Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Gramercy, Syncline & pink bunny

Gramercy says "I heard you love pink bunny, do you want to play?"


And the fun begins - if you're wondering what Gramercy is doing in the first part of the video, he sees a fly! D'light is a bit worried by all of this thus the thrusting of his baby in my face.




These two love pink bunny

Monday, May 13, 2013

Rattie's & other funny small breed dogs

As I said, we were at the dog park bright and early on Saturday.  Below is sweet Syncline taking a rest after lots of playing with Pixie and Skip's blue ball!
 

After about 45 minutes, more small dogs arrived and as you will see everyone did great together!
 
Syncline checking out a lapsa opsa
Check out sweet foster girl Sierra in the center, she's available for adoption click here to see her foster mom's blog 


Syncline saying hi to another lapsa opsa
Pixie, Syncline & D'light wonder what breed of dog are now arriving...


It's a bunch of pugs! 


Here's the meeting of Buddy the rotund pug


D'light was captivated by Buddy which was hilarious!  You can see D'light really wanted Buddy to get into a game of chase with him. Syncline was more than ready for some running fun.   Buddy wasn't ready to attempt any running with the rattie's!


Sycline moved on to play with a ball since Buddy wasn't moving.  But wait! Buddy the rotund boy surprises everyone much to D'light's delight!


And Syncline gets Buddy moving! There's sweet foster girl Sierra joining in as well


Buddy was pretty much done but, D'light says "Look at this new fella, wonder if he will play?"



 
I'm not one to stick my face into a dogs face but, this pug just wouldn't leave me alone while I was getting in my bag.  He basically kept head butting me - why I don't know other than to show me is ball.  I took the chance of giving him some very close sweet nothing talk.  He was a very funny fella who snorted and snotted in my face for that sweet talk.   You can see Pixie in the corner wishing for some loves too! 



Syncline says: "Shhh... don't tell Skip"

One thing we quickly found out about Syncline is that she loves to play with balls!   Throw a ball and she will go, go, go.  She would be a very easy dog to teach bringing back the back to you - she doesn't know that right now.  One of the many things I love about fostering is seeing the uniqueness of each dog.  Some love to play ball, some love puzzles and the list goes on and on.
 
For many of you who have attended any of the rattie meet ups you've met sweet Skip and his blue ball.  He loves this ball and he was such a gentleman letting little Syncline play with his ball!
 
Below is Syncline following Skip as he carries he blue ball - the love affair begins...
 



"Look what I have! Shhh... don't tell Skip"


"Oh blue ball I can see why Skip loves you"
 
"I'm having sooo much fun with blue ball!"


"Uh oh... Skip knows I have his ball"
 
Sweet Skip letting Sycline play with his ball!


 Below is Syncline running around with the blue ball!  Pixie and D'light don't know why this blue ball is so popular.  Notice Skip letting puppy girl Syncline have fun with is ball but, keeping an eye on where it goes. For anyone worried, Skip left the park with blue ball!
 


Here's funny boy skip and his blue ball at a previous rattie meet up! 
 
 This video is a reminder to those who are videoing at the dog park to remember that more than one may come when you whistle... 


 

Sunday, May 12, 2013

How cute is Gramercy?!

Gramercy LOVES this cave bed and we often refer to him as "Cave Man"!  He's so good about me taking pictures of him - sweet little muffin.
 
"I'm resting what do you want with that camera?"
 
"All right, I'm waking up... give me a minute"
 
"How do I look -- hopefully you are getting a good shot of me since you woke me up"


"My side profile is good too so make sure to get it"







Syncline and Pixie having a lot of fun!

 This was at the dog park yesterday and look at these two gals play!  Both girls have excellent dog skills as well as being total love bugs.
 
 
Sycline asks Pixie  "Do you want to play with me?"
 


I adore these girls and here are some great action shots!
 








 
If you want to see more of Pixie check out her foster moms blog by clicking here
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Syncline loves pink bunny!

 
Syncline had a bath yesterday (she did great) and her reward was finding a toy she liked!  She found two that tickled her fancy but, pink bunny was her top favorite!

You may be wondering what's up with Syncline's right eye - while she was in her temp CA spot, she and another little rescue gal were having tons of fun and Syncline's eye accidentally got dinged.  She saw the vet and the vet said her eye would be just fine.  So, no worries - it looks worse than it feels and it hasn't slowed her down a bit.
"I LOVE this pink bunny!"


"Did you know it squeaks?!"

 
Syncline was having so much fun I had to turn off the camera and switch on video - how cute is she?!?!  As you will see in the video she gets more and more excited about pink bunny. 

 
 
 

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Syncline has a ton of fun and Pixie goes to her foster parents

We met Pixie's foster parents at an early 8:15 this morning to hand off sweet Pixie.  Given how easy Pixie and Syncline are, we decided to meet at Luther Burbank small dog park on Mercer Island.  I really love this spot and at 8:15 on a Saturday we knew it would be empty.    I took Syncline and D'light along as well.  We don't have a fenced yard so this little dog park is great to let our dogs run off energy and of course it's super for socialization as you will soon see.

We arrived and it was very quiet and the dogs did great.  Had anyone struggled we all would have left but, the dogs loved the park, as well as all the dogs and people that stopped by.  We had a couple of folks asking if there was a rat terrier meet up as we had 6 ratties there (Syncline, Pixie, D'light, Skip, Jenny and Sierra)!  You will see in a number of coming post that after being at the park for about 45 minutes, more dogs showed up and we were just about outnumber by pugs.

There was not one single issues and both Syncline and Pixie are amazing dogs who are going to be adopted I'm sure very quickly. 

To see more of sweet Pixie & other foster girl Sierra click here!
 
D'light showing Syncline the park - Syncline on the left & D'light on the right
 
Below you can see the girls are happy to be in Washington! This was minutes after we arrived to the park.  They are adorable!
 



Foster girl Sierra in the foreground and Syncline in the background


Pixie on the left & Syncline on the right giving lots of loves
 
More loves from a very nice lady that Syncline just met

 


Jenny on far left, Pixie up top D'light center and Syncline on the right


Syncline checking out all the smells


Pixie in front and Syncline in the center - notice both girls are comfortable in close proximity to people (you can see my the feet and legs)
Syncline basically just met me!  And watch her come when I call her.  Smart, smart rattie girl