Eskie Meet with Canadian Visitors

I mentioned in a previous post there were 5 eskie events last month. This post is about the 4th event. Our two friends from Quebec, Nuuk and Takoda, took a LONG car ride all the way to from Quebec to California! Wheeeee, what an awesome drive! So naturally we had an Eskie Meet!

Our group photo. Surprisingly it did not take long to get into position and pose. Can you believe this pic was taken at the beginning of the party when we were still excited!? I think we have plenty of experience with posing so it is a piece of cake.


Me and my boyfriend, Casper D Dog on Eskie Rock!


We get asked a lot if our parents take home the wrong eskies after a party. To that I say "Huh, we don't look alike" so why should that happen? So, to prove to you we each differ in appearance, here are some closeups of each of us, so pay attention, and then I'm going to quiz you later (just kidding).

Me:


Casper:


These were our hosts, Loki and Luna, aka Double Trouble, aka Lx2. They are twins, but do they look alike? Nope!


This is Nuuk, from Quebec. Hi Nuuk nice to meet you!


And Takoda from Quebec. He was the smallest out of all of us.


Takoda looks like a little polar bear cub, don't you think?



This is Abby up front, one of my local friends.


And this is my Niece Kona and her son, Zero. Even mother and son look different:


This is Takoda and then me, of course. See the difference in size?


A yard full of eskies! Can you tell who is who?


Eskies in action:


Hey, Mister, can you give us some food?


The Eskie Whisperer at work again:


Quick, there he is again!
Hey Mister, you can run from us, but you can't hide, plus we can outrun you.


We are never too big to be lapdogs:


A doggie take-out box!


Abby loves to give and receive hugs:


A quiet moment between father and daughter, true eskie love:


Casper relaxing:


It's been a long two weeks of travel for little Takoda:


Okay, enough with the photos! Hope you enjoyed meeting my friends!


p.s. You can see more photos from our Eskie Meet on Casper D Dog's blog.

Two Year Blogiversary

Today is my TWO YEAR BLOGIVERSARY! Happy Blogiversary to ME! I just want to say that I have had a very enjoyable two years meeting and getting to know all of you. I appreciate all your visits and try to do the same, but sometimes I don't get around to leaving everydog and GirlGirl and JB comments. I wish I could keep up with everyone, but sometimes it's difficult being the busy social butterfly that I am. This has been a great support group (Isis, you can tell that to your Sister's coworkers) that I have been honored to be a part of, and we really appreciate everyone who helped my Mom raise money for Casper D Dog last year. JB, maybe my Mom will get to meet your Mom next year in Maui. And to all those who have sent me cards and presents and emails over the past 2 years, thank you, thank you! Wow, who knew what was in store when we each started our blogs.

Speaking of blogging, do you all remember when you first started blogging and it was so exciting to receive the very first comments on your blog? Well, there are a few new blogs that we have discovered that I would like to share with you. Please give them a friendly hello!

1st is Schmoopy's blog. Schmoopy is my nephew and he is also half-brother to Ender. We have just recently discovered Schmoopy's blog!

2nd is Yasha's Bonsai's blog. She is my new friend and she has 2 brothers and lives in the same state I live in. Yay for California Eskies!

3rd is White Dog aka Siku Marie's blog. She has been blogging for a while but I thought I would introduce her anyway. She gave me the bestest compliment anydog could receive. She told me my lounging photo makes me look like Cleopatra! If that's not the bestest compliment ever, then I don't know what is!

p.s. I acknowledge I have not obtained permission from Schmoopy, Yasha, or Siku Marie to use their photos, but I will promptly remove their images if this is an issue. We just realized today that it's our blogiversary and wanted to do a quick post and thought it'd be timely to include an introduction to these 3 new dog blogs.

This is an Outrage!

Do you all remember when my Mom went to Just Dogs....



... to get a present....



... for Abby's Barkday Party?



Well, while she was there, she got ME a yogurt CAROB bar! (not chocolate since chocolate is poison to dogs)



See, it says "Dogs" on it.... and there's a paw print...



... so I think it's mine. It's even in the shape of dog bones.



So then why are my parents eating it???????



After their atrocious behavior (I am a dog... I do not know if that is spelled correctly) and some polite begging on my part, they finally gave me some. YUM!





Hey, Mom, gotta watch that camera flash! It's sometimes blinding... ya know?



And here I am, happy with some yogurt carob inside of me!

The Art of Lounging

I have been taking lessons from my nephew, Ender the Eskie, on lounging. He says you should maximize air flow. Ender, am I a Master Lounger yet?


For tips on lounging, see Ender's July 2008 posts.

Darcy and Juneau's Puppies!!!!

When I said before that we had 4 Eskie Gatherings in the month of July, I was incorrect. I was counting the number of gatherings on my fingers, but since that one "thumb" is way up there, I forgot about it and mis-counted. July had FIVE eskie events! Three of them were in ONE weekend!

1. My half-sis came to visit me.
2. Abby the Eskie's Barkday Pawty

3. Visiting with Darcy's Puppies
4. Eskie Meet!
5. And Eskies on tour in San Francisco

Today I will blog about Darcy's Puppies. Meet my grandnieces (3) and grandnephew(1)!

My Mom and Dad visited my breeder and got to meet Darcy and Juneau's 2.5 to 3 week old puppies! Darcy is Ender and Kona's littermate. We had seen puppies as young as 7 weeks old before, but never as young as 3 weeks old! Unfortunately, I, Hana the Dog, wasn't able to go see them because they are too young to be around new dogs. They get their immunity from their mother's milk, but they don't get vaccinated until much later, so it's better to be safe and not expose them to new dogs yet. *

Casper D Dog's Mom went with my parents to see the puppies. She said "I've never seen Eskie puppies in person before so it was a treat. Darcy the mom was such a sweetie pie. And the babies were soooo very cute. Makes you wanna take them all home. Casper was quite suspicious when I got home. He sniffed me all over for quite some time even though I'd washed my hands and changed my clothes. "

Enough with the text. Here is what you've all been waiting for!!! Photos!!!

Purple girl (the most vocal of the litter) and blue boy. Notice their ears are UP. They are first UP and then later they go DOWN, then later they will be UP again.* MY ears were finally UP for good after I was about 13 weeks old.


Very cute when puppies snuggle. Their eyes opened just a few days before the visit. They have a hint of very dark blue in their eyes... this means they will have really dark brown eyes when they get older*


Proud Momma, Darcy! Notice how she's got that 3 legged pose down pat! See, runs in our family!

Meal time! Darcy is such a good Mom!

Hee hee, look at the puppy that is upside down!

Some have pink noses and some have black noses. They will all turn mostly black later.

Time for the daily weigh-in. She's just about out-grown the bowl!

First nail trim! Red girl was not a happy camper!

Lastly, here is a very cute video. Turn up the volume, really up high, so you can hear what my Dad says about "the energetic one." He cracks me up! Oh, and go get your Human so they can hear and see this too!

*JB, I didn't do quite as good a report as you would have done, but these asterisked items are what I learned about eskie pups! Next time I will turn it over to you to do a better report.