For the sake of keeping us all together and making new friends in the pet blogosphere I have started talking about my favorite pet blogs once a week. This week’s Pet Blog of the Week is Lab Tails.

Lab Tails is about the lives of FIVE Labrador Retrievers: Ridge, Pinot, Elsie, Baxter and Kenya. They are all great friends and seem to have so much fun playing together, sharing sticks and toys, cuddling on the dog hammock, etc.

Lab Tails is written by the labs’ human Mom. She says her blog is about “observations about and lessons learned from three (no, make that four) (now it’s FIVE) Labrador Retrievers.”

These five playful labs have a HUGE plot of fenced in yard to play in. They seem to be spoiled (just like we are - this is now Benson and Gibson typing this up - we stole the laptop while she wasn’t looking). Their human Mom bought them dog hammocks (raised beds) that we are just dying to try out! They are so cool and keep dogs off the ground!

These labs always have so much fun retrieving (check out this post of a triple-threat retrieve). Some (or one of?) them are bred so they can keep up the family name (how important for a strapping retriever!).

This is one of our favorite pictures of the Lab Tails’ dogs:

If you are looking for some entertainment and fun, we encourage you to check out Lab Tails. It’s one of our new favorites!

Wags,

Benson and Gibson

For the sake of keeping us all together and making new friends in the pet blogosphere I have started talking about my favorite pet blogs once a week. This week’s wonderful pet blog is a dog blog. It’s called A Dog’s Life, the Real Story.

Our Golden Retriever friend Mogley is the author/blogger over there. Mogley sure is a lucky dog. He gets to have foster brothers and sisters to play with all the time because his humans are such wonderful people. They are so wonderful that they take in foster Golden Retrievers from Golden Retriever Rescue of the Rockies (funny that the acronym is “GRRR!” BOL!)

Mogley always has so much fun with the other dogs and he loves to play. He loves to play more than any other dog we have ever come to know. Mogley’s humans often take Mogley & Co. to the parks and trails out there in beautious Colorado where they find all kinds of streams, lakes, ponds and swamps to gallup around in. Lucky duck! The pictures of such pre-meditated swamp swimmings (often done without human’s permission) are hilarious! We always get a great BOL when we see them and so does our human! She says it is so typical of us Golden Retrievers to take unsupervised swims before our humans know what we are getting into. Mogley also likes to run through the sprinkler!

From Mogley’s blog:

My Humans leave the key board of the computer on the fireplace hearth so I can write my own blog and tell you about the daily life of a Golden Retriever. I am a foster dog, living with a family that provided me a home when I was homeless. A poodle once said that golden retrievers can’t spell, but poodles can’t run spell check! Read the first blog, it was written by a human, but it gives you my history.”

Although Mogley says that he is a foster dog, we suspect that he is in his forever home.

We encourage everyone to go and check out A Dog’s Life, the Real Story, because it’s real true! We Goldens live like Kings (as do most of the dogs we have met in the pet blogosphere!). We visit Mogley on a daily basis to see what he is up to. His life is SO exciting!

Take care everyone and have a grrr-eat weekend

Love Benson and Gibson

For the sake of keeping us all together and making new friends in the pet blogosphere I have started talking about my favorite pet blogs once a week. Since I missed last week I am posting on Monday instead of Friday.

This week’s Pet Blog of the Week is a cat blog: Daisy the Curly Cat. Daisy might be one of the luckiest cats this world has ever seen. Her mother takes her for walks outside in a covered stroller, she gets to play dress-up, and she is just so photogenic.

Daisy’s blog has features like Monday Mystery - where you have to guess what she is doing or what happens next, Wordless Wednesday - where some adorable photo of Daisy is posted, Sunday Comics - where Daisy gets to be featured in her own comic strip, and Fashion Friday - where she gets to play dress up.

Daisy always has the cutest pictures up on her blog and it’s always fun to play along with her Monday Mysteries. Here is our most recent favorite picture of Daisy (she is in her stroller):

From Daisy’s blog:

I am a dilute calico Devon Rex cat, and I was born on 2/10/04. I have very soft, curly fur. Even though my ears are big, I am very little - I weigh just 6 pounds. I have a big sister named Pixie who is also a Devon Rex. Welcome to my curly world!”

If you are looking for some adorable photos and some feline fun, be sure to check out Daisy the Curly Cat!

Thank you so much Kathryn for this wonderful award! I love your blogs, The Empty Nest and the pet blog, 4UrPets (a blogosphere fave!).

Hooray! Here is my award!

For the sake of keeping us all together and making new friends in the pet blogosphere I have started talking about my favorite pet blogs once a week.

My favorite this week is the always entertaining Dogs Aye View. Penned by two mutts, Gomer and Opie, Dogs Aye View is about their lives with DogMom and all their adventures. Their most recent adventure…Opie’s forays into the wild (he likes to run away when he sees something that catches his fancy.) Opie ran away three times in one week recently! He has pulled out his stake (that he is chained to with a dog run) and is a force to be reckoned with!

From Dogs Aye View:

We’ve got at Dog Blog in Minnesota! At “Dogs Aye View,” two adopted rescue dogs offer their unique view of life. Meet “Gomer” - the beagle-puppy-found-in-a-dumpster-that-grew-up-to-be-a-yellow-lab - and his brother Opie - the red-headed-some-kind-of-hound-that-Gomer-brought-home. Their quirky, goofy, humorous antics and neurotic, unusual and sometimes inconsistent perspective on their world is shared. Please participate and share your dogs’-eye-view with us.”

Gomer and Opie are excellent writers and will have you in stitches with their antics! For a good laugh and some good stories, visit Dogs Aye View!

For the sake of keeping us all together and making new friends in the pet blogosphere I have started talking about my favorite pet blogs once a week.

The pet blog of the week this week is the famous Dogster For the Love of Dog Blog. Dogster is wildy popular among animal-lovers and has a great mix of information, pets in the news and cute stories.

The pets who live at Dogster are Sol, Annie, Beatrice and Star. Their human, Joy, always has interesting things to stay and keeps readers very up-to-date on the pet food recalls, any pet stories in the news, and on certain animal welfare issues. Just this week Joy had a great post about a petition readers can sign to boycott Amish products until the Amish stop the abuse and practice of inhumane, horrid puppy mills.

From the blog’s About Us section:

We’re dog lovers that thought it was about time there was a fun blog to stay up-to-dog about everything canine. Our editor, Joy Ward, sniffs out the best squirrels of dog pleasure. The blog is brought to you by Dogster, Inc, makers of the hydrant-famous Dogster and the unnecessarily-feared Catster.”

Dogster always has some great conversation going and I encourage everyone to visit there often! I know I do!

Today we received an Excellence Award from our friend Rusty at Chasing Squirrels with Rusty. We have never gotten an award before, YAY! Wags, wags, purrs, purrs. Of course the award was probably more

intended for us Goldens than it was for our kitty counterparts, but we might let them celebrate with us because Mom loves them too, and we love everything she loves.

There are a few rules to accepting this award:
** By accepting this Excellent Blog Award, I agree to award it to 10 more people whose blogs I find Excellent Award worthy.
** You can give the award to more people, but please award at least 10.
** Link back to the person who gave you this award.

So here goes

1. First, we have to give the Excellent Blog Award back to our friends at Chasing Squirrels with Rusty. It is such great entertainment reading about Rusty’s adventures in keeping the backyard a squirrel-free zone. (Or so our Mom says. She loves his cute little pictures, too, especially the ones where he is sneaking up on the ducks).

2. Next we give our Excellent Blog Award to The Adventures of Spencer. Spencer is a Golden that looks exactly like one of us (Benson) and you can just tell from his sweet little face and pictures that he is a gentle and loving creature (he is a therapy dog - we always wanted to do that). He has this awesome talent where he can get THREE tennis balls in his mouth at one time! It’s SO cool!

3. We will give the Excellent Award to Dogs Aye View. Our friends Gomer and Opie in Minnesota are two adopted rescue dogs. Our Mom calls them little Heinz 57 boys because they are mutts - adorable mutts. They have all kinds of adventures with their “DogMom.”

4. Next up: Wimsey’s Blog. Wimsey is the best-looking bloodhound we all have ever seen and our Mom always says she wants to just squeeze and hug him and watch him run around (he is of superb size and shape). Wimsey lives in Manhattan and takes frequent forays into the city’s parks. He is also a show dog. 

5. Halfway done, and here comes Lab Tails. Now this human is a blessing because she has FIVE Labrador Retrievers. FIVE! Can you imagine how much their dog food costs? They have all kinds of acres to run around on and always look so happy. We want to go and visit them and run around, too!

6. Pet Strong is next on our list. There’s always something educational over there to read and sometimes there are current events postings, like pets in the news or animal welfare issues.  It’s a good blog to read and participate in our Mom says.

7. Now for another fellow Golden friend, Mogley. A Dog’s Life, the Real Story is all about Mogley the Golden and his fun life. Mogley always has so many adventures because his humans always take care of other dogs. There is usually three or four dogs there at a time and they all wrastle around and have so much fun. Mom likes to look at the pictures of Mogley and Co. when they go in the swamps and mud. We Goldens are definitely swamp-dogs!

8. Moving on, now we have The Daily Cuddle. Now this Animal Planet pet blog is strictly a photo-sharing site but I must admit the administrator always has the best pet pictures up! You can rate all the photos and submit pictures of your own to be featured on there. Our cousin Henry (the Bassett Hounds) was featured in January.

9. Now for a kitty cat blog: Daisy the Curly Cat. Daisy is a petite little kitty and her Mom always dresser her up in fun costumes. Daisy’s blog has tons of cute pictures of her and SO many people come to visit every day. Daisy even gets to go for walks in a covered stroller!

10. Finally, our Excellent Award goes to the popular Dogster’s For the Love of Dog Blog. Dogster’s has all kinds of pets in the news stories and videos for people to read. Dogster’s is inspired by four beautiful dogs!

For the sake of keeping us all together and makin g new friends in the pet blogosphere I have started talking about my favorite pet blogs once a week.

This week’s winner is Rusty! His dog blog, Chasing Squirrels with Rusty is all about his adventures in life, namely trying to keep the yard a “squirrel-free zone!”

Rusty is a 20-pound Yorkshire Terrier. He says his Mom refers to him as a Great Yorkie because of his size. Here is his bio:

I am a great little dog who lives with his human mom and dad in Texas. My job is to keep the backyard a squirrel free zone. That’s a hard job, they just won’t listen to me. I want to talk about my life and make friends.

I’ve been with mom and dad for one year now. I was adopted in November of 2006! I  live with mom and dad, Bear (dad’s dog) and three cats. I like Bear unless mom is patting her. I only like one of the cats, Dallas. The other cats are too hisssssie and prickly. My favorite things are chasing squirrels, looking for squirrels up in the pecan trees, keeping squirrels out of our yard, getting a nice back scratch, playing with Bear, running up and down the fence with the dogs in the yard behind us, keeping an eye out for squirrels, and sleeping with mom and dad.”

Rusty is an excellent writer and he is very funny, too. He posts the most adorable pictures of himself and has very entertaining, conversational dog blog posts. Rusty writes with wit and flair and has lots of friends in the pet (namely dog) community.

If you’re looking for a laugh or to make a new friend (or if you’re looking for the cutest Yorkie ever), visit this cute pet blog,  Chasing Squirrels with Rusty.

For the sake of keeping us all together and makin g new friends in the pet blogosphere I have started talking about my favorite pet blogs once a week.

This week’s winner is our good friend, Spencer. The Adventures of Spencer: A Mascot Dog’s Blog is all about a 10-year-old Golden Retriever named, you guessed it, Spencer.

Although I am partial to Golden Retrievers myself (having two), this dog is sweet as sugar and smart as a whip and you can just tell from all his pictures that he is a great companion and loyal friend. Spencer is so easy going and smart that he is a therapy dog for cancer patients. It doesn’t get much sweeter than that…

Spencer lives in Los Angeles with his humans and spends his days napping, getting cuddles, playing with tennis balls and taking walks. Ahhh, the life of a spoiled Golden Retriever.

Spencer’s humans, wonderfully generous parents, recently started fostering a 4-month-old Golden Retriever and Spencer, patient and laid back as he is, spends much of his time showing “the kid” around and teaching her about life. They even fostered a second pup, Sunny, for a little while before she went back to the Rescue.

Spencer’s Blog, one of my favorites on the Blogroll, is written by Spencer (he’s very smart) and is refreshingly funny.  It’s one of those blogs that I look forward to reading when I get to work every day.

Plus, one of the best things about it is the pictures. Spencer’s humans take some great pictures of his Golden Retriever beauty, and the pics of the little foster dog, Jessy, will make you want to squeeze her (and Spencer, too). Be sure to check out the tennis ball pictures; Spencer can fit three tennis balls in his mouth at one time!

I encourage you to start visiting The Adventures of Spencer for some good laughs and great stories!

 For the sake of keeping us all together and makin g new friends in the pet blogosphere I am going to start talking about my favorite pet blogs once a week (I have SO many).

 I came across a blog recently that immediately captivated me. It made m e laugh out loud and it made me want to love and hug the owner: Wimsey. The bloodhound blog is called Wimsey’ s Blog: Diary of a Manhattan Bloodhound.

Now part of me is probably in love with this blog because I am in love with this dog. I spend a lot of time perusing bloodhound pictures online because I love these dogs so much. I have ALWAYS wanted a Bloodhound and I always tell myself that as soon as I get my own house I will be rescuing one.

Anyways, Wimsey is the quintessential hound of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He has superb taste in everything: gourmet food, stuffed toys, and especially humans. His humans are hound dog afficianados who offer loads of affection, meals, and romps in the city’s parks that last for hours. They often tire themselves out for Wimsey’s sake. As you can see from his absolutely adorable picture, Wimsey is a special speciment, perfect in every form (except for his hearing, he can hear okay but for some reason never listens).

Wimsey is so perfect that he says his humans make jokes because visitors and new friends in the park only talk to him; they aren’t interested in the humans.

I am so in love with Wimsey the blood hound that I plan to ask his humans if I can meet him when I am in NYC this month.

Does that make me a dog stalker…?

Anyhow, you should check out Wimsey’s Blog is you’re looking for a laugh (and for a strikingly beautiful dog). Wimsey has fast become one of my favorite pets even though I don’t know him. And his blog is worth visiting if you want to make friends with more of our lovely pets here in this blogosphere.

 Look for another favorite pet blog next week!