GALLERY OF NEW FRIENDS

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all livings things, man himself will not piece." --- Dr. Albert Schweitzer



Hi all our dear friends,


Me and the Mommy have been up since 5 am this morning. Why would any normal human Mommy get up at 5 am on Saturday morning you ask? Because tomorrow we are having a Dachshund Party!! The Mommy is cooking homemade spaghetti sauce and meat balls with some hard boiled eggs (it's a Sicilian thing) for the party and as everybody knows homemade sauce takes all day to cook. She got up early to make her meatballs, boil & peal the eggs, chop up all the onion, garlic, celery and basil and now her sauce is simmering away so we gots plenty of time to put the final touches on my Strings of Friendship feature.


The Mommy only wishes we could have spotlighted every doggie and kitty cat in the DWB community but that would have been impossible and since there are over 1000 doggie blogs, it would take more than 3 years to finish. It took 26 days straight to complete my feature, but we made a lot more friends than that because a lot of my choices had brothers or sisters that we featured. I don't think, me and the Mommy has to worry about running out of friends for awhile. The Mommy got a sore hand now but I got almost a whole month of napping in my little bed at her feet.!! What could be finer than that!!! So from the bottom of our hearts we say...........................

So now I want every body that participated in my feature to accept this friendship award. I hope everybody has visited my new friends by now or hope to do soon. ( The Mommy here...I am computer ignorant and don't know how to add words to pictures, so if you just accept the picture as Mona's award to each of you, I would appreciate it). A special thank you to the parents of Qwill, Ume, Xiao and Yoshie, for naming their babies or this feature would not have been complete.

I have one more request to ask of all of you. The Mommy and I did not highlight any hammies because I only have 1 hammier friend, Bae Bae,

that has not left for the bridge. I want to do a Hammie feature too. So if you have any hammie friends, please let me know. Because we have lost so many hammierfriends, we would dedicate the post to our dear friends Fufu, Baby Girl and Mousie.

Oh and also don't forget my Brother/Sister post I want to do, so please e-mail me a picture of you. The Mommy said we won't begin that post until March.

Now for one last look at my:

STRINGS OF FRIENDSHIP "A-Z"


AMBER

BOLO

CHLOE

DAKOTA

ERNEST

FRANKIE

GORGEOUS GEORGE

HELOIS

IVY

IZZIE

JOSH & JESSIE

KYLIE

LIZZIE


MANGO

MISTY

M.J.

NIAMH

ONG BEE BEE

OZZIE

PRESTON

PEANUT

QWILL

RAMBO

RUBY

SAVAGE

SASHA, SHENNA & SZE EM

TAMA-CHAN

TIA

UME

VELCRO

VODKA

WITTY KITTY

XIAO PANG

YOSHI

ZOEY

ZOIE BELLE

Well that's all my friends. I think the Mommy did a pretty good job of picking out all kinds of different doggies and kitties to interduce. Of course she was a little heavy on dachshunds but what can I say .


Gotta go check the sauce now so love, kisses and (((huggies))) to all our new and old friends.....Mona & the Mommy too!!

PS.............Don't let Mona fool you, she snores!! She slept most of the time while I was loading pictures.......the Mommy, Sarah.

PSS..........I do not snore, Mommy!!! I was just clearing my throat.

ZOIE BELLE AND ZOEY

QUOTE OF THE DAY:


"A dog is like an eternal Peter Pan, a child who never grows old and who, therefore, is always available to love and be loved." -- Aaron Katcher

Hi dear friends,

We would like to thank everybody for the kind words, thoughts and prayers for Toby #4. The Mommy is still very upset about losing another doggie but she knows there are still a lot more that need our help and the need never stops. She decided that we needed something to cheer us up, so while she was on break at work this morning, she decided she needed a "Georgie and Roxie fix" so she started calling some of our doggie friends to see if anybody wanted to come over Sunday afternoon for a homemade pasta sauce and meatball lunch. So on a spur of the moment idea we are gonna PARTY!!! For sure there will be 9 dachshunds and maybe 3 chihuahuas & their families coming over. Evander and Fritzie are coming with their Mom & Dad and maybe their Grandma & Great grandma. Aunt Judy is coming with her 3 boys, Harley, Bandit and George (the fix giver) and she is babysitting 3 other dachsies so she will be bringing then along too. How exciting, 3 new doggies to meet & play with!!! Chloe, is a 4 month old pup, Heidi is a chocolate piebald & is about 2 years old, and Chewey is a 2 year old chocolate male. They were all rescues from a puppy mill in Hitchcock that got busted. Roxie, Sammy and Andy can't make it and they are very disappointed and so are we. Poor Mommy....no Roxie fix this time. Not to worry. The Mommies are planning a visit in the country in the next couple of weeks. My Aunt Tina & Chris might be coming with their 3 dogs, Mr Grins, Gordo and Baby Girl. My bested little human friend is comming too!! It's gonna be like a mini dachshund reunion.

We have arrived at our last post for my Stings of Friendship A-Z feature. Yesterday I got a wonderful box of goodies from Zoe's Mama, Staci, with all kinds of toys and treats that had Zoe's favorites in it. The Mommy took a few videos and a bunch of pictures that we will post about next week. Since Zoe has been in our minds so much lately we decided that we would pick a doggie and a cat named Zoe or close to it for our "Z" post. This post is dedicated to Zoe.

STRINGS OF FRIENDSHIP "Z

ZOIE BELLE (aka ZOZ) a dachshund from Washington Zoie has been having a problem with a 'crying eye' & has been diagnosed with an eye ulcer that's why she has a cone around her neck. Let's all pray that she doesn't have to have surgery. Zoie is a recent Puppy Training Graduate. My Aunt Mary is the one that told us about Zoie so that's how we found her and we sure are glad we did.

She gets snow too!!

Here she is with her favorite toy--a leopard print stuffie.

This little chocolate male dachshund is Coda. He came from my stomping ground, TEXAS. He is not Zoie's brother but a playmate for now and maybe someday her mate. Wouldn't they have some pretty pups.

CODA

Zoie and Coda in their favorite spot--they love the space heater. Right now Coda is a lot smaller than Zoie.

Cuddling.....looks like when Coda is ready , there won't be a problem for them to have puppies.

Zoie Belle's blog address is: http://zoiebelle.blogspot.com

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My kitty cat choice is Zoey and she has a sister named Maggy. The above picture is the header on their blog. Zoey's Mom is an artist and does beautiful work. Do you know what zoolatry means? It is defined as "an excessive attention to animals." The Mommy said that describes all our Mommies and Daddies.


ZOEY is a Himalayan from Florida

Zoey has a snaggle tooth just like my brother Jacks does. That bear she is being compared too gots one too!

MAGGY

To go visit these gorgeous girls their blog address is: http://zoolatry.blogspot.com

The Mommy here.....

One last thing before we close for tonight. This link is free if you want to clean your computer screen. Administration asked that we all use it every day and it really does clean your computers.

http://www.raincitystory.com/flash/screenclean.swf

Love, kisses and (((Huggies))) to all..........Mona & the Mommy too!!