Computer Hospital

Hi Evfurry Buddy!

Me and my Mom are having a terrible battle with the computer and it is going into the hospital tomorrow morning for a tech hands on healing!

We cannot get or send e-mail with words on them which sort of spoils the whole effect, we think.  We hope we are not out of business for too long, since its one of my Mom's primary ways of communicating (being deaf its just the way it is.) 

As soon as we are back in business, we will write another blog post with that in it and we can enjoy starting up all over again.

In the meantime, keep us in your thoughts and we will keep you in ours.

Google says No pictures today, so be it!

Cheers and hugs,

Stella, Zkhat and Jo

So Many Goodies!

'Stella has been "testing" treats from Chewys for the last few months.  Just the job that she has been cut out for!  She has liked all that she has tried but now seems to have met her match!

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This is a Chicken and Venison recipe of soft, chewy treats.  The perfect thing to offer when you want to do some training, its a combination of wonderful healthy ingredients like chicken, venison, carrots, blueberries, flaxseed, sweet potato, and apples.  This is a smallish treat, but easily torn into two pieces.It further does NOT contain any meat by-products, wheat, corn or soy, no artificial colors or flavors.  It has an odor that dogs will adore!

Stella tries to figure ways to get a couple of extras every day.  I have never seen this before, but she will sit near the counter where I keep these with her nose up in the air, or she will ask for a couple of extra trips outside (she gets a little treat when she comes in), she will shake your hand until it is ready to fall off, and who knows what else she is planning.  She loves WellBites to the point of larceny.  I think now is the time to begin some serious teaching here, with WellBites as the reward.

Thanks, Mr. Chewy, for this very special treat!  You can find these at Chewys, different flavors and sizes.

Cheers,

Jo, Stella and Zkhat

A NICE SURPRISE!

HOWDY EVFURRY BUDDY!

I had a really nice surprise the day after my birthday, getting a package in the mail.  My Mom knew about it, but she was surprised too.  About the middle of September she answered an e-mail asking for favorite pics of us pets or friends of ours.  She sent in me, Zkhat and Shado!   This is mine.

What I got in the mail was from some people at Chewys and it was a painting of this picture.  Here it is on the wall next to the picture of my Great Grandma.

If you want to see it bigger, just click on it, but I say its a very good likeness of me.  Whoda thunk I would ever have a painting of myself. ???  Me, just a girl from the shelter.  The picture of the Spaniel is really not my Grandma, but she is very pretty, isn't she?  My Mom's friend Mary found it at a yard sale and sent it to Mom because she knew she would like it.  We just pretend she is my Grandma.

So thanks a whole bunch to Chewy's artist that made it.  I just love it.

You just never know what you are gonna get in the mail next!

Happy Weekend evfurry buddy and we are sending hugs all around.

Your pal,
Stella and her Mom

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, STELLA!

Stella's 8th birthday and gotcha day!

Stella is the sweetest girl I know and I am so happy that I got her
from the Shelter.  Every year, she is just the best, hardly even chases Zkhat anymore.

I was going to just add a few lines to the Road blog with some of her birthday stuff in it, but we ran out of room.  But Stella deserves a whole blog to herself anyway.

She will get her favorite treat today, Pink doughnut holes!  As soon as we can get to downtown she will get a nice present from me.  She still loves to play with her squeaky toys and never demolishes one.

She loves watching the road builder guys drive by in their smaller loaders, but she hates the big digger with the scooper on it.  She feels scared about it, I guess, but she barks them orders about it. 

We hope you are all having a good weekend and we will be happy sharing Stella's 8th birthday with you!

Love and kisses,

Stella, Jo and Zkhat

A MEL OF A HESS!

DSince September 11th, this is what my street has looked like.  Oh, varying degrees of this but generally all torn up.

I often complain that Stella and I do very little

outside of our home, which is why I don't blog too often.  But I thought some of you might just be interested in this.  This dig runs from our block, north one more block, and then up the hill south for I think two more blocks.  They run huge diggers. smaller machines that roll out the dirt, big pickup trucks that transport dirt in various forms. 

The Post Office cannot deliver mail, so we have to walk about 8 blocks (round trip) to a church where they have set up rural type boxes for us.  Oh how I miss my daily 9:30 mail in my box at my house!

Nobody wants to tell you how long this is going to go on and I am very much better at dealing with this stuff if I know.

Here are a few more pix:

Evening before yesterday, they brought in lots of soft nice sand, and took away our berms, then that night it rained all night and my, I almost wish I had my canoe back!  At least they fixed it so it isn't going into our basements!

This is right across from my driveway, with the First Lutheran Church    lot visible.

This is Stella who wants to know what I am gonna do about this.  Wait it out, Stel, thats all we can do.  By the way, Stella is celebrating her 8th birthday and Gotcha Day. 

New Virus for Dogs?

Hello Everybuddy:

This morning we received this letter from Monica Segal, a canine nutritionist from Canada that we thought you all should know about.

Newsworthy: Theory Points To New Virus

Some people have heard about it and others haven't. If you're in the latter category - heads up. So far, it's been happening in California and Ohio, but although symptoms are the same, nobody is sure if these dogs have/had the same disease, or what the cause might be. "Symptoms include bloody diarrhea and vomiting, extreme lethargy, neurological problems, a lack of appetite and other maladies.There are countless causes of vomiting and diarrhea in dogs, even bloody diarrhea,” But the illness seen in the past few weeks is markedly different, "What made these cases unique is what the pathologist terms 'acute necrotizing vasculitis.' This is when the blood vessels become suddenly damaged and fluid begins leaking out of the vessels. Because of this, the cases I know of did not just have vomiting and bloody diarrhea, they also developed fluid around their lungs and in the abdomen.” Is this a new disease, a mutation of another virus, perhaps a virus we already know about...? No answers just yet. Everyone is waiting for pathology reports. Based on my experience with dog owners and dogs with all kinds of problems, I think it's fair to say that most people don't rush to the vet at the very first glimmer of a problem. A dog that vomits now and then isn't likely to make us panic. But!- bloody diarrhea, extreme lethargy, or neurological problems should cause us to react quickly at any time, especially in light of this possible virus being the cause, and perhaps even more so if you happen to live in the areas that have been reporting the problem.  Read a news report here. Monica

If you have a concern about this, please contact your vet for further information.

Just passing it on,

Jo, Stella and Zkhat

Stella discusses things!

Hi Mom, I gotta talk to you about a few things.  We haven't been posting much lately and when we do Zkhat seems to be giving the
orders.  You know, when she gets up on the chair in the kitchen and
then gives me orders about what she thinks I should do every day.  I am really tired of that.  It used to be she was scared to death of me.  We can go back to those days,  and when she gets up on that chair, I am going to push her down and bark loud at her.  Maybe make a jump for her.  No, I won't bite her or hurt her, I just want her to be scared enough NOT to be telling me what to do.  I want you to understand why I am doing it too.  OK?  I like to be a nice dog to everybody, but I have just had it with her.

The other thing is, I want this to be a two dog house.  I know it used to be before I came her.  I found this picture of your Scottie Otis and that Eddie dog.

I never knew those guys, but look how good they are getting along. 

Did you see where the White Dog Army got a new dog today?  It was an abused dog that was in a bad shelter.  Think about that, would you?  Two of us dogs could keep Zkhat right in her place, all of the time! 

Can we just work on this, please?  Whaddya say, Mom.  If there were two of us, we would always have fun things to write about in the blog.  Like the Rotties, theres three of them and they have fun together.

Lets talk  more about this, OK?  Kisses, your best pal  Stella