Sadie went Streaking

We have been having some really nice weather lately, so Sadie went streaking on her walk.

You see usually at this time of year Sadie has her coat on, and Sadie said "She was streaking."

I explained to her that it is normal for dogs to not wear close, but she said " This is the time of the year that she wears her sweaters and coats, and since she doesn't have them on she is streaking."

Sadie has a funny routine when she goes for her walkies to.

Her dad and I both have to go with her and I have to hold her leash.

She was just turning around to say "Hey!" when I took this picture.

After I took her leash back she left us a little present to clean up and then she just continued on with her walkie.

The Leaves are Gone

The leaves are almost all gone off the trees.

They are all over the ground now and Sadie just loves to play in them.

But the leaves in our back yard were getting kinda out of hand.

When Sadie would run through the leaves, they were almost up to her shoulders.

So Sadie told her dad about this problem and then put him to work raking all the leaves up .

She had a lot of fun running and playing in the leaves while he was hard at work raking, but then she also had to snooperivse to.

Fur Trade

We don't usually do a post on Saturday, but we think this is to important to wait.

We have recently being reading about dog and cat furs being sold and traded as other animal fur.

The fur from about two million cats and dogs a year has been used in fur trade.

Dogs and cats are even bred on farms in North China so their fur is thicker for the fur trade.

Their fur and skin is used to make everything from close to even cat toys and stuffed animals which are then sold through out other countries .

Even though the tag may say it is some other fur it could still be cat or dog fur.

We don't usually post stuff like this, but we are very against this kind of thing.

I have to be honest and admit that I have always been against fur, but I don't post about my thoughts and opinions because I believe people have the right to their own opinion.

We think fur looks better on the animal, especially on our dogs and cats!

Sadie Said " She would look like a Ball Park frank with out her fur, and she doesn't like that idea."

I left a lot of details out because the details in my opinion are pretty brutal .

We encourage you to read more about this on this page or just type dog and cat fur trade into Google and read more about the trade of dog and cat fur.

We will probably be putting a banner on our blog that will link back to this post to show our support against the fur trade, and you will be able to post it to your blog.

Or if you want to post about this yourself , we strongly encourage you to do so, the more people post about this,the more people will know about the fur trade.

Play Day 10/6/09

Have a good weekend!!

Dying for a Bite

And I thought Sadie was the only one that would do anything for people food.

Wordless Wdnesday 10/4/09

Can I go trick-or-treating again?

Leaf Problems

This is a picture of Maxx , taken about a year or two ago.

If you look closely at this picture you will notice that her belly is unusually pink.

Maxx Has O. C .D (obsessive compulsive disorder) , where she licks a lot especially when she gets stressed.

Maxx will lick so much, that she licks her fur off her belly and her legs ( thats why her belly is so pink).

She has done this all of her life .

Maxx was about two years old when our vet diagnosed her with O. C. D.

The vet said it isn't that bad, or at leases not bad enough to be medicated for the problem.

He said some cats with O. C .D will lick all of their hair off from their chest down.

So you may be asking what stresses Maxx out so much.

Well its the leaves, the same ones that make our wooded areas so pretty.

The leaves changing colors don't seem to bother her much.

But then the leaves start to fall from the trees, and I guess to Maxx they must look like they are falling from the sky.

Maxx doesn't really like anything falling from the sky , she doesn't like it when it snows ,she doesn't like when it rains.( But the rain doesn't stress her out as much, unless its a thunder storm)

I said to her once " But Maxx, you live in the house."

And she said " But I can still see it through the window."

Maxx just has a funny way of dealing with change.

An Extra Long Weekend

We had a long weekend.

On Thursday Jack came for a sleep over.

Sadie was talking to Jack about how she needed to have a pawdicure .

Although neither Jack our Sadie like to have their nails done, they decided to have them done on Friday.

Since Sadie goes to a popular pet store to get her pawdicures, the dogs decided to walk around the store after they got their pawdicures and they made a new friend to.

So they said "Hi" to their new friend and did the usual sniffing thing.

Saturday afternoon was the usual play time for Jack, Momo and Sadie.

Saturday night was Halloween.

And then after all of that Sadie was Asking "If she could go home and go to sleep?"

Then Sunday was a day to relax and watch football and Sadie used the day to rest.

Halloween and Play Day 10/30/09

Tomorrow is Halloween and can you guess what Sadie's costume is?

Maxx and Momo are going to be chickens for Halloween.

They now refer to their house as the chicken coop .

Sadie was looking for the cats and asked" where are you cats?"and Momo popped up and said " No cats here, just chickens."

Maxx laughed so hard, her costume almost fell off.

Just in case you couldn't guess Sadie is going to be a hot dog ,a wiener,a sausage .

These are all names that we hear when Sadie goes out for a walk, so Sadie thought it would be a cute costume for her to wear for Halloween.

Sadie says " She just wants to go trick or treating."

If you want to add your link, feel free.

Have a good weekend and happy Halloween.

Dachshund in a Chicken costume

Its always so cute to see animals in their Halloween costumes!

Sadie said "Let the Two Leggers have their fun ."

Wordless Wednesday 10/28/09

Just hangin with the dogs.

When Sadie Smiles

I know this isn't a very good picture, but I wanted to get a shot of Sadie smiling.

You always know when you hit the right spot when you are giving Sadie a good scratch, because she smiles.

She has a few different spots like behind the ear, on her back, her neck and side.

Sadie says " She always like to be scratched, but when you find a good spot she will always kick fer foot and have a big smile."

The Mo Man and his Dad play the Guitar

A Rainy Fall Day

We had a rainy fall Saturday.

After Sadie, Jack and Momo spent a short time playing, they got sleepy.

Sadie laid down by her dad for a nap.

Jack snuggled next to me.

And the little Mo Man decided the rug on the floor looked good for a nap.

Even though Buttons doesn't play with the dogs like Momo does, the rainy day even made her sleepy.

Sadie wanted to take a picture of all the wet leaves from her point of view.

Sadie said " she wanted to give you a view of what the leaves look like when you have short little legs."

She said " She likes the leaves better when they are on the ground, but she likes the leaves even more when they are dry , because she can run and jump in them and her nose doesn't get wet when she sniffs them."

Play Day 10/23/09

Have a good weekend everyone!!!

Sadie had Fun without Her Sweater !

When Sadie woke up yesterday morning she said tho Momo " You know Mo, it seems kinda warm today. I think I'm going to go naked."

The she went out to check the back yard and then Sadie said " Yep naked sounds nice today."

So later in the afternoon Sadie played out in the back yard naked( no sweater).

She said "Although she likes her sweaters it was a really nice day yesterday, it was like 70 degrease yesterday ."

After all it was less then a week ago Sadie was leaving foot prints in the snow.

Wordless Wednesday 10/21/09

Maxx loves playing in the cupboard.

Happy W.W. everyone!!

Feeding Sadie Part two

we had a few good suggestions for getting Sadie to eat.

Our friend Miley said "She like it when her mom puts warm water on her food."

So that's what I did, I put warm water on Sadie's food.

It didn't work.

Sadie just said " All I was doing was making my finger messy when I feed her."

Momo on the other hand loved it.

He said " It brings out the meaty scent."

Our fiend Kris Said to try a raw diet, her dog and cat can't get enough of it.

I have tried many natural food but I never tried the raw diet, I might give that a try.

Our fiend Twix wants to know how to train her mom to hand feed her too.

Sadie says " It takes time to train people right, you have to not touch you food all day, then watch them very close when they are eating, and finally you have to give them the look. You know the one, the on that says PPLLLEEASE. And if you need any other help tricking or training your Two Leggers you can also ask Frankie. He might know some more trick"

Feeding Sadie

Most people think it is easy to feed a dog and it is .

Get a dog dish and put food in it.

But they never fed Sadie.

Sadie will gladly eat treat or steal Jack's food.

And I tried giving her the same food Jack eats, but when Jack isn't eating it, she won't eat it either.

But the only way I can get her to eat her dog food is to get down on the floor and pick the food up one by one until I hold up the piece she wants to eat.

So it takes me a little more time to feed Sadie.

We have tried several different dog foods and I even put her food in the microwave. ( because warm food smells more and dogs and cat want to eat it then.)

Sadie says " She is every formal and wants her food served, instead of just eating it from her dish."

A Strange Saturday

We went to my parent's house, just like any other Saturday.

But when we got there, what was left of the flowers looked like this.

Sadie Asked " Is that marshmallow on the flowers ?"

So Sadie did some snooper vising....

She said " It was cold and white and it didn't have much of a smell."

Then her paws started to get cold and she said said "It's SNOW??!!"

So we headed in the house where it was warm. (Sadie doesn't like when it is cold)

We do live in North East PA and do get snow, but not this early in the year.

That's what made it so strange.

After Jack got there and confirmed that the white stuff outside was really SNOW, it was play time.

Jack got up on the couch , he was looking all around.

Sadie discovered that Momo was playing a game of chance with Jack.

Jack was surprised to find Momo got better at the game of chase.

It snowed all day at my parent's house.

It snowed most of the weekend.

Its supposed to snow today.

The snow didn't stick to the roads, but it did build up on the trees and with the leaves still on the trees a lot of branches broke off the trees.

It's supposed to return to normal temperature latter in the week.

But it was still strange to see it snow so early in the year.