Good News For Patrick The Miracle Dog... And Fun For Me!

We just saw this short article on Patrick's continuing recovery and thought we'd share the good news. Apparently, Patrick's caregivers have decided that his health is recovered sufficiently to dub today his "Re-Birth-day", complete with green balloons. They called it "a celebration of survival, recovery, and the start of his new life." As we all know by now, Patrick was found exactly one month ago in a trash bin just hours from death. We say, "hurray" for Patrick,  and a hearty "thank you" to the sanitation worker who rescued him, and the caregivers who will continue to nurture him back to optimal health! Check out the full article, complete with slide show here: www.examiner.com/dogs-in-national/happy-birthday-patrick.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch (I mean our house), we had some fun visitors this weekend-Parental Unit's good friend from grade school came in to celebrate her sister's birthday. Of course, I just had to get in on the action. I look thrilled in this picture, don't I? (Big-ify photo for more comical effect).

And here's a picture of the birthday girl's rescued Lhasa Apso, Sparkey. He's a 12 year old firebrand looking shockingly innocent in this photo.

P.S. We have some surprises coming up soon, so stay tuned!

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Guess Whose Birthday It Was On Saturday?

Well, if it wasn't mine, why am I wearing this stupid hat and posing in front of Bella's birthday present?

It was really our cat, Bella's, 6th birthday (October 9th is the day Parental Unit found her in a Walgreens parking lot when she was just a wee kid of two months. The legend has it that she was hiding under the gigantic wheel of a truck, the man had just gotten back in and started the engine when Parental Unit screamed and bent down...little Ms. Prissy ran to her and jumped in her arms and the rest is my tortured history).

So here's what happened the other day: Parental Unit borrows a little party hat from our neighbor and tries to put it on Bella, at the same time posing her on top of the prize that she won at the recent BlogPaws conference: a really cool "Litter Robot" - an automatically cleaning litter box-see picture(s) above and below.

Now...you can imagine trying to convince little Ms. Prissy to: (a) wear a party hat, (b) stay on top of this box, and (c) celebrate her birthday (we did get treats for our efforts).

So here's the result: Bella with hat askew, trying to flee!

So what did Parental Unit do while she had the camera out? Yep, you guessed it-she put that dang hat on me and snapped away. Here I am after I've given up...

Now, we did want to tell you a bit about the "Litter Robot" in case you haven't heard about it. As you can see from the picture, the kitty enters her litter box from the dome -shaped structure, does her business, and then exactly 7 minutes after she departs, the "Robot" cleans the litter by sweeping the clumps to the waiting litter bag below: no fuss no muss, and no more cleaning out litter boxes! Just remove the biodegradable bag and toss. If you want to learn more about the Litter Robot, check out their website here: www.litter-robot.com

And let's end this birthday post with a picture of Ms. Prissy (I mean Bella) shortly after Parental Unit first brought her home.

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