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My Dog Friend

I have been tagged!!!

I was Tagged by Holly. This is a fun little game to learn more about some of your pup pals, so here is how it works.

The Rules: Each player starts with 7 random facts about themselves. Dogs who are tagged need to post in their diaries "The Rules" and their "7 Pawsome Facts." (copy and paste)

Then choose 7 dogs to tag and list their names. Don’t forget to bark them a pmail that they have been tagged and tell them to read your Diary, or send them a fun Rosette announcing they've been Tagged!

7 Things special (Pawsome) about Me (Rivendell)


1 - If you bark at me, I'll bark at you.

2 - When Im wet, my back/butt hair turns very curly.

3 - I love to hike, but I also love to be lazy and do nothing.

4 - I love any noisy toy but my favourite at the minute is my Good Cuz.

5 - Im beginning agility Mid-August.

6 - I follow mom everywhere she lets me. Yes even the bathroom.

7 - I love everyone I meet, and they all love me.


Pups i have tagged -


1 - Shelby
2 - Usher
3 - Gypsy
4 - Chance
5 - Tiga
6 - Maxx
7 - Lucy

Sand is HOT!

My husband, Riven, my best friend and her guy friend were all camping at the sand dunes. Her friend stayed behind and so my friend, hubby, and Riven came to the lake with me. Long story short, my husband had to climb 3 massive sand dunes to find us about 3 miles total holding Riven the entire time cause the sand was burning her feet. Then we all walked about a mile and a half till we got where we needed to be. hubby carried Riven the whole time while my friend was carrying a raft and I was carrying bags. I am married to a hero. Its funny the first thing he said when he found me was "You're the only person I'd cross sand dunes for" LOL Poor Riven her feet arent bothering her now, but he set her down once for a break and she hopped and layed down in the sand. Poor girl, so he picked her back up. At one break we found shaded sand, and she let me bury her legs and arms in sand. I told my hubby and my friend she lost her legs in the great sand debacle of 06 LOL

The Horror!

It was a dark and stormy night.. well actually it was pretty sunny around 8:30am, but anyway... *eerie music* a child cried in the distance, well not really it was just our loudmouth cat. Our poor dog came to us in distress.. then it happened! The giant monsters showed their faces!! Well, not really cause they are too small, their faces were hidden. Ok, we're lying they're tiny... they seemed like monsters... they are.... the TICKS!!! *eerie music* *screams of terror* --

Now I konw you probably think we're complete idiots, but my husband and I nearly died of complete terror when we found.. not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 ticks near her ears. And, there are probably more we havent found yet. So it took 2 of us, cringing and gaging to pull these off and hurl them in the toilet. We were nervous cause they kept thrashing around like they were gonna jump out and kill us. Through this entire ordeal, Riven didnt even know what was going on... anyway, the level headed, sane and perfectly rational parents we are, we called everyone we've ever known with a dog and told them we found ticks on her, and had absolutely no clue what to do. -- So, we go to training, and we're sick to our stomachs with worry, thinking our dog is tick infested, and then it happened. She rolled on her back, and we spied an ugly tick waving its but at us... almost like kiss my but, im gonna kill ur dog or something, wedged in her tummy with no intention of leaving this meal. And to make matters worse there as a perfect red ring around it.

We go to the vet, and they cant get us in, so they send a tech out who was nice and rolled her eyes at us for freakin out. She pulled it out and said it was a "brown dog tick". When she pulled it out, she used her nails, not sterilized tweezers like we did (and im not making that up), grabbed and yanked it out. She diagnosed her as being a dog with ticks. Which, we honestly were horrified to discover. We immediately proceeded to buy every single protect they sell for dog tick removal and prevention... and i mean everything...

- Frontline $15
- Cream for inflamation and antibiotics $10
- Shampoo $18
- Collars $30
- Frontline for the cat just in case $15
- Knowing you completely over reacted but your baby girl is safe --- Priceless

So now it has been 3 hours since our horrible ordeal began, we are home and my husband is running around all over the house, vacuuming, and sterlizing, doing laundry... woops there go the bed sheets.. he thinks there are ticks hiding everywhere and in the middle of the night, they'll climb out and stick to him. (I think he's more worried about his boy the cat - I mean he shaves his head.. not like they'll be intrested in him) He's acting like a vietnam vet having flashbacks of the battle of fleas in Missouri. He's all twitchy with a wierd far off look in his eye. Poor Riven has been manhandled, poked on, and medicated and is looking at us like.. you 2 are actually in charge?..and the cat is in the corner plotting his revenge.