I was working in the master bedroom suite (cleaning out cabinets, etc.) so David decided to take a nap in the guest room. Well, lo and behold, Huxley and Blitz joined him. It's a futon bed, which is much smaller than our bed, but they all squished onto it. Lazy girls.
After their nap they went out onto the deck to catch some rays. Don't they look relaxed? Again I say, lazy girls.
The girls are both favoring their right, front paw. I checked the pad and there doesn't seem to be anything stuck in the foot. I'm not sure why they are favoring them like they are. I worry that it's aging and they are started to get stiff. I'll have to call the vet and ask him what he thinks I should do. He may need to come and look at them. I hope they are okay. I worry about them.
It was hot again today and so the dogs stayed in most of the day. I have the air conditioner running to cool everyone down. They seem to be ready for bed. I really feel they've been more active lately. They're not sleeping near as much as the did at first. I wonder why that is.
Earlier they cornered Minnie in the bathroom. She was traumatized, poor kitty. I had to go in and literally drag them out so Minnie could get to the bedroom. They don't respect the gate anymore. They just jump right over it to get to the bedroom. Blitz is funny though. She'll jump over the gate going toward the bedroom, but can't seem to jump back over it coming into the living room. They could easily go over the fence in the back yard. I hope they don't start doing that. The neighbors wouldn't be too happy with two, big dogs running loose.
We're back to Stage 2 watering so the sprinklers will run in the morning. I'll have to put off cleaning the yard until afternoon time. The girls don't like the sprinklers very much. I don't blame them.
I drove by Preppy Pet today. I sure wish I could bring them in for Doggy Day Care once a week or every other week. But the budget just doesn't allow for things that aren't necessary right now. I do have a coupon to get one of them in for free, so it would only be $15 for both of them to go for one day. Maybe I'll take them one day next week.
Now they are both back in the living room - Huxley on the floor and Blitz on the couch. Things are as they should be.
I left the girls home (in the laundry room) while I went and ran some errands. They were so excited when I got home. I had to let them out right away, but they wanted in as soon as they were done doing their business. For a treat today I gave them half a peanut butter sandwich. Huxley loved it. Blitz seemed confused. She doesn't like new foods very much. They do however love fig newtons. I gave them just a little piece. Now whenever I have fig newtons out they surround me. They've been napping most of the day. They were so tired that they didn't even get up when David came home today. Blitz just went in the bedroom to join David for a nap. Huxley is on her bed (well, two thirds of her anyway) and oblivious to the world. Think I'll go join them for a nap.
Blitz woke me up. She was hacking. I'm not sure why she was doing that. I got up and brought her out to the kitchen to get some water. By the time we got there she was through hacking. So, I let them both out for a potty break. When they came back in they went right to bed. I decided to tidy up the few things in the kitchen that I did not do before I went to bed. A few minutes into that and Paulie came out to the kitchen. It wasn't long after that Huxley came out to the dining room. Paulie hid behind the counter. I tried to distract Huxley but it didn't work. She caught a glimpse of Paulie and started whining. That brought Blitz out to the dining room. I was already headed down the hallway and was backtracking as quick as I could (it was 12:30 A.M. for gosh sake). But it was too late. Blitz got a look at Paulie and started to chase him. Blitz and Huxley get so excited when one of the cats runs. Well, it wasn't very long and Blitz was whining and barking excitedly. Paulie first ran behind the couch, then headed the down the hallway with Huxley and Blitz in pursuit. Thankfully Paulie got to the bedroom sooner than Huxley and Blitz, but only by seconds. Now I had to turn around and head back to the bedroom so I could get them to stop whining and to get Blitz to stop barking. I knew they would wake David up and they did. Now they are all settled back into bed. There is peace again in my house. But now I'm more awake than I'd like to be at 1:00 a.m. There's not a whole lot to be done around the house, at least not anything quiet. That means that I have plenty of time to recount the last half hour's events. :-) Pretty darn exciting, eh?
Well, the girls chewed on the new beds and pulled the stuffing out. I'm going to have to trash them now. I'm glad I only paid $10 a piece for them. I'll take the eggcrate out and put it back in the old bed. I think Blitz is more apt not to bark or whine if Huxley is on the old bed. Having too many beds just stirs stuff up.
Blitz is at the bathroom door watching whichever cat is in the bathroom right now. She'll stand or sit there for hours just watching the shower curtain (a lot of times the cats are in the tub behind the shower curtain). She can't wait to get a glimpse of the cat. Huxley is laying on the floor napping of all things. Sheesh, they really need to settle down. :-)
G'day Mate! Here are four pictures of Lisa's parent's dog Lucky (blue collar) and her brother Michael's dog Benson.
Soon the Dog Blog will be international. Lisa (Woody's mom) is going to send me pictures of her parent's dog, Lucky and her brother's dog Benson. They live in Australia. Dog's from around the world. How cool! As soon as Lisa sends me the pictures I'll post them on the Dog Blog.
The girls are already in bed. They've been more active the last couple of days. But they are still the laziest dogs on the planet.
I guess these pcitures would qualify them as pampered pets. Time for me to go relax like they do.
Well, it's been a quiet weekend. It was really hot so the dogs have been pretty layed back. Blitz is still barking at Huxley to get off the bed even though I've put the old bed on the two new beds. And she's still barking at the cats. They seem to be chasing them more now than they were before. They're in bed already with David. I'm headed there myself. Oh yeah, some kids in the neighborhood stopped by to look at the dogs. One of them knew they were GSP's. They were real nice kids and they seemed to enjoy the dogs. We were all lazy this weekend and didn't do a whole lot.
Blitz decided to get up into David's lap today. She's never done that before. She'll usually put her front paws up on him, but not her whole bony body. She's just laying there now taking a nap.
I completely forgot to add Dyrk's dogs, Olie and Genesis, to the Dog Blog. I will rectify that oversight now. Olie is a beagle and he loves chasing tennis balls. Genesis is a Leonburger, a giant breed dog (as you'll see in the picture!). They are both great dogs. Genesis is very gentle. They both are great with the grandkids. Here are a couple of pictures of them.
This is Aspen with Olie and Skooter.
This is a picture of Genesis and Dyrk. Isn't she huge and beautiful.
Here's a picture of her when she was a puppy. She was massive even then.
They both got along really well with Skooter. They all played together up at the house in Woodland Park. I emailed Dyrk and asked him to send me some updated pictures of the dogs so I can add them to the Dog Blog. I look forward to seeing their pictures.
David installed the dog leads he made for the Jeep and we took the girls for a ride. Unfortunately they got caught up in the leads. They don't get caught up in the ones I bought from Champion. So, I think I'll need to purchase another set for David's Jeep. I'm also going to have to buy a bark collar for Blitz. She's barking too much now. She goes nuts when she sees a rabbit and when she gets close to Tabby she barks wildly. I don't want to worry about shocking her so a bark collar is a good alternative. They have them at Wal-Mart and PetsMart. I'll probably look at them tomorrow. Anyway, we stopped at McDonalds and got something for dinner and we got the girls hamburgers (they didn't make them plain as we requested though). They had to wait until we got home to eat them. And they devoured them, pickles, onions and all. I had them outside with me while I was on the swing. That's when Blitz started barking at a rabbit and I had to let her inside. I don't want the neighbors getting ticked off at her incessant barking.
I'm missing Skooter a lot these days. I keep wondering if I did the right thing by adopting him out. I know that he's really happy where he is, but I miss him all the same. If we could have kept just Skooter, I think it would have worked out okay. It would have taken some time, but it would have worked out. Not that I don't love my girls, I do, but Skooter will always be my boy.
I should be getting a gift card in the mail for Moped from PetsMart. I'll forward that on to his people once I get it. I sure wish we'd get some new pictures of him.
Speaking of pictures, I realized today the Ela never sent me the photos and video that she took of Huxley and Blitz when they were boarded there. I'm going to send her an email and ask her if she can get them to me sometime soon. I'd like to see them. And I'd really like to get the girls over there for doggy day care. Unfortunately money is an issue and I can't rationalize spending the money on doggy day care right now. I do have a coupon for one of them getting a day free, so it would only cost $15 for both of them for one day of doggy day care. I'll have to see if I can get them over there this week.
They are both laying down AGAIN, STILL. They slept even more today than they usually do. I think it was because it was so hot out today. I'm glad they are comfortable here. We took a nap this afternoon and they napped with us. They love taking naps. And they are always ready to go to bed at night. They were so layed back today that when David got home they didn't even run to the door. Lazy girls.
I created a page on youtube of my videos. There are, of course, videos of the dogs. You can link to my video page here
I sat out on the swing tonight talking to Deborah, watching the sun set and the dogs play. They've been going under the deck through a small hole in the lattice surrounding the bottom of the deck. There's only one way in and one way out and I don't know what they do while they are under there.
The girls are getting worse with the barking, whining and chasing the cats. It's not bad, but I definitely need to keep an eye on their behavior. I'm not sure what I can do to get them to back off but I'll have to try something.
We went to Collin's baseball game tonight and had a picnic. There was a family right next to us who had brought their two dogs. They dogs were so well behaved. They just layed there or walked with their kids. My dogs would have been so rowdy. They wouldn't have just layed there. They would have been trying to run wild. I'm not sure if, at the age they are at, that I can get them to settle down and stay with us. Even when I let them out of the house out front, they run all around the cul-de-sac. At the park they would have taken off and I don't know that they would have come back. I don't think they did a whole lot outside of their yard growing up. They don't seem to know how to behave off leash or on leash (they pull). It would take quite a bit of work to get them to be better on and off leash. The sooner I start training them, the sooner they'll be trained.
They are in bed already with David. Paulie is out here with me. He's getting braver about coming out here when the dogs are in the bedroom. Unfortunately Minnie and Tabby are less comfortable and sometimes they go to the bathroom in the tub instead of making their way down the hall to the kitty litte box. I'm cleaning the tub a couple of times per day because of this problem. I'm going to have to move their litter box closer to them so that they can get to it without the dogs bothering them so much.
I'd like to take them up to the Rampart dog park tomorrow, but it's going to be really hot and I'd have to go very early so they wouldn't get worn out by the heat. It sounds like a nice dog park, with benches, trees and water. I wouldn't have to lug a bunch of water with me if they have it available there. I'll have to see what time I get up and if it's early enough maybe I'll take them up there. I wasn't very impressed with the Palmer Park dog park. It's okay, but I think Rampart will be nicer.
Blitz is still giving Huxley a hard time no matter which new bed she's on. She whines and barks at her until she gets off the bed. It's too funny. It's like she doesn't recognize that there are two beds or maybe she does and she just wants to be the one who gets first dibs.
Well, it's time for bed and I'll need to move them over some to get into my side of the bed. They are pretty good about leaving me enough room to sleep comfortably.
I sat out on my swing this morning and let the dogs run around the yard. It was already hot out early and some of the time they were under my swing, sitting in the shade. Huxley found one of her bones underneath the deck. She was pretty excited about that. When I let them in, she brought her bone in with her. I need to get to Safeway and get some more bones. I'm all out right now. David went in to take a nap and the girls went in and joined him. They are napping in bed. They sure do live the good life. Paulie is out in the dining room sitting in the sun because the girls are in the bedroom. Very brave of Paulie. I wish they would all just co-exist but Blitz gets too excited when she gets near the cats and whines and barks and that scares the cats. Huxley will go nose to nose with Minnie and not whine or bark. I guess it will just take some time for them to get used to each other.
Today is Moped's 1st birthday. He's one year old today. I got an email from Dogster wishing him a happy day. I forwarded it on to Kris so she can forward it to Moped's people. I sure wish they would send Kris some updated photos. I'd love to see how big he is now. I sure do miss Moped and Skooter. Sometimes I think I didn't give it enough of a chance, but I know that they would be too much for me. They are such handsome boys and I really do miss them.
We spent the day cleaning out the garage and taking care of the back yard. The girls were out in the garage with us. They just ran around. We had the door closed almost all the way and Blitz still tried to sneak under it. So there's lots more room in the garage although it's still a work in progress. One thing we worked on today was building my new swing. We put it out on the back deck so I can sit out with the girls and relax. I have a beautiful view of the mountains from my swing. And the girls really enjoyed being out for so long. They tired themselves out and they are laying on the two new beds. Yep, I got another bed so they could both have a bed. They are sharing both of them right now. I'm going to put their old bed in my jeep for when we take them for a ride. Here is a picture I took of them earlier. They were actually each on their own bed.
And here's a picture of the new swing. It's really relaxing to sit out there and swing.
hHere's Huxley on the new (much smaller) bed.
And here's the two of them on the new (much smaller) bed.
And here is the no longer used (but much bigger) bed. Notice the lack of dogs on this bed.
I rest my case!
Last night when we went to bed, David had to roll Huxley over to make some room for himself. When he flipped her over she ended up on her back, legs up in the air. She looked so cute. She stayed like that for quite a while. If I could have gotten up without her moving, I would have taken a picture. But as soon as I'd get up, she would move. I find it amazing that we all fit in the bed and that we're able to sleep okay even though the dogs are taking up a third of the bed and Blitz snores. Right now they are play fighting. I love watching them play. So much better than watching them sleep. ;-)
