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Bruised But Better
2008-05-28 02:59:00 Well Bo’s foot is almost healed. Well its at least halfway healed and the dewclaw looks oodles better. Its been unwrapped for awhile and he hasn’t pulled it back open in a couple days. He’s really starting to feel the heat and loves laying on the linoleum in the kitchen or in the tub. We ...
Pooch Pops
2008-05-23 05:50:00 Jelsert (the same company that makes Ice Pops) used to make a product called Pooch Pops. They come in beef and cheese flavors, ten to a box for about a buck fifty. They don’t make them anymore. No one does. Fortunately we started our search this year before its too hot. We contacted jelsert and ...
New Spring/Summer Fashions?
2008-05-23 05:45:00 Once Bo gets better we’ll be heading back out for some intensive training. We missed out on the TV reality show this season, but we have some time to work on our training and get ready for next season (assuming it doesn’t only go one season). While we’re looking into some safety gear to ... More About: Summer , Spring , Sponsored , Fashions
Quickie Bo-boo Update
2008-05-21 05:35:00 Bo is healing ok. He’s been getting his paw wrapped and bandage and a bootie on top for some time now. He managed to hurt his dewclaw tearing off the bootie, but we left the bandages off for the past couple days and its been better. It seems to nothave liked being wrapped up. We ... More About: Update
Bo vs Nature
2008-05-07 19:50:00 Timmy decided yesterday I’ve been inside working too much and we were having a family day out, or at least the evening. He came home and took the trash to the dump while I finished dinner and then we took Bo down to the river to fetch sticks, splash in the water and play about. We ... More About: Nature
Spring is Here!
2008-04-30 19:40:00 And Boris couldn’t be more excited. Since I have been hoping to get more in shape from having a dog to exercise I have been walking to get the mail around lunch time again. Its not as long of a walk as he would like, but its just enough to get the blood moving and ... More About: Spring
Things That Move
2008-04-24 05:28:00 Yesterday on our walk to get the mail we encountered a turtle next to the frog pond. Now the entire time the frogs were out we didn’t see any and the noise didn’t interest Boris, but the small turtle trying to slide into the mud was apparently fascinating. He stood and barked at it ... More About: Move , Things
Wanna Cuddle?
2008-04-16 04:32:00 Today Boris seemed to decide we don’t do enough cuddling in the house. He crawled all over Cherokee and insisted on sharing the bed closest to the window that was in the sun most of the day. Cherokee for once decided it wasn’t worth snarling at him and let him cuddle, and even chew in ...
The Thrill of the Arena
2008-04-16 04:26:00 Despite the fact that spring is barely upon us, we are looking ahead to bigger and better things. One of the things that has always meant summer/fall to me is when the rodeo comes to town. I have always loved the rodeo. It comes with such diversity of events. One of the best rodeos I ... More About: Arena , Wrangler , Odeo
And We?ve got Pagerank
2008-04-15 07:00:00 Thats right, after all these months of hard work and trial and error we have page rank. I am so proud I could burst and actually spent the day dancing about and skipping I was so gleeful. Its now time to get some serious revisions done such as finally editing this theme or finding ... More About: Pagerank
The Vittles Vault
2008-04-09 18:34:00 We have our spare 40lb Pro Plan container full of dog food as well out in the living room. Its mostly wet food and weighs a ton at this point. We had more but recently got around to mixing and filling the boy’s regular containers. We used 4 bags of Goodlife (2 puppy, 2 ... More About: Vault , Budget , Purina
Whoever Said Upholstery Was Boring?
2008-04-09 18:23:00 Whoever said upholstery was boring has never seen the Vote Up Count Down” sale at Design Diva Fabrics. Part sale, part voting contest, all fun, all discount designer upholstery fabric. The idea is simple: anyone with an account can vote for their favorite discount designer upholstery fabric. The fabric with ... More About: Boring
A Tower Rises
2008-04-09 18:05:00 We finally picked up the spare Jaffa Block shelf unit from my parents. We stuck it in the spare room and started piling on the food, treats, and the grooming tote. Everything fit except the plastic jars of Kibbles-n-Bits(all 6 of them) even after we took bags and boxes of food and treats to ... More About: Bamboo , Budget , Tower , Purina
What the Heck is a Bollard Anyway?
2008-04-09 17:43:00 I’m glad you asked. A bollard is a traffic device. You’ve seen and walked around them (hopefully they hurt if you run into them) many times. The are used to restrict traffic, keep vehicles off walkways and bike paths, or from ramming into loading bays on accident. They come in all assortment of types and ...
Swimming and Bobo
2008-04-09 01:26:00 Part of it getting warmer out is the chance to go swimming at the end of the road in the river. Boris loves water and seems to be ok with swimming. We’ve taken him down a couple times to go swimming (once to tape his application to America’s Next Top Dog) and he willingly goes ... More About: Swimming , Training
Fierce Shopping
2008-04-09 01:21:00 As some of you may recall Boris’s daddy is a security guard and would like to train Boris in search and rescue. Living in such a rural area it can be hard to find appropriate gear for such work. Thankfully the internet allows us to shop from whatever store we ... More About: Shopping , Sponsored
Spring Cleaning and PR Oh My!
2008-04-09 01:04:00 So its obvious the blog has kind of been neglected due to a series of unfortunate events. It will be less neglected in coming months, and a schedule is being worked out to keep it somewhat updated. But first a recap: First my life got busy. Trying to earn enough money to not work out ... More About: Cleaning , Spring
Lead Dogs and You
2008-04-09 00:55:00 Everyone wants to be a lead dog. Why wouldn’t you? This isn’t about leading the pack, at least not literally. This is about leading the pack in sales leads and business to business marketing. Lead Dogs is a string company that has been used by Microsoft, Adobe, and Orbitz to ... More About: Sponsored
Why I Love Coupons
2008-03-13 18:12:00 Last weekend was another great shopping week. Dog chow was still on clearance 50% off 4.49 plus we still have $4 off coupons. Which means we got 1.75 per bag to use on the rest of our shopping. This week it paid for ground beef, last week it paid for a new razor for ... More About: Love , Coupons , Budget
If It Ain?t Broke?
2008-03-04 20:40:00 …don’t fix it. but what about if it is broke? Sunday was a long day in our house. Tim had to work, I had to keep the car and run errands and other fun things. Which means we were up early, and not fully awake by any sense. After we got home at some point ...
What?s All the Buzz About?
2008-03-04 20:33:00 With all the advertising available online to people these days its hard to get noticed. Even a blog about a sweet, cute puppy is hard to get traffic for amongst all the other cute puppy blogs. There are tools out there to help set you aside from the pack though. Buzz fuse.com is one of those tools. ... More About: The Buzz
Help Mommy Win a Monster
2008-03-04 15:12:00 Last week mommy entered a cute Bobo picture into Bissell’s sweepstakes to be the new face of their Pet Hair Eraser Vacuum. Every week they take entries and allow voting the following week. Mommy of course entered the cutest baby Bobo picture she had to help her chances. If you voted for me and mommy ... More About: Monster
Double Collared
2008-02-28 01:24:00 So one of the strangest things Boris is doing right now is wearing two collars. He has his tags on his Milkbone collar he got for Christmas. Unfortunately the clasp on it pops when he pulls so it can’t be used for putting him outside. He broke his Halloween one that way already. So ... More About: Double
The Great Outdoors
2008-02-28 01:16:00 So while Boris’s mom and dad don’t hunt themselves they do live in a rather hunter-friendly area and know plenty of people who love nothing more than to spend the weekend freezing their butts off to hope to bag a nice buck. One of the things the real die hards use ... More About: Outdoors , Great
Puppy Pedicure
2008-02-28 00:34:00 Today Boris went over to our neighbor who runs Alpha Dog Grooming to have his nails done. Despite the rivers and moats of slush he happily ran about as we walked over there and ran into he shop and bounced about sniffing everything. He sniffed the dogs in the cage drying, ... More About: Puppy
Clearance Collars-Oh My
2008-02-18 01:22:00 So Friday afternoon Boris was outside on his tie-out watching the neighbors sand their driveway and try to make it safe enough to drive up. He watched them for quite awhile while I shoveled off the porch. Then for some reason he decided he needed to go visit the neighbors and ran full out until ... More About: Clearance
Happy Valentine?s Day
2008-02-15 17:56:00 We celebrated early since Petco’s Valentine ’s Party was last Saturday. We got paw print valentines, our picture taken, and a cookie to decorate. We also got to meet lots of great dogs like Jake the huge doberman, and a nice malamute/shepherd mix puppy. We didn’t win the kissing contest, but thats ok. It was a ... More About: Happy
Who You Calling Chicken?
2008-01-30 08:58:00 So its past 1am and I can’t sleep. So I’m sitting up trying to find something interesting to do. And found a video competition for chicken videos. Not my normal thing, but heck why not? Citrus marinated fire grilled chicken sure c=sounds good, and I’m sure Boris would agree if her were awake and ... More About: Sponsored , Chicken , Calling
Frugality and Puppy Food
2008-01-30 07:22:00 This weekend we purchased over $40 worth of food and treats for only $10 and change. In fact its very rare we spend the full amount on food between Purina coupons, Petco coupons, and B10G1 at Petco. But this weekend we did even better than normal. We Started with$1 off Snausages, 2-$3 off Pro Plan, 2-$4 ... More About: Food , Puppy , Frugality
KONG Blue
More articles from this author:2008-01-28 20:40:00 The first I heard of this was in a Grooming/Vet supply catalog. The blue KONG features an even stronger rubber and is available only to vets and police officers. This immediately interested us as Boris has proven himself to be an eating machine. I received an Amazon gift certificate as a prize the other day ... More About: Blue 1, 2, 3 |
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