Dad Loves Me, Reindeer Hoax, and Blogger Blues

My dad surprised me. He told me that on Friday, his coworkers were talking about the internet and communications, and Dad ended up telling them about my bloggy and all the holiday cards I have received!! I think he was boasting about it!! Before, not many of my parents' friends knew about my bloggy. They were embarrassed to tell their friends that I have a blog of MY VERY OWN. Well, he told them that I've been getting all these holiday cards from my online friends (Dogs with Blogs and my Eskie.Net card exchange) and that's it's pretty neat. Granted that I'm not participating in the DWB card exchange, I've gotten a nice number of cards:

2 - Dogs with Blog
17 - Eskie Card Exchange

Ah, I think my parents have gotten like only 4! Ha, ha, I'm more popular than they are! My dad is proud that I have so many dog friends!

Reindeer Hoax

I read on Isabella's blog that there is a reindeer hoax! She has pictures to prove it, and so do I. The truth of the matter is that us DOGS are the ones who pull Santa's sleigh, yeah, for REAL! Isabella's blog details the info, but I will summarize her important points on what dogs excel at:

1. Obedience
2. Tracking
3. Agility

I actually wrote about eskie dogs pulling sleighs in one of my first blog entries. But, I hadn't fully realized that it was DOGS and not reindeer that actually pull Santa's sleighs, until after I read Isabella's post. Reindeers pulling sleighs is a bunch of hogwash.

And here is my picture proof:

Here are my eskie friends in the Spring time, training during the down season (ya gotta keep in shape, ya know?!):

Roben Feldhaus, Whytepine American Eskimos

And here are their winter pictures. You see ESKIES, not reindeer, don't cha?

Oh, by the way, if you tell me that the pictures above are of a SLED, yes, I realize that. You don't seriously think I could get a pic of Santa Claws with his sleigh and all the eskie dogs pulling the actual sleigh, do ya? Heck, Santa Claws goes PRETTY DARN FAST on Christmas Eve to deliver all the presents around the world. Smart dogs would know that we wouldn't be able to capture that on dogfilm. Well, Isabella is one smart cookie, so she was able to capture that on dogfilm, but she does have a NEWER CAMERA, doesn't she!?!!

To learn all about eskies pulling sleighs, go here to my original post. Hopefully this will convince you that it's dogs pulling sleighs, not those reindeer. Dogs deserve the credit! Isn't the saying "Dogs are man's best friends"? It's dogs that deliver presents, not reindeer!

By the way, in case you don't realize this, but us eskies are generally 20 to 35 pounds. We are not as big as huskys. We do a lot for our size.

Bloggy Blues

I haven't been having the same problems recently with leaving comments, but I did create a gmail account. That mighta helped a bit. Sometimes though, my picture doesn't show up in the comments. Anyhow, if any of you want a gmail account without having to give your mobile phone number, let me know and I can send you an invitation to get a gmail account. [gmail says you gotta enter in your mobile phone number so they can text you the link to the web page where you can create an account, or you can receive an invitation from your pal]

Isabella says she converted to Beta Blogger and has had issues with links missing. I was gonna convert this weekend, but I have second thoughts now.