Polls Are Open

The polls are officially open for our April Showers Bring May Flowers Photo Contest!

We had 28 pups participate! Click here to visit the official contest page. To vote, use the poll in the sidebar. You may vote for 3 photos per day. The winner will be announced on May 1 (polls close April 30).

We want to thank all the dogs who entered. Make sure to vote for them and visit their blogs. I’m including their web addresses below.

If you want to help spread the word and dig up some votes, feel free to post this button code into your blog.

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More contests - we’ve decided to start a monthly photo contest on our forum where you can win an awesome badge for your site, some serious bragging rights and your photo and site featured in a post right here. Mays contest theme will be “Show Me Some Tongue”.

A big thanks again to all the participants!

Joyce (1), Cody (2) and Zena(3) of The Four Muskateers

Aly (4) of Aly the Dog

Mason Dixie (5) of Who Says Dogs Don’t Blog

Paco e Milo (6)

Callie (7), Gus (8) and Louie (9) of Three Happy Heeler’s

Wouliff (10)

Lolly (11)

Honey the Great Dane (12) of Big Honey Dog

Gus (13) and Waldo (14) of Reflections of a Dog Mom

Poppy (15) of Little Blonde Chihuahua

Diego (16) of Diego Dog

Malinois (17) of Dog Daily Photo

Zeke (18) and Joey (19) of Joey the Golden Retriever

Ziggy Marley (20)

Pu (21)

Hoppy (22), Hero (23) and Gypsy (24) of Shepherds’ Ledge Farm

Samantha (25) of Sammie Golden

Cody (26) and Athena (27) of Pawsative Touch

Pippa (28)

Bark/Bury

We Almost Melted

Florida was a blast but DOG OH DOG - IT SURE IS HOT! HOT! HOT! They said this wasn’t even summer yet. It felt like summer to us. I think we might melt here if it gets close to that hot. Oh noes!

Yo Pops! Put down the window. You'll get better pics and I won't be so friggin' hot!

Thats better! The air in Florida sure did smell different. Maybe all the smells get caught in the water in the air. You can hardly breath in this humidity.

Daphnebutt was going for ultimate aero mode. Its vacation! Don't worry about it!

Ok. I guess she knows how to have fun. What a silly bear!

On this car ride we were driving out toward the beach. We didnt go all the way because the people in Florida dont let us pups on their precious beaches. But we got to see some cool wildlife.

Check it out. An alligator! Do you see? We wanted to get out and play. Mom and Dad didnt think it was a good idea though. They are NO FUN!

This is an alligator trail. They sure do wander around like they are drunk!

A BIRD! This one we really wanted to make friends with. AGAIN the BORING grown ups said no. LIVE A LITTLE!

And check out this furry dude! Supposedly there were going to be a MILLION of these at Grandmas. But we got there and nada. We saw this devil at the gas station. Grandma said we scared them all away. She is hoping that she can get cutouts made of us and stick them in the yard. She says squirrels and gardens dont mix. After the running around we did in her backyard I have a feeling she thinks GSDs and gardens don't mix.

Now a quick Easter report in from Daphne…

What do we have here?

Easter Rocks!

SCORE!

SEE YA!

As as side note: We totally sucked at finding the easter eggs.

Don’t forget - you only have a few more hours to enter the contest. We’ll open the polls and put up some button code on Thursday, April 16.

Bark/Bury

HOPPY EASTER!

We are headed to Florida this weekend to visit my Grandma and Great Grandpa (my mom’s family) for the Easter holiday. Mom said that there is an Easter Bunny who will hide eggs and we get to search the yard for them. When we find them we let her know and we get a special treat inside! WOOHOO! Sounds pretty awesome to us! It is a long car ride - about 9 hours. We’ll make sure to take some awesome pics from our first trip to Florida! Maybe we’ll get to go to the beach. I hear it is really hot there. Like 90 degrees! OH NOES! I hope we don’t melt.

Some random catching up:

Check out our cool new award!

We track all our awards here!

What else…oh yeah…

There was something amiss outside two nights ago. I barked out the window to wake up Mom and Dad but they just told me to hush. I barked and GROWLED and still all I got was a hush. I pooped on the floor. That seemed to work. They jumped from the bed! Neat trick.

CONTEST! CONTEST!

Don’t forget to enter the contest. We’ve got 21 submissions so far! WOOHOO! All entries must be received by April 15 at the LATEST!

Have a great weekend! Anyone else have plans?

Bark at ya later!

Bark/Bury

Lemonaid

Daphne reporting in. We had a great time this weekend. Sadly Dad’s car didn’t make it through the weekend. OH NOES! Even the best lemonaid couldn’t revive her. We had a great time though and he kicked some tail out on the track before the car went sour. Figured you might like a picturific post with highlights of the event and our new friends! Hope you all had a great weekend.

The last picture is me from this weekend! Look at me grow!

Pruett is getting big too. At least his head is. I think it is filled with rocks.

Here is some proof that his head is indeed full o’ rocks. He is trying to fool you into thinking he is a race car driver. A driver that can go fast. But if you will notice he is not in the car nor actually moving. Those ears don’t fool anyone!

We did a lot of walking around.

And a lot of sitting around. There were lots of people and noises and strange smells.

We did good on Friday and Saturday. But by Sunday morning we were beat. Not quite as beat as this car though. Poor car.

We get cranky when we are tired and sometimes our ears don’t work well. Do any of you have problems hearing when you get tired? Do you think we should see a doctor?

We tried napping but it didn’t help. Still tired.

We even tried snuggling up with Mom. But we were still pretty worn out.

Maybe I just need someplace more comfy. I look like I’m losing my mind a little bit. That is what happens when you don’t get enough sleep!

This should do. Why should I have to lay in the dirt?!

This is the way to hang out at the track. Oh yeah!

Now to our pup friends:

This is Brooke. She is super soft and super sweet. She is a only a few months older than we are!

This is Lexie. You may remember she came to our yard and had the nerve to try to rough us up. Well we are bigger now. And she has been practicing her manners for sure. We all got along pretty well. The humans kept us on leashes just to be safe though. No trust!

There was even another GSD at the track. He was super friendly. We found out that he was rescue dog. It seemed he’d found himself a good forever home.

This is Mars. He is a regular at the track with us. He is the quiet and reserved type. I think he thinks he is wiser than us young pups. You’ll here him sigh and see him shake his head. Loosen up Mars! Have some fun!

Mars left before we took this group photo. Here are the pups and one of Dad’s teammates in front of the car. It was a fun weekend but we were really happy to go home. This was our first adventure away from home without any crates. Free pups for the weekend. And we did great! No problems at the hotel - slept sound and snorry right on the floor. And when we needed a break and it was cool enough - we just hopped right in the back of the truck. Guess we are growing up!

Everyone really loved the bandannas mom made! They were a big hit!

Don’t forget to check out the book club and discussion in the new GSD Adventures Forum.

We have had 20 entries so far for the photo contest. Don’t miss out on the fun! Send us your photos right away. Deadline is April 15. See official rules here.

Bark/Bury

Headed to the Track in Style

We are headed to Carolina Motorsports Parkway in South Carolina this weekend for a race called Lemons. Sound silly to us to be racing fruit. They keep saying the cars are the lemons but they just look like cars to us. Maybe it is the people driving them that are the fruits. BOL!

Mom made all the dogs and people some team spirit accessories for the weekend to cheer on our Dad and his team.

Hair ribbons for the girls.

Bandannas for us pups. There are five pups in total. Should be fun seeing us all in our gear! Dont worry - there will be lots of pictures! I will say the camo isn't my first pick. And Puff Paint is so 80s. But Mom was so excited. We had to act that way too.

Here is Pruett modeling his new bandanna. His neck was bigger than we thought and we were worried it wouldnt fit. But it did. He gets to be as embarrassed as the rest of us this weekend wearing these things.

I jumped on the counter to check out the bandannas and see if I could help. My kindness wasnt quite captured on film. Pruett, picking his nose, however was.

Do you SSEEEEEEE how helpful I am?!

1. Don’t forget about our awesome contest. Entries will be accepted through April 15. We’ve had a lot of awesome pics sumbitted so far. Go check them out and their blogs as well!

Bark/Bury