FitDog Friday~Exercise In The Snow

The Sand Spring gang finally got out to brave the freezing cold crunchy snow weather. We took a run down to the creek to see what was happening down there. We had to cross our marsh to get there. For their exercise I brought along 3 pink bumpers and threw them in the wide open so they had to go get them. Gambler and Glory would bring theirs back to me so I would throw  the bumpers farther so we eventually made it to the creek while they would run back and forth retrieving them. Nellie is not a fan of exercise so she would just stand on her bumper but she is also a bumper hog so she would run and steal someone else’s bumper and haul it back to her’s and create a pile. This made more work for me because I had to walk out of my way to go get them from her to throw again so I was getting exercise with them.

Jumping over frozen creek.

Nellie saying fooie on exercise, I go back to the house.

Please enjoy our FitDog Friday Blog Hop brought to you by SlimDoggy and our co-hosts Peggy’s Pet Place and To Dog With Love. Join the Hop or just enjoy the links below – lots of fun fitness tips and advice!

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Thursday Barks And Bytes

The co-hosts for Barks And Bytes are Linda from 2browndawgs and Jodi from Heart Like A Dog.

The Barks:

Not too much going on around Sand Spring. It is still winter like here. The snow is crunchy and is hard on the dogs paws, it is still freezing cold here with high winds and still snow up to your bung hole. We did manage to get out this past Sunday and have some fun with the pink bumper. The dogs were super excited, the cold and crunchy snow didn’t bother them one bit.

Miss Glory

The Gman

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Miss Nellie

At times Nellie is still puppy like it is hard to believe this coming October she will turn 10.

The Bytes:

A quick video of Glory and MK playing and Gman bombing the fun.

John was goofing around with the dogs Monday night (while I was out of town), first Gambler took his head and slammed it into Johns eyebrow while he was bending over to get a toy. Then Glory was screwing around doing turns and such and wacked him in the eyebrow again. This is the outcome that I saw when I came home Tuesday pm.

Last but not least guess what photo shoot the gang had for a upcoming day in March?

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Wordless Wednesday~Pink Bumper And Snow

Nellie

Wordless Wednesday is a community linkup of bloggers. Visit our host, BlogPaws, and you can use the icons below the post to hop from site to site. It is a great way to discover new blogs…..or even just a convenient way to find all of your favorites in one place. When you visit each site, be sure to leave a comment and let them know you found them through Wordless Wednesday.

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Tuesday Tail’s~Roxy

This is the Blog Hop that features shelter animals. Find a cat, dog, rabbit, etc. at your local animal shelter or rescue and feature them on this Blog Hop! Come join the fun and help a furry friend find a forever home! And while you’re at it, don’t forget to visit the other blogs and share their doggies, cats, rabbits, and all the other animals that need forever homes on your social media sites. Please spread the word!

                                                                                     Thanks to Dogs N Pawz for hosting this blog hop!

Roxy

I found Roxy on the Chesapeake Bay Retriever Relief & Rescue site. You can go to there website and check out a slide show and the rest of her information. She is in a foster home right now and this is what they say.

She is good with other dogs, strangers, cats and children. She knows sit down and come. She likes retrieving and car rides. They say she is a retrieving machine, loves her balls and kongs. Right now she is being fostered in Des Plaines, IL so it will be awhile before she is introduced to water to see if she likes that.

Roxy has a good temperament, she has a very sweet disposition and is very loving. She is also one vocal gal, rooing and howling is her style. She just has plenty to say. She will also give paw and seems to be very willing and eager to please.

She is a 5 year old Chesapeake Bay Retriever female that weights 65#. She is current on her DHLPP and Rabies. She has been dewormed for intestinal parasites and is currently going through heartworm treatment.

If interested please contact:

Amy Olson

847-803-3145

email: philandhelmutsmom@gmail.com

Please share and help find Roxy a home.

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Monday Mischief~Gman Vs Coat

I can’t leave my jacket on a chair, on a door handle, on the staircase or anywhere’s because Gambler feels the need to grab it and carry it around. Sometimes he just carries it around, sometimes he just lays on it and sometimes he chews holes in the pockets to try and get out the chapstick. I think he has my chapstick addiction as he is constantly grabbing my chapstick and chewing it up.

I guess this gives me a reason to always put my jacket away. Do any of your dogs have to take stuff of yours?

So after I did this post I get up and see this…….

Gambler decided to go though the clothes I had set aside for goodwill.

Glory thought she should help out. Always mischief going on.

This is a Blog Hop. Thanks to Alfie’s Blog, Snoopy’s Dog Blog , Luna, a Dog’s Life , and My Brown Newfies for setting up this hop. Please go to any of the sponsoring blogs to find out who else has been mischievous.

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Black And White Sunday~Glory

We are joining Dachshund Nola & Sugar The Golden Retriever for the Black and White Sunday Blog Hop.

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Nothing But Norman #32

Happy Saturday Everyone!

The below picture I submitted to Retriever Journal as a subscriber photo. I had done it awhile ago so I totally forgot that I did it and forgot what photo and narrative I sent in. It was a bittersweet surprise when I got out magazine and saw it. Norman keeps popping in to say hi after he is gone which I am so grateful for.

I am joining Ruckus The Eskie for this Sepia Saturday blog hop!

"No man can be condemned for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;
And the older he gets, the better friend he has."

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FitDog Friday/K9 Kamp KampFire

Today is K9 Kamp and I am joining our Kamp Kounselors/hosts for this event. Be sure to stop over to all of the fine host’s (kamp kounselors) and thank them for a great challenge Peggy’s Pet Place, Slimdoggy, and To Dog With Love.

You can see pictures from our first week of Kamp here. You can see pictures from our second week of Kamp here. The first week I used pink bumpers. The second week I used orange bumpers and then the third week I used dokken dummies, two ducks, a goose and a pheasant.The third week pictures will be in this post.

The Kamp khallenge was hide and seek. When the gang goes out hunting and I want them to search for a scent and flush up a bird I tell them to hunt’em up. That cue lets them know I want them to put there nose to the ground and search for a scent, it means they better be working and not just running amuck. I will also use this command if I have shoot something and we are in the area of the fall I will tell them to hunt’em up and they will search for the bird and bring it back to me.  This khallenge was all done outside in the snow. I hid bumpers in the snow then took each dog (Gambler and Glory) out one at a time and told them to hunt’em up.

The first week: Gambler

Glory

Since the snow was so deep if the bumpers were under the snow the dogs had a hard time finding the bumpers. Rubber bumpers don’t have much smell when frozen or being placed in snow. They were so excited to finally get out and do something they ran around before they focused on a spot and then did a victory lap after they found it.

Second week: Gambler

Glory

The second week we had more snow and still freezing cold weather. The orange bumpers didn’t make the Khallenge any easier. They did pick up on maybe they should start with my boot tracks and go from there so they got the bumpers faster. you could see how fast they were running looking for their bumpers as when they got a wiff of it they put the breaks on and turned.

Third week: Gambler

Glory

Video of Gambler doing his khallenge.

Video of Glory doing her Khallenge.

The third week was just as deep of snow and just as cold. The dokkens were easier to find as some of them were so big they couldn’t get buried under the snow. Once again they were so excited to go do something when I said hunt’em up like in Gamblers video he took off in to no mans land just a running and I had to steer him to the spot. Glory was much smarter and ran right to the garden to hunt up her find. It was a fun khallenge and it got us out of the house and do something.

Please enjoy our FitDog Friday Blog Hop brought to you by SlimDoggy and our co-hosts Peggy’s Pet Place and To Dog With Love. Join the Hop or just enjoy the links below – lots of fun fitness tips and advice!

Thursday Barks And Bytes

The co-hosts for Barks And Bytes are Linda from 2browndawgs and Jodi from Heart Like A Dog. Thank you for hosting this hop!

Barks: Valentine bloopers. Last Friday and I shared some Valentine photos for my This Moment~See Beautiful post which you can see here. Today I will share a couple of bloopers because you know we all like bloopers. 

Bytes: MK got a Valentines from her friend Luann at work. Luann makes dog and cat items you can check her out on facebook at Luann’s Critter Creations.

Some hugh thank you’s are in order. Last week and then again this week I was awarded some awards by a couple of awesome bloggers. I want to thank both Jenna from Love is being owned by a Husky who awarded me with the Excellence and Best Blog Around The World awards then M.K Clinton from Barking From The Bayou awarded me the Best Blog Around The World award also. I am super thrilled to have gotten these awards so please stop on over and check out their blogs. There were no rules with these awards so you get nothing from me this time except that I will proudly display these awards on my awards page. 

Thanks again for the great awards. If any of my followers don’t have these really cool awards please grab them and display them on your blog also.

I need a favor for you all to go back to my Chewy.com post from Tuesday you can get to it by clicking here. I totally forgot to add the giveaway widget so a lucky reader could win some tasty treats. Go back and enter 🙂

Have a great Thursday everyone.

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Wordless Wednesday~K9 Kamp Preview

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