Scratchings-and-Sniffings

A FAT Wordless Wednesday In the Sun

Ok... maybe FAT is too harsh. How about porky? Or, chubby? Or, just comfy? That's our Olive all the way.

Relaxing on lazy Sunday morning. Ah! that sun feels good.

The Year in Photos

Can't help but share... on this Wordless Wednesday, last of the year for 2014. 

First week in the new house. The dogs love the fireplace.

My boy. I miss him so much!

 

I see what you have. It's a treat. Is it for me?

Molly keeping Tom company while he works.

Wordy Wednesday: I Say, Where Have You Been?

The Olive, giving us the "You've been gone a long time, just where were you?" look, after we returned from our extensive trip home to NY.

Two weeks? Really? What could possibly take two weeks? Do you know how we suffered while you were gone?

In full explanation, we were home visiting a brand new grandson, and other family and friends. And the pets were taken care of by devoted pet sitters... day in and day out. I dare say, they were spoiled to the max. 

Pet Travel Products - For Taking Your Pet with You in Life

Mom, the cat just tipped over the water bowl.

I don't take my pets with me much of anywhere. I hope no on will judge me harshly for that. Here's the thing - Emily isn't as comfortable in the car as most dogs. She rarely checks out the window and when she does, she barks. We go to the vet, which doesn't bother her at all, by the way, and we take her to Only Natural Pet, which is a pet friendly, natural products store in Boulder. And, part of the Pet360 family of sites.

She loves going places like ONP. Not necessarily the park, though. Too many other dogs. (and she loves other dogs, mostly. Some set her off for reasons we don't know, and that's why we don't go to the dog park)

Emily took my toy. You told me to tell you when she does that. Can I have a treat now?

Olive, who just wants to be with Emily, sits on the floor in the car because we're lame, we haven't gotten her a seat yet, with a harness, so she can sit up and look out the window. Truthfully, she seems happy to curl up on the floor and wait for our destination. Like Emily, she puts up with the vet pretty well and she enjoys exploring both the Only Natural Pet store, as well as the plaza it's in, when we go there.

And Molly, of course, being the resident cat, does not travel with us. I sometimes wonder if we shouldn't take Molly on outings, just like the dogs. We could put her on a leash, right? I should try it in the backyard. 

Although I don't travel with my pets as much as some (like Carol, at Fidose of Reality), I think folks who do go out and about with their pets should have the right stuff with them. I won't get into the contents of the travel bag... what I am going to get into is the travel bag itself. And, other products that will allow you to take your pet with you here, there and everywhere.

In Colorado, one way we folks get around (I say 'we folks' euphemistically cause I don't do this... I may have done it in a previous younger life, but not in this life)... is to bike. Bike here, bike there, work your way on wheels to work and store. I think those of you who do this, or if you decide you should be doing it but don't because it means not taking your pet, should use these great carriers; see pic far below.

I discovered them when I did a post over on my Lipsticking blog about the travel bag BASIL sent me to try out. I discovered... okay, let's be honest, they TOLD me, all about these great pet carriers you can add to your bike. Basil bags are very well designed and constructed. I am in love with the Bloom Shopper diva blue bag I have, and I know they must give the same care and attention to the pet carriers my contact told me about. 

My question to you is... do you bike? Would you use a carrier like these? Do you know anyone who bikes and has been looking for a great carrier for their pet? Since I don't bike, I can only tell you I'm impressed with the travel bag (which I did not use for my dogs but which I might, if we start to travel more with them), so I expect the pet carriers to be as good. I would need your response, if you buy and use one, to say anything else. 

Help me out here - do you travel on bike with your pet? Will you give one of these carriers a try? (I think Molly might be okay in the one below, but not the dogs)

Wordy Wednesday: A Day In the Life of Olive

The Olive is not happy when you point a camera at her. She goes to great lengths to avoid said instrument of torture... I mean, it must be torture by the way she acts! Still, I perservere and I win...

Mom, I don't like the camera! Go away Mom!

I'm ignoring you, Mom. Go away!

Yes, I like it better with the pillow. NOW will you go away?

Wordy Wednesday: Get Out of My Chair or Else

by Yvonne DiVita , with help from Olive and Emily

"Get Out of My Chair Or Else... "  

 

 

Adopt a Cat Month: Wordy Wednesday

Our Molly is a sweetheart... she's becoming more and more comfortable with the dogs. Warms my heart! Can't imagine a home without both dogs and cats. Which pets are just must-haves at your house?

Olive says: You're blocking the sun, Molly. Molly says: It's my sun, after all. You can go get your own in the other room. Olive says: There's no sun in the other room. Molly says: Oh well... sorry about that. Turn on a light.

Wordless Wednesday: Springtime

Squirrel teasing Emily

Miss Emily tries every day to get those squirrels. Every day she barrels out the door and thinks she's going to get her a squirrel. Isn't eternal hope inspiring? 

Go for it, Emily!

Does it bite? Wordless Wednesday

Chester and Emily stalk the killer balloon in the backyard! (apparently someone in the neigborhood had a birthday party over the weekend and this floated into our yard...gave the dogs quite a start!)

Olive - Wordless Wednesday Meeting

<I knew this would be a LOOOooonnnngggg meeting! But I didn't know it would be so boring!>