You are cordially invited to join us in our weekend celebrations!

JD - Hi everyone! We'd like to invite you all to a celebration this weekend because....

Max - ....our next post will be our 100th! We can hardly believe it!

JD and Max - back when it all began....!!

JD - We've watched other doggies reach their 100th post with much admiration and pleasure as their blogs are great and funny and witty and imaginative....

Max - ....but we never really thought WE'D get to 100 - wow!!

JD - So (drum roll please, he he he!!) ....on Saturday, 12th September - which coincidentally is the EXACT date one year ago that female human spent her very last working day in London (how cool a coincidence is that?!) - we will publish our 100th post!

Max - We're everso excited! We could not have got here without YOU! We're SO thrilled about this that we wanted to hold a little celebration. So this is an open invite for all of you to come and join us!

Max - "Do you think anyone will visit us on Saturday JD?"

JD - After much thought we decided that we'd mark our 100th blog by focusing on some 'firsts'! But there are so many great 'firsts' that it has been hard to decide which firsts to focus on ....

Max - .... but in the end we decided to celebrate on three blog 'firsts' . The first dog-blog our human ever stumbled across ....

JD - .... our first blog contact ....

Max - .... and finally our first love ....*wistful sigh!*

JD - We've recently contacted each of these 'firsts' - you know who you are! (can the rest of you guess who's who?!) - and have sent each of you a little goodie bag as a small 'thank you' for helping us to get to here!

Max - Unfortunately, our female human sent these goodie bags by surface mail so - um - you might just get them in time for our 200th post we suppose, sorry 'bout that....!

JD - "I think we'd best walk this Kong over to our blog pals ourselves Max - it's bound to be quicker than waiting for surface mail to deliver!"

JD - .... but anyway, on Saturday we will be writing ALL about the three of you in our blog!!

Max - ALSO - very excitingly - our female human has told us that to help us celebrate she's going to donate one pound to the Dog's Trust for every comment that is left on our 100th blog AND for every comment that is left in our guest book until the end of September!

JD - The Dog's Trust is the UK's largest Dog Welfare Charity and they do great work in re homing doggies - as well as picking out doggies they've identified to train as service and assistance doggies - so please help us to help them by leaving a comment on our100th post AND by signing our guest book at any point!

Max - Yeah! If you leave a comment on our 100th post we'll donate a pound! If you sign our guest book during September we'll donate a pound! If you do BOTH we'll donate TWO pounds! It's a win-win scenario!!

JD - So PLEASE join us on the weekend!

JD and Max are hoping to party, party, party!!

Max - As we could not have got here without you!

Wordless Wednesday! (Did you hear the car?!)

Pet Pride - ooops, I ate it!

JD - Hi everyone! We're very excited because it's the start of Pet Pride today and we LOVE Pet Pride!

JD and Max - "Ooh, is it Pet Pride yet? Is it? Is it???!"

Max - It's a great meme, wonderfully hosted by Bozo, where pets can boast about how great they are - or owners can boast about how great their pets are! If you haven't joined in the fun yet why don't you swing on by and have a go!

JD - Anyway, we've been saving this post ESPECIALLY for Pet Pride as we're VERY proud of it!

Max - Yup! We would like to show off an award we got - it's the 'Oops - I ate it!' award and it's given to pups (or kitties!) who have expertly and cleverly obtained snacks that might not have been intended for them....

JD - Um, don't you mean pups (or kitties!) who were a bit naughty and - erm - stole some food?

Max - Hey, I know what I mean JD! He he he! Well, the reason we wanted to keep this award for Pet Pride is because we think that sneaking food - as well as maybe having a slightly messy house....

"Now, where did we leave our favourite stuffie?!" (Note from JD and Max's female human - although I'm proud to have dog beds and treat jars and water bowls all over our house I would still like to comment that this is NOT a photo of our house! In fact, none of the following 3 photos are from our house, they're just being used to prove a point!!)

JD - ....or scratched furniture....

"Mmmmm, mahogany - our favourite!"

JD - ....or chewed rugs....

"Yum - slight undertones of wool with a hint of fluff - delicious!"

Max - ....or clothes that always seem to have a splodge of mud or puppy spit on them....

Dog - "Whaddayou mean 'arghhh - don't jump up!' Sheesh - humans!"

JD - ....or ALL OF THE ABOVE!! - are all part of having a pet that should be CELEBRATED!! So, we were quite delighted to be offered this award by our very good bloggie pals Bruce the super-cool cat, Frodo - the super-cute Shih Tzu puppy and Pluto the super-clever GSD!

Max - Hmmm - our pals obviously expect the worst from us JD, he he he!!

JD and Max - "We LOVE it when thoughtful human simply drop their food on the floor - it makes our walks a gastronomic delight!! (Our humans have different words to describe these people though....!)"

JD - Well, we are proud of our canine heritage, he he he! We must admit that we weren't sure what story to tell everyone about at first. Should it be the time our female human forgot to move her curry from the arm of the chair when she went to answer the door? It was yummy, but rather an elementary food steal....

Max - Or how about the time we joined forces with our pal Otto the miniature daschund and between the three of us managed to acquire the packed lunch (foil and all!) of Otto's human, who had come round to do some work in our garden.

Otto - our partner in crime!

JD - Oh yes, that was a particularly good one! But the story we decided upon in the end is how we have acquired several peanut butter muffins by utilising our partnership and training our humans! Listen and learn everyone - we feel that this story proves that even the slowest of humans can be trained, all you need is patience and perseverance!

Max - We've only just been busted for this one - sigh! It was our male human who figured it out - he's a lot smarter than our female human, but don't tell her we said that!!

JD - In the morning, before she goes to work and just after our morning constitutional, our female human likes to toast an English muffin and spread it with peanut butter.

Peanut butter yumminess!

Max - She then goes to the sofa and has an enjoyable munch - oooh, it always smells so good! So between us we figured out what to do.

JD - We utilised Max's open naughty trait and combined it with my more covert naughtiness....

Max - As soon as female human sat down on the sofa I would go and select a shoe from by the back door and then trot across the lounge in front of her looking everso pleased with myself!

JD - Female human would immediately leave her breakfast and go to wrestle the shoe out of Max's mouth and then give him a lecture about how he wasn't to eat shoes or some such blah, blah, blah nonsense! This was when I would strike! With the peanut butter muffin now left unprotected and me with my reputation for always being a good puppy the conditions were perfect! I would sneak up onto the sofa, acquire the muffin and go hide it in our doggie bed!

Max - I always made sure I let go of the shoe whenever I noticed JD had made it to our bed. Whilst female human was busy taking the shoe back out I would reconvene with JD and we would snarffle our booty together - mmmm, yummy!

JD - Female human really initially did not understand that we were training her to leave her breakfast. We've noticed that she is very responsive to shoe training, we urge all puppies to give it a try!

Max - Yeah - it was male human who rumbled us! He's far too smart - he thinks like a dog, us puppies don't stand a chance with him around, humph!

JD - So, that's our 'Oops - I ate it' award! We know that it's been doing the rounds recently so we'd like to offer it to anyone who doesn't yet have it as we'd love to know about some of the food that you've 'acquired' recently....he he he!

Max - We'll leave you with this photo of us posing with some food that is actually meant for us! It's some yummy food that's been specially designed just for us Miniature Schnauzers - and we can report that it is very yummy indeed!

"We heart Royal Canin Schnauzer food!! Yummy!"

JD - We wish you all an enjoyable Sunday!!

Join in the fun at Pet Pride....

Camera Critters - Poodle Doodle!

JD - Hi everyone! Before we start we just want to mention that we've posted the answer to 'spot the schnauzer' in the post below so have a look to see if you got it right! Right - now own with Camera Critters fun! Earlier this week our humans stumbled across these photos of poodles who have all undergone - erm - some creative grooming!

Max - And we were so intrigued by them that we just had to share them with you!! Don't forget - ALL those animals are actually poodles!!

Quarterback poodle - go poodle! Go poodle!!

Panda poodle - our personal favourite!

Hobby Horse poodle - giddy up!!!

Camel poodle - ship of the desert!

Buffalo poodle - snort, snort!

JD - Whilst we admire the creativity that has obviously gone into these grooming sessions....

Max - ....we're nevertheless pleased we're simply mere schnauzers! Our humans said it would be fun to walk down the street with something that looked like a camel or a panda attached to the lead as it would be amusing to watch people's reactions....

JD - ....but they also said that the novelty would wear thin very quickly leaving them with very strange looking doggies!

Max - So we thought we'd leave you with a photo of what a 'normal' doggie looks like! Happy camera critters everyone!!

We call this look 'sleeping puppies' - he he he!

Find out what all the critters are up to at....

Spot the Schnauzer!

JD - Hi everyone! We've been inspired by our good friends Fatty and Ally to do our own 'spot the schnauzer' post!

Max - Firstly - can you spot the schnauzer? And secondly - can you tell which one of us it is.....?

JD - Hi everyone! We've now posted the answer below!

Max - Well done to everyone who realised it was ME!!! He he he! Well, my little nose at any rate - I'm peeping through the dog gate that our humans have put at the bottom of their stairs to stop us from constantly dashing into the bedroom to raid the sock drawer!!