Category: Dackels

The Dackel Weekend Review

We are having a party here on Friday. It’ll be for the 4th of July. Independence Day! We’re doing the usual barbecue, but instead of hot-dogs and hamburgers, we’re going to do kabobs. Steak, chicken and shrimp. Should be good, right?

Well, it will be providing we have decent weather. You will recall that last year we started outside and due to rain quickly had to head in and eat our barbecued food under cover.

So, this year I am planning ahead. Although I will hope that we can enjoy this holiday ritual celebration outside, I will have our screened in porch and dining room cleaned up and ready for immediate occupancy. I think I’ll get Emily to help me this week do that major little cleaning job.

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My test appointment on Friday was……well interesting. Interesting in that I was forced asked to drink a container of orange liquid, which reminded me of Zarex, a kids drink from the 1960’s which is probably 99% sugar. Then they held me down and took blood every hour on the hour for three hours. At the end of this I had a severe low blood sugar attack, which felt like my body had been slammed into a brick wall. I crawled into a “Subway” restaurant and they fed me orange juice and a tuna roll up until I was stable enough to leave. Ah yes, it was a fun day.

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It appears that Bloglines has gone crazy. I check my feeds and I find I have several thousand new posts. Now come on. It’s the summer. It’s a Sunday. No one is writing their blogs, but me. What gives?

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I was in the yard with the dogs when our neighbor’s cat came waltzing across our front yard. He stopped took one look at the dogs, and ran. They in turn ran after him and I in turn ran after the dogs, yelling like a banshee! Not a pretty sight. The owners of the cat managed to pick it up and then yelled at me because my dogs were chasing their cat. I didn’t say much of anything because after all, my dogs simply chased the cat out of their yard. However, I must say it was terribly exciting at the time!

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And lastly, my daughter was up today with her boyfriend “M”. He is a very nice man, very handsome and entirely entertaining. I just love his sense of humor. I promised not to write too much about their visit on my blog, but I will post this one picture of them together.

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I hope everyone had a great weekend!

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This is a picture of me, the Dackel Princess, at about age 4 or 5. My passion for dogs began at this time, as our female Beagle had just had a litter and I discovered the wonder of puppies! As an adult I was introduced to a wire-haired dackel named Shubi, and the rest, as they say, is history!

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Me with three of the puppies from Greta’s last litter.

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Spring Cleaning Of The Third Kind

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It was the annual spring cleaning of the Dackels today. I sequestered them all in the shower and then prepared myself for battle. Soap, scrubby, and plenty of towels for “after”.

I stepped in and turned the water on, pointing the icy stream of water away from us all. Gradually it warmed up and I knelt down. A shaking Arnie was the first victim of the soapy massacre. He shook and refused to look at me. I spoke to him softly, but he ignored my gentle words. Eventually I’d soaped him completely and it was time for rinsing. Splish-splash, it was quickly accomplished.

Greta was next. She is an old pro at this, as I bathed her for the first time when she was just 8 weeks old and came to me with dried ink in her tattooed ear. Green ink! Since that first bath she has accepted my sudsing with great patience and dignity. Needless to say, she was done quite fast.

Lastly, Anneliese. My little baby. She just figured that if she didn’t move much it would be over quickly, and she was right. Of the three of them, Anneliese was probably the easiest.

Once I got them done I quickly washed myself and then, demanded their obedience. I told them to remain in the shower while I slipped out and dried myself off.

Then one by one, I took each dog out and dried them off. Arnie, Anneliese and Greta. I’d shut the bathroom door so that I could dry them off before loosing the hounds on the rest of the house. As I dried them I sang this little song. (To the tune Three Blind Mice)

Three wet dogs,
three wet dogs,
see how they run,
see how they run,
they all run over the carpet squares
and jump on the towels tossing them in the air,
there’s never a sight that you’d care to share
but three wet dogs,
three wet dogs.

Soon they were dry and I opened the door and let them out. They jumped up on my bed, then off. They ran into the family room and then back again. It seemed that the baths had given them some sort of vim and vigor!

Later when they had dried completely, I got out the stripping brush and started to rake their coats. I pulled off a ton of fur from all three dogs, even Anneliese, who tends to have a shorter and more manageable coat. I have more work to do on them, but my goodness they look so much better.

In other Dackel News, our friend Dori was over last night. She is not only our friend, but works as a Vet Tech. She felt Miss Greta and she said she believes Greta is with children. Still……we will have to wait until the end of the month for the official confirmation!

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Anneliese and Greta

Also, our little sweetie, Anneliese entered a Precious Pet Contest on The Wonderful World Of Weiners, and currently she is in the lead. The winner will be announced on Monday, and I’m hoping she will win!

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It’s a funny thing, Greta and Arnie always get all the attention and special notice, so I hope Anneliese will have this moment in the sun. Go on over and say Hi to Hallie!

I got out and raked in the back yard today for about half and hour. I did this for two reasons. One, after a winter like ours where I just allowed the dogs to go anywhere, their, ah, poop, was all over the yard. We have had a lot of sunshine and dry weather so it was very easy to rake up and two, it is great exercise, and I am trying to move more so my dieting will perhaps get unstuck and I’ll start losing again!

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And lastly, my boy Arnie is getting much better about going outside with Hubby and Fritz and just hanging out with the guys. Yes, he is growing up, and becoming one of the boys!

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These are thirteen of my favorite pictures. The bottom picture is of Greta with her first litter of pups back in 2006. We will know in two weeks if she is expecting her next litter! I’ve got my fingers crossed!

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Poor Arnie

And it has started. You can all say, “Poor Arnie” now. Yes, my 15 month old boy knows that his Mom is in heat, and since dogs don’t understand the moral laws of the Universe, he is lusting after her.

This consists of him crying and moaning and generally making himself a pest right now. However, I can excuse this rather annoying behavior because, his is……

Just A Guy!!!

I admit I am not looking forward to the next two weeks, nor am I looking forward to next month when we will go through this when Anneliese goes into heat. I am getting my laundry room ready to turn into a bachelor apartment for Arnie.

Anneliese seems totally oblivious to all of this. She just chews on her bones and plays with her toys and ignores the action around her.

Today I thought I would take the puppies out for a little walk and they ran around and around on top of our snow banks. (Yes, we still have a ton of snow.) That gave them the perfect opportunity to get up and over the wall to our neighbor’s house. Both Hubby and I tracked them down and brought them back. Those darn snowbanks! I can hardly wait for them to be gone!

At this point it’s looking like early next week for Greta to meet up with her lover, Bernie, to make the next batch of puppies, probably on April Fools Day!

Now won’t that make a funny Blog entry!

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The puppies had their first year Vet visit today. They were weighed (Arnie was 18.8 pounds and Anneliese was 16.2 pounds), examined and given all their shots. They were exceptionally good pups, until a teacup poodle and his owner entered the clinic and then they began to bark like two wild maniacs! The old man looked down his nose at them, and then glared at me and said, “I think you need the Dog Whisperer!”

The funny thing is, had he just put the dog down, my two would have played with it and all would have been fine. In any case, I felt firmly chastised for being the owner of these two little, wild, beasts! LOL!

Next week is Greta’s appointment for her shots, and then in April Fritz will go have his teeth cleaned and get all his shots done.

I stopped at the New Hampshire Crafts Shop to visit my friend, with both puppies, as well as the Post Office. The pups loved this, and everyone was pleased to see them too.

It actually became sunny and a bit warm (40 degrees F) by noon. Emily had a half day of school, so once she was here, we had lunch and after that we went out to play with the dogs.

Hubby worked on the path around the house again today, blowing the snow back down to a passable pathway. Then we came in and Emily and I did some computer work together, looked at magazines and chatted until it was time for her to go home.

All in all, a very nice day!