Puppies First Christmas

I love this video. Buffy totally ninja's an ornament off the tree. Tibor did get a little jealous that I was recording Buffy and not him.

Lazy Daze

OMG! Bryan and I have been so freaking lazy all weekend! Sucks that we only have one day left.

Black Friday

My Black Friday was spent at home. I wouldn't want it any other way thankyouverymuch!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, since it's Thanksgiving I guess I should give my thanks. So here's it is, what I'm thankful for in no particular order:

• For my wonderful, understanding, loving husband Bryan that I couldn't see myself without. I love him so much and I am so very lucky to be able to share the rest of my life with him.
  
  
• For my family that I'm so lucky to have and am so lucky that they live so near to me and I can be as close as I am with them.
  
  
• For my doggies Tibor & Buffy that couldn't live without me and I'm pretty sure I couldn't live without them.
  
  
• For my job, I know I complain about it sometimes but I'm lucky to have it and am grateful for all the nice people I work with.
  
  
• That I finally have a college degree, not everyone can say they have one. Go me!
  
  
• For my health, I know I need to lose a few 50 lbs. or so but it could be a lot worse.
  
  
• For my new home that I love and feel so safe and happy in, I'm excited to build my new life here with my husband and our doggie babies.
  
  
• For my friends that I've had since my teen years and earlier. I love them all dearly and they are indeed the family that I have chosen.
  

I'm pretty sure I've left a bunch out but that's a good start. So if I'm ever feeling down just remind me to look here and see how wonderful my life really is.

Happy Thanksgiving all! I hope you all had a great holiday!

To Rott or not to Rott?

I took Buffy to her first vet appointment yesterday and learned something very interesting. The vet asked what breed Buffy was and I told her she was a Rottweiler/German Shepherd mix according to the Humane Society and you know what she had to say to that? "I don't think so." She says if this puppy really is two months old she's way too small to be a Rottweiler and her paws aren't big enough. In any case she guessed that Buffy is most likely a Shiba Inu mix. The vet thinks Buffy is a Shiba Inu because of her curly tail and because she screams. I've blogged about how loud she can whine to the point where it sounds like she's screaming. Apparently this is a big Shiba Inu trait, who knew? The vet said she's definitely a mix because her tail isn't fluffy like a Shiba Inu's is and her ears don't stand up. She wasn't sure what else Buffy's mixed with and said they could make a better guess when she grows up a little so who knows what kind of pup we actually have. It'll be really interesting to see how she turns out. Don't worry, we love her no matter what! She's just now our cute little Shiba Inu mix instead of our cute little Rottweiler/German Shepherd mix.

On another puppy note, Buffy had her first bath yesterday. I recorded some of it and you can hear some of her whining but it didn't really get to screaming volume. She can get way worse than she gets in the video.

Having dogs is fun!

Buffy's been doing better with the potty training. We've now progressed to the point where we actually had one accident free day. She also knows where the door to outside is and we can open it and she'll go right out without us having to go with her. This is sometimes good and sometimes bad. It's good because we don't have to go out with her if it's freezing cold. Tibor will go out with her and I think that's good enough for her. What can be bad about this situation is that sometimes she chooses not to do her business on the grass. Sometimes she elects to take care of business on the sidewalk or as in yesterday's case on a pile of leafs on the concrete. In theory this doesn't seem like a bad thing. Well...let me tell you, it was not a good situation. I'm not exactly sure how this happened but here's my theory, I think she somehow stepped on her poop after she released it and it got stuck to some leaves and she managed to drag a couple of the poop leafs in the house as well as smear some poop strait onto the floor.

To make this even better Bryan somehow managed to step in said poop as well. It was so awful. Our hole kitchen smelled like poop and I had to scour the floor for any poop and clean it up and clean it up off Bryan's feet and I thought we were done and we were sitting with the dogs in our bedroom when I got the distinct stench of poopies. Little did we know Tibor had actually stepped in poo too. So we had to do some emergency puppy paw washings. Tibor so did not like being in the tub, he totally slipped and ate it and I feel bad that I laughed but it was so funny! Then we had to wash Buffy's paws off and she did her squeal the whole time which was also funny.

Lucky for Buffy she has her first vet appointment today and it's been ten days since we got her so she gets a real bath time tonight! Oh man is she gonna love that! Dogs are fun!

I'm famous!

Well...almost famous but really not even close. My pictures did get chosen for the Miami Schmap Guide, woohoo! Go check it out! This one too!