Snotface & Twiggy

Wordless Wednesday: Making Friends at Global Pet Expo

Travel Day to Global Pet Expo in Orlando

Oh what a day! We traveled through airports and taxi cabs and made it all the way to Orlando for the Global Pet Expo. We are SO excited!

Flat Twiggy took her first escalator ride and had quite an adventure throughout the day - you'll have to stay tuned for our final Global video!

Onyx is here too. He was also on the escalator...and waiting for the train, and on the train, and getting some mexican food, and on the plane, and in the cab - and so much more!

Twiggy and Onyx are going to have quite the adventure this week, meeting new people and hopefully new pets. You can follow all our travels on this blog, on the BlogPaws Digital Daily and in the BlogPaws Village Square. Plus, follow our tweets (@Twigglet2 and @BlogPaws) and the hash tags #GlobalPetExpo and #BlogPawsGPE. We haven't even started the festivities and we are already chasing our tails!

People sometimes look at us funny, like when we try to climb on big motorcycles that clearly state "Keep Off!" - but, they obviously just don't know who we are. Now they do! 

We hope you'll tune in to our Global Pet Expo adventures and vist the BlogPaws blog for even more updates. 

Now we have to get some sleep. It's a BIG day tomorrow!

On the road again ... to Global Pet Expo!

Getting ready for a flurry of activity (and posts) this week, since I'm heading off to Global Pet Expo 2012.*

This will be our second year attending with our BlogPaws team and we have a larger contingent this time: Felissa Elfenbein (Two Little Cavaliers), Michelle Maskaly (My Tail Hurts from Wagging So Much), Tom and me. So we're planning to share a lot more fun and useful information about the event and the latest in pet products. Check the BlogPaws blog for a link to the BlogPaws @ Global Pet Expo 2012 DIGITAL DAILY page where our posts will be collected.

* Global Pet Expo, the pet industry's largest annual trade show, is presented by the American Pet Products Association (APPA) and Pet Industry Distributors Association (PIDA). APPA is a sponsor of BlogPaws 2012 and the BlogPaws “Bloggerspondents” have received press passes and other consideration as part of that sponsorship package.

Wordless Wednesday #50: Sharing Snow Piles - Yummm!!

Welcome Home...or Not.

I'm curious if anyone else has a dog who could really care less when they arrive home after being gone for hours? 

Onyx stays in his crate when he we leave. He's still young and likes to eat things and get into stuff he shouldn't when we leave, and he really enjoys his crate. Twiggy has free roam of the house and I'm positive she does things she shouldn't while we are gone. Couch surfing being the main one! We have a routine we go through when we leave and both Onyx and Twiggy are very familiar with it and head right to their crate/bed for their good-bye treat. Then we're gone for an hour, two, three, sometimes even four. I hate leaving Onyx in his crate for more than 4 or 5 hours so I try pretty hard to make that a rare occasion, and I'm pretty lucky that it is a very rare occassion.

                                         (This would be Twiggy couch surfing on a not allowed couch.)

When we get home, I often feel like I have one dog and one cat. Onyx, the dog, is ever so happy to see us. We let him out of his crate and he stretches and follows us around with a tail wagging so hard it seems possible he could take flight. He knows that he won't get any attention from us until he sits still for a few moments, so he tries his hardest to do that, but his tail never stops. Then he spends the next 15 or 20 minutes following us around everywhere we go (preferring we stay in the same room) until he's convinced we're settling in and not leaving again. But, we can always count on him being right by our side for awhile when we get home.

Twiggy (the cat), on the other paw, does not see our arrival back home as any sort of event. I suppose I should be happy about this since leaving her home at all used to be a HUGE issue. Most of the time she is up in her bed or on the couch in the TV room (that we actually allow her to hang out on). If I choose to head upstairs and greet her she will at least wag her tail a little bit acknowledging me. Sometimes she even lifts her head for moment as if to say, "Ah yes, welcome home. Now please let me return to my slumber...or bring me a treat." About 5% of the time we walk in the door and have Twiggy waiting to greet us. If I had to place bets it would be on those times being the times that she was waiting to be fed and her "greeting" is more of a, "Where is my dinner?!" 

I am glad my dogs don't jump all over us and attack us when we walk in the door, but I just find it curious that Twiggy couldn't care less. Anyone else experience this with their dog??

Wordless Wednesday #49: Gifts from @TinyPearlCat

Thank you to @TinyPearlCat for these adorable rocks! We think she should put her mark on them and sell them!

We Were Tagged!

We got tagged! Our furiends over at Dogs Rock tagged us to answer some questions about ourselves. Twiggy loves when we talk about her so here we go!

1. Describe yourself in 7 words:

Me: Stubborn, caring, loyal, dedicated, resilient, hopeful and sarcastic.

Twiggy: Diva, important, beautiful, graceful (even though I've had many injuries), perfect, lovable and glorious.

Wordless Wednesday #48: Twiggy Can't get Enough of the Snow!

 

More Fun in the Snow!

Twiggy and Onyx have been having so much fun playing in the snow that we thought we would share their adventures with everyone! Twiggy goes a bit crazy. Onyx always wants to join in, but sometimes he gets run over by Twiggy so he's a little hesitant. I can't help but smile when I watch this. I hope it does the same for you!

 

Snow Day

Good morning to us - with LOTS of snow! We happen to love snow days around here. Especially big ones like this that close the schools and make the whole town operate on a much slower pace. Even the husband is getting off early today!

Before he left for work this morning he was kind enough to shovel a pathway from the back door out to the yard for the dogs. This works great for Twiggy, who loves the snow, but is not a morning dog. Onyx, on the other hand, still struggles to get through the snow. He made a go of it this morning and ended up having to do a few Pepi Le Pew jumps to get back to the deck. It was pretty cute. I wish I had some video. I did attempt a few pictures, but never caught a good jump.

We'll be out playing in this later today!! Happy Friday all.