Pictures are done

The photos that were taken on March 4th for the photo cover search for Pet Friendly Magazine are ready to view online. My mom is not sure if she will buy any, a lot will depend on what shot she will get in the mail that they bought that Saturday, it was photographers choice, so we will have to see. Click on Millers Albums to get to the online hosting service page and enter the event code which is: 63787wpetsmile

You can view all of the photos that are on the site, I am pictures 36-41...Look for the good looking, handsome, dashing, happy American Eskimo Dog!

The last week or two

Well, it has been a couple of weeks, so I will catch everyone up on what I have been doing! On Saturday the 4th mom and dad took me to a brand new pet store called Northwest Pets. It was kind of like a grand opening, (even though it had been open for a week or so) so there were hot dogs (the horror! Can't they name them something else?!), chips, drinks and other goodies...But not for me, my parents ate that stuff right in front of me, can you believe it?! How rude! After checking out the store, it was time to get my picture taken. The local Pet Friendly Magazine was doing a photo shoot to search for animals to be on the cover of the magazine! There were a lot of other dogs there, and even some cats, but I didn't see any other type of animal. I hope that I get to be on a cover of the magazine, but if I don't I had fun anyhow. Soon my 8x10 picture of me will come in the mail, and I can have my parents hang it in the best spot in the house!! I also got some new food that day, I really like it and hardly ever skip my meals. And it is supposed to be really good for me. My new food has turkey and salmon in it, yummers! Solid Gold makes it and the kind I got is called Barking at the Moon. My parents are watching my weight because it does have more calories than what I was eating before, but it has no grains in it (so I don't eat my poo so much anymore) and it has high protein! I really like it, and even though my parents say that it is more expensive, they are glad to buy it cuz I like it so much. So that Saturday was a good day! It has snowed a couple times in the past few weeks, but it doesn't build up or stick and it goes away when the sun comes out. I am about half way done with my PetSmart classes. I am doing really well and have made some new friends, and when it ends I will be sad. My dad was teasing me today by asking me if I wanted a brother for my 3rd birthday...come on dad...that's two whole years away...doesn't he know that like, what, 14 years to me?! Well, My mom took some more pictures of me, surprise, surprise...they haven't even had me a year yet, and already they have over 1100 pictures! Of ME! My parents are now officially weird. Let me explain...Last night my mom woke up screaming, so I jumped on the bed to see if she was ok. My dad kept telling me her is was ok, and that it was just a dream, but my mom kept hugging me and looking me over. I guess she said in her dream our fence was broken and I got out...and then I got it by a car and was hurt really bad. Then my dad had a dream that I gained like 40 lbs. How weird is that! Well, I'll end for now, cuz I'm tired, and later I will get pictures up!

I'm so cool!

My mom and dad set up a platform in the upstairs family room so I can see out the window. Now whenever I want, I can hop up there and see what is going on. It's so cozy that I sometimes fall asleep up there!

Good news!

Our friend Casper is home from the hospital! He is doing much better! Thanks for all of you who were praying and thinking about him, and sending good vibes his way! Great to hear Casper ! Continue to heal!

More pictures of me...And my dad!

I like to curl up and sleep on the bed, it is nice and soft. I also like to cuddle with my dad. I miss him when he is at work all day, so we spend some extra time together at night. As you can see I also like to sleep sideways, and stretch out! It makes my parents laugh, and leaves my mom wondering where she is going to sleep. Good thing we own a king size bed and nothing smaller!

Pray for Casper

Casper is an American Eskimo Dog that also has a blog. Click here to read about Caspers critical condition, and please send good vibes, and prayers his way...and also on behalf of his people. There is also a Eskie message board that you can read to get the updates on Caspers condition. (page one of the message board is the start, I had to figure this out, I kept looking for updated and realized I had to turn the pages!)

One of my many resting spots...

I love to lay on the landing in our house. I'm glad that our stairs have a railing and not a wall, so that I can see. I like to look out and over things. I will sleep, play, relax, bark, chew on my toys, and look cute all on the landing! Sometimes, like in this picture I rest my chin on the wood that's a couple inches above the carpet, and put my paws up there too!

I can be a helper!

I like to help my mom do the dishes. As you can see from he picture, washing them is what I do best...or pre-washing! My mom makes sure that it is safe for me to do this, and that she didn't cut anything on the cutting board that would make me sick. I think this time it was hot dogs, yummy! I rarely get to help in the kitchen, usually she is always telling me "out", but sometimes I am sneaky and creep up behind her so that she won't see me. But by the time she turns around and does see me, I can't stop licking, it's just sooo yummy! Maybe I am licking cheese, I can't remember.

Dirt is for digging in, right?!

I like to go outside a dig a hole for my treats. My yard has a garden area that the owners before us had, but no garden so it is just dirt and weeds. Sometimes I get dirty, and as you can see from the pictures Sometimes I get dirt on my nose. My mom has never been able to get a picture of a piece of dirt this big.

Did someone say hair-ball???

My mom holding my fur, a few brush fulls.
My dad's feet by all of my fur.
Look at all that fur!

When my mom brushes me, she gets a lot of my fur in the brush. I don't really enjoy being brushed, so she only brushes me for a little while. The house is always furry after and then my mom has to vacuum. When it is nice outside, sometimes I get brushed outside, and then the wind blows my fur into the neighbors yard! This picture was taken a while ago. My friend Indy at http://indyscorner.blogspot.com/ had a post on pet fur being made into things, so now my mom is going to start saving my fur!

Haven't made a post in a while.

I think I've hit sort of a funk, if that is even possible for dogs....maybe it's just writers block! I have been trying to post some new pictures, but for some reason it was running pretty slow this evening. I will try and post some pics later this week. My mom and dad have had me now for 10 1/2 months, and already they have 950 pictures of me!!! My mom has done some of my pictures in a scrapbook, but there is so much more to do! I think that every now and then I will post some of my puppy pictures for all to see them! Puppies are soooo cute!
Hmmm, lets see...I made a new friend at petsmart! I am going there for classes. My new friends name is Sam. Mom and dad stayed a little late after class so I could play with him. Sam is a Dachshund, I can't remember how old he is, but we liked to play after class! I was so tired after playtime that I was so good on the way home, I just curled up and went to sleep.

Walks are great!

I love my walks! It's great when my mom takes me out, we always walk a differen route, so I never get bored! We use to get out for walks often, just around the block, or the double block, and that was great. But now we have been walking more. I'm not sure how far distance wise we walk, but we walk time wise 50-65 minutes! And ever since my mom got a Gentle Leader for me, I do alot better. I hated it at first, it wouldn't alow me to run ahead, now it is teaching me to walk right beside my mom, and she is always telling me to "heal" whatever that means;)! I have the greatest mom, I'm glad she takes me for walks. I wish my dad would take me sometimes, or atleast both mom and dad. It's starting to get warmer here so my mom can walk and not freeze. I don't understand, I stay nice and warm!

I start some classes at PETsMART on monday! Mom says it will be nice to have me trained and well behaved! I think she's hoping that I'll stop jumping when people come over to visit...I can't help it, I'm just excited, I love people!

sneaky, sneaky!

This is when I got into the kleenex when my dad was sick...I figured that maybe if I pretended to be sick then mom would give me some yummy soup too! And I did this all when mom and dad were in the other room!!

Mr. February!

http://www.rahul.net/ruths/calendar/eskiecalendar2006.pdf

How cool is that!? Yep! It's ME!!!!!!!
My mom got it from another Eskie owner, (she made it) who is part of the Silveroaks gang! The Eskie is Hana, so if you ever visit the Silveroaks site, you can look for Hana!

I like to hide in this basket...but now I am too big! When my greenie got stuck in my mouth, mom thought that it was soooo funny, she had to get the camera before helping me get it un-stuck!

This is my favorite picture!

I was very good for the camera and got a treat.

It was taken last summer. I can't wait for summer to come again!

I'm just getting started...

I am new at blogging...my parent's have a blog, and my mom has a myspace account, but we are all trying to figure out this. My Aunt has a bolg using blogger, so my mom says that she will have to give her a call to find out how to do things like post my picture in the profile, and things like that. Then it will all get up and running!

I am a dog

My name is Ender. I am an American Eskimo Dog. I just turned 1 in January. My mom baked me a doggie cake, and my dad got me presents! Even my birthday hat was made special just for me! (If you look close you can see that it says "yappy barkday"!)