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Wordless Wednesday: What I Call the Petal Smile
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A Picture of Petal & a Winner!
Zoom!
I got it! I got it!
Petal got the ball now let’s see who’s won the treats!
I got it! I got it!
Petal got the ball now let’s see who’s won the treats!
The winner is…
Kathy and her Sheltie Tasha!
Congratulations! I hope you enjoy the treats, Tasha!
Thank you to all those who entered.
Kathy, I’ll be emailing you. :]
The winner was chosen using Random.org.
The Mean Human Makes Fun of Petal’s Overbite
This is Petal’s super cute face.
Her fuzzy, stubby, wittle, kissable chin and her little mousey whiskers and nosie!
She’s so cute I just have to squeeze her and do ridiculous things like this:
Derp!
“Why Human? Whyyyy?”
Because you are cute.
And squishy.
And silly.
And lovable.
And oh so patient.
As all my dogs have to be in order to survive my obnoxious love.
😀
Wordless Wednesday: Why the Long Face?
Wanna Hear a Joke?
“Hey Ella, wanna hear a joke? Hehe, it’s a good one!”
“Sure! What is it?”
“Okay, here it goes. Knock knock!”
“Who’s there?”
“Collie!”
“So it’s you at the door?”
“No! Ella! Play along!”
“Alright, alright. Collie who?”
“Collie Miss Molly, I don’t know!”
Petal: “HAHAHAH, wasn’t that funny!?”
Ella: ROFL
Now, who’s up for a little giveaway?
Lassie, Ella and Petal have decided that they would like to give away one of the boxes of treats they received from Mr. Chewy!
These are the treats they’ve chosen to give away:
Sojos Bacon and Cheddar cookies!
Interested?
All you gotta do is comment here with your name, email address and— just for fun— the best trick your dog(s) knows!
A winner will be picked at random and announced next Tuesday, February 7th 2012.
List of ingredients for those with allergies:
Just for fun I’ll share my dogs’ best tricks:
Lassie: Shake. It’s his favorite trick. He’ll shake your hand or your foot, he would probably even shake your face if you asked him to.
Ella: Catch. She can catch a treat from clear across the room.
Petal: Get The Light!
Now get those drooling dogs away from the keyboard and get commenting! ;]
Petal & Harriet: Best Friends.
Awww…
These two are such sweet friends!
They’re so entertaining and constantly making us laugh.
Harriet loves to clean Petal’s face and sneak up on her while she’s sleeping and bite her ear.
Petal’s not too fond of the biting, but she does enjoy the snuggles and the play time.
Petal loves to nibble on Harriet’s sides; it looks almost like she’s trying to tickle her!
(Or eat her, however you want to look at it)
I finally got a video of the two of them playing together.
You’ll have to ignore our commentary. ;]
Goofballs.
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The Saturday Pet Blog Hop!
Shhh, we know this post was made on Friday.
But it’s Saturday now!
Five Random Facts: Petal
I thought it might be fun to share five random facts about each of the dogs with you readers.
I’ll start with Petal; ladies first, right?
1: Petal sometimes (often) makes these really strange noises that I call her “dinosaur noises”, they’re like these strange and adorable grumbly sounds. She makes them when she’s nibbling on something or rolling around on the couch (which is a classic part of her morning routine).
2: She loves getting packages in the mail. She likes to help me open them and whatever is inside is hers and Lassie and Ella better not take it.
3: Her tummy does not tolerate anything with sweet potatoes.
4: You may already know about her overbite, but did you know she uses it for e v i l? She hooks her front, exposed, teeth over things, like the rim of a cup, and pulls them down from those hard to reach places.
5: Petal got her name because of a marking on the top of her head that resembles a flower petal.
See:
That’s it for Petal!
Next up will be Ella, so keep an eye out for that. ;]
We’re all fancy with a water fountain
On Tuesday we got a package in the mail!
Everyone was super excited, hoping it was dog treats! Or toys!
But nope. I didn’t buy them any treats or any toys.
Sorry guys.
Instead I (with the help of my lovely siblings) bought them a pet fountain.
What!?
A boring old water bowl!?
Whyyyyy?
Why?
I’ll tell you why.
This little stinker right here
does not drink nearly enough water.
Dog mouths are not meant to be sticky, Petal.
They’re suppose to be slimy.
And who wants to see that cute face all dehydrated?
Yeah. No one.
The cats are needing to drink more water as well and I’ve read, in numerous places, that animals are attracted to moving water.
I knew that had to be true because Petal would rather drink out of either a) a water bottle being poured out or b) the gutters or any moving water source regardless of whether or not it’s clean and mud free (eeeww).
Option B is not allowed.
And option A is just not practical for every day.
So a pet fountain sounded like the perfect solution!
Until I went to price them.
Holy cow.
$109 for a stainless steel Drinkwell 360?!
I don’t think so.
Yes it looks like a fantastic pet fountain, but I just don’t have that kind of money to spend on a water bowl right now.
They offered them in plastic for a considerably smaller price, but plastic just didn’t seem practical with 6 pets. And the finicky cats aren’t fans of plastic dishes.
And I wasn’t too fond of the idea of taking apart and cleaning a plastic one.
Of course I didn’t have to get the Drinkwell 360. There are plenty of other pet fountains to choose from. But the 360 seemed like the very best choice for 6 pets.
So I checked out Amazon.
How I love you, Amazon.
Amazon offers the Drinkwell 360 for $67 with Amazon Prime.
And we also happened to have an Amazon gift card.
And my siblings decided to go half on it since it would benefit their cats too.
So with all of that, I got a $109 pet fountain for $10
*happy dance*
This is the fountain and so far it’s a hit.
There are five interchangeable spouts, right now we have the one with 3 spouts on it.
It holds much more water than it looks like it would. About a gallon.
But the best part?
Petal drinks out of it.
And not just one slurp once a day. I’ve seen her drinking from it several times since it arrived Tuesday.
YAY!
Lassie and Ella have been drinking more as well and my brother’s cat is in love with it.
She’ll spend most of the day staring at it, playing in it, drinking from it and sleeping next to it.
The other two cats are still warming up to it, but they like it.
Overall, it’s been a really great buy so far.
And with Petal drinking more water, I have one less thing to worry about.