Not a creature is safe in our house

Dec 22, 2011

I thought I would share with you some pho­tos of  the sweet dogs we have had through the years. I vol­un­teered for a golden retriever res­cue orga­ni­za­tion for sev­eral years and if there was an old golden need­ing a home Alan and I were the ones that took them in. We had such a soft spot for a needy, home­less, white faced old golden. Since most of the oldies came into res­cue with seri­ous health issues we only had them for 6 months to two years. But before they passed away they were spoiled like crazy and loved tremen­dously. I admit I have slightly tor­tured these sweet pups with a sea­sonal head­band or two but I did reward them greatly with loads of treats. So to them it was worth it because hot dog slices and cheese pieces have always been a hit in this house as any reward. So here are a few hol­i­day pho­tos I’ve taken of our dogs and my niece’s dog Zeusy.

Jessie was adopted from DFWMGRR, Char­lie too was adopted from DFWMGRR, Sophie was given to us after loos­ing our first adopted golden Molly, Sophie’s Dad is Kirby Rush Hill’s Haagen-Dazs she was retired from the show ring and her breeder who was look­ing for a home for her, heard about the care we gave Molly from our vet. Mary gave us the best Diva ever. Addy came into our fam­ily as an 8 week old puppy. She was the sweet­est bea­gle and sadly went blind but that did not stop her from get­ting into every­thing… her nose kept her busy at all times!

Oh how they were patiently wait­ing for this photo ses­sion to be over so they could get their treats… I think Jessie was dream­ing about sugar plums right about now and the oth­ers don’t look to far behind her either.

This is Sonny a.k.a Santa Paws. We adopted him from DFWMGRR at 10 weeks. This March he will turn 10 years old. In this photo he was 9 months old. He is our heart dog. I swear he can read our minds.

And this is lit­tle Zeusy my niece’s Made­lyn and Isabella’s dog. He was just a few months old in this photo. He fit per­fectly inside our Santa hat. Loved that floppy ear.

So far it looks as though Buster and Chief are the only two that have man­aged to miss out on hol­i­day photo ses­sions. Think I might have to give it a try this year with them… should be very inter­est­ing for sure.

And here is another Santa story for you from Santa’s chronicles.

A few nights ago was Pet night. Santa had vis­its from dogs as young as 6 weeks old, a cute lit­tle Scot­tie which just so hap­pens to be one of Mrs. Claus’s favorite dogs, an Eng­lish Masitff and one cat. Dur­ing the night two pre­vi­ously white poo­dles came to visit Santa too. Santa says “pre­vi­ously white” because both poo­dles had a green body and red legs. Santa asked, “What have you done to those poor dogs?” To which their owner replied… “That’s what my hus­band asked.” This lady had dyed both her poo­dles fur red and green for the hol­i­days. After dis­cussing the dogs dye jobs every­one got set­tled and Santa took a photo with the mom, two poo­dles and her 12 year old daugh­ter. On the way out the Mom turns and tells Santa this was her daugh­ters 8th year being pho­tographed with him and he can’t stop until she turns 18 years old. To which Santa replied, “Okay, good Lord willing.”

Being one of Santa’s helpers sure does hold a lot of responsibility.

Santa Paw Hugs!