In mem'ry of our little "big" brudder, Angel Oreo

Shiloh here - I'm gonna talk 'boutz my little "big" brudder, Angel Oreo, cuz 'cept fer mom, I knew him best.  An'sum of u haf seen this b-4 butt we haf sum nu furrendz who haven't.  (mom fergot tu du this last week  so I am duin'it now)

When I came tu live with mom, Angel Oreo - he wuzn't an angel yet - butt mom sez he wuz gettin'older (going on 12) an'mom wanted anuther doggy - a companion fer Oreo an'I wuz it.  Mom didn't know there cood b a lotta truble with an older dog an'a rambunctus pup like me (I wuz 8 weekz old).  BUTT az u can c

we got along just fine, even b-came 'best budz'the older we gotz

Here is me, mom'n Oreo all tugether at our very first Christmas tugether-

sorry fer the poor quality - mom sed the film messed up - b-4 the diggy camera.

This next pikchur iz of me'n Oreo at our second Christmas

Butt then later in 2006, Oreo started sleepin'more an'he wuz stayin'by hisself out in the kitchen.  Mom sed he had a 'episode' erlier that summer - after it wuz over, Oreo seemed fine an'he wuz eatin'ok but mom notised he had more problemz not goin'potty in the house - that'z when mom started puttin'diaperz on Oreo.  He didn't even wanna play no more.  Mom started tu notis that when Oreo walked intu the living room - he wood just stand there az if lookin'fer sumthin'then turn around an'walk bak tu the kitchen tu nap.  Mom wuz worried - she didn't want tu let Oreo go an'leave us by ourselves butt she didn't want Oreo tu suffer any more either.  An'she just didn't want tu let him go tu the Rainbow Bridge unless he wuz really ready.

Rite after Thanksgivin'of 2006, we got little sis, Shasta - this is a tag that mom'z friend made with all of us - it iz furry much speshal tu mom cuz this wuz Oreo'z last New Year an'Shasta'z first.

Mom wuz still havin'truble - she wuz worried that she wood let Oreo cross the Bridge tu soon butt then agin she nu his quality of life wuz just not there anymore.  Shasta wuz more of a pain tu him than I ever wuz az a pup so she kept them separated.  Finally, after mom had talked an'talked 'boutz when tu let Oreo cross the Bridge - all the vetz wood tell her iz "You will know"  No one ever told her how she wood know - ya'see, mom had never had to deal with this b-4 even tho she had grown up with doggyz - her dad alwayz took care of taking the doggy fer that final trip tu the Bridge.  Butt she believed firmly that this wuz her duty - she owed this tu Oreo - she just didn't know when or how she wood know.  Even her sis talked tu sum peeple who owned Westiez like she duz - "How do u know when" she wood ask them.  At first there wuz just more "You will know".  One day tho, a friend of mom's sis sed sumthin furry much impawtent - "You will know when you cradle your dog's face in your handz an'you look intu that face an'there iz nuthin'there lookin'bak at u".  So one day, that iz what mom did - az she sat on the kitchen floor one day, she held Oreo in her armz an'looked intu his little face - an'yes, that'z when she knew.

Mom made Shasta stay home that day we took my little "big" brudder Oreo tu b-gin his trip over the Rainbow Bridge cuz Shasta didn't really know Oreo butt she did take me cuz she knew we were "best budz".  Az we sat there in the room, mom knew she had made the right d-cision cuz little Oreo didn't even wimper when he got that first shot - he just laid there like he wuz takin'a nap.   I wuz rite there b-side mom when Oreo left us - I got tu b there tu say "See ya later, Best Bud"

Mom Monday to Beaglebratz - We got an award - a few weeks ago

(We got this award a while ago so 
I am going to let the 
Beaglebratz have the blog today so
they can tell you all about it)

Thanx mom-

Akchully, we got this a few weekz ago BUTT 

there iz just wayyyy so much goin'on in Blogville

rite now.
(Not tu menchun that our mom iza 
tad lazy sumtimez when
it comez tu helpin'us post)

It haz bin awhile since we got an award so when
Ruthie over at
K-9 Katastrophie

chose tu give this award tu us,

we wuz really surprized-

THANK-U RUTHIE!

BUTT this award carriez a few rulez with it

an'since we r the 

Secretariez of Social Networking,

we du haf a duty tu uphold thoze rulez.

THE RULEZ

1. Copy and paste the award on our blog.
2. Link back to the blogger who gave you the award.
3. Pick our five favorite blogs, with less than 200 followers and leave a comment on their blog to let them know they have received the award.
4. Hope that the five blogs chosen will keep spreading the love and pass it on to five more blogs.

Ok, so here r the 5 blogz

(not easy at all to limit it to just 5

altho less than 200 followers did narrow it a bit) 

1. River frum Down River an'in Georgia-

a couragus an'handsum Beagle boy whooze furmily 

haz bin hit hard with that dreaded "c" diseaze-

there r sum strugglez there-

sum r doggy an'hoomin.

 2. Jess'n Glacier frum

At A Glacial Pace -

well what can we say x-cept

they r hostin'the HOOGE

Blogville Valentine's Day Pawty

an'it iz fer a great cauze.

Not tu menchun that tu our mom-

kinda an inspirin'blogz.

Oh an'Mr. K with Roscoe r there tu.

3. Blu On Wheels 

iz 'boutz one of our

nu-est Blogville rezidentz-

Blu the Doxie.

Mom sez this iz anuther one

of thoze inspirin'blogz.

Ya'see, Blu hurt hisself an'now 

he can't walk after hiz surgery.

So, hiz pawrentz r gittin'him 

a new set of wheelz.

If u haf not stopped by 

Blu'z blog then

u shood git on by there.

4. We haf anuther, kinda nu furrend'n

that iz Luna the Beagle over at

Luna, a dog's life.

She iz kinda young pup who

livez in Australiz with

her 2 dadz'n they haf lotsa fun

an'sumtimez we git tu c

Luna duin'nu stuffz she haz lerned.

She iz 1 smart doggy fer 

bein'so young.

5. Ok, we iz down tu the last BUTT

DEFINITLY NOT least-

Cindy Lu over at

Cindy Lu's Muse .

We haf a confeshun tu make-

we seldom haf a chance tu 

comment over there (butt then

we don't haf time tu leave 

tu many commentz ANYWHEREZ) BUTT

we du haf time tu read it'n

there iz sum real 

interestin'stuff there-

stuffz'bout puppy millz'n

her most recent post 'bout the

World's Ugliest Dog Contest in

Petaluma, California.  

An'ya just never know when

she mite b duin'a

GIVE-AWAY! 

This wuz anuther post 'bout the 
Ugliest Dog Contest
she did a few dayz ago.

By the way, 
in case u hazn't herd this b-4,
Liebster iza German werd that meanz

dearest, beloved, or favorite.

 

.

Snow - sumwherez BUTT will it git here tu ?????????

 PET PRIDE

Well may-b sum of our Husky furrendz here in Kansas will c their biggest wish come true this weekend.  Yepperz, there is s’poze tu b a BIG winter storm movin’our way – at least that’z what mom told us an’that guy that talkz tu much on that big box.  BUTT it iz gonna b in a difrent part of Kansas – way west of us.  May-b thoze Huskiez shood go west young man, go west (he-he – we made a funny).  Don’t know if the THE OP PACK who live east of us will c it – we may not get anymore than an inch which ain’t much to play in.  May-b the THE ARMY OF FOUR in Manhattan may c a little more than we du cuz they r west of us an’also a little north – anyone in northwest Kansas cood get snow.  We wunder if there r any Blogville doggiez or kittehz in western Kansas – they haf bin gettin'a blizzard. One of our newest furrendz, K the Labrador of ROMPING AND ROLLING IN THE ROCKIEZ iz havin'a whole lotta fun in a whole lotta snow - if u haven't checked out this blog yet well then u just NEED tu stop by there.

By the way, we herd that this weekend iz Sooper Bowl weekend - du we git bigger bowlz?  Mom sed it ain't that kinda bowl BUTT a football game- we haza football so guess we can play tu!

We herd that a whole lotta snackin'goez on tu - du we git that tu?  Mom haz already started snackin.

Well, we gotta go praktise our movez fer the football game - c u later.

~SHASTA'N SHILOH~

 

HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY!

Well as the Beaglebratz told you last evening, I did have another appointment yesterday with the eye doctor - actually they just said hu-doc but at this time, you can pretty well figure it was either my local optometrist or the specialist in Overland Park, Kansas - this was the specialist which is why I was late getting home.  They survived just fine and after I gave them each a tater tot and a few carrots with their kibble, I think they forgave me for leaving them so long.

So there is really not much to tell that I didn't already tell you.  Except it has improved a little or at least no worse (gee, haven't I heard that before?)  Yes, the Herpes Simplex virus has migrated from the upper outer edge of my eye, where it caused NO vision problems and now it is moving over the central vision where it is causing a little problem.  My specialist is optimistic that maybe the virus will just keep migrating to the lower outer edge of my eye - preferably just keep on migrating right on out off my eye.

So overall, I am happy about that.  BUT (yes, there IS a but) I use to be able to tell people that I can be there at a certain time and certain place.  If there is ANYTHING that has really hit me hard over the past two years - I can't do that anymore, I can't commit to something anymore.  I know this can happen to anyone really but the chances of it really happening to me is more likely to occur - it already has a couple of times which is why I don't commit to much of anything anymore.  For example - our therapy dog group has an evaluation coming up in about 2 weeks and they depend on members helping out in whatever way needed; I use to do that - if I said I was going to do something then you could depend on me being there.  Or, that evaluation coming up - Shasta and me need our re-evalution which costs us $20 that goes to our local group and is non-refundable but the money is not the issue as much as not knowing if I would even be able to see well enough that day since my vision can change almost hour to hour.  But I think the biggest issue I have is not being able to say "Yes, I can help out" or "I can be there at that time and do that". 
Even here in Blogville it is affecting me - I missed several emails from businesses who were willing to have me try a product and review it here - even if they were willing to try again, I'm leery of committing to things like that now

Oh well, time to let Shiloh'n Shasta out - at least they are something I can commit too.  I'm rambling and I have eye drops to use before I can go to bed so I best stop for now.

A LATE Almost Wordless Wednesday

We got this idea frum 

Miss Luna the Beagle-

ya'know 

it'z kinda like a yawn-

when u c it dun then 

u du it tu!

 
~Shasta~  ~Shiloh~

PeeS - We tried tu post erlier BUTT
the pikchur woodn't werk fer us then
we waited fer mom BUTT 
it wuz like 87 hourz later cuz 
she had a hu-doc appointment way far away.  
She helped us with the pikchur.
We will let her haf the blog tumorrow tu tell u 'bout the appointment.