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  Foster Follies:  Diary of an AAHI foster dog

Merry Christmas to Me!  Dec 23rd

Merry Christmas to Me!  Merry Christmas to Me and the Bestest Happy New Year EVER!!!! 

Bet you have been wondering where I have been.  Well . . .  I scored the best furever home in the whole world.  No, not the Obama's (that would have been cool though) and not the Biden's (they got a GSD puppy) - better!  I gots me a house full of BABES!  Meet Janine, Blizzard and Flurry - my new homegirls.  Note their beautiful white fur - they are the ying to my yang, the thing to my thang.

 I have to say, I never knew life could be so awesome.  Janine has these things called couches and oh my my they are comfy!  I don't even want to leave the house to go pee, I might miss out on a few minutes of warmth and comfort.

 Now don't get me wrong, my FPs did me right.  I miss them and Janine says my FM misses me the mostest.  It is hard not to miss the Neeminator - I do leave an impression on all that meet me.  Things happen for a reason, I didn't meet certain potential furever homes because Janine was waiting for me out there somewhere.  She is the coolest forever mom - she takes me sledding!  I already went to a RACE!!!  How cool is that?!?!?!?  I went to this place called Can't Depend on Snow and ran with my chicks.  Perhaps I will even see the FPs at some races this year?  Who knows.  I would be quite happy just hangin' on the couch.

 Best wishes to everyone during this Holiday Season - may we all find our Furever Homes in 2009!
 

-Nemo

 

Spa Day-NOT!!! Nov 19th

FM and I had quite an adventure today - NOT!  The day started out with her chasing me around the yard in her pj's with the tupperware taped to the stick again invading my privacy.  Said she was trying to get a yooo-rine sample, whatever that is.  I like my privacy when I am pee'ing, thank you very much.  I won the battle though with FM - no yooo-rine sample for her.
 
Anyhoo, FM's truck would not start so she put me in her little car to take me to her work.  She was babbling on and on about these trekkie people who would be able to get my yooo-rine.  I am thinking, does she work with a bunch of star-trek geeks?  I tried to tell her how that is so not cool.  No trekkies for me. 
 
As I am telling her I ain't seeing no trekkie - BAM - out of no where some bimbo lady hits FM's little car!!!  Thank goodness we both had out seatbelts on!  Always remember that we critters should either be in a crate or seatbelted in the car when traveling.  This lady came out of no where and cut FM off at an intersection.  But lucky for FM neither of us was hurt, just the little car was hurt.  The police came (hope they didn't look up any of my indiscretions in St. Louis!!), wrote a ticket for the bimbo lady and let FM continue onto work after we sat bored in a parking lot for about an hour.  FM was not a happy FM.  Her work was callin' her non-stop and I am thinking yee-haw, no V-E-T appointment for me (happy dance).
 
No . . . such . . . luck.  FM dropped me off with a trekkie named Jenny who was very skilled at stealin' my yooo-rine.  Guess there is some blood stuff in my pee.  Next a very nice lady (FM's boss lady) Dr. Sharon, took some pictures of my insides.  She was looking for something like rocks in my pee-pee.  Sounds ouchie to me.  I am very happy to let you know I was a very good boy to get my pictures taken.  Dr. Sharon then tells us that I have some funny looking things in my butt muscles near my hips.  Turns out some one shot me!!!!  I must have been too little to remember, thank goodness, but there are at least 8 bb's in my butt.  At least there are no rocks in my pee-pee though.  Dr. Sharon says that I have a mild yooo-rine tack infetshun and I have to take icky tasting pills for a week and then more yooo-rine must be stolen and looked at.  Don't they have enuff of my yooo-rine.  Thiefs!!
 
But the fun does not end there.  My spa day begins then.  My new bestest friend Auntie Donna gave me the best bath ever!!  Turns out I love to be brushed and get baths (as long as the water is warm enough).  She used this yummy shampoo called Black Beauty on me - it tasted super yummy.  It makes my handsome black coat even more handsome.  Auntie Donna massaged me, gave me treats and gave me lots of kisses.  I just laid in her tub and was super for her.  I even let her blow dry me.  She dried me until there was not a single stray fur left on my body - just the ones attached are left!  I then got a bandana from her after I feel asleep in the tub.  I have included some pictures of me during my spa day and my new friend Donna.

 
Well, we are heading from home.  I hear FM coming to get me from the kennels.  Hopefully our ride home is less adventurous!!!
 
-Nemo
 

 

 

What is private should stay private-Nov 18th

Ever have that feeling that everyone is out to get you?  FM is getting a bit too personal with me.  I am feeling a bit under the weather and FM said there is blood in my pee so I have to go to the V-E-T tomorrow.  But does that mean that she has to stick that cold metal thing in my behind?  I told her I do not feel feverish, but she didn't believe me and insisted on taking my temperature and just like I told her it is normal for a hot man like myself - 101 degrees F !!!  Now she is chasing me around with this weird contraption everytime I try to pee, so I run away.  She has this silly tupperware container duct taped to a broom handle and is trying to catch my pee to bring to the V-E-T tomorrow morning.  She said I will be meeting with her boss, Dr. Sharon.  So stay tuned for the results of this wild adventure in Nemo-land!!!


-Nemo/Oak

 

It's My Life-Nov 13th

I think all the blog readers have become quite familiar with Twinkie and Sky Kitty's FM and how life is there.  I thought I would tell all my readers how my life as an AAHI foster dog is at my FP's place - Camp Furricane.   First difference - we have ankle biters here and they stink!  FM calls them border collies and they belong to FM - not FD as he will be very quick to tell you.  Why FM wants these dang evil little creatures is beyond me.  You really have to be careful and watch out that they are not out and about stalking you when you come out of your kennel.  They come out of no where like a shark or something and nail you in the back of your ankles and before you know it, they are gone, stalking you again.  FM says they do something called h-u-r-t-i-n-g - well I will be the first to tell you they do HURT!  She tells us that they will keep us in line - well they keep us in the kennels, we are afraid to come out.  When they are being especially frantic FM has to remind them that we Siberians are not sheeeeeep - whatever those stupid things are.  Maybe FM needs to get some sheeeeeep so the ankle biters will leave us alone.  I thought it was bad enough when I arrived here that there was one ankle biter - then she went and got another ankle biter.  They tag team us!!  I am forced to jump on top of a dog house in order to save myself sometimes.

Other than the ankle biters, life at Camp Furricane is pretty cool.  I get to hang with my bestest boy, Sirius.  Sirius is a foster failure.  We live across the aisle from one another and talk back and forth to the coyotes at night.  FD yells at us for talking to the coyotes, but if he would just give us a cell phone we would not have to disturb his precious sleep.  Now that I am thinking about it, a blue tooth might be nice, then I can talk and chew on my nylabones at the same time.

Anyway, besides Sirius there are 22 other Siberians here are Camp Furricane, including fellow foster dog, Muddy.  Muddy can be a stick in the mud, pun intended.  He is a grumpy old man to me.  FM says he only likes girls and that I need to be nice to him since he is my kennel neighbor.  I tried to tell her that he isn't very nice to me and he smack talks me at dinner time.  When I try to talk back to him I get in trouble.  FM says I should know better and should respect my elders.  Phooey!    Me and Sirius will just hang out and torment him when we are out playing.  Speaking of playing, that brings me to my special kidz - the pups.  Back in July one of my homegirls, Lightning, disappeared for about 2 months.  We thought she had bailed on us - turns out she was knocked up!  Talk about drama around here!  We boys couldn't figure out who was the daddy, but Lightning spilled the beans and it turns out the papa is my boy Jack, another one of the FPs sleddogs.  Turns out it was some planned thing.  We were all wondering why Jack and Lightning kept sneaking away from the kennels in the middle of the summer.  Turns out the FPs were taking them to the scarey V-E-T place for some weird kind of tests or something, something about being a responsible breeder.  Anyhoo - she disappears for a couple of months and suddenly there are these two rug ratz running around.  Mini Siberians - two of them, named Willo and Isso. They are the coolest things around, 'fo shizzle!

I will see if I can get FM to take some pix of me and my homeboy Sirius and me with the kidz.  She did remind me to tell the readers that the kidz are NOT for adoption and that they are staying at Camp Furricane forever so don't even ask!

Lastly - I now have my blackberry up and running so email me - oak@adoptahusky.com

 

 

White House bound?-Nov 8th

NEED YOUR HELP!!!
 
OK, just a quickie post here.  I am sure you all have heard that our new president elect is looking for a new dog to take to the White House.  I am sure you read my friend Jen A.'s post arguing the benefits of having a Siberian in the WH.  I need your help - let's petition our new president to adopt ME!!  I know I am not a puppy, but Malia and Sasha would love me!!!  I love kids and am very well behaved around them.  Everyone write Mr. Obama and show him my blog!!!!  We are a big group of determined people, we can get this done - YES WE CAN!!
I also want to let you know that my facebook page is up already, and I need friends!!!  Some of you have already become my friends, including Blake Frekking - how cool is that??  Maybe he would like to adopt me too?  I could be a good boy for him on his team.
Check out my facebook page and become my friend, I am lonely here!
Tah-tah for now!  Off to eat my breakfast - I hear I am getting some venison today - yum!!

Oak

 

 

It's about time a guy got on here-Nov 7th

Greetings Foster Follies Readers!

Some of you may remember me as the hot guy who tried to pick up Miss Twinkle Toes.  My name is officially Oak, but the foster 'rents call me Nemo (yes like the silly cartoon fish . . . as in Finding . . .)  The Twinkie Baby never took me up on my offer for a sledding date, something about too much snow and ice that evening to make it to my party.  Pluhleez - she professes to be a real sleddog - too much snow and ice - me thinks the lady doth protest too much.  If she didn't want to hook up she should just have the courage to tell me to my face - or at least tell me on my facebook page.  Yes, stay tuned - I will be updating my facebook page and when it is up, I will post it for all to see.  All hip young men need a facebook page to find the ladies - or at least to find a forever home.

Which gets me to the point.  Twinkle's former FM asked me to take over the Foster Follies blog.  It seemed to help her and that Sky Kittie girl find forever homes, so hopefully it will help me.  See, I have been here at the foster 'rents place for a long while, and this is not the first AAHI foster crib I have had.  As you may recall, my beginnings were in St. Louis.  I then hopped a ride to what I was told was going to be Chicago (I thought, way cool!), but I ended up out in this place called Woodstock.  This is the STICKS!!!!  Let me tell you - nothin' but corn 'round here.  This ain't Chicago - no way, no how - it might as well be Iowa or Nebraska - geez!  I have been here in the middle of corn for about a year and a half now.  No one seems to want a handsome young man like myself.  Let me tell you a bit about me.  I am around 3 mature years old, tall dark and handsome and I have the most striking blue eye you have ever seen (the other is chocolate brown baby).  I think my problem is that I don't look like the stereotypical black and white, blue eyed Siberian.  In fact my FM says I am probably an Alaskan Husky, but we don't know for sure.  She has been telling me since she started a new job (which stinks for me, 'cause she isn't home anymore during the day to play with me) that there is this funny sounding test she wants me to have.  See, she just started working in that scary place they call the V . . . E . . . T  (I can't even say it out loud without getting the shivers).  This test is called something like Wizzard (sounds like I should pee on it), Wize. oh I remember, Wisdom Test ( http://www.wisdompanel.com/ ) that might tell us what breed I really am.  She says that everyone who reads my blog can follow the results online too.  Sounds pretty cool, huh?  I really hope it doesn't involve a needle.  FM keeps bringing weird stuff home from work to try on us and others keep disappearing with her to work and they come home smelling foofy and sweet and looking like some silly conformation dog.  She better not do that to the Nemo man - I's gots my priorities, and getting foofed and poofed ain't one of them.

Well, tata for now.  It is Halloween time and I have got to hook up with my peeps tonight for a par-tay.

Stay tuned for some pictures and my facebook page

-Oak/Nemo

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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