Happy New Year

**Happy New Year**

But with all the joy of the holidays, there is also sadness for all the families that have lost a loved one or a loved furry one in 2008. We hope 2009 will be a good year for all of you. May it be filled with love, health and blessings.


Don't forget Carrol Crocker's dogs. She still has 17 left to move before the city of Rainsville, Alabama swoops in on February 9th and kills them.

Pertinent information is on the Green Acres page. These are good dogs. Please consider helping if you are able to.

And in case you're wondering why we post about them but don't volunteer to foster one or more, we live in the city and the limit here is 3 dogs. So Jan would have to send us to the shelter, where we really don't want to go. Especially since we wouldn't come out alive.

So we keep posting about Carrol's dogs and hoping they all find a home in time!


And on a less serious note, here's a fun video. We're glad Maggie doesn't live here or Jan would expect us to be this smart too.

Rookie

We wanted to let everyone know we might be disappearing for a day or two while Jan's brother takes our computer home to do some more work on it -- install a CD/DVD drive, etc. We don't know when he will come by to pick it up, so if we are quiet for a while, we aren't sitting in a tree.

Speaking of sitting in a tree, have you read this post on Skeezix's Catster page? One comment we read with an article said the Humane Society had emailed that a cherry picker was on its way to rescue the cat and end this madness! We sure hope so.

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We can't believe it, but this post has been sitting around ready to go for a few months. It's past time to post it.

We switched counters a couple of months ago on JFF and now we can see what strange search terms folks use to find us. We were laughing over: funny farm mops, quitits (huh?), funny jan things, fridge face, Belgian Sheepdog pitbull mix .... and then we saw it -- canine freestyle Rookie died cancer. Oh, no!

We quickly did our own google search and discovered this to be true. Carolyn Scott's famous freestyle dance partner, Rookie the Golden Retriever, died from cancer July 14th at age 15.

Carolyn, we are sorry. We have enjoyed your choreographed routines, with some special Rookie innovations, and we know he left a large Rookie-size hole in your heart.

We found this montage of highlights from their career.



Carolyn's short, poignant "To Rookie .... because you loved me" can be found here.

We were recently sent a link to a video of a different style of canine dancing, and when we googled the human's name, we found they have a brand new website. Tiny Humphrey and Chandi. Chandi is a world class HTM and Freestyle dog.

To watch the video, click on "Heelwork to Music/Dressage - watch video " in the sidebar. We know you will enjoy it!

Cat Christmas 2008

The day before Christmas, a nice lady gave us kitties a present. Cameron and Percy checked out the box. Cameron said, tentatively, It looks okay. Let's see what's inside.



Jan opened the box, thinking she would just unfold it and..... Cotton's (not shown) eyes widened, Oh, no! It's got parts. Lots of parts to put together. And Jan can't follow directions. We'll never get to play with our new toy.


Percy: Jan finally sat down on the floor tonight and dumped everything on the floor. It's color coded. How hard can it be? Well, that depends on how many times one needs to take it apart and put it back together again. Here I am inspecting the first draft. Actually, I'm getting out before it falls on me.


Okay, it's finally finished. Now, it's Cyndi's turn to inspect it, But I have enough sense to do my quality check from the outside. Notice Jan managed to put it together wrong. There are no holes on the hammock side.


Now that the holes are correctly aligned, Rusty sticks his head inside. It's still standing, guys. Maybe it's safe to enter.


Okay, Percy calls to Rusty, I'll sit on the bookshelf in case I need to dial 911 for medical assistance!


Cameron does a close visual inspection. I don't know about this, Rusty. You might want to come out of there before Jan's handiwork collapses.


He,he, he, Cameron chuckles. Scared him right out of here.


Percy:: I thought he'd never leave. It's my turn again.

Hey, Percy, Crystal whispers, Jan's eating turkey in the kitchen.


Percy: Ha! Did he really think I'd fall for that? Jan didn't cook a turkey this year. ** big sigh** At last. Peace and quiet in my new home.

Christmas Stories

A friend sent us a link to this furry Christmas video and Sam laughed so hard, he accidentally sent the typing chair sailing and knocked me (Percy, the typist) off my seat. We think you'll enjoy it too.





If you have a problem viewing this, click here -- Dogschool Christmas Video

And for a special Christmas story we'd like to introduce you to Little Orphan Annie. We read about her this morning on Kokak's blog. We're so glad this sad story has a chance at a happy ending.