February Dog of the Month: Booger!!!

About Booger;

Booger, (AKA “Boogie” or “Boogitty”) is a 5 year old Lab and Pointer mix. He is a regular here at Ruffledale and has been coming since Ruffledale opened its doors. Ruffledale is Boogers’ “Home Away From Home.” Most of the time when clients come in they don’t even know Booger is here! We can put all of the dogs in the back and leave Boogie up front and he won’t move from his spot on the couch. He LOVES to sleep and is happy just relaxing for all of the day, every day! Boogers’ ideal day would be as follows; Sleep, Eat, Sleep, Treat, Sleep. Perfect!! Booger loves to have his belly rubbed. He will just roll over where he is laying and let you rub his belly all day if possible.

Booger got his name from his first time home. When his Mom adopted him, he had a really bad case of Bronchitis. He was very sick and full of green Boogers! Hence he got his name. Now it fits him because he is a naughty little booger!! But we all love our Boogitty. Ruffledale wouldn’t be the same without Booger on our couch! Because Boogie was so sick, all he wanted to do was cuddle with his new Mom who rescued him. Now he still loves to cuddle with her in bed!

Booger loves to eat! It is the most important thing to him and his favorite thing is Cheez its! (of course dog food is pretty good too!) Other favorite treats are anything that is left on the counter when his Mom leaves, canned food the other dogs at Ruffledale are supposed to get, Chew Bones, and especially when his mom Home cooks him chicken and rice with pumpkin! Mmmmmm. Yes, he is quite spoiled! Sometimes Booger even likes to eat things he shouldn’t like the Squeakies out of his toys after he shreds them!! He has gotten a couple trips to the vet from eating those. Even some X-Rays to make sure they are moving through the way they should. Since those are his favorite, his Mom can’t let him have toys any more with a squeakie in them. Poor Booger. But he also loves to chase lasers, and loved the one he got for Christmas from Ruffledale.

Boogie loves all animals. Dogs are great, but he really loves Cats. Booger thinks of Cats as “Laura’s” because his Aunt Laura had a cat and whenever his Mom asked him if he wanted to go see Laura he would get excited to see the Kitty. Now if you ask him where the Laura is he starts searching around for a Cat to play with. Everyone here at Ruffledale loves getting to have Boogie around. He is such a staple here at Ruffledale, that without him we wouldn’t know what to do!

In Loving Memory.......

Everyone at Ruffledale are mourning the loss of one of our most beloved daycare dogs. Cartman, a sweet 2 year old English Mastif passed away last week.

All of us loved having Cartman at Ruffledale. He was always the life of the party, playing with dogs of all shapes and sizes, and of course always getting into arguments with "regular" Packer a boxer. It was a given that no matter where Cartman was in the facility, his best friend and brother Butters was by his side, (or biting his back legs.)

Each of us at Ruffledale have great memories of Cartman, to his love of food and treats to how wonderful he was in the bath. Even at his large size he was one of the easiest dogs to give a bath too. Although he out weighed each and everyone of us here, he was just a big lovable teddy bear, a "gentle giant," that we all loved to hug.

Everyone who entered the building would comment on "That gigantic dog on the couch and the cute little one laying on top of him." He was also a great window display, I remember pulling up to the store and laughing because of Cartman's face looking out at me and in the background his brother Butters curled up on his back.

Cartman's love of life and the great friendships he shared will greatly be missed but never forgotten. We send our love to the family of Cartman, we know how much he meant to you and how he was a huge part of your life. We Thank You for letting us spend time with Cartman. We love you! TeAnna and the Crew at Ruffledale

Dog of the Month for January; PATCHES!!

About Patches;

Patches is a Dalmation and Heeler cross. She just turned 12 years old in October of 2009!! Although Patches is an older girl, she still loves to play with the most silly and rambunctious puppies here at Ruffledale. She LOVES to be wild and play!! Patches’ favorite toy is a Frisbee! There is nothing better to her (except maybe some peanut butter doggie bones Mmmmmm) When Patches was a younger pup, she used to like to climb up trees chasing after her frisbee. She would also do “No Paw Cartwheels” to catch it! She still loves her Frisbee but takes a less dramatic approach to catching it now! Patches also loves going hiking. She likes to find sticks to carry around and it is an especially good hike if Patches can find a chipmunk to chase up a tree or a little snow she can roll around in. Patches is an expert stick hunter, and will find the biggest stick (or small log!) that she can possibly carry. Even if it is an entire field of nothing but snow, Patches will somehow still find a stick.

When Patches fist came home, her new parents got her at 8 weeks old as a “Pound Puppy.” Her new Dad bought her a crate for bedtime and said she needed to sleep there and no way could she be on the bed. Well Patches already knew how to use her big sad puppy eyes. She only needed to let out one little wimper along with her “Sad Eyes” and Dad took her out of the crate and put her in bed. Patches has slept in bed with her Mom and Dad ever since! Spoiled Patches!! Patches most favorite moment was when she was fist introduced to a Ham Shank. she was so excited, that she accidentally bit her Dad’s hand while he was giving it to her. Patches was very sorry, but she could not resist the warm and tender juiciness. Mmmm Sooo Sooo yummy.

There are a lot of thins that make Patches unique and special. Patches has one special talent that is extremely unique to her. When Patches is traveling she can tell when the elevation changes. Her Mom and Dad’s theory is that she can sense the change from the pressure in her ears. Hmmm very interesting. But if Patches can tell that the elevation is going up, she expects to get to go on a hike in the mountain to find a big stick to carry around! Everyone here at Ruffledale loves when Patches comes to spend a weekend or even longer here with us. She is so sweet and we love to hear her ferocious growls when she is playing with one of the most wild and crazy puppies here!

Naughty DOG's

These are some of the pictures we were sent when we went looking for "Naughty Dogs."  I heard a lot of stories, but most people don't grab their camera and take pictures of their dogs mess.  Here are two of my favorite..

The first is a black lab named Guinness.  Guinness was being puppy sat by his Grandma, she decided to run upstairs for a quick 20 minute shower.  When she returned she saw Guinness had turned her laundry room into a fun puppy painting center.  He tore open a huge bag of flour and found some fruit punch gatorade bottles to chew up and paint her a wonderful "paw painting" throughout the room.   

He sat there so good to have his picture taken, so proud of his artistic work.  How could you possibly get mad at that beautiful puppy face!!!

The next culprit is this sweet boy named Pax, for such a little boy he sure knows how to make a big boy mess.  When his owner (Natalie) leaves little Pax home alone to long, he decides to teach her a lesson.  This is only one of the messes he has made for her.  

A Tribute to Naughty Dogs!!!

So today I was just hanging out at home, I came wandering down the stairs to find my 8 year old lab on top of my counter. Which is about waist level to me. She is a average size lab, she weighs about 56 pounds, so you can imagine my surprise to see her just hanging out up there. Luckily I had my phone in my hand, so I hurried and snapped a shot of her up there, so I could prove it to all the disbelievers. Which there will be some, because at daycare everyone talks about how well behaved and sweet my Dakota is, but really she is super naughty, and really always has been. The thing that makes me laugh is I have another lab named Kenna. She is the well behaved one at home, but at daycare she is super naughty. So all the girls at work think that I am crazy when I tell them how naughty Dakota is. Now I have evidence to prove it.

The picture is not the best quality, but if you look close she is casually standing there drinking my two year olds sippy cup.

So after laughing at all the naughty things that puppies and dogs do, I decided that November and December should be a "Tribute" to all of our naughty dogs. If they were perfect how much fun could that possibly be.

Please everyone that is reading this and laughing thinking of all their pups, please e-mail your pics and stories to ruffledale@Yahoo.com so we can post them. THANK YOU TeAnna

So to kick things off, I must post a picture of Ashley's Wedding cake. Ashley was one of our employees at Ruffledale, this summer she was married. She of course wanted all of the family dogs involved in the wedding process, they even were invited to her ceremony out of state. After realizing that bringing all the dogs along might not be that practical (all four range in size from about 40lbs to 140lbs). They decided that they would leave them home, but they were involved in the reception at home.

This is a picture of Ashley's wedding cake after Charlie(the families 140lb great dane mix) decided to try it out before all the guests got to.

CHARLIE (the taste tester!)

Halloween Pics 2009!!!

It's Halloween time again... and of course we have our annual Halloween Costume Party! As I was getting all of my children's costumes ready (one skin baby and 2 Fur Babies,) about a month before Halloween, I would dress each one up and take pics on my phone. I had to make sure the costumes fit and looked cute.. Then I would text message them to the people I think care as much as I do about my costumes, that I have searched for, mostly ending up on Ebay of course paying much more than they are worth, but well worth it.

With a big smile on my face my costumes are ready and complete and just waiting for Halloween!! That's when I get a text message from my Mom, asking me if the poor dogs think I am a "nut case." I laugh, realizing that eight years running I have dressed up my beloved Lab Dakota, and never has she made a peep, she happily plays along, no matter how she really feels, she trots along showing off her costume, just to please her "crazy" human Mommy. Then I think about my little boy and how at only two getting him to stay in his costume is a large chore. That is why having a dog(s) around is what everyone needs. When everyone around is asking so much of you, your dog is there to love you unconditionally no matter your "nuttyness."

Here are some pics from this years Halloween party!! We had a blast, even if the dogs were wondering what was going on, so many items hanging off of each other to chase around and eat, but all in all it was a success.

Thank You for all that participated, we love you and appreciate your business!!!

Baby, In her Pumpkin suit, one of our foster girls!
KiKi in her Bee suit, our other foster girl!

Packer in his Shark suit!

Dakota in her Cheerleading costume, and Kenna was the K-9 cop this year.

Bubba as this years Hot Dog!!

Charlie horse was the horse, for the headless horseman, and he loves to give Jodie kisses, at eye level of course!!



Not only was Packer dressed up as a Shark, he also pretended to be one, chasing Sophia around in her Lion Costume..
It's hard to tell what these girls are dressed up as, but they are dressed up as each other, each one sporting the other ones collar... tricky

Pax is dressed up as a "Bad Ass!"

Booger is Dracula, see the scary teeth!!

Darko is dressed up like Devin, (inside joke) His owner!!

Buster, for some reason his photo is flipped, but he was the most polite Mailman we have ever had!!

And last, but of course not least, Heidi dressed up as a squirl!!

Dog of the Month for November SOLDIER!!

About Soldier;

Soldier is a wild and crazy German Shepherd Dog. He was born on October 15th 2007. He just celebrated his 2nd Birthday!! He has sure grown up since his first visit to Ruffledale when he was barely a year old. Soldier’s favorite days are days that he gets to come play with all of his friends here at Ruffledale (dog’s and people). When he gets here we each get a very energetic greeting from a very excited Soldier. Soldier loves to be outside and spends a lot of his day here at Ruffledale getting his friends to chase him outside so they can play out there. He also likes to take things from the people at Ruffledale and get them to chase him outside too!! He loves to be the center of attention while he is here and being chased is his favorite way to spend the day!

Soldier loves to play Soccer. He guides the Soccer ball with his front legs and nose. The Soccer Ball is his favorite toy. Soldier loves to be around everyone. Soldier especially loves Children. He is always very gentle with them, even though he is big and energetic! Although Soldier pretty much loves all people and dogs, he is not very fond of going to the Vet. He could definitely do without those visits. He especially doesn’t appreciate when he needs ANY kind of Ear Treatment.....those are Soldier’s personal torture! But if you just give him a little scratch on his neck or right above his tail he will forget all about the mean Ear stuff!

Soldier came from the mountains in Colorado. His new Dad picked him up and drove him home. His new Dad picked him out of all of the other Puppies because he was the only one who wasn’t scared of his big scary dog Dad. (Even his new human Dad was respectful of his Dog Dad!) All of the puppies were nervous about their Dad, but Soldier trotted right up to him and licked his face!! His new human Dad figured that a confident puppy would be more people friendly and wouldn’t “fear-bite.” Soldier’s confidence has definitely worked out in that way. He loves everyone and is completely sure that everyone loves him too!!! In the hotel on the drive home he got to sleep on his new human Dad’s bed in his little blue crate. Now that he is older he sleeps in his crate right in the bedroom. He never once cried in his crate when he was a baby and slept all through the night. The only scary thing for Soldier in his new home was learning how to use the stairs. He needed to use the wall to help him keep his balance while bravely went down the stairs one at a time! Soldier has now mastered going up and down the stairs.