Graham is in Austin tonight at a monthly gig, and for the first time in awhile I have the evening to myself.  It's been a few months.  Last night, he left pretty late at night, and I went to bed shortly after, so it wasn't like it is when the club is open and I don't see him from about 6:00 p.m. until he comes home at one or two in the morning.  He ( Read more... )

Fusilli just jumped on the couch!  He's 12 weeks old today ( Read more... )

Fusilli went to the ranch this weekend.  He had a BLAST and thought that the ranch was great fun.  He went flying through the screen porch because he saw me and Graham on the patio and thought it was unfair that we were there and he wasn't.  He also discovered that it's lots of fun to play with his sister in a bigger house.  He didn't understand ( Read more... )

So shortly after Crianza died, I e-mailed her breeder to let her know what had happened. Irma had already been in the loop about Crianza's illness, but since we didn't have a diagnosis until the day she died, she didn't know what had been wrong with her.  I thought that she needed to know.  In the e-mail, I said that Celosa really does best when ( Read more... )

One hopes he's responsible about thisI always get nervous when someone famous gets a puli, because it brings attention to the breed, and attention to the breed inevitably means puppy mill. Gavin Rossdale used to* have a puli named Winston, and he was on the CD of a Bush album. I've never received so many e-mails as when he (Gavin, not Winston) ( Read more... )

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I'm not feeling well today. I went to bed feeling ok, and then had weird dreams about dogs and skiing. I blame Westminster and the Olympics. I woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible sore throat, and I'm pretty sure that I'll go home part way through the day today ( Read more... )

Animal Planet has a series called "Dogs 101" that I occasionally watch. It profiles the various breeds, and I think it's generally pretty accurate. Catching up on my puli listerv, I discovered that the puli segment (for some reason, Discovery's websites won't let you embed) has finally been filmed and aired. Many of the people on the listerv's ( Read more... )

Celosa has decided to become a challenge. I think it's probably due to having a weird sort of environment right now, since her cousin Zapata is staying with us until my parents get back from vacation on Saturday. It also probably has to do with being almost 13 weeks old and wanting to test boundaries ( Read more... )