Spuds looked at me today and said, "Mom, you have to share my irresistible face with da rest of da world. Stop keepin it to urself!"

 

OSU Football Saturdays

 

Going through periods of not blogging is something I always end up regretting. However, if one thing happens that makes blogging more difficult, such as when Blogger changed the website format and my pics started failing to upload, I found myself too easily frustrated to post.

 

Everything seems to be working great right now, so I hope it continues this way! I have missed all of you terribly. Reading everyone's blogs and seeing the passion and love that everyone in dog-blog land has for animals is what always brings me and my family back here.

 

Spuds and Shadow are, thankfully, still doing the same ol' stuff they were doing the last time we posted. They've had some minor health stuff going on, and are going through allergy season as we speak, but overall, life has been good for the pooches. <3 p="">

 

Momma's Girl

I'm happy to finally get some recent pics up here and reach out again :)   Can't wait to catch up on all of your blogs. I'm sure I've been missing a lot.

Out of Hiding, ~The Pooches (&Anna&Chad)

 

 

 

The Unofficial Hiatus

Hi old friends. We are back from our unofficial hiatus :). Sorry for the absence. Sometimes life takes over!
We'll be posting again soon. Hope everyone is doing well, ~The Pooches (&Anna&Chad)

Just a Littttllee Closer Mom!

So there's this thing that Shadow really likes to do.

If she were a human I'd wonder if she has sensory processing disorder.

Sometimes, she likes to go into a room by herself and relax alone. She'll even grumble at you sometimes if she wants to be alone and you try to cuddle with her or play.

Other times, she likes to, well, smother you with all her weight and press her face into yours as hard as she can!

 

 

I finally got proof when I got this picture! If you look closely, you can see that my face is slightly shifted...because she's in mid-smother mode. There are times when she just decides she needs to be really really close to you! Her little cheeks crinkle up in a smile and her body wiggles with happiness. She usually likes to press all her weight onto your body and press her face into yours.

 

It really is odd.

 

But she's so cute when she does it!

 

She really has a lot of quirky behaviors. Chad and I have said that we're happy she ended up with us, because I'm not sure that everyone would understand her. She is very vocal, and there are times that someone who doesn't know her very well might think she's mad when she's really just very excited. For example, because she's so vocal, sometimes when she's excited she barks and makes funny noises. Other times, like I said, she really doesn't want to be bothered, and will grumble, whine, or make what I call "monkey noises" if Spuds or me and Chad try to get her to play. We always say we feel lucky to have a dog who's so vocal, because it's usually very easy to know what she needs from you at different times and easy to understand how she's feeling. A lot of people could misinterpret her, though!

 

Do your dogs have quirky behaviors like Shadow?

 

~Loving Our Quirks, -The Pooches (&Anna &Chad)

winter.

It's biting at our finger tips. The Ohio air has turned an icy sort of cold in our town. The wind is pouring all around us like an uninvited cold shower. With the holidays over, that inner warmth we feel from family, friends, and cinnamon spice starts to fade. The world isn't full of the reds and greens glittering neighborhood houses, with the promise that Christmas is near. Christmas came and went in the click of of the clock- where at once we were hopeful of the magic of the day, now we sit with only nostalgia, until next time.

The good thing is, we are still filled with inner warmth. When it's just too chilly, there's a companion, a best friend, a cuddle buddy with a built in blanket that doubles as fur, who is always by our sides. As they nestle their heads in the crook of our necks, and drape their paws across our chilly souls, they indulge in the belly scratches only a human can provide. They may think, perhaps, that they're the only ones benefiting from this exchange. But as us humans gaze into their tear drop shaped eyes, we can only hope they know, somehow, that we gain so much more from them. Having these companions means that the warmth we receive wraps our hearts up with a pretty little bow, and allows us to give ourselves the gift of how it feels to love more than we ever expected we might.

They are our hearts. They are our inspiration. They are Pit Bulls.