WORK IS HARD

Man - let me tell you this work stuff is hard! I am totally worn out. This week we've been very busy between saving our town and talking to the vets!!!!! There is never a dull moment when trying to keep up with my mom!

And I've been tagged by a couple of friends Tiffany & The Munchkins & Sassy Sasha- with this pawsome award for doggies who blog at least once a week - Mom said a couple of other friends also sent me this award but the old blonde, can't remember who - so she is really sorry that she's not mentioning you sent it!
I want to pass this along to all my bloggie buddies - especially since I know that you are all blogging daily and I'm not!!! - Not my fault - mom is working me to death.

We're going to go check to see how Woodrow is doing since we haven't been there since the early part of the week - I'm gonna make her read all my doggie blogs to me over the long week-end.

I'm going to sleep now!

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I Am An Author - and - An Award

Remember when Eduardo did that piece on Puggles - well, I've now done one on PEEK-A-POO's - CHECK IT OUT HERE - if you want to do one on your "breed" - contact Jenny over at PoochieHeaven and talk to her about it - info@poochieheaven.com

AWARDS - I got a few while I was away - but mom forgot to bookmark them so we don't remember what they were - if you gave me an award and I forgot about it please let me know -

I did however get this one from SASHA and of course TANK thought it was a good award for me too - he's just jealous that I'm a metrosexual and he's not!!! BOL

The translation is: Your blog is a dream

Ok now the rule things: Give 7 beauty secrets and then pass it on.

Since I am such a metrosexual I will give you my beauty tips

1. Get plenty of rest - Sleep at least 18 hours every day - NO BAGS UNDER YOUR EYES
2. Make sure that someone keeps you brushed and shiny
3. As you sit in your hooman's lap make sure they rub your ears and the pads of your paws - that way when you go to the groomer you will not fuss and jerk when they clean your ears or clip your nails

4. Make sure that you have stylish clothing is alway clean and nicely pressed

5. Chew on something solid everyday to keep your teeth shiny white

6. Run zoomies everyday to keep yourself thin and healthy

7 Eat only the best of dog foodies and if you eat hooman food make sure that it is prepared especially for your own diet and is not junk food you snag from the hoomans!

Okay Tank - give me your best shot!!!!!

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Wordless Wednesday - Sort Of - And An Award!

About a week ago I got this award from my friend DISPATCH but mom was heading out of town and couldn't help me put it up - then today I got it again from that sassy little SASHA - so I told mom - you gotta stop and let the doggies know..........

The way I understand it this award is for those who make lemonade when life hands them lemons, this is quitie appropriate for us as we have been making a lot of lemonade around here - both litterally and figuratively - and we thank you for this award!

Then little miss SASHA also gave me this pawsome FRIEND award -

I would like to pass both of these awards on to all of my blog buddies - you all deserve all the awards that are out there! ______________________

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An Award and A Trip To Seattle

The Clampetts - were kind enough to give me an award - which I thought was really nice especially since they are having so much trouble seeing my blog in IE - what is the deal with that?????????

Thanks guys I really appreciate it - I like your blog a lot too!

Here are some of the pics from Mom & Dad's trip to Seattle

Another Award

Mom - set this up before she left to post on Monday Morning - it's MAGIC!!!!

My Portuguese Friend KIKO game me this award - WOW - he thinks I'm brave for the clothes I wear! Thanks Kiko - Although my Portuguese is not so hot I think that translates to "your blog deserves to be shot" - I hope they mean with a camera and not a gun!!!! BOL

Here are the rules:
1. Post it to the blog and link to who gave it to you.
2. Choose 5 life situations that could be repeated in slow motion and explain why.
3. List twelve blogs and let them know you've given them the award.

5 life situations in slow motion and why:

I would like to repeat in slow motion everyday

* when I wake up and get in bed with daddy - it's a wonderful time of day.

*when the little one, Livy, gets home

*chasing the ducks at melton lake

*getting to go for a ride in the car

*reading my blog to find out what my friends have to say and what they are doing

Now - TWELVE Friends to pass it along to and why

1. TANK because his sense of humor puts a smile on our face every single day
2. TWEEDLES - becuase he is so cute and so kind and so sensitive to the world around him
3. ADDIE, LUCIE and HAILEY - because they are beautiful and thoughtful
4. JACK - because of his humor and because I think the Tall Guy will like it!
5. TWIX - because she is kind and thinks of others - not to mention how doggone cute she is
6. BABY ROCKET DOG & HOOTIE - a very kind pair of dogs who are traveling around and getting to meet people like SMOKEY THE BEAR !!!!!!!
7. BELL - she has such fun at the beach I'm sure she would like to see much of it in slow mo
8. BIJOU and BANJO - what a cute pair of siblings they are - and clever!
9. CHLOE - such a pretty girl
10. DISPATCH -
11. DOGEARED - she's kinda new - and is hosting PINK BABY - so I wanted to give her an award
12. SUZUKI - because she is SUZUKI the most beautiful doggie in the world!!!!!

There are so many other dogs I would like to give this to - but I'm sure that between the 12 I chose everyone in our blogworld circle will have the award very soon - you all deserve it - so if you don't get it soon - please take it from me with big licks and lots of love

My Beautiful Suzuki and an Award from Twix

By now everyone knows about my engagement to the incredible Suzuki

We are so happy - we haven't set the wedding date yet - we don't want to take away from the nuptials of Scooby and Lady - their day is coming up soon - but,

we'll let ya'll know as soon as we set the date. Isn't she the most beautiful girl in the world???? We will announce our bridal party as soon as they all respond to us....hint!!

The totally adorable little TWIX has shared the pawsome SUGAR award with me - I'm totally honored TWIX, if you haven't met TWIX yet - please go by and say hello - her header picture alone is worth the trip. She's in the running for the Tongue Contest along with me and Mason Dixie and a few of our other friends....so please, if you haven't voted go vote - ESPECIALLY FOR ME!!!! hehehe...you can vote everyday!!!!!!

Check this out - Mom got this artist on ETSY to make be a special Halter - She thought maybe I couldn't chew through a leather one so quickly - Lupine isi NOT chew proof !!! Trust me on that one! I can't wait for it to come in -and show it off - but the lady sent a picture and I am so proud of it I wanted to show it off now! The Shop is THE COOL PUPPY if anyone wants to check it out! She put a dragonfly on it because mom loves the dragonflies - and then she "butched" it up for me!!! hehehehe - TANK - I know how jealous you must be of this little treasure!!!! Your trunks are on the way -

So this will be it for me for a few days....Mom and Dad are heading to Seattle till Thursday - They'll be taking me to Susanne's a little later....I adore Susanne - Daddy is jealous of how much I love Susanne - Mom promised to try to take some pics over there so you can see the doggies I'll be staying with - we'll see if she does it!!!!!!! Mom might post something from Seattle - otherwise I'll see you all on Friday - Have a great week pup friends!

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, 

Just Chillin in East Tennessee & an award

Since my return from Western Australia I've sort of just been chillin.  I got back just in time for the Kentucky Derby -  Mom had Mint Juleps prepared and was just waiting on daddy  to get home -  I took a quick look at the betting sheets -  I had taken the time to familarize myself with the horses via that the handy I-phone on the plane so I was ready to call the race for Mom and Dad.   Mom placed her bets - Dad placed his [this is why he was late getting home]  and we all settled in for the race!  I told them they should bet on the horse with the pink silks [you can review my tweets to confirm this]  but they said NO!!!!   What fools they were!    A shock to all when Mine That Bird ran away from the pack and won the race!!!!!   YEAH for him and big licks to that little jockey Calvin for another great win .... two years in a row at the derby. 

Daddy said that if they could find a small enough jockey he thought I could beat that horse!  hehehe!

So tell me what you think of my new surfing shirt.....since I'm a new surfer and all.....?????

When I got home I discovered that those little bully dogs from New York  had given me this "Lovely Blog" Award

Now wasn't that nice of those Bullies!  Here's how it works:

1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.

2) Pass the award to up to 15 other blogs that you've newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.  

Now comes the hard part...passing it on......well, I totally hate trying to "choose" any - so, I asked mom to put all my friends in a hat and I would pull out the names -  so here goes [if you already have it sorry - just pass it on - if I left you out - sorry, maybe your name will get pulled next time!]

HoneyGoBeasley

Tweedles

Bell - Awsome Dogs @ OB Beach

Bodie & Doyle

Gennasus

Jackson's World

O mundo do KiKo e companhia :P

Scooby

Suzuki

The Obnoxious SAHM

Pedro

Chase the Puggle 

My Cocker Spaniel Girls

Eduardo the Snuggle Puggle

and to anyone who reads this you are also welcome to the award.....so snag it!!!!!!

Now, I need some help with mom....everyone knows that I am a picky eater.  I don't make a secret of it...it's just the way I am.   Well, mom has been trying to "hold out"  thinking I will give in and eat the kibble if she waits long enough -  it's not working!   It is almost 11:00 here in East Tennessee and so far she hasn't even put so much as a single piece of kibble in my bowl.   They had pancakes for breakfast....they did NOT share....and here I am, tiny little guy, sweet little guy, entertaining little guy....and not even a single piece of kibble.    Can somebody tell her to get up off her old, blonde, southern  and now LAZY butt and scramble me some eggs!

New Friends and Awards

Blogging is such fun and I've made a lot of new friends - found a girlfriend, SUZUKI, met a lot of cute, funny and even interesting dogs. Well I have a brand new friend Dispatch - he's a Bichon - and Dispatch has given me an award. THANKS DISPATCH

Now - I'm supposed to tell you seven of my favorite things.......hmmmm let me think!

1. First and foremost - my most favorite thing is to CHEW!!!!!!
   
2. Yogurt Drops


3. Cuddling with the little one [Livy]


4. Getting as close as I possibly can to mommy - especially when she she is trying to type on my blog


5. Rassling with the kitty cats - especially that big ole Louie!


6. Playing kick the coke bottle with daddy [we'll have to get video of that]


7. rides in the car to anyplace except the vet!

Now I need to pass this along to 7 friends - I know that many of you already have this award so I'll try not to duplicate - and I really don't want anyone to feel left out - so if I don't tag you it's only because I went through my follow list and I hit the #7 before I got to you

Lucky Luke

Angel

Clive

Rambo the Chihuahua

Baby Rocket Dog & Hootie

PERCY and his adventures

Brind A'mour

TANK

Yesterday mom was in one of her moods - crying at almost everything - you know like kodak commercials - She was also busy trying to book entertainment for an upcoming festival in the area so she spent a big part of the day calling alot of the performing artists she used to represent back when she was an important agent. I think that's what got her into her mood - all that reminiscing - Somehow she managed to talk several of her old clients to consider a date in June at drastically reduced fees - so you'd think she would have been happy rather than sad!!!!!!!
here's a little silly video - it's not exciting I'm just protecting my elephant!

I'm back and feeling better

Well friends - I'm up and about this morning after my recent bout with HE - It was a tough one, lots of head pressing and a few bad shivers. Mom thought I might be having a seizure but I think it was just shivers. Mom and Dad took me over to the UT Vet school around midnight on Sunday where they told her I was dehydrated - duh! she knew that! They immediately put an IV in and they drew some blood. My ALT's were elevated up to 576 - which is high - but not as high as the first time I got sick....I HATE HAVING A SMALL LIVER! Mom can't figure out what I might have eaten. I don't know either because she is so careful with me.

Mom insisted on staying with me in the ICU. They weren't too keen on that but at midnight it's mostly 1st year students and they didn't have the cojones to stand up to mom so she prevailed and stayed. The attending didn't think it was worth the hassle of arguing with her because he figured out she was gonna stay. She held me in her lap all night. Daddy slept in a chair in the lobby. When the internal medicine doc, who has been handling my case came in, she brought mom a cup of Earl Grey and then she looked me over. She said I needed at least one more bag of fluids so we had to wait until the afternoon before they would let me go - but mom never waivered - she only left to go pee. Daddy left for a while he had to get some work done. They sent me home with another round of antibiotics figuring that I'd be happier at home and they are, of course certain that mom will take very good care of me.

Anyway ---- I'm doing fine this morning. The antibiotics have taken effect. I ate a little last night and I went poop...which is a big thing for liver dogs...we gotta poop. This morning I ate my very own kibble for breakfast - didn't even force mom to cook - she'd been through a lot. I will go back on Thursday for blood work again unless something else happens.

Now - onto the good stuff - the adorable puggle CHASE has pased on the following awards to me and other wonderful doggies who blog THANKS CHASE

This blog invests and believes in the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships. These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or 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! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this clever-written text into the body of their award.

Here are the rules:As a dedication for those who love blogging activity and love to encourage friendships through blogging.To seek the reason why we all love blogging.Put the award in one post as soon as you receive it.Don’t forget to mention the person who gives you the award.Answer the Award’s question by writing the reason why you love blogging.Tag and distribute the Award to as many people as you like.

I like blogging because it gives me a chance to talk to talk to doggies and people all over the world about my day. And, I get a chance to see what other doggies are doing, how they are treated and the fun things they get to do. Without blogging I wouldn't have met the magnificent Suzuki - my love!

I would like to pass this along to my very first blog buddy BIJOU, my very special Suzuki's Blog , and to GOLDEN HONEY, BABY ROCKET DOG & HOOTIE, Clive , Honey Go Beaseley , Maggie & Mitch, Mason Dixie, Kids in Dog Suits, GoldenSamantha, BLUE, Lucky Luke,
TANK - The OP Pack, - I would like to pass this to everyone that I follow but it would take mom about 3 hours to go through the list. To all of you I thank you for sharing your days with me - and I hope you enjoy sharing mine!