First Time Away and Ice Cream

I picked Dhali and Tibby up from their overnight stay tonight.  It was Dhali's first time staying away from home.  I think it will be their first and last time at this place.  I don't want to say where it was, because it is a very nice place and if it's what you like then you would be very happy, but for my dogs it wasn't a perfect fit. I just like Woof Dah better.

Yeah, there are a lot of dogs running around at Woof Dah, but it works better for Tibby (have to see for Dhali).

Unfortunately they don't take un-neutered dogs or dogs under 15lbs, so Dhali has some growing to do before he can try Woof Dah out.

If I'm going to pay $255 for 35 hours of care then I want someone to be with them 24/7 (like they are at Woof Dah).

For $255 I want them to have more than 4 hours of playtime.

For $255 I want a report card.

For $255 I want some pictures and I want to watch them on a web cam.

At Woof Dah I know that I can always see what they are doing during the day and I know that someone is watching them at night (sleeping with them).

They get to play 24/7.

Tibby has never gotten in the car, after a visit to Woof Dah, and whined for 30 mins.  When we stopped both dogs had to poop really, really bad.  I think they had been in their 'suite' waiting to be let out to potty.  Usually Tibby gets in the car, rolls onto her back and goes to sleep for a couple days.  Tonight both dogs were wound up, bouncing - until they collapsed after a little while at home.

In an ideal world I could find someone to stay at my house and take care of them.  $255 for 35 hours - anyone interested????  :P

It can all be fixed with a little ice cream!  We stopped for a snack on the way home and Dhali had his first ice cream :)  Here was the post last year about Tibby's first ice cream.  Same Culver's and everything LOL!  Dhali and Tibby say they will be Culver's spokes dogs ANYTIME.

"Mmmmmmm!"

"Hello!  My name is Moe! justkidding!"

And a video of the ice creaminess.  They were very well behaved and shared like good doggies.  It was a really busy parking lot and Tibby did a good job of being relaxed.  I think she has finally figured out the crate is a safe place.

Hot and A Stuffy

Ellie enjoying a nice icee on a hot day.

I mixed peanut butter, meatballs and kibble with water and then froze it to make a tasty hot day snack.

Ellie loved it!

She was especially happy when she found the meatballs at the bottom.

Tibby sun bathed on the deck while Ellie enjoyed the icee and shade.  She loves to hang out on the deck - even though it is SO HOT.  The deck is too hot for me to step on with bare feet and she wants to plop down and go to sleep.  I guess she feels chilly without her coat!

Ellie playing with a soft squeaky ball.  My favorite part is when Tibby tries to get Ellie to play.  She steps all over Ellie!

Soft ball = stuffing every where in the yard.  Amazing how much stuffing was in that ball!  I picked up a big grocery sack overflowing with stuffing.

Spring Storm Part I - Morning Walk

This morning we woke up to SNOW!

Lots of snow.

"How will we go on our walk?"

"Where is the driveway?"

Walking to our park.  Windy again.  Just like yesterday's post LOL!  Except Tibby is wearing her winter coat and not her raincoat.

Our park is flooded.  We had fun watching people who were late to work try to take this road as a short cut.  They would zoom past us and then slam on the breaks when they realized the road was flooded.

Geese in our park?!?

Remember yesterday's post?

This is the place Tibby was sitting yesterday.  There is a walking path underneath all that water and snow.

Check back later for our evening walk adventure.   I end up very wet..........

December Rain

Pictures from yesterday's walk in the rain.  Not.  Normal.  It was about 34F and rained for 36 hours straight.  Rain on top of snow = ICE.  Lots and lots of ice.  It was a nice walk yesterday, because it was so warm and everything was melty and soft, but today we have snow on top of ice = no walk.  I don't want Tibby to cut her feet.

Look how wet Tibby is!  It was really not cold even though there is some snow on the ground.  I wanted to try out Tibby's new coat, but I also wanted to try out the Comfortflex harness.  The harness won.  It is nice!

There are ice houses out on the water past the bend in the shore.  There was also a guy on a 4 wheeler out there too.

Bridge. 

After our walk I took Tibby home for a nice warm bath.  Then I combed all her fur out.  There was one mat on her neck.  I used Cowboy Magic detangler and it came out after I worked on it for a few minutes.

This is a tree that hangs over the lake in the summer, but now the snow is so high it looks like the tree is in the lake.

There is something in this spot that scares Tibby.  She gets very alert and barks/growls.  She never barks, so it freaks me out!  It happened last summer when we walked here and it happened again yesterday.  Maybe an animal lives here that she can smell?

This is a sledding hill.  Very steep, very icy and Tibby ran up and down it twice.

BTW

We were the only ones crazy enough to be walking around in the rain at the park.