Easter Sunday

Perkins hopped on over to wish you all a Happy Easter :)

Long Weekend

Not much happening in my neck of the woods these days.
It's a long weekend which is wonderful.  I've been catching up on things around the house, window washing for one, bluk!
I brought out some of the patio furniture even though I know there will be at least one more snow storm before the end of April :(

Been out training a bit with Kort, adding distractions & duration to his heeling.  It is wonderful to be outside training!  Agility will be moving outside at the end of April as well so Kort & I will be starting up again.  We've had the winter off.

B is for Bessie

Mom got a new dog!  Another rescue, mom's 3rd.

Mom's first rescue was way back in 1978, she was coming out of the grocery store & was stopped by 2 children who had a box full of puppies.  The puppies were 4 weeks old & the kids were told to get "rid" of them :(  Mom being the sucker she is lol! came home with Buddy. Buddy was the best dog ever, he lived to just 2 months short of his 18th Birthday.

This is mom & Buddy in July 1990, he was 12 yrs old......

Next came Chance, mom went to our local shelter & picked him out.  He was 7 years old & had been brought to the shelter when his owner got a boyfriend & became pregnant :(   Mom had Chance until he was 14  years old.
This is Chance on Dec 8 2001, the day he was adopted by mom, I groomed him up for her ♥

So now it was time for a new dog.  My mom of course looked at all the shelters & rescue groups in her area.  She came across Northern Critters In Need, a Rescue out of Ignace Ont, which is about 4 hrs from Thunder Bay where my mom lives.  Bessie caught her eye, she is kind of a combination between Buddy & Chance I think!
This is her story.
Back in November 2012 reports were coming in about people hearing a dog barking/crying.  Upon investigating they found Bessie.  She was attached to a dog house, in the middle of nowhere, with a 4 foot chain.  The dog house had no bottom in it, & she had just given birth :(  Whoever did this either left her there because she was pregnant, or because she had puppies.  Either way, there was no food or water, nothing.  It makes me sick to my stomach to think of her out there alone with her new babies.  The rescuers estimate the puppies were about 3-4 days old.
Bessie was a wonderful mom her foster home reported.  She is quite timid, & suspicious as you can imagine, but her & mom are doing quite well.  Mom has only had her for a week so I will keep you updated.

Here's some pictures.....

Bessie's first night at moms......

Bessie with her 8 babies just after being found......

The 8 babies at Christmas 2012......all pups are in new homes :)

A Special Kind of Day :)

Today is a special day....
It would have been my Dad's 84th Birthday for one, I went to bed thinking about him last night. I miss him.
I had trouble sleeping, I eventually fell asleep but then woke up shortly after.  I looked at the clock, it was 3:33, hmmmm, my Dad popped into my head right away, #3, 3rd month, March, Dad's birthday,
I wished Dad a Happy Birthday then tried to fall asleep again.  Later, still awake, I looked at the clock again, 4:44, ok this was getting weird.
Anyway this post is not about numbers, but there will be one soon :)

Today is also my niece Adrienne's Birthday.  She is 17 today, wow! She is a very special girl, how I love her ♥
Adrienne is also special because she was born on my Dad's birthday, & on HER Dad's birthday!  Yup, both her grandfathers were born on March 19th , how cool is that!!

 

Superstar!

And of course I can't forget another important member in my life ....
Happy 7th Birthday to Perkins ! ♥

Scurry

Andy did manage to get a few pictures of Kort & Tate trying the scurry on Sunday.  These are of us running to the bumper, my dogs wouldn't go out to get it on their own when it was thrown in the air, so we were allowed to run out with them , encourage them to pick it up & run back with it......so fun!