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Apr 25

Victory: Photography Project — 15

“The more people I meet, the more I love my dog.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

Beginning in January of this year, I began a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog! I have also been documenting Victory’s milestones so to speak each month — you can read these here! I think that it is fun to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories.

Victory loves her Hound About! Since we have been having nicer and warmer weather, we have been going on more walks outside. Recently, while on a long ride around the neighborhood, Victory was all smiles and she looked especially beautiful after a recent bath! Recently, on walk, all on her own, Victory poked her head through the sunroof of her Hound About, shown below! It was absolutely adorable! She made my heart melt and I am glad that I had my camera to capture her! You can see more of Victory in her Hound About here! We are supposed to have some nice weather this weekend, so I am sure that we will take Victory for a spin in her Hound About and make a trip to the dog park! We took Victory to the dog park last night and she seems to prefer being with the larger dogs — she sniffed and played with the large dogs — her confidence is growing!

Happy Friday!

Apr 21

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Victory: Dog in a Cup

Earlier this year I interviewed Eleonor Boström, an artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. I love Eleonor’s work, especially her Dog in a Cup series. As such, I commissioned Eleonor to make one of our little golden Victory! Last week, Victory’s Dog in a Cup arrived to us all the way from Berlin, Germany! I love little Victory’s Dog in a Cup, which is now displayed in our china cabinet among our other treasures, which sits besides the Biscuit totem; the Cheetah and Panda totem; and our family heart totem. Eleonor was wonderful to work with! Thank you so much, Eleonor, we love your work!

Happy Monday!

Apr 18

Victory: Together

Below are a couple of images of Victory and I at the dog park! She loves to be held on my hip — she truly is our furbaby! Victory continues to gain more confidence each day and her sheltie furs keep coming in, which is great! She absolutely loves the dog park, and we usually go to the dog park at least once a week, in addition to our daily walks in the neighborhood, since she loves to go mingle with other doggies at the dog park! This weekend Victory is meeting new sheltie friends for the first time! We are sure that she will have a grand time!

Happy Friday and Happy Easter!

Apr 17

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Victory: Photography Project — 14

“All animals, except man, know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it.” ~Samuel Butler

Beginning in January of this year, I began a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog! I have also been documenting Victory’s milestones so to speak each month — you can read these here! I think that it is fun to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories.

Recently, we took Victory to Worthington Dog Park, where she has begun to run and she is beginning to learn to play fetch! Victory loves meeting new doggie friends at the park! She is really blossoming and coming into her own! We are really proud of the progress Victory continues to make and she continues to do well in her training class, with a few more weeks to go!

Happy Thursday!

Apr 11

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Victory: Six Months In

“The average dog is nicer a nicer person than the average person.” ~Andy Rooney

Tomorrow marks six months since we adopted our little Victory! You can read more about the previous months’ milestones here. The time is just flying by and Victory is blossoming!

Below are some things that we learned about Victory this month:

She is enjoying her dog training class!
She went to the dog parks for the first time!
She loves the dog park, and she has begun to run and play fetch at the dog park!
She is beginning to eat her dinner on her custom Orvis mat and feeder!
She gave us paw for the first time this month!
She is giving us tons of kisses in bed right before bed time and she loves to lick Doug’s arm pits via his t-shirt right before bed — she must like his ‘natural scent’!
She still loves to chew, and she has been chewing away at her little “friends!”
She loves eating little pieces of her Daddy’s malted waffles on Sunday mornings!
She absolutely loves chicken and cheese!
She started giving me her paw this month!
She let us give her a bath last week without jumping out of the soaker tub!
She received a clean bill of health at the vet last week at her six month check up! Yay! The vet said that she is just healthy and perfect! She is now 25 pounds!
She is beginning to eat adult kibble, she eats Fromm kibble.
She is beginning to spend time on her Orvis bed, which initially she was apprehensive about.
She loves evening walks in her Hound About, which she inherited from Biscuit!
She still has not barked as of yet!
She is still waking us up for her nightly drink of water!
Most of all, Victory has stolen our hearts and she is her Daddy’s girl through and through!

If you have not already, be sure to check out the six month video of our little Victory! We hope that you have a great weekend. It is supposed to be warm and sunny here — perhaps Spring is finally here!

Happy Friday!

Apr 10

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Victory: Video Debut

I recently decided to make my first video (with music) of our little Victory, shown below! I often wish that I had made videos of our precious Biscuit. I only have one video of our Biscuit just prior to his final surgery. However, I am grateful for all the images we have of our beloved Biscuit. In addition to my other series on the blog, it is my intention to make one video per month and share the videos here on the blog with all of you! (Perhaps with more practice, the videos will get more sophisticated!) The video below of our precious Victory is short and low key of her sitting on the sofa, but you will see what a sweet and gentle soul she is along with her true beauty shinning through! Don’t you love her one floppy ear! She also often likes to sit with her front paws under her tummy! To date, we still have not heard her bark!

You can view the video of Victory by clicking on the arrow in the video below or alternatively you can click here.

Happy Thursday!

Apr 9

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Victory: Photography Project — 13

“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.” ~Charles Shultz

Beginning in January of this year, I began a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog! I have also been documenting Victory’s milestones so to speak each month — you can read these here! I think that it is fun to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories.

We recently took Victory to Home Depot to get some items for the house! Since Home Depot is dog friendly, we decided to take Victory along with us! She was such a good puppy — she loved Home Depot and she smiled from ear to ear! She also seems to fancy herself with lumber, pictured below, similar to little Biscuit who also loved lumber and Home Depot (and Lowes)! I am sure that there will be many trips to Home Depot in our future with our little Victory!

Happy Wednesday!

Apr 4

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Victory: First Training Class

Earlier this week, we started dog training class with our little Victory! Doug and I attended the first class a few weeks ago with just the humans to prepare us for the dog training class. Victory enjoyed training class and she was smiling the entire time! Victory learned her marking word, “charming” (named after the fictitious city in Sons of Anarchy, the first series we watched on Netflix with Victory from start to finish (there is still another forthcoming season), and it is a word that does not come up often in conversation — Doug picked our marking word!); “look at me;” “watch me;” “cot,” the command for Victory to get up on her cot, her Kuranda Cot, which is required for our training class; and “down,” the command for Victory to get off the cot; and “sit.” Victory did very well in class and we have been working on “sit” at home this week! There is even a male tri-color sheltie friend that Victory was eyeing in class!

Before starting training off the bat, we first wanted to give Victory a chance to acclimate as she was quite nervous when we first brought her home. However, our little girl is blossoming and sprouting her sheltie furs! We also wanted the temperatures to warm up so we could practice training materials in multiple environments, inside and outside. Thankfully, it is warming up here some. We still want to see spring temperatures and more sunshine, especially after our harsh winter!

Below, Victory posed for me on her Kuranda Cot to help get her used to it prior to training class. She listened and stayed put while I photographed her! She is a smart little sheltie! Of course, we did get Victory’s Kuranda Cot embroidered with her name on it since embroidering was available (she is the only one in class with an embroidered Kuranda Cot!) On a good note, Victory is starting to spend time on her Orvis bed located in our living room. She still has two more Orvis beds to try out (formerly Biscuit’s Orvis beds)! Also, the other night, Victory gave me her paw a few times in bed after she washed my entire face and then licked Doug’s arm pits via his t-shirt! Doug must have some pretty amazing ‘natural body scent!’ Perhaps this is a sign that she is getting more comfortable in her home!

Happy Friday!

Mar 31

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Victory: Photography Project — Part 12

“Heaven goes by favor, you would stay out and your dog would stay in.” ~Mark Twain

Beginning in January of this year, I began a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog! I have also been documenting Victory’s milestones so to speak each month — you can read these here! I think that it is fun to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories.

Recently, we took Victory to Worthington Dog Park, another dog park, which we joined! Little Victory had a great time, other than being immediately greeted by Cheese, the male Pomeranian shown below, who got a little too friendly with our Victory! Although, Victory did not seem to mind! (Cheese’s sister is shown below taking a few sniffs!) Victory does enjoy meeting new furry friends and her confidence is building. Tomorrow is our first training class with Victory! We are excited to see how Victory does during class! We really hope spring comes soon so we can do more outside activities together!

Happy Monday!

Mar 25

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Victory: Photography Project — Part 11

“If you want loyalty, get a dog. If you want loyalty and attention, get a smart dog.” ~Grant Fairly

Beginning in January of this year, I began a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog! I have also been documenting Victory’s milestones so to speak each month — you can read these here! I think that it is fun to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories.

We recently took Victory to Quiet Waters Park located in Annapolis — our first trip to a dog park with Victory! Victory had a blast and she was all smiles! (Prior to taking Victory to the dog park, we were not sure how she would react!) Victory entered the dog park and she was immediately greeted with many different dogs to sniff! We finished our trip to Quiet Waters by walking down to the water! Victory loves to look at the water and she did not want to leave!

During our time at the dog park, Victory met another sheltie fiend named Joey! Victory instantly recognized Joey as a shelite and she followed him all over the park! It was adorable! (Interestingly, Biscuit also met a sheltie friend when we took Biscuit to Quiet Waters Park for the first time last spring).