Busy weekend

All day saturday was spent playing "Find That Stench". The lingering rotting garbage smell got rather bad with apparent no source. The entire downstairs tile floor got bleached and steamed. All the furniture got shampooed . Everything the dogs touch got washed. All the carpets got shampooed... smell is gone now; still not entirely sure what it was.

Sunday the furniture got cleaned again with plain water. Melissa's gross car got shampooed (some how, while she was at work). Then I managed to change my tranny and diff fluid. Btw, if you're not running redline MT90 in your tranny, you should be; after only 20 miles with it in, I'm very amazed. And finally, I took down and sold my 72 gallon fish tank for more than I bought it for. 6 tanks was getting to be a bit more than I wanted to take care of.

Callie ate a loaf of bread and a giant horse turd the other day. ...I let her lick my face shortly after the turd.

Meow meow

Introducing the latest addition to the zoo.

Dr. Pepper

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Popcorn

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New Doggie Pictures

How about a before and after diet picture?

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From Doggies

Bunches of new doggie pictures are up starting around here

Obvious switch

I'm trying out Blogger, at least for now. I really don't have a reason to do my own hosting any more. I was using SimplePHPBlog since it was, well, simple, but the lack of updates for the past 9 months and several know security remote security problems with it make it more trouble then its worth. I tired WordPress and Drupal and some others and they were good, but all I really want is to post the occasional picture - I don't need my own hosting service for that. Maybe I'll change my mind if I have any problems with Blogger, but for now this is plenty good.

New Doggie

Chloe came home Firday afternoon. She's a 2 year old underweight Shepard/something-else mix and as sweet as can be. She came from the Sacramento Independent Animal Rescue and we currently have her on a try-before-you-buy program. This group does a minimum 2 week foster for all their dogs before permanently placing them, which I like a lot more than the 30 minutes you get to spend with the dog that most rescues do.>

Callie is still being a bit of a poop towards her, but they play together when Callie thinks we're not looking :). Callie always is a bit stubborn anyways, especially since she's in her ideal weight range.

Chloe shows signs of being beat - walking up to people with her head real low, doesn't ask to go outside, just holds it in no matter how bad she has to go, doesn't make a sound, etc - which is a bit odd since she loves people and cuddling on the couch. She only weighs 38 pounds, and probably should be closer to 55 - 60 since she's about 2 inches taller, and quite a bit longer than Callie. An extra cup of dog food a day should fix that in no time.

New Callie Pictures

We took Callie to the dog park twice last weekend. We were a interested in how she would react to the other dogs, if she would listen off a leash, etc. Turns out she's actually pretty good running loose.>

Also, we think Callie is actually a Harrier Hound (which is what I thought she was at first too) - the problem tho is that Harriers are extremely rare in the US and there are only a hand full of breeders registered with the AKC. Since they're so rare she would have been a rather expensive dog to have just been given away. We found a few breeders in NYC, 1 in LA and 1 in San Francisco. We've also found a bunch of Harrier community groups from San Diego to Portland. Callie's ears are a bit too pointy for a beagle, her nose is too long, she's too tall, she's naturally bow legged, and doesn't have dewtoes. All of these things perfectly match a Harrier though.

New Pictures Start Here