Happy Thanksgiving!

Just doing a a "quick" post to wish all of you guys a furry HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

This is my first Thanksgiving, so I'm kinda new at this "thankful" thing... but I'm gonna give it a try.

I'm thankful fur many, many things - but there are some main ones I need to highlight:

I'm thankful fur...

• All my awesome friends out there!!
• My AMAZING furry cool raiser
• Fun toys
• Tasty treats
• A wonderful home

Since I said this will be a "quick" post... I better stop writing, but I can't end a post without any furry cute PICTURES!!

So have a furry Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy the cute pictures below :)

Brandon

Liberty spent her Thanksgiving like this...

Close up picture of Liberty's face - she's laying down all comfy like on her memory  foam doggy bed

I WANTED to spend my Thanksgiving like this...

Picture of Brandon chewing on a doggy toy

 BUT my raiser had different ideas...

Picture of Brandon in my lap while I file down his nails

AND my raiser thinks if she "sweet talks" me, it will all be okay...

Picture of Brandon in my lap while I file down his nails - I'm also talking to Brandon at the same time

Of course the humans get all the good food...

Picture of yummy doughnuts!!

Wordless Wednesday

I miss you guys - I'm soo sorry I've not been posting/visiting lately! Spring time is quite busy here at the farm... :)
Happy (almost) Wordless Wednesday!

Rudy - The dog with a blog

My Pizza Cook (and a sad GOOD BYE to Big Al)

(Written by Rudy's Raiser)
For all my current readers, you know that Rudy has been participating in a "puppy swap" in our guide dog group. (for 2 weeks - all the raiser's swap dogs, which helps with the dogs training and much more!) .

Rudy will be coming back tomorrow (after our guide dog meeting) and Al will be heading home.

**I've got many more pictures of Al, that I've not had time to let Al post... so we will be doing a couple more posts about him, next week, complete with pictures!

Onto my awesome Pizza Cook helper...

Tonight, is PIZZA NIGHT at our house (we make our VER OWN pizza) and Al has decided to "help" with some things...

He was a great helper... by NOT tasting AND ignoring the pizza/dough!

But he did seem to get a "little" bit of flour on his face (trust me, it was an accident... but makes for very cute pictures!).

Please make sure to leave a comment saying good bye to Al - he does leave tomorrow morning and I know will miss all of you!

I'll miss him for sure, but I will be doing a couple posts with pictures of him next week (Um... I never got the time to post all the pictures of Al!)

For all who have (or MAY) enter Rudy's Valentine's Giveaway (which was going to end tomorrow), please note that we are postponing the ending date... Till the FIRST of March 2011 (This coming Tuesday). Due to the fact that I'm REALLY, REALLY busy :)

And with the huge banquet and auction coming up this weekend... I know all of us will be quite busy!

So make sure to head over and enter Rudy's Giveaway... which now ends 3-1-2011.

Wishing Al a very happy but tearful Good-Bye - we will miss you dearly (and I know all of our furry awesome followers will too!), but we sure enjoyed the time you were here... and know you are dying to get back with your very own raisers!

Rudy's Raiser and... "Big" Al's Puppy Swap Handler

Liberty will sure miss you!

Wordless Wednesday - No Biting Allowed

Al - Rudy's Brother

Trust me... she used the "NO" command, after snapping this picture :)

My Furry First - WHITE Christmas! *(and GIVEAWAY ends tonight)*

Hey furry friends!
Not only was Saturday my FIRST Christmas - it also ended up being... my very first WHITE Christmas!!
It started snowing white goodness Christmas night - and the following day EVERYTHING was furry cool white :)
I wouldn't eat any of it off the ground, but once my raiser made a ball of snow in her hand and told me "okay"- I gobbled it right up and it was furry good!! (Since I'm being trained to be a guide dog - we aren't allowed to be eating things off the ground - and my raiser was quite happy that she didn't even have to remind me about that - I just ignored it!)
Liberty just so happened to be outside EVERY time my raiser took me out to play; so the pictures below have Liberty in like EVERY picture!
She really enjoys the snow - and wishes I could be turned off leash to play - but as rules say: I've got to stay on leash!
I'm planning on posting Christmas pictures tomorrow - and a really cool post for Wednesday.
But fur now; enjoy the white pictures AND video below - Liberty is the huge dog in the pictures/video with me (The family's 2yr old female English Mastiff).
Hope everyone had a furry good Christmas,

BTW - the furry cool hands free waist leash giveaway I'm doing ends TONIGHT so make sure to head over and enter - it's very easy!

Rudy
The dog with a blog

(Movie of Liberty & Rudy jumping around in the snow - Rudy's still on leash; which makes it very hard for him to play)

Rudy's Reason...

There's a reason for everything... right?
I couldn't save this picture for a "Wordless Wednesday" post. It needed immediate posting...



Rudy's Reason??
My back legs were tired... and needed a rest - but I didn't care to lay down :)

Maybe I should convince my Raiser to let me do a "Rudy's Reason" post each week... !
It has a "ring" to it... what do all my furry friends think???

My Raiser will be doing some busy things in the next couple days - but I plan on doing the giveaway next week sometime, keep your eyes open!

Rudy
The dog with a blog

Wordless Wednesday - Liberty style

Happy Wordless Wednesday - Liberty would like for you to see her "good" side :)

Sparkie
The dog with a blog

Package!

Thanks Samantha for this wonderful book!
Toby entered her GABE giveaway last month - and he was the lucky winner! (It is sad he was not here to "get" it though).
Tracker and Liberty cared NOTHING for the book when it arrived (see pictures below). I guess they figured "no treats - no good"!
They may not like it, but I'm enjoying it!
Thanks Samantha!

Toby's Raiser & Tracker's Sitter
The human sometimes with a dog that has a blog

(Movie of Tracker & Liberty ignoring the package)



(Movie of Tracker ignoring the book - he may not like it, but I do!)

Best friends...

(me and Liberty sleeping together)

Most of the time me and Liberty are best friends, of course when my trainer turns her back- we attack each other. But when she's watching, this is what we do!!

Aren't we soo cute?!?!

Stay tune, for Christmas pictures, and a letter to Santa!

Toby

The dog with a blog

When our trainer looks-

(me and Liberty sleeping happily)

When she looks away-

(pictures, me & Liberty fighting- May 2009)

I'm back... did you miss me??

My puppy sitter dropped me off at church this morning. Right when I heard my name being called I new my trainer was here!! I tried to jump out the car window, but decided it would be a long fall!

My trainer brought me back a new collar (that I still need to grow into!), and a "mickey mouse" dog toy for me & Liberty to share:)

Though I really missed my trainer for the week, I did have a blast with the puppy sitter!!

Enjoy some of the pictures my trainer took of me today:)

Toby

Our new dog toy!!

My awesome new collar!

ME!!!!

Tornado...

Hey guys, it's me Toby!

Last Tuesday around 6pm the weather alarm went off, we ignored the part about "Tornado warning/watch". Because we get them all the time and they never happen.
Well as soon as my trainer & her mother got home we had 5 minutes before it "came" and it all was over with in 5 minutes but boy did it have weeks worth of damage. The power was out for 24 hours.
Our house was okay, we mostly had trees everywhere, some of our other neighbors were less fortunate.

Sorry I haven't been posting in awhile, my trainer has been quite busy and wouldn't let me on the computer.
I will be doing another post about guide dog class last Saturday, and I have some guide dog classes this Friday and Saturday.


Toby

Sick+Toby=...

...Vet!

Toby wasn't feeling really good Wednesday night (well 3am Thursday morning), and he had diarrhea really bad...in his crate:)

We thought it might just pass, and it did, later that day he was fine again, till 10pm that night... in his crate.

Then every couple hours after that... in his crate:)

Which of course I had to wash out every time.

He wasn't acting different or not eating his food so we didn't know what was wrong.

We took him to the vet Sunday and he got a shot, and many different pills to help. This morning he was doing a lot better and so far no diarrhea!!

I hope to get some more pictures of him , and I will be posting them soon.

But for now enjoy the couple I have!

Toby's Trainer

Tired puppy...

Wild Dogs=...

...Tired Dogs!!!


Toby's trainer

Liberty + Toby= ...

...WILD DOGS!

Toby's trainer