An Amazing Award

We've been a little quiet for a couple of days -  Livy got out of school on Friday and she and mom have been doing a lot of piddling around - they went to see the movie EARTH, they said it was really pawsome, but they had to hide their eyes a couple of times.  When they got home startedplanning our summer vacation at the beach, we're going to Daufuskie Island in South Carolina - and YES, I get to go too!!!!! - so that has taken up a lot of computer time -  Then it also looks like mom might have found a job  and she's been spending time on that too talking to the man who might hire her and stuff that I don't really understand other than the fact that she is on the phone and not paying attention to little ole me!   Here's a couple of photos we took on Friday afternoon - do you like my new custom designed outfit?

I was so surprised and honored tonite when mom went to check my email and found theMost Wonderful Favorite Award  from the adorable little Bichon  DISPATCH  at Animals That Give Pause

This award is based on friendship. My friend DISPATCH passed it on to me on her blog Animals That Give Pause  . Thank you very much DISPATCH I am honored.

These are the rules in accepting this award:

Deliver this award to eight bloggers who then must choose and deliver the award to eight more and include the following text into the award.

"These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers."

I would like to honor the following bloggers. As noted in the text above, my aim is to find them as friends. These are blogs that I hope everyone will visit and follow.

The Wacky & Wonderful World of Brind'Amour

Through The Eyes of Tweedles

Rambo's Chihuahua Blog

One Puppy's Life

Tank's Two Cents

Percy's Adventures

Golden Boy Luke

Suzuki

True Colours

Once again thanks DISPATCH, 

TRUE COLOURS - Grey

Today's TRUE COLOUR is GREY   this was not an easy one for us -  but

mom's deck for the I-Pod has a grey front

this portrait of mom and dad is done in grey

If you would like to participate in True Colours - drop by to see Blue - let her know you are playing and link to her on your blog

that's it for us at the moment......maybe later!!!!

It Is NOT A Wordless Wednesday

Thanks for all the nice comments on my 100th post.   Mom said, don't expect 200 things about me when we get to 200!!!!!!!!!!

Mom and I went to the feed store to buy food for the shelter - we sort of had to "rearrange" our plans as there is no such thing as a 10 lb bag of food......so this is what we did....we bought ten -  5lb bags of  assorted California Naturals -some puppy, some big dog food  and one  50 lb bag of Canidae All Life Stages for a total of 100 lbs as promised......

then we attached a little certificate to each bag of food with your name and picture on it - [click to biggify if youo want] 

then......mom and I were feeling bad that all of our other blog buddies didn't get to have their own bag so we bought a 2nd 50 lb bag of Canidae All Life Stages and put a note on it with all of your pictures and names on it....so that was a total of 150 lbs of food for the shelter!  ......mom messed up and didn't get a picture of the front of that bag [see it flying in the wind]  - the sun was shining and she couldn't see what she was taking a picture of ........remember "old, blonde, southern" ..... that explains everything!!!!!  [pee ess   that is NOT a picture of mom - that is a picture of the lady at the feed store - trust me mom was not carrying 50 lb bgs of food.....BOL .... she thinks I'm heavy!]

Now that all the food is in mom's tiny trunk we head to the shelter - we should have let daddy go because mom had a menopausal breakdown while we were there.....first of all when we got out of the car a man said   " oh, don't turn her in, I'll take her that dog is perfect for my little girl"   then he keeps rattling on about not having to sign paperwork and stuff  if she'll just give me to him in the parkig lot -   Sheeeesh.....we were barely even out of the car and some guy is trying to kidnap me - as if that were even a possibility!!!!!!!  And, he thought I was a girl!!!!! ......mom got flustered and bent down to pick me up for fear somebody might snatch me and run away with me - you know me being so cute and all!..... she said "oh no, I'm not leaving my dog!  why would you even  think that!"  -  you see, it never dawned on mom that people actually LEAVE their animals there.  DUH!  Mom, it is a "shelter"!!!!    

Now mom has a death grip on me becuase the man is following too close and as we  walk accross the parking lot mom says to me "oh isn't this great - look at all these people here to adopt."  [you know in that silly, I'm a nut case who talks to my dog voice]    

Well, mom was just WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.   Mom has yet to grasp the fact that shelter does not mean "adopt"  it means "drop off"!!!!   How does she think think the dogs who are adopted got there?  Does she think they were dropped from the heavens!    

She is about to discover how the dogs get to the shelter and believe me they were not being dropped from heaven!!!!  There were about 10 people at the counter with crated cats or poor doggies pulling at leashes.   Some of them had 2 or 3 cats and one woman had 4 dogs.    Mom quickly realized  that almost everyone there was LEAVING an animal - and NOT adopting one!!!!!  One nasty man was holding an adorable little lab who was tugging at his rope leash and mom said "oh,  he's so cute,  you're going to love him"  - and the mean and stOOpid man said "why don't you take him if you think he's so damn cute!"  The man then dropped the rope and walked out leaving the poor little guy just standing there.   Mom burst into tears!      Finally some chubby man in a uniform came around the counter and asked mom if he could help her - she told him she needed to drop off some food and tried to explain what was going on with the blog and my doggie friends and wanting to donate some food...the man patted mommy on the shoulder and said "I wish we had more people like you."   This made mom cry harder because she realized just how many nasty people there are who don't care about animals!!!!!!!   People were sort of snickering and laughing at mom as she told the story of why we were there.    

Now mom was adding anger to the tears - so she climed on her soapbox and started talking about how she just couldn't believe how people would abandon their animals or not share their life with animals that come their way.... she went on about how if they gave that animal a chance they would have so much unconditional love in their life  [let's remember that I am not a shelter animal but she does NOT mention that fact]    Now she's on a roll.... she's Elmer Gantry preaching about loving animals!  And how kindness makes you a better person and on and on....  I'm turning from black and white to RED - mom's hormones or lack of hormones or whatever it is that sets her off are now raging out of control - the man in the uniform is a little nervous I think - wondering if mom is going to pull out a gun or something  and he's easing her out the door -  probably wondering if he will need to use his stun gun on her and if there really is food in her trunk!   

This is the chubby man in the uniform.   He doesn't look so nice in the picture - but, really,  he was -  I think he was just overwhelmed with all the mama drama, the  people turning in animals  and a little confused by the blogging/friends/100 posts/donating etc. and what any of that had to do with the 150 pounds of dog food in the trunk  as mom continued to boo-hoo through her explanation.   

A couple of other people came out to help get the food - a couple of them hugged mom and told her that she was very nice to be so generous. Then they started to read all of the tags on the bags and asked if all of these dogs blog....One of them laughed and told mom she had too much time on her hands.  This made mom laugh [thank goodness]  One even asked for my blog address.  Now mom was laughing and crying.....Mom apologized to the man in the uniform - he hugged her and told her he appreciated her and that he was sure all of the little critters appreciated her too....she cried some more and we left!   BUT WAIT - it's not over yet -  as we drove by the feed store mom had one of those EUREKA moments and realized "gee there were cats there too!"   So she went back in and bought 50 lbs of cat food......but this time she asked the lady at the feed store if she would please take it over there because she just didn't think she could handle it again!!!!!

On a more positive note there was a little girl there who was in the "getting to know you"  area with a small retriever -  I think she was going to adopt.....gosh I hope so...... Mom should have taken her picture but she was a bit flustered and didn't think of it till we were gone!   

These are copies of each certificate we stapled to each individual bag - you can click on yours to biggify it -  if you want a copy I can peemail or snail mail - just let me know!

This is a copy of the certificate we attached to the 2nd 50lb bag we bought in honor of all of our other blogger buddies.  If I left your name or picture off - it was not intentional... and I apologize in advance for not including your name/photo....please know that you are remembered in my heart and that it is TOTALLY mommy's fault that you were left off!
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What did we learn from today?   We learned it is good to give to the shelter - but, DADDY needs to make the deliveries - NOT  Mommy!!!!!   We learned mom gets way too emotional about animals who don't have homes  just like she does about foster care for kids -  you DON'T want to go there with her!!!!!!!

And,   guess what Bodie sent me----- check this out - it is too cute.....

100th Post

This is my 100th post - Can you believe it?  I can't!   Boy I've really kept mom busy since the economy put their business is in the toilet!   

I'm okay - but,  I've had a couple of liver issues for the past couple of days so we dropped by to see Dr. Watson to get some lactulose and denamarin -  She's so sweet - I can't be doing too bad tho because I weigh 10.9 pounds.......mom thinks it's too much.  Dr. Watson didn't complain.   Mom thinks I weigh too much because I'm not pooping.  Thus the lactulose.

Okay - now  - back to my 100th post!!!!!!      I tried and tried to think of something special to do.......but mom is just too tired to help me think.    Finally,  I think I came up with something that I hope will make all doggies happy.   So......here it is.....for the first 10 doggies to comment on this post  I will donate a 10 lb. bag of dog food to the local shelter in your name.....so that is a total of TEN [10]  10 lb bags or  100 lbs. of yummy kibble to the local shelter.   I will ask that you send me your snail mail address so that we can send you a "Thank You" certificate that you can use for your "taxes"  -   You can peemail me @  peekapoocheckers@gmail.com  to give me your snail mail addy if you want a certificate!  So what do you think???????

Now a few memory photos.........awwwwwww

Now - I want to thank all of you pups for your friendly natures, your senses of humor and your kindness to me and other doggies.   I so enjoy visiting your blogs everyday  and seeing your photos and hearing about your lives.   I won't name anyone in particular because I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.  I want each of you to know that you are special in your own way to me.

To celebrate my 100th post I am listing  100 things about me.....

1. I am a Peek-A-Poo
2. I am Black and White
3. I was born on February 22, 2008 -  February 22 is also my hooman daddy's b'day
4. I got VERY sick on my 1st birthday
5. I am alright now
6. I weigh 10.9 lbs
7. That is 2.5 lbs more than when I got sick [dad says I'm getting to be a Tank - hehe]
8. I love my mommy
9. I love my daddy
10. My mommy loves me
11. My daddy loves me
12. I love the little one Livy
13. The little one Livy is crazy about me
14. I love to chew - the chewier the better
15. I have a teeny tiny liver
16. I love chewing on anything rawhide
17. I cannot have anything rawhide  - I ask you, IS THIS FAIR?
18. I like to get dressed in the morning when daddy gets dressed
19. I stand in the closet until someone gets my clothes out and dresses me
20. I stand up on my hind legs to make it easier to dress me
21. I know how to push mom's buttons when it comes to getting what I want to eat
22. I have a doggie door
23. I go in an out the doggie door all day long
24. I like my doggie door
25. I have a comfy doggie bed in the Living Room 
26. I like to play with that doggie bed and drag it around and attack it
27. I have an even comfier doggie bed in the bedroom - 
28. I sleep in my doggie bed in the bedroom 
29. I have 2 more doggie beds that are around wherever I drag them to so that I have them whenever I need them!
30. Every morning around 7:00 I get up and whine until daddy puts me in the bed
31. I can jump up on the bed - but I'd rather he get up and get me
32. I am allowed to sit on the furniture
33. I can jump really high
34. I love to eat duck poo
35. Mom does not like me eating duck poo
36. I love to chase the ducks
37. I graduated from obedience school
38. I'm not very obedient
39. I bark at the slightest sound when it's dark outside
40. I don't much give a flip about what I'm barking at I just don't like being disturbed
41. I'm terribly cute
42. Everywhere I go with mom and dad people are always going  "ooooh"  and "aaaaaah"...all that "oooooohing"   and "aaaaaaaahing"  can become tiresome
43. Strangers are always wanting to pet me - it's okay - I like them
44. I like to run very fast
45. I like to play ball
46. I love to play with a plastic bottle 
47. I like to ride in the car
48. I'm not crazy about going to the vet but I do like Dr. Watwon
49. I'm not crazy about going to the groomer - I like Doug and all but I don't like the grooming stuff
50. I like treats - do you?
51. I like playing with other nice dogs 
52. I don't like aggressive dogs
53. I just walk away and go to mom when aggressive dogs are around
54. The dog park is nice but
55. I prefer Melton Lake
56. I was neutered when I was 4 months old
57. I squat when I pee 
58. I poop on the deck
59. Mom checks my poop daily
60. If I don't poop mom freaks out  [mom is freaking today]
61. I get tired of it raining alot 
62. I'm not really afraid of thunder - 
63. But.....I don't like it when it gets really loud and rolls - are you scare of rolling thunder?
64. I don't like strangers outside my house
65. I'm cool when they come in
66. I love Susanne - where I stay if mom and dad absolutely have to leave me
67. I love to travel with mom and dad
68. I like to see new places 
69. I have a terrific car seat 
70. I sit very patiently in my car seat when we travel
71. I usually get turkey jerky when we travel
72. I hate wearing a collar 
73. I pretend that I am choking to death when I walk with a leash when I have a collar on and mom freaks out and generally takes the leash off so that I can breathe  [hehe] -  Daddy does not fall for this trick
74. I generally wear a halter when I have to wear a leash - thereby avoiding the choking drama!
75. I love playing with cats
76. I have 3 cats - Chant, Liza and Louie
77. I am supposed to eat kibble
78. I prefer it when mom cooks
79. I  HATE wet dog food
80. I'm not fond of dog biscuits
81. The lady at the bank always gives me a biscuit -
82. I'm always polite to the lady at the bank by wiggling my tain and pretending I like her biscuits
83. I do not eat the biscuit the lady at the bank gives to me
84. I like Cheerios
85. I can not have more than 15 Cheerios a day  - who counts Cheerios you ask?  MY MOM!
86. I really like yogurt drops
87. I can only have a maximum of 6 yogurt drops a day  - again with the counting!
88. I used to like yogurt
89. I refuse to eat yogurt anymore since I got sick - getting sick had nothing to do with yogurt but I will not eat yogurt anymore.
90. I do eat cottage cheese - but I'm only allowed one tbsp  
91. I love Ice Cream 
92. They limit my Ice Cream too......I get one REALLY big tablespoon full  - but with the liver issues the last couple of days they aren't giving me any!!!! That sucks!
93. I am an "only pup"
94. I do not put my toys back in my basket when I'm through with them  - and recently I've taken to getting them out when mom puts them up - this makes her laugh -  so I must continue with this charade -  I learned that trick from Bijou!
95. I jump on people when they come in the house - even tho mom tells me not to!
96. I jump on people when I meet them - even tho mom tells me not too!  [remember I  graduated from obedience schoo - I've got a diploma and all -  do you think mom paid them off to graduate me?]
97. I have made many friends here on Blogger.com
98. Bijou was my very first friend on Blogger.com
99. Mason Dixie sent me my very first package ever
100. SUZUKI IS MY GIRLFRIEND

Whew - do you know how hard it is to come up with 100 things about yourself??????

Remember for the 1st 10 to post I will donate 10 lbs of kibble to our local shelter in your name....

Saying Good-Bye to Pink Baby - and 10 Things Mom Never Bought

Pink Baby is off to Thunder Bay Ontario  to see RUBY AND PENNY 2-mini dachsunds - Mom is wondering if we should wrap her in fur for her trip?  I'm sure she will have a wonderful time !   Hope she doesn't give the customs agents a hard time crossing the border!

So long Pink Baby.......

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Our friend Blue over at Poopsies True Colours gave us a challenge to name 10 things we never bought. That is a tough one since mom buys anything and everything she sees and wants whether she needs it or not! Dad is wondering if there is a pill for that!

However there are a few things she's seen but didn't want and therefore didn't buy!!!!!!

A TATTOO - mom hates them - it will never ever happen - she threatened to disown her son when he got one - it's still a possibility! Leave it all to the dog!!!!!!!  [Caveat - mom knows some very nice people with tattoos - she's not judging]

Mom never bought a Chia Pet - don't know what the deal is about a Chia Pet - and mom can't imagine why anyone might want one - so she's never bought one!

Scooter Chair - so far she hasn't bought one - of course she doesn't need one - but the commercial was on and she thought - hey, I never bought one of those

Never bought a Recreational Vehicle - the thought of traveling around in a bus lugging her car behind her is less than appealing to mom. Mom's idea of roughing it is a Holiday Inn!

She's never bought a Mercedes - she's been driving an Infiniti since 1990 and has been pretty pleased with them - however as she approaches the age of 60 she is seriously considering the purchase of a spiffy little Mercedes Convertible....

I keep telling her that her old hips aren't going to like getting in and out of it - she has enough trouble in getting in and out of her car now - the convertible will be worse!

A Golf Cart - she thought about buying one when they lived in McComb just to run around the neighborhood in - but she never got around to it - perhaps she'll buy a golf cart instead of a Mercedes!

Baccarat Crystal - she has several pieces that she has received as gifts -bowls & vases, hearts & butterflies -  but when she thought about it she

 realized she has never actually bought any Baccarat - she's bought a lot of Waterford tho!!!!!!   And dad has bought a few pieces of Baccarat for her over the years - but she's never actually bought a piece herself.   

A ranch in Texas - nope - never ever bought a Ranch in Texas!

A ticket to ride on a Greyline Tour Bus -  mom tours the cities she visits on her own - besides she doesn't think those tour busses are pointing out bars along the way - except in Boston where they show you "where everybody knows your name" -   and mom doesn't really want everybody to know her name......

Never bought a MAC computer - dad bought one - but mom is sticking with the PC -  she's had an I-pod since the beginning of I-pods -  and now she has an I-phone which is making her think that now she wants a MAC - hmmmmm - do you think she should go for the MAC?

So - now we have to pass this along to a few of you - so here it goes......

• BIJOU [you knew we'd tag you didn't you?] - 
• the extremely funny, makes mom laugh everyday  OBNOXIOUS SAHM if you've never visited her blog do so - because she is totally hilarious - and sometimes I think mom pees her pants laughing at her!
• then there is TANK -  I'm certain there will be a lot of humor in whatever he has failed to purchase over the years
• and I will ask my precious SUZUKI  what she has never bought
• EDUARDO - the snuggle puggle -  I bet you've got a list too!

Stay  tuned the next post will be my 100th -  

Pink Baby Says Goodbye

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Pink Baby took a trip to the top of the ridge yesterday to see the windmills [this is where we get our energy] -  and she bid Oak Ridge a fond farewell -

So.... the Pink Baby is ready to head on to her next foster home......If you would like to host the Pinkie for a week, you must be the first one to leave a comment.   I will then contact you for your  instructions on getting her to you.  You will love having her!