Dodger Game

anyone up for the Dodger game this friday? (4/29 at 7pm) Last hurrah for Truffie

hello

Hello? Where have you been? Look under the large pile of work over there, see ...that's my hand waving. Truffie leaves next week we are sad.....

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I'm having a light snack.....

This weekend BFF took me back to camp. I forgot how much fun it could be. My good bud Petri was there and I got to spend a lot of time just hanging out. BFF was cooking so I had to sit in the breezway and watch and smell all the good things she was cooking. 

There is only so much sitting a dog can do, so when they asked if I wanted to help with a skit I jumped at the chance. Here is the video of my acting debut. Look don't you think that I played my part with gusto and virve? 

Carrie: The funny thing is I was doing the dishes in the kitchen when they ran in and said I had to see Truffie in her skit. So she had been playing her part for a good two minutes before I even got there and rolled tape. My first reaction when I saw this is 'WHAT ARE THEY FEEDING MY DOG!' Then I clued into the skit. She played her part really well. Either she was thinking 'these folks are a bit off and I better humor them' or 'maybe next time there will be something'

Now it's time

to say goodbye to my favorite PIT

Tru....ff.....ie

Pretty sure she is on the April recall list. I will call tomorrow to see when the truck will be coming down. 

Girl Scout Meeting

So despite really crappy traffic we made it to the meeting, where Truffie was her adorable cute self. we gave the speal and guess what they wanted to know.............................how does the blind person know how to pick up the poop? Then we went on to a bunch of questions about how does the dog fly on the plane....like what happens if someone has an allergy? are they scared? do they wear seat belts? what the heck, strange children. None the less we enjoyed it.

Today was errand day. Both pups to the vet - Truffie for her booster shots and Waffle for her mani and pedi. I also dropped off some pants to be hemmed, filled the tank, got my oil changed, picked up stuff at costco and target and picked up stuff to make weave poles for Waffle. I'll post pictures of the process later.

Oh if any one feeds Science Diet Lamb and rice I have a bunch of coupons from the Girls Scouts, leave me a comment with your address (I am comment moderation on) I will be glad to send a few your way.

enjoy your weekend.

Wafflle

speaking event

Truffie and I are speaking to a group of girl scouts in two weeks. We will be talking about GDB and puppy raising. These kids are around 10 and up. For those of you who have done this before, what are the typical questions they usually have? Any thing that would impress them? Any other suggestions? We only have 20 mins.
thanks
Carrie

Like a good Guide Dog

Truffie is there......

Well I hope one day to be a guide dog, Friday I spent the WHOLE day practicing again. Mom had to go see the eye doctor, so I went along. Here is mom explaining what all the machines are. It is important that I practice at the Dr.'s office because my future partner will probably have to go to one sooner or later.

It was really hard because no one was interested in me! Can you believe it? And after a while the whole Dr. thing was kind of over rated. I just spent the day sleepin' in the corner. Between the Dentist and the eye doctor let's hope my peeps are done with Doctor's visits. Or at least find another PIT to practice with.

Woooshhh

looking at my email I see one from my leader with the subject Truffle...................






















Okay, you can stop holding your breath now. Truffle is not on the March 14 recall list.


Tina

woooooooooooooossssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

At the dog sitters

I dropped Truffie off at the dog sitters today. Actually they are new raisers who need to puppy sit before they can get their own pup. She is a good girl and is fairly mature and I know she will be good, but you always worry about you child behaving while out of your sight.

Truffie is famous for her escapes, my office opens up onto a common room along with 6 other offices. Tuffie has been know to go 'visiting' while I am at the xerox machine or looking for paper. She will stick her head out the door watch me enter the store room and when the door shuts she will take off to visit Auntie Sharon and any spare students hanging around, she always keeps an ear open for me and when she hears me off she runs back to the office 'pretending' to have been there the whole time.

I wonder what she will do to newbie puppy raisers...... wish her luck.

more practicing

BFF says that I need to keep practicing being good. I think I'm pretty good already, but someone begs to differ. Today she told me I was going to the Dog Haus, but I already have a house are we going home? I asked, instead we loaded up my best hide and seek buddy David J and headed out the door and arrived here. YUP you guessed it, another place for me to practice at, but what am I supposed to practice!???. It was a HOT DOG STORE!, they served nothing but hot dogs and tator tots. Come on guys hot dogs.... how could you, it's not like we dogs have a human restaurants. Before things got grizzley David leaned over and explained that the 'dogs'  were mostly pig and not dogs....whewwwww. Silly humans why not call it a Pig Haus instead. That David is one smart guy he is 7, which makes him 1 in dog years no wonder we get along so well. 

With that little mistake cleared up, I settled down in a good spot to watch all the action, unfortunately BFF made me move, I guess the middle of the isle is not a good place to be. My adorable cuteness was distracting to the other dinners, so I agreed to under the table - which turned out to be a bonanza. You see David's mom and sister Zoe met up with us, and well Zoe- she is still practicing too. She likes to eat but isn't very good at it. A lot ended up on her face, fingers, shoes, the floor - man that girl needs some help- and being the good helper dog that I am, every now and again I would reach up and help clean her paws off.  We had a good thing going until she burst out in giggles and then the gig was up. Out came the baby wipes and I got moved to the other end of the table. 

shhessshhh I was just doing what BFF told me to do.....practicing being good!

Carrie: ok dear readers don't rat me out, I don't think she got much if any food, and actually most of the stuff on the floor she ignored, but she just could not stop herself from licking little Zoe's catsup and tator tot flavored fingers, and Zoe thought it was funny and bust out in little giggles it was too cute for words. 

$ALE

FYI for all you raisers in the LA area who use Natural Balance Lamb and Rice. Its on SALE! Centinela has it on sale for around $30! Other places I have seen it goes for $38 to $47 (ouch Petco) since both Waffle and Truffie eat it I shop around.

enjoy

Guess who

Was being brushed today?

Each girl needs a different brush, I have found that Waffle does best with the furminator, but not so much with the little girl. I was frustrated by how little fur came off her with the furminator, compared to how much came off when you touched her. So today I switched it up and pulled out the shedding blade and released my own little blizzard of Truffie fur. Poor Waffle was just caught up in the fur fall.

You say dentist

I Say BORING.....

Aren't you done yet? You only have 32 teeth

Do they have chicken flavored tooth paste?

working hard

Gasp! say it isn't so....

all my pup pals out there cross your paws. Next Tues, is "THE BIG MEETING". What's that you say? Well that is where the CRF's get together to figure out how many pups they need and whose gonna get recalled. I'm eligible to go but BFF isn't ready to let me go. I know it is close, Pompei went back, and he and I came around the same time. Cross your paws that I'll get one more month at home.
Truffie

Last November

So BFF finally got around to cleaning out the picture files, here are some pic from when I went to the Gene Autry museum. There where having this big pow wow- which is human for a big party. There was food, dancing and lots of stuff to see and smell. 

I had to practice sitting still, even when these guys came dancing around me-- well not really close -- but still you get the idea. Everyone was dancing and the drums were drumming it was hard to keep my tail still.

BFF is lousy about remembering names of things, but here I am with this statue of someone important. =)

They had a crafts market place where people where selling lots of cool stuff, the best was the elk antlers! I took a sniff and BFF was quick to correct me, I guess these were special antlers, they had carving on them - I'm just a dog, but even I think $300 its a bit much to pay for a chew toy. The artists laughed when he saw me, he was fixing a piece that one of his clients had sent back to him....after the client's labrador had got a hold of it.
*sigh*
one man's art - one dog's chew toy

old pictures from photo bucket

Illegal distractions

My Last Agility Class by Waffle

I had my last agility class last week and boy was it fun! We learned the 'A' frame, silly humans to get us to go up it they put a treat on each bar! one step - nom, two steps- nom nom three steps- nom nom nom! Yum! that silly poodle Marie, might not be so silly. They really had to pour on the treats to get her up and over. Me I was just my happy labbie self and may have shot myself in the paw by running up and over, up and over and up and over, for just 1 treat! D'oh!

Since there are only two of us in the beginning level we ran through the training part pretty fast, to keep us interested they put together two elements that we know just to spice things up. Well this was the last class so we had the 'a' frame, three standard jumps and the tire jump. Well it is just between me and that silly poodle, on my first run I ran it just right! Yeah Me! Marie needed a little reminder about the jump but did really well. The second time I ran it, our instructor was cutting some Frosty Paws for our after class treat, but the table was right by the A-frame, I couldn't help myself... my nose said hey that smells yummy, why would I pass that up? so in the middle of my run I stopped by the snack table to see if I could score a little munchie. Everyone was laughing at me and telling to focus and I was....on the frosty paws. BFF pulled me away and I finished out the run.

I call that an illegal course distraction, I mean who wouldn't stop for some frosty paws? What do you think my agility friends?

ps BFF lost her camera - in her house non the less- sad but true.

What's up Doc?

So BFF took me to my 1st trade show last week, it was a food show where there was a convention hall full of food. Vegetables, chicken, hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, bread, soda, hot coco, cheese, lunch meat, granola bars, waffles, bacon, sausage, fish, Kraby Kakes and sooo much more. All of it yummy good - or so I'm told none of it seemed to make it's way to be. Not that I wasn't getting any offers, but some evil, mean, stingy person never let one stingy scrap pass my lips..... Well truth be told I was really too busy getting loved on to care, never having had people food, I think it is some what over rated- well except carrots. Waffle says peanut better is the food of the gods - but we know she tells fibs. 

If it weren't for some kind hearted soul I would have perished from hunger. See they have samples there, I waited in front of the Tyson hoping a chicken wing would fly my way but nothing did. We were in the veggie area when this really nice woman asked if I'd like a sample. BFF said we could save it for later (I get carrots for FIR instead of kibble, a girls gotta watch her figure) thinking we would get a nice little lunch box size snack pack of carrots, but she hands us this huge 5lb bag of carrots... can you say 'SCORE'

But is it true if I eat all these carrots I'll turn orange?

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