Good riddance to "unlucky" 13!

Rosie agrees with me! We are looking forward to getting out of "unlucky" 13 and going into 14.

I graduatated from high school, college, got married and had two "unfurry" children all in even

years! Rosie and I wish everyone and their furry best friends a Happy and Blessed New Year!

Have you been naughty or nice?

My daughter Riva illustrated this for me. Gracie is on the left. She is obviously the "good" dog while

Rosie is well Rosie...she's still young and foolish. Check out my daugher's website at www.rivapowers/net/pets so see more of her artwork.

Holiday Books for Your Doggy!

For years, every Christmas I read holiday books to my two children. Now they are grown

up and have moved away...but I kept the books. So now I read to my two furry children.

Gracie and Rosie, my Standard Schnauzers are more than happy to share the couch with

me and read along. I have a book about a cat in “Tosca’s Christmas” by Anne Mortimer and a Rottweiler babysitter in “Carl’s Christmas” by Alexandra Day. Rosie then curls up in her doggy bed for a long winter’s nap while Gracie wants her favorite all to herself, “The Twelve Dogs of Christmas” by Emma Kragen.  Do you read to your dogs too?  That's Gracie below!

After watching that cat video...

I was wondering who said “Cats rule and dogs drool!” 

Anyone remember?

Cats Stealing Dog Beds

I found a hilarious video on cats stealing dog beds. I inserted it above here. Check it out! Cats love dog beds as much as dogs do!

Do you have a cat with dog bed envy? Comment below!

In the year 2000 we adopted Gracie

This is my very first blog posting! So I going to go back and try and start at the beginning. My son Patrick was a junior in High School in the year 2000 and so we were spending a lot of time thinking about colleges...all the craziness that goes into applying and visiting schools. That’s when I started to get “separation anxiety.” At the same time, my 13 year old daughter, Riva was still talking about wanting a puppy. My reply had always been, “If I had wanted three children, I would have had another!” 

My husband has a client who breeds Standard Schnauzers. Now minatures are more popular so you have probably seen a few of them around. A standard is just a little bigger. My neighbors down the road from us have always had minatures and Riva had dogsit for them a few times. So during the beginning of my “separation anxiety,” my husband Pat happens to say that his breeder client, Pam had called him to say that she just got a dog back that was adopted from her. “Do you know anyone who would love a dog?” Seems that Gracie’s family in Rochester felt it was best to bring her back to Pam. The husband had had a heart attack and Gracie ended up spenting a lot of time in a crate. Make a long story short, we went to meet Gracie who was almost a year old at the time, obviously crate trained...already house broken....we took her back to our house to meet the kids and get acquainted with her. Honestly, it felt like what it must be like to adopt a baby. Needless to say, we called Pam back and said we were keeping her. And my life has been ever so much full for it....Riva get her dog but the whole family got  what Riva calls, “the glue that keeps the family together.

The photo is of Riva at age 14, with Gracie, age 2.