{09sept2010: balancing fail}

The other day I came across a new (to me) blog, Dear World, It's Me Liz, about a girl and her English Bulldog, Bogart.  She had a post from a couple months ago that had me cracking up and jealous at the same time.  See if you can contain your laughter after checking out Bogart.

The cheeto eyebrows are the best.

See, I've tried before to balance things on Darwin's face/head and she never lets me even get close.  Even for Biggie's Dog Pile Contest a while back, Darwin would only let me put things on her body, but not her head.

After seeing Bogart's impressive balancing act I was inspired to give it another try with Dar.


 
  
FAIL.
Jason said I was being mean since Darwin was totally not into it and since apples are one of her most favorite snacks.  I wasn't letting her off so easily though and made her work for her treat by at least letting me balance it on her foot.
  
  

So not the same as her head. 
I know I probably should've used something smaller and easier to balance than a big apple, but it was the first thing I grabbed.  I'm not giving up yet!

{08sept2010: wordless Wednesday}

I didn't know bull terriers came in miniature version edition.



 

{07sept2010: recall}

This time it's not another Merrick product but Hartz.

image via ohmidog!

"Hartz Mountain Corp. has issued a voluntary recall of nearly 75,000 bags of dog treats because of concerns about salmonella.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration detected the presence of salmonella organisms in one or more 8-ounce bags of Hartz Naturals Real Beef Treats during random testing.
The company, based in Secaucus, New Jersey, has not received any reports of animals or people becoming ill as a result of contact with the treats, and is investigating the source of the contamination.
The affected treats are stamped with the lot code BZ0969101E, according to the FDA.
Dog owners who have purchased the recalled treats should immediately throw them away, and the FDA advises dog owners whose pets are exhibiting fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain and nausea to seek veterinary assistance.
Consumers with questions regarding the recall should contact Hartz at 1-800-275-1414. You can read the company’s press release about the recall here."

{07sept2010: should've would've could've}

This should have been Darwin and Sunshade or Jaffa meeting for the first time, but no it's not. 

This would have been Darwin and Sunshade or Jaffa rolling around on the ground together, but unfortunately it isn't.

This could have been Darwin and Jaffa playing a round of bitey face, but it's not because we woke up yesterday morning to Darwin coughing and hacking.  We had a date to meet up with Sunshade and Jaffa for that afternoon, but with the morning coughing we were worried Darwin was dealing with another round of kennel cough and we didn't want to infect Sunshade and the landshark.  
So rather this is Darwin meeting a random Airedale at the park a couple weeks ago (who definitely could have used a visit to Squaire dog grooming).
Oh and after we canceled our meet up, we didn't hear a single cough out of Darwin for the rest of the day.  Hopefully great that it isn't another kennel cough flare up, but annoying that we canceled meeting up with blog friends!  Grrrr.
Sorry Sunshade and Jaffa (and Elaine and D-guy)!  

{02sept2010: results}

So the results of yesterday's wordless Wednesday post...

Yep, that's right, Darwin lost.  Three times in fact.  I think she was just going easy on the little guy because it was his 7th birthday.

{01sept2010: wordless Wednesday}

tug at the dog park edition.... guess who won?

{30aug2010: reunion}

It's been a while since we've been to Marymoor after Darwin's bout with kennel cough, which she seems to have picked up from the Dane Outreach event we went to earlier in the month (we've heard a few of the other Danes that went came down with the cough too).  We got a late start when we headed out there yesterday, but it turned out to be great timing.  As we were halfway through our first lap, we ran into another blue Dane.  I saw his collar and knew right away it was a Greenbelts collar and that this was probably Darwin's brother, Kona.  And it was!

He was really healthy and happy.  It's been a few months since the last time Darwin and Kona saw each other, but they had fun playing bitey (and barky) face.  Kona's a barker when he wants someone to play with him, and Darwin's a barker when someone barks at her, so there was a whole lot of barking going on.


It was kind of funny because to everyone else walking by who heard these two, they probably thought there was a dog fight.



  
We chatted with his mom for a bit and she showed us some of his new tricks (he actually rolls over... Darwin would never).  Hopefully we'll see him again soon!
After we left Kona, we ran into the rest of the Dane group and Darwin made a new friend with a big blue 16 month old boy, Megatron!

It's funny, when we first met the Marymoor Dane group last year, Darwin was the youngest and one of the only blue Danes, and now there are a lot of younger pups and a lot more blues.  Just yesterday at the park there was Darwin, Kona, Misha, Megatron, and a baby girl puppy (who's name I'm blanking on) and usually there are a few more too.  

{26aug2010: for laughs}

via the agitator