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| Homeward Bound Puppy |
| Homeward Bound Puppy follows one puppy's journey from Mississippi to his new home and his travels in growing up. Follow Boris on his journey to being a big dog. |
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| Unique Visitors: 10 |
| Total Unique Visitors: 45015 |
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| Bo vs Nature |
| 2008-05-07 12:50:43 |
Timmy decided yesterday I’ve been inside working too much and we were having a family day out, or at least the evening. He came home and took the trash to the dump while I finished dinner and then we took Bo down to the river to fetch sticks, splash in the water and play about.
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| Spring is Here! |
| 2008-04-30 12:40:34 |
And Boris couldn’t be more excited. Since I have been hoping to get more in shape from having a dog to exercise I have been walking to get the mail around lunch time again. Its not as long of a walk as he would like, but its just enough to get the blood moving and [...]...
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| Things That Move |
| 2008-04-23 22:28:06 |
Yesterday on our walk to get the mail we encountered a turtle next to the frog pond. Now the entire time the frogs were out we didn’t see any and the noise didn’t interest Boris, but the small turtle trying to slide into the mud was apparently fascinating. He stood and barked at it [...]...
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| Wanna Cuddle? |
| 2008-04-15 21:32:34 |
Today Boris seemed to decide we don’t do enough cuddling in the house. He crawled all over Cherokee and insisted on sharing the bed closest to the window that was in the sun most of the day. Cherokee for once decided it wasn’t worth snarling at him and let him cuddle, and even chew in [...]...
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| The Thrill of the Arena |
| 2008-04-15 21:26:40 |
Despite the fact that spring is barely upon us, we are looking ahead to bigger and better things. One of the things that has always meant summer/fall to me is when the rodeo comes to town. I have always loved the rodeo. It comes with such diversity of events.
One of the best rodeos I [...]...
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| And We’ve got Pagerank |
| 2008-04-15 00:00:22 |
Thats right, after all these months of hard work and trial and error we have page rank. I am so proud I could burst and actually spent the day dancing about and skipping I was so gleeful. Its now time to get some serious revisions done such as finally editing this theme or finding [...]...
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| The Vittles Vault |
| 2008-04-09 11:34:01 |
We have our spare 40lb Pro Plan container full of dog food as well out in the living room. Its mostly wet food and weighs a ton at this point. We had more but recently got around to mixing and filling the boy’s regular containers. We used 4 bags of Goodlife (2 puppy, 2 [...]...
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| Whoever Said Upholstery Was Boring? |
| 2008-04-09 11:23:01 |
Whoever said upholstery was boring has never seen the Vote Up Count Down” sale at Design Diva Fabrics. Part sale, part voting contest, all fun, all discount designer upholstery fabric.
The idea is simple: anyone with an account can vote for their favorite discount designer upholstery fabric. The fabric with [...]...
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| A Tower Rises |
| 2008-04-09 11:05:31 |
We finally picked up the spare Jaffa Block shelf unit from my parents. We stuck it in the spare room and started piling on the food, treats, and the grooming tote. Everything fit except the plastic jars of Kibbles-n-Bits(all 6 of them) even after we took bags and boxes of food and treats to [...]...
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| What the Heck is a Bollard Anyway? |
| 2008-04-09 10:43:27 |
I’m glad you asked. A bollard is a traffic device. You’ve seen and walked around them (hopefully they hurt if you run into them) many times. The are used to restrict traffic, keep vehicles off walkways and bike paths, or from ramming into loading bays on accident. They come in all assortment of types and [...]...
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| Swimming and Bo-bo |
| 2008-04-08 18:26:11 |
Part of it getting warmer out is the chance to go swimming at the end of the road in the river. Boris loves water and seems to be ok with swimming. We’ve taken him down a couple times to go swimming (once to tape his application to America’s Next Top Dog) and he willingly goes [...]...
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| Fierce Shopping |
| 2008-04-08 18:21:46 |
As some of you may recall Boris’s daddy is a security guard and would like to train Boris in search and rescue. Living in such a rural area it can be hard to find appropriate gear for such work. Thankfully the internet allows us to shop from whatever store we [...]...
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| Why I Love Coupons |
| 2008-03-13 12:12:17 |
Last weekend was another great shopping week. Dog chow was still on clearance 50% off 4.49 plus we still have $4 off coupons. Which means we got 1.75 per bag to use on the rest of our shopping. This week it paid for ground beef, last week it paid for a new razor for [...]...
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| If It Ain’t Broke… |
| 2008-03-04 13:40:06 |
…don’t fix it. but what about if it is broke? Sunday was a long day in our house. Tim had to work, I had to keep the car and run errands and other fun things. Which means we were up early, and not fully awake by any sense. After we got home at some point [...]...
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| What’s All the Buzz About? |
| 2008-03-04 13:33:01 |
With all the advertising available online to people these days its hard to get noticed. Even a blog about a sweet, cute puppy is hard to get traffic for amongst all the other cute puppy blogs. There are tools out there to help set you aside from the pack though.
Buzzfuse.com is one of those tools. [...]...
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| Help Mommy Win a Monster |
| 2008-03-04 08:12:12 |
Last week mommy entered a cute Bobo picture into Bissell’s sweepstakes to be the new face of their Pet Hair Eraser Vacuum. Every week they take entries and allow voting the following week. Mommy of course entered the cutest baby Bobo picture she had to help her chances. If you voted for me and mommy [...]...
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| Double Collared |
| 2008-02-27 18:24:06 |
   So one of the strangest things Boris is doing right now is wearing two collars. He has his tags on his Milkbone collar he got for Christmas. Unfortunately the clasp on it pops when he pulls so it can’t be used for putting him outside. He broke his Halloween one that way already. So [...]...
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| The Great Outdoors |
| 2008-02-27 18:16:34 |
So while Boris’s mom and dad don’t hunt themselves they do live in a rather hunter-friendly area and know plenty of people who love nothing more than to spend the weekend freezing their butts off to hope to bag a nice buck. One of the things the real die hards use [...]...
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| Puppy Pedicure |
| 2008-02-27 17:34:13 |
Today Boris went over to our neighbor who runs Alpha Dog Grooming to have his nails done. Despite the rivers and moats of slush he happily ran about as we walked over there and ran into he shop and bounced about sniffing everything. He sniffed the dogs in the cage drying, [...]...
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| Photo Ops |
| 2008-02-26 18:19:39 |
Today I finally got around to unloading my memory card and getting the pictures uploaded and cropped and such. I got a couple nice ones of Boris and I this morning. At least compared to the ones I tried to take last time. And since I just scored 95 free prints from CVS I guess [...]...
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| Other Fun Things |
| 2008-02-26 17:17:26 |
Sometimes its nice to get away from a hyper, needy puppy. One of the things Boris’s dad has done since he was younger is play paintball. After all its not as dangerous as going to the shooting range and just as much fun. Plus you can shoot your friends. We haven’t gone since last summer [...]...
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| TV, My Puppy and Me? |
| 2008-02-21 22:09:14 |
I received an e-mail from Dogster.com the other day telling me about a new possible reality show from CBS called America’s Top Dog (working title) and immediately sent in a quick application e-mail. I received one back asking that we download and fill out the regular one (all 18 pages-ugh) and another later that day [...]...
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| Clearance Collars-Oh My |
| 2008-02-17 18:22:44 |
So Friday afternoon Boris was outside on his tie-out watching the neighbors sand their driveway and try to make it safe enough to drive up. He watched them for quite awhile while I shoveled off the porch. Then for some reason he decided he needed to go visit the neighbors and ran full out until [...]...
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| Happy Valentine’s Day |
| 2008-02-15 10:56:51 |
We celebrated early since Petco’s Valentine’s Party was last Saturday. We got paw print valentines, our picture taken, and a cookie to decorate. We also got to meet lots of great dogs like Jake the huge doberman, and a nice malamute/shepherd mix puppy. We didn’t win the kissing contest, but thats ok. It was a [...]...
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| Frugality and Puppy Food |
| 2008-01-30 00:22:22 |
This weekend we purchased over $40 worth of food and treats for only $10 and change. In fact its very rare we spend the full amount on food between Purina coupons, Petco coupons, and B10G1 at Petco. But this weekend we did even better than normal.
We Started with$1 off Snausages, 2-$3 off Pro Plan, 2-$4 [...]...
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| KONG Blue |
| 2008-01-28 13:40:58 |
The first I heard of this was in a Grooming/Vet supply catalog. The blue KONG features an even stronger rubber and is available only to vets and police officers. This immediately interested us as Boris has proven himself to be an eating machine. I received an Amazon gift certificate as a prize the other day [...]...
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| Seeing the World Through New Eyes |
| 2008-01-28 13:29:31 |
Today while taking Boris outside his mom realized her glasses were slipping more than usual. She needs anew prescription anyway, but glasses are so expensive. Luckily she came across a better alternative to paying $200+ or even 2/$100 at BJs.
Zenni Optical offers glasses at the lowest price I’ve ever seen. And [...]...
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| Smart Pak |
| 2008-01-28 11:22:28 |
SmartPak is a company right in Massachusetts that sells dog and horse feed as well as supplements in pre-measured containers in a month supply. They don’t sell cheap food either, just the good stuff and the prices aren’t bad either considering the convenience and benefits of feeding a known amount each and every time. They [...]...
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| Kindergarten Graduation |
| 2008-01-28 11:00:24 |
   Last Wednesday was graduation. Which is kind of nice, but I’m a bit upset as I could swear it was for ten weeks, and we never made up the one week we missed and only got socialization time a couple times. Not exactly what I had paid for. He did get better a bit, [...]...
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| 50 Pounds and Growing |
| 2008-01-16 14:01:53 |
Yesterday Boris got his heartworm pill. Because of this we had to weigh him to determine what dosage was best. He weighs right around 50 pounds now. And is still smaller than the yellow lab in class. He’s a compact little guy, and I fear this means he’s really going to be 100lbs or more [...]...
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| New Year’s Resolutions |
| 2008-01-14 13:01:53 |
In an attempt to be a better puppy Boris has a couple of resolutions for the new year:
I will not eat socks from the hamper or daddy’s undershirts from the bed.
I will not jump on he counter while waiting for dinner.
I will behave while mommy isn’t home and I am in my crate.
I will not [...]...
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| On the Video Front |
| 2008-01-03 08:37:13 |
Due to some networking issues I can’t see my external storage drive. Most of my video is stored there, heck, most of my life is stored there but until I can find it again I’m limited to what I can take on the older crappier cameras and upload to my computer. Not as nice, but [...]...
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| Hey, I Ain’t no Baby! |
| 2008-01-03 08:21:19 |
Sunday night marked the end of teething and the beginning of adolescence. Boris lost his last canine tooth. And what a fun two hours that was. We saw the blood on his toy but instead of finding an already knocked out tooth we found it had instead just gotten shoved halfway out, towards his tongue. [...]...
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| Holiday Madness |
| 2007-12-28 16:53:55 |
So among the normal things for the holidays like shopping, wrapping presents, and visiting friends and family I baked about 6 batches of dog biscuits in a variety of flavors (charcoal, pumpkin, milkbone, gingerbread, peanut butter, and good boy) to hand out to the local pooches. hey went over very well, but I was a [...]...
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| NILIF for Puppy Parents |
| 2007-12-27 14:06:57 |
Times are hard and earning enough to pay for kibble and class isn’t easy when you are stuck at home. Fortunately there are other ways to earn money than working retail or going to the office. One of the newest ventures I have tried is Pay Per Post.com. PPP as [...]...
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| Dogster.com |
| 2007-12-27 12:47:57 |
Somehow I managed to navigate my way through cyber space to dogster.com this past week while taking a bit of a break from work and such. Its a very lovely site with more features than I currently can understand at this point. But you get to make profiles for your dogs and they can be [...]...
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| Back to the Grindstone |
| 2007-12-26 12:57:38 |
So after all the fuss ad hustle and bustle of the holidays its back to work for the puppy. Class is back in session tonight and I can’t wait. He needs some work and I haven’t been able to work with him as much as I’d like. We have worked on manners ALOT. Not [...]...
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| MIA |
| 2007-12-20 14:56:10 |
Sorry the blog has been a bit empty lately, its been snowing here for the past week or so, every couple of days so I’ve been busy shoveling and salting. I’ve also been out working with Boris on walking properly and had planned to update after class last night when we got to see if [...]...
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| Tis the Season |
| 2007-12-10 21:10:12 |
Well, there are only so many days left till Christmas and its about time we gave the site a bit of holiday cheer. Look for touches around the site in content, graphics and effects. Have a Very Merry....
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| Puppy TV-all chewing all the time |
| 2007-12-10 20:04:20 |
So Tim says all the videos I take of the puppy are the same: the puppy eating a carrot, the puppy eating a Nylabone edible chew, the puppy eating his KONG, etc. I say he makes the cutest faces when he’s eating. This is the first installment of Puppy TV. Now with more chewing.
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