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

Grr

Well I've decided to pull Jasmine from her agility trial :( I know it's the best for her but darnit I really wanted to take her. She's been so bummed that she's been on house arrest I figured she'd bounce right back but alas, I can dream right? So I guess I'll sit down at the computer again and figure out when I should potentially enter her again.

Silly girl just had to hurt her poor foot again.

Busy Summer.

Well this spring has already been busy and it looks like summer will continue the trend. Right now I have 2 dogs, 2 adult cats, 1 8 week old kitten and 1 3 week old kitten in my house. I am up every couple of hours for bottle feeding (which I love), or letting the dogs out or feeding them. I've got my "show schedule" started for the summer, between Conformation with Dag and Agility with Jasmine I'm bound to stay busy. I actually have a number of a gentleman who trains Pems for herding and he only lives and works 20 minutes away ! :P so hopefully Dag and Jasmine will get some sheep work soon. I've signed back up for the gym, which is definitely needed as I am not getting the exercise I should working nights.

This weekend I"m off to Puyallup with Dag where he will hopefully be a good boy and not try to lick the judges to death. He is 8 months and full of himself and he must be the center of attention.

Two weekends from now is Jasmines Agility trial which I was looking forward to. Right now I'm debating on pulling her because I had to pull her from class for 6 weeks with a soft tissue injury ( x-rays were clear of any fractures) and yesterday after 2 weeks of no limping, decided to bang her foot again and intermittently limp. Grrrrrrr. I guess I have 2 weeks to see how she does, I was just really excited to get her back out in the ring. And she so misses class, every Monday she looks at me, looks at the garage door like "class???" She doesn't understand why we haven't been on long walks, rollerblading or beach trips :( Sad corgi.

Hopefully a little Rimadyl and a couple more days of bed rest and she'll be good as new. She's so close to her NAJ, one more Q and we'l have it. Stinking foot.

Well I guess I should go back to cuddling my pooches as they snooze by my feet.

See everyone at Puyallup!

A thank you to good breeders.

Lets just say I had a long long night at work and made a very "special" friend.

Now lets begin.

I want to say thank you to all of the good breeders out there that realise that sometimes whelping doesn't go as planned. I thank you for having the forsight to think ahead and PLAN for the unexpected. I thank you for being thoughtful enough to be financially responsible for your endever in breeding. I thank you for being intelligent in your breeding practices to not breed a HUGE dog to a small bitch and think that everything will go smoothly every time. I thank you for breeding dogs for the love of the breed, not because you just happen to have a boy and a girl dog and want to see the miracle of child birth. The miracle of child birth can be seen on TLC all throughout the day and it's much cheaper.
I thank the breeders who understand that Veterinary medicine, especially Emergency, is a buisness and services rendered equals payment. I thank those who do not get upset at the person on the other end of the phone when they have been walked through the entire labor process and when are told that ok now we have an emergency, they don't go BONKERS and loose their heads.
I thank the good breeders, who have done their research and know what to expect and know what could inevitably happen and plan for it. I thank those of you who do not spend all night talking to the Emergency attendant about things that have nothing to do with the dog in labor who needs a c-section. I thank those of you who when they do call do not put me on speaker phone with the entire room, it's just very irritating. I thank those of you who understand that yes you can tell the sexes of the puppies the moment they are born. The penis and vagina do not magically appear days after birth. ( I hit my head on a wall for that one).

And last but not least.
I thank you all for breeding for quality not quantity.

Alright I'll stop ranting now.
I am waiting for my 3rd call tonight though about a dystocia as last night I had two!

So today we got our grooming table and a bunch of new toys for summer, life vests included. Dag thought that the grooming table was SUPER fun since we've been practicing at work on our treatment tables. Every time he gets on our table at work he's like "cookies??" Ours at work is hydrolic (sp?) and is always on the floor so he hops right up and stacks himself :) such a good boy.

Anyway, here are some better pictures of him from today. Don't worry. I am actually in the picture I just magically took myself out. He will not be taking any flying lessons.

Left side

Front

Right side

Oh and here is the photo dump of the week.

Jasmine did not want to be left out of course, and yes she really is that red in real life.

Does this make my butt look big?

I find it funny that they both run around the house with each end of that toy in their mouths like a pair of horses.

Dag @ 6 months

So I know Keith and Jo have wanted to see some updated pictures of Dag so here they are. The first ones are from today at work. They are not the best pictures of him due to them being a little at an angle but he was good for them. The second set are on Facebook and are from him at 5 1/2 months. He is a little stretched and one is a little blurry but taking pictures by yourself is a little hard :)

I did post new videos of him gaiting, they are from 3-16-11 and today.

Today's videos

There are also some fun videos of what the dogs do when we get home from work. People ask me why it takes me two hours to get to sleep at home... it's because the corgis are Frapping for two hours!

I love having slow nights at work so I get plenty of time to play with the poopies.

Facebook link for 5 1/2 month pictures.

I am so glad to see Bode and the rest of the gang growing up so nicely. Keith, Jo, Carolyn and Mandy you all have outdone yourselves.

ATTENTION- CORGI IN SALEM OREGON SHELTER

http://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/19023573

Just passing the word along for two corgis that need new forever homes. The first one posted above is a male corgi in the Marion County Dog Shelter.

It has also come to my attention that there is someone on Craigslist trying to rehome a Pemi in a Cart. If anyone knows anyone who would be willing to take in this 3 year old please contact the person @ 208-964-4278. She comes with all her stuff, cart included. The add does not state whether or not she is a DM dog or an IVDD (intravertable disk disease) dog. Although she is free to the right home.

http://skagit.craigslist.org/pet/2276633483.html

March News

Well it's official

I

HAVE

INTERNET!

oh how I have missed thee.

Anyway, since we have internet at home again I can actually upload pictures, movies etc to my page so everyone can stay updated on how Dag and the Fish stick are doing.

At the moment I am at work so I'm going to make this brief. I uploaded video's of Dag and Jasmine to YouTube so go check them out and critique me and my handling or lack of handling skills. Please disregard the fact that I am in scrubs as this is what we do at night when we're slow. Hey it beats scrubbing the walls with toothbrushes.

You can tell from the first video that Dag really wasn't getting what I was asking him to do.

http://www.youtube.com/user/juarezbl

I would book mark that page because I will upload more videos in the future. I am sad to say that all of my video's will be from my Android as my point and shoot camera died and my D200 doesn't take video (I dont think).

Anyway, guess I should go back to doing my job now :P

Welcome Dag

So as you've all probably already seen on the Storm Ridge page, Dag (formerly Darton) has come to live with us and become a show puppy. We drove Saturday to meet with Keith and Jo to pick up this wonderful boy and none of us were disappointed. Dag is fitting in just fine and Jasmine thinks it's her long lost brother. All these two have done for the last couple days was to play, wrestle and play some more. We are so happy to see these two doing so well and we are so thankful of Keith and Jo.

With out further ado, Jasmine and Dag.. and my attempt at stacking Dag all by myself, thank god for camera timers.

Dag, this is how you play tug with the raccoon.

What?

Dag minus his head :)

Happy Valentines Day!

Jasmine and I want to wish everyone a Happy Valentines day!

She is celebrating by spending her day working on a Peanut butter filled bone and playing with the kitties. We have two extra kitties in the house now as I'm a sucker for kittens and a sucker for special needs too.

Teeter and Totter, as they're named, are two 6 month old FIV + kittens, who are awaiting their new forever home and until then they can live here. I love how when I tell people that they have FIV (including my husband) they become very concerned that my other two cats will become infected. Honestly it's hard to transfer FIV unless your cats fight and draw blood. When I was a kid we had a FIV + cat who lived with 3 other cats and no one else ever became positive, so as long as your kitties don't fight you have nothing to worry about. FIV cats do have a tendency to have a decreased immune system, think HIV in humans, so I make sure that they get supplements and a very good diet. I feel very blessed to give these kittens a healthy and happy home until they can find a home of their own. Jasmine might be a little sad when they leave as she is enjoying cuddling with them, she really does love her kitties.

On another note I am happy to say that my good friend Mia has finally opened her Bakery in my home town. She has constantly been bringing treats for us at work and now I can finally go get some myself whenever I want. :) YUM. She specializes in cakes for special occasions, birthdays, weddings, parties etc, and they are amazingly delicious. If I lived closer I would be much fatter because I would eat there every day. If you would like to check out her bakery here is her website. http://www.northwestcustomcakes.com/

Well off to go do some cleaning up after kitties and feed the wild birds. Maybe the birds will keep the kitties occupied enough to stay out of stuff.

zzzz

The title says it all. I honestly think that tonight couldn't be any more boring at work. Not that that is a bad thing, I mean me being bored at work means that all of the kritters in the town are safe and healthy at home but boy does it make for a boring night. Normally I have my book or my bag of entertainment to keep me busy for 14 hours but alas, I ran out the door last night with out it and am starting to get a little stir crazy. Atleast I remembered my dinner :)
Thankfull Jasmine always comes to work so we've been working on heeling, stupid dog tricks, playing fetch, searching for treats and well trying not to fall asleep. We've also been sitting here reading the paper, the random magazines, blogs and wishing more people were awake at 3 in the morning. I guess I should get back to doing.... well nothing as staff start to show up again in a 1/2 hour. YAY civilization!

Long time.

Oh my it's been a long time since I've been on here. There is so much to catch up on.
First things first, Ben and I bought a house! Yup a house of our very own and boy do we (and the animals) LOVE IT. We went from a whole 600 sqft to 2600 sqft. I almost don't know what to do with myself, Almost. I finally have my own pet room/relaxation room. Yes I know those two are almost an oxymoron but I do enjoy my time with the sometimes annoying cats. It's nice to have them have their cat tree and litter box out of the main house area. Don't worry, they still have access to the whole house, but those kitties get into everything and with people delivering things all the time it's nice to have a room that I can put them in for the afternoon and not worry about them peeing on something because their mad. Jasmine also shares this room, she has her crate, another dog bed (which she normally shares with Hazy aka Demon Spawn) and oh yah my husband said she needed another bed so..... she has a TWIN BED, yes you read that right a HUMAN twin bed that is on the floor just for her, sheets/comforter/pillows and all. Well wouldn't you know she would much rather sleep with mom and dad on the brand new Sleep number bed! >) Spoiled? Sometimes.
The house also has an office that Ben can work out of... Can because well it's been a MONTH and I still do NOT HAVE INTERNET! For Nerds like us that's pretty much a reason to go completely postal and take out everyone at the ISP, but we are rational nerds and we only kill zombies and the such, so I guess the installers are safe, for the moment. >( So without Internet or TV, we have resorted to watching shows on our computers, dvd and the such. It's nice to be able to watch a full season of something in a night, but the same shows get old after awhile.
Jasmine is very happy with the new house as she has a full acre to play in and as soon as spring comes it will be fenced in for her enjoyment. Right now Frapping outside consists of Flexi time or going to G'ma's. She has also learned that she can do a HUGE figure eight in our house between the animal room and the living room so on super rainy days when she doesn't really want to go outside, she and Hazy see who can run the fastest around the living room. I'm pretty sure Hazy wins because she is like lightning.
Other than the house, Ben is taking over more Management responsiblilities at his work, he's already Engineering Manager but because he's so amazing at his job they're giving him more :)
I'm finally at the point in my Vet Tech career that I can apply to become a Licenced Vet Tech and hopefully by this time next year I'll have my licence, or shortly afterwards. This is something I've been wanting for a long time and due to Life I chose to do 5 years of on the job training versus 2 years of schooling, but I'm happy with my decision.
I've probably forgotten a bunch else that has happened but it probably wasn't that important.
We hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday Season. And please please please, keep the puppies away from Chocolate. I've seen and smelt too many chocolate dogs already this year.

OMG... bad puppies

Ok so this week must be making up for all the lack of emergencies last week. Tonight has been pretty steady with minor emergencies which is good, it keeps me busy but Oh.... Bad Bad Puppies!
The last two nights we have had two seperate 12 week old puppies(different breeds, but both 12 pounds) come in because they jumped the wrong way and broke the toes in their left foot. Now how randomly strange is that? I'm expecting one more tomorrow night as emergencies tend to come in threes. First puppy was a Cattle dog mix, this one is a Ausi.... next one I'm guessing a Kelpie? Corgi? Idk I'm just counting the hours till this puppy goes home because it obviously has not been socialized to being in a crate, it's a submissive pee'er, has been screaming at the top of its lungs for 5 HOURS because it's in a kennel, is on a sedative and heavy duty pain med! OMD the Dr finally was like, just let it out of the kennel and let it sit with you because it's driving us both crazy.
Thank fully I always bring some of Jasmine's "busy" toys with her like kongs and brain teaser toys so I've loaded those up with food and locked the puppy and I into a little receptionist closet and am doing paperwork. I'm doing my best not to get up and make too much noise and ignore the annoying puppy.
With that said.....
THANK YOU CAROLYN SO MUCH for making Jasmine such a well rounded puppy from the beginning. I'm so glad we never went through a night like this with her, she's always been such a good girl and unfortunately she's not with me at work tonight otherwise maybe she could keep the puppy occupied. Oh wait, I think the puppy is , yup napping. Hopefully she'll fall into a deep sleep and I can just take my shoes off and finish some stuff in the other room.
Oh and to everyone with a puppy around 12 weeks of age. PLEASE lock up your puppies tomorrow as I do not really want to splint another left leg on a herding dog :)
Good night or Good morning to all.

Ummmmm??

Ok so let's start by saying Ben and I are finally purchasing a house and he's agreed that Ms Jasmine Fishstick needs a play mate, Tarter Sauce.. JUST KIDDING, he's got the naming dogs after food out of his system I promise. But on a more serious note I am looking into getting another puppy sometime soon and so I've been doing back ground research on Cardiridge Red Hot Lover so I went to Cardiped and typed in Jasmine's name and I think they know something I don't know cause her name came up as Baledwr SN Jasmine Fishstick NA NAJ... We did have an agilty trial a couple weeks ago but she decided to go retard on me, be afraid of the judge and messed up pretty bad so I didn't think she Q'd.. But maybe she did. Idk. I was frustrated so I pulled her for the rest of the day and I'm glad I did because the next day I realised she had crystals in her urine again which is probably part of why she was screwing around, she didn't feel good.
Anyway Jasmine is back on her Methioform to disolve any crystals and Dad and I have remade the rule of NO PEOPLE FOOD for the CORGI! NONE! She's fine when she just gets her diet and her specific treats but damn the grain gods they mess up her PH every time. Thankfully the local petstore just had their yearly sale of buy one get one 1/2 off so we stocked up on food for her and her kitty friends.

So... anyone know of any potential Red litters in the making? I know I know, harder to come by but the man of the house preffers reds. I keep trying to make him look at the beautiful blues but he says their eyes suck peoples souls from them LOL.

Saturday the 4th = CORGI PARTY!

So anyone in the Seattle/Snohomish county area should really head up to Everett on Saturday with their favorite Welsh pup and come to the Cascade Pembroke Welsh Corgi Fun Day at Mcallum Park ;P
Go to the CPWCC.ORG page and click on Events or just go pick up the Local page of the Everett Herald for today and it's on the front page, including a cute little Pemi.
Jasmine and I plan to be there even though we are the " other" corgi, it's still a great place to go frap.
See you all there.