Kolo_Martin asked me some questions.....

My friend Kolo_Martin asked me some questions on his blog. Here is his blog: http://kolosworld.blogspot.com/2010/06/marleyterrier-asked-me-some-questions.html

So, I will do my very best to answer Kolo's questions now.....


1. If you could visit any country in the world where would it be?
Any country? Wow! The world is such a big place and I've seen so many lovely photos and videos from my twitter friends. It would be hard to pick just one place. I would want to visit my friends in UK, Canada, Netherlands, Ireland, and everywhere else too! *thinks about this* If I could just visit one country, I guess it would have to be more of my own country. I live in USA but have only seen one very small corner of it. There are lots of anipals here in the US that I could visit and also get to ride there in the car! That would be the BEST! RIDE??!! CAR??!!


2. What thing really makes you smile?
I have a BIG rottie grin and I wake up in a good mood every morning. I sit quietly, well "sorta quietly" and wait for mom and dad to show signs that they are awake. Then, I grab a toy and shove, shove, shove it in mom's face to make sure she wakes up in a good mood too! I have a duck that quacks a lot of times each time I nomm it. That's one of my favorite toys to help my family wake up. I smile a LOT and bounce around the bedroom while my duck quacks.


3. If you were Prime Minister for one day what law would you introduce?
I would make it legal for well behaved doggies to go to the BEACH all summer, not just in the winter!!!!!!


4. When you are not on Twitter what is your favourite game to play?
I love to help with yard work. If there is a stray tree limb in the forest, I grab it and drag it back to the yard and run around with it. I know humans really want that tree limb so I tease them and run by with it over and over and over until someone takes it and throws it. Then, I go get it and start all over again.


5. What do you do to make your human or anipals happy?
I'm just me. Big, furry, infinitely smooochy!!!!!!


Now I have to think of five pals to pass this on to and ask them 5 questions. How about:

@kyba
@trailerparkdogs
@brutusthedane
@schnille
@jazzydacat

And you 5 questions are:
1) What is your absolute favorite nomm?
2) What is your secret talent?
3) Have you ever had a spa treatment and what did you think of it?
4) What are your favorite smells?
5) Are delivery people friends or foe? UPS, Mail, FedEx, etc.....

Bonus question:
Is lettuce food? Please explain your answer.

Pretty Scarf from PawPawty!!!

I brought my kitty Cheddums to the Pawpawty and he won this PRETTY scarf from @Smokey8 and @Pasikas! @Pasikas painted this pretty silk scarf just for us. She asked Cheddums what colors he wanted and he requested the colors of the sea (where the fish live). I think this scarf looks just like the sea and we appreciate all the hard work @Pasikas put into painting it just for us!

It was so very nice of @Smokey8 to donate this lovely scarf as a Pawpawty prize. He is a very beautiful kitty and looks so much like Cheddums that they could be litter mates!

Thank you @Smokey8 and @Pasikas for the lovely gift! Cheddums & I gave it to mom for Mother's Day and she was SO suprised!!!

Smooooooooch!!!!

My Ears Itch!!!! = Food Allergies??

My ears itched ALL THE TIME! UGH! I would lay next to the bed and scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch, whine!!, scratch, scratch, scratch all night long. Dad would clean my ears with solution & q-tips (q-tips are nommy, by the way) and mom would spray anti-itch stuff in my ears.

After several vet appointments, timed right when I was itchiest, and monitoring ALL my snacks, the vet suggested that I might be allergic to beef. It turns that that many dogs are allergic to beef and their parents just don't know it.

Here is an article that talks a little about beef allergies in dogs: http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=2+2082&aid=143

Beef allergies are often misdiagnosed as mange or ticks or just itchy skin. Some of the symptoms might include itchy ears, hot ears, pink ears, red eyes, lots of drooling for no reason, itchy feet, etc. My ears were itchy, red, and HOT to the touch after I had a beef bone.

So, no more beef cookies, rawhide chews, mom's shoes (well, those were ALWAYS forbidden), beef bones, steak bones, beef juice, pieces of steak, etc. This was really a difficult change for me because I LOVE the flavor of beef but now I know I don't get any. Instead, I get some green beans or chicken or carrots or something else fun to snack on.

My ears don't keep everyone up all night anymore and we're all very happy that it was such a simple remedy.

Lovely Book from a Lovely Friend

Lady Bonessa lives in beautiful Ireland. Her dad is a photographer and has made several books from his photos. Lady Bonessa sweetly shared this book Wicklow with me and my family.

Here is my kitty checking out the book:

Wicklow is full of lovely landscapes and scenes and fun animals. Here I am studying the horse:

Lady Bonessa's dad has published two books about Co Wicklow and Connemara and is just finishing up one on West Cork. He is a very talented photographer. I'm so happy that she shared this wonderful book with me and my family!

I've Been Evicted By Facebook

Poo on Facebook!

When the Facebook team finds anipals on their site, they delete our accounts. I emailed FB (disabled@facebook.com) to ask what happened:

"Hi, My account was disabled. I don’t know why. I don’t do anything improper on FB. Please tell me how to get my account fixed. Thank you, Sydney"

No one has bothered to reply to me.

It seems that FB is very inconsistent with their treatment of accounts and their enforcement of rules. There are MANY businesses with profiles, yet, some business profiles get disabled because FB has a rule against Business Profiles. There are MANY children and animals on FB, yet some children and animals get disabled because FB has a rule that participants must be of a certain age.

I totally agree with protecting children. But the businesses and animals that are arbitrarily deleted while others are ignored seems very unfair.

Rules are rules. If you're going to choose to enforce them, do it. If you're going to ignore some profiles and delete others, that isn't fair at all.

Evidently, this is the rule they are using to disable my account - because I'm a dog (or because they think that a human is impersonating an entity):
Facebook does not allow users to register with fake names, to impersonate any person or entity, or to falsely state or otherwise misrepresent themselves or their affiliations. http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=45

In my defense, I gave my real name, declared myself as a rottweiler, and posted a real pic of me. I do not see in the rules that the user must be a human.

This guy lost his FB account too: I like what he had to say so I'm sharing a link to his blog about it here.

My good friend Mr Breeze lost his FB account too. You can read his blog here.

I won PRIZES!!!

OMD!!! I won prizes from @boriskitty and @dogtoyscom!!!! They're wonderful.




*rummages in box*
There's a BOX OF PEANUT BUTTER AND BERRY COOKIES!!! nomnomnom!!
Oooh, a Wee Doggies Drying Towel - PINK!
A super neat Three In One Grooming Glove - PINK!
A Wee Doggies Wash Mitt - PINK!
A Mud Magnet Paw Cleaner - PINK! (I'm guessing that will be kept by the back door on a little hook)
Thank you so much Boris Kitty and www.dogtoys.com!!!! I love my prizes!
SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOCH!!!!

Dangers of Home Repair - Stairs!!

- Here is a picture of me supervising the stair project.

Ok, I don't want my friends to start thinking I'm a klutz or uncoordinated, or worse, but I have to share another story about household dangers to pets.

One day, a bunch of noisy houseguests arrived. They stayed all day but they left at night. They showed up again the next day too. I didn't know why they were here but they sure made a mess of the house. I was quite nervious that mom would blame the mess on me but she seemed to be totally ok with it.

When I went up the stairs Monday afternoon, the carpet was gone. When I tried to come down the stairs, I didn't realize the carpet had been important to me and to my ability to have good traction on the stairs. I took one step, slipped on the exposed wooden stair, and fell all the way down. Ouch!

Mom called the vet who gave me doggy meds for pain and swelling (NEVER EVER people meds, only doggy meds). Now I am very careful of the stairs until the workman finish them.

I learned two things. 1) when the stair runner was removed, the stairs become smaller, with less place to put my paw. 2) Shiny wood stairs are VERY slippery.

So, if your house is getting worked on, stay off the stairs. It's a long way to the bottom!!