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!!

Just Say NO! To Sugar Free Candy

Last week, I had a big ordeal. Since this is important news for anipals and the people that love them, I thought it was worth telling the story here on my bloggy.

I haven't had a meatball in TWO weeks and I'm surrounded by carrots. This can mean only one thing.....mom is on a diet! grrrrrr. Every year, when the big green tree in the living room goes away, so do the meatballs, and out come the carrots. Well, a doggy can only take so much carrots. We need CHOICES! And a choice I was given.

Mom went out for a few hours in the morning but forgot to put away her sugar free candies. She left a bag of her favorites, Nips Sugar Free Caramels, unwatched on the table. When she got home, the bag was empty and wrapper shrapnel covered the floor. Mom has had doggies her whole life but had never run across a doggie eating sugar free candy before so she didn't know whether or not it was a big deal. One time I ate Dad's entire Christmas stocking and the vet said not to worry since I'm such a big doggie (over 105 lbs). So Mom figured 1/2 a bag of sugar free candy wouldn't be a big deal either. Wow! Was she ever wrong about that!

The vet FREAKED OUT. He said that she had to get the candy out of me immediately. There wasn't even time for her to drive me to the vet since it's 40 minutes away. The sugar free candy had to come out NOW. The ingredients in sugar free candy are FATAL TO DOGS!!! The vet had Mom give me hydrogen peroxide, a few tablespoons at a time until I threw up. Well, I am a big doggie like I said and I wasn't very interested in drinking hydrogen peroxide. Luckily Mom has been down the hydrogen peroxide route with other doggies before (one swallowed batteries, a ball, dryer sheets, brillo pads, you name it....sometimes she thinks that rotties are puppy-goats or land-sharks).

Mom grabbed a turkey baster out of the kitchen drawer and filled it with hydrogen peroxide and squeezed the hydrogen peroxide down my throat. NOT FUN for either of us. She had it in her hair, her eyes, her nose, her mouth (haha) and all over her clothes. She repeated this process through almost half a bottle of hydrogen peroxide. My tummy puffed up like a balloon! Finally, I wandered off and taaa daaa! There was candy in the snow! Wow! How did that get there? Mom took my by the collar and brought me back inside. When I went outside later, she had taken the candy away.

Apparently, I hadn't bothered to unwrap most of the candies so very little of them had actually started to disolve in my tummy. That was very fortunate! Mom read online later that just TWO STICKS OF SUGAR FREE GUM CAN KILL A 40 POUND DOG!!!!!

Please keep your sugar free candy far, far, far away from your furry friends. To us, it smells yummy, like all the other foods you eat. But this stuff is poison to doggies, not food at all!!!

Who are these friendly facebook people & their pets?

Efurry once in a while I pop over to Facebook to see what's going on over there. It's sort of like stopping by a pawty for a few minutes to see who showed up.

Well, I found lots of friend invitations from fun looking humans and anipals. The problem is, I don't always recognize these potential new friends.

You see, if we're friends on Twitter but your mom, dad, typist, staff, or human types for you, I probably don't know their name! Or if you read my tweets but we don't talk much or ever, then I might not recognize you right away. Or if you have a different name, picture, etc, that is confusing too.

I try to be a friendly rottweiler and I like to make new friends. I ALWAYS try to be nice to my friends and I never ever want to hurt anybody's feelings.

So, please do this for me.....if we're friends on twitter and you (or your human) wants to connect on Facebook, please send a DM to me on twitter so I know it's YOU! Then, when I find your friend request, I'll pounce on it happily like a leftover cheeseburger!

Thanks!!! SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCH!!!!

Luv,
Syd

Well Hello There!

Hi!
Welcome to my very first blog.
Why am I blogging? Dunno.....I'm an obedient rottweiler and some folks asked me to create a blog. Mom throws a ball and says, "go get it", I go get it. She opens the door and says "go potty", I go potty. Somebody said, "make a blog", so here it is.
I suppose the other reason is that I'm super friendly and if I can spend more time visiting, sniffing wheel wells, discussing squirrels and car rides, eating cookies and otherwise socializing, that's a pretty good reason too. So, I'm not promising much. But, here's my blog. Thanks for stopping by!
Smoooooch!!!!
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