Springtime is finally here

Hi, everyone -

Spring has finally come to our part of New England.  It has been really chilly but now the daffodils are in full bloom.  We also have a cactus that is indoors that has a lot of blooms on it.  Mama counted about 15 of them yesterday.  The color is a lighter shade of red but the blooms are really long.

This is the main reason why we have been behind in blogging.  Jessy was here for over two weeks this time.  Her pawrents went to Germany because Mama's nephew is doing an internship through college there.  Then they finished their trip in Florida driving up in the car that belongs to my "uncle's" parents.  This is Mama's brother-in-law. Jessy went back home on Sunday.

For the most part, Jessy was really good.  She and I (Hershey) had a ton of fun playing tug of war - in fact one of the rope toys is now four smaller rope toys using the strings of the original toy.  Jessy figured out a way to completely undo the knots at both ends of the toy.  She is pretty creative when it comes to destroying toys.  She loved sleeping with Mama and would go in the cage when she was exhausted.  Mama did some testing to see how long it would take her to find hidden treats.  Depending on the trick it took Jessy a little over a minute to get the treats and eat them.  Mama also did a trick using a mirror on us - just to see what we would do.  The first time we ran away from it but the more she tried the trick the more we got used to seeing the mirror.

The not so good things that Jessy did was she took off (the first time was an hour) with Mama on her heels the whole time.  Just when Mama thought to get Hershey to bring Jessy home she found Jessy on the back steps waiting to go into the house.  Mama was pretty angry because I did help a little bit letting Jessy go out on her jaunt.  The second time took fifteen minutes.  Mama was able to get her home on the leash with the help of a neighbor that time.

We are sorry this post is so lengthy.  But Jessy had a way of occupying a lot of Mama's time plus she was taking care of me too.  And of course other things got in the way - such as life and Easter Sunday.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

P.S.  Papa gave Mama her Easter card today.  He left it in the car and totally forgot.  We hope everyone had a Happy and Blessed Easter!

Jessy is visiting us again

Hi, everyone -

Jessy is visiting us this weekend.  My "aunt" had to go to a funeral.  We are having so much fun driving Mama insane.  Today Papa has the day off and we are driving him insane too.  

Papa is making another wooden boat.  He is now cutting the pieces to put the boat together.  He is planning to use this boat for the "Meet at the Beach" weekend in June.  

We don't have any new pictures because the digital camera needs batteries.  We hope you all are having a great weekend!

Love,

Hershey, Kaci, Jessy and Mama

I am Dogster Dog of the Week!

Hi, everyone -

For our next post Mama was going to post some pictures of Kaci and I together.  Instead she woke up this morning to see this:

Mama logged onto Dogster and saw that I (Hershey) is the Dogster Dog of the Week.  She was really surprised and happy.  It is ironic that dogster.com is closing the community in favor of a "digital magazine format" soon.  We will really miss Dogster but Mama is planning to do more blogging and we are on another forum too.

Here are the pictures that I received from  some pup pals:

And here is the picture that Mama saw on the community page which will be there all week:

I have received so many congratulatory wishes, gifts, zealies and lovely comments today.  I guess I am the boss of this household, Mama.

Love -

Hershey

I am extending my birthday celebration today

Hi everyone -

Since I got a belated birthday cake, I am extending my birthday celebration today.  The weather is crummy here.  We have several inches of snow on the ground from Sunday and yesterday and now it is raining on top of the new snow.  Yikes!  Anyway, here is the birthday cake I received from one of my Dogster pup pals:

Love -

Hershey

Today is my birthday

Hi, everyone -

Today is my birthday.  I am eight years old.  It is hard to believe that I have been here that long.  Thank you for the birthday wishes, Mitch and Molly.  Here are two pictures that one of our blogging buddies and Dogster pup pals made for us:

Enjoy the pictures.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

Two new videos

Hi, everyone -

Here is a link to a video that one of our blogging buddies and pup pals made.  Their Mom is really talented doing videos like this.

Virtual Play Date

Here is another funny video about a Siberian Husky:

Kennel time?

Enjoy the videos, everyone!

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

Our first post for 2014 - fun with Jessy

Hi, everyone -

Jessy came to visit me on New Year's Day because her pawrents are in Florida on vacation.  They are down there with their daughter who is home from college.  She resumes classes on Monday so the pawrents will drive her back to school after they fly home from Florida.  They will probably want to get on another plane back to Florida with all of the cold weather we have been experiencing lately.

Jessy and I are becoming really good friends.  We like to play tug of war and now our latest thing we like to do is to take over Mama's couch especially her side of it.  We take turns - one of us will take over her side and the other will take over the rest of the couch.  We do a really good job of that.  Mama is too kind  hearted to kick us off the couch.  

Now I can even take toys (especially ropes) out of Jessy's mouth.  She is really gentle with me and both Mama and Papa are impressed that we get along so well.

We do have some pictures but Mama took them from her cell phone so they may be a bit blurry.  In the meantime, here is an image of shooting stars that Mama found online.  She loves stuff  like this.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Love -

Hershey, Kaci, Jessy and Mama