This past week we were given the Blogger Recognition Award from our buddy Noodle  https://noodle4president.wordpress.com  Thank you Noodle you are awesome!  The Pups, Kitties and I really appreciate it!

Now we get to recognize and share some other blogs.  I think you’ll really enjoy them so check them out if you haven’t already.

https://rachelmankowitz.wordpress.com/                                                                                    The Cricket Pages follow the life of Cricket and Butterfly, they are cute Cockapoos and it’s always fun to read what they are up to.

https://dailysawyer.wordpress.com/                                                                                          Sawyer, who is a Jack Russell Terrier shares his adventures through photos.  The photos are beautiful and makes you feel like you are there with him.

http://tailsofacrazydogmom.com/                                                                                                  Tails of a Crazy Dog Mom follows Tucker the Golden Retriever, and also shares useful information on dogs in general and product reviews.

http://travelswithchoppy.com/    Travels With Choppy, Choppy loves to share jokes and plays “Where Choppy” which results in a lot of chuckles.

Our blog was started because folks seemed to enjoy stories about our loveable crew so I thought it would be fun to give them their own blog so they could maybe make other folks chuckle as well.   The pups and kitties used to have me write for them but lately they have wanted to write their own blog posts with just some keyboard help from me.

My advice for new Bloggers?                                                                                                     Don’t compare yourself to other bloggers, you are unique as is your blog.

Think about what you want your blog to accomplish, entertain, inform ect…and keep that in mind while writing.

Most of all enjoy, it takes time and energy to write so have fun with it.

Nominees here are your tasks:

1-Select other blogs you want to give the award to (up to 15).
2-Write a post to show your award.
3-Give a brief story of how your blog started.
4-Give a piece of advice or two to new bloggers.
5-Thank whoever nominated you and provide a link to their blog.
6-Attach the award badge to the post.
7-Comment on each blog and let them know you have nominated them.

So like I had this plan. If I kept taking out and losing the clip thingys then pretty soon I wouldn’t have to wear this silly cone.

It almost worked too!

Last night my Margret took off my cone to see how it would go.  It went great for about an hour then I started licking my owie again. I mean come on it’s ITCHY!!!!

But I knew we were running low on extra clips so I thought HA! I had it made.

Um, what’s a zip tie?

~This is Bonnie “sick of wearing the cone of royalty” signing off for the pups and kitties.

My Margret says it’s going to get better, I hope she’s right although I’ve noticed that she tries to look at the bright side of things to encourage us. So I don’t know maybe this is the way it’s always going to be.

What? You want to know what I’m talking about. Well, let me tell you, I’m the one who keeps things going around here. Without me my Margret and my Greg wouldn’t know what to do, that’s what they tell me at least. But lately, well I don’t know if they still feel that way.

It started about a  month ago, Bess went away and came back, and wasn’t as bouncy as she usually is which was really ok but then the bounciness  came back.  She’s back to being rude and pushing her way to the front again. Whether it’s first out the door, first back in the door, first to be petted she just has to be first and bouncy about it to boot! My Margret says she and my Greg are working on teaching Bess manners but that part of it is that she is still young and it’s going to take time.  Well time needs to hurry up!

Then about 10 days ago Bonnie went away and came back and had to wear that silly thing my Margret calls the Cone of Royalty.  I remember how it felt to wear it when I had to wear it last year so when Bonnie wanted me to lick her owie I did what any good sister would do and I did but then got told to leave it!  Well I do like to do what I’m told so I did but then Bonnie was mad at me *sigh*.

Then Bonnie gets to stay in the house on the soft cushy couch  during the day while I have to go out in the pup porch and pen with the even more bouncy than usual Bess,   I have to entertain AND keep her out of trouble and that’s quite a job let me tell you. Bonnie usually does the entertaining and I keep them both out of trouble.

So I’m letting my Margret and my Greg know how hard my life is. When my Margret calls us to go outside I snuggle down a bit more so she can’t see me and say “no” real quietly.  Then she comes to me with a frowny face, I hate frowny faces and says “let’s go” in her mom voice, so I go but as slowly as possible, I guess that shows her!

Last night when it was time for bed I didn’t want to go upstairs with them, again in an effort to show them, but then my Margret sat down and started cuddling me and talking softly to me, reminding me that they can’t go to sleep unless I’m upstairs with them.  That they would miss me too much.  She also said the past 10 days have been really not fun at all for anyone in our house and that in 3 days Bonnie’s stitches will come out and things will go back to normal again.  She also said I’ve been a big help and a very good sister to both Bonnie and Bess. That helped and when I went upstairs my Greg was there to pet me and tell me what a good girl I was so I’m glad that I decided to go up with them.

3 days she says…ok I’ll give them 3 days but then things better be better around here!

This is Belle, signing off for the pups and the kitties.

This is Margret: Things have been tough on Belle, she doesn’t like change and with both Bess and Bonnie having their lady surgeries this past month it’s been one long month of not normal stuff.   Never fear she has had her share of love and cuddles and she has more than enjoyed her share of cheese when her sisters had their medicine which was wrapped in cheese.     I do agree and echo Belle when I say, 3 days…but then things better be better around here!

I don’t know why my Margret is so happy this morning, she’s saying something about “balloons and streamers falling from the sky.”

Last night she told me we needed to sleep until the alarm went off this morning. The other last night I discovered that when I stand on her and lick her face to wake her up she doesn’t disapper when she puts her head under that blankey thing, she’s still there!  When I find her she says “it’s still bedtime Bess!”  It was a fun game so we played it a lot.

But I didn’t feel like playing it last night. I was tired and wanted to sleep instead…so I did. But maybe we can play it tonight!

This is Bess signing off.

I had to go back to the Vet today, although it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.  When my Margret said we needed to go I put all 4 of my stubborn paws down and stayed firm!  It’s really cold outside and I just wanted to. stay. home.  But my Margret encouraged me each step of the way and stopped short of carrying me down the steps but by the time I got outside I forgot it wasn’t my idea and I told her to hurry up so we could go and away we went.

It was a lot different walking into the waiting room this time around.  There was another German Shepard but this one was 10 weeks old and there were two Weimaraner pups that also looked to be about 10 weeks old.  I heard my Margret say that it was a waiting room full of cute!     A man walked in and clearly understood dogs because he asked my Margret if he could pet me, he talked really nice to me and I almost remembered to not jump up but I quickly sat when my Margret reminded me to.  The German Shepard puppy wanted some attention too so he ended up petting both of us at the same time.

I had to go back to the vet  because my tummy owie really hurts and the dr wanted to make sure that it wasn’t infected.  Apparently I had something called complications during my surgery and my tummy owie is bigger because of that so it hurts more.  The Tech gave my Margret something called ointment that tastes really bad to put around my owie so Belle, Bess and I won’t want to lick it.  I can’t reach it anyway although I sure keep trying and now my sisters won’t want to do it for me *sigh*.  On a good note my Margret  said I get to pretend I’m at a spa which is awesome because I’ve always wanted to go to a spa,  my tummy owie has swelled up so I get to have hot packs on it twice a day until it gets better.

It’s been a really busy afternoon and I just want to go lay down on my blanket next to my Margret and take a snooze so this is Bonnie signing off for the pups and kitties.

So this happened tonight and I have to say I don’t think I like it very much.  All I did was lick my incision, ok I licked it a lot *sigh* My Margret says it’s the cone of royalty but I don’t feel very royal whatever that means. Belle gave me some tips and told me that although the wind chills are going to be below zero the next couple of days that at least I don’t have to wear it during a blizzard like she did.                                                                       This is Bonnie signing off for the Pups and Kitties

 So this happened tonight and I have to say I don’t think I like it very much.  All I did was lick my incision, ok I licked it a lot *sigh* My Margret says it’s the cone of royalty but I don’t feel very royal whatever that means. Belle gave me some tips and told me that although the wind chills are going to be below zero the next couple of days that at least I don’t have to wear it during a blizzard like she did.

This is Bonnie signing off for the Pups and Kitties

Bonnie Pup going home!

I feel kind of funny and tired.  but my Margret said I’ll feel better soon. The Tech lady was very nice and I’ll miss her even if she did say ” Bonnie was milking it a bit by walking  hunched over until she got outside then she was fine.” I can’t imagine what she was talking about, my tummy is cold since my fur is gone so of course I was walking hunched over it’s cold! Oh and I was fine when I was outside because there were all sorts of good smells to smell so I… kinda forgot about my cold tummy.                                                             My Margret told me that you guys were praying for me and thinking about me, thank you!  She also said that we’re almost home and that’s good because I’m really tired and ready to take a nap.                                                                                                                                                                               This is Bonnie signing off for the rest of the pups and kitties.

Our Bouncy Bess is her smiley bouncy self again.

Whatever was upsetting her tummy last night is seems to be over. For which we are all very happy about.

Greg and I want to thank you for sharing your encouragement, thoughts and wisdom with us as we tried to figure out what was going on with our bouncy girl.

May I please ask you to keep our Bonnie pup in your thoughts and prayers as I take her tomorrow for her “lady surgery”.  She tends to be the most  anxious of the pups.

Thank you!

this is Margret signing off for Greg, the pups and kitties 🙂