wanted momma to post about this vicious dog that has moved in next door to us but she just laughed and called me a chicken hound so I decided to get on here myself to alert everyone. Before I went to stay in Miami there was a black and white puppy next door named Pup Pup who never bothered me and when TeddyNo was here we even used to try to play through the fence which made him bark like crazy. But when we came back a week ago there was another Pup Pup and I am so scared of her! Her name is Snow White and she is Pup Pup's littermate who was the runt and born deaf. Momma tries to convince me it is ok and says that she is just a sweet little puppy but I am not buying it. Since we got home I will ask my momma to let me out and then when she opens the door I suddenly remember about the dreaded Snow White and freeze in my tracks. Momma shot some video that I am posting so you can see for yourself how ferocious this Snow White is! Momma says that even if she were ferocious that she can't get through the fence but just to be safe I will only go to the back yard if momma comes with me, other wise I think it is safest if I just do my business quickly in the side yard and only when I really need to go out. I am not sure what I am going to do because I really miss hanging out in my back yard and I won't even drink out of my fountain because it is close to the fence where the little terror hangs out. Does anyone have any suggestions? In the mean time be on the look out for this pup, she is terrifying!
Moose's Mom here... I have never seen him act this way and have no idea what caused it. He loves every dog he meets and only runs off if they do something aggressive to him but he was afraid of her the first time he saw her and I have never seen her do anything but bark at him and it is a puppy play bark to my ears. I am hoping to get the owner to bring her out of the yard on a leash on neutral ground so he can see she is ok but I have not seen the owner outside in a few days. Unfortunately these pups are outside in the yard 24/7 but they are very friendly with me. Anyone have any ideas on why he is suddenly scared or what to do about it?
True Colors Thursday is a meme hosted by Blue and this week's color is Turquoise!
I will use this color as an excuse to post a picture of my beloved elkhorn coral against the clear turquoise waters around Navassa island.
I am recycling this picture that I used for one of my blue posts. It is a Queen angel fish whose crown is blue but really it is much better as an example of turquoise! I worked hard to get this picture so you may even see it again for a yellow post! Ha ha!
This is a scrawled filefish... it is much more subtle turquoise and not the greatest pic, but this fish has turquoise lines on it that look like they are glowing when you see them in person!
This is a trunkfish that has some turquoise around his eyes and along his back. They are very funny little fish! This was taken on a night dive and this little guy was very mad at my flashlight and kept raming it with his little horns! From the front they are even funnier looking but that photo was blurry.
In the tropics where the water is clear and shallow, the sea can be turquoise. This picture was one typical summer day where a scary looking storm chased us home. Phew we made it!
Here is a sunnier day at the Carysfort Reef tower surrounded by turquoise waters!
Here is my Moose enjoying a cool drink of water from the hose (his favorite way to drink) while he was refusing to get in the turquoise painted pool at our old place! That was as far as he would go no matter what I tried! Chicken hound!
True Colors Thursday is a meme hosted by Blue and this post will make up for the TWO posts I missed while I was away! I missed the Colourful post (ironically this was my suggestion!) and the Cerise post so here they are together!
This colorful image was shot on the underside of the branches of my beloved elkhorn coral. There is a very colorful animal in this picture... do you see it? Bigify to have a closer look. Pretty amazing camouflage no? If you are not sure what it is leave a comment and I will post the answer later ;-)
This glasseye snapper will pass for cerise plus he is hanging out around some 'pink cement algae' (aka crustose coralline algae).
This is a stoplight Parrotfish. I posted a different picture of this kind of fish back in the lime post but this seems appropriate for a colourful post! There is lots of cerise in here also from the 'pink cement' in the back ground. It could also work for Turquoise but that is tomorrow....
This is a pair of flipflops that I absolutely had to buy awhile ago... I think you can see why... pink, lab, french, and flip flops are some of my favorite things!
Here is Moose engaged in one of his favorite activities... emptying the most colourful kibble bag! This bag had all these metallic irridescent sparkles (bigify to see them) on it that don't exactly come across in all of their colourful-ness but it was quite something! This would also work for turquoise, but again, that is tomorrow!
This is a cerise colored bath glove I found at a dollar store here in Key Largo. You absolutely MUST 'bigify' to read the product description...
This is not Moose, Moose would never be caught in such an undignified pose (ha ha)! It is our friend Darwin rolling around on my very colourful striped duvet! Before I found my Moose I used to borrow him for a lab fix. He is an awesome guy!
So now that I am caught up you will have to stop in tomorrow for our Turquoise post!
Since we got back, Moose and I have been lazing about recuperating from the long trip and since we returned to unbelievable heat I decided it was time to get my boy a pool this weekend! Here is a video of him romping around. At the end he got a case of zoomies (old man style!) but my camera memory filled up. It was hilarious though!
I neglected to mention in our last post that we have hit the big TWO ZERO ZERO! I was not sure I would keep it up when I started almost 2 years ago but here we are! It has been a lot of fun but even more fun thanks to our visitors! It is always nice to feel appreciated so we were especially flattered that we received 2 more awards while we were away!
The first was from Wally T Corgador and here is what it says: “This award is presented to those dog bloggers out there who know the meaning of GREATNESS. Their blogs are consistently interesting, funny, or informative. Their KINDNESS is extended to others without expectation of it’s return, and their FRIENDSHIP inspires others to do EXTRAORDINARY things. These are the blogs you can’t wait to read everyday. In short, they are AWE-INSPIRING, full of wonder, and simply PAWsome!Pass this award on to 4 others who you feel exemplify a “Paw”some Blog, and leave a note saying why you think they deserve the Pawsome Award!”
Moose is Blushing! We think all of the blogs we follow are 'pawsome' so it is hard to pick just 4! We would like to pass it on to:
Buddy, Zack and Sassy over at DogDaze. Buddy is even bigger than my Moose and was just today diagnosed with 'extra junk in his trunk'! Go and check out that 'wagon he's draggin'!
Nanook and Pooka for their many wonderful public service announcements and outreach with some very awesome kids! Plus they are celebrities, now immortalized in some lovely portraits!
Bolo who entertains us all the time with his snuffle face! His new header is truly 'pawesome' so it almost makes up for not having a new picture in his post for us today ;-)
Minnie Moo and her brother Sno who are hosting a pawesome face in hole challenge that has taken off like crazy! If you have not tried it yet go here: http://www.faceinhole.com/us/ make one, post it on your blog and tell Minnie that you did by leaving a comment for her!
The 2nd award was from Indie and Rufus at Double Woof! We are supposed to pass it on to our favorite newly discovered blogs so we would like to pass it on to Life With Dogs! We were recently turned onto their trials and tribulations with one 'Mr Stick'!
