Monday, September 30, 2013
Doggie Quirks
All dogs have their funny
quirks/habits. I thought I would give
you all a bit of insight into Muffy and Magnet’s funnier quirks.
Magnet cracks us up with a few
goofy things she does. Magnet loves
dinner time, snack time, anytime that involves food! She really “concentrates” when it is dinner
time. We put the food down, she goes
write to her bowl and eats. She wants to
make sure she gets every last crumb, and licks the bottom of her bowl
thoroughly. Well she licks the bowl so
long trying to get the last crumb, that her tongue gets dry, so she takes a sip
of water then goes back to licking the bowl time and time again! Now lest you think we are underfeeding her,
her weight is perfect!
Muffy on the
other hand eats slowly and deliberately, and she makes sure she has
plenty of food left after Magnet is done.
Then she sits there, staring at Magnet eating one piece of food at a
time. Magnet is dying to get to the
food, but Muffy just gives her the evil
eye, and Magnet doesn’t move. Magnet is
so afraid now to go near Muffy’s bowl that we have to pick it up before she
passes it to go outside!
Magnet licks her lips every time I say the word snack, (see picture we posted on instagram). I get the best pictures of her waiting for that treat! Both dogs like to play
lets hoard the antlerz bones. They each
have their favorite one, but they both try to get both of them and stash them. Magnet hid them both bones very well one day and
nobody could find them, until two in the morning that is, she got them from her
hiding place and started gnawing at her favorite one in the bedroom. I of course got up to see Muffy trying to
move Magnet, who, while eating her bone was lying on top of the other one! I had to get involved in that one, Muffy is a
very patient girl, and she would have stayed their panting and head butting all
night. So I took Magnet’s bone, out of
the room, she followed me to the hall way as did Muffy, and then I was able to
get some sleep without the bone gnawing noises!
One other hand, Magnet's quirk is displayed when she
gets ready for bed. I put pillows at the
foot of the bed for her to lie on, but she charges into the room, head butts
all of the pillows, then comes to my side of the bed and goes to sleep. She can “pillow fight” with herself for
minutes before she is satisfied that the pillows are disheveled enough. I am fascinated every night by this! Muffy has her bed time habits too. She loves to sleep with her nose against the
door, any door. So when we open the door
we have to do it slowly and say her name.
People that come into the house and see this for the first time thinks
it’s pretty funny. I did too, except she started moving from room to room, so
it’s a nightly ritual to look for Muffy, make sure we don’t hit her with a
door!
I am sure all of your dogs have
funny habits, I’d love to hear some of them , so write your own down for
everyone to see!
Saturday, September 21, 2013
The Homeward Bound Project of MS
3,285 Lives Saved Since 2007 and Our Friend TJ is one of those Precious Lives Saved!
The Homeward Bound Project of MS is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization operating since 2007 in Starkville, MS. Homeward Bound is run entirely by volunteers, most of whom are attending or working at the Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine. They work with shelters in Mississippi to transport adoptable dogs (and sometimes cats) to adoption guaranteed rescues in the Northeast, thereby giving them a chance at a better life. Homeward Bound volunteers are incredibly passionate about the work they do and we welcome you to find that passion too!
We want to give a special shout out in recognition of this great, grassroots dog rescue organization. TJ (also known as Tammy Jo) and her siblings Vernon and Delilah were abandoned as young pups in a shelter in Northern Alabama. Thanks to the kindness of a volunteer at that shelter who notified Homeward Bound in Starkville, Mississippi TJ and her brother and sister were give a second chance! The pups were fostered and prepared for their long trip from Mississippi to New York almost 3 years ago.
To show our support for this rescue group, we are offering a coupon HB10 good for 10% off your purchase from www.onesassydog.com and we will donate a proceed from those sales to the Homeward Bound Project. You can shop for all sort of cool and unique items for dogs including TJ's favorite Antlerz bones!
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Magnet The Happy Mutt
I am a rescue dog like Muffy. She told you her story and I am going to tell you mine. Well, this is how my dad tells it!
One night, I was watching Animal Cops
Detroit on Animal Planet and saw an episode where a mother dog was
locked in a house. She had a litter of
pups, and she was desperate trying to feed them and herself. Thankfully, someone heard her cries, and the
Detroit SPCA came out and rescued them all.
Right then and there I decided we were going back to North Shore Animal
league to get another dog! So off we
went….
We
decided we wanted to get a puppy this time, we figured Muffy would get along
better with a puppy. We went to the
puppy section, and saw all the wonderful puppies barking, and trying to get
people’s attention. We saw a cute little
puppy with a cute yapping bark, we asked to see her. They brought her out to us, and she
immediately took to us, and fell asleep in my arms. We knew we wanted her, and right there I
named her Magnet, because she stuck to us so closely! We left that night with a
new member of the family.
When
we got her home she was pretty shy, Muffy was happy to see her, they got along
great. Magnet and Muffy both went to bed
around the same time, sleeping right next to each other. We thought we got ourselves a nice calm dog,
boy were we wrong!! The next day Magnet
was feeling her oats, and away she went.
Flying all over the house, pestering Muffy (who took it mostly in
stride) and just being a happy puppy!
She was a handful, but the kids loved her and she was a real
charmer. She would lie in bed with the
kids during the day, and keep us up most of the night! She was a pampered
Princess for sure.
Training
was a bit of a problem with Magnet, so we would put her in the kitchen with the
newspaper, and block off the exit with a babygate. We should have known that wasn’t going to
hold Magnet back for long. We would put
her in the kitchen and go about our day, and lo and behold there she would be,
prancing about the living room, barking and looking to play. We thought the kids were taking her out of
the kitchen to play, and we told them to stop, but they swore it wasn’t
them. This happened a few more times,
kids denying they were helping Miss Magnet with her “jail” break. So I put her back in the kitchen and hid
behind a couch. Sure enough she got out
by CLIMBING over the baby gate! I couldn’t
believe what I was seeing. She climbed
over the gate, plopped on the other side and proudly started barking and
looking for us!
We
brought Magnet to the vet for her checkup and told him what kind of explorer
and adventurer she was. Magnet is great
with people but boy did she shake and whine when we brought her to the vet! (She
still does the groomer and vet are her least favorite places to go!!) He said it figures, he thought she was a
German Sheppard/Burmese Mountain dog mix, and that while Sheppard’s are very
bright and inquisitive, they are the biggest babies in the world, fits Miss
Magnet to a tee!
Magnet
was born on Christmas day, as far as we can reckon, so that’s when we celebrate
her birthday. Her and Muffy both get
spoiled, but more so for them on Christmas!
Magnet will be 10 years old this Christmas, and like Muffy loves to
“hunt” squirrels in our backyard. They
never catch them, but they love running after them. Magnet is our hunter though; she has caught a
few possum. She is so proud of
herself! She loves being around people,
and loves to tease her sister Muffy. Muffy rules the roost though, she lets her
know when enough is enough!
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