Posts Tagged ‘dachshund

Best medicine for a long day

Only watch this if you need to decompress. Or smile. Or roll your eyes. Cap’n Jack is just good medicine. Mind you, I’m crawling on the living room floor with my Canon PowerShot, so we are not talking quality directing here.
Warning: baby talk involved

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Litter box appetizers, served warm. Yum!

Cap’n Jack gets cut off.
You may recall that a month ago I wrote about Mr. Chubs, better known as Cap’n Jack, in my newspaper column, “Homeplace.”
For those who missed such stellar writing, I’ve placed it farther down in today’s post.
If you’ve been keeping track, you know that about six weeks ago we discovered our sweet [...]

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Red, White and Dachshund

…he gave us no chance to add in the blues
Saturday was Cap’n Jack’s first Fourth of July at our house.
As most of you recall, we adopted our wittle baby boy at the Blue Mountain Humane Society in October, yes we did, didn’t we? Didn’t we, Jack Jack? Yes!
Um, yep, that is what I’m reduced to [...]

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Cinco de Mayo and Blog War continues. And for Jeremy, may as well be Dog Days

Today we are talking about animals, specifically Tracey’s cows. But first we need to talk about my animal and the disrespect shown by Mr. Gonzalez.
An alert reader, AnnieKate, left a comment on my blog last night (you can bet I’m checking those often during the Every Day in May war event), asking if I had [...]

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Dear First Family, may I suggest…

Alrighty then, the Obamas are getting ready to do some puppy shopping, according to all the major U.S. newspapers. And since the Bush family had Scotties, I’m guessing those won’t be seriously considered. Not to mention Malia Obama has allergies, according to news reports.
Which I can relate to. My son-in-law has serious issues with pet [...]

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Captain Jack to the rescue

I’m sure I’ll end up writing a column about this for the newspaper that hosts this blog, the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, but I just couldn’t wait to share the news!
Many of you will remember we lost our dog of 10 years, Ashley, back in March. The heart break of losing The-Best-Dog-in-the-Universe almost did us in. [...]

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