Dixie Gets a Baf

So the udder day I showed you the pwizes my sis Sydney wonned from KoKos Petspa. One of the pwizes woz a Vitamin Pet Shower but Sydney alreddy had a baf the day afore and I had one a cuppul of weeks ago coz we both gotted full of muds. So by unanimalous vote, Dixie woz elected to does a demonstrashun.


So wot this Vitamin Shower does is it sends the waters through a vitamin C filter wot takes out icky chlorine and chloramines wot is not good for your furs. It is supposed to help wif itchies and flaky skins. Dixie has flaky skins so this is purfect for her.

So you is supposed to hook it up in your baftub or shower. We has a grooming tub for dogs in the basement for when we needs to give bafs to dogs wot comes out of the shelter wif shelter cooties on them. So mom taked off the udder skwurter thingie and putted the Vitamin one on.

It woz very easy and it werked on the first try - no leakies or drippies. Mom was very happy bout that.

Then Dixie gotted in the tub.


And mom made her furs wet


Dixie noticed rite away that the foaming akshun of the shampoos woz much better than afore. Even tho she was doity, the sudz was thicker than it usually is.


Then the soaps got washed off


And Dixie even gotten the komplimentary massage with the massage setting!

Usually our furs is stiff and hard when the shampoos is washed off afore mom puts condishuner on us. But wif the Vitamin C shower, Dixie's furs woz soft! She noticed the difference rite away.





Now we is all clean and Sydney and I will has the Vitamin shower when we needs bafs again. It is for peeples too so I think mebbe mom should try it.

The Blizzard

So efurryone knows there woz a big blizzard on the East Coast yesterday. It woz supposed to be rilly bad so the day afore I stocked up on sunbeams. OK, I hoarded sunbeams just like peeples hoards bred and milk at the stores.


This woz wot the wevver peeples woz saying - that we would has "immobilizing" snows. I lives in the "immobilizing" part of the map where Storm 1 and Storm 2 woz going to crash togedder.


And then there woz this vershun of the map:

The bottom line is, we woz doomed.

So when we woked up yesterday morning it looked like this:

We losted powah a cuppul of times but it camed back on rite away.

In the afternoons it looked like this:


Then after the boy gotted done shubbeling for the thurd time, he runned around in the yard wif us.


So they is saying we gotted sebenteen inches of snows. When mom messured last nite it woz eleben inches. The snow woz really wet and hebby so mebbe it squished down some. I dunno. Anyways, today the sunbeams is back and the snows is starting to melt. This is today. Didn't the boy do a fine job shubbeling?

A Blizzard Prize Package!

They rilly means is when they says "Thru rains and snows and sleets and hails, shall always come the US mails." We is hasing a blizzard and there on the front porch woz a package!


Wait a minit, this woz not for me. "SYDNEY! YOU HAS MAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


Sydney woz so eggsited that she gotted mails that she did an unauthorized viktory lap around the front yard in the blizzard:


So how comes my sis is getting a package you ask? Well she entered this howliday contesty wot Kokos Petspa (@KoKosPetSpa on Twitter) was hasing and her pikshur wonned second place!


Check out the loot she wonned:


Sydney woz so overwhelmed she did not knows where to begin so she grabbed hers new toy and runned around wif it in her mouf wif the label still on it:


Then Sydney modeled her new baf robe:


You werk it, gurl!

Oh see the look of joy of Sydney's face wot says "Can I nom some treats, please?"


So becoz I always share my pwizes wif my sisfurs, Sydney agreed to share her noms wif us.


Eggsept for I gotted a little too eager and intercepted one. Oops.


Sydney would luvs to does a demonstrashun of the Vitamin Pet Shower but you see, yesterday Sydney comed inside full of muds so she had a baf the day afore her pwize camed. The pikshur does not look so bad but trust me, the muds camooflodge in her furs and she hadded it all over hers belly and everything.


So she had to has a baf:


I just had a baf a cuppul of weeks ago after hiking when I looked like this: (That is pritty much wot Sydney looked like yesterday coz she woz laying in muds in her hidey spot unner the deck)


But Dixie needs a baf rilly bad (coz it's hers turn and she has not had one in a while). Today coz of the blizzard we might lose powah so we does not want to get Dixie all wet then has no heats or electrics to get hers dry. So as soon as we can, we will hook up the Vitamin Shower, gib Dixie a baf and let you knows all about it!

From Sydney: Thank you, KoKos Petspa for the wonnerful gifties and for the nice donashun to my rescue group! It is the same rescue group wot saved me and spented lots of monies to get me well and fixed up. I really liked my foster home and did not want to leave so my mom let me stay here furever! We will use your donashun to help anudder anipal to gets a furever home.

High Mountain Preserve Park (Wayne, NJ)

So we woz back to hiking today. Mom's back gotted better but not good enuff and the chirovet halped lots but woz not making it all the way better fast enuff so mom called the hooman V-E-T and gotted some pills wot is like Rimadyl but for peeples. That maded her back good enuff to go hiking. But then we had to wait and see wot that big snow storm woz going to do. Turns out we woz at the edge of the storm and only gotted 2 inches. Boris and Khyra in Pencilvania gotted a lot of the snows from that storm. And coz we woz at the edge of the storm, we gotted the most beeootiful sunset last nite.

To the left of the pikshur it was dark, dark gray skies where the snows woz.

So anyways, up north they gotted no snows at all so we wented to High Mountain Preserve Park and hiked almost 7 miles. Any snows you sees on the ground was old snows from afore and there woz not very much of that.

We had to climb up the mountain coz there woz a surpwize at the top. So we wented up...


And up some more...


And then thru the twees we gotted a preview - does you know wot that is?

That is the Noo York City skyline!

We gotted up a little higher and here I is on a rawk wif the skyline ahind me:


They say you can see the oshun from here but the sun woz in our eyeballs so we could not see big waters. And we could not stay on top of the mountain for long coz the wind was bitter cold and whipping us around - see how I cannot hold my ears up in the winds? The wind chillz woz horribul so we had to hurry and get down off the mountain into the valley where the winds could not get us so frozened cold.


Down in the valley we sawed this pile of rawks wif a cross and flag. We did not knows wot it woz for but we hadded a moment of silence just in case that woz appropriate.


We always like it when we come across a herd of pine twees coz it puts some colors into the dead winter seenery.


So that woz our hike for today.

We Gotted FURminated!

I wonned a FURminator at a Twitter pawpawty (@FURminator_Inc) and the Fedex guy bringed it to my howse today!


Dixie has been shedding rilly, rilly bad so I letted her go first. (Sides, why should I be the Guinea piggie - that is wot I has sisfurs for BOL!) When mom combs Dixie, she puts up with it for a bit then Dixie says "You tutch me wif that comb again and I is calling PETA" then she runs away. So Dixie woz not rilly thrilled when mom started wif the FURminator but all of a suddens, look wot happened:


Dixie was lubbing it! OMD, I could not believes it. She lubbed it so much she letted mom git all of these furs out of her. I is surprised there is still a Dixie left!


OK, so then it woz Sydney's turn. I woz still not convinced. Sydney is such a clown. She always rolls belly up so mom can't comb her. Well, look wot happened when Sydney got FURminated:


OMD, she falled aleep! That has never happened afore. Here is all of the furs mom got out of Sydney. She woz not shedding as bad as Dixie.


Sydney woz trying to roll in her furs in the pikshur - gess she wanted mom to FURminate her again. But no, it woz MY turn and I decided mom could FURminate me while I woz sitting in her lap. (That woz for sekurity just in case I woz not liking it.)


But I did, I liked it! And I woz not shedding bad (not too offen we can say that coz being a shepherd I usually sheds all the times) but mom gotted more out than she thought she would.


The conclushun: We agrees unanimussly that we lubs being FURminated! Thank you FURminator, Inc!

Johann's Toofer Challenge

Johann the Dog is hasing a Toofer Challenge coz February is National Pet Dental Health Month. You can hop on over to Johann's bloggie at the link above or the banner below to read all about it. Well, Johann, we is up for your challenge!


I has to say, mom's biggest fault is not brushing our teefs. Now, iz not like we remind her bout it or nuffin. We rilly does not like it. But we see the pore dawgs and kittehs mom brings home from the shelter where nobody cared about them, never mind their teefs, and they has wot our V-E-T calls "swamp mouth" wot means, rilly, rilly nasty teefs and infekshuns. We has spented lots of donashun monies fixing up teefs so our fosters can get new homes. In fact, when my sis Sydney comed to us, she needed $2500 werf of teef werk done!

And now we is in a dilemma wif my sis Dixie. Dixie will be 11 this year. She has a bad heart and woz not supposed to has lived this long. Her teef are not too bad yet but it is dangerus to put her unner anesthesia to clean her teefs. If'n we don't take the chance now and cleen her teefs, it will be even more dangerus when she rilly does need her teef cleaned and is even older in a cupple of years. So mom is not making a desishun on that rite now but she has decided to try brushing to see if she can turn it around enuff to where Dixie will not be needing the V-E-T to clean hers teefs. But Dixie RILLY hates to has her teefs brushed, BOL! She does not try to put the bitey on but there is no cooperashuns from her! Mom has to put her in a death grip headlock and then they rassle. But Dixie should knows by now that mom always wins. Here, let me demonstrate how it is done.

The supplies: (I highly recommend the chickun toofpaste.)


Take a little taste but don't nom it all up...


Open your mouf...


A wittle wider...


Getting into it now...


Don't furget those back teefs where most of the grodies is...


A denist speshalist V-E-T tolded mom once wif rilly difficult dawgs and speshully kittehs, to start out wif toona juice on your finger and make the moshuns over the teef to get used to it afore using a toofbrush. If mom does this wif Dixie then I insist she does it wif me too. Only fair, no?

So anyone else up for the challenge to brush their teefs every day this month?