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January10th

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Those Krazy Kerry’s

Posted in: Feline Friends, Human Friends, Pet Peeves, Portland, Pup Pals

I can’t tell ya how tickled I am these days to be watching the Kerry Blues do their thang… mama and I are really absolutely enamored of them. And THOSE BEARDS – they make me all tingly whenever I see them, especially after roaring to the top in Stanley & Stella’s Beard Competition.

So I feel very honored (and did I mention tingly?) to receive this award from them.

The award states: “This blog invests and believes in PROXIMITY – nearness in space, time and relationships!” In other words, blogs that receive this award “are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.”

So as always, I’m probably late to the party on this one. In the interest of spreading the love, I’m gonna try to find other dogs who haven’t already received this, many apologies if you already have…

Asta (up over)

Nottie Scottie

Lorenza

Ludo

Sally & Rufus

Deetz

The G-Dales

Scruffy, Stan & Lacie

It was TOUGH to just pick 8 other dogs to send this to – I tried hard to find those of you who hadn’t already received one – which is sometimes the toughest part. Mama and I read so many of your blogs all the time, so we did a lot of visiting to see, but alas, sometimes mama screws up.

So I’m just sending BIG AIRE KISSES to ALL of my dog friends to cover my butt (tuck tail first!)

Love,

Bogart

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December25th

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Merry Christm-aire-s!

Posted in: Airedale Fun, Feline Friends, Holidays, Portland

Mama and I decided to do something a little different this year – rather than opening all of our Christmas cards as they arrived, we thought it would be fun to open them all during the opening of the presents on Christmas morning – so we could ooh and aah over all of the cool cards that our DWB buddies sent to us from all over the world.

It was hard not to open the cards as they arrived, but mama was good about keeping them all in a nice pile while we waited for the 25th. And it was totally worth it – we thought about you all as we opened the envelopes and the emails!!!

The kitties could not control themselves, they were totally fascinated with all of the cards.

Orange tabbies in particular seem to have an unhealthy preoccupation with card destruction. Perhaps we should try to distract them?

This is WIllie – he is the kitty that came to live with us after his mama died. He’s doing really well and is a part of our furry family now.

Check out this cool toy that I got – he is a rubber pig!!! – and most importantly, he SQUEAKS!!! I think I’m gonna name him Bacon…

Aw, and some good stuff to chomp on. I was originally far more interested in the package that held these wag’n wraps, and destroyed it promptly. I do think that Bacon and I will become best friends, however.

Hehehe – the Bogie Stogie

The kitties got something special too – a packet of Feline Greenies!!! And so, without further ado, I introduce the furry chorus:

Sekhmet, the black Siamese girlie…

Kafka, the orange shorthaired tabby boy…

Behemoth, the grey and white “spotto gato” boy…

Willie, the long haired orange tabby boy…

And Aeon, the brown tabby girl.

Merry Christmas everydog! Hope you all got LOTS of great presents – BIG AIRE KISSES to all of you and your families!!!

Love,

Bogart

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October23rd

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Busted!

Posted in: Airedale Fun, Feline Friends, Portland

Oh Kafka, you are SO BUSTED

You spent this chilly day outside – after escaping from the back door, you managed to find a nice, warm spot in a little area under the house.

But a nice, tasty bowl of kibble foiled your evil plans for taking over the household from below.

And I thought us dogs were motivated by food, and able to manipulate the humans into providing it at any time… you sir, are THE KING – simply by being outside a bowl of food materialized.

I will learn from your greatness, oh strip-ed one…

Love,

Bogart

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September1st

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Meowie Wowie

Posted in: Airedale Fun, Feline Friends, Portland

CAT ALERT * CAT ALERT * CAT ALERT

As always, whenever a post will be featuring my feline friends, I give a big ol’ warning to all of my pup peeps.

Ready? Lets GO…

We went to the Hawthorne Fish House because mama had been craving their yummo french fries and a Gardenburger. She looked like she was enjoying it, and then apparently we had to “walk it off”… no clue what that means, but hey, whenever walking is involved, I’m in (but if we need to take the bus, I know how to make ‘em stop for me… WATCH THIS)…

We got a little treat for the kitties… the black girlie is Sekhmet and it looks like she approves…

Yup, Kafka also seems to think that the Meowie Wowie will be up to snuff…

That’s when Behemoth sauntered over to check out what was going on…

Sekhmet was concerned that Kafka may try to take the whole bag, run with it, hide under something, and then tear it to pieces just before he rolls his entire tubby tabby body all over it, thoroughly coating himself in catnip. She is of course, correct…

Oh yeah, Kafka is plotting…

Sekhmet makes her play for some organic nip…

They have a short conversation (which I could not understand, being that I speak dog and uh, English, so cat is beyond my powers of understanding)…

And it seems like all will be well. Just as long as separate bits of catnip are placed strategically around the house far away from each other. DEAL!

Love,

Bogart

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August22nd

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The Great Kafkinski

Posted in: Airedale Fun, Feline Friends, Portland

CAT ALERT – CAT ALERT – CAT ALERT

If you can’t handle the felines, best to either turn away now or scroll to the bottom as the glorious orange fur will soon be flying.

Ok, everybody gone that needed to leave? It’s just us cat lovers now. We now return to our regularly scheduled program.

This is Kafka. He had to go to the vet today because he had a growth under his chin. Mama was worried as it seemed to be growing quickly.

Luckily dad was able to get Kafka into a carrier (and only lost a little bit of blood… not bad, dad) and off to the vet. Some great news – Kafka, as you may have noticed, is a chubby tabby. Mama likes ‘em kind of chubby and cuddly. Especially her tabbies. And Kafka is happy to oblige – he’s obsessed with his food, and everyone else’s as well. Today we found out that he weighs exactly what he weighed at his last vet visit – 16 pounds – so he’s kept off a little bit of his chub. The vet was surprised – she said that fat cats usually swing in weight – so Kafka did us proud. Unfortunately his chin was also on the chubby side, and the vet said that it was an abscess – and that’s why it was getting so big, so fast. She would drain it with a needle and syringe (and apparently he managed to fill up an entire syringe with the icky stuff that was inside his growth)!

You can see that he got a little shaved under his chin, and that’s the spot that the needle did it’s work.

So far so good, he’s going to get pumped with daily antibiotics and – I’m sure – treats, so here’s to hoping that he makes a speedy and full recovery. It’s amazing that he’s never acted sick at all – I’d be milking this for some “treats and sympathy”…

Tonight there was some mail for me – a little something from the folks at Greenies!

They’re Pill Pockets treats – made to try to disguise pills when we have to take them. I can tell you from the get-go that they just aren’t going to work. Firstly, I don’t need to take any pills right now, and secondly, well, how hard is it to distinguish a nasty pill inside of a tasty treat? Roll ‘em around in your mouth, spit out the pill, it’s SIMPLE.

Oh look – they also sent some for felines. This is Sekhmet. She was willing to take one for the team and try one, but she doesn’t need any medicine right now either. But she’s happy to help…

Instead I got to munch on one of these Whole Meals bars. We got them at the Pets in the Pearl event, and haven’t had a chance to try them yet. The bag smells good…

Oh yeah, this seems like it will do the trick…

Love,

Bogart

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June13th

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Big Aire

Posted in: Airedale Fun, Feline Friends, Pet Peeves, Portland, Training the Humans, Video

Catching some “Big Aire”…

Love,

Bogart

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April18th

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The Week of Dale Day Care

Posted in: Airedale Fun, Feline Friends

Dad is home from Portland, triumphant, keys in hand to a house with a back yard. Whoopee!

I spent much of this past week at Dale Day Care – yup, that’s Mareike’s house – hanging with my buddies. I gotta tell you, as many cool things as there are here in Los Angeles, the ONLY one I’m gonna miss is Mareike’s house. And my Dale buddies.

And even the kitties that live at the Dale house…

Love,

Bogart

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March22nd

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Willie Week

Posted in: Airedale Fun, Feline Friends

Feline Alert!

For all of those doggies freaked out by our feline cousins, you have been warned. There are CATS in today’s post.

And now back to our regularly scheduled program.

Sorry I haven’t written in a few days… my week has been fun as always, but this furry tabby has kind of been the star for the past few days. But I’ll get to that in a moment.

Firstly, I got a special delivery this week from Keeley!!!

Yup, the box smelled yummy so I was sure it was for meeeeeeeee!

Fantastic yummo yummo treats inside!!! THANKS KEELEY, mom couldn’t catch any photos of me actually eating them because I scarfed ‘em down super fast. They were DELICIOUS…

My kitty brother Behemoth. Guarding the succulents that dad cut from the park.

He did a thorough check to make sure that all was well because dad is going to bring them over to plant in Mareike’s garden.

This is Willie. The long-haired orange tabby from earlier in this post.

Willie arrived at our house on Tuesday. His mama, who was a good friend of my mama and dad, passed away over the weekend. She knew how much we always loved both her and Willie, so he has come to live with us. So far he’s really unsure about the whole thing (I know that he misses his mama a whole lot), and I don’t think he’s ever seen a dog before. Certainly not one as handsome as I. He’s also not really sure about the other kitties yet. I’m trying to make him feel welcome (I do love all kitties, I just can’t help myself), but he mostly hides under the bed and under my sofa. Oh, and he goes camping outside on the terrace in the Willie Tent (it’s a blue cat tent from Ikea – I’m going to try to get a picture of him in it). We all want to make him feel welcome and to know that he’s got a happy home now, any advice on things I can do to make him happy?

Love,

Bogart

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January11th

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God of the Heater

Posted in: Feline Friends

This is Behemoth (and dad’s foot). Praying to the god of the heater. Kitties like to do this, I’ve discovered, and Behemoth spends an inordinate amount of time in this prayer position. I’m not sure if the heater hears all of his prayers, but it does keep him (and dad’s toes) warm.

Love,

Bogart

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January7th

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Cat Nap

Posted in: Airedale Fun, Feline Friends

This is Kafka. He’s my little tabby brother (he’s not really little as you can see – he’s a “husky” gentleman, very interested in gastronomy). Since it’s been raining, he’s been searching out new spots to curl up and keep warm.

I think this is a pretty cool spot – he fits kind of purrfectly!

I love my kitties – even though they kick my butt on a regular basis, they’re my best buddies and we do occasionally curl up together…

This is Kafka’s “Oh…. Yeah” face.

Love,

Bogart

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