Baby Book

This blog is turning out to serve as a baby book for Bodhi.

Thanks to the stranger friends who said the nice things about the doggies yesterday.

When Maddie was little I started calling her Maddie Pookins.

Bodhi still has his puppy fangs and was climbing on me the other day to give me some love with his fangs bared. I have started calling him Bodhi Monster.

I wonder if I am gender stereotying them already.

Bodhi also has a rasta name - Bodhi Mon.

I know what it looks like when a girl dog squats to pee but I am still getting used to what a boy dog looks like - so I can be effective at house training. Not sure if all boy dogs stand this way but Bodhi stands like a telemark skiier - one leg in front of the other with bent knees and ankles. Will try to get a picture.

Pics of the Day

New Kid Pics

He is more docile than Maddie. She was the spunky puppy of the two available yellow females. Both available chocolate males were docile. It was difficult to decide. But we picked this one for several reasons. He bit me less than did the other one. He followed Maddie around more than did the other one. He wagged his tail more when I talked to him than did the other one. He seemed to be a little bigger than the other one. This was a consideration only because he will probably be smaller than Maddie anyway - but if he is less smaller then he might have less of a complex about it.

She was born 06/06/04 and came home 08/02/04.

He was born 11/29/07 and came home 01/25/08.

I believe it is the case that any color combination of parents can result in any color of offspring - black yellow chocolate - within the same litter. The only exception is that two yellow parents will produce only yellow offspring.

Maddie Loves Bodhi !

& Bodhi Loves Maddie !

After much thought and talk with friends and family and meeting the new little guy - the new little guy shall be called Bodhi:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi

He was going to be Barkley during the whole drive down to pick him out. But when we picked him out - his name was not Barkley. But after many suggestions from Ed and Kim and Cheryl on Friday evening - none of which ended up being his name - I realized that his name is Bodhi.

He is a bit of a different puppy than was Maddie. He is the same age that she was when she came home but he is much smaller. She was 16 pounds and he was/is about 9 pounds. His birth parents are about the same weight as Maddie - about 70 pounds - but they are both considerably shorter and stockier than Maddie and her parents. So I expect that he will be shorter and stockier as well.

Her birth parents are Onyx [black] and Grace [yellow].
His birth parents are Elvis [chocolate] and Pryscilla [chocolate].

All four parents are AKC registered - and Maddie and Bodhi are both eligible for full registration - but I do not plan to register them with the AKC. They are special enough as it is - this will not do anything to enhance that!

Home Again

We are home again - for those who care about such things.

All is well with double trouble in the house.

Will post more soon.

Travel Day Tomorrow

Thanks to Dad, Nicole, Kim, Laura, and Keith for all their advice toward the name of the new little guy.

Maddie and I are traveling tomorrow/Friday to Douglas AZ to pick him out and bring him home. I think I need to wait to meet him to name him but I am leaning toward one particular name.

He is one of these - either the one in the dark green collar or the one in the black collar - and check back for updates once he has been picked:

http://cochiselabradors.com/Litters/Pryscilla/11-29-07/male_puppies.html

Island Music

I heard a great Jimmy Buffett style band - called the Beach Bums - on one of my earlier trips to South Padre Island. The last time I heard them was June 2007. I looked them up on the web before our Thanksgiving 2007 trip to try to find the locales and dates and times of their gigs. Could not find anything but an email address for a band member so I emailed him asking for locales dates times. Did not hear back from him before our trip - but on our trip I learned that the band had dis-band-ed. But I heard from him after our trip - saying that the band had dis-band-ed. I did not reply - but only because I am a huge email slacker. And then I heard from him again a month or so later. I have not yet replied but that is next on my extensive "to do" list. One of my resolutions is to catch up on - and to keep up with - email. Here are some very cool excerpts from his second email:

"I hope you'll come back to the Island again and look me up. I don't know for sure if I'll be playing solo or have a new band next year, but I hope you'll give me (or us...) a listen if you can. I want to tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time to look us up. I moved here 14 years ago because I wanted to catch people on vacation, and help them have a good time. Your e-mail tells me that it wasn't completely in vain, and you wouldn't believe how much that means in December. Thanks again"

P.S. My blog is titled "Migration" because this is the Buffett song that is my current favorite.