Thanksgiving

Quote from the Mom about Barksdale:

"Can you please just give her the entire house and quit calling her back to you? I don't want her to think Grandma's house is boring."

Five minutes later, we find her eating eggshells from my mom's potted plants compost.

Lesson Learned

Not more putting Ender on down stays on grass. Because when the couple with the beagle is determined to meet your dog and continue to be so even though you specifically said THEY CAN'T MEET, you'll need some traction. Instead you'll just end up with a mouth full of fur and an ass full of grass.

Carpet Spot Cleaner

In dire need of a good carpet spot cleaner. Recommendations interwebs?

Food Challenges

The past five months of radio silence have been filled with work, travel, and more food challenges.

A few months ago, Barksdale started having diarrhea. We chalked that up to just something random she ate off the ground. A few days later, Ender started having diarrhea. Now we were having two dogs with epic dumps which included some accidents in the house. Thinking that we purchased a bad bag of dog food, we repurchased another bag. Same thing. We knew it was the food since their diarrhea subsided when we implemented a three meal fast for the dogs.

So being shaken out of the same ol' same ol' by the stench of poo, we made the decision to change their dog good. We switched from Natural Balance Sweet Potato and Venison to California Natural Grain Free Lamb.

And holy moly has the change been awesome. They have been on the new food for about a month and the pros so far include:

1. No more stinky butt
2. No more epic farting

The downside is that pet food stores do not regularly carry this product. Therefore we have become one of "those people" and specially order our dog food. Because of this we have stopped shopping at Pet Club and now purchase our food from Dog Bone Alley, which will accept dog food returns in cases of epic diarrhea.

Neighborhood Cat

So this cat has been running around our neighborhood for quite some time now. We have found him in the strangest of places (i.e. our lobby which has locked doors) but it is not until recently that he finally got tags. So curiosity got the best of me and I finally took a peek. Can you guess his name?

Dot?
Checkers?

It's Sergio.

Bad Rap Open House

The great thing about living in the Bay Area is being so close to a lot of wonderful dog resources. The bf and I made it out to the most recent Bad Rap open house and it really confirmed how batshit crazy our dogs were.

There were about 10+ dogs from the Berkeley Animal Shelter in the middle of training class and I completely fell in love with a dog named Brando. And that only affirmed the bf's theory that I like the crazy dogs. I would like to take this opportunity to defend myself and say, I like dogs who are "independent". Which I guess could also mean stubborn and aggravating. Anyway, Brando, compared our own dogs, is not crazy. During the class and the post class meet and greet, he was extremely calm and did not jump at anyone's faces. I told Barksdale that if she pee'd in the stairwell one more time, I was going to trade her in for Brando. So her only hope is if someone adopts him first. Here's his profile:

http://norcalpetadoptions.com/pets/detail/9947

Ender in Flight

Photos like these make cutting the monthly check to the dog walker a little more bearable. Also, the bf says I'm "busted" for the previous post but I did point out to him that he was the one that pointed the shirt out to me and chuckled. So there.