Sassy Sunday 10/24/10

Hey Everyone,
Sassy here.  There's no new cool picture of me to share today.  And Barb doesn't have any of the old ones on this computer either.  Why?  Well, let me just tell you about that.

Ya see, Barb uses a Mac.  She loves Macs, btw.  And has always been happy with them.  Well, Apple Care, the warranty, ran out in July.  So guess what the hard drive decided to do in September.  Die.  Right. So, Barb got a new one. :)  All was good.  Then last week the laptop would not turn on.  Hmmm.  It's got a new hard drive, but it's making a funny noise like it's the hard drive.  So back to the shop. '
Then the call comes in.  Sorry, but the mother board or whatever it is in Macs is fried.  Best we can do, take out the new and working-perfectly hard drive and keep it as an external hard drive.  Then buy a new computer. :)

So I'm typing my Sassy Sunday on an old laptop that Barb has appropriated until the new one gets bought. Don't know when that will be.  I think Barb is planning to sell a kidney to scare up the cash.  We'll see.

Anyway, today was a good day.  We went to the dog park and did a bunch of running and chasing and sniffing and panting.  Can't ask for much more than that.
Our foster dog, Jimmy, who I never got around to telling you about, has been adopted, brought back and adopted again since my last post.  His picture is on the old hard drive which is sitting in a plastic bag waiting to be boxed up into an external hard drive.
And that's about it for today.  Thanks for stopping by.  I'll be back with more pictures next week!
Enjoy,
Sassy

Theme Thursday - Knot

Theme Thursday's theme today is "Knot".  Well, the 3 dogs, plus the foster puppy Jimmy, made quite a knot out of the 4 leashes today on our walk!  You can't see Ginger.  She's off to the left.

Sassy Sunday 10/10/10 It's a Dog Party!

Hey Everyone!  Thanks for stopping by.  Today was the best day ever!  There was this big dog party in a nearby town.  They are raising money for an off-leash dog park.  Isn't that great?

So Mom took Ginger, Chili and me (along with a couple of the human kids).  There were a ton of dogs there!  Big dogs, little dogs, black dogs, white dogs, red dogs, blue dogs, it was a huge dog party!

And Hope Rescues was there so we got to see some of our favorite people!

Here are some of the pics.

Here's Chili, smiling for the camera

Ginger and Chili making friends with some lady and her dogs

Me and some dogs

The 3 of us

Ginger standing in my drink!

We just ran and ran and ran.

It was a great day.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great week!

Love,

Sassy

Wordless Wednesday - Roses and Rock Stars

Hey All.  I'm playing post-it-note Tuesday with all the cool kids.  Click above, link up and play along!

Ok.  Well, it's off to work.  Thanks for stopping by!

Meet Me On Monday 10/4/10

Hi Everyone.  Thanks for stopping by.  I'm doing a really quick Meet Me on Monday post since I'm supposed to be prepping for my class this afternoon. :)

If you want to play along, click the button at the top, go see Java, and link up!  We just answer a few questions about ourselves and we're done.  Sounds easy, huh?

1. What is the best dish you can make?  

I'd say I make Vance's Famous Old Settler's Beans the best.  Everyone always says it's great.

2. How often do you change your sheets? 

I'm not too good about changing them on a regular schedule, but they get changed relatively often since Ginger likes to get up there when hubby gets out of bed.  She leaves a lot of hair and hubby is actually allergic.  The other dogs and the cat do it too.

3. What is the longest car trip you have ever taken?

Hubby and I drove from western Tennessee all the way to Reno, NV the summer after we were married.  It was a great trip.  We stopped at lots of cool places and camped.  Oh, to be young again.  That was 21 years ago.

4. What is your favorite fruit?

Peaches

5. Would you rather have breakfast for dinner or dinner for breakfast?

Definitely breakfast for dinner!

Thanks for stopping by!

Sassy Sunday 10/3/10

Well, we got an email from Jackie.  The people who took Flopsy love him and have officially adopted him.  Hopefully, they've changed his name.  Flopsy is fine for a cute little puppy.  But it's not too masculine for a bigger boy. :)

Anyway, Jackie told Barb to let her know when we were ready for another foster.  Hmm.  I'd say never!  But I'm sure it won't be long.  We'll probably have one this week.

Barb has promised us a trip to the dog park today.  It's a nice fall day so it should be great.  We've already been on a walk today.  The reason for all this activity?  Well, apparently I'm not the only fat-assy in the house.  Ginger weighed 73 pounds the other day at the vet.  A wee bit too much, says the vet.  She called her "a hefty girl".  So, as I mentioned last week, we are eating diet food.  Not a good thing.  But getting more walks and trips to the dog park.  That is a good thing!

Here are a couple of pics from the last time we went to the dog park.

So there is a new law people are gonna be voting about in Missouri, the next state over.  It's called Prop B and it would set some standards for "dog breeding operations" (aka puppy mills) in the state.  Some opponents say the conditions are too tough on the breeders.  Like "provide the dogs with access to food at least once a day and potable water continuously", "house dogs in pens large enough to stretch out fully", "prohibit stacked cages and wire flooring", "bar breeders from having more than 50 breeding dogs and breed dogs to produce no more than 2 litters in an 18-month period".   Hmmm.  Do these seem over the top to you?  They sure don't to me.  I get fed twice a day (even if it is diet food).  I always have access to water and I'm never kept in a cage.  (Chili has to spend some time in her kennel each day.  But that's because she refuses to be house-broken.  But her kennel is the biggest one on the market, has a pillow in the back for her to sleep on, a blanket in the front for her to lay on while she plays with toys, and room for a water bowl.)  

The poor dogs who are living their lives in puppy mills are often standing on wire that hurts their feet, in stacked cages that let the urine and feces drop through the floor onto the dogs below, never get groomed so that in one case the matted hair cut the circulation off to some of the dogs limbs which subsequently died off.  The Humane Society of Missouri is constantly doing stories about the dogs and puppies they've rescued from puppy mills.  Last month they rescued 116 dogs from 2 puppy mills.

Let me just say that if you buy a dog from the internet and the "breeder" won't let you come to their facility but wants to meet you somewhere along the interstate, that should be a red flag.  If you get a puppy from a pet store, it most likely came from one of these commercial breeders.  

K.  We are off to the dog park so I'll get off my soapbox.  Thanks for stopping by.

Sassy