Puppy Update

Just added a few new pictures of the puppies.

A Few More Images of Our Puppies

Zoey and The Jax Man

Zoey Made The Grade

Your photo of Zoey has been selected for inclusion in our newest internationally distributed Cutest Pets Around the Globe photo book!


Book Title: Cutest Pets Around the Globe 2008
Library Of Congress ISBN# 978-0-9770401-6-2


Thank you for recently entering our Cutest Pet Photo Contest. Good News! The judges have compared the other photo entries to yours and have unanimously selected your photo of Zoey as a semi-finalist in the contest! You have a great chance of winning one of many prizes, including a $1,000.00 Cash Prize! Daniel Hawley recently won $5,000 Cash and Candice Ramsey recently won $1,000.00 Cash. You could be our next winner. Your photo has automatically advanced to the final round of judging to take place soon. I'll keep you posted on your standing as the contest progresses and wish you the best of luck.

A Few More Images

Spanky Our New Puppy

Our daughter brought us another puppy for Christmas 2007, although Thanks giving hasn't even got here yet.
I just wanted to get his picture posted, and I will come back and do a weekly update on his progress with the new family, new puppies and in January our new home.

Here is Zoey and Jax's latest picture.

Excessive Peeing

Jax has just turn 1 year old, he is my daughters puppy, and she had moved back in with us. She works long hours and was out in Long Island. So now Jax is here with us, and has plenty of attention. He's been getting walked plenty, has Zoey and Mae Mae to play with, and seems to be very healthy.
His one problem is his excessive peeing.
We have an appointment on the 20th, for a check up and a pre-fix checkup as well. So we'll discuss this with the vet then. But, I did some research and found the information below. So, I figure it's good to share this.

Dogs gather essential social information using their sense of smell, whether smelling other dogs directly or sniffing their urine and feces. That's why dogs urinate much more than required to simply empty their bladder.

Marking serves as a way to claim territory, advertise mating availability and to support the social order. Dogs like hierarchy; it's what they understand. They communicate age, gender and status within their packs via the pheromones in urine. Both male and female animals can engage in marking behavior.

A dog uses urine marking to help make a new environment smell like home, masking the unfamiliar odors with his own scent. Humans also engage in marking behavior, though it usually takes such forms as moving in a favorite chair and hanging pictures on the wall.

In addition, marking functions as an efficient way to protect a dog's perceived space than physically challenging each interloper who approaches that space.
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Rocco and Mae Mae

We adopted Rocco ( the boxer ) 12 1/2 years ago from a young couple that had abused him. For 11 years he was my "BOY", he was loyal, yet he did have an nasty streak in him when he wanted to be nasty. On May 18, 2006 Rocco passed on, he was sick with cancer and had a year or so of being up and down with his health.