Dogs, dogs everywhere w/lots of faces to lick!

Monday, February 28, 2011

Dogs, dogs everywhere w/lots of faces to lick!

Hi Big People, PeeWee here. And I've got some new friends to introduce you to! But first...the winner of A DOG'S WAY HOME by Bobbie Pyron is....

Karla Nellenbach and her brother and sister pups, Samson and Nickels, who saved the bunny from the owls (it was an animal-filled story!)

Here they are:

Samson is one brave dog to take on a mess of owls! Most owls are bigger than me, so I wouldn't even try--in fact, is Samson looking for a job? Because I'm about the size of a bunny, and I need protection!

Read Samson's story and all of the rest in the comments here. There were some really great stories of rescue, daring and bravery. All of these dog's and their owners would LOVE Tam in A DOG'S WAY HOME. So even if you didn't win, I highly suggest you pick up a copy! It hit the shelves last week. You can buy it here, here, or here. Go!

Now it's time to meet some of my other new friends!

This is Kaffi. She was rescued by her owner at a rest stop while on vacation. She was part chihuahua like me! You can read her full story in the link above. Her owner Kelley is a hero in my book!

This here is a surfing pup named )(urley! She can hang twenty, ride the waves, and she's also got a killer sleepy face (see below). I can swim, but I've never tried surfing!

On Wed we'll meet Cody, Kal, Sera and Bolt! So stay tuned for more doggie pics.
And just because we love the book so darn much, we'll announce a new winner of A DOG'S WAY HOME on Wednesday! That's right--two winners. We chihuahuas can be very giving.

WOOF!

PeeWee

9 comments:

Kelley said...: Yay! Congrats to the winner! Also exciting to see Kaffi's pics up there. Thanks, PeeWee!

(That surfing pup is WAY too adorable.); February 28, 2011 at 11:06 AM
suzie townsend said...: Congrats Karla!!!

And oh my gosh, I love that surfing pup. So cute!!!; February 28, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Karla Nellenbach said...: I won? Yay!

Sadly, Samson is one lazy dog. I've suggested many, many, many times that he get off the couch and look for work, considering his big butt costs a whole lot to feed, but he's too spoiled to do anything that I suggest. although if he gets a spurt of owl chasing energy, I will definitely send him up to you all ;)

thanks for having such a fantastic contest! can't wait to read this book :)

lastword0524 (at) hotmail (dot) com; February 28, 2011 at 11:26 AM
Matthew Rush said...: OMG! This post is on cute overload.

Congrats to the winners!; February 28, 2011 at 1:23 PM
Angelica R. Jackson said...: Fun contest! I recognized Karla's dogs before I read her name--just like in the neighborhood, I know the neighbors as "Isaboo's Mom" or "Bodie's Dad". Their dogs' names instead of the people's names.; February 28, 2011 at 5:56 PM
Sheila JG said...: Congrats Karla! That was a great story. Owls are evil. I know this because my 8-year-old won't read anything but Guardians of Ga'hoole, even though I have tons of other books I want him to read.

Cute dogs! Thanks for sharing.; February 28, 2011 at 7:56 PM
Kerri Cuev said...: They are all so cute! I could squeeze and hug them ALL!; March 1, 2011 at 9:29 AM
Bobbie Pyron said...: Hey! A HUGE thanks to all who sent in their wonderful dog stories and photos! I laughed, I cried (well, got teary-eyed) reading them. You're ALL winners in my book and in your four-footed friend's eyes!; March 3, 2011 at 11:43 AM
LindsayWrites said...: Ahhh! You put up my pics of hurley surfing!! :) she feels like a star now!; March 12, 2011 at 11:49 PM

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Five Random Things About Suzie

1. I drink so much orange soda, it's probably running through my veins. I've been known to go through a twelve pack of diet sunkist in a day.

2. I'm legitimately nocturnal (or a vampire). I will be so exhausted at two pm that I'm falling asleep standing up - it has happened before, at Six Flags no less - but as soon as the sun goes down I'm wide awake.

3. I have a gorgeous unused $6000 Reem Acra wedding dress hanging in my closet, and it showed up on my doorstep the same day my (now ex) fiance broke up with me. And thank God for that. I wouldn't have wanted to waste that dress on him.

4. Social anxiety plagues me daily. I write a script and practice in front of the mirror when I have to make a phone call, but most people who interact with me have no idea how nervous I am (or perhaps they lie) because I've worked so hard to try to overcome it.

5. I'm actually worried that I will never love my children (when I do have them in the far off future) as much as I love my dogs. I just like animals better than people - they're sweet and innocent and soft and furry - is that so wrong?

quotes

金不一定閃
流浪者不都迷路

"I dreamed you bewitched me into bed

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane
I think I made you up inside my head
I fancied you'd return the way you said
But I grow old and I forget your name
I think I made you up inside my head" ~Silvia Plath, Mad Girl's Love Song

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ~ Robert Frost

"Love is not love,
Which alters when it alteration finds." ~ William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116"

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning-...So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY

"For deadly secrets strike when understood
and lucky stars all exit on the run:
never try to knock on rotten wood,
never try to know more than you should." ~ Sylvia Plath, "Admonitions"

"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become." ~ Milan Kundera, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

William Wilberforce: "No one of our age has ever taken power."
William Pitt Jr: "Which is why we're too young to realize certain things are impossible. Which is why we will do them anyway."

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." ~ Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." ~ Mark Twain

“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace.” ~ Charles Dickens, A MUTUAL FRIEND

"I think the idea of life after death is a bad idea. It distracts you from appreciating the uniqueness of the here and now, the moment you are living." ~ Joseph Campbell

"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear...Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end." ~ Alan Paton, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

"To laugh often and much.. to endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better... To know even one life has breathed easier because you lived, This is to have succeeded." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover or friend, I have changed in their eyes...[Some see it as] a mission, as if ...they can pull me back from the wreckage of that day. Of course, their best efforts are largely useless. No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved." ~ Alice Sebold, LUCKY

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared." ~Tupac, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

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Monday, February 28, 2011