Smart Pool Player

Hi all, Chica and Lucas here.   Just want all to know we Chi's are not all foofoo dogs. Just cuz we are small doesn't mean we can't be athletic and smart - like us ya know.....  We like to hike, play, run, AND if it is cold we will settle for the muscle shirts mom makes us.


Check out the Chi in this video.Pretty good pool player!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LyL4BM-tco

Have a great day!!
Woofs
Chica and Lucas

Happy Thanksgiving

Hi all our furiends, We wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving.  We have a lot to be thankful for.  Not the least of which is that at Sunday's adoption event, 14 pups were adopted.  That IS a GOOD thing.  Another transport is scheduled for about the 1st week in December.  There is no end to the number of pups that need homes.  Sad but true!
Oh yes, I am still having to take it easy and am having a hard time.  A couple of times I have taken off running out the back door.  Nothing better than being able to go outside to poop not connected to a leash. How fun is that???  Of course M wasn't very happy with me for sneaking past her with all the other pups.  I am doing better but still favoring  my leg.  I did forget about it when I ran outside earlier.... maybe it is getting better. 
Have a good Thanksgiving.
Ernie for the rest of the pack....

Assistance Dogs Veterans

It  is a little late for the actual Veterans Day post BUT I think this is wonderful and it just goes to show HOW special us dogs can be and how much we can do for our peeps.   Mom saw this on    http://dogblog.dogster.com/2011/11/11/veterans-day-special-assistance-dog-gives-vet-back-his-life/#more-42788  
and asked my opinion.  I agreed and here it is. 

Navy Master at Arms 1st Class Orlando Rivera and Sweet Pea, who has helped him regain his life

These are a couple of the Vets included in the article.  How great is it that they have received a furiend like us to help them!!!   Our D is a veteran but wasn't hurt in a war - he had a MAJOR stroke a bunch a years back and we hear stories of how great the Siberians (Niki  and Bo)M & D had who helped him during the really bad times.  Now we are here and give him lots of love and keep him on his toes - so to bark.  Someday M says she would like to do a post on them.  Dad made up a scrapbook of pictures of them for Mom's birthday a FEW years back.  She hasn't been able to find it lately.  She has a couple of pics of them but the best ones were in the scrapbook.  She says she will keep looking....

Shawn Mello and his dog, Harpo, were also brought together by Paws for Patriots.

http://dogblog.dogster.com/2011/11/11/veterans-day-special-assistance-dog-gives-vet-back-his-life/#more-42788


Ernie,Sasha,Chica,Lucas

It's the Journey - Adoptions

Hi, Mom here.  Saturday we (PUP People United for Pets) had an adoption event. Incredible!! 10 pups were adopted!!! Such a good feeling to see them go to loving homes and to see the connections between foster and new family.  Noam and Emma are still with us, but we know the right home will come along for them.

I have always like the portion of a poem that says " It's the journey - not the destination".  I hadn't ever seen the poem in it's entirety - so thought I would include it.  I included pictures of paths we have been on. 

It's The Journey That's Important
By John McLeod
Life, sometimes so wearying
Is worth its weight in gold
The experience of traveling
Lends a wisdom that is old
Beyond our 'living memory'
A softly spoken prayer:
"It's the journey that's important,
Not the getting there!"
Ins and outs and ups and downs
Life's road meanders aimlessly?
Or so it seems, but somehow
Leads us where we need to be,
And being simply human
We oft question and compare...
"Is the journey so important
Or the getting there?"
And thus it's always been
That question pondered down the ages
By simple men with simple ways
To wise and ancient sages...
How sweet then, quietly knowing
Reaching destination fair:
"It's the journey that's important,
Not the getting there!"

Hope you all had a fun weekend.  BTW Ernie seems to still be improving.  Still having to take it easy and limit (no stairs) stairs as much as possible.  Hard for him because he loves to run and also go up and down the stairs at will.....
Mom Barb for the rest of the pack.

Surprise!!! and Cousin Murphy

Hi Sasha here,  M & D went to a transport Saturday night.  45 dogs were coming in from CA. This little girl, Monica was one of them.  Her babies were born a couple of days before the transport left CA.  No one knew if her babies would be born at the shelter OR in the van on the way up.  Luckily they were born before the trip up.   Picture is of Monica and her  babies at the high kill shelter in CA right after the 9 babies were born.  Imagine 9 babies and Monica is only about 17 pounds.

Monica seems like a very good Mom and is taking good care of all 9 who are healthy too.  5 males and 4 females.

We couldn't go for the ride to the meeting site but M took pics.  Looks very busy. 45 pups came up this time.  It was the largest transport so far. Included were 2 mamas with their babies.   13 babies between them.

Fosters getting their new pups. 

M was wishing she could have gotten more pics of the new pups but mostly all she got was of their crates.   It was hectic getting them all checked in and vaccinating those that needed it.   But GOOD!

This is Murphy our cousin.  Didn't he look sad?  His Mom & Dad left him with us so they could go to the Sounders Soccer game.  I like him.  He isn't sure about being in this house full of dogs.  He is an only dog (at least for now)  so, he's not quite sure of  this houseful.     Wishing you all a furry good week.  Later      Sasha for the pack

PS:  Mom here.  Evidently the first 2 pictures of Monica didn't come thru for most people/pups.  So I gave it another try to see if I could do it correctly.  Hopefully this worked.

Cute Pup

Cute Pup - not sure how he got there but I liked the comment.  He has a furry cute face.  How could anyone NOT get him out of the predicament......
Have a good day!

Mom Barb - taking over for the day.

PS:  Things are good.  Ernie does seem better. Keeping fingers crossed. Giving him a tiny bit more freedom. Not sure if it is a good thing BUT he is on leash outside and is getting to spend time in Liv Rm, Din Rm & kitchen(places where he can't jump or go up or down stairs) - not the jail  crate.

Count the Day & Making Progress

Hi furiends,  It's me Lucas. That's me in the lower left corner. I am known as Mr. Easygoing.  But Emma (the lady in black), and Noam( with the really curly tail) don't really like to share.  M says they have come a long way since they came to be with us for a while.  M was surprised how close they/we were while chewing on bones.

Not really my best side but does show one of my cute ears.  Poor Emma, she is so dark about the only thing we can see of her is her shiny black coat and a little white on her foot.

Hope everyone had a good Howloween.  We  had MORE scary visitors than we had in a long time. Maybe 30.  New people moved in the neighborhood with little ones. 

Mom saw this poem and thought she would like to share it.   I looked it over and liked it too so I gave my OK. Lately she has been checking out poems - she says they sometimes say things better than she can.  Oh well, whatever. 
*****

Count That Day Lost
By George Eliot
If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went-
Then you may count that day well spent.
But if, through all the livelong day,
You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay-
If, through it all
You've nothing done that you can trace
That brought the sunshine to one face-
No act most small
That helped some soul and nothing cost-
Then count that day as worse than lost.
*******
BTW Ernie  doing a bit better it seems.  Still not doing stairs (or not supposed to).  He is sneaky that way sometimes.  M says he is getting something called "cabin fever".  Thank you to everyone who has been wishing him well.  Evidently these things sometimes take a while.  


Lucas for Ernie,Sasha,Chica