New Ace Pics

Ace has been a member of our family for nearly a week now and his transformation is incredible! Gone is the hyper little Frenchie who thought everything was his, and in his place, a calmer, loving, more well-mannered boy. We are so happy to have him.

Here he is just hanging out:


Ace and Lulu flashing Bully grins:


And finally, a little photo we like to call "Dogs are not allowed on the furniture in our house":

Ace Pics

I don't know whose cuter, Abner or Ace!


Twenty-six pounds of fun!


Lulu and Ace play all night long!


Lulu is very happy with her new playmate.

Anticipation

Doggie Update:
The owner of the rescue is coming to our house Thursday night for the house check. If she likes our house, yard, and us, and if Lulu and Ace get along, he's ours! All ours. And, unlike all the other rescues we've been dealing with over the last year and three months, we don't have to drive to hell and back to get him. She's bringing him on Thursday! Cross your fingers that everything works out the way it's supposed to. We would love for Lulu to have a cute little friend and, after years of having two huge dogs, a medium dog and a little dog sounds just perfect to us.

Doggie Update

I bet you were all missing my doggie updates, weren't ya? :) We found this little guy at a rescue this weekend. The rescue owner liked our application, so she is going to send someone to check our house next. We've passed house checks before, so I doubt we'll fail this one. After that, we'll have to see if Lulu and Ace (that's his name. Cute huh?) get along. If they do, hopefully they'll choose us. They have many interested families since it is rare to see a Frenchie at a rescue. He's only a year old and he's at the rescue because his owner passed away, not from abuse or anything like that this time.

Wish us luck!

Happy Halloween!

Just a quick post to wish everyone a Happy Halloween. Lulu waited at the door tonight and helped us pass out candy. The flamingo accessories she wore were gifts from the Crusie Con. SHe was very popular tonight--as she should be!

Lulu, Abner & I hope all of you had a fun and safe Halloween! ^-^

Cherry Dog

Why is this dog smiling?



Because she's wearing a genuine "Nothing but good times ahead" cherry dog T-shirt!


It's quite figure flattering!


It's casual, yet sophisticated. Perfect for Sunday afternooons at the dog park.


It's also comfy to sleep in!

Available for humans as well. Get yours today! :)


~Shop Cherry~

Crazy-busy

That's the state of my life right now, crazy-busy. How about you? I'm learning a new job at work, I'm trying to establish a new healthy routine at home--walking Lulu nightly and getting up early for the gym 5x per week--and I'm trying to write too. Michele and I haven't been checking in with each other. Bad girls. Our agreement was 15 minutes per day, every day and checking in every day. Oh well. We've both been working a lot. We'll get with it.

Tonight I'm baking a layer of a sheet cake for my Sister-in-law's grad party. I'll do layer #2 tomorrow and put it all together Fri night. That's my plan anyway. Wish me luck. I have my local chapter RWA meeting on Sat and the party is after that. I want to finish up the cake on Friday if possible.

What else? Lulu has been kind of bratty this week. A few weeks ago she ripped up the couch in the patio and that was when we decided she needed nightly walking. Last night we were both on the computer and ignoring her a bit--I'll admit it. We were going to work for a few minutes and then take her for a walk, but she didn't want to wait. So, she decided it would be fun to bite the corner of the wall. She put her big bully mouth around the corner and started biting. Thank God we heard her and told her no right away. Then we went for a walk! Bulldogs are so funny, so different than Akitas. They like to bite on everything. Aside from that she's an absolute love--everyone's favorite dog at the dog park. Such a sweet girl, so well mannered and friendly.

Just now my sweet girl grunted at us, stood up on her back legs and boxed her paws at us. She wants to go for her walk. Better go.

Arrrrr!

Let it be known that I attempted to update my blog today. I wrote a lovely post complete with pictures and Blogger ate it. I will update over the weekend. Just Grrr...

For now I will leave you with a smiling picture of Lulu to hopefully make you smile too.

All Lulu, all the time

Since we adopted our Lulu, our lives have become all Lulu, all the time. And this is a good thing. Before Lulu, our lives were all about Niki, so we're used to it. Craved it really. I don't think I could ever consider my life complete without a dog or two (or three).

Last Saturday we took her to the vet and found out that she had a lung infection. You could actually see the hazy film all over the x-ray. No wonder she huffed and puffed when we took her for walks! We also found out she has a heart murmur. My poor baby!

The Rescue keeps calling and trying to get us to adopt a second dog, but we need to hold off. Lulu's health and well-being are far more important than "her need to be with other dogs" as they keep saying. She plays with the dog next door and she meets other dogs on walks. She's not lonely. I only hope they don't try to take her from us because it's starting to feel that way. Every time my phone rings I cringe. I love my Lulu and I'm not giving her up. Look at these pix people. Seriously, what's not to love?

Current mood: Resolute

Lulu Pix

Here is Lulu. As you can see she is very fond of her bed and napping in general.
Here she is all stretched out in the livingroom.
And here she is looking very much like her English Bulldog side.

We took her for a walk tonight and in the middle of it she simply sat down as if to say, "I'm all done now." It was really funny. I wonder if this is a common Bully thing. Our neighbors have the cutest full bred English Bulldog named Matilda. Next time they are out walking her I'm going to ask them about it.

Current Mood: Amused

Lulu update

Lulu is here! She's sleeping at my feet and snoring those little Bully snores. She's precious and adorable and I love her so much.

The adoption event was a noisy, stressful zoo. It took us 2 hours to get there and then there was all this chaos--dogs everywhere, people everywhere, L.A. in general-- and the hubby and I almost left dogless. But then we saw Lulu and we took her out for a walk and re-connected with her. We talked some sense into each other--really, there was so much commotion we were starting to feel so stressed out. We were looking at other dogs and we walked Lulu and Tyson together and they did good together. But it all felt like so much. Bellini wasn't there. The rescue owner said he was at training. (When I asked about him again later she said he'd need more training because right now he was a pain in the butt. So that's not good.)

I guess it was an emotional thing too. We only lost Niki 2 weeks ago and the pain was still so fresh. Adopting a dog is a lifetime (the dog's) commitment and it all felt like such a huge thing. And it is. So, in the end we took Lulu and decided to get her situated and get a second dog in a few weeks. On the way out we saw Tyson and his foster parents and we talked with them. Earlier in the day he was mellow when he was in his crate, but once he was outside and we tried to walk him he got kind of hyper. They explained that he wasn't hyper at all, it was just the commotion--which I totally understood. When we told them that we thought we wanted him and talked to them about how we'd recently lost Niki they were so warm and caring. They run a Petsitting business and they own 2 dogs and foster 2 dogs and are really great people. According to them Tyson loves all dogs and he's just a big mellow ball of love. Abner and I are intrigued.

--Oh! Lulu just snored so loud right now! It was the funniest thing ever!--

Anyway, we really don't want to go to another of those adoption events. Hopefully we can just go pick up Tyson at their house. That would be great. The hubby and I are going to discuss this over the course of this week and see if it's something we want to commit to. I think it is.

Anyway, back to Lulu. She acts like she was abused in some way. She's skittish when she hears noises and she backs away when you stand up or move quickly, but she's already learning to trust us. When I was banging pots and pans around in the kitchen she stood there next to me and didn't even flinch, which made me happy. She doesn't like the black cordless phone at all. She backs away when one of us picks it up and we're wondering if someone hit her with one or if she got hit for taking one. She likes to pick things up and carry them off, but she hasn't ruined anything. She's very gentle.

That's all for tonight. It's been a full weekend and I still have to hang up laundry and wash my crazy mop of hair. I hope you all had a great weekend out there in Blogger land. Will post Lulu;s new pics tomorrow if Blogger will cooperate.

Current mood: sleepy and happy too...

Lulu

Here's a better picture of Lulu. You can see how she's filled out since they picked her up from the shelter 2 weeks ago. She's a very pretty girl and not as silly-looking as she appeared in the other photo from the petfinder site. We're getting excited about having her come to live with us.

This week will be busy too. My brother in law and sister in law are having their house painted. Last week some workers let their dogs out of the gate and they had to go pick them up from the pound. It cost them $200 to pick them up after being there for only 8 hours! They don't want to take any chances, so we're going to dogsit them at our house this week while the house gets painted. It will be fun to have them here. Stewart is a Boston Terrier and Abby is a Scottie. :)

Current mood: Satisfied