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Dogs on TV

March 7, 2008 by Tricia

Last night there was a show on TV called Canine Confidential. It was all about pampered dogs, dog fashions, how entrepreneurs are cashing in on the dog craze, and how dogs are being used in services such as the army. It was pretty good. If you’re interested, visit the site above to learn more about the show.

Of course we also watched Survivor and Lost too.

I had taped the show and we watched it late in the evening. Our puppy was getting tired and she curled up with her head resting on my leg and watched most of the show. We catch her watching TV quite often – especially if there’s animals in the show! (she also likes cartoons and hockey.)

Every once in a while Midnight would walk up to the TV for a closer look and then she’d wander around the room, pace by the door … it was as if she was looking for all the dogs she saw on the screen. I wish we’d thought of pulling out the video camera because it was kind of funny.

Does your dog or cat watch TV? What kind of shows attract your pets attention?





Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Pets and animals, Recreation, Television Tagged With: animals, camera, Canine confidential, cartoon, cat, dog, dog fashion, dog watching TV, dogs, door, funny, hockey, interest, lost, Midnight, pacing, pets, puppy, service, service dogs, show, shows, sleeping, sleepy dog, special, Survivor, taped, tired, TV, Video, video camera, watch, watched, watching

I really need a holiday

March 7, 2008 by Tricia

I was just babbling on my other blog about how I need a holiday and soon! The weathers been so bad here this winter … I even think our snowy week managed to knock me out on Wednesday as I had a terrible migraine all day.

So … a holiday … Maybe we’ll take another trip to Las Vegas. We had a lot of fun when we were there last November. We’re a little short on funds this time round though so I’ll have to try to find a great deal or some cheap hotel Las Vegas if I can.

Ok I’m obviously still suffering from my migraine … they tend to make me talk funny and I guess type funny. I meant cheap Las Vegas hotels of course.

Do you have any suggestions for a hotel that won’t cost too much but that’s also nice and on the strip? We stayed in the Imperial Palace last time and I don’t want to stay there again.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Toronto, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: blog, deal, fun, good hotel, holiday, hotel, hotels, Las Vegas, manage, migraine, November, short on funds, snow, suffer, suggestions, too much, trip, weather, winter

The puppy is chewing everything!

March 4, 2008 by Tricia

I think my puppy is going to have to have a bare bones crate for a while.

She’s at the end of her teething and she’s gotten back into chewing everything in sight. Her chewing had slowed down for a while, but now she’s back to ripping things up again.

We have a bed for her in her crate but we’ve found that if we keep her in her crate for any period of time during the day she starts to bite her doggy bed so we remove it during the day. It goes back in at night as she doesn’t seem to bother it through the night but during the day’s a different story.

We also have a towel in her crate. It softens the noise of her pacing around in the crate or the noise she makes when she’s playing with her toy bones and other toys. Well, she’s in the crate now and she’s chewing like mad on her towel. I guess we’ll have to take that out all the time now too.

I feel bad for her. I want to make her more comfortable by giving her soft things to lie on when she’s in there but she keeps destroying things.

I sure hope she moves out of this chewing phase sometime soon!

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Pets and animals, Recreation Tagged With: back, bed, black lab, bone, chew, chewing, chewing like mad, comfort, crate, dog, doggy bed, Lab, lab puppy, labrador retriever, night, noise, pacing, play, puppy, ripping, teeth, teething, towel, toy, toy bone, toys

I need more of these perfume delights

March 2, 2008 by Tricia

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I was just saying the other day how much I love flowers. Of course that’s common knowledge to anyone who has visited at least three of my blogs where I frequently discuss my garden and the plants I grow in it.

This rose, Compte de Chambord, is one of my all time favorite roses. It’s an antique rose and it has a beautiful heavy rose perfume scent that wafts in the air in the early morning, after a rain or after I’ve watered the garden.

I don’t think I’ll lose any roses this winter since there’s been such a nice snow cover protecting them – although we’re about to have a heavy ice storm later this evening and through the night – but if I do manage to lose any roses I think I’ll look for more Compte de Chambord roses.

Two or three more would be perfect. Unfortunately I don’t have any room for more at this time since I’ve already got more than 60 roses and God only knows how many hundreds of bulbs and perennials. No, I’m not hoping to lose any plants in order to make room, but eventually some will die out or be damaged from our harsh winters and now I know just what I’ll replace those plants with when they go!

Anyone else grow Antique roses?

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: Antique Rose, beautiful, blogs, bulbs, buy, Compte de Chambord, damage, flower, flowers, garden, green thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, GTS, ice storm, Love, lovely rose, manage, moring dew, morning air, perfume, photo, plant, plants, rain, rose perfume, roses, scent, snow, snow cover, storm, waft, wafting, water, watered, winter, winter damaged

I love Dogs and I’ve found a great site for dog lovers

March 1, 2008 by Tricia

I adore my puppy. She’s become my new muse. I’ve spent an awful lot of time over the last three month researching everything dog.

Whenever I become interested in something I tend to do a lot of research on the subject. I go to the library and borrow books, I search the internet for more information on the topic and I also tend to talk to others that are also interested in the same topic. Often I read so much that I end up creating a website to not only discuss my latest intense interest, but also to create a place for others so that they can quickly learn all the things that I’ve learned on one site. I certainly did this when I became interested in reptiles! I’ve got two huge reptile related websites as some of you probably already know.

I haven’t gotten to the “make a website” stage yet and I may not this time round, but you never know. What I have been doing is visiting a number of dog and Labrador Retriever related websites, joining dog forums and reading up on dogs in general.

You might remember that my puppy was quite sick when we got her. I had to learn as much as I could in order to try to make her better. She’s doing a lot better these days. She’s still got some problems, but over all she’s doing quite well. I thank the many great sites that I discovered for helping me help her recover from her many ailments.

One of the sites that I came across along the way is the I-Love-Dogs.com website. If you’re thinking of getting your first dog or getting another doggy companion you can spend some time on the site reading the pros and cons of various dog breeds and of course looking at the many dog pictures that proud owners are more than happy to post.

I-Love-Dogs.com is a major dog portal where you can talk to other dog owners, discuss dogs in general on the forums, talk about your dogs health or behavioral problems or share some tips that have worked for you and your dog companion.

Along with the extensive dog forums you’ll find sections with dog games, lists of great dog names, free stuff for your dog, recipes for home made dog food, articles about dogs and dog training and many other great dog related categories. Heck you can even shop for supplies for your dog too.

If you are a dog owner you should take a moment to visit the I-Love-Dogs.com website. I’m sure you’ll find something there of interest and you’ll probably learn something new too.

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