Cartoon Characters

We just read a post on MayaMaries blog from the beginning of the month, and she was telling what cartoon characters she thinks she and Missy would be (she's Tigger, bouncing on her tail, and Missy is Eyeore). We thought this sounded like lots of fun, so we all decided we wanted to play, too. We put our furry heads together, and this is what we came up with:
I am definitely the Tasmanian Devil, (furry whirling dervish of destruction! Whoohoo)

Mikki is Tweety Bird (very cute and dainty, but kinda scared and nervous a lot, "I taught I taw a putty tat! I did, I did!) Mom says she's gotten more nervous since I came along, she just can't figure out WHAT to do with me!

Cracker can't decide if he's Speedy Gonzalez or the Roadrunner (they both zoomzoom REALLY fast, but he kind of likes Speedy's yell, "Arriba, Arriba, Ondalay,Ondalay")

Finally, Chili is the perfect canine version of Garfield, chubby, fluffy, grumpy, chowhound, lazy couch potato, who doesn't appreciate being bothered.

Our mom hasn't figured out the cartoon or graphics thing, either, so no pictures to go with our cartoon characters, but maybe someday I'll get her fully trained.....
Well, mom's finished the Sunday Husky Meal cookoff, time for me to go see if she'll let me clean the big roaster pan for her. Leave us a comment and let us know what cartoon characters you are!
Manykisses,
Bama & the RHP

Whooos of relief, dreams of grinders, and celebrity rants

Hooowwwooooo, Everyhusky!
We got grrrrreat news from the Kapp Pack and Queen Meeshka's site, Rex was found safe and sound this morning, thank DOG! We hope he enjoyed his little adventure cause we're pretty sure his foster parents are going to have him on double super secret probation for a while...Sorry Rex, but that's the price you pay, (and you really are better off letting the humans take care of your every whim anyway, it can get pretty rough out there on your own).

We're all excited here. Mom & Dad have been cooking all our meals since the petfood scare, but we still have occasional problems with soupy poops, so mom started looking into the BARF (Bones And Raw Food) diet. She read somewhere that huskies can't digest cooked chicken fat, and even though they try to get all the skin and fat off before they cook our dinner, we still get a little bit, and that's the only thing that she can think of thats upsetting our tummies, so she's shopping for a meat grinder that can handle bones. She said she'll start getting us all kinds of tasty meats and fishes and grind them up whole with fresh fruits, veggies and grains, and see if that does the trick. I heard her talking to dad about apples, carrots, broccoli and oats, in addition to chicken, pork, beef and lamb. We're all drooling at the thought.....Dad's afraid eating raw meat isn't safe, and he worries that we'll all get trickynoses or salmon-Ella, but huskies don't do tricks, at least not without treats, and the Barf diet sounds like a treat to us. We've all discussed it and can't come up with one single trick that any of our noses can do, and we love salmon (whatever it's name is, although Ella is a funny name for a fish) so we decided dad made that up, or he's been hanging out with some pretty weird huskies! Mom says if we weren't domesticated nobody would cook our food, wolves and coyotes don't fire up the grill before they eat, and look how much we all love the tasty snacks we catch in our yard, dad hasn't grilled a single squirrel or possum for us, so she thinks it's worth a try....We now have them cooking for us all day long on Sunday, then they bag up a weeks worth of meals and freeze them, mom says if the Barf diet works it'll cut out a huge amount of the prep time, and we will have more time to play outside or go do something fun, so it sounds like win/win to us. What do all you huskies out there in blogger world think? To Barf, or not to Barf, that is our question.

Now for the rant, gggggrrrrrr....another stupid celebrity got all their dogs taken away this week, starving, no water, and beat up, not to mention the bodies of the poor furkids buried in the yard! Our mom loves sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa county, Aridzona, (that's where she spent her puppyhood). He took the poor pups to one of his holding facilities to be cared for, and nursed back to health if possible, and said on the news that he won't tolerate people who abuse animals in his county, he'll throw the book at 'em. We hope it's a really HEAVY book! What is with these celebrities abusing dogs and using them to make money from that abuse??!! Do they think they're above the law? We think Queen Meeshka should put her "justice system" picture on another line of fashions that say "Our opinion of people that abuse animals for profit and "sport"" .That DMX rapper guy should have picked a different place than Maricopa County, sheriff Joe is the same guy that made news a few years back for making prisoners wear pink underwear, eat green bologna, and sleep in tents in the desert (when they complained of the heat and "inhumane" lodging, he said "if it's good enough for our soldiers in Iraq, it's more than good enough for convicted criminals", you go, Joe!). Sheriff Joe is our hero, and we think he should make the responsible person for this horrendous abuse live in a tent in pink underwear, celebrity or not, but green bologna is too good for anyone who could treat animals like that. Mom says she's afraid this is just the tip of the iceburg, the more of these guys that get caught, the more names will come out and the more will get caught, it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better, and a lot more celebrities and sports stars are going to have to face the music. That's ok with us, as long as they stop more dogs from being abused and neglected.
Whhheeewww, I feel better getting that off my chest.....

I guess I'll let mom have the 'puter back now, she said she wants to look up barf recipes and find out the ratios for the ingredients, so she can do the math and figure out her furball grocery list, (1 meal x 4 huskies x 7 days = HAPPY US!!) sounds like a worthwhile activity so I'll smell y'all later...
Manykisses,
Bama & the RHP

Alert-Escaped Foster Husky

If you are in Pennsylvania, please follow this link to read about Rex, who escaped from foster care and is just finishing up heartworm treatment.
Sorry, our humom is hopeless, can't figure out how to create a link in a post, but here's the address.....or you can follow the link to the Kapp Pack at the bottom of our page
http://kapppack.blogspot.com/
Manykisses,
Bama

The COLD War-version 2

Northern Breeds vs. 2-legged humans (notice, "humans" isn't in caps?!)
I'm so aggravated at the humom I can hardly type! I just couldn't believe that all our new friends had deserted us, so I told her to check her settings, maybe she had done something that wouldn't allow anyone to leave us comments anymore....sure enough, she had the "moderator" setting so that I would have to approve any comments left before they would be published. But....(and here's the really stupid part), she didn't have the email notification set so that we would know anyone had left us a message, and she never thought to check her settings! And here I thought all my new friends had forgotten me already, but NOOOOO, there's all kinds of messages from lots of our new buds. If I weren't so PO'd at my slave, I'd be dancing for joy. (OK, I'm dancing for joy inside, but I refuse to let HER see it, I barely managed to restrain my urge to P on her!!!)
If I wasn't here to keep track of her our blog would be on the other side of the RB with all our favorite recorded programs from the DVR. I just don't know what I'm going to do with her, does anyone out there have an experienced secretary in need of a job? One more screwup and I'm gonna have to fire her. ;>~
Army of 4, I'm adding your link right now while she's on her best slavish behavior, please do add us to your site, us furballs gotta stick together, the humans are hopeless....
Manykisses,
Bama

We're SO lonely

I'm beginning to get a complex here....I know I was incommunicado for a couple of weeks with a dead computer, but the funeral is over, I'm back up and running, and nobody will come see me. Is it my breath? Maybe it's Chili's breath,...if I make him promise not to breathe on you will you come see us??? Even though we live in Florida, our shoulders are getting cold.....We miss all our new friends, what happened to everyone???
I'm thinking the only ones getting my manykisses are my own pack!
Sitting here tapping my claws impatiently on the keyboard, waiting for someone to come visit....


This is us waiting for the emailman to bring us a message (Mikki is off somewhere admiring herself in the mirror, but the rest of us are waiting to hear from our friends....
Bama & the RHP

Newest pics

It's probably kind of hard to tell since we're both reclining, in MY recliner, but I told y'all I was almost as big as Mikki already! Mom & Dad keep trying to get pics of us standing next to each other, but usually if we are that close, the teeth are out, and we're arguing about who is going to listen to who.... Look at the expression on Mikki's face, she's already thinking about yelling at me.

And there she goes.....This is how most of our pictures look....Sibling rivalry! That sister of mine will never accept that I am the queen, at least until I'm big enough to sit on her until she squeals "UNCLE"

I've been really studying Cracker's moves, now that I'm big enough to keep up in "husky tag", and thought I had him figured out, but tonight he looked at me and said "I taught you everything you know, but I didn't teach you everything I know", then he zigged while I was zagging and I ran headfurst into the fence! When I turned around he was laughing at me, but I just shook out my fur, gave him my best haughty look, and said "I meant to do that!"
Here is Cracker looking skeptical: "yeah, right....whatever!"

And Chili laughing at us both:






We got our blogathon prizes from Queen Meeshka today, in addition to the pawprint keychain, she also thru in a cool little husky stuffie keychain, but mom wouldn't let us have it (although we were all really interested to see what he had inside him) . Mom put both of them on her car keys, she said they go with the husky decor in her car, 2 husky stickers in the back window, 2 husky beanies on the dash, a fine coating of fur on all the surfaces, and nose prints on all the windows! We had to agree, the keychains were the perfect accessory for our perfectly decorated car. Thanks Meeshka , we love our prizes!
In the human news, we're all really glad that Michael Vick person is finally going to face the music, if he was here we'd all bite him. Mom said for punishment they ought to put him in a pen with one of his fight-trained dogs so he can get a taste of his own poison.
Not much else to tell, kind of a slow Monday, guess I'll go for now, maybe I can convince mom that it's time for desert...
Manykisses,
Bama

Finally.......We're Back!!!

Whooohooo, I didn't think we were ever going to make it back online. Mom & Dad have been monitoring from remote locations when they could, and tried to remember to tell us when we got messages from all our new friends, but they're old, and their minds are going....if they lived in dog years, they'd already be dead, so they have to be excused for their lapses, I guess....Both of their bosses frown on blogging from work, and even when Dad is in AlaBAMA (I love that!), he says he's there to help take care of his mom, not play on the computer. It took a lot of claws, bites, and whines to get him to leave that last message.

We're so far behind, it'll probably take us a while to catch up, and go visit all our new friends on their blogs, but I promise we'll get there, or mom's legs will look like hamburger! I'm gonna be working on Dad, too. He needs to get some new pictures of me on our new 'puter, cause I sure don't look like that sweet little lamb anymore. I'm only about 1/2 inch shorter than Mikki now, (I'm 14 weeks, she's 14 months), and she probably only outweighs me by 10 lbs or so. Mom says if weeds grew as fast as I am, you wouldn't be able to see our house! They are now operating under the assumption that I'm husky mixed with giraffe, (with rabbit ears, and great dane feet thrown in for good measure)......
The rest of the pack better look out, I'll be twice as big as all of them by the time I'm 6 months, then I'll really be able to start enforcing my will on everyone, if they don't like it I'll just sit on 'em.

There hasn't been much going on around here lately, mom is back to work after a short disability leave, so we're back to our old routine of spending most of the day in the laundry room. I have a crate in there (to protect me when I was littler than everyone else), and the rest of the pack has the rest of the room. I liked it better while mom was home all day and we could make her take us outside every 15 minutes, but it's not toooooo bad, Dad says his work is only 5 minutes from home, and he comes home every day for lunch, and to take us outside, and then we make him bribe us with tasty bites of hot dog to get us back into our laundry room for the afternoon. After reading one of Meeshka's blogs I made mom go get us each a Kong, and tasty stuff to put in them, so at least now we have nourishment to help us survive all those torturous hours in confinement! (Did you feel the "OH, Woe is me" I heap on the human slaves every time they come home??? I hope so, I've been working really hard at perfecting my techniques!)

Our Boogie boy has been over the last 2 weekends in a row, so that's helped get through the puter illness, too. We hadn't seen him in a few weeks while mom was in Chicago, & dad's been back and forth to AlaBAMA, so we REALLY missed him, it's so much fun around here when we have our boy to play with!

Mom said she had a great time at the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago, and that she got to listen to lots of great music, by lots of great Blues players, but I'll never understand how she could fly halfway across the country to hear music, when we sing so beautifully for free every night in our own kitchen. Humans are SO weird! At least she logged on for me and helped keep Meeshka company for the final stretch of the blogathon, I was gonna push her out of the bed when she got home if she hadn't! Now she's trying to reach the Harnessed to Hope folks to honor our pledge, when the old 'puter died she lost all of her info to paypal, (and everything else she had stored for the last 6 years) and she can't log in to send her money. Not only that but she said someone stole her identity and has been buying lots of stupid stuff with her plastic cards, so now she's scared to transmit sensitive info online, even on "secure" sites. (If I find the jerk that's trying to be my mom, I'm gonna sick the whole pack on him!!! It won't be pretty!!!) I guess I'll have to chew on her ankles until she sends them an old fashioned check by snailmail, cause she said she got caught by an automated phone system when she called. I don't know what that means, but I wish she could get one of the human slaves at HTHNBR to call her back, she promised me she would think about buying us one of their Pretty Sled Dogs DVD's.

Our electronics seem to be trying to start their own HULA rebellion, (I guess that would be EULA?), our DVR mysteriously sent our Iditarod, Breed all About it- husky edition, and wolf programs to the other side of the Rainbow Bridge or something, all of our favorite programs just disappeared, about the same time our old 'puter died. I'm warning everyone now, watch those sneaky 'tronics, they're out to get us!

Gotta go, dinner's ready. I promise to keep this updated now that we're back, and I'm looking forward to visiting all our new friends sites. Until then, playbows and manykisses,
Love,
Bama