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And who would have thunk it - the slideshow is of my own pets!!

This week, I upgraded to the PRO flickr account and have been starting to upload various types of pictures to the internet, in my feeble attempt to try to move closer to living in the clouds.

It’s Friday .. our anniversary is this weekend, and we’re heading out to the cottage shortly for the long weekend. I hope you don’t mind a little slideshow of the cutest pets in the world .. our very own critters … Maxxie and Sophie (the papillons) and Zeussie Pussy Cat and friends!

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Tweety, Gem & Sophie, 160004/161445/160005

Cats and kittens everywhere! It’s definitely summer because the shelter is full with cats and kittens needing homes. Tweety, Gem and Sophie came in too young for adoption and have been in foster care until they were old enough to find permanent homes. Cat and kitten adoption fees include spay/neuter, tattoo, health exam, vaccine, pet insurance & more! If you can’t adopt, please consider fostering! Call 982-2049 or foster@humanesociety.mb.ca for more information on becoming a foster parent

Bailey, 159629

Bailey is sad to be here because his owner died; he is longing for a loving owner again. Bailey is an 8-year old, housebroken Labrador Retriever who is a very active and energetic boy; he loves to play with other dogs if they can keep up to him!! He also enjoys playing, walking with a toy in his mouth and generally being around people. As a dog used to a home setting, his time in the shelter has been stressful and we’d love to place him very soon. Adoption fee is $80.00 and includes his health exam, vaccine, pet insurance & more!!

If you would like to adopt one of these pets, please contact:

Chantal Young
Adoption Coordinator
204.982.3558

The Winnipeg Humane Society
45 Hurst Way
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
R3T 0R3
Tel: 204.982.3558
Fax: 204.982.3550
Email: chantaly@humanesociety.mb.ca
www.winnipeghumanesociety.ca

Saving just one dog won’t change the world… but it surely will change the world for that one dog

Adoption fees include vet exam, spay/neuter, pet insurance & more! www.winnipeghumanesociety.ca for more information.

Happy Canada Day Everybody!

I’m out at the beach now .. and wanted to show you all my *New!* Doggie Trailer!

I was sooooooooo proud of myself last summer, when I bought a used baby trailer and converted it into a doggy trailer! Looking back, I am glad I did that and it really worked out. You see, at the cottage, my wife likes to jog about 12 km each morning around Victoria Beach and if I don’t get out there too, I never get any exercise! But, if we leave the dogs in the cottage, all they do is bark waiting for us to come back … not too good at 7am-9am in the mornings! Also, Sophie can’t keep up for more than a few miles and then wants to just stop in mid-tracks in the middle of the road … and, Maxxie has the spinal Canine Degenerative Disc Disease (CDDD) and he isn’t as agile on his back feet as he used to be!

And, the trailer was okay - but, a little stuffy. It was better for Maxxie if we left the roof open, so he could get some air. I had to put Sophie in the front basket But, she was cute as a button (and fit the basket) and loved the attention she would get as people would pass by. But, if a dog came out from a driveway and started barking, Maxxie would try to jump out of the doggie trailer, to meet a new friend! That sounds okay, but I had trouble making a good conversion of the front of the baby trailer into a good wall of the doggie trailer. You see (from the pictures below) … where the baby’s feet used to stretch out of the trailer .. I added some nylon material and stretch nylon string to hold it in place. If Maxxie just looked out of there, that nylon wall would come down, and if it was muddy or raining .. slosh from the back tire of my bike would go right in his face!

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Well .. it’s “Tax Time” again for me .. and, I just got over one of the first deadlines - ‘T4 Season’. In addition to me trying to get out all of my monthly bookkeeping clients’ work out the door .. I’m also starting to work on Year End financial statement preparation and corporation income tax. For this past month, it was also all about the preparation of employee and owner wage remuneration and/or dividend slips that have to be reported and filed with Canada Revenue Agency by the end of February every calendar year.

Well .. in every normal month my busiest ‘offline’ time of work is around the 20th and the last week of each month and this past month was a doozie for me! I had a few extra jobs and rush deadlines, had a few late comers, and quite frankly .. I think I only slept about 5 hours in the past 72 hours! Most of my clients have December year ends, so work is definitely piling up - and, Personal Income Tax clients are now calling (our deadline to file personal income tax in Canada is April 30th for most people, June 15th if you are self employed).

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Well .. I’ve been tagged again for another meme .. by WildCatsThree in The Dog Log blog.

Here are the rules of the game:

* Link to your tagger and post these rules.
* List eight (8) random facts about yourself.
* Tag eight (8) people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
* Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving them a comment on their blogs.

Well .. WildCatsThree tagged this blog, and NOT me personally (HART) so .. I feel I can take this to mean 8 random facts about my dogs!

In case you were also wondering .. both of our dogs are purebreds. Maxxie is the larger dog, and actually oversized from the normal size of Papillon dogs. Sophie is the female dog, which are normally smaller than the normal male papillon dogs, so she looks small. But - don’t put these sizes out of mind. Sophie can take care of herself and actually considers herself to be the Alpha dog, even though she is the baby (or ‘Baby-Gurl’) of the pack!

So .. Let’s get this *party* started! For this Meme game .. and PS: it’s a pictorial!
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Thanks to our TIMECAPSULE plugin for reminding me that today is our little Sophie’s 4th birthday and pointing out my post from 1-year ago today .. (see sidebar and inbetween every day of posting here!) - Yes - I forgot

www.petlvr.com/blog/2005/07/happy-birthday-sophie/

Here are some memorable pictures of Sophie at our beach this year!

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Here are some cute pictures from Sophie’s own website .. PapillonLvr.com

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papillonlvr.com/blog/2005/11/okay-class-pay-attention/
papillonlvr.com/blog/2005/11/students-should-not-eat-their-platypuss-duck-toy-classmates/
papillonlvr.com/blog/2005/12/harts-desktop-background/
papillonlvr.com/blog/2005/12/i-know-im-cute-as-a-button-its-a-curse-i-cant-help-it/
papillonlvr.com/blog/2006/04/precious-zzzzzzzzzz-zzzzzzzz/
papillonlvr.com/blog/2006/05/mmmm-soccer-ball-toy-its-papillonlvrlishus/
papillonlvr.com/blog/2006/06/did-somebody-call-me/
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I’ll have to go take her for a car ride to Tim Hortons …. their drive-in staff is always nice .. all you have to say is “Plus I have A Hungry Doggie In The Car” and they will give your dog a few TimBits .. Maybe if I mention that it’s Sophie’s birthday, they will give her one with flavor .. instead of the plain ones ..

Happy Birthday Baby Girl

Run! Hide! It’s … Pap-Zilla!

Why It Is Important To Know How To Take Good Pictures Of Your Pet

Here is a picture of our Maxxie, taken in 2002 by a professional photographer.

We ordered pizza one night on my wife’s birthday, and I put my business card inside a “bin”. Next thing you know, $300.00 later with our ‘Free Pictures’ and other pictures, we finally had some family pictures .. me, my wife and Maxxie! Maxxie was the most photogenic of the lot, as if you can’t tell! I call this picture .. “Maxxie - Formal - Smiling”

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Heads Up from the Diva Marketing Blog - Cuteness Creates Buzz for Old Navy ….

Here’s You Chance To Enter Your Pup To Be OLD NAVY’s Next Mascot

According to OLD NAVY …

Magic is a lovable stray mutt who went from a shelter to pup icon as the original Old Navy mascot.

Back in the day, he kicked up his paws with Hollywood hotshots. He walked the runway with stylists and fashion editors. He did the party circuit with TV celebrities.

But there aren’t any photo shoots or pup-arazzi for him anymore. Today, Magic lives it up in doggie retirement, filling his dog days with long naps, fancy treats and all the belly rubs a pup could ask for.

And that’s why we need another pooch to fill his paws!

The press release is .. HERE .. and you have until May 29, 2006

So Naturally I had to submit a photo of my Baby-Gurl .. Sophie!~

We have two dogs and a cat .. but, only Zeussie Pussy Cat was rescued from a shelter .. Maxxie and Sophie were both obtained from different breeders. But, that didn’t stop me from entering Sophie! This is the picture I entered .. just for fun!

That’s Sophie smacking her lips holding her left front paw on her Squeeky Soccer Ball Toy!

The Diva Marketing Blog reviews the submission process and offers some tips as a result ..

We took Maxxie and Sophie to the Vet May 8, 2006

Every spring, we take our two dogs to our vet and have an annual checkup performed. We do this mainly to get those HEARTWORM pills that we give them on the first of every month between spring and fall. Also, it’s a good thing to see if any other preventative maintenance can be done, and because we are too close to the source (our pets) it’s always a good thing for a 2nd party to periodically check out for items that we may not notice over time.

PLEASE NOTE: Later this weekend I will be posting a 3-Part article about Heartworm disease .. about its description, prevention and treatment in both dogs and cats .. be sure not to miss it!

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