Friday, February 19, 2010

Amy Atkins is My Favorite Family Member


I would like to take this time to thank my wonderful cousin Amy for being my one and only follower. I hope you other family members reading this realize that you just lost A LOT of brownie points in my book, some of you are even in the negative points (Eva Landreth, for reasons previously mentioned in a little blog entry entitled "Gifts from Family"). Amy, you now have your own chapter of greatness in my little book of brownie points.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Pupalups


So for anyone who knows me, you know that I am pretty much obsessed with my dogs. I hate to admit it but I like my dogs more than I like most people. And I can't seem to wrap my head around "cat people." I mean really. I cannot understand why anyone would prefer a cat over a dog. And call me crazy, but personally I prefer dogs to children as well. Anyway I think you get my point. My personal little man is quite the mystery. I can't figure out what dogs got together and created this 8th wonder of the world. So today I spent too many hours to admit searching for dogs that resemble my sweet baby angel. It's obvious he is part terrier, his personality screams terrier. But which one I don't know. On my quest today I came across a list of "designer dogs." I have known about these "designers dogs" for a while now, but I thought they mostly consisted of anything mixed with a poodle. It seems that this list of designs has grown much larger. I'm pretty sure that anything flies as long as it has a catchy name. If I can ever figure out what 23 dogs got together to create Rocket, I will most definitely be compiling a list and creating quite the little name for this new "breed." And believe you me I WILL be getting it recognized as a designer breed. I found that even our chubby little stinker, Shelby is one of these so-called "designer dogs," her official breed is Schnug (pug and miniature schnauzer). A few years ago her official breed was Mutt. I guess breeders finally wised up and realized that mixed breeds make way better pets. Now designer dogs cost more than pure breeds. Call me old fashion but I like to get my designer dogs from the local pound, or in Rocket's case, Craigslist. Moral of the story, I love my dogs!