How I Spent My Friday Afternoon

This is Boo AFTER her Haircut:

Since she didn't want to look at the camera; she HATES the flash, I had the Dearly Beloved hold her:
This shot was under the carport, in the middle of her cut:
And after:
What I shaved off. Enough for an entire FLOCK of birds to line their nests!

LOOK at ALL my hair:
Just to give it some scale...that is a size 8 croc:

We're HAWT:

At least by this time they had gotten bored sniffin' Boo while she was gettin' clipped and gone to the other side of the car!
Tip still had his tongue displaysia when I snapped this shot, Ben had swallowed and put his tongue back in place:
Kobe Pup:

Tip's New Accessory

Ben likes to get in the trash. To thwart his trash can explorations we got a trashcan with a swinging lid. It worked like a Charm in keeping Ben from becoming a Trash Hound.

Then we got Tip. When he got tall enough and smart enough, he figured out how to bypass the swinging lid that had confounded Ben. Like his Mama, he his smarter than the average pup. [He has also watched Boo and learned how to open the back door from the ourside when it is left unlocked.]

At first, he'd just dive in, get a tasty morsel and chew it up. Now that he is tippin' the scales at 92 pounds, and his head is bigger, the lid gets stuck on thathead, and comes off when he tries to make good his withdrawal. BUSTED!

Sorry about the quality. I had just stumbled out of bed and could barely see myownself, much less focus the camera. I didn't notice until I put the card in the 'puter that the flash hadn't deployed.

Speakin' of "deployment"... Kroger has a Great service they are offering right now. When you get to the checkout line, there is a 3 part coupon you can have the cashier scanned to make a $1; $3; or $5 donation to Any Soldier.com. This is an amazingly easy way to make a difference in the life of our deployed service men and women. I have talked about Any Marine.com on this blog before. Well, AnySoldier is the same organization, just a different branch. You can go to AnySoldier.com; AnyMarine.com; AnySailor.com; AnyAirman.com. You can choose your donation by region which the "soldier" is from or where they are serving. You can pick gender. Although a lot of Companies are mixed male and female. You don't have to send any goods, although once you get an address... the person who submitted their name as a point of contact usually makes suggestions as to what their unit needs or wants. Just a card or letter is enough, it lets these patriots know that folks back home that don't even know them really DO care. And for a lot of them, this means something.
SO, if you don't have the time or inclination to put together a care package, please consider this UBER easy way to donate at a Kroger near you. I mean really, $1 added on to your grocery bill? Hell, most of y'all spend more than THAT on coffee on your coffee breaks. I spend that much when I go to Sonic 3/week for my Raspberry Tea fix. PLease give so soldiers away from family and friends can have a nicer Christmas. And, then, keep giving. They are giving so much, we can give just a little, can't we?

Crazy Canine Candid Camera Night

Somehow, we have let the Dawgs, well the BOYS anyway, take toys outside. I think Tipper Sharpton has been burying them, frankly. We simply cannot find them. My theory is that Ben smuggles them out in his gigantic maw. He can easily hide a "squeaky" ball from Petsmart in his mouth and jowls, with no effort atall. The smaller Nylabone brand Rhino cones that were supposed to be for Tipper, but wound up being shared toys, those would be easy for Ben or Tip to smuggle out.

Why is Boo not a suspect in these canine capers? Because my Sweet Boo Girl would NEVER do something bad like that. Besides about the only this she ever chews on, besides the occasional softball cover, are the cardboard tubes for paper towels or toilet paper.

So anyway, after reading about the Bad Cuz brand squeaker chews over at Bad Dogs I bought a small one today for the Tip Baby. And as soon as I made it squeak, the battle was ON!



Tip has it! And he's almost under the table with it. He thinks Ben can't get to him under the table.





But,Wait! Ben is making the Cuz

go "squeak,squeak." He must have
stolen it from poor Tip when it
bounced out of his mouth.

Below, he makes his approach...



He fakes left...







And, He successfully recovers the Cuz!

It went on like that for a couple of hours.



THEN, I got down on the floor with them, for these shots. Thanks to the Dearly Beloved for handling the Camera so I could be in the pics!



Why should Tipper sit on the hard floor when
Mama's belly is soooo much softer?
What may not be evident is that he's trying to nuzzle Ben's
ear, tryin' to "sweet" him outta that squeaky Cuz.



So, I roll over to protect my belly. He just sits on my back! Ben still has the Cuz, BTW.

Boo decides she wants no further part in any of this...her eyes, which really are gorgeous, the left one is ICE blue and the right is green, always wind up looking Werewolf Red in pics. I think that's why she doesn't like having her picture taken.



That's tip's head blotting out my face.










Tipper looks like he's being all submissive and relaxed, doesn't he? Well, he's NOT. What he was doing was oochin' his way towards Ben and using his front paws, once he got close enough, to try to bat the Cuz out of Ben's mouth.
This bothered Ben not a whit. You see in addition to a "Tail o' Destruction" Ben has "Jaws o'Death". I would really like to measure his bite strength someday, just to see how many pounds per inch [?] foot [?] he actually exerts when he's chewing on something. This dog took about 20 minutes, I didn't actually time him, to chew a Booda toy for his weight into about 5 pieces. He has destroyed Kong toys. So far the ONLY toy to stand up to the JoD are Nylabone's Rhino series. They make a chew toy similar to the Kongs that he can't destroy. He [or Tipper] can bury them, but he can't destroy them.

Oh yeah, both Tipper and Ben can put their front paws on my shoulders when I'm standing. I'm 5'9". Kelly, although I don't think you can tell in these pics...when both boys are standing, you can see their last two ribs now. I cut their kibble by 1/2 cup per day and as active as they are the pounds melted off.

I hope y'all enjoyed lookin' at these pics as much as we enjoyed takin' 'em.

My Camera Arrived!

Here's one I took of the Ben Dawg:
I used the crop editing feature, and then a "Fun Feature" called "spotlighting" to make the background disappear. Is it just me, or are there ghost images in the background?

This, of course, is the Legendary Tipper Sharpton. The camera is so sharp is caught the small piece of grass on the right side of his muzzle. And it makes the few white hairs on the left side look a LOT more noticeable than they really are. BTW, his eyes aren't blue, that's the camera's version of "red eye" with Tip's black eyes. If you look in the lower left corner of the pic you can see the tip of white on his right rear paw. All 4 paws have that "tip", that's how he got his name.

And, savin' the Best for last, here's the Boo Girl showin' off her Pretty Paws and new sleek hair cut in a pic the Dearly Beloved took last night.
Funny thang about those paws, she HATES to have them touched. Always has, ever since she was a pup.

I've got to figure out how to get rid of the "red eye" when takin' pics of the dawgs. And next time I'll try to get a pic of Boo's gorgeous Left eye, which is an Icy blue.

Hope y'all enjoyed lookin at these as much as we did takin' 'em.