Wow, thanks!

Pups!
I had a fabulous birthday, thank you so much for sending me all those lovely rosettes - tulips and daffodils and cupcakes and party hats and steaks and bluebirds! I love you all! I had a great day, me and Rudy got a lovely long walk, and I got a bag of special treats! Well, I'll share with Rudy cause I'm a good little sister like that.

It is finally Spring here, and the weather is starting to get into the double digits! Today was lovely and sunny, and I lay down on the mat in the kitchen with the sun streaming in on me. It was a great day.

love Izzy

Happy 4th Barkday Izzy!

Izzy, my little peanut, happy birthday! I can't believe that you are four years old today!!! How can it be? I remember so clearly when you came home to us, you were so tiny and adorable! What a little sweetheart you were! And you instantly took over our house, and we let you. Even your big sister Rudy let you jump all over you! When Angel Ben was in our lives, you helped him get down the stairs when his cataracts got bad, by walking by his side and showing him where to go. You are a true angel and we are so happy that we have you in our lives! HAPPY BARKDAY!

love Mommy, Mama, Rudy and Angel Ben

September in Newfoundland

I don't know if you pupses know Mommy on that facebook thing, but if you do, you probably know that she complains about weather a LOT. Don't get me wrong, she has a good reason for it. See, we live in Newfoundland, which is the windiest city in Canada, and also the foggiest. And one of the rainiest. In fact it rained 28 of 31 days in July. We did not have a good summer at all. In fact, peoples around here are saying that our summer didn't even start until August! Well, at least now it's here. I posted some camping pictures on my page to show you that we have had some nice weather. September is turning out to be quite nice too. Mommy is so glad for that, because the wild blueberries did not come out until recently, and she was afraid there wouldn't be any to pick, due to not having enough sunshine! Well,they are behind schedule, but they are there, and Mommy is going to go pick some today and tomorrow! Today it is 23 C, which is a perfectly lovely day in Newfoundland. If any pup ever wants to visit us, mid to late-August and September are the nicest time to come!

love Izzy

strained leg!

Well, I barked in Schnauzers Rule, the bestest dogster group ever, that I hurt my leg and had to go to the vet. That was on Monday. I woke up and couldn't walk very good, couldn't even put my weight on my back leg. Mommy and Mama were very concerned. They took me to the vet, and by then I was able to walk on my leg, but I couldn't jump, and when I went down the stairs I would only use three legs. Something was definitely up. Well, the vet looked me over really good, and rotated my leg, and felt it all over, and said she knew there was nothing wrong with the bones, but that I had probably hurt my leg jumping off the bed funny or something. It could be sprained. I was a really good girl at the vet, and didn't whimper at all when she was touching my leg, so the Dr didn't know exactly where it was sore. My paw looked just fine. So we are going under the assumption that I sprained/strained my muscle, and she gave me some anti-inflammatories for a week. Well, it's only been four days and I am feeling a LOT better already. I am walking almost perfectly, and even though Mom kept me really still at first, now it seems I am doing great, so she is giving me a bit more freedom! Whoo-hoo!

Thank you sweet friends for all the POP and rosettes. It's so nice to have fur-iends like you!!!
love Izzy

uh oh! My beard is turning brown!

I have always prided myself on my very nice white beard. But in the past two weeks it has been turning brown around my mouth! This has never happened before! Mommy can't think of anything that would have made it do that. I have not changed diet, and I am drinking filtered water. Mommy had this problem with Rudy a few years ago, but she doesn't remember what she did to get it to go back to being white. Any suggestions? Fizzy's mom said clean it with baking soda and water. Mom remembers changing something with Rudy's diet, but she can't remember the particulars. She vaguely remembers something having to do with yeast. Maybe it is turning because it has been so hot lately? But Rudy's is fine, so that might not be it. What do we do? I love my white beard and I want it back!

love Izzy

I am Three Years OLD!

Wow, I am a big girl now! Mommy says I am three years old and no longer a puppy! Not likely! I still am very much a pubbybutt, thank you very much. I still pull on the leash, and refuse to come inside when called, and all sorts of other puppy behaviour. I am house-trained though, thank dogness!

Today was great, it was nice and sunny, we got a great walk with Mommy, I got to snuggle all morning cuz Mommy stayed home, and we even went on a car ride to the pet store to get some yummy BISON treats! I should have these birthdays more often!!!

Thank you for all the lovely rosettes and happy birthday messages. I love you all so much!

Izzy

I will be three years old soon!

Mommy says that my barkday is coming up soon (Apr 13th) and I am going to be THREE years old! Mommy says I am just as much a pubbybutt as I was when I came here at 7 weeks old, even though I was a LOT smaller then! My biggest thing is that I must be snuggled and rubbed and loved, at every moment I feel like it. I just LOVE to be loved. Mommy says she needs to grow an extra arm to give me all the attention I need.

Mommy says she is going to make some homemade biscuits or a doggy birthday cake for me. I can't wait!

love Izzy

Vote for me!

Mommy entered me in the Dogster photo contest in "Best Smile"!!! Would you please vote for me? I would love that!


Vote Izzy!

thanks pups!
love Izzy

what to do about flybites?!

In preparation for our great excursion to the National Park where there are lots of trees and woods and bears and moose and flies, Mommy wants to bring somefing to protect us from those nasty flies. She don't want to put anything with DEET on us (although the vet said children's kind would work, Mommy does NOD believe it). The holistic kinds are more appealing to Mommy, so the vet suggested either AVON Skin so Soft oil (just a dab on the neck and forehead), or a homemade fly repellant with citrus oil. Mommy is off to google that right now. What do you do about flies? We can't get anymore fly bites because we have just both finished having da itchie-scratchies, and we don' want any more!!!

love Izz

Houston, we has a problem!

Mommy is terribly upset cause I CAUGHT a bird! It was flying real low, so it might have been hurt already, but I took my paw and batted it down, and got it in my mouth!!! Mommy screamed and came running without her shoes on, into the backyard (which was really funny, cause with her cold she barely has any voice anyway), and Mama heard the ruckus and came running after her! Mommy grabbed me, I dropped the bird, and it just lay there. Boy I wanted to sniff it so bad, but by that time, Mommy had me in the house.

But I was just doin what I was SPOSED to do, Mommy!

Mommy and Mama made a little nest out of a cardboard box, lined it with newspaper and paper towel, and even put some birdseed in it. They were going to transfer the poor hurt bird into the box, so it could recuperate from me, if it lived. It looked almost dead, but Mama said she thought it might be okay. So Mama put on some rubber gloves, and gently picked up the bird to put him in the nest she made. She was real gentle. Well, she went to put the bird in the cardboard box and guess what?! The bird flew away! He was okay after all! Mommy says I am one LUCKY schnauz, otherwise I woulda been grounded for maiming a poor defenseless birdie.

(Mommy's nickname is birdie, so she's a little biased). Humph. I WAS JUS DOIN' WHAT I WAS SPOSED TO DO!!!! I am a terrier, for dogness sake!

Pawsonally, I think she should have been proud of me. Whatever. :)

love Izzy
p.s. Rudy, who stood back and watched the whole thing, was suitably impressed.