Wordless Wednesday

Rudy
The dog with a blog

Furry First Fun

(My raiser says thanks to all who answered her question on how to follow more blogs - she's decided on GR - furry thanks!)

I finally got to go to my first guide dog puppy meeting 1 week ago, this meeting was also an "exposure" too!
Our group met to do some training, then headed over to ride on a bus completely equipped with a wheelchair lifter for the handicap!
I was quite excited when it came my turn to take a "ride", it was sure furry fun, and I enjoyed it! (My raiser was quite happy at how well I did)

I also get to see my 2 brothers (I have more - but they are in a different group) - and we had fun seeing each other.

This was a great meeting, and we enjoyed the 15 minute bus ride we were also given!

My raiser has been a bit busy - so sorry I haven't been posting/commenting lately, I do miss you guys!

Please don't forget to enter my giveaway - you have 'til July fourth!!

Have a furry good day, I'm off to comment!

Rudy

The dog with a blog

I NEED SOME HELP!

Hey Guys - Rudy's Raiser here!

I have a quick question - how can you follow more than 300 blogs?
I just clicked to follow another blog today... and it said "I follow more than 300 blogs"
and to be able to follower more... I have to QUIT following some of you guys.

Any ideas??

Thanks!

Rudy's Raiser
The human with a dog that has a blog

Giveaway Update

I'd like to give my furry friends a update on my first Giveaway!

(If you haven't already - please make sure to enter my giveaway!)

I've had some of my friends ask how I plan on choosing a winner for my giveaway.

At first I planned on putting all the names in a bowl and I'd get to sniff out the winner, but my

Raiser doesn't care to right down 60+ names!

So... I've decided to use Random.org and pick TEN winners... and out of those TEN I'll then put their names on paper, put them in a bowl... then pick the real winner :)

Like my idea??

I sure hope so - because you could be my giveaway winner!

Also note:
I did ask everybody to leave separate comments for each extra entry - some bloggers did, some didn't.

So my raiser has gone (and will keep going) through ALL the comments on the giveaway post, she started a word page - and so far has 70+ entries in the giveaway!! (note that is 70 entries - not 70 bloggers).

Don't forget to stop by giveaway post and enter!!
Furry Friday Kisses to my Furry Friends!!

Rudy

The dog with a blog

Thank You CSN Stores!! (and another reminder to enter Rudy's giveaway!!)

(Written by Rudy's Raiser)
I have been offered to do another review for CSN stores. With me being able to pick the product I'd like to review. This time around I've decided to search some of their different online stores (they have over 200!).
So I've been looking on their online Dining Room store, as I've been wanting some newer bar stools.
Then I hoped over and started looking at some cute aprons. (To use when I'm cooking Rudy his awesome dog cookies!)

I haven't decided what I'm wanting yet, but in the next couple days I'll most likely be ordering from them!

I LOVE CSN Stores, they have a great selection on EVERYTHING!
Most of your probably know I (and Rudy) already did a review on some of their products this month, but we evidently got them some traffic... enough for us to be offered yet another product to review, Rudy and I are both excited, as we love getting packages!!

Also, please note that Rudy is doing his first giveaway - if you haven't entered already, please hop over and enter! The item he's giving away is FROM CSN stores!! (very cute polka dot duffle bag)
Thanks!

Rudy's Raiser
The human with a dog that has a blog

Wordless Wednesday

Rudy

The dog with a blog

Rudy's FIRST Giveaway!

That's right, Rudy's GIVEAWAY is here!!
I've put it off long enough.... It's Time for:

MY FIRST GIVEAWAY!

Remember the products I reviewed a couple weeks back?

My Raiser ordered the totally cute "mini" polka dot bag for me... AND ordered 1 extra one for me to do a giveaway with :)

I've been soo busy I've not had anytime to do the giveaway, but things have settled down a "little" and she gave me the "okay" to do the giveaway!

I'm so excited, as this is my FIRST EVER GIVEAWAY!

My Raiser said I could do it however I wanted, so here are the furry good rules to the giveaway:

1. Leave a comment on THIS post and you'll be entered in the giveaway

(Please make sure you leave a email address in a comment - or have it available on your blog)

2. (if wanted) try and earn a couple extra entries by doing one of my "bonus entries"

3. Watch my blog to find out if you win!

Since I want to give you guys more than 1 chance to win - feel free to do 1+

BONUS ENTRIES!

1. Follow My blog (1 extra entry) - you can be a new follower or an old follower

2. Put Toby's "pawprint award" (picture below) on your blog - and link it back to our blog (2 extra entries)

3. Leave 3 comments on 3 other posts that you haven't already visited/commented on (2 extra entries)

4. Blog about my furry cool giveaway (5 extra entries)

(please note for each extra entry you need to leave a separate comment - otherwise it won't count. So if you put Toby's "pawprint award" on your blog you leave TWO comments not one).

So just leave a comment on THIS post if you want to win... and do a couple extra bonus entries if you want a better chance of winning!

Any Questions? Feel free to email me! (guidedogawareness AT yahoo DOT com)

**This Giveaway ENDS on July 4th at midnight**

(note: Their will be a delay in shipping - as we have another farm camp right after July 4th)

Thanks and good luck!

Rudy

The dog with a blog

It's Rudy approved!

My Last Days with Sparkie

My Raiser uploaded the last couple pictures she has of Sparkie and I together, we sure had lots of fun! Enjoy the pictures below :)

Farm Camp was earlier today - I enjoy it when my Raiser takes me out to play, 15 more people to play with!
I hope to get some pictures of me getting loved on by the kids tomorrow.
Thanks so much to all who keep commenting on my posts - I haven't had a chance to comment/visit ANY of my furry followers, and I miss you SOOOO much!

Since I don't have any time to visit you, I'm sending furry kisses your way!!
2 more days of Farm Camp, I'm off to get a good nights rest!

Rudy
The dog with a blog


Such cute sit-stays!

The best place to sleep!


Aww.... we are soo cute!


Picture perfect - except Sparkie ruined it with his "glowing" eye!



I enjoy hiding from them...

I'm Alive!

Made it through the first day with "Farm Camp" AND my Raiser is letting me post, too cool!

Since my Raiser was outside too much of the time; I had to stay in the crate :( But I slept through the whole thing and she did let me meet some of the kids later on!

Once Farm Camp FINALLY left, I got to go on a car ride... to?

The VET.

Yep, I was taken to the "Dreaded Doctor" - or that's what everyone else says -

Wanna know something??
I LOVE THE VET!! He's the best in the world :)

(I was taken since I've had some diarrhea issues - but for now I'm doing good).

I also got myself weighed, I'm a good heavy dog at:
24 pounds!!

(I weighed in at 19 pounds on my first vet visit)

I really hope in the next week I can visit all my furry followers, but fur now you'll just have to do with this - and the giveaway I'll be doing soon!

Enjoy the couple pictures of me at the awesome vet, and "hopefully" I can post tomorrow - if time allows.

Love you guys, and thank you SO MUCH for commenting on my blog - even though I haven't been able to comment on yours :)

Rudy

The dog with a blog

Will You Miss Me??

I may not be on blogger much this week... As my Raiser has "Farm Camp" each day this week. (15 kids ranging from 9-14 come to our farm each day...)
So... I won't have much time for blogging :(
I WILL try to convince my Raiser to let me do a couple posts this week - but who knows if she'll even have time to login on the computer!
But I will try everything I can, just know I'm not leaving you forever!

Sparkie left me yesterday, we had soo much fun together and he then had to up and leave :(

Oh well, he said it was time for him to go back home - I think he really just didn't want to hang around me anymore.

On a brighter note, my Raiser did get many pictures of us (!!) AND we have a puppy meeting coming up this Saturday, so I'll get to see Sparkie again!
Since my Raiser is already really tight on time, pictures are coming in a later post (sorry!). But fur now...
I LOVE YOU GUYS!! And really hope you miss me!

(Please note that I DO still plan on doing the giveaway - but due to my raiser having no time, it will be waiting a week or 2 - sorry!)
Rudy
The Dog With A Blog

He's All Grown Up!

After receiving the report card for Toby yesterday, I went out to get the mail.

Coming back inside with something from SEGDI!

I was so excited, knowing it was "hopefully" going to be a picture of Toby in harness.

Was I right??
YES!
The picture looks great, and he looks so good in harness!

Also enclosed with the picture was a certificate for my puppy raising days with Toby.

I still miss him (really badly), but I know he's doing good down there.

WISHING YOU ALL THE LUCK IN THE WORLD TOBY!!

Rudy's (and Toby's) Raiser

The human with TWO dogs that has a blog

Toby's second report card!!

Just received Toby's second report card!
Sounds like he's doing well and he has been neutered.
Attached below his his recent report card - please view larger if you'd like to read it :)
I'm very proud of my boy and he's doing much better in training then last time. Some places he needs to do a little better, but I'm still so happy!
Enjoy,

(Update - just got mail, Toby's harness picture taken at school enclosed!! Post coming tomorrow)

Toby's Raiser
The human with TWO dogs that have a blog

Wordless Wednesday

Rudy & Sparkie
The dogs with a blog

An Elephant is HUGE & Snakes are SCARY!

Yesterday morning was when Sparkie showed up.
Yesterday night was when...
We met an Elephant, saw a boxing Kangaroo, a huge snake - and watched a performance.
What was it?

A mini circus!
My raiser happens to be friends with another teenage girl her age - who just so "happens" to be part of a traveling circus!!
They only see each other once or twice a year - but always keep in contact!
My raiser's friend's family owns a huge Elephant - so all of my raiser's dogs get to "meet" an Elephant!
Yesterday, Sparkie and I both got to "meet" her - (My raiser kept us at a safe distance).
Though you couldn't get picture during the performance (and my raiser had 2 dogs most of the time!) she did manage to snap a couple pictures of us - so make sure to see them below!

During the performance, while they were doing a clown act we heard a noise. The noise was apart of the act, but man was it loud! (My raiser said it was even louder than a cannon!) Sparkie slept right through it and I woke up - but then went right back to sleep.
My raiser said we did so very well!

I hope you enjoy the pictures and the giveaway post will be coming (hopefully) this week!

Rudy & Sparkie
The dogs with a blog

Sparkie Who?

Sparkie is a 9 month old male black lab... who's staying with us for the WHOLE week!

He's another guide dog pup from our group. (His raiser had to go out of town last minute - my raiser offered to sit him).

So you will be seeing many pictures over the next couple days, with not one but TWO black dogs in them :)

The giveaway post will be coming soon... if I can get my raiser to help me, but she's awfully busy right now!

**Also... I'd love for you to meet: Al - he's my brother and also has a blog. He'd love some more followers and friends.

So please make sure to drop over and say hi!**

I have a very exciting post coming tomorrow... it involves a Elephant, Kangaroos, some loud nosies and much more!

I'll try to visit you guys in the next couple days, I may not get to all of my furry friends though - as my raiser is allowing very little blogging time :(

Hope you enjoyed the post- don't forget to visit my furry cute brother!

Rudy & Sparkie

The dog with a blog

Blog Hop and PACKAGES!! (giveaway too!)

*(Saturday blog hop - don't forget to enter - find out more details - here.)*

I've only been with my raiser for (almost) 2 weeks - and I've already received TWO packages in the last couple days!!

Remember the post my raiser did a couple days before I came? (A post about a up coming review she was offered to do!!)

Well, she was given a $60 gift certificate to any of their 200+ online stores! And she could pick whatever she wanted to review :)

So... the items she ordered came yesterday and today!!

She ordered me my own (really cool) rubber dog toy - AND my own travel bag!!

She ALSO ordered herself a rolling travel bag!

Want to know something else??
I convinced her we couldn't leave my awesome blog friends out... so I got her to order another item... the exact travel bag she ordered me!!
Which means... a GIVEAWAY FOR YOU GUYS!! (Giveaway post coming soon...)

I'm really glad my raiser decided to do this "review" type thing.

I'll tell you what I think of the products and service:

Treat dispensing dog toy,

Shaped very oddly - but makes a fun toy for us dogs to play with. The treats are "somewhat" hard to get out - at least for a 10 week old pup :)

With it's shape, the toy is very hard to destroy. Which makes my raiser real happy.

Overall, I'm real happy with the toy - check out the toy online and order yourself one!- my raiser was also happy it came with free shipping!

Mini Duffle bag,

My raiser is always going on short trips and decided it's time to order me my own travel bag. When she came across this cute bag she HAD to get it!

I can't wait to go on a trip now - with all my stuff in that bag I'll be the best dog around!

The service was AWESOME - and the shipping was very quick, we ordered the stuff just last week... and our items were shipped out the first of June - we received the bags THIS week!

Make sure to stop by and enter the giveaway in the next couple days - you can't miss out on winning the bag!

Hope you like the "review", enjoy the pictures of my awesome new products!!

Rudy

The dog with a blog

Raiser... are you sure this will fit ALL of my stuff??

Guess so!

It's a "little" big

But look - my dog food!

Such a Friendly Guy

That's me!
Last week my raiser took me to an "adult day care" so I could visit some people and give them lots of puppy kisses!
My raiser said I did "sooo good", but I just slept through it all... so I don't remember much!
All I know is: The people loved me - and I enjoyed it!

My raiser say's I'm such a calm little puppy and she can't wait to take me to another "adult day care" type place!

I say - as long as she takes me by PetSmart each time to pick out a goodie for being a good boy, I'll go any day!
(We went to PetSmart on the way home from the adult day care center).

Enjoy the couple pictures below, if you can handle my cuteness...

And I'm off to visit some of you guys and get caught up with reading your posts!!

Kisses,

Rudy
The dog with a blog


I'm doing such a lovey sit for my raiser!

This IS the life!

He gave me a hand to lick - how sweet!

She loves me, look at that smile!

My raiser even took me to PetSmart to pick out a gift for being such a good dog!

Wordless Wednesday

Rudy

The dog with a blog

I'm just too cute!

All about ME game

Want to learn some more about me?

Well, read this post and check out the pictures at the end - and I'll take you "behind the scenes" to learn more about... ME!

For the following things about me I will be giving some choices (answers will be posted at the bottom), feel free to guess which one you think it is... then see if you're right!! (Make sure to leave in a comment, how many you got wrong/right! No prizes - but hey, we can have some fun! Don't cheat though... What you guess, is what you guess!)

Note that the choices below are only SOME of the things I like/do, I just chose 3 things to list - but I do love other things that aren't listed.

Lets see, first off:
1. My favorite treat of the following 3 is...

A. Carrots

B. Ice Cubs

C. Dog Food

2. My favorite outing of the following 3 is...

A. PetSmart

B. WalMart

C. YMCA

3. My favorite sleeping place of the following 3 is...

A. My Dog Bed

B. Liberty

C. Air Vent

4. My favorite place to hide of the following 3 is...

A. My crate

B. Under the table

C. Under the couch

5. My favorite thing to do of the following 3 is...

A. Sleep

B. Get petted

C. Run/play

6. My favorite kind of toy of the following 3 is...

A. Homemade rope toys

B. Flat Stuffies

C. Sterile Bones

7. My favorite time of day is...

A. Morning

B. Afternoon

C. Night

.

8. My least favorite thing to do of the following 3 is...

A. Come face to face with a large goat

B. Come face to face with a bunny

C. Come face to face with a horse

9. My age is...

A. 10 weeks

B. 10 weeks 1 day

C. 10 weeks 2 days

10. I've been in training since...

A. Sunday May 23rd 2010

B. Tuesday April 27th 2010

C. Wednesday March 17th 2010

Got your answers written down?? NO changing them.

The REAL answers are: (I put the reason beside each answer)

1. B - Ice cubs are close to my fav treat - as they will melt if I get bored of them, skid around the floor if I want to play, or keep me cool on a really hot day!

2. B - Wal-Mart is close to my favorite outing since I get to ride in a buggy - no walking!

3. C - The air vent is the BEST place in the world to sleep on!

4. B - Under the couch is a awesome hiding/playing place - no one can ever find me!

5. A - I love to sleep - that's my favorite thing in the whole world!

6. C - Sterile bones are great, even better when my raiser puts some peanut butter in them!

7. B - Afternoon is my favorite time - as my raiser is (most of the time) inside and can spend time with me

8. A - The large goats here don't care to much for dogs - so I try to keep away from them (though the baby goats love me!)

9. B - Everybody should know my age - you better have gotten right! (I turned TEN weeks yesterday... so I'm 10 weeks 1 day)

10. C - My training starts when I'm born - not when my raiser gets me. From the minute I'm born I've already started something... pretty cool!

Did you learn anything new about me?

I sure hope so!

Please make sure to leave a comment with your right/wrong answers, I'd love to see what you guys guessed!

I hope this "all about me game" taught you some cool facts about me... make sure to join me when I do a "all about me game" again later on!

Enjoy the cute photos of me, I'm looking forward to seeing how many things you got right!

Rudy

The dog with a blog

Look mom - 2 paws!