Dogs continue to rally to Newton's side!!!

Another story about dogs coming to the aid and support of the Newton community...rock on brothers and sisters, rock on!!!

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/national/north east/2012/12/dogs_arrive_newtown_comfort_survivors

Rock on Truman, Bulldog of Newton!

Yes!!!!! The Newton pack is rallying around their people...way to go Truman, rock on brother...

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/15/159 32029-conn-school-shooting-bulldog-and-owner-hope-to-heal-ne wtown-one-hug-at-a-time?lite

A Howl to Heaven...for Newton...

When my friends go to the rainbow bridge, I always go out to a real quiet spot and lift my head to heaven to howl goodbye, to send them off to the bridge. Tonight, I'm gonna be out on a cold dark ridge howling for a really long time....with a broken heart...

Doggies of Newton, I do not know what to say to you...the terrible loss, missing your children, hearts breaking...but all those folks who went through this terrible day need you sooooooo much...look into their eyes and hearts so they can feel your strength, stay close to them and lean on each other. When you gotta hang your head, find a human's arm or leg to do it on...they need you.

Rain, rain go away...

Wow oh bow wow wow...we have had three days of storms here...and this morning the winds came up and the rains got even heavier...and we got no lights when we woke up...so Cindy got us all out to the car and drove us to a big mall with a covered parking lot that was very empty so me n' Barney could go walkies. We were getting kinda stir crazy. And she did that for us even BEFORE she went to get her coffee...and she needs her coffee, I might add.

But we got to walk and it was wonderful to be out, then she went to get her own breakfast, and now we are running errands and doing other stuff in the car cuz we know there's still no electricity at home. Living out in the ranchlands, the big trees get blown over on wires and it's very dangerous, and the roads flood too. We don't want the utility folks out there til this storm goes away.

It's pretty awesome. We had hurricans and stuff in Hawaii but this is pretty impressive.

We gonna have a long car ride today!

Pope says no animals present for the first Christmas...just- one doggone minute there...

Okay, according to His Holiness Pope Benedict...quoted on the web...

"As churches and families around the world prepare to dust off their Nativity figures for the festive season, Benedict writes in a new book on Christ that contrary to popular belief, Jesus's birth was not presided over by oxen, asses, camels or indeed any other beasts.

"There is no mention of animals in the Gospels," he wrote in the third and last volume of his biography of Jesus Christ, which like the previous two books is expected to become an international best-seller, with an initial print run of a million copies."

Okay, your Holiness sir...I know I'm just a dog...and you, obviously, are Pope and all...but I'm taking you on on this sir! How did Mary get to Bethlehem? On a DONKEY. And where did they have to stay? A STABLE...hello...and there's this big rush of folks trying to travel for the census, there's no rooms anywhere, and you're telling me the stable was empty? I don't think so. The inn's own critters had to be there, plus Mary and Joseph's donkey, plus any critters of the travellers. And then, we got the shepherds in the hills with their flocks. Even for an event of this magnitude, with the star and the angels and all that, you think those sheep gonna just stand there on the hills, in the dark, all by themselves and watch the shepherds walk off? I don't think so...His Holiness may be the great shepherd of the Catholic church but it seems to this dog he's spent no time around real sheep.

And with all that hay and stuff out there, you think there's no rodents?

No animals at the stable...harumph. I submit that critters were indeed there...and not only were they there, they probably had a doggone good idea something very special was going on, too...Double harumph.

HOWLoween this year...

Me n Barney got taken out for tricks and treats! Cindy took us to a Petco Unleashed, a big Petco, and a Petsmart in our jackolantern bandanas. Thank goodness we didn't have to wear big costumes, sometimes those are hard for me to get on over my fur. And the stores didn't have many folks in them cuz the humans were out doing their own Halloween stuff so me n' Barney got to go all over the place.

Check out our photos!!!

Oh my paw! Dog of the Day??/

Dogster, thank you very much, and thank you for the zealies!

Thanks goodness I dressed for the occasion!

A doggie sleepover!!!

Me n' Barney just checked in at Miss Cathy's house...it is the coolest place...lotsa room inside, hardwood floors that feel great on paws, many many windows, and this awesome yard with a big deck, and sometimes even wading pools! And there's other doggies here too, including Ms. Cathy's own dogs and some other doggies sleeping over like us. I love doggie sleepovers...of course we miss Cindy, but she really doesn't leave us very often, and she said she was going back to Hawaii for just a short visit and it is way too much plane ride and quarantine junk for us to go just to visit. She also said she remembered she promised us we'd never have to do anything like quarantine ever again, and that sending us to a boarding kennel would be too much like quarantine. So we get to do this awesome doggie sleepover at "The Urban Pooch." Woo hoo!!! Somebody throw a toy!

Terrible day in Colorado...

Cindy is having a very hard time with this...she lived in Aurora, Colorado many years and the news of the people violence is making her kinda sick.

Me n Barney really don't understand it...humans will kill a dog just for how he looks, and then they go kill each other for even less reason than that...

How did they get the idea they are a superior species? Could someone explain that to me please? I think they should put the dogs in charge, things would work better.

In Honor of Mr. George Washington, on the 236th anniversary- of America's Declaration of Independence

I know that humans, well American humans, revere this man for his leadership and heroism, and that they call him the Father of His Country. And well indeed.

But did you all know that Mr. Washington was also an incredible dog lover? That even in the heat of battle he had regard for the life of one small dog...and that perhaps that event affected history?

Read here...

http://www.listnow.com/helpingpaws/articles/artic le_550.html