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Mar 21

Victory’s Life in Photos: 2014

Below are some photos of Victory thus far from 2014! I am so glad to be documenting our precious little Victory! The images begin in the lower right corner with Victory wanting more prime rib (after eating a plate of prime rib) on New Year’s! The images conclude in the upper left corner with Victory at the dog park! We recently took Victory to two dog parks, and she really enjoyed them! Doug and I will likely join at least one of the dog parks so Victory can continue to have fun at the dog park! However, last weekend, our little Victory was, shall we say, violated — she was ‘humped’ by a 3.5 pound shaved Pomeranian, named Cheese! Cheese just could not get enough of our Victory. Victory entered the park and Cheese was literally climbing on our little Victory! Thankfully, Cheese’s human took him for a ‘time out.’ Interestingly, Victory did not seem to mind! Victory has such a sweet temperament! I will share more photos next week from our adventures to the dog parks!

We really want spring to be here and stay. However, Doug mentioned that we are scheduled for snow next week! Hopefully, spring will make its appearance and stay for a while! At least, this is what we hope!

Happy Friday!

Mar 20

Victory: Photography Project — Part 10

“They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.” ~Tom Hayden

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.

Little Victory does not like baths! Below are a few photographs from a recent bath we gave her. Doug and I do not trust anyone else to bathe our Victory! We are protective of her! However, we do let the vet clip her nails and trim her paws every four to six weeks! Victory, thankfully, lets me brush her daily to keep her coat looking good! We typically bathe Victory every four to six weeks, and we use Espree oatmeal shampoo and luxury conditioner. In between baths, we use baby powder behind her ears, where her fur tends to get a little greasy.

As you can see below, Victory tries her best to escape the soaker tub! During our recent bath, Victory was an escape artist — she hopped out of the tub during this bath! It literally takes the two of us to give her a bath! One to hold her and one to wash her! Doug is going to look into getting an extension to our tub faucet, similar to a shower head, to help make bath time go more quickly! Victory always feels so soft and smooth and she always looks gorgeous — especially after a bath!

Happy Spring!

Mar 14

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Victory: Photography Project — Part 9

“Every one in a while a dog enters your life and changes everything.” ~Unknown

I have recently begun 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.

As you know, I recently photographed Victory in our guest room among the menagerie of our “friends” (stuffed cheetahs and pandas)! Below are some final images! Victory loved sniffing all of the “friends.” In some of the photographs, Victory blends in with the “friends” even playing some “hide and seek!” Enjoy!

Happy Friday!

Mar 12

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Victory: Five Months In

“Nobody can fully understand love unless they are owned by a dog.” ~Unknown

Today marks five months since we adopted our little Victory! You can read more about the previous months’ milestones here.

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

She lets me give her belly rubs on her back. At first, she was not too keen on my placing her on her back, but once her belly was being rubbed, she relaxed and seems to enjoy it like her brother Biscuit!
She is now fully transiting into the dinning room and kitchen since she does not want to be left out.
She is starting to eat her dinner in her feeder on her custom feeder mat located in the kitchen!
She loves to chew and play! We have a basket of toys, a combination of some toys that were previously Biscuit’s toys and some new toys purchased for little Victory! This month, Victory has fancied herself on taking toys from the basket and placing them one by one into her ‘hut!’ It is adorable! In fact, one evening we came home and every last toy from the basket was in her ‘hut!’– there was barely any room for her little body as she surrounded herself by all of her toys! Perhaps Victory is a little hoarder! So, she seems to like the game of taking the toys to her ‘hut!’ Therefore, each night, we put the toys away in the toy basket so that she can then have fun taking them all to her ‘hut’ the next day! She also loves chewing on her toys (among other things!) We think that we are going to try the Kong toy next with her and see how she likes it!
She went to the pet store again to get more chew toys and she was a hit — everyone thought that Victory is so beautiful!
She loves the Hound About!
She loved going to Quiet Waters Park — Victory had a grand time!
She loves to eat peanut butter Frosty Paws!
She loves Cheese Please, treats we discovered from her BarkBox made of only cheese! Doug ordered her two boxes to keep on hand in the house!
She still is not fond of getting a bath. In fact, this month, Victory hopped out of the soaker tub during her recent bath! Now, we make sure that one of us is holding her the entire time! She looks and feels so great after an oatmeal bath!
She is getting us up less during the night for a drink(s) of water — she is sleeping more!
She, along with both of us, begin training classes next week with little Victory!
She gives us tons of kisses before bed, and she wakes me up in the morning licking my eye lashes with her head on my pillow! Victory is quite affectionate!
She still loves to cuddle — our little cuddle bug!

There was a time that I thought that my heart would not be able to be filed with as much joy as Biscuit brought us. However, our little Victory has stolen our hearts and she has filled our hearts with just as much joy as our precious Biscuit. We have many more memories to make with Victory! We are so happy Victory has entered our lives.

Can you locate little Victory below!

Happy Wednesday!

Mar 5

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Photo of the Day!

Today is a fun blog post!

Can you locate little Victory in the menagerie of cheetah and panda friends?

For those of you who have been following the blog for a while, know that cheetahs and pandas are near and dear to our hearts. The cheetah and panda have become a metaphor in our relationship. As an anniversary gift, I had a custom Cheetah and Panda Totem made for Doug!

Anyone who has been to our home knows that we have a menagerie of “friends” (stuffed cheetahs and pandas) who have taken over our guest room! We have more “friends” than we know what to do with, and they are all not pictured in the photo below — there are even more friends! Our entire guest room has so many “friends” all of whom have names (although we forget their names at times)! Buddy, not pictured, is our most recent “friend” addition! (The pandas out number the cheetahs!)

Victory is not allowed in the guest room unsupervised as she loves to chew — her favorite passage of time! She chews on and through her own “friends” that she keeps in her little ‘hut!’

Happy Wednesday!

Mar 3

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Victory: Photography Project — Part 8

“If you don’t have a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you. But there may be something wrong with your life.” ~Vincent Van Gogh

I have recently begun 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 had a few really nice days, almost like it was spring and then we received snow the following day! During the nice weather, we were able to open our windows and enjoy being outside after having some really brutal winter days! Doug and I decided to take Victory out in the Hound About! We originally purchased the Hound About to help our beloved Biscuit motor around since he had severe arthritis. This enabled Biscuit to go on long walks and see places that he would not otherwise have seen. Doug originally thought the idea to purchase the Hound About was “over the top,” but soon learned how much Biscuit loved his Hound About! We have many fond memories with Biscuit in his Hound About!

We decided to let Victory have a test drive in her Hound About! At first, she was a little nervous, but soon after she too was smiling (like her brother Biscuit did) as she rode around the neighborhood in her Hound About — the only difference being that she liked the screen in the front zipped, whereas Biscuit loved poking his head out the front of the Hound About! Perhaps, in time, Victory too will be riding around in her Hound About with her beautiful face poking through! We hope to have many adventures with little Victory in her Hound About and perhaps this will be a way to get Victory out and about while having a “safe zone” similar to her ‘hut‘ at home! Hopefully our dog training, which starts in about two weeks, will help build her confidence even more! Victory is doing great and her fur coat is literally sprouting!

P.S. If you are interested in getting a Hound About, you can learn more here!

Happy Monday!

Feb 25

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Victory: Photography Project — Part 7

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” ~Anatole France

I have recently begun 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.

For Valentine’s Day, we gave Victory a BarkBox, shown below! Due to BarkBox’s monthly shipping schedule, we received Victory’s BarkBox shortly after Valentine’s Day! She especially loves the Cheese Please treats and her new chew toy, shown below! We still have more treats inside the BarkBox for Victory to try! So far, the BarkBox has been a hit with little Victory!

Happy Tuesday!

Feb 19

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Victory: Photography Project — Part 6

“If I had a dollar for every time my dog made me smile, I would be a millionaire.” ~Unknown

I have recently begun 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 have had what seems like a ton of snow this winter! Victory has experienced more snow in the short amount of time since we adopted her than Biscuit ever did! They both like the snow! Last week, when we opened our front door all we could see was tons of snow — snow, snow, and more snow! I wanted to capture this moment in time. The image on the lower right, below, is one of my favorite images of little Victory for so many reasons!

Victory is doing very well and she is making great progress. Her confidence is building, and we hope to make even more progress when we begin our training next month! Within the past week, Victory has expanded her radius in our house from only going into our bedroom and living room! She now comes to the dining room table at dinner time for some goodies (similar to little Biscuit), and she made her way to the kitchen! She even made it down to her Daddy’s study to keep him company while he worked! I really do think that she is her Daddy’s girl! She showers her Daddy with a face and arm washing each night before bed!

Happy Wednesday!

Feb 13

Victory: Photography Project — Part 5

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” ~Unknown

I have recently begun 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 is shown below sporting her Valentine’s Day bandana! This originally was Biscuit’s bandana. Victory loves the sofa, so I thought that I would take a few photographs of her looking so pretty and aristocratic! We can’t wait to give Victory her Valentine’s gift!

In other news, we have so much snow here — another snow day! We put Victory’s pink coat on her (we left the boots off), and poor Victory could barely make it out of our front door this morning for her morning walk! Luckily, Doug carried her! As shown below, when he put her down, her poor little legs and body sunk in the snow! We did get her to go potty, so that is good!

Everything is so quiet. The snow came down and blotted out the neighborhood colors. Isn’t it amazing how the snow blankets the other noise in your life and you become grateful to be tucked in and witness winter’s beauty? Although, we are really ready for spring. This has been quite a harsh winter in these parts!

Here is a link to one of my favorite images of Biscuit in the snow! Victory has experienced more snow in the short amount of time we have had her than our precious little Biscuit did!

Happy Thursday!

Feb 12

Victory: Four Months In

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” ~Roger Caras

Today marks four months since we adopted our little Victory! You can read more about the previous months’ milestones here.

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

She took her first visit to the pet store and she did really well! This is the first time we took her to a public place. Everyone at the pet store thought she was gorgeous! Of course, we agreed! We purchased Victory some chew toys that she loves, including a Rainbow Care Bear chew toy! I had the same Care Bear when I was a kid, except it was not a chew toy!
She did really well when we took her recently to a friend’s house for dinner! Our friend has two dogs and Victory had a good time! Everyone loved her and wanted to pet and hold her!
She out grew her raincoat! Victory is getting more fur in and she has gained some weight since we adopted her! As a result, I ordered her the next size up of the same rain coat along with matching boots (rain and snow boots) shown below!
She loves rice cakes — we only give her little crumbs!
She is getting more confidence and is almost ready to go into our dinning room and kitchen! Currently, she only goes to our bedroom and living room! She loves when Doug roasts a chicken in the crock pot as she knows that she will get some chicken for dinner, and hopefully, this will get her in the kitchen at some point!
She is still eating her dinner on the sofa!
She is getting us up less during the night for a drink of water — she is sleeping more!
She, along with both of us, begin training classes next month with little Victory!
She is waking me up giving us kisses — licks on the eyes and ears in the morning! Victory is quite affectionate!
She still loves to cuddle, I call her my little cuddle bug!
She missed her Daddy recently when he went away on travel!