A very short video of me sleeping and snoring. You have to listen pretty carefully for the snores.
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This is a breath-taking (very short) video showing a doggeh balancing a HUGE TOWER of dog treats on his nose.
I am amazed. I wouldn’t be able to do that. My mouth would get the better of me. And my nose isn’t long enough.
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Hi Mrs Danielle. How are you today?
I’m very good thank you. :)
Tell me about yourself? Are you a dog?
I am not a dog. I am a person. I am a freelance writer and blogger. I live with my husband, three teenagers, and soon, a grandchild. I live in this little town in Manitoba, Canada.
If you were a dog, which breed would you be?
I would be a mixed breed (because I have many different backgrounds) – maybe a mixed terrier and collie because I’m very friendly and I like to have fun.
Do you have any dogs?
I don’t have dogs now but I grew up with LOTS of dogs. We had three full grown Great Danes and nine Great Dane puppies and a Cocker Spaniel all at one time!
They ate a lot of food and liked to run around in the bushes and sometimes they would come back smelling like skunk (stinky!) and need a tomato juice bath.
One of the dogs thought a porcupine would be fun to play with and she needed to be taken to the vet to have a lot of quills removed. My dad and the vet were very gentle with her when she had them removed.
Our Cocker Spaniel – Ginger – liked to chase squirrels and one time she ran right up a tree after one. Then she realized that she was not a squirrel but a dog and she couldn’t get down (my mom helped her down).
What is your most favourite thing to do? Mine is eating, followed by squirrel chasing.
Honestly? My favourite thing to do is sleeping!!! I love to just completely relax and close my eyes and sleep.
But if I have to be awake my next favourite thing is learning. I love to learn new ways of doing things – especially tech related. I love learning new software or tweaking a WordPress template and things like that!
Can you send me a photo of your most favourite possession (it can’t be human). I like my toy which looks like a spring roll.
My favourite possession is definitely my laptop. Her name is Garcia (named after Penelope Garcia from the TV show Criminal Minds). She can keep me entertained for hours (too many hours my husband might say!).
If persons and anipals want to know more about you, where should they go?
Anyone who wants to know more about me should go to http://about.me/daniellemcgaw – there they will find links to all the places that I hangout online like my Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and, of course, my blogs.
Thank you for being my 1,600th Twitter follower Mrs Danielle!
Baxter Bunny writes …
Sadie Shih Tzu asked me to do a guest post for her fabulous blog. I felt so honored and then I had this terrible creative block, so I kept putting it off.
This creative block has been really bugging me and I’ve been wandering around my neighborhood trying to get the creative juices flowing and nothing has happened.
I sit in the park all day watching the squirrels chase each other off their territory and protect their buried treasure of nuts all around.
I sit on the fence and watch the dogs run back and forth through their dog park – they look like they’re having so much fun. In fact everyone seems to be having a lot of fun doing creative things except for me.
We had a hurricane here in New York, and everyone was so busy preparing for the worst.
My friends at the dog shelter were especially busy because the shelter was in a flood zone so they had to find a space to accommodate all the dogs that was NOT in a flood zone.
Someone offered a great space and after they moved all the puppies out of their normal space. They were a little stressed out.
In case you didn’t know, we animals have special senses that can detect bad weather coming, so sometimes we start freaking out about weather that might be hundreds of miles away.
Anyway, my friends called me and said, “Hey Baxter, since you occasionally volunteer as a dog toy, we were wondering if you could stop by and play with the dogs? We could really use a dog toy and you would help the animals get their minds off all the stress of the circumstances.”
I was feeling pretty down in the dumps and I really didn’t want to go, but I went anyway because I take my job title of “Volunteer Dog Toy” seriously.
Those little dogs were so happy I was there! They couldn’t even wait for me to get in the cage.
You probably think it’s real easy being a volunteer dog toy, but there are some real hazards with this job.
First off, I have to be real careful that the dogs don’t bite hard enough to rip my precious polyester coat. I mean, that may be okay for some dog toys, but I am not your average toy, I am Baxter Bunny and I have a blog and Facebook page to keep up and running. I can’t be all mangled from the hazards of my volunteer job. I have to look good for photographs all the time. So, it’s best that the dogs are closely supervised by some responsible humans.
The dogs don’t mean to rip me to shreds but, you know, sometimes puppies get carried away and they have to be taught to play nice.
I always make sure there are some good humans around to supervise, and it’s best if those humans have really loud voices so they can yell in the direction of the dogs when it looks like they’re about to rip me to shreds. A simple “No” or “Easy now Doggie” is usually good enough.
Even though we don’t like accidents, they do happen.
That’s why Photoshop is such a good invention.
I mean, if I were accidentally ripped I can always use the magic of Photoshop to hide it. Movie stars do it all of the time.
You don’t really think Tom Cruise still looks like he’s 30 years old – he has wrinkles all around his eyes and on his forehead that magically disappear with a few Photoshop techniques. Thank goodness I have not had to use these techniques because, fortunately for me, all my Volunteer Dog Toy accidents have been very minor and have only required a couple stitches on leg. No big deal.
My day of volunteer work really helped wipe the blues away. I was so busy trying to think of something creative that I forgot to just get out and have some fun.
All that fun with the dogs gave me something creative to write about and took me right out of that funk I was in for so long. Seriously, who wouldn’t be smiling after spending time with these awesome dogs?
I want to thank Sadie for inviting me to write a guest post and giving me the opportunity to share a little about myself. Sadie Shih Tzu rocks!
About Baxter Bunny
Baxter Bunny is a stuffed bunny who sat on a pillow on top of someone’s bed for years until one day he got really tired of being a pillow ornament and decided to hop off that pillow and see the world.
Since that day Baxter has travelled all over the city of New York and quite a few other cities too – he is hoping to travel the world!
You can check out Baxter’s latest adventures at www.thebaxterbunny.com. When Baxter isn’t blogging and tweeting he enjoys art, lettuce and making people smile.
