Guest Author: Kelly Preston
Posted: November 20, 2012 Filed under: book, guest author | Tags: alaskan malamute, book, guest author, kelly preston, puppy, real dogs don't whisper 35 Comments »About Kelly Preston
Do you believe in second chances? Real Dogs Don’t Whisper book is about second chances and miracles. Read about four rescue dogs that were ready to be given up on because they have special needs; they teach their human about life, love, and hope.
Kelly Preston, co-author of a newly published book, Real Dogs Don’t Whisper. Her co-author is Mr. MaGoo; he is a larger than life dog and has a lot to say.
Meet her family like no other: Kelly, Mr. MaGoo, Buffy, Carla Mae, and Betty Boop. A girl, her two Lhasa Apsos, one Cocker Spaniel, and one adorable mutt – each with their own challenging set of difficulties to overcome. One puppy has serious neurological disorders and is blind. Two were severely abused. All are on a journey of discovery. Together, learning love and patience along the way, perhaps none so much as Kelly.
Real Dogs Don’t Whisper: Life Lessons from a Larger than Life Dog! (and his Owner), is the true story of a remarkable family as told in a unique way by both Kelly, the owner of the household, and her spunky, hilarious, nine-year old Lhasa Apso, Mr. MaGoo. The narrative is at times tear-jerking, at times hysterical, and always enthralling.
Site: www.realdogsdontwhisper.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/realdogsdontwhisper
Twitter: @KellynMrMaGoo
Google+: +RealDogsDontWhisper
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About the Book:
Real Dogs Don’t Whisper (www.realdogsdontwhisper.com) is about four rescue dogs that entered my life and each having special needs. I also have a co-author, Mr. MaGoo; he is my Lhasa Apso that was a rescue from a puppy mill. Both he and I take the reader on a journey of discovery, growth, exploration that we experienced over the course of ten (10) years with Betty Boop, Buffy, and Carla Mae. Together we hope to raise awareness about second chances for those with special needs and try to inspire readers to live in the moment, open your heart; and, what unconditional love truly means.
Book Excerpt – Mr. Magoo
It was at that very moment I realized Carla Mae was not just an angry, aggressive little cuss I taught to play and dance and cut loose. I saw Carla Mae for the first time as she really was—a scared puppy who learned to mistrust those around her and who learned self-preservation the only way she knew how—by biting first and asking questions later. She was a frightened little dog who eventually found a greater lesson in letting go and learning to laugh and play and yes, of course—dance. Carla Mae found unconditional love in our family and along the way, she learned to trust. Anyway, as for Dim-Bulb King, cooler heads prevailed that day and, lucky for him, his human finally dragged him away from us. But I sure learned something about my new sister that day.
Carla Mae turned out to be a competitive little tomboy and fair adversary. We love to play Kibble Attack—a game that involves her patiently planning preemptive Kibble invasions, only to be taken off guard by a MaGoo surprise maneuver, overrun and forever a close second only to me. She’s quite the copycat as well, often mimicking our moves. I’m not sure if she’s mocking us all, doing the “when in Rome thing”, or a little of both. What I do know is that I have learned to love Carla Mae and Carla Mae has learned to accept love and even try to nudge in on my petting time with the human and even with random human strangers in the house. She is loved and cared for and Carla Mae is no longer afraid… well, maybe a little afraid of King Crazy Dog, but who wouldn’t be? Other than me, of course.
bike ride
Posted: November 19, 2012 Filed under: walks | Tags: alaskan malamute, bike, cycle path, puppy, squirrel 79 Comments »On Sunday’s we try to go somewhere a bit different for our walks, but instead of going somewhere muddy or with an all-you-can-eat poo buffet, yesterday we went to the cycle paths. This isn’t new or different as my town is very cycle friendly and we have an extensive cycle network.
Although I’m not big/old enough to do any serious exercise, in a few months when I am, daddy plans to take me out on his bike. But so far when I’ve seen people on bikes I’ve either chased them or ignored them. So he thought he’d introduce me to the idea of him riding along while I walked with mummy to get me used to it.
me and daddy’s bike
Much to their surprise I didn’t mind at all, didn’t try to jump up at him or anything. And we even went for a very (short) slow ride together. I had so much fun! But I got a little distracted when a squirrel shot across the path and I nearly pulled daddy into the bushes. Whoops.
hey mr squirrel come back!
I hope we do it again soon, and I hope the next few months speed past so we can go for longer and faster rides!
Tunnels
Posted: November 18, 2012 Filed under: competition, garden | Tags: alaskan malamute, digging, puppy 54 Comments »Yesterday while mummy was concentrating on cleaning the house, I decided to work on the garden. Ours is a pretty small garden so I decided to make it bigger by digging under the fences on each side. That way we can have 3 gardens rather than just one. What a brilliant idea! Strangely mummy didn’t seem quite so impressed though.
This was just the beginning of one ‘tunnel’
I’m just having a snooze and waiting for mummy and daddy to decide where we’re going for our Sunday walk. I hope it’s somewhere muddy!
Don’t forget to pop by Doggy‘s to comment on his Movember post and to vote in the Greatest Blog Contest of all Time
You can also vote for the stars in the Hutch A Good Life panto – Raffles and Zena look particularly amazing!
And lastly several of our good friends have entries in the Heart like a Dog calendar contest. You can vote once every 24 hours and Mollie has suggested a vote rotation. If you had trouble viewing the poll, try using a different browser. I use Firefox and the poll didn’t work for me, so I had to switch to Internet Explorer instead.
Hope you are all having a good sunday.
Saturday stuff
Posted: November 17, 2012 Filed under: competition, training | Tags: alaskan malamute, housework, puppy, training 40 Comments »Saturday’s are always a busy day for me. In the morning I have to wake mummy up early so she can do lots of housework. She would feel terrible if she just stayed in bed all morning and missed the opportunity to hoover and tidy-up after me. So even if she tries to go back to sleep after she’s given me my breakfast, it’s important for me to keep nudging her and jumping on her until she gets moving. What a good pup I am!
Then I have to take her to training class, which is always loads of fun.
While I’m doing all that, don’t forget to pop by and comment on Doggy‘s Movember post, just to recap, he’s donating 50 cents to this fantastic cause for every comment left on his post, found here. He’s hoping to get to 100, so if you haven’t done so already, please leave a comment.
While you’re at Doggy’s you can also vote in the Greatest Contest of All Time. The competition is fierce, but I would like to give you a gentle nudge in the direction of LLCD‘s entry as she has kindly offered to donate her prize to Battersea Dog’s Home.
Have a great saturday!!
Felicitous Friday
Posted: November 16, 2012 Filed under: awards | Tags: alaskan malamute, blog of the year award, puppy 69 Comments »Wow, it seems to be award season again!
Thank you to Toby and his mum at Scienerf for passing me the One Lovely Blog Award. Isn’t it pretty?
If that wasn’t enough, Stanzes Blahbla has passed on the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award!! Amazing, thank you so much:-)
my first star!
The ‘rules’ for this award are simple:
1 Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award
2 Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.
3 Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/ and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)
4 Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them
5 You can now also join our Facebook group – click ‘like’ on this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience
6 As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…
Yes – that’s right – there are stars to collect!
Unlike other awards which you can only add to your blog once – this award is different!
When you begin you will receive the ‘1 star’ award – and every time you are given the award by another blog – you can add another star!
There are a total of 6 stars to collect.
Which means that you can check out your favourite blogs – and even if they have already been given the award by someone else – you can still bestow it on them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!
For more information check the FAQ on The Thought Palette.
So who to nominate? I decided to pick 15, but even narrowing down to them was hard. I was tempted to just give it to all of my bloggy friends, but usually people are too modest to take it. So I’m giving it to the following bloggies and I hope you will all pass it on so by the end of the year everyone will have 6 stars:-)
If you don’t already read their blogs please do stop by and say hello.
Have a good friday everyone!!
Changing allegiances
Posted: November 15, 2012 Filed under: food | Tags: alaskan malamute, puppy, treats, wagg 66 Comments »As you know, I’ve always been a strong supporter of the Bonio. But I wrote to them a few months ago asking for a job as a tester and was turned away (without even sending me a free sample box as compensation!!) Everytime I’ve taken a bite of one since it’s left a bittersweet taste.
But now the rather dashing Dalton, face of Wagg (and possible future husband) has asked me to become an official reviewer of their products woohoo:-) So it’s bye-bye Bonio and hello Wagg! And I have this lovely badge to prove it:-)
Over the coming months I’m hoping to be able to eat lots of treats objectively review some of their products and maybe arrange a competition or two! I’ve been told something exciting is on it’s way to me from Wagg so I’m keeping an eye on the door.
is that the postman???
Have a good day all!
UPDATE: Don’t forget to head over to Doggy’s to vote in the Greatest Contest of All Time!!!!! Good luck choosing who to vote for, all the entries are fab!
Woofless wednesday
Posted: November 14, 2012 Filed under: photography | Tags: alaskan malamute, instagram, puppy, wordless wednesday 66 Comments »
Things to do on Tuesday
Posted: November 13, 2012 Filed under: awards | Tags: alaskan malamute, movember, puppy 47 Comments »Bored in blogville? Well here’s a few things for you to do today!
Firstly you may already know that Doggy‘s human, Leo, is taking part in Movember and will donate 50 cents to this fantastic cause for every comment left on his post, found here
If he gets too many comments, he’ll be bankrupt and will have to live in a cardboard box on the street. When this happens Doggy is going to come and live with me so we can play all day in the mud together:-) So basically please all comment on his post, I could do with a playmate!
Also, don’t forget to pop over to Mollie‘s where, if you haven’t already, you can sign up be ‘christmassed’. She now also has Christmas bandanas for sale. Mine’s already on order and I look forward to showing it off when it arrives:-)
In the meantime, both Mollie and Tyler’s at 99 have awarded me with the Family of Blogger’s award!
Thank you both very much. I especially like this award because I do feel like we are a family:-) And because of that I’m passing it on to you all. Don’t feel shy or embarrassed to take it, please just help yourselves.
After all that I think it’s time for a nap!
Sweet dreams everyone!
Horse Poo Heaven :-)
Posted: November 12, 2012 Filed under: sunday walks, walks | Tags: alaskan malamute, horse poo, manure, mud, puppy 84 Comments »On Sunday’s we try to go somewhere a bit different for our walk and yesterday daddy suggested we go to the Common. This used to be a popular place with dog walkers, but there’s one problem: horses. Although they are tethered, recently a Jack Russell was trampled by a horse so alot of people are giving it a wide berth now. But we decided to go anyway – we like to live dangerously BOL.
Me checking out the horses in the distance
This one and I had a brief staring contest (I think I won!)
The best thing about the common is the horse poo!! The ground was littered with it, and as you can imagine, I was in heaven <3
Daddy trying to pull me away from the all you can eat buffet!
Hurry up, I see mud ahead!!
It was also lovely and muddy. Silly daddy wasn’t wearing wellies and kept moaning about all the squelching. I loved every minute of it.
Mummy’s muddy wellies
All in all I had a great time 
And I didn’t even mind too much about the bath afterwards!!
horse poo AND mud…what a happy doggie I am!
Hope you all had a good weekend! Did you go anywhere nice for your walkies?
Lest we forget
Posted: November 11, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: alaskan malamute, animals at war, poppy, puppy, remembrance sunday 28 Comments »Today is Remembrance Sunday, a day which we remember those who bravely fought and died in the line of duty.
But it wasn’t only soldiers who died. Millions of animals gave up their lives too, from horses and dogs, to pigeons and even glow-worms. The Animals in War monument in central London stands as tribute to all the animals that served, suffered and died alongside the British, Commonwealth and Allied forces in the wars and conflicts of the 20th century.
Animals in War by David Backhouse
So today I’ll be spending the traditional minute’s silence by thinking about the animals involved in warfare and I hope you will too.
‘A Soldier’s Kiss’:
Only a dying horse! pull off the gear, And slip the needless bit from frothing jaws, Drag it aside there, leaving the road way clear, The battery thunders on with scarce a pause. Prone by the shell-swept highway there it lies With quivering limbs, as fast the life-tide fails, Dark films are closing o’er the faithful eyes That mutely plead for aid where none avails. Onward the battery rolls, but one there speeds Needlessly of comrades voice or bursting shell, Back to the wounded friend who lonely bleeds Beside the stony highway where he fell. Only a dying horse! he swiftly kneels, Lifts the limp head and hears the shivering sigh Kisses his friend, while down his cheek there steals Sweet pity’s tear, “Goodbye old man, Goodbye”. No honours wait him, medal, badge or star, Though scarce could war a kindlier deed unfold; He bears within his breast, more precious far Beyond the gift of kings, a heart of gold.– Henry Chappell
To find out more about the Animals in War sculpture and the history behind it, you can visit: www.animalsinwar.org.uk
