Day Has Been Too Busy

I have been grooming all day and when I say all day I literally mean all day. I just finally finished. Here are some photos taken today. All baths done today are nice and clean at home now I imagine getting dirty again. When you see Panda, well you will get what I mean.

Brie After BathThis is Brie after her bath. Unfortunately I didn't get Colby's picture as Jane and Family showed up just as I was finishing him.

The dogs managed to get much play in despite me grooming. I nagged Nathan to take photos and I stopped between groomings to click and watch. As you can see Kat is in the lead and Logan is right behind him. Instead of just mucking around sniffing it appears Kat and Logan are playing chase games - nice!

It's nice to see these two playing!

Panda had a bath as you can see but when you look at the photos below you will see what I mean about getting to be a mess right after. They can't help themselves.

Don't I look so pretty Auntie Darlah? Now no one will believe I had a bath.... hahahahahaha

Chase has let go and has started to truly play with everyone from Jeannie to Logan to anyone who will including Darcy but you will have to look at Spice's page for Darcy's update.

It's been a day of exhaustion but no ax has dropped. Life is joyful when you see the dogs mucking it up. I hope those that had baths and are now home are catching some serious zzzzs.

Photo Sharing

Click on Photo to see a Larger ViewThis is Chloe. We just got this photo from their mom. Look at the way she is so comfie. This is Simba's sibling. Look at the colour of her eyes. She is a chocolate. She has chocolate ears. I do not remember her being designated as chocolate. Maybe my old and feeble mind is forgetting but there is no mistaking. She is a cutie patootie, imho.

Chase came to visit today and I sent Nathan on a mission to take photos and Dennis found the camera on the ground outside - oh oh. Not a photo on it. He swore he took photos but....

Chase is enjoying getting to visit. Tomorrow I WILL TAKE THE PHOTOS and be able to share. heh

I planned on washing Panda but missed the ability. My computer was down. I lost fans and my mouse wouldn't work so I am sadly behind on everything but I am now up and going without 2 fans so we shall see where that goes.

Oh well everyone is having an amazing amount of fun - no one is just hanging out but instead socializing. Life is good with pals!

Got to Have Fun

No matter what is going on we always manage to play and have fun as no play makes life so dull, don't you think?

Here are just a few photos of today. Notice the one of Scruffy jumping at the camera, another of Spice and Pepper kissing Nathan. Sebastian that is just visiting for a bit to play today along with Ty - guys that want to have fun or is it the gals?

Yes folks we play hard and groom after. hahahahaha

Jeannie after Abigail to PlayNow its time to groom. I used to groom before play but that seems a bit backwards. :-) Sebastian and Ty who just dropped in for a play is leaving shortly so its time to stop playing and get grooming. hahahaha

Sniff Sniff

When it comes spring the dogs smell all sorts of things that we don't. When we know the snow has gone for good we use a disinfectant on all our walkways, decks etc that is non toxic to the dogs. I can't even remember the name but I get it from a lady that does the dog shows.

I also know Canadian Tire used to sell something that you can put on your hose through your fertilizer bottle that does the same thing. It's not necessary - just something we do. I like the fresh clean of 'clean' what can I say. :-)

Do you ever wonder what your dogs can smell that you don't? Read this.

Brie at Pool

Doing short updates today. I am looking at older photos and thought you may enjoy this photo. Looking outside though it surely doesn't look like pool weather any soon.

We are doing short updates today. Got a crazy day today - so apologies - not my usual. More tomorrow! I will make up for it. ROFL

Got a Water Dog?

If you have a water dog blame Kat or Truffie. :-) I am not sure if Phantom swims. I will have to ask Paula. Remember Truffie when he was a youngster? Well he no longer does this to our water dish but he will do it on the pool stairs.

I am posting this as we are in a lull. We have a quiet house and its important to know that habits such as this can be redirected. They do grow up but for some water is just so inviting.

Of course we change the spring water - yeah the dogs drink spring water.

Of course we have an unseasonable cold front that has settled in so maybe not till May will the pool be opened. Oh well... will save money for sure. :-)

At least this year no new pool liner.

Today I groomed a little throughout the day. Each time I stopped doing something I grabbed a dog and brushed them out. Some days I know I need a groom out.

Nathan's done practicing with Jeannie - still haven't figured out Wednesday night.

Good News

Envy got Breed, Group 2 and Tangles got her first 2 points beating a well known handler. We know its about the dog but..... well you know. Way to go Paula, Envy and Tangles!

The Cooper

This is a GREAT photo of the Cooper. Thank you for sharing it with us. It brought a smile to my face.

We have a busy day. Hava Java came to see us - one of Risa's kids - how cool is that and now Hava Java is home. Dusty has departed. Nathan's family is coming over shortly. His dad was diagnosed with cancer and is busy spending time with everyone. We are happy he is coming over.

I have the Jenkins and Oreo to bathe and get pretty for their parents.... busy day so no photos but I hope the Coops will bring a smile to your face as it did mine.

Taking Photos

First thing this morning it was cold but suddenly it warmed up so much that Dennis was busy pumping water off the pool cover as the dogs kept getting soaked.

Problem with this is the water has to go somewhere and that somewhere creates mud but don't tell Dennis that as he will tell you that's not true - yeah right!

So, we have had a truly fun day - much warmer in the afternoon but a messy day.

Why do some dogs love the trampoline effect of the pool cover mixed with the water? Of course it has to be the dogs that come to visit that don't want them bathed. ROFL

Nathan Training

We have had a busy day. We saw Jane and her husband Mark and Irma and Dick at the All About Pet Show and then Nathan told one of them we were starting in the back and we lost them. <sigh>We did look for you. Finally it was getting too late and we had to go.

Then we headed for lunch at Helen and Suzy's home - forgot the ice wine in the van. What a way to start a day. I rushed home, washed two dogs, Nathan did training, we ran with the dogs, Linda came over with Panda - Happy Birthday Lynda may Aruba be just the rest you need!

Here are a few photos I caught of Nathan training Jeannie.

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Looking forward to snuggles on the couch with the dogs. Looks like Panda is still in heat. Can I say that Kat has lost his mind? He has.

Home & Show

Cody Loving

I had the immense pleasure of playing in a big way today with the dogs. The downfall is it is soaking wet and muddy out there so its my job to clean them up.

Cody gets a bath in a few minutes as he will be home bound after I bathe him but I managed to get some real loving in with him. He is a sweetheart.

I truly love taking photos of the dogs. To be able to capture and be a part of their experiences and spirit is like no other.

I call myself lucky in this regard.

Tomorrow we will be at the All About Pet Show at opening at the back door (think that is what they call it) and I hope to see some of you there. We already bought our tickets online and there is a coupon to save $3.00 if you do. Use EXHAAPS

Hoping to find some fun stuff for the dogs and for the pups.

Update of the Twins

Thanks Gerda for sharing more. I see that Tre is more of a brown in his coat.

KobeTreKobeTreNow that we have better photos up do you think the twins look like twins now?

The Twins

Here's a photo of the twins. Unfortunately I only got 1 from Gerda. Sending from iphone? So, it's not as clear but you can see that they truly still look alike.

Well, I think so.

TreKobeSoon Kobe's mom will be having a human baby so it will be a lot of crazines but fun in their home!

Photos Received

Thank you, Piper - this was wonderful! I rather enjoyed this. If you have it in a larger size - send - I am printing out new photos for my walls.

Hi Darlah and Nathan,

Molly is going crazy over the shank bone on the Seder Plate. We want to wish you all a good Pesach.

On another note, Molly and I will be in the Lions Easter Parade with the Toronto St John Ambulance Therapy Dog Pack. This is her first official Group participation. She will have finished her 10 visits to the retirement home and she will be in her official “uniform”. We will take pictures and then I will write that little article for you Nathan. Hope it doesn’t rain.

Will  look for you at “All about Pets”.

Fondly,
Susan and Molly (also Larry)

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Hope to see you at the All About Pet Show. We will be there Friday at opening. I just heard Bowser beds will NOT be there. <sigh> Mammoth beds will be and they are good quality but geez was counting on Bowser. When you go to the shows be sure to ask for samples folks.

Congrats on doing so much with Molly - wonderful!!!!!! Will look for you on Friday! To all our Jewish friends, Chag Sameach!

In addition to a week's worth of non-nutritious matzo, Jews who observe the dietary restrictions of Pesach are deprived of digestion-healthy, high-fiber grains and legumes that normally keep things moving. So it's not unusual at this time of year to hear people complain about the undesirable side effects of all this matzo in the diet. But there are things you can do to combat this problem, sometimes known as Pharaoh's Revenge. So may yours be an easy one! :-) Enjoy your sedars, eat well and as you can see extra shank bones may be appreciated by your havanese. :-)

"Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics." -Marvin Olasky

May those that celebrate Easter - may your holiday be special ones!

I had a great photo of Scruffy and Pepper but Nathan said he wants to use it in the mag so its missing. :-) You'll have to make do with Nathan and Darcy!

Levon was here but no photo clicking. Not sure why the camera has not been clicked other than the real small pups. Oh well... it happens - busy doing other things.

Sports Detection, Obedience & Birthday

Darlah and Nathan,

Am I correct in thinking that this is Darlah's birthday today?  If so Happy Birthday Darlah.  Today Coco, Doozie and I attended a workshop on Sport Detection or sniffer training.  The girls had to find the box that contained a scent canister holding a Q tip that has been dipped in wintergreen 24 hour earlier from a group of six identical boxes.  They both did very well but Coco was reluctant to put her head in the box the first time.  Later she identified the correct box by taking a bow at it.  She is such a good little problem solver.  Doozie was a natural,  took to it right away.

They are both tuckered out now.

Lot of love

carol

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Here are the photos:

Carol: Thank you for the birthday greetings and thank you for doing so much with your dogs. It does my heart good. You always manage to challenge their bodies and minds - good one!!!

Dear Darlah,

   Thank you for always taking such good care of us.  

     We wish you a Very Beary Happy Birthday!!!!

                  Love,

                        Scruffy & Pepper   

                   (& the rest of the Bear Family)

                              XOXO

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Thank you truly!!

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Shannon let us know this:

Levon graduated from obedience class today. He won "best settle stay," "best recall," and, most importantly (I think), "the happiest dog" award.

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Huge bravo, Shannon!!!

Crazy Daze Continues

I am busy getting everyone groomed, Envy got a wash. I will put up a photo of Truff and him before grooming and in Envy's case before a bath. I just finished him now.

I am exhausted.

But our day started very early and I must now get everythig prepared afte the next bath for the seminar as we have to arrive at 8am with dogs done, prepared etc.

So, in case I can't update you later which will probably be most likely, here are a few photos that started at 6am today.

So, you can see as busy as it gets the dogs always manage to have fun!

Really Crazy Day Today

Roxie's Face tells you how I feel - Oh boy! Fun but....u got me!As you can see I am updating very late. I had a marathon of washing. It's been a tad insane and I just stopped now. So no galleries - extra photos - nada.

Today I finished Nathan's kits for his seminar. The one he is doing on Sunday, on my birthday. I had a ton of work getting that ready. I also procrastinated too much so I had extra dogs including Zoey (Dusty's sister that visited and had a bath. Now she is at home I imagine snuggling with her parents.

As it's my birthday Sunday and I am going to a breed seminar that Paula and Tracy are coming in for I needed to get some dogs ready to show at this seminar cause Nathan will be talking and I will be taking care of the dogs so he can show them. Plus when Paula comes in she always seems to time it when mine are due for their baths. She has perfect timing.

As I am feeling a tad old these days I pondered yet again covering the grey. Now I want you to laugh. I have never done this before so the box purchased a year ago sat and sat. I never quite found the time to do it and I knew I would honestly never had the time so I did the mix today, I put it in my hair, I washed Wasabi. 25 minutes passed, I put Wasabi on the floor with blowers on her and I hung my head in the sink. The stuff stinks. How does anyone ever do this but if you want to hide the grey. Then I put Wasabi back up on the table after conditioning the hair never getting to see what this dye stuff did to my hair, wrapped a towel around my head and started brushing Wasabi out. She was my last dog for today. I got hot so took the towel off, brushed my hair with a dog brush - doesn't everyone and finished Wasabi.

I then headed to the bathroom to take a gawk at what this stuff did beyond stinking something terrible.

Well, it didn't cover MY grey. Oh it is better but not complete. Why did I even bother?

Tomorrow I get to wash 2 dogs (Envy) and another before Paula comes as he heads home after this seminar. Paula insists on taking me out to eat and I wonder if I will be sleeping in my plate and just hoping Monday arrives. I doubt I will find anything to wear and well I am stilll grey and doesn't everyone got a breed seminar to help hubby on their birthday? ROFL

Now I want you to know despite insane busy I still got time to snuggle with every single dog. I washed, I snuggled, I played. I washed and then it began again. I have my priorities.

But can I go to bed now?

Shoot Me Now

He's MY man Pepper says!

The dogs have been in and out oh 4 times this afternoon (morning this didn't happen - snowballs that is) and each time they had snowballs from one end of them to the other. Poor Pepper had so many on her neck she couldn't move and did I take photos? NO but I was too busy.

Nathan has been away getting our grand daughter. I thought Dennis could take a nap but I woke him up and said I don't think so!

About the 4th time I told Dennis if he lets out Pepper and Scruffy one more time I will shoot him DEAD. He said but what is the problem?

Well, Scruffy knots up with snowballs so he got a mixture of detangler and water blown through him each time. Pepper was shaking in her boots - well she looks like she has boots so I did her first FOUR TIMES. Darcy could care less but I got her out of the way and then started in on mine. I did this 4 times and they can use the pads or Dennis can brush them out at least Pepper and Scruffy can till they go home.

I also had to get kits ready for Nathan this afternoon - so much for bathing dogs. Tomorrow - oh well marathon city I suppose - we shall see.

It's my birthday on Sunday. Lynda dropped in to give me a gift with the funniest card. It is delightful. I will have to take a video of it. It's so cute. Thank you, Lynda - you are quite the friend - truly.

But on Sunday I get to go to a breed seminar - help Nathan on my birthday and there is much to get ready for it.

So photos - I don't think so - sorry!

I will tell you that Ty was visiting and he loves the pups. He has since gone home. I had a ton of fun despite the snowballs watching the dogs and laughing at how they looked. Silly woman I am as I should have had my camera instead of concentrating so much on getting them off them. Or maybe I actually had my priorities right.

Scavenging

It's not just the pups that start the scavenging when the melt begins. Logan and Kat are out looking for whatever they can find like 2 peas in a pod.

It's rather interesting as usually Kat has no time for Logan. He's just another boy and well he's just another boy that is here when gals are all supposed to be mine but they have developed a relationship much like Truffie has with him.

They do things together and Kat likes that even more than the play. Sure Kat plays but he likes to forage and investigate and well be busy. One wonders what that is about but Logan also seems to like to do so as well. Logan is a huge play monkey but he has found this scavenger game fun.

Magic is here visiting and she just had a brush out. I also added a pretty barrette to her hair (thank you Shelley and Al) and doesn't she look great in it?

Magic has been so amazing today playing up a storm and now she is catching some serious zzzs.

I find they all do just before dinner time. What is that about?

Just a Day

Frannie's antics include standing on Nathan's kitchen chair as if to say - well where is the food?

You are filling the bowls MUCH too slowly. Gee Frannie - patience my gal. hahahahaha

Frannie was here and got a bath and now she is off with her Mary Beth. I miss her already.

She is truly a character.

We remain extra busy. This week we have our grand daughter so Nathan has to drive her to school, pick her up after school and spend some quality time with a teenager. We are oldies you know so that can be interesting - I say that as I watched Flashpoint with her last night and actually found I liked the show - who knew.

She doesn't like Idol - me neither but we watched it. She went online.

It's a busy week and I am playing catch-up on baths. I did poorly today. I only washed the Frannie so I am a tad behind - silly me - procrastinating.

I did manage to catch some shots of the younger set and with Mia playing with Roxie.

Roxie and Mia get along famously. They have an interesting relationship. Mia says we play on MY time not on yours. Roxie finds this to be a curious thing.

Now that she knows she waits for Mia to introduce play and then they play and play. But if Roxie introduces play Mia says - not now. huh?

Be sure to check out Spice's blog to see the younger set. They had such fun.