hai peeples, Snickers here!

Snickers & Emmie walking together in Alabama

Emmie & Snickers hanging out at the hotel in New York City

i looked thru mom’s email and did see that she was talking wif emmie’s pawrents, troy & mareike, last night. troy did say they haz 25 days left to raise $25,000. (that iz a LOT of kibble, my furriends!) they want to do that by getting more miles sponsored. do you think if i can get at least 100 miles sponsored for them that she will agree to marry me?? lets try and find out!!

if you want emmie to agree to marry me:

1. go to http://www.herosponsor.com/
2. fill out the form to sponsor a mile (you can donate as little as $5.00 but i hopes you will give at least $10 so i can raise another $1,000 or more for emmie’s cause)
3. you can fill in your name or stay anonymous
4. THIS VERY IMPAWTENT: where it sez leave a message you haz to say say yes emmie, marry snickers!
5. then, if you no mind, tell all your furriends as well so we can impress emmmie a whole lot!

thank you for helping me help emmie help her dad help our heroes!

luv,
snickers

hi folks, snickers here!

this weekend i did get to meet another PAWESOME black and tan shiba inu. (she iz my new girlfriend. ssshhhhh) her name iz emmie and she iz walking all the way across the country and back with her human, troy yocum. sometimes she rides in the truck but she haz walked 2,300 miles on her own four paws!!!

here iz a pikture of emmie and me when we first met and a couple piktures of us walking together.

while we were hanging out together, emmie told me that she haz a Sekrit Mishun! i promised her that i would help let peeples know about it so we can all help her be successful. so, go here to learn about emmie’s mishun. if you can afford even just a little donashun to help, my mom sez it iz a very good place to spend your donashun dollars!

luv and shiba kisses,
snickers

To learn more about Troy and Emmie’s hike across America, check out Troy’s site, DrumHike.com.

Also see:

• Hike for Heroes on facebook
• Troy on Twitter
• Emmie the Super Dog on Twitter

Today has been a good day for dogs and a lazy day for me. Friday, I spent time figuring out what I do, why I do it, and what I really should focus on. Yesterday, I ran errands and did chores – a typical Saturday. Normally, on Sunday, I would work… work on rescue stuff, work on NSCA stuff, take Snick for his shelter visit, answer email, do some web development or updates for clients or one of my clubs/charities, etc. NOT TODAY!

I started the day with good intentions, but after making breakfast for me and T, I went outside with the dogs and my Brugo full of fresh coffee and it was 52 degrees and sunny. Our yard has been alternatingly frozen and flooded for the past few weeks, so we were all happy to lounge in the sun for awhile. Here are a few photos and videos of our sunny yard time. As you can see, Sophie tries really hard to get Secret to play with her. She mostly steers clear of Snickers so they don’t fight.

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I’ve been working on getting Snickers and Sophie to play in the yard. I usually have to chase Snick around and, once he’s running, Sophie will join in and they’ll run some Shiba 500s together. We’ve done that every morning for the past few days. I never get that on video though, because I’m running around like a lunatic, waving my arms and saying “Get her Snick. Get her!” (I’m sure my neighbors are ready to have me committed.) Even with playing a little outside though, they’ve still been fighting in the house. Whenever they end up in a small space together, Sophie gets excited and starts fly snapping or barking and Snick interprets it as aggressive or rude and attacks her.

Well, today, we had a HUGE breakthrough. I put baby gates up a day or two after Sophie arrived. I lets Snick and Sophie be around each other without fighting and that seems to be helping. Sometimes, when Sophie is relatively calm, I let her out to hang out in the den "with the big dogs." She was pretty good and Snick eventually decided to get off the couch to play with her. I was worried. When he first invited her to play, she play bowed back at him, which was ADORABLE. They played briefly and then she started barking at him. That’s about the time I got the camera running, so this is pretty noisy footage. I was VERY proud of Snickers that he didn’t attack her for barking. It did start to get too heated right at the end though, so I stopped the camera and split them up before it turned into a fight.

So, like I said, today was a good day for dogs. I spent most of my day going outside and back in with the dogs. Of course now I’m paying the price, scrambling to do a bunch of work I should have done earlier today. The dogs are all happily snoozing though, so it’s all good. I’ll catch up on the other stuff.

Note at 12:17 AM: Snickers and Sophie just had their worst fight so far (of course). On the upside, it ended with Sophie cowering upside down in a corner, so maybe she’ll start to figure out she needs to respect Snickers. Maybe.

hai peeples, Snickers here!

one of my Shiba friends on Twitter had the brilliant idea to haz a secret santa wif each other. we called it #secretshiba. one peeple drew names for us and told us who to send a gifty to. i opened my #secretshiba gift this morning. it was so much fun, i wanted to share it with you!!!

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After we were done with #secretshiba we got in the car and went to my grandpeeples house. (this iz the first time in my life i haz lived so close to my grandpeeples. iz very exciting to go see them all the time) in the middle of all the gifties being exchanged between the peeple me and Secret each got one too!

mom helped me unwrap my gift	FUN TOY!!! mom played wif me
then secret got a gifty. mom helped her too.	secret ran off with her toy to keep it away from me. (i played wif it later)

after all that, i haz a sleepies