I Searched For Myself
and I found myself here! – Yahoo India! In an article called Time For Some Dogumentaries I was rather surprised to see us mentioned as a dog blog of note. Whoa.
Conversations with the dogs
Tweed, what’s the matter? “I see dead people.” No you don’t. Don’t be ridiculous. “Yes I do. They’re all around me.”*looks around* Do you mean Piper? She’s not dead. She’s just a dork. “Argh! They’re driving me crazy!” *looks around again* Do you mean Sport? He’s not dead, he just sometimes look that way cuz [...]
The Dog Days Of Summer
Wikipedia describes the Dog Days Of Summer as the hottest, mostly sultry days of summer. It goes on to say that in the Northern Hemisphere, this occurs between July and early September. We’re in mid to end September now, and while we aren’t having the hottest, or most sultry days, these bright and warm almost-Fall [...]
Me. And My Shaaa-a-dow
“Something is following me.” “Hellooooo!! Food Lady! Are you listening to me?”“I think it’s down there.”“Oh shit. It’s behind me isn’t it? I’m just going to keep smiling …”“Oh hai! I’m not doing anything!”Poor Tweed. Sport will not leave him alone – where goest Tweed, Sport is sure to be not far behind. It sometimes [...]
GAWD This Is Boring
When is she going to stop taking our photos? Stupid Food Lady.GRAAAARRRRWWW!! STOP IT.(Please note the drool! So classy, right?)Okay, so you know how sometimes while chasing the Wootie Toy, Woo falls down? And it’s really funny? Today Tweed fell down. Still really funny.It’s okay. He shook it off.Ever had a Potato hitch a ride [...]
The Green Finger of Death
It’s been a while since my last post, mostly because for the last few days it has been difficult both to take photos and to type. Why you ask? Let me illustrate. This is a normal finger: This is the Green Finger of DeathBlech. I have a Streptococcus infection in my finger. I had no [...]
Mr. Woo Goes Fishing
Today’s Spanish Banks Extension trip looked like this:Tide pools, tide pools, as far as the eye could see … And those shallow pools, apparently, contained lots and lots of tiny little smelts. Mr. Woo says they’re no squirrels, but they’ll have to do.So many of you have dogs who catch things with their feet instead [...]
He Weebled and He Wobbled And
Then he fell down :( Poor Sporty. Yesterday he experienced diminishing returns: we returned from the beach, and his ability to climb the stairs had diminished. I had to carry him up the flight of stairs from the parking lot as he fell on his face when he tried to do it himself. Recognize this [...]
Another New Addition
Meet Alfie Alfie is about 13 years old and like many of my favourite things, came to my attention on Cragislist. Alfie was ‘surrendered’ to a fellow border collie rescuer in Washington on my behalf by the former owner and Heather kindly brought Alfie part way to meet me. Going over the border was, again, [...]
We’re So Pretty
We’re So Pretty Oh So PrettyWe’re Vacant.Sport says “Low blow, food Lady.” Bad enough I soil his dignity by dressing him up in hats, but calling him names is just over the line. I should have more respect for my elder(ly dog). Alas, I do not. Ha ha ha! “Stupid hat! I hate this hat!” [...]
I’LL GET IT!!
HA HA HA HA HA!! “Got it!” “Got it!” “KICK IT!” Poodle On Poodle Action It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood …
Quit Buggin’ Me
“Shut up. Stop barking at me.” “I’m totally ignoring you now.” Some people never learn.The Tweed Mad Teeth ™ Sequence Part 1: Growl. Elicit kind-of-worried response from irritating LabradorPart 2: Borrow your sister’s Mad Teeth ™Part 3: Give intellectually-challenged Lab a few seconds for the warning to sink inPart 4: Nail stupid Lab I used [...]
*dances in distance with tongue out*
(Today’s title is completely meaningless. It came up as an autofill for the Header, which means I must have been taunting someone on the internetz at some point. It amuses me, so I used it) Mr. Woo wants you to know that he is *SO* over Sport.What? I dunno. Earlier this week we had our [...]
And Now, Your Sport(s) Update
In today’s report … Sport plays soccer!But first, a word from our sponsors. “Udda-udda-udda-udda-udda”Sorry to be MIA for a while. It’s a long weekend here in Canada, and I’ve been out enjoying the sun that was finally returned to us. On Saturday we had an agility trial, and it was cold, windy and raining right [...]
Randomness
Randomness Part 1 Baby GullsThere is a seagull’s nest on the building of the roof next door. The babies are hatched and walking around now. They look like fuzzy little Cadbury Malt Easter Eggs ™ roaming around on the roof. They never really leave the nest except to run to greet the parents who throw [...]
Well THAT Was Embarrassing ( a no photos entry)
Today Wootie gave me a lesson in Utter Humiliation. Some back-story – I am a horribly decadent consumer, something I am trying to change, so when I set out to buy Wootie a new Fifa ™ I wanted to get a used one … why buy a brand new soccer ball for the dog? Recycling [...]
Where’s The Beach?
It’s drier than an Amish Meeting House out here in Vancouver, dear readers. The Weather Gods here never do anything half assed – rain? “By doG, if you want rain then it shall rain for 9 months of the year!” But when the rain goes away, the sun comes out to play. Or more correctly, [...]
Ladies Night
Please indulge me, blog readers. I promise not to go off topic often. But yesterday Piper and I went for a walk to watch the Tour de Gastown which is a relatively famous bicycle race that happens to raise money for cancer. It *also* happens to be full of boys on bicycles – two of [...]
How To Kill A Mocking Squirrel (A Mocumentary)
Cheeky bastard. The stealthy hunter regards his prey with detached skepticism, but don’t be fooled. He is a cunning and sly beast. Yes, indeed, he wants that tasty morsel. But how? How can he coax his dinner down from its natural habitat (the Gazebo framework of a West End Penthouse)?First, he will try something unique [...]
America, America …
Thank doG for your strict border crossing policies! Why if it wasn’t for them, the worst kind of people could sneak into your country. People like … oh, say, Canadian k9 photographers. Whew. Good work, America!! Yes, this morning I had the lovely experience of being denied entry into our neighbour’s country to the South. [...]
Waterwall
“Mighty windy out here today.” It does crazy things to The Flamboyance ™. It’s like the gossamer tendrils of young love. So high winds mean high waves. For the first time in a long time, we had WATERWALLThere’s a dog in that there waterwall, btw. It sounds like this: “AAAGGGHHH!!!!”Poor Piper. The waves just chewed [...]
What a difference a day makes!
ETA: This entry is short because I’m packing up my shit to move to insanedogowner’s house! Also, never fear blog readers – there have been NO shortage of takers for this fella, should it be time for him to move on. He’s got multiple homes waiting to take him in ;-) Hello again, old Sport!After [...]
Cheerio Old Sport
Meet Sport. I’m not kidding about the “old Sport” business. Sport is OLD – Sixteen years old, to be more specific. The story as I heard it was that Sport’s owner (no spring chicken himself) died, and the surviving members of his family didn’t seem to have it together when it came to Sport, because [...]
OMG! Jonze!
So originally the title of this entry was going to be “All Piper, All The Time” because someone was complaining recently that there wasn’t enough Pipesy-D all up in here, and I was going to oblige with an all-Piper post. And then I decided to just call it “Action” because we got some today(some action [...]
