I woke up this morning to my husband freeking out about "A FOOT OF SNOW" outside. I'm like sure there's a foot of snow that fell in the 8 hours I was asleep. Well I look out the window and yup he was right there's over a foot of snow that fell and it keeps coming down. Needless to say I'm not going to work tonight and my dogs are going to enjoy staying inside most of the day. I let them out to go potty and they both stared at me like.. "you want me to do what outside, ya right". So out I went to dig a trench for potty time and then promptly grabbed the camera for some much needed snow pictures to prove that yes I do indeed have over a foot of snow at my house. I do like how Dag is following Jasmine through her trenches so he doesn't get too cold. He did though venture to the tree in the yard to pee on it, and then came right back. Silly boy.

Without further ado, Corgi snow party. Boy does Jasmine love snow.

Good News :)

Well I have good news :) I'm going back to work on a day shift :) :) That means no more marathon night shifts and taking the dogs to work with me every night! YAY. I am going back to an old job of mine working for the Purrfect Pals cat shelter working in their Veterinary clinic. I start back there in two weeks, so that means only two more weeks of staying up all night.

In other news, Dag and Jasmine are being good dogs. Well they always are but they do test me on occasion whether it's defluffing toys or chewing on things that are not dog toys. Dag has for the moment, stopped chewing on wooden things, even with full access to the cat room. He's been good about realizing what Cat toys are and what dog toys are, smart boy. Jasmine is on the fat dog diet as somehow she's gotten a little pudgy in the last month or so :( she is not pleased. Dag has been switched to buffalo and venison from Jasmine's Wellness Core Oceanfish diet as it was not agreeing with his tummy anymore. He is very happy and is putting on weight again :) He's a scant 32# and he is thin. He definitely needs some weight to look his best. I'm thinking of getting him some more ring experience soon to keep him up to snuff. Anyway here are some pictures of tonight and please ignore the weird angle as it's a little off from my lack of photography skills tonight. 0.o I'm glad to see he's growing up, with more weight I think he'll look a lot better. Now for some more roadwork with him. I've been slacking due to it being pitch black when I'm getting up and going to sleep. Now that I'm going to be back to a real job I'll have time for more walks which the dogs will enjoy.

Anyway, hope everyone is having a wonderful start to the new year and bless you all.

Christmas Time

Well it's official in my house now, it's Christmas time. The tree went up this weekend and there is a wreath on the front door, and that's the extent of it. We really just don't do a lot of decorating for holidays but the tree makes me happy. Dag on the other hand is thankfully not interested in the tree he's more like "Mom WTF is that GIANT thing in the living room?!?!?" He gives it a really wide berth and keeps away from it, but I still don't trust him. He goes in his crate when we leave as we really don't want to come home to a decapitated tree.

As for other news Jasmine is officially going to preferred in Agility and is never running in dirt again. Last weekend we knocked bars in both jumpers and standard. She has been occasionally knocking a bar in class but it's been attributed to me pulling off to early and causing her to drop her hind end. The first bar dropped at the trial was my fault completely as I pulled off over a wider jump so she wouldn't take the tunnel in front of her and I saw her back end drop :( The Standard class again it was a wide jump, the FIRST jump, and down came the bars :( It also didn't help that it was a nice "warm" 32 degrees and we were in a horse arena with very little heat. I was not pleased as I was freezing and so was Jasmine even after a 5 minute Jog and a 15 minute warm up walk. It was a cold and crappy weekend.

To end the weekend, I woke up on Tuesday before work Sick. Yup completely sick. I stayed home yesterday but I'm feeling a tad bit better today so I'll head to work and hope its slow.

Off to Target for cold medicine and soup. Hope everyone has a Happy holiday season.

A very interesting article

I just came across this very interesting article from New York Times about the English Bulldog and I thought I would share.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/magazine/can-the-bulldog-be-saved.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

Dag at 13 months

So I'm finally slowed down at work and realized I haven't updated any pictures of Dag aka Dagwoo that bad dog. So without further ado, some not the greatest pictures, but I did them all myself with no help. I think his chest is starting to come down some since the first puppy pictures I have and I'm gonna see how he does next month in the ring. Hopefully the bad dog will get some more coat and grow up some more but it all takes time. He is still splayed in his left front and I don't know why. He was a little splayed as a puppy and now it's more obvious to me. Any ideas? too much turn or ? The third diget (count from the dewclaw out) is/ has always been raised up higher than the other toes and I'm thinking puppy injury? but it all just seems more obvious to me. I really think his shoulder is looking nicer and his movement is better as I've been working on going faster with him cause he can MOVE I just have to keep up with him.

He does look a little roached in the picture but it's the angle cause I just looked at him again and there is no roach when stacked.

Oh Dag. What am I going to do with you?

So Dag my good little boy has decided that he's a 8 week old puppy again and is chewing on EVERYTHING. Not just his chew bones but the TV trays, the Kitchen table, and lastly tonight at work his collar. Yuppers, his collar was found in his kennel in pieces ( insert very angry mom here). I have NO idea what his problem is, he's exercised, entertained, trained but must chew on something. I've started feeding him in his Cube toy/treat despenser and doing more training with him but OMG if he does not stop my husband might de-tooth him. J/K

Has anyone else experienced a late adolescent chewer?

Dan Welsh Corgi

Ok.. lets start of by saying tonight has been a crazy night at work but this person takes the cake with being dumb.

client "Hi my Dan Welsh Corgi just ate a brownie."

me "Pardon, your what just ate a brownie?"

"my Dan Welsh Corgi"

"I'm sorry I'm not familiar with that breed how much does it weigh?"

"about 45-50 pounds"

"Ok and how many brownies did it eat?"

"Oh just one. Is he gonna die?"

"No mam' one brownie is not going to kill him. He'll probably just get an upset stomach." then I proceeded to go over other symptoms to watch for all while going (0.o) Dan Welsh Corgi?!?!??!

I am always amused when people have no clue what their dog is. I even googled it to see if there was some BYB selling corgi pups as a Dan Welsh Corgi and nope not a single thing. I have no idea what type of dog she has but I do pray that it's fixed.

Oh the calls I get at 2 am.

Catching up

Well it's been forever since I actually posted something on here. I've been a very busy lady between working 50+ hrs a week to going to dog classes twice a week to trying to have a social life I'm pooped. I'm finally done with my super hours at work, back to my normal schedule, for the moment, and am finding time for myself.

Dag and Jasmine have been hard at work becoming good dogs. Jasmine is doing great in agility and will be entered in some shows come January, just have to get her up to snuff. I'm planning on getting her NAJ and then dropping her to preferred as she is 6years old now and with her extreme out-turned front I'd like to keep her from breaking down anytime soon. With lots of low impact exercise and keeping her muscular I hope to keep her competitive for years to come.

Dag is now doing Rally and getting better each week. He's a lot slower at learning than Jasmine but Jasmine spoiled me and you know it really is much easier to train with one dog. Jasmine continually tries to butt in to what we are doing just to show me all of her tricks and get a cookie. Dag just stares at her like 0.o Silly boy. We're taking some time off from conformation to let Dag turn into a man since right now he's in that I'm an in between gawky teenage boy who has masculine features but still has acne :) Alas he will grow up to be a good looking man it will just take time.

I haven't taken any pictures of him in a while mainly cause I've been so dang busy but I promise to get some new ones up soon, as everyone needs a bath including the cats. I do find it quite amusing that out of all of my animals Jasmine is the only one who hates Bath time. I can't keep the dog out of a lake but when it comes to getting clean she runs for the hills. It's not that she's afraid of the tub since when I take a bath she tries to join me and play in it, it's the fact that she does NOT want to be clean. I swear the second she's out of a bath she runs outside to find the closest pile of bunny poop and roll in it. Mud puddle?? She's in it. She constantly has grass stains from rolling in god knows what in the lawn and SHE's supposed to be a pretty girl. Guess she's just a tomboy. Dag really is a pretty boy though, as soon as he's bathed he stays clean for a long time.

Well I guess I should get back to work. Long night, full moon, people with no teeth. It all makes for a very entertaining night.

My one plea to everyone is to Please Please PLEASE keep all of your medications far far away from your pets. Tonight I've seen two overdoses, one fatal (7month pup) and one may not make it through the night. Both could have been prevented by just keeping the medications in the bathroom and out of dogs reach.

Have a good day.

Eww eww and more eww. FLEAS

GAH.. Let me just start off by saying, I've never had a problem with fleas on my animals even though they go with me to work at the vet 3 days a week. They are routinely on Advantage and get regular baths (much to Jasmine's dislike).

Tonight a "good Samaritan" (using the term loosely as we do not house stray animals) brings in this little terrier mix that tried to go into a department store. Well she says's either we will take the animal or she'll let it go in our parking lot. Nice lady huh. Anyway we take in the dog and it's COVERED in fleas. Not just a few but a complete moving wave of fleas. Well since we don't keep unvaccinated unowed animals within our hospitalized patients, we move him straight to isolation and apply Frontline and give Capstar. For those of you who are not familiar with Capstar, it's a oral tablet that starts killing fleas in 30 minutes and is short acting. Great for getting rid of the fleas that are already on the pet and the Frontline keeps fleas from reproducing.

Well obviously about oh 100 flea's jumped ship between the front door and Isolation. Well guess where the all ended up? Yup you guessed it, on my DOG!

Poor Dag had flea's all over his scrotum, they were all over the floor. OMG they are everywhere. Needless to say everyone in the hospital has just been treated for fleas as a precaution. Dag got Capstar and Advantage again and I'm sitting here now pulling off fleas as they die. I stopped counting at 50. Gah I hate fleas.

So poor Dag has had a not so fun night of being eaten alive because of some not so nice good Samaratin decided to be a poop and dump a dog on us.

I now feel like I have fleas all over me. Again. I hate fleas.

Ok Richland is official now.

Gah. My pocket book hurts but Richland is paid for. Good thing I've been working my butt off at work with extra hours to pay for shows. Hotel, paid. Show fees, paid. New dog show clothes, check. Clean dog....... well gonna have to work on that one. He's one FILTHY boy at the moment. Guess I'm gonna have to break out the whitening shampoo here soon. He's been enjoying being a boy and playing in the lake, then the dirt, then the lake like a good boy should.

Well see everyone in Richland.

Offer still stands if someone wants to split the room with me, one queen bed :)

Dag the pretty boy

Well Dag and I had some free time last night at work so we decided to play show dog.

I am planning on bringing him to Richland and hope he does well. I'm very pleased by how he's growing up and hope that he will continue to do well in the ring.

I will upload more videos and pictures when I'm not so sleepy.

Richland show anyone?

Just wanted to put it out there and find out if anyone is going to the September show in Richland? I am debating on taking Dag but was wondering if anyone wanted to split hotel fees/room with me. I tentatively planning on going the whole time but trying to figure out the pocket book. I am driving from Stanwood Wa, so I would be showing up Thursday afternoon I think.

Please feel free to call or email me.

juarez _ Bl (at) hotmail.com

or

360 630 3918.

Brittany J.

Bad corgis..

Mt Vernon, Dog park and Swimming

This weekend Dag and I got to meet up with Keith and Jo from Stormridge Cardigans at the Mt. Vernon Show. Dag was very excited to see the rest of his family and I was happy to be able to show them the progress that the poopy and I were making. I am very pleased with how Dag is turning out and can't be more thankful that they have entrusted me and my husband with this great boy.

Dag showed well on Saturday and Sunday going 1st place over Bode his brother and also getting reserve both days. Lucy finished Saturday and then went up against her Daddy Pi on Sunday.

After having to be a super clean boy for two days we took everyone to the dog park and let them have some much needed play time. They definitely wore themselves out and enjoyed time together.

Monday of course was the fourth so we kept it pretty quiet although I did have a few people out at the lake with me. Not to be forgotten, I took the dogs to the lake on Tuesday to let them play to their hearts content. Dag has not taken to the water as much as Jasmine but he's getting the hang of it. Jasmine is a fish and you can't keep her out of the lake. She also LOVES it when you put her on the floating dock and let her jump off of it. Dag seeing this swam the whole 10 feet to the floating dock and I helped him up. He then proceeded to just trot around on it and watch Jasmine be a goof. I keep the floating dock in so that the young family members can climb up on it so it only sits in like 4 feet of water. Perfect for me (the family midget) and the youngins.

I must say I do love the pictures of Jasmine flying into the water and Dag gaiting.

Dag update

So Dag is all cleaned and ready for the show tomorrow so I thought I should get some updated pictures for everyone. Please excuse the poofy butt as I'm hoping it will finish going down by tomorrow(he had just been blow dried). I think over all the pictures turned out okay I prefer his Right side picture to the left mainly because I don't think he's stretched enough on the Left. I still can't decide which Front I like better maybe someone can give me some pointers.

See everyone tomorrow! Puyallup here we come :P

Right Side

Left Side

Front 1

Front 2