Mooseiversary Swim Fest

Momma kept her promise and took me swimming! It was a new place I never been before that is not as far away as FarAway Beach! It is by the dog park so still kinda far.









After you get outta the car it is a kinda long walk for a senior dude. Then you get to where seniors can get in the water. It was pretty easy but not as easy as the beach.










Then almost right away it is too deep to stand! I know how to swim just prefer to walk and there is not so much room to do that. Still it was pretty fun. The place has super smells too!




After that I asked momma to take me to the park.Swimming there is more my speed!














She said it is dumb to drive all the way to the beach just to swim in a pool but, hey... This is Mooseiversary not Mommaversary!











Plus I got to meet this lil pup called gadget! She said she's gonna grow up to be just like me!
- Mooses

Mooseiversary Saturnalia!

Today is my Gotcha Day!!! 5 years ago I rescued my momma from a tragically dog less existence! In observance of this auspicious occasion I have been searching for a word that will describe the festivities. Extravaganza? Sounds pretty good but seems like car salesman use that word like every other day so it is just not special enough! Then I saw some queen from a far away land had a Jubilee that looked rather festive. She had a whole flotilla of boats parading for her, pretty awesome! But standing there in a hat waving at boats is not my idea of big fun. Yesterday I thought we might call it a hullabaloo which sounds like fun but it might be kinda loud. I am not a big fan of noise and commotion!
So then I found it! Saturnalia! After all it is Saturday! I looked it up in the dictionary and it is "...a time of unrestrained merrymaking"! Perfect! Ok it's s'posed to be in December but if there is Christmas in July, Why not Saturnalia on a Saturday in June! So that is what my gotcha day will be... Unrestrained merrymaking!

I got a super brunch with an egg a lotta little fishes, chicken paws and kefir!
















I also got pizza bones which are totally my favorite!

I got a new krunkle monkey toy. Buddy took my old one to his new home and it's a super fun toy!


















Then I got a Cheeseburgins all to myself! Joe Stains would be pretty impressed I think!

The bestest part of the day was supposed to be a trip to the park where I can swim, only momma was too slow this morning and by the time she was ready to go it was unbearably hot! She promises to take me early tomorrow tho! OK, not exactly Unrestrained Merrymaking but I guess there was a little more fun than normal!

-Mooses

Love and Pecks!

I got a super special package in the mails today! As the official Moose Lodge postal inspector I am in charge of opening the mails as usual.






Lookit! I got a little bit of Love and a lotta pecks from the nice people at Honest Kitchen! (HonestKitchen.com)






Love is their newest formula so I never tried it yet, and Pecks are their lil snacks that I never tried yet either. They must be new cuz I never even heard of them! They are made of buffaloes and blueberries.






I woofeled until momma opened the Pecks. They are totally delishes!







Of Course I have to share them with dumb ol' Buddy. I reminded momma that he is totally chubbers and on a D-I-E-T but she says the are small and healthy so he can have them too. Poo!







I got to try these snacks out with my beak flipping trick. They are the perfect size for that!


Thanks Honest Kitchen!
The reason they sent some treats is cuz momma pointed out a minor boo boo on their site and momma is shameless when it comes to asking for free doggie stuff! Momma gives them lotsa business though so we don't feel too bad!
-Mooses

Me and Buddy went to the beach!

Yesterday momma took buddy and I to the beach! Although we live a few hundred feet from the water on a long skinny island it is incredibly hard to find a place doggies can actually get in the water! So we have to drive a looong way to get there in the Moose mobile!

Once we got there it was totally worth it though. Momma won't let me off leash but still fun! Where I live you have to walk out for miles to get deep enough to swim but I prefer to walk through the water anyways.

We wanted to know if buddy liked the water (some labbies don't believe it or not!) and also to take pics of him looking super handsome to help him get noticed on the LRRoF Website. It is hard for a middle aged black boy labbie named Buddy to stand out because there are sooooo many out there.

Well, Buddy liked the water but did not seem like a water nut like some doggies. I really think he might never have been to the ocean before. There were lots of people in the water and mostly it seemed like he wanted to go meet them. I bet if he could go off leash and run around he would love it.

Anywho, this beach is a natural beach and it has some mangroves which makes for some awesome exploring!

There is a boardwalk too which is puts you higher in the trees and things smell totally different!

I ate some grass like I always do but it was saltier than on our normal walks! Delishes! I ate all kinda things I found in the mangroves before momma could stop me. I will never tell her what though or she won't take me again.


Buddy had a fun day and I think we got some good pics and video to help him get adopterated!
Here is the video we made for him:

Momma and I went to this same beach back in winter and there were no people so we had the whole place to ourselves! This pic will make it almost like you were there too... Check it out!
http://photosynth.net/view/408f6f2d-5d74-4332-8fae-bf0a1dff554f

-Mooses

My Buddy and three random things

Hi again everyone! I have not blogged in ages because, well, frankly mama is lazy. She says she spends too much time behind the puter for work and at the end of the day doesn't want to sit there any longer to help me blog. She got this fancy flat thing that is kinda like a puter so she is gonna try a new way to post on here for me!

I can't begin to catch you up on all the stuff that has happened here, so I'll just start from right now. If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter you prolly already heard all of this tho.
Meet my new foster Pal Buddy! He is 5 years old and pretty handsome.

He weighs even more than me but he's a lot shorter, so he is on a DIET while he is here. I guess that's why he has to look all over the kitchen for foodables every time Mama leaves (even when she's home).

Aside from Buddy there is not a whole lot new so here's three random things. I went even further south and shhh don't tell any one but I found another mooselodge which calls into question the validity of calling myself the Southernmost Moose. I am pretty sure they built it in my honor though so I think its ok.

I had my first ever taste of Wallymellon in honor of Otis T Potus' burbday.

I also got to see my old foster pal Feebee at a special doggie event! She is lookin super and very happy and loved in her new home.
Ok that's all for now. Hopefully I'll get to post again soon.
P.s. if your people use an iPad to post to blogger momma would love to hear what app(s) you use to do it!

Mr Chewy loves me!

I was so excited when Mr Chewy gave me a special offer to review his store! Of course since it sells food I love it but since Momma buys EVERYTHING online I guess she is a little more discerning!

She is always looking for the best price on my food because I eat ALOT but also because my food is expensive. Right now I eat Honest Kitchen Embark along with chickens and fishes but the only pet store in our little town doesn't sell it. So Momma was excited to see that not only does Mr Chewy sell it but he has a better price than she could find before! 

She is also really impatient and wants things NOW so was really happy that not only was shipping free but we ordered on the night of the 21st and it shipped the next day and the brown box man delivered it on the 24th! As usual I got to open it to make sure everything was right!

Yep TWO boxes of powdered turkeys! Perfect! Its suppertime right? No? Surely she bought some snacks? No? Pooh! I totally checked the website and it says they have 275 different kind of snacks! I would like to suggest to Mr Chewy that he should put a small sample of snacks in the boxes for us doggies whose momma's did not buy snacks. I smelled food but got none very disappointing!

Also momma is forever scooping out the last bit of food before it occurs to her to get more so I was thrilled that Mr Chewy has scheduled deliveries and we got an even better price on the first order because we scheduled the next delivery. There is no special deal for the later deliveries which we would like to see so maybe they will add that soon. 

As you probably can tell from the steady stream of homeless doggies that come through the mooselodge we really like to help homeless doggies (I was once homeless!) so we really love that Mr Chewy donates money to them through the referral program but the really good news is that my pals who go there to shop can get 10% off their first order if they use this sooper sekrit code: DEWD6904 Ok its not really secret- tell anyone and everyone and they get 10% off and some homeless doggies get $10!

So thanks Mr Chewy! I can't wait for my next box!

MangoMinster 2012 entry: Bad Sports Dog

Last year I won the Bad Sports category at MangoMinster then won 2nd runner up in Best in Show! Well this year I am back to defend my title! 

Last year's win was mainly because I went on a drug binge right before the show! I ate a whole bunch a pills and had to go to the vet.
Well this year I am back to defend my title! Since last year I have a consistent track record of stealing things from the pantry and the counter.

Like the day I pulled the fishes out of the sink where they were thawing.














One day I even had a can of soup for lunch!

 I think my stuffie gutting habit really helped me win too. The bigger the stuffie the faster I gut it!

 I do share the moose lodge with the occasional homeless doggie which some people think disqualifies me from the bad sports category. Well let me tell you, while they are here I make sure they know that this is MY house! I steal stuffies from them, take kongs from them and generally don't tolerate any non-sense. See in this photo momma tried to give us each a stuffy

... but then the second pic is a mere seconds later and I have them both while the hapless foster pal is sitting like and angel!

In some cases I try to train them in the ways of a Bad Sports dog. When they prove to be unwavering in their goodness I try to blame my bad things on them In this photo who do you think is the guilty doggie? Not me! ;-)

I also love to hog mommas spot in bed even though i am not exaggerating when I say that I have SEVEN beds of my own and she only has one!

Plus when I am bored I make a game out of seeing how many of her shoes I can sneak outside before she notices.

If I get so many out that she has to come out barefoot to get them then I win!

So, I maintain I am still the baddest dog in the whole d@mn town and hope that the judge Maggie Mae has the wisdom that Judge Fiona showed last year in recognizing my badness!

Help! Duffy is eating all my snacks!

First things first: I am almost out of snacks cuz my foster pal Duffy is eating them all! I entered a photo contest because they are giving away FIFTY bucks worth of snacks so I really need your help! If you are on Facebook can you go here and click 'Like' under the photo of the most handsome of the 6 hounds? (Hint it is the tall dark and handsome one!). You don't have to fill out a bunch of forms you just have to click here and then click once more to vote. You can only vote once for every account and there is no cheating so every vote really counts!

So I have not blogged in TWO Months! It is terrible! Momma is very busy and has had a terrible flare up of whatcha call 'attention deficit disorder' so she is all scatterbrained and what not.












In my last post you met Duffy who was sick with heartworms- well he is all better now and ready for his furever home! He is possibly the dorkiest labradork there ever was though! Momma is always giving him snacks for doing dorky things which is how I am nearly snackless!

As for me there is not a whole lot that is new. There have been the usual string of countersurfing episodes...

....new toys bought and gutted.... 

... special deliveries... 

...noms...

and naps. Lots of naps!

You know... the usual! I am gonna try to get Momma to let me blog more so paws crossed that it will not be another 2 months til I get to blog again. I bet if I win a big pile of snacks momma will let me on here so please go vote for me!