Barking Loud

Sparky Passed

2011-08-16T16:06:00.012-05:00

We are so broken

Sparky went to God's Garden Tuesday the 9th

Way too young ~ just turned 6 and full of life, health and spirit

We are crushed and all of us are grieving beyond imagination

Thank you to all who kept us in their thoughts and prayers

We tried to do twitter but do not really understand it and mom furgot password

We could not get the message out because bloggies doesn't recognise our computer!?!

We know what you are going to ask so here it is though it hurts to write:

Sunday we saw a few bright drops of blood entering the house from the doggie door

We checked all their paws because we have a rugged back yard with the drought

We found nothing and figured Ginger and Sparky had rough housed over some rawhide sticks we gave them that they have not had for a very long time due to finances.

We assumed wrong.

We didn't know that at the time because we saw a little red on Sparky's gums and what looked like a bite on his tongue.

Everyone was looking and acting fine and we let our concern go

Monday everyone was lying around because of the 101 degree temp, they were stuck inside bu it wasn't unusual because they were allowed out after dusk. I do remember Monday that Sparky's bowl was still kinda full but that at times was normal. I do recall thinking for a split second that the AC at 74 might be too cold and that is why he wasn't leaving his bed too much so I changed it.

When I would ask if they wanted to go potty they would all jump up and excitedly wait for the door to open and run out so all seemed normal.

I left at dusk to return a Redbox movie and pick up some eats for us all,; I was gone about 20 minutes.

When I arrived home and went to the kitchen to call them to eat only the girls ran in

I called for Sparky and no response. I went out on the deck to glance across the yard and did not see him and called again, no response.

I went back into the kitchen to see if he was in his bed under the table and then the pantry thinking I just didn't notice he was right there, he wasn't

I ran outside and down the stairs calling him and Ginger was in front of me Crikit w/her bad leg behind me

As I ran towards the end of the house to turn right to see if the gate had been open I heard a few seconds of yelp/crying and Ginger who had disappeared around the corner had suddenly showed running from the area and turning around as if to run first then turn to see the danger

When I got around the house I still did not see or hear Sparky and I ran to the gate

I opened the gate and turned back to the yard and there was Sparky looking up at me

I said there you are you scared me baby boy where were you? Lets go in the house and get treats.

We all headed back around the house to the stairs to go in the kitchen but I did notice Sparky was walking behind me but he did that often

He was walking slower then usual but it was still hot and I much later thinking about it I remember his tail was somewhat down.

Stupid me didn't think much about it but rather thought something under the side stairs must have scared him and he is working through it.

We all went upstairs Sparky behind me the girls in front and that's not always the norm but not unusual.

Once we went in, in the light it seemed like he needed a little comforting so I called him into the family room and it took a few calls to get him there because he was acting like he did something wrong

I coaxed him in and gated the girls in the kitchen so I could love on Sparky with no interruption and give him a McyD burger.

He didn't eat at first but he did shortly after lots of rubbing eat the meat only.

I should have known something was wrong because he let me kiss his face without objection

That was not the norm he would always turn like he was saying ewww human breath

He let me brush him and he seem to scoot his bottom closer to his front paws and just let me brush and rub and kiss him

When he had enough, lucky me about 30 minutes, he turned to go in the kitchen so I opened the gate because he always acted like 'lets be fair' and he never seem to want special treatment unless all 3 got the same treatment and he was never to be 1st in his mind, at least that's how we interpreted his conduct.

I then said let all go out and wait for daddy on the deck but at that time abnormal was Sparky's behavior and I still did not realize what was to come because of my calm about his demeanor

One of the girls went out and turned around and Sparky put two front paws out and then backed up and chose to stay inside but Crikit then went out to join Ginger on the deck to be brushed

I figured whatever spooked Sparky made him act that way and that the girls had some intuition because they didn't seem to want to leave the deck which is unusual for Ginger.

I went down and around to check the area to see if maybe I heard a snake or something under the side stairs that might have caused Sparky to act unusual

I heard and saw nothing and thought someone walking by must have thrown a rock against the fence by Sparky's viewing window and that was why all didn't seem right in the world

When I went back into the house Sparky was on a middle of the kitchen bed and trembling like he was hearing firecrackers and breathing a bit rapid

I got down and held him for a few to let him know he was alright and when he stopped shaking a bit I went into the family room

I checked on him and thought he was drooling a bit so I fed him some water through a dropper and he would swallow and turn his head once he had had enough

I couldn't tell what was wrong other then if he was this way tomorrow Tuesday I was going to take him to the vet

It was late when all this began (?8:45 Pm?) and we were waiting for dad to get off work at 11 PM

When dad got home Sparky walked into the family room and licked dad and sat a few minutes there so I was still clueless that something serious was happening

It seem to be around 1 AM that Sparky seem to start breathing even more heavy but he was moving about though I do not know if he was crawling or walking other then he was in different locations in the kitchen where there are lots of beds pillows

By 6 AM I got ready because we decided we need to be first at the vet because something was obviously wrong and we didn't have the money for the emergency vet or we would have went even though he didn't seem outrageously distressed just somewhat distressed

When we arrived at the vet the dr was not in and we should have seeked out another vet but why we didn't I just don't know!!???!

He seemed comfortable in the car and alert and the heavy breathing came and went in spells as if her were a lady in labor.

I thought he might have swallowed a chew before it was soft enough and it was maybe hurting as it turned in his digestion

We did not realize his back end went paralysed while he was in the car or maybe even before because we cared him to the car on a towel stretcher

He didn't jump off and I should have realized something was seriously wrong but i still felt we would get through whatever this was

He seemed alert and ready to see where we were taking him and he rode in the car well which is not always the case

But the dr showed up and we were parked by the dr entrance and instead of walking in he stopped by the car and asked some questions and said he would carry him in

When he picked up Sparky was when we were told he was paralysed on his back half and we had no clue because he was walking at 1 AM and we thought he was weak and that is why we carried him to the car

Dr told us he would take x-rays and keep him a while and he would call us after he looks him over

I got the call early afternoon that he suddenly passed and I lost it

I did ask about an autopsy and the dr said he would do it because he was just as upset not understanding what exactly happened

I was home alone and told the dr I could not drive and I wailed so loud that even though the house was closed I have learned neighbors could hear me out to the street

Joe came home early

We made arrangements to cremate Sparky

Then more heartache was to follow before we could begin to try to cope

There was 1cc left of his blood and the vet would not release it to me

I wanted to send off for a DNA to get a possible id on his mixed breed

we went round and round and it took a couple of days but I got it so I could take it to a vet that would send off for the wisdom panel because our vet refused to do so

I had to keep Sparky on hold at the crematorium till all options were discussed to possibly get an option of his breed, something I have been meaning to do for so long but there was a money issue

to get right to it: I got the blood and I was with Sparky at the facility, took mould of his paws and was allowed to view or help if I wished with the process

I only helped a bit because I thought I would have a heart attack as I was losing courage to watch the whole process

When I brought him home we did not open the box till the weekend to find that they put him in the wrong urn

The people were good to me so I did not get ugly about it and chose to work Sparky's remains out slowly and hold him before I took the urn and him back to the facility

I found a grief support chat room that helped me last night and today and we participated in the candle lighting ceremony last night

I will tell you all about it the next time I get to the library but it was indeed very moving

I haven't proofed this and hope it is understandable. We could use prayers because we are feeling the guilt of worrying about emergency vet cost vs regular vet cost and we will never know if we could have saved his beautiful giving life. We believe after finding Sat. a blood stain on the side stairs that Sparky who loved to sit there to see over the fence to watch all that passed by and to see us arrive home might have tripped and hit his head because I was told by the vet he died of a blood clot and the autopsy showed a bruised bladder and he was paralysed on the lower half once he arrived at the vet. There are not words to express the heartache we are going through. He was so loving and in tune with all our needs and was full of life and love that this is just not right. I love all my fur babies however, Sparky seem to be part of my soul if that makes any sense. Please pray for us to find peace and acceptance.

Sparky's Pawrents, Crikit and Ginger

In short: We think Sparky fell down the side stairs (his favorite spot to sit) and with a chew bone in his mouth which, caused the marks on his tongue and the bright blood that we found Sunday and never saw again. We think that he may have hit his left eye/head that Sunday but it wasn't really that bad which we did not notice because he still seemed okay. Monday night when I left we think he was on the same stairs waiting for me and when I arrived he could not see well out of the eye that (we notice Monday night that looked red) and that his vision maybe was not good out of that eye and he re-hit the eye and that is why I heard the yelp and that maybe it caused a slow bleed inside that led to a blood clot causing the onset of paralysis. We just don't know and it was so sudden and the guilt of not noticing or taking him to the expensive emergency vet is eating us up and causing us such heartache. The 2 girls are having noticible grief because they were all so bonded. This is the most horrible path to have to walk prayers please

Prayers Needed

2011-08-09T14:23:00.007-05:00

Friendzees it's been a long time since we wrote

so sorry, lots of life issues and computie box don't work w/bloggie!?!

Please take a moment and send up prayer for Sparky

Pray for a miracle recovery for our Sparky

Please and Thank You

Crikit, Ginger and family

Hi Friendzees!

2011-06-20T17:41:00.005-05:00

Hi Friendzees!

Shock oh mighty momma blogged fur us!

We have missed all of you sooooo much.

Daddy don't know how to get into the bloggie and momma said she furgot how...

Yeah right, we think it is all the lost job's, them being sickly and then some surgeries but

you know what we furgive them cos yeah we are here today!

We have to get updated pics and run around to see what ya'll been up to.

Oh we have a twitter but momma hasn't used it ... figures sheeeesh

Well, Me Crikit has a hip issue I gotta see the doc about and both me and Sparky have to lose weight. Ginger just needs a good brushing to get her winter coat off but she don't like brushing ~ she's weird.

Hugs and Kisses All

C,S & G

Merry Christmas Everyone

2010-12-23T22:48:00.003-06:00

We love you all

Miss you all

Hope one day to be back blogging

Many blessings and good health to you all.

Merry Christmas

and much

Love and Peace

XOXO

Crikit, Sparky & Ginger

p.s. Mom's fault we have been away like forever, health issues and long work hours but we love her anyways...

Yeah We're Back!

2010-04-21T22:26:00.003-05:00

And we missed everyone!

Mommy & Daddy got us a laptop but they forgot how to get into our bloggie

anyways..

We know there has been lots of change...

Some of our friendzees have moved to God's Garden

And know it saddens us to know we were unavailable to grieve with all of yous

and offer healing love licks.

We know there are many new members to the bloggie family and can not wait to meet

We especially look forward to visiting all our friendzees!

1st we gots to learn how to use bloggie again

get our pictures up

Oh and have mommy dedicate time cos she had a job now!

Oh and daddy who lots his has a new one too!

Oh and daddy & mommy have recovered from all their surgeries

So thank you for keeping our familee in your hearts all this time

Love you All

xoxo

Crikit, Sparky & Ginger

aka CS&G still barking loud!

Miss Ya'll Lots!

2009-12-02T13:45:00.002-06:00

We hope to be back on line regularly soon.

Mom & Dad purchased a refurb laptop which, is grrreat now we need a modem.

Hope to get the big computee box fixed so we can get to our pics.

If we don't get to the library before Christmas know we love you all and wish you all many, many blessings and good health.

Lots of Love Licks

Crikit, Sparky & Ginger

Thank You & Happy Heart's Day

2009-02-13T12:36:00.003-06:00

Thank you all and may you all be blessed with more then you could ever dream of ~

we thank you for all the prayers and they helped more then we can say.

mommy is doing better and her spirits are better and her hard stitches came out today and were replaced with topical stitches and then 3 painful steroid shots but she told us over and over again that all the prayers worked!! Thank you friendzees because she said the procedure was painful but not as horrible as the first one. More shots next week but for now she is just really sore.

We haven't had access to the Internet but that's because money is going to the doctors so furgive us if we don't get to visit ya'll unless mommy is up to going to the library until payday comes.

Oh most important, our hearts go out to all our Aussie friendzees

~ we've been praying during all our waking hours ~

We love you ALL

Have a Happy Heart's Day

Love Crikit, Sparky & Ginger

prayer request for crazy mommy

2009-01-29T15:19:00.005-06:00

Our famileee believes in prayer so we ask humbly
if any of our friendzees have a moment to say a little prayer tomorrow at the equivalent time during the 10 AM hour US Central for our mommy we would so apawreciate it
Our prayer request:
the pain of the procedure mommy has to have again is bearable & minimal

With the computee box not cooperating and no extra money to take it to the shop we don't get to sniff around our friendzees bloggies much and mommy's spirits are low too and have been for months. After the 1st very painful skin cancer procedure followed by the monthly fire shots into the sternum and then the eye skin cancer scare and eye surgery procedure right after Christmas and the hurts she got from falling and bumping things when the eye patch was on well you guessed it yup she's kinda temperamental!

If me Sparky can vent fur just a moment ~

Last night it was a very coooold night and mommy locked me Sparky outside! She did! okay I now know it was accidental anyways let me tell yous ~ She got mad and raised her voice cos Ginger was out barking crazy like almost howling for no reason and when mommy yelled at her and made her come in mommy then closed the door! which means our doggie door is closed too! she didn't even take a head count and I got stuck in the cold for like 20 minutes! Thank goodness she realized before I became a popsicle and when I got in she gave me and only me a porterhouse treat and lots of rubbing to warm me up so I was good but still ...

I thought at first it was because two days ago when mommy went to the grocery store she left our doggie door open and when she got home well like always we were excited and came running threw our door leaping and prancing around and around to only be greeted by psycho mommy screaming at me and Crikit (oh but not as bad as when Crikit got our privileges revoked from sleeping upstairs on our loungey beds) Anyways, screamy mommy got crazier and crazier cos me and Crikit would not come to her when she told us to well Crikit did after a slight delay but I didn't ... hello she was yelling the command so why would I wanna go to her and after all our beds are considered our safe zone and we were on our beds! uh well one thing I didn't mention was we were soaking wet ... all but GINGER little princess huh! she stayed inside when it started raining and was all dry so she was confused at the yelling but then SHE got to go out front with her raincoat while mommy unloaded the goodies (wish you could hear my sarcasm) ~ mommy was mad cos she said we knew better and shoulda waited for her to get home and put our raincoats on so she could wipe our paws so we didn't bring in all the muddy water so see I'm sure you can see why I could think she left me outside on purpose. Well we we got lots of makeup hugs and rubs and treats cos she felt bad and now we think it's cos she is edgy cos of the painful procedure coming soon

She's gonna have to have 6 to 8 shots to numb the area that hurt she says are equal to dipping her hand in boiling water 6 to 8 times before the area is ready for the doctor and mommy even said though we are good doggies if we got something like that in our bum we would attack and tear off the Vet's hand cos it would just be too painful so see why we are asking for prayer request? mommy says thank goodness they give her codeine to take home or she would by too edgy for us to live with.

wish we had pictures but the computee box is just mean OH and we just want to mention again Thank You for all the lovely Christmas cards. We shared them with mommy and they cheered her up sorry we could only afford to do e-cards and we almost didn't get to do those cos the computee didn't work till daddy put on Firefox okay be good fur your huumons

Lots of Love Licks
from the Black Beauties & me Sparky!

I feel so big!

2009-01-26T13:30:00.003-06:00

Can you believe mommy finally put me on the banner!
We still can't get computee to download my purdy pictures stuck in the camera
but
I'm just happy to get my turn!

Happy New Year Friendzees
&
Happy Chinese New Year too!

Love Licks ~ Ginger

PeeeeS: Thank you Princess Snowball fur our Chinese New Year Card, it is beeeutiful xo

AND

If you haven't heard ~ run over to Lovely Mason's House because she has
a way cool CONTEST going on with a pawsome prize!

no banner ~ just a sad heart

2009-01-13T21:29:00.005-06:00

Our dear purdy kitty friendzee left fur God's Garden and we are very sad.
PooPoo's family need our love

Love Licks & prayers ~ from us

PeeeeS ~ the banner can wait but know I apawreciate all your support friendzees ~ Love Ginger

sheesh still waiting

2009-01-10T19:14:00.002-06:00

p-a-t-i-e-n-t-l-y

Love Licks ~ Ginger

Waiting Patiently

2009-01-08T12:20:00.008-06:00

that's what I'm doing

Hi Friendzees it's me Ginger
mommy said I get to be on the banner next fur New Year wishes

but in the meantime I will sit purdy with one of the gifts from Koobus
(remember when we had the goodie exchange last year ~ way fun)

This is my Baby Doll and I take good care of her
Oh and mommy said I can blog about our gifts from Rudolf & Goofy soon yeah!

Lots of Love Licks & Playtime

Ginger Out! xoxo

My turn!

2009-01-06T21:17:00.004-06:00

Hi Friendzees me Sparky!
It's my turn to be on the banner to wish ya'll
Happy New Year!

here's some tid bits about the pic
the piece of furniture that has enter our room (the kitchen) was given to us by our step grammie who says her grammie gave it to her and it came all the way from Philippines!
Mommy plans to enhance it's looks but notice ...
there is a gnawing on the drawer and the door knob disappeared
guess who?! GINGER! and yup she got a spankin' when it happened

any how friendzeez
I think I've convinced Crikit to tell ya'll what happen and why the Spy now lives with us.
sheesh living with these girls can be trying

Love Licks & Lots of Treats
Sparky out!

peeeeSS ~ Happy Barkday Zen hope you get all you wish fur xo

80% better!

2009-01-03T14:37:00.008-06:00

yes the computee box is getting better!

Daddy changed us from explorer to Firefox and some of the problems went away!!!

we missed all our friendzees so much
life was a drag can you tell...

me Crikit incase ya'll furgot

me Sparky aka Spartacus

me Ginger aka Gingi

left to right cos it's been a long time
Ginger, Sparky & Crikit ~ oh and daddy's knee
we finally got daddy to do something so we could get back to visiting
apawrently we have some kind of adware or malware that is locking things up.
our computee won't recognize our flash drives or camera downloads any more. anyone have any ideas? bark them to us K?!

Thank You's are in order ~

all the beautiful cards made us really happy
we couldn't get the list to open so we couldn't do ours
but ya'lls card brought us lots of tail wags
they were just the pawsomess and still hanging too

plus a
BIG Bark Out to our friendzees Rudolf & Goofy!!!

We love our Christmas pressies especially the meat!
we hope to put the pictures up soon
ya'll are the bestest of friends thank you thank you

oh and one last thing ...
we loves you all
love licks & more licks friendzees

2008-12-24T20:39:00.003-06:00

Merry Christmas Friendzees!

Our computee is kinda working so we're busy trying to get our cards out!

Lots of Love Licks

peeeeS ~ we know we know this is last year's pic but the computee won't downloads the ones we posed fur.

Back ON line! Yeah!

2008-12-01T11:05:00.004-06:00

finally got connection today!

furst mommy juggled bills after she got sick

she juggled and dropped the Internet ball ~ oops

then when she got it paid the nightmare began all over again

our computee still sick ~

worked, didn't work, modem on, moden off & off & off

we had phone static & Internet peoples out for line checks, signal checks

but no luck no connection

so mommy juggled again and we got a new moden last night

but still had connectivity problems lots of tech calls

and service for about 20 minutes then out again

but

though we still have computee problems

today the techs got us connected!!!!!

~ yeah ~

just in time too we got our furst card!

Thank You Simba!

We've missed you all ooodles hope everyone is well

pee ess: daddy has to travel which means mommy don't sleep

so were gonna visit everyone!

XOXO

Love Licks ~ Crikit, Sparky & Ginger

Living with a SPY

2008-10-08T14:30:00.015-05:00

proofs in the pictures right?!

look just look at this!

see this alien thingy we have to share our room with now!

It's extra freeky at night!

Crikit & I especially are not happy with the new conditions

but you know what ~ it's Crikit's fault not that I'm pointing my paw or anything but she knows ... she did a 'bad' thingy which, got us restricted from our loungey beds upstairs and we've been sent back to the kitchen. It shocked us all totally shocked us all. When mommy woke up and saw what Crikit did her voice probably would have broke the windows if they hadn't been open already. Oh us furs were so embarrassed cos we know if anyone was awake in probably a 2-block area they heard us getting in trouble but we were so scared of mommy we ran outside anyways and ran to the further-est part of our yard as we could get. It was daddy's morning to sleep in and that didn't happen so daddy was on the major edge too ...

and now that alien invades our privacy!

now mommy SPY sees through the walls all the way from her bed upstairs.

see my Sparky paws?

oh and that's Ginger on the middle pillow

that's me ~ I moved to the #1 bed closest to the family room cos Crikit moved her big butt to the best spot on the floor under the fan

Ginger likes to eat at night and now with the SPY watching I can't eat her food any more

unlike Ginger I have found it displeasing to have to live with a SPY!

it even transmits color during the day

see the sun starting to rise?

That's Crikit at the far bed by the door

No way was I giving up bed #1 after all she got us kick back to the kitchen

gosh now mornings are bright

sure hope mommy furgives us and lets us back upstairs to our loungey beds

paws crossed mommy gives up her new SPY career

Love Licks ! Sparky out

Daddy's a hog!

2008-10-06T10:07:00.008-05:00

sheesh we wanted to do bloggie maintenance this weekend but

daddy hogged the computee box connection!

Oh and mommy's a spy!

pictures to prove coming soon.

Lots of Love Licks ~ Crikit

closing notice

2008-10-02T13:53:00.003-05:00

Dear Friendzees: Temporarily closing our bloggie fur the weekend. We're crossing our paws that if we reload our linkies they will work again. We don't want ya'lls blogrolls to keep updating every time we do something BUT even if we don't finish we'll be back Monday. Oh and we hope to catch up on ya'lls adventures too! Have great weekends k?!

We love yous ~ xoxo

Smartie Furs!

2008-10-02T10:27:00.010-05:00

ha ha ha ~
so what gave me away?

I know I know ...

Yes friendzees Your right! It's me Sparky aka Spartacus enjoying the coveted spot in daddy's truck.

Thank you Asta Darling fur the lovely compliment and Miss Model Lorenza your right, I'd have to dye my hair to be in disguise ~ see I can't get away with anything around here, my handsome coloring gives me away every time!

SO who wants to go fur a ride?

WOO HOO Sparky out ~

Guess who?

2008-10-01T10:16:00.003-05:00

xoxo

Choose ~

2008-09-30T11:05:00.011-05:00

to have a happee day!

& we waggin' TX tails also ...

choose to bark loud today ~ WOO HOO!

It's a good thing too cus mommy who always checks to see what we are barking at saw early this morning that 2 of our little back neighbor doggie friendzees escaped and were on the run! Must have been looking fur their daddy who took only their big brother fur a walkie (and didn't close the gate right)~ so unfair right?! anyway ...

No worries ~ mommy got them back home.

See ~ Happee Day!

and look what our dear friendzees

Hershey & Kaci gave us! we love you and your bloggie too! Thank you xoxo

yup choosing Happee Day!

Thanks You's

2008-09-28T19:08:00.012-05:00

Princess Isis Thank You!

You put a smile on mommy's face and our tails have been a waggin'.

We are so not deserving of this award but we will proudly accept and display!

Award defined: The Premium Dardos recognizes the values that each blogger shows each day in commitment to transmit cultural values, ethical, literary, personal etc. that, in short, demonstrate their creativity by alive thinking that remains intact from their letters and words. This label comes with two rules: 1st link the blog to which he received the award ~ that's easy Princess IsIs & 2nd pick blogs to deliver the prize ~ that's hard YOU all deserve this!

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Special Note: We want to thank all our friendzees fur visiting us while we were out. It was so exciting and meant so much to see and read all your visits. We are so sorry to have missed supporting and saying goodbye to so many of our dear friendzees. It has been an emotional return full of laughs and heartaches. Some of our friendzees blogs have disappeared too and that makes us very sad. Plus, we would like to ask furgiveness that we missed tags and recognitions. Each and every one of you and your familees are dear to us; it is so true and we do not express that enough.

Me Crikit for those who have inquired ~ my injury well, I did something to my front leg. I'm doing much better now cos mommy & daddy have reduced activity to almost nothing which, has cause me to add to my girlish figure! I blame the young one fur digging mine holes all over the yard. Daddy thinks I missed stepped when charging after my tennis balls OR it could be that all three of us charge down the stairs so fast and swiftly turn that I might have strained something. It's necessary though at times to charge down the stairs so we can chase any and all living things away from our yard, especially those noisy garbage trucks! Pawrents thought it might be my joint or sprang muscle cos I started having trouble with getting up and stairs. The limp gave me away but throw my tennis ball and I seemed fine till I go back to walking. I think I am 99% better but know this, I never flinched when touched and I never whined and the up side was it got me lots of messages :)

Now I know what your thinking ~ why didn't our pawrents take me see the doctor? Well don't think bad of them k? same reason we still don't have Mr. Computee Box fixed ~ the mail person keeps bringing us these paper things that open daddy's wallet and takes the money! Can you believe that?! Lots is already going to a doctor and lots is going to some lab! ~ if I find that doggie I'm gonna have a major discussion. In the meantime, if any of you friendzees have an extra prayer you could send up fur us, we sure would apawreciate one from time to time fur our mommy cos prayers work. Why you ask? Well, Mr. Sun must have gotten offended that mommy never really liked him all her life. She never wanted to be his Sun Goddess avoiding him every chance she got, so we think he got mad and he gave her cancer, just like our Angel friendzee Gizmo; Squamous Cell Carcinoma (daddy says its cos she has translucent skin mommy calls it glow in the dark skin.) Anyways, now mommy rarely steps outside with us during the day and no longer lets us lay out in the sun fur very long but one thing fur sure, we now have lots of fun at night. It just doesn't seem right but we're taking good care of her with lots of love licks plus snuggles and we try never to leave her side cos she still recovering.

Anyways dear friendzees, we thank you again fur visiting while we were away. We are so happy we can socialize again cos we don't like missing our friendzees. It was a long few months and we hope it never happens again ~ paws crossed! Sending lots of love licks your way and thanks fur being our friendzees.

xoxo Crikit out! Y

Goodbye Solinski

2008-09-26T20:39:00.007-05:00

Our hearts are breaking right now.

Our dear Beautiful Beta sister is now in God's pond.

We never introduced Solinski our Beautiful Beta on this bloggie only mommy's. Her nickname was Beautiful Girlie. She was an extra smart Beta. Every morning mommy would wave to Solinski to see if she was awake and if she was then Solinski would swim to the bowl by mommy's hand and wave back. Mommy would talk to her and Solinski would swim to the the part of the bowl where mom was and blow kisses. Not the blowed up fighting face just the beautiful rainbow blue face showing off her beautiful fins swaying gracefully in the water. This communication happened often throughout the day. Mommy only let us look from afar. Mommy even waited till she saw Beautiful Baby eat during her dinner before leaving her to enjoy her habitat. However...

Around 8:00 PM mommy realized Solinski was not doing well. She was making us a treat and stopped everything. We heard mommy tell daddy she thought Solinski's was dying and she was crying. Then she said she thought she witnessed Solinski's last breath... she tried to change the inevitable by transferring fresh water to stimulate her baby and was gently nudging her lungs but Solinski must have wanted to be an Angel. This picture doesn't show the true beauty of our Solinski's colorings, blue~ish rainbow. We have never seen a lovelier beta.

We are so sad ~ Your in our hearts forever Solinski ~ We love you ~

Y Y Y

Missed everyone of ya'lls

2008-09-24T11:34:00.006-05:00

Sheesh things have changed around blogger. We're gonna have to sniff around and see what's up. We even had to look up our password!

Speaking of what's up, all of you friendzees are so welcome to catch us up on all the happenings ~ it's gonna take us a while to visit and read all ya'lls updates all the way back to July! ~ Hope everyone is healthy & happy.

Me Crikit, I have been nursing an injury and well, we all have been taking care of mommy. She got unhappy health news but like good pups were gonna shower her with lots of love.

Thank You Greg and Rocky's mommy and everyone who sent us e-mail to help us with our computee problem. It's still not fixed but Charlie & Opy's smart daddy gave us some great instructions so daddy promised he would get to it. We were given Gramies (oops she never liked us callin her that) we mean Angel Nana's former computee box; it has limitations but we can now get on the Internet to visit ya'll.

Lots of Love Licks ~ to you ALL ... must get to visiting xoxo

Calling all brain power ~ Help

2008-07-04T15:29:00.005-05:00

C, S, & G mom here... we need computer savvy friends to help us figure out our problem if possible. I had to come to the library to do this because:

1. we cannot get Google, Gmail or blogger to open and sometimes not even netzero
2. we cannot see most of the blogs not even ours even when just surfing the net
3. we changed from TimeWarner to AT&T/SBCGlobal and yes it is faster but we get errors on almost all pages we attemp to view or cannot find server or done and there is no page
4. we have lowered our Internet properties as low as we can go and still try to stay safe
5. before we left TimeWarner we had to lower the firewall to open up some of the blogs and then turn it back on but that firewall came with TW so we don't have that option now
6. We ran a free Norton Anti-virus during all the frustrating time which, resulted in files that read Trojan and a couple of small alert virus' so we renewed our Norton Anti-virus account to the most updated for our software
7. We finally got connected to AT&T/SBCGlobal network and for a couple of days everything seemed fine but then suddenly without any provocation on our part, we have been having boot-up problems where the first boot locks up or it takes over 10-minutes to get it rebooted and when we are on the net we get locked out of most everything even Disney and BeBratz which, doesn't make sense.
8. our system check mentions about a fat32 inconsistency which, was listed on the small alert virus that makes us think it may still be contributing to our issues
9. The screen flashes when booting up made us think someone was piggy backing on our system but we don't know how to really know.
10. AT&T tech says they cannot help because it shows we got our Internet connection
11. oh and when we sign in to Google or blogger it acts like everything is fine and then it sends us in loops - 'you are about to .. secure site' we say OK then 'others may see...' then we say OK, then the same messages loop and loop and loop and the site never completely loads.

Does anyone have any helpful advice? We cannot take the computer in for another month for service due to finances and we sure are missing all of you.
Thank you in advance for any advice.
Our hotmail account seems to work fine mehinton_tx@hotmail.com

Chef! sorry we haven't been able to update on the goodies from Koobie.

Koobie awesome! Just awesome. We have pics if we get this site to like us again.

AireChicks hope you enjoyed your goodies

Friends we miss you

and will visit as soon as we get this *#$?! computer to work right.

Mean dog news

2008-06-23T21:23:00.009-05:00

Our plan is to catch up on all ya'lls adventures but we must share this info we received ...

One of the 2 dogs that attacked mommy & our little Ginger at 9-months old in Oct. 2006 while on an evening walk was recently made to leave the community. It was so terrible that Gingi got attacked because the attack altered her personality ~ plus mommy was hesitant to help loose doggies fur awhile too. Well, the meanest of the 2 attacked another human and was sent to live with family far far away ~ yeah! We think California but the other dog still lives near and is required to have a vicious dog sign posted outside the home. It was said that they were hybrid German Shepperd's; we thought they looked like extra tall wolves ~ they were very purdy but scary. The owners would never speak with our pawrents so we really don't know except what the city paperwork says. It's a relief. OK we must get back to visiting ya'll till we get caught up!

Love Licks ~ Crikit & Sparky reporting Y

We missed ya'll and ...

2008-06-23T11:43:00.006-05:00

it has been horrible not getting to visit with all you friendzees. Mommy wouldn't even let us go to the library computee either but we know she did... not fair but I guess that's what we get for being ruff hehe get it? nobody should be in our yard so we still think we were right to bark loud at the Internet dude.

We got locked inside when the new Internet person came. It was a girl this time. dawg it took furever for mommy to finally let us outside. We pooped in all the areas he oops she went so he oops she would step in it if she came back. Mommy wasn't happy with that cos she likes us pooping in the the same 3 sections of the yard that we normally do; she calls them our poop-stations but furget that we did lots of piles right under the wire box :)

Well, now that we have a connection we're gonna be trotting around all week to catch-up on all ya'lls adventures. Ours can wait.

Love ya'll ~ C, S, & G Y

Just a note...

2008-06-11T11:20:00.002-05:00

friendzees' we haven't been around cos it's crazy around here with grammie visiting and then leaving with daddy for a long time ~ sheesh daddy is still gone and we miss him bad.

We've done such a good job at guarding mommy that we scared the Internet man away but mommy said we gotta be nice when he comes back by so we can finally (now that the old contract is finished) get our service changed. Hope it works better so we can visit all ya'll more and so the pages will load faster. We're gonna miss all you friendzees while we're cut off.

Be good Be safe Be well ~ Love Licks & waggin TX tails Barking Loud often!

Yeah a card ~ Thank you friendzees!

2008-06-04T15:56:00.000-05:00

If mommy would jus check our peemail I woulda posted this pawsome card sooner! Thank you Rocky, Bear, Angel LacyLuLu and mommy Claudette ya'll are jus the bestest friendzess ever!

Love Licks, Sparky Y

My Day! WooHoo plus & AWARD!

2008-06-03T13:05:00.007-05:00

June 4th is My Day!

I was blessed to get my furever home 3 years ago.

I also fell in love at furst sight with Crikit and was so excited that she was my Black Beauty! I will share pictures soon of our love story but fur now I will leave my link to MY STORY. Oh and I will tell you all about MY celebration real soon, k?!

Yeah! Look! Our handsome friend Chef tossed this our way! This is really special from an award winning Boxer in and out of the ring. Mommy let us even lick the screen but we got a zizzle on our tongues and none of us liked it but we looove this award. Thanks Chef!

So Friendzees! We sorry we haven't been around to visit ya'll and we feel real bad. It's kinda crazy around here with my special day and cos it's jus crazy around here ~ sumtin to do with daddy, grammie, Arkansas oh and planes, trains & automobiles hehe maybe not trains but that sounded familiar :) so mommy promised when it calms down we can visit till our hearts delight.

Love Licks, Sparky Y

Crikit Week: must end fur now

2008-05-25T16:19:00.002-05:00

remember my 1st pic ever @ 8-wks?

then @ 4-months?
Well... here I am now @ 4-years!
Daddy can't really hold me cos I wiggle plus, I weigh around 60 something pounds :)

fur those who asked ~

yes, I saved my
crabbie baby

got that bug good!

I purfur to lounge in my pool as often as my pawents let me. This was my 1st barkday

They even gave me my 1st outdoor bath in it cos I really loved being in my pool

plus they were getting me ready fur my 1st Luau and I tolerated the outfit my pawents wanted me to wear

one fact about me is that I love to savor my chews

and I love my treats! Plus my pawents let me lick every last crumb out of the box every time

and most of ya'll know I now live fur my tennis balls and love pink so you know I love my pink pool but I am still waiting fur my pink tennis ball to show up... but that seems to be taking a long time

Oh and when the weather is nice, I like to sit on the side deck cos it allows me to look over the fence and guard my front yard too.

This was me during my front yard guard duty this Memorial Day ...

Now, I want to thank you all fur visiting me during my week. I apaweciate your friendship. I loved this attention so much I hope to have another me-week one day but I must share with my famileee so on that note ~ celebrate life!

Love Licks,

Crikit Y

some facts: my daddy is a Border Collie, my mommy is part German Sheppard part Wolfe and we were told I look like my grandmother; we hope to get a picture of her someday but I'll share my pawents picture as soon as mommy scans it ~ love ya xoxo

Crikit Week: more of ME!

2008-05-24T22:52:00.014-05:00

Starting with the ugly coat!
Mom's excuse: it was the only semi-large coat reasonably priced at the store.
Well I said shop around then cos this one made me look like a BOY! ugh!

Thank goodness I didn't need the ugly thing in the house ~ it was already too warm fur me

My 1st trip to a trail park

It was the neatest place!

Seemed like we walked furever and it still wasn't enough fur me ~ I loved it!

then... a couple of days later I discovered paper towel rolls!

I totally believed they needed to be demolished immediately hehehe I still do!

furst 2-pics I was 6-months & the rest I was 7-months

Well friendzees, mommy said I get one more day fur all-about-me ~ bummer I was really diggin this anyways, thanks fur visiting come back again k?!

Love Licks, Crikit Y

Crikit Week: how I got my name

2008-05-23T18:51:00.007-05:00

Crikit!

now ~ turn your head sideways cos mommy did a booboo

then here is my 1st tasty orange stick!

1st ~GIANT~ bug

I'd ever seen and it was attacking my Crabbie Baby!

Yup! I was spoiled uh I mean loved...

In the booboo video I was 4-months & 6-months in the others.

Thanks fur visiting again XO

Love Licks, Crikit Y

Crikit Week: already a good helper

2008-05-22T21:41:00.013-05:00

@ 4-months,

I lent my paws to help my pawrents whenever needed

I was getting bigger compared to my 1st picture in daddy's arms, remember that one?!

I didn't really care fur golf balls but I guarded daddy's when he needed me to

I was getting tall too.

Daddy would yelp sometimes when I jumped up to stand by him wonder why... weird huh?!

I loved helping in the wood pile

I would find all kinds of interesting things

I tell daddy which one I wanted and he would fetch it ~ uhem who's got who trained? :)

Always ready to pawtect when needed

It sometimes was tiring but...

I so loved my job and still do

Thanks fur visiting ~ Love Licks, Crikit Y

Crikit Week: fast & growing

2008-05-21T14:43:00.015-05:00

I was too fast fur the camera

specially when I got my 1st chewie

I knew right off I would always love & care fur

my chewie baby

My furst purdy pink harness

Monitoring daddy~

Be careful daddy that's my Baby

My pawrents delaying my learning cos

They locked me in the kitchen on well...

many occasions

Not even my cute ears or puppy eyes

helped me in getting the blockage removed

22-days later...

loving on my chewie baby

& growing fast!

Oh my week is going by too fast

Thanks again fur visiting

Love Licks,

Crikit Y

Crikit Week: 1st loves

2008-05-20T14:12:00.016-05:00

I loved basketballs 1st

but I conquered soccer balls 1st

and then included was my 1st pool fun

but I couldn't decide which ball I loved more

so confusing...

hehe I didn't give up on my b-ball conquest

I had to show it who was the boss!

hopefully mommy will find the picture when I carried my b-ball

cos I know she has a pic of the destroyed one :)

I was about 4-months old well...

Thanks fur visiting today during my week

Love Licks ~ Crikit Y

Crikit Week: Split Second Video's

2008-05-19T13:16:00.016-05:00

20 seconds or less video's ~ except 1

cos mommy didn't know how to use her digital camera

hehe even the 2-sec one

catches my wildness take a peek

16 - secs

4 - secs

6 - secs you can really see my flip floppy ears

11 - secs

40 - secs! more essence of me!

19 - secs

17 - secs and probably mommy's favorite cos I stop to put Baby in a safe place.

14 - secs nah they all are I'm sure

You can even see my Baby (pre-destuffed days)

hmmm I guess mommy was right ~ I was a handful

I'm jus loving 'Me' week

Love Licks, Crikit Y

Crikit Week: My very furst picture

2008-05-18T16:17:00.022-05:00

I am so excited ~ my week to be a star!
This is me!
My furst picture!

11:17:16 AM on
June 20th, 2004

I was being handed to my daddy fur the furst time on Daddy's Day!

I thought my new home was with Kristen but turns out I was a gift frum my now cousin Kristen. I sooo didn't know what was going on.

We were at grampa's celebrating. I didn't know if this was my new furever home but I got lots of attention. I was really mellow and quiet.

Approximately 8-weeks old

Look at my purdy blue eyes but as ya'll know they didn't stay blue.

hehe my mommy was concerned cos my paws indicated I was gonna be big and she only had small fur babies before me.

2-weeks later I was a wild child with... no cares in the world. I loved my water jugs and had to teach them who was the boss!

Look you can see my potty bell.

I was told I must ring the bell to go potty or mommy's voice would get shrilly! To bad then didn't figure out I needed my own door till 3-years later! silly huuumons.

You can even see my furst most favorite crabbie in the world. Loved Crabbie but when the others came to live with us one of them attacked it and now it is in crabbie heaven.

Hey you can even see my Baby that I won't say who cos it's my week but someone destuffed my Baby and mommy promised to heal but I haven't seen Baby fur a long time ... MOOOOOOOOM

I learned early how to give puppy eyes to get more treats. Weird thing, mommy use to feed me frum my frizzbee baby so that's how I learned to carry my food bowl around when I'm hungry... there fault

I use to pose fur the camera ~ look at my flip floppy ears! Eveyone use to comment on my ears didn't understand why; they said I would grow into them hmmm I loved my flip floppy ears!

This is so fun ~ Thanks fur sharing this week with me friendzees! Stay tune for more ~ no telling what mommy may find?!

Love Licks ~ Crikit Y

pee ess: sad thing, when we were having the computee problem a few months ago, well appawrently we did lose some of my baby pictures cos mommy can't find any pictures during that 2-week break... too sad huh

Crikit Week?! WooHoo

2008-05-16T11:24:00.009-05:00

Hey everyone!

Mommy said next week is all about me!

Don't know why but I am so happy!
Y
Have a wonderful weekend!

pee ess: run over to Chef's place or Beasley's to read all about the up coming International Goodie Exchange ~ we are so excited our tails are about to wag off

Charlie WooHoo!!!

2008-05-15T13:05:00.004-05:00

Welcome Home!

Another Beauty has a Barkieday!

2008-05-15T12:47:00.005-05:00

May all your wishes come true

Princess Isis!

Japanese name game

2008-05-14T14:48:00.009-05:00

Twister & Furby the Bling Bling Girlies wagged us to do the Japanese Name Game. We don't know Japanese so we were excited to play.

Here's the Instructions ... Add your name on the list and simply spell out your name using the given Japanese letter- translations below. And you will should tag six of your friends and then inform them so here goes ...

TRANSLATION:

A - ka B - tu C - mi D -te E - ku F - lu G - ji H - ri

I - ki J - zu K - me L - ta M - rin N - to O - mo P - no

Q - ke R - shi S - ari T - chi U - do V - ru W - mei X - na

Y - fu Z - zi

(blame blogger fur the spacing)

And heeeeeere they are!

C r i k i t

Mi- shi- ki- me- ki- chi

S p a r k y

Ari- no- ka- shi- me- fu

G i n g e r

Ji- ki- to- ji-ku- shi

Now fur six furs... we Wag Tag any fur who wants to play we know we're not doing it right but blame mommy K?!

Love Licks & waggin TX tails barking loud Y

Sometimes mom gots mush fur brains

2008-05-14T08:28:00.005-05:00

Koobuss! we sorry ~
Koobie Mommy we sorry ~

cos mommy furgot to remember to post our thanks to you mommy fur the prize packages!

The Easter Bonnet Event was pawsome and WE LOVED the prize packages & Award; sorry mommy's mushie brain forgot

I Crikit was sooo excited I placed and couldn't wait to open my package!

Look at what 3rd place got me!

What a prize package!!!

I Sparky placed twice in both real & virtual woohoo!
Look at my prizes!!!

Love them judges. I am so proud of my self fur posing fur mommy.

Plus I shared with my little black beauty Ginger and look what she snagged and ran.

She love's the squeeky bone

We wanna thank all the judges, you Koobie & Koobie Mommy!
The prizes were so elaborate, unexpected and appawreciated.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Y

pee ess: Koobie we've never had one of these and it was spawtacular many love licks to your mommy she is the bestest xoxo Y

Barkday Cards & Wishes

2008-05-14T07:00:00.005-05:00

May All your wishes come true friends

Princess Halo Happy Barkieday!

Princess Zorra! Happy Barkieday!

Prince Izzie ~ Happy Barkday Buddy

God called another beauty to his Garden

2008-05-13T19:24:00.006-05:00

Daisy & Diesel

This was very heartbreaking news to learn this evening.

Daisy crossed the bridge to God's Garden.

A card drive has been set up fur her mommy Kendra.

Please participate.

Here is the link to the information about the drive and the tragedy.

We will let you read it because our pond of tears is over flowing.

We need to pawray fur Daisys' famileee

jus fur mommy

2008-05-13T09:26:00.006-05:00

We helped daddy do something special fur mommy

NOT because it was mommy's day but because the 13th is the sad anniversary of mommies mommy going to heaven.

Mommy usually releases to heaven a heart balloon with a prayer

We decided to dig a hole and plant grammies favorite tree jus fur mommy

one day we'll show you the weeping willow

we miss you grammie

Oh No not the Walnuts?

2008-05-12T12:01:00.011-05:00

I'm so sad ~

I jus learned walnuts our favorite treats are bad and can kill pets ~

I loooove walnuts!

So I asked mommy who's this pet?

She said that's one of my nickname's. yikes! say what?!

So I'm very sad walnuts are now off the treat menu ~

The day has got to get better...

Paryer's all day fur Charlie

2008-05-12T08:36:00.008-05:00

Charlie Big Dog ~ 1st DWB'r had his surgery today

Please continue to pray throughout the day ...

fur his speedy recovery cos his daddy said the surgery went well ~ yeah!

You know his famileee Opy, mommy Brooke and daddy Greg will continue to worry till he is allowed to come home so...

Paws crossed plus pawrayer can only speed up his recovery right?

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Happy Mother's Day! to ALL xo

2008-05-11T11:35:00.009-05:00

To all fur mother's & huumon mother's

our friendzee's who have been mother's

we would like to wish you all

Happy Mother's Day!

Love Licks & Kisses

Crikit, Sparky & Ginger

AND our greatest pleasure...

mommy agreed to make a 'rare' appearance

All our love mommy

YYYYYYYYYYYY

YYYYYY XO YYYYYY

Princess Snowball Happy Barkieday!

2008-05-09T10:13:00.014-05:00

May all your wishes come true dear friend!

How special ~ you're '10' on the 10th!

Your pawty with Blue is gonna be spawtacular!

It's Blue's Pawty!

2008-05-09T08:00:00.004-05:00

Happy Birthday Blue!

Your pawty planner has done a spawtacular job!

Hope we didn't get our reservation in to late to fly Ruby Aire

fur the May 10th pawty extravaganza!

Nat'l Stuffie Day!

2008-05-08T09:09:00.001-05:00

Oops ~ mommy needs to charge the camera batteries that must be why the camera monster has been tame fur a while. But lucky us, we found a couple of our favorite stuffies fur...

National Stuffie Day!

This is my most favorite baby right now ~ my one-eye galactica named Baby G (fur Ginger)

I jus love her so much that I haven't even tryed to destuff her!

Well me Sparky, I love my Mammoth Tennis Ball so much I don't like to share it ~

Well, before the others came to live with us I had so many stuffies and I had names fur all of them. I knew which to get when my pawrents told me to go get my Baby, my Pet, my Tweetie Bird, my Crab BUT Sparky & Ginger destuffed them! Mommy promised to search fur pictures of my lost flat destuffed stuffies. Guess what though, my most favorite of all is my stuffie HEART I got fur my furst Valentine's Day frum my pawrents and it says "I Love You" so mommy pawtects that fur me from the brats here's a pic I was almost 1-yr old & recovering from surgery.

I love my heart xoxo ~ now I am all about tennis balls woohoo!

Let's All Appawreciate!

pee ess:
Oh and JB we say you bet 'cat nip' pillow's otta count as stuffies & Emma, Canine Kids we think the destuffed ones are the best to represent ~ we jus can't find ours right now so we hope you post 'em XO Y

Don't furget National Stuffie Appreciation Day

2008-05-07T15:40:00.008-05:00

Mr. T-Bone Beasley's announced that May 8th is National Stuffie Appreciation Day and we furs are suppose to bring out the best pictures of our favorite stuffies!

Gotta go do some diggin ... later

C$ aka Charlie The Big Dog needs all our prayers friends

2008-05-06T04:31:00.009-05:00

and so does our DWB famileee Opy, Brooke & Greg.

Charlie has had a set back in his health and needs our pawrayers.

He's suppose to stay calm and quiet till he get his surgery but we know he needs his friends right now too.

So if you haven't been over yet run on over right now k?

Love Licks and special pawrayers fur

our friend Charlie Gruff Puppy

one of the DWB creators.

Sad mommy plants a tree

2008-05-05T15:20:00.009-05:00

Did you watch the Kentucky Derby?

Mommy and Daddy stayed outside doing things with us (way fun) until it was time fur the Derby to start. When she walked in the room she expressed "Oh what a beeuutiful horse!" me Crikit felt so happy cos she always calls me her little horse unless she's mad then I'm a bull sheesh then I realized it wasn't me she was talking about cos she said to daddy "oh he's gonna win what's his name?" Daddy said "Big Brown and he probably won't cos he's been running a lot of races recently". "No matter" momma said "I have no doubt he is gonna make history today!"

She then hears about a filly running named Eight Belles' and that a filly has never won before. When Eight Belles' went by the camera my mom said "oh she's beeuutiful and she just might win this if BB doesn't and I know she'll place if not win" daddy had his own idea's so he stayed quite.

The race began and mom was almost kissing the TV and screaming at it... weird we thought the TV was in trouble? Anyway we thought something was wrong but she was on the carpet and we couldn't go comfort her. Daddy tried to calm us but before you knew it she was so happy and apawlogizing to us fur her behavior. Then, something happened cos she began sobbing and we didn't like it. When she kindda stopped she came and gave us big oh long hugs and she let us lick her lots then she disappeared.

When mommy came outside later she dug a whole. She told us she was gonna plant a tree to give us shade all day and it's name would be Eight Belles'. We will furever honor the beeuutiful filly who gave her all to her owners' and took second in the Kentucky Derby before her life ended tragically. She had to be euthanized immediately. God's Garden has another beeuutiful horsey.

Me Crikit paying my respects to Eight Belles' our new tree and when our Eight Belles' is strong enough, we're gonna hang eight bells on her Y

Advice anyone?

2008-05-02T20:49:00.004-05:00

Hi smarty furs! We need help cos mommy don't know...

What service do YOU recommend that will let us know on our bloggie when one of our friends has made a new post. We tried bloglines but either mommy don't understand or something... We visited some fur that showed on their side bar the bloggie friends that had a new post, the title and the furst line or two of the post. It sure would help us on our visiting routes so we don't miss out on all ya'lls adventures. Any recommendations sure would be apawreciate.

Hope all your weekends are full of treats!

Thanks fur any advice.

Love Licks & waggin TX tails not barking right now cos it's almost bedtime.

Happy Barkday Gizmo!

2008-05-01T19:04:00.009-05:00

blessed with 17 years of love!

many more
Enjoy your special special day!

Gizmo!

NO Mom! not again...

2008-04-30T10:42:00.006-05:00

sheesh mommy is a video monster too!

hmmm we should unstuff her phone

Happy Barkieday Kena!

2008-04-29T14:33:00.010-05:00

Kena your pawty was a blast! Your sissie Maya is a pawsome pawty planner!

Celebrate ~ celebrate ~ dance to the music ~ it's
Princess Kena's Barkieday!

photographer: Baby & Boy

Deetz Scary Eyes Contest!

2008-04-29T11:41:00.006-05:00

DO you know Deetz ? Deetz the Airedale?

Guess what he's inviting every fur to submit their scary eyes!

Sounds way fun huh?! We have seen lots of scary eyes all over the DWB community.

Do any of ya'll remember when we furst started blogging? The picture we used?

Yup lots of furs said yikes... so we will enter it cos it scares us too! hehe

Good Luck Every Fur!

If you haven't met Deetz yet trot on over, hurry!

Celebrations! We Love them!

2008-04-28T10:29:00.017-05:00

me Crikit had the best 4th birthday pawty!
~
me Ginger had the bestest 2nd adoption pawty!
~
We had such fun at the CHAT Pawty and met so many wonderful friends & new friends!
~
We so pigged & enjoyed Kena's barkday pawty by pawsome pawty planner Maya!
~
so many celebrations! such fun! here's some chat pawty pics woohoo
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Friday's chat was so fun

our furst ever chat pawty!
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Ginger loved being our Friday typist!

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way fast & interesting convo!

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Saturday was another story
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we could only get in fur a hello then...

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we got locked (uh booted) out

almost the entire day!

Ginger was getting fustrated and she wanted to play instead

me Crikit told her to have a little more patcience

we asked daddy to check the connection but no luck

but Sparky got frustrated and decided to leave

Sunday ~ we got in!
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It was fast & fun convo

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We had a pawsome time!
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friends & new friends
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the pleasure was all ours

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Y

Pawties Woo Hoo

2008-04-27T19:45:00.003-05:00

We are so excited to pawticipate in the 2nd Anniversary Chat Pawty!

Never did a chatty pawty before but we are looking forward to it woohoo!

We hear that bloggies get the cold shoulder all weekend long from updates

but oh we wanna meet our friends & new friends!

1 matter of business though incase Rudolf & Goofy don't come to the chatty pawty cos they have a pawty of their own ~ Happy Barkieday Rudolf xo

Pawties are Pawsome!

2008-04-24T11:56:00.037-05:00

At furst us girl's

thought it was so un-cool of mommy

to make us wear pawty dresses

but

the Princess Crown's were pawsome

then ...

lots of toys!

We especially liked our new purse!
We were dressed & ready to

Pawty!

Lovin every minute!

Then oh my doggie the best part!

PIZZA!

it was

sooooo

yummeelishous!!

Thank you fur all your good wishes!

Ya'll are the best friendzees ever!

Pee ess ~ pee-mail us your addressy fur a pawty favor

Thank You Friends!

2008-04-23T22:10:00.006-05:00

We love you all fur visiting us

& leaving us happy wishes on our special day

Our hearts are filled with Joy

Y XO Y

Happy Day at our House

2008-04-22T00:00:00.021-05:00

Celebrate the Princess' Special Day with us!

Ginger's ~ 2nd Adoption Furever Home Day!

Crikit's ~ 4th Birthday Barkieday!

Here's your Pawty Hat!

& your napkin's cos it's

a

PIZZA ~ Pawty!

Oh & choose your ~ PAWTY FAVOR!

hey you can take both if you want ~ xo

Thank You!

pee ess~ Happy Birthday Earth

Hey my Black Beauties I Love You Y Sparky

us Black Beauties' are so excited!

2008-04-18T10:52:00.001-05:00

Earth's Special Day too!

2008-04-18T10:30:00.001-05:00

Earth Day is April 22nd

Us Black Beauties share celebration with the Earth!

Me Crikit ~ it's my 4th Birthday Barkieday!

Me Ginger am so excited ~ it's my 2nd Furever Home Day!

aka gotcha day or adoption day but I say Furever Loving Family Day!

celebrate with us k?
Y

Camera Monster Road Trip Pics

2008-04-17T13:55:00.043-05:00

Back tracking to our road trip:

The furst thing we saw once we started our trip home was a cemetary fur planes!

Mommy took lots of pictures while Daddy was speeding by but we asked her 'please don't put them all on jus one k?'

Then we hit the road fur the 13+ hour ride home.

woohoo! lets go really fast daddy k?!

Arizona is full of rocks!

And more Rocks!

And way more rocks!

When Daddy slowed down we woke up at this reststop with rocks to climb on, so we were thinking we were gonna get to play!

but daddy only did a drive thru

sheesh!

Next thing you know we're back on the road... dawg

See how excited I was...

Me & Ginger were set to go!

We jus knew Daddy would stop and let us climb a few.

We were sooo excited!

but we ended up disappointed so we went back to sleep

Since we went to sleep we missed the "Things" that kept showing up along the road

We also missed the fire

Apawrently this welcome sign looks the same at each end of this state.
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However, mommy got a better picture on the way home then she did going to Arizona.

Mountains & more mountains...

New Mexico is full of Mountains scattered all around.

We saw lots of dust storms jus like the sign says but they were too far off the road fur the camera to pick up.

We found 'GOLD' at least that's what the Continental Divide sign said.

This sign should be in AZ since we saw lots and lots of rocks when leaving that state.

This is what the area of the United States Continental Divide looks like elevation 4000 something

In New Mexico? sure don't seem like the right area to divide the US

We're traveling East, almost to the Texas line and it stinks!!

Thousands and thousands of cows on breeding farms and it stinks!

Mommy gags and gags and gags and we stress cos she sounds horrible and the air stinks!

This is what we see when coming back into TX at the state line sign.

Dad's speeding cos mommy has sensitive smelling and she gags like furever!

This is the Texas entry overpass and yup dad's speeding, mom's a gagging and trying to take pics too!

How crazy is that?!

And... we are in!

The Texas welcome sign and since it's almost dark, camera monster will have to stop cos the digital camera is full and so is the disposable flash camera. woohoo!

now... about 9 more hours to go

'sigh'

Our Heart's are Heavey

2008-04-15T15:47:00.010-05:00

Dear beeuutiful friend Khomet is now grazing in God's Garden.

Our furst horsey bloggie friend. This is a very sad time.
Susan, Hammer & famileee are walking another difficult journey.

Your prayers would be apawreciate.

Love Licks

Y

Road Trip HOME!

2008-04-08T20:19:00.039-05:00

The many positions of

headed home happiness
The moment we got in the truck and our beds were there we crashed!

Weird we chose to snuggle most of the way home even though we had the whole backseat to stretch out.

There's no place like home even if it takes a very long time to get there

Love Licks

When we woke up

2008-04-05T18:25:00.024-05:00

we were ready fur our Road Trip Home!

Turns out we left late Monday so we got home Tuesday cos mommy & daddy had to rest at two of the rest stops!

Anywhoo this was the morning we were leaving

I was working a plan to open the door

I could hear daddy coming

yup I was right

yeah daddy!

then daddy came out to give us our morning pet

He called Ginger but she wouldn't come, she probably figured daddy would hold her and let the famileee pet her

then he went in fur breakfast without us

but look at smarty me I figured out how to open the door

funny thing that Gingi acted like she wanted to go in too

anyway I had to nudge daddy that it was time to say goodbye to his famileee

I even had to beg a little but then yeehaw we finally headed home!

Jus so you know...

mommy took a million pics on the way home

told you she can be a camera monster

Love Licks all

Road Trip Sunday

2008-04-05T18:20:00.035-05:00

evening with the family in the patio room aka our rooom

Visiting Izzie & his famileee was so much fun that it relaxed us enough to enjoy the evening with the famileee , at least me (Crikit) & Sparky. See the swing that Ginger stood behind most of the time (crazy kid) that's daddy & our cousin Niki. Can you believe Ginger went up to her fur a split second!

Our Auntie Lilly loved us can't you tell?! She gave us a million treats!

Auntie Lilly is from Mexico and we furgot to ask if she knew Lorenza how silly were we?

I was wide awake but you can see Sparky was pooped and Ginger finally rested when mommy held her while everyone else was playing cards.

We had to watch from the patio as everyone said goodbye ~ sheeesh

this was the dreaded part cos everyone was getting ready fur bed and the curtains would be closed ~ we were hoping if we jus laid there nicely they wouldn't do it but they did ~

guess that was okay since Ginger would only sleep with everyone gone.

But when we wake it will be time to go home!

Visiting Izzie ~ woohoo!

2008-04-05T18:15:00.044-05:00

Our Sunday road trip Treat!

Well, after daddy took care of his business we were excited to learn that Izzie's mommy said we could come visit at their house instead of a doggie park. We made a dash fur the truck and eagerly jumped in fur our trip.

mommy got to meet Izzie and his mommy furst. Izzie barked at mommy at furst but decided she was okay.

Mommy brought some treats but Izzie can only have doctor approved treats.

mommy was so shocked when she said look at the camera Izzie and he did!

Mommy was so impressed that Izzie poses so well fur the camera, not like us running away at our furst opportunity.

We brought Izzie one of our chew bones and a real cool ball. Izzie seem to really like the chew which, made us feel pawsome.

then Crikit
got to meet Izzie!

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meeting went really well. This is Colleen, Izzie's mom, Izzie, Crikit and daddy.

no barking at all

then Sparky met Izzie & his mommy

the pic is dark but we're jus lookin at each other

Sparky & I are hoping Izzie's mommy will give us another treat

jus communicating

isn't Izzie so handsome!

Golly he posed so well fur the camera

His mommy Colleen was sooo nice!

jus chillin with us visitors

What a purfect picture!

oops we inturrupted Izzie's photo shoot

excellent

Izzie was such a gentlemen that he got up to meet 'frazzeled' Ginger.

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Izzie's mommy is getting ready to offer Ginger a treat and well Izzie is hoping his mommy will allow him one even thou his doc would not approve.

still hoping his mommy will change her mind

yup daddy had to coax Ginger while Izzie tried to convince her she was lucky to be getting the treat.

Izzie jus can't figure out what it up with the Gingi

Izzie still attempting to give Gingi a pep talk to chill out

we got invited to the backyard woohoo!

can you see us pullin our pawrent?!

woohoo grass!

look mommy has her cell phone camera fur backup ~ oh brother she never stooops.

Gingi is scoping out the purdy yard

Crikit scoping and Izzie still enjoying his chew.

Crikit, Izzie & Sparky's butts hehe

Izzie visited and then went back to the chew.

mommy wanted one more picture of Izzie and he obliged. It made mommy soooo happy.

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Izzie was thanking mommy cos he knew it was mommy's idea to give him the chew bone. Such a gentlemen.

Izzie decided to check on Gingi to she if she was relaxing in his beeeuutiful backyard.

yup I'm trying to avoid camera monster while Izzie poses fur the shot. Sparky is having an issue with his collar but mom didn't realize till we got back in the truck. Sparky's fault cos he pulled on the leash and got his choke collar too tight.

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jus boy talk...

see how tight Sparky made his choke collar cos he pulled on the leash

Group shot and yup mommy is holdin on tight to Ginger.

Another attempt and Gingi is struggling to get away!

Look how poised Izzie is, golly such a good doggie.

The camera was full and mommy turned to her camera phone and kept going picture crazy...

It made us feel pawsome that Izzie really liked his gift.

This is Izzie's nice grandaddy Dennis giving Crikit a treat

Causious Sparky
(silly boy)

grandaddy Dennis offering Ginger a treat like the good host he was but ya'll know that didn't happen

yup we love Izzie's grandaddy Dennis, he is way cool

Well the pictures tell the story ~ we had a pawsome time ~ wanted to stay all day but mommy & daddy wouldn't let us ~ thank you fur having us over.

Y Love you lots

Crikit reporting / 1st road trip morning

2008-04-05T18:10:00.021-05:00

on the patio ~ see how big and purdy?!

Well, we woke up mommy cos even though I'd rather not say who but one of us maybe two started barking at our Auntie Lilly who got up really really early to go to work. I (Crikit) could see her thru the kitchen window so since she really liked us she opened the sliding door curtains and well, uh guess we well, mommy showed up and wagged her finger at us cos we started barking loud. We don't really like the waggin finger cos it means shuush. Anyways, mommy laid down on the swing and pulled out that yucky camera phone but lucky us the battery gave out rather quickly. Now, do you see the tree threw the screen? believe it or not, as much as Ginger and Sparky like to chase birds at home they didn't bother any of the flock singing 24-7 in that tree. We were on such good behavior that we didn't even touch our toy basket and treats on that chair to the left. We really truly were on our best behavior. Then grammie came out and we got nervous, mommy handed her our treat box and bag but ended up knocking grammies coffee cup over, it rolled off and broke! After that mommy was in a not good mood so we knew best behavior or else. Anyways we were suppose to see Izzie today so we were way excited to misbehave.

Hey friendzees nice patio room to have a pawty huh?!

Once we arrived in Tucson well...

2008-04-05T18:00:00.026-05:00

Crikit here: it's sounds like 2-saun but

we like to say tuck-sun hehe haha of course that's wrong

Yikes we knew in an instant it wasn't our home

it was way too dark and no grass!

Daddy tried to get us to go inside this place but we weren't having it. There were strange noises, smells, people and well it just wasn't our home

what up dad?!

Ginger darted back to the truck, mommy had to raise her voice and put her on the leash to get her into the house. Daddy led us to the patio thru this maze of people and then mommy showed up with Ginger.

Our uncle opened another door and we went to the yard that had NO GRASS!

Hello? WHERE were we suppose to do our ~

you know what?

Ginger stayed in the middle of the yard looking at the door ready to run anywhere she could to avoid being petted.

mommy tricked her and locked her in the patio room where it turns out was gonna be our room during this visit. It was huge and kinda like outdoors but the huumons were calling it a screened patio ~ whatever when mommy put down our beds, our food bowls and water we knew we were restricted to this area.

Found out we had a fur cousin who lived in the house named Sharon. She was an 18-year old scaredy cat. Our relatives didn't believe us that we like cats as long as they don't run that's why we were not allowed in the house.

Sharon is purdy huh.

Everyone tried to pet us but no freakin way. How do we know they were really our family! jus cos daddy said so, he's tricked us before. It wasn't long before they left us there and closed all doors. Oh, Ginger even dropped a turd when daddy picked her up. His mother wanted to pet her but she was sooo against that idea it fell right out of her! we were shocked but the huumons laughed so we knew we wouldn't get introuble, phew! She hung out in the furthest part of the patio behind the swing away from everyone and tried never to sleep... she was stressed to say the least. Jus so ya'll know we were good and didn't chew anything and held our business the whole time we were stuck inside the patio room.

Golly. all we could do was hope the night would pass fast cos we knew we would visit Izzie the next day.

Love Licks, Crikit out