Can You Help Pop and Puzzle?
Pop and Puzzle are two 9 week old Australian Cattle Dog puppies in foster care for Blue Dog Rescue. They have recently been diagnosed with Parvo :( POPPUZZLE Foster home Katie Trachte sends out this plea: The two foster puppies I took in have developed a life threatening desease, Parvo. They were rescued out of [...]
Booty-licious
In the ongoing war of The Food Lady Versus Tweed And The Infected Toe, there is only one weapon. THE BOOTIE.But it’s not a particularly effective weapon, since we are now on Bootie #3. Hello up there! Hai! Take this off, or I will.It’s too big for him. The last one was too small for [...]
Ouch
Poor Tweed. He has a pus-filled pocket of infection in one of his front toes. It must be quite painful, as he licked it into a horrible mess. As you can see, it’s really slowing him down. Don’t worry, that’s our last trip to the beach anytime soon, since his toe needs to heal, which [...]
2010 TDBCR Rescue Wall Calendar
Order yours today! All photos were taken by yours truly (some of them you may recognize!) and each featured dog is a TDBCR rescue! 100% of the proceeds go back into our fostering program (and believe me, after Cafe Press takes its cut, there’s not a lot of proceeds – so order lots of them!). [...]
The Farmer In The Dell
Those of you who know me know that I never miss a chance to make fun of people who live in The Sticks. I like to joke that they marry their first cousins in the back of a pick-up truck to the ear-splitting tunes of the local bar’s country & western band, ‘cept for Terrance [...]
Can’t take him anywhere
Vancouver’s summer is bidding us adieu for another year, so we’re taking advantage of the precious few nice days left to enjoy some swimming. Today we went to Trout Lake. I was very excited when we got there, as the first thing Woo did was swim out to the Floating Log with no prompting whatsoever. [...]
Personal Ad
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Log of Confusion
Oh shit. Great. My ball is on the other side of this floating log. Now what?Guess I’ll have to climb over it, since it’s obviously as long as the lake itself and there’s no going around it.Oh just FANTASTIC. How am I supposed to get the ball from way up here?Screw it. I’m heading back [...]
Leech-Free since 2002
Just one of those delightful phrases that I *used* to be able to apply to Miss Piper. Not anymore.Blech. My sister’s wedding reception (aka Big Ass Party) was at Bowen Island this past weekend so we loaded up the dogs and took them over with us. We went a-swimmin’, and Piper brought home this leech [...]
Tweed and Piper Picked A Peck Of Pickled Peppers
Except it was just Tweed, not Piper, and it was blackberries, not peppers. This afternoon we took a trip out to Dog Heaven in Ladner to walk the poocheroonis. The weather started out kind of sour, but soon turned quite lovely. DH is gorgeous at this time of year.It was also the land of plenty. [...]
The Dog With A Thousand Faces
And all of them look exactly like this: Get. Your. Camera. OUTTAMYFACE.Or I’ll tear out your heart and shove up your nostrils.Okay, that’s so not fair of me. Sometimes he looks like this: diediediediediediediediedie.Poor Tempus the borderjack thinks he is so misunderstood. But we understand him just fine – he is Satanic. As your Master, [...]
Top This
Can you top this much cute?You know what? You probably shouldn’t even bother trying. Srsly.Tweed tried, and look what happened – it killed him.keeeey-ute.Cutieus MaximusA bad case of scared-of-the-vacuum-cleaner-itis.So here’s a question – how does one “wean” kittens? The vet office said El Gato Negro (aka Yo Momma Cat) can be spayed as soon as [...]
Chi(llin’) Evil With Little Hounds
Oh, hai.That’s a reflection of me, with uncharacteristically insane hair. It was probably standing on end in terror at the time. What do *I* have to be afraid of, you wonder? (cue ominous musical score) BOOOh I can hear you all now: Ummm, Food Lady? That’s not scary. It’s a cute little chihuahua. Yes it [...]
Hey Wootie …
What? I’m gonna throw your Wootie Toy! AlllllRIGHT!!!!Gogogogogogogogogogogo!! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!11And then he flew off into the sunset.ha ha. Just kidding. I was fooling around in CS2 today. However, that really is HOW Wootie jumps. It’s ridiculous. Come one. Srsly? WTF?Now you know why I don’t have an agility Woo. He lacks Tweed’s svelte grace (background also [...]
The roof, the roof,
the roof is on fire. Because my neighborhood was not hot enough, a school a few blocks away had to catch on BLAZING fire this morning in the middle of this heatwave and cook us a little bit more. Of course, it was a nice distraction from lying on top of all my bed covers, [...]
Piper ADC, SGDC!
Thanks for all your good wishes, readers! On Sunday, Piper got her last Starters Snooker Q with a first place, which makes her officially an “Advanced” agility dog now. Of course, Starters Snooker is ridiculously easy, but I am proud of my wee girlie nonetheless. She is trying very hard! Our friend JLE took some [...]
Pickle Pr0n
So ya’ll will stop whining about “Where are the Pickle pictures, the ones where he has his shirt off?” and stuff, and because I like to make you all happy, please enjoy some Pickle Pr0n.(but if Mrs. Pickles starts taking names and kicking ass, don’t blame me! I’m still jobless and rapidly becoming broke, so [...]
Rinky dink dink
Two kittehs in a sink! tee hee hee. The news cats and the old guard (AKA Nutz) are still unimpressed with one another. And yet, they are united in their distaste for their living-sharing. Behold – Donutz is pissed off.So is the kitten. Except she looks exactly like Donutz.Hmmm. While I had hoped that one [...]
The Church of Woo
Hallelujah! The Trio of Trouble have found religion. AKA – they have all learned to dock dive. And I didn’t even have to try and drown them, like Sofa’s Dad does! (har har har) Mr. Woo, of course, is a natural when it comes to getting air. But the other two are natural born pussies!! [...]
Sad Kitten
Is sad: ZOMG! My kittens are SOOOO much cuter than your kittens:Meet the Tim Bits (the mini Donutz), who have finally arrived! This little black and white kitteh is CUH-RAZY!!And the oh-so-pretty sistah kitty is a little on the shyer side at the mo’.And Yo Mama is a real deal Foldy McFoldersonI’ve been trying to [...]
FOSTER HOME NEEDED URGENTLY
TDBCR needs a foster home in the Vancouver/Lower Mainland area that can whelp out a purebred border collie bitch who is in danger of being shot. She is a CBCA registered female who was accidentally bred to a registered male, so the pups will be purebred. They will be neutered before adoption. If you live [...]
Oh, the DRAMA
Sofa is such a drama queen. “Oh! You gods, why do you make us love your goodly gifts, and snatch them straight away?“Yeah yeah. Tell it to the judge. I am Cashew. I am the judge.See how serious looking I am?As you can see, Sofa has recovered perfectly from his near drowning of last week [...]
Kitten Express
Thanks for all your suggestions and observations about retraining a recall on a recalcitrant border collie. Keep ‘em coming if you got ‘em! In the meantime, some kittens need some help. There’s a mama Scottish Fold cat and her itty bitty kitty committee of two that need to hitch a ride from Seattle, Washington over [...]
