Few Words Friday

Hi everypup, Eva here. This post is going to turn into a shameless plug for dad's new camera. If your humans are thinking about getting a new camera to take beautiful pictures of you, dad HIGHLY recommends the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18. It has a 18X optical zoom lens by Leica (a very respected maker of camera lenses), image stabilization, face (or muzzle) detection, and all kinds of settings from automatic where the camera figures out all the settings to totally manual if your humans are into that. The digital equivalent of the zoom in 35 mm speak is 28mm to 504 mm zoom. Without further barking, here are some of the latest pictures of us.

Our snow is melting! Can you see that I'm standing in very cold water?

(Click on the pictures to make them bigger!)
I just love my snow banks!

Those kids sure are making a lot of noise over there.

Here is my best smile for you, Dad!!

I hope all you pups, kitties and GG have a good weekend. It has been between 40 and 50 degrees here for the last 3 days, so our snow has started to go away, which makes Tasha none too happy. But it is March, so there is a good chance that we will get more. We'll share some shoots of the melting later this weekend. Lick your humans face for us! Belly Rubs, Eva.

Dad got a New Camera

First pictures(old camera) are when we got home for doggie daycare on Friday.

Dad used the new camera today. It has a seperate setting for pets, snow, starry nights etc.

This is one of Momma's new favorite pictures of Tasha.

Tasha is looking for the neighbor's dogs.

Eva always jumps up and down when she barks.

Watching Tasha dig in the snow

One of Tasha's favorite things to do

Momma is sharing her apple

And closing with a video

Belly rubs,

Tasha & Eva

Doggie Day Care

Tasha here - Friday morning, Momma loaded us up in the DUV and took us to meet Tory from DogPad. They loaded us into the back of Tory's DUV and off we went to DogPad. Eva was a scaredy pup and drooled on me the whole way. You have to understand, we are not crated in our DUV but we were crated together in a big box in Tory's. It was a scary new experience for us. All we knew was that we weren't with our Momma anymore and we didn't know where we were going. Once we got there there were so many dogs and everyone was so excited there was movement and noise everywhere. I was OK with it because there were so many new pups and things to smell. But Eva likes everything to be calm. So Tory spent a long time spending individual time with Eva and introduced her to each dog one at a time. Eva did interact a little more in the afternoon. Later on we were put back in Tory's DUV and taken back to the meeting place for Momma to pick us up. We were so happy to see Momma but we were so tired that when we go home we took a good long nap. After all we did miss at least 3 or 4 or 5 naps.

Momma - I think it was too much for Eva. Especially the being crated in a strange vehicle and not knowing what was going on. I'm going to try it again but dropping and picking up the girls at Dogpad. That might created less trama for the girls. I hear it was quite an ordeal to get the girls out of and back into her SUV. I have to admit that it reminded of two things - custody exchange at a neutral location and watching your kids get on the bus for school for the very first time. I have to admit that I got a little misty.

Sorry Darling Pippa - No pictures but Momma did buy a new camera today so hopefully there will be a excessive amount of pix later this week just for you.

Belly rubs,
Tasha

Few Words Friday

This FURniture stuff is great!

Hi furkids, Tasha here. It happened again yesterday! Momma let us both lay on the couch with her for a little while. Dad wasn't totally on-board, but he wasn't here so no big deal. He'll come around, I'm sure. The couch stuff was the fun part of the day. The not-so-fun part was that we got brushed. A LOT! Momma wanted us to look nice for our day-long field trip today. As you may know we are going to spend our first day at Dog Pad. Click on the previous link if you want to see where we're going. Eva has never spent the day away from home or if she has, she hasn't been without Momma or Dad. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm not so sure Eva is. She can be a really scardy-pup. We'll report on our big adventure tomorrow. Have a great day and a fabulous weekend, everypup, kitty, GG and Human! Belly Rubs, Tasha.

The girls are NOT allowed on the furniture

Tasha here. I'm going to do this post since I've been here the longest.

When I first came to live with my people, Dad had a rule: no dogs on the furniture. He had grown up on a farm where the dogs weren't allowed in the house so I thought as long as I live in the house, I can live with the furniture rule. Then Dad went to Germany for a few weeks and Momma modified the rule while he was gone. I could be on their bed but no other furniture. The years roll by and many hours are spent on the beds. They have to lift me on and off the bed now due to my arthritis. Eva is the typical Belgian pogo stick so she doesn't need any help.

So today, Momma had an unexpected day off. Something about the roads being slushy ice and highways being a parking lot. (Momma - 4 miles took 40 minutes, with 13 more to go I gave up and went home). She decided to spend some extra special 1:1 time with us so she put a blanket on the couch and snuggled with each of us for a while. Lots of ear and belly rubs. Lots of snoses. We have her so well trained.

Edited to clarify- Yes, we were on the couch. The blanket was for easy removal of the evidence since obviously we have quite a bit of multi-colored fur and like to leave it everywhere we go.

No pictures due to our need to deny this ever occured.

Belly rubs,
Tasha

Few Words Friday

FRESH SNOW!!

Snow makes me smile!
I am completely content!

Hi furkids, Eva here. Yes, Yes, Yes! Fresh snow finally. We didn't get a lot, but Tasha and I will take what we can get. Even dad says its a good thing cuz he says we need the moisture, what ever that means. Here is a little video of us playing ball. Please excuse dad's camera work. He says its hard holding the camera where it should be and throwing the ball left-handed. Have a great weekend everypup, kitty, GG, and human! Belly Rubs, Eva.

Field Trip!!!

We had an exciting afternoon. There were highlights and lowlights (No, Momma didn't change her hair color again).

Here are the background facts:

1. We have never spent the night away from home without Momma and Dad
2. Our parents have not been on vacation together since before Eva was born
3. Momma been saying the word "Florida" lately

Today we went to visit a very nice lady named Tory at DogPad. This is the same doggie day care that Gomer and Opie go to. DogPad does doggie day care and boarding and if you go to the link you will see some very bad words "free baths upon check out". Oh the horror!! We met so many new friends there. This place passed Momma's test and we appeared to pass the "personality test". We get to go back next Friday and spend the whole day!!! (Momma's comment - the girls have never been boarded and I refuse to take them to any place where they would be confined in a 4x6 cell for most of the day. We're going to try a few days of daycare and a few overnight visits to prepare for a weeklong stay in April)


Then we hurried home and dropped off Tasha so that Momma could take me to the evil place. You know what I'm going to say. I don't know if I can even say the word but I'll try.....v...v....v...VET. I still shudder at the thought. The evil man had a hard time getting through all my fur to find my delicate skin to steal my blood and stick me with sharp pointy things. I was a brave pup but I refused to let Momma take my picture there. I do not need any reminders of that place.

We'll close with a few new pictures from today. We weren't very cooperative cuz it was dinner time and Momma wouldn't put our dishes on the floor for us. And we aren't allowed on the counter.

Belly Rubs,

Eva

P.S. Sorry Momma didn't take more pictures during the field trip but she's a little challenged on occasion.