Wordless Wednesday - Dog Park Photos

Our sincerest apologies regarding the quality of the photos. They were taken with a cell phone camera. You will still be able to see the happiness and fun on our faces. 

We love this place! 

What a bunch of lucky dogs we are to have such a nice dog park so close to our home.

Tuesday Time With Tucker

Tucker here.

"Tuesday Time with Tucker" is actually not about me today. I know, shocker, right? Today is all about his royal whinyness Oscar. I had video shot when we went to the dog park this weekend. I will share with you all what we have to go through every time we ride in the car - even to go to the greatest place on earth, the dog park.

Listening to Oscar whine the whole 3 miles to the park is like getting neutered all over again. Here is 32 seconds of excrutiating and down-right painful noise. Practically makes my ears bleed!

Just thought I would share with all of you.  

Heck, what are friends for, right? 

Now you can all feel my pain.

Wordless Wednesday

Even though today is supposed to be Wordless Wednesday, we have a few things to say.

(Our mom is thinking "Shocker! Life in our house is like My Big Fat Greek Wedding - loud and animated. Everyone feels the need to talk! Everyone has something to say... always!")

We have no idea where she gets this stuff from.

Anyway... first things first.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA!

Yep! Our Grandpa is 69 years old today. If he were a dog, he would be soooooooooo old. We think Grandpa is pretty cool. He is most excellent at giving belly rubs and boy is he a great snuggler. What a lap! The boys love to sit with him in the recliner and snuggle - lots of meditation go on when Grandpa is around.

Second, we really want to re-iterate how important it is to spay and neuter your dog or cat.
(This is usually a topic we don't like to talk about. The boys at the dog park that still have their twigs and berries act like the are so much better than us. Sometimes, our little feeling get hurt.)

Without getting too wordy, we learned from our girl who attended the 2009 Pre-Veterinary Medicine Conference in Columbus, Ohio this past weekend (yep - future vet living in our house!), that 80% of people who adopt a dog or cat from a shelter never use the voucher for the free spay or neuter. 78% of people wait until after their pet has had a litter before they spay. That's a lot of babies being turned into shelters! We know that most people reading this blog take wonderful care of their pets - that's why they blog so lovingly about them. It is important for us to spread the word. Shelters are too full of unwanteds because of laziness.

Okay, we are off our soap box. Is this why mom says we talk a lot?

We'll leave you with this picture.
It's of Tucker... doing what Tucker does best...
EATING!

Dog Park

We took a trip to the dog park this Saturday. Loaded three dogs, three kids and our mom and dad into the SUV and headed out in the frigid cold to play with some new friends. We are pretty lucky that there is a really nice dog park a few miles from our home. There are 3 different fenced in areas for us to play in. The stress of getting us there is well worth it when Tinker has the opportunity to run and run and run! She is that type of dog that always has to be on a leash because she is a runner. If she gets outside without a leash on, she will look back with a crazy look in her eyes like "HA HA HA! CATCH MY DUST!" and off she runs. It's always an ordeal to get the leash back on her and to get her back home. If left alone, she will come back home when she feels she is ready but my mom is afraid she may get hit by a car so they always go on a Tink Hunt to bring her back home.

Days like Saturday she lives for! She made a lot of new friends and ran until she couldn't run anymore. It's always nice to see the smile on her face when she knows we are heading to the dog park.

We have no pictures to show how much fun we had. In all the commotion, the camera was left sitting on the kitchen table. We had so much fun though! Oscar was the littlest guy there and he looked rather handsome in his daisy sweater. We were very proud of him when a bigger dog was trying to be Alpha to Tink. Oscar barked at him and then ran and hid behind Mom's legs. At least he tried to be courageous! Tink is his girl!

Tucker spent most of the time just running around sniffing everything. He loves to chase and be chased.

By the time we left, the fenced in area that we were in had about 15 dogs to play with. Nice turn out for such a cold day. Once we got home, we spent the day sleeping. Tink even had a smile on her face while she dozed the day away on her bed. We are looking forward to our next trip to the dog park. Hope it will be soon!