Dogs Against Romney

Have you seen this yet?

If not, you must check it out!  Here's a link to Dogs Against Romney.

It's all about how Mitt Romney once drove his family to vacation in Canada and put the family dog in a crate on the roof of the car!  The poor dog was so freaked out that it started to experience severe urinary incontinence. So Mitt, pulled over at a gas station and hosed off the car and the dog in the crate on the roof and just got back on the freeway!  He claims that the dog was just fine and that he lived a long life, but in reality the dog ran away when finally let out of the roof crate when they got to their destination.

The slogans are great!  Like:  "Mitt is Mean!", "I'm not luggage!", and "I ride inside!".

Comparisons

We tend to make a lot of comparisons between Keeley and Teagan. Here are a few of them:

Keeley brings the funk. Teagan brings the noise.
Keeley has a distinct sorta stinky odor to him. I can't seem to get rid of it. I'll give him a bath and within 3 days his funk is back. I've just gotten used to it, but everyone else is constantly telling me how stinky he is. Teagan has a hard time containing her excitement and once she starts barking, it's difficult to get her to stop.

Keeley is interval training. Teagan is endurance training.
When walking the dogs together with another person, the person that has Teagan is going to get an endurance workout because she wants to go full speed straight ahead the whole time. It's hard work holding her back or matching her pace, either way. On the other hand, the person walking Keeley is going to get some interval training. Keeley likes to stop and sniff things a lot but he can't stand for Teagan to be ahead of him at the same time. So with Keeley you have to do these sprints to catch up to and get ahead of Teagan. But as soon as he's ahead of her, he'll find something to sniff for several minutes and she'll get past him again.

Keeley is the warm-up. Teagan is the workout.
When I walk the dogs separately by myself, I always walk Keeley first because he's my warm-up. Without Teagan there to catch up to, it's a much more leisurely walk with Keeley. I take Teagan for her walk second because she's all about go-go-go! She always makes sure I'm sweating by the end of the walk.

Keeley is the helper dog. Teagan is the simple dog.
If you don't know about Hyperbole and a Half, you have to check it out. The posts about her 2 dogs are the best! Keeley is a lot like the smart but neurotic "helper dog" and Teagan is like the "simple dog". The post about "Dogs don't understand basic concepts like Moving" is hilarious. When the simple dog finally becomes aware of something being wrong (even though the helper dog has been stressing about it for a long time already) and starts making a high pitched noise, that's so Teagan! And then the person yelling at the simple dog, and it thinks "Sounds! U R making sounds! Me too! We R sound making buddies!" well, that's very Teagan too. We used to think that Teagan was just dumb, but now we've pretty much decided that she's probably of normal doggie intelligence, but because Keeley is brilliant, he makes Teagan appear dumber than she really is.

Teagan and her xmas doggie

Teagan's grandma got her this cute Barbie dog stuffie for Christmas. We think it's sorta looks like Teagan. I was calling it Teagan's baby but she's more interested in eating it's nose than treating it like her baby.

Christmas Pictures

Keeley and Teagan's grandma has this app on her iPhone that treats your picture like a Life magazine cover.
The pups posed for pictures with their most adorable Christmas poses.
Pretty cute, huh?

Minooka on Christmas Morning

I took Keeley and Teagan to Minooka on Christmas morning in their holiday outfits.

The pups really dislike wearing clothing, especially Teagan. But everyone there commented on how cute they looked.


It was a cold morning, so it was probably good that they had doggie clothing on.

I had to wash Teagan's dress when we got home because she got it all muddy while roaching around.

Merry Xmas!

Keeley and Teagan can't wait till the evening when they'll get to open their presents!
Teagan thinks taking a nap will make the time go by faster.
Keeley has been watching the presents accumulate under the tree for the past couple of weeks. In a few hours his wait will finally be over!

Doggy Full Nelson

Poor Teagan! This is what her Unkie Rob does to her on a daily basis - he puts her in a doggy full nelson hold. I know he's not hurting her and she really doesn't seem to mind it at all, but still it looks pathetic, doesn't it? My poor little girl! I don't know why she has forsaken me for Rob! I don't do stuff like this to her and I kept her even when everyone else said she had to go (in the past when she was attacking Keeley on a regular basis) and helped her to get better. I feed her. I clothe her. I bathe her. I love her. But in the morning she sits outside of Rob's door and cries until he lets her in. He pets her with his feet, not his hands. And he subjects her to doggy full nelson and half nelson on a regular basis. But she adores him! I just don't get it.

Lapham Today

Today we went to Lapham Peak with Rob and Mom. The first thing we always do is climb the tower.
The pups were crazy insane because there were chipmunks all over the place!
Rob had his work cut out for him trying to hold Teagan back. Keeley is a bit more reasonable about these things.
We walked all over the place and the dogs lived it.
It was sunny and humid. The dogs drank a gallon of water on our walk!
Rob has decided that Teagan is going to be his dog. I'm not cool with that but it is good for her to have a fan, since everyone else always favors Keeley.
I'm rarely in pictures because I'm usually the one taking them, but Mom had her camera too and she took this one of me and Rob and the pups.
Every now and then I get worried that Teagan is going to give herself a doggy-heart-attack with all the pulling she does. Sometimes Rob has to force her to take a time-out and catch her breath. She hates these time-outs though.
I had a bad dream the other night that Teagan ran away from home to join the sled dog circuit because she loves to pull so much.
We walked for about 90 minutes and at the end the pups were completely exhausted! They've been sleeping ever since we got home. Now that's a good walk!

I was watching movie trailers and I came across this one with a wire fox terrier in it! The Ewan McGregor character talks to his dog and there are subtitles for what the dog says since he can't talk. I love that because I have big long conversations with Keeley all the time and I always tell people that he speaks with his eyes. Anyways, I thought it was worth mentioning.

Grant Park with Rob

We went for a walk at Grant Park today with Unkie Rob. Teagan was crazy insane because there were squirrels out and about. Here Rob is trying to calm her down.
A different park is always a real treat for the dogs.
We have our regular parks which are Lake, Jacobus, Washington, and Curry, which the dogs like well enough. But anytime we go some place different, they consider it a special treat!
We went on the Seven Bridges Trail for a while.
And then we walked on the beach for a long while.
It was a beautiful day and there was a nice breeze coming off of Lake Michigan.
Teagan cares very little for scenery. All she wants to do is go! go! go!
But Keeley loves walking on the beach and staring out at the lake.
Keeley tried to entice Teagan to play with him on the beach, but she wasn't into that.
Rob was having a hard time with Teagan because all she wanted to do was drink gross lake water and hunt for squirrels.
Keeley likes to play tag with the waves and get his little doggy paws a bit wet. He had a big smile on his face while we were walking on the beach. And walking in sand is supposed to be good exercise for his bad leg.
Near the end of our walk, Unkie Rob posed for a nice picture with the pups.
What a great walk! We're all tired now!

Minooka with Mom

We went to Minooka with my mom today (Keeley's and Teagan's grandma).
We are having a very mild (chilly) spring here in Wisconsin this year.
Lots of people are still wearing their winter coats but the dogs think this is like the perfect temperature because it's warm enough that THEY don't have to wear coats but still cool enough that they don't get overheated.
I've been taking the dogs for a lot of walks lately instead of going to dog parks because in the spring the dog parks get all kinds of gross with mud from the snow melt and spring rain showers. So this was a special treat today, going to Minooka.
It's good for them to run around at top speed without having to drag a human behind them on a leash.
They had a lot of fun! Keeley tried to entice other dogs to chase him by picking up a stick.
It's like he's saying, "Hey! Look at me! I've got a stick! It's a great stick! Don't you want it?!" but there were no takers. Poor Keeley!
Teagan is always willing to chase him though. But he doesn't like that because she's too fast and she gets mean about it sometimes.
Isn't this a great shot of Keeley running fast? I think the pups look quite happy.