We love blogging!!

JD - Hi everyone! Today we want to do a VERY special post!

Max - This is a 'THANK YOU' post to all our good pals out there in blog-land! We've had SO much fun over the past few weeks - almost every day has felt like Christmas as the postman has brought us almost daily something new, from cards to packages - it's been truly amazing....

JD - ....our humans have been openly astounded, moved - and also slightly jealous of all the loot we've got - he he he! Max - We'd like to say 'THANK YOU' to Sasha, Bruce and Bertie and Oliver for their wonderfully creative cards - we loved them and we're going to keep them FOREVER!!

JD - We'd like to say thank you again to Neo, Ellie and Stig, Harry, Millie and Pippa, our in-laws, Thunder and Pudding and Cobi for our exciting pressies - we know we've already mentioned these pressies in a previous post but we just wanted to say 'THANK YOU' again!

Max - We'd also like to say a huge, huge 'THANK YOU' to two very special blog friends. Firstly, we've picked out a little yellow 'THANK YOU' for Clive and his NSLM from Ireland for sending us such an exciting package....
JD - Let us show you all the good things that were inside.....

"A parcel? For US?! Oooh, we don't mind if we do......!"


JD - "Oooh, Max, you won't BELIEVE what's inside here....it's all so GOOD!!"


Max - "Hey, I like these cute Christmas chew-toys! So did our humans - they thought they were so cute they took them off us and used them as Christmas tree decorations - humph!"

"We got this great Guide Dog calendar too - it's already in pride of place in our kitchen and the humans love it as much as we do!!"


"Clive and his NSLM also sent us a great paw-print pad and a couple of Guide Dog pins - female human has acquired ALL these items, she's a bit greedy like that, he he.... BUT - our FAVOURITE part of the parcel was these FABULOUS doggie treat stockings. Mmmm - yummy, completely edible doggie treat stockings...."


"Oi! Female human!! LEGGO of the treat stocking okay?! It's ours - OURS we tell you....!"

Max - Clive and your NSLM (and your NSLM's mom too!) thank you SO MUCH for such wonderful gifts! We didn't expect ANYTHING like this - we had loads of fun opening the parcel and we've still got quite a bit of our edible stockings left...

JD - ....yes, the humans are rationing us - sigh Thank you - you're the BEST!! You've made two little pups VERY happy - and you made female human cry a little she was so excited and happy! We think you're GREAT!

Max - We'd also like to say 'THANK YOU' to Nellie and Calvert and their humans for the wonderful treats that they sent to us all the way from New York - wow!

JD - Poor Nellie and Calvert's mom ended up in hospital over Christmas - poor mom! Please nip over to their blog and wish her a speedy recovery.

Max - Here's us investigating their parcel.....

JD - "You hold that side Max and I'll rip this bit here.....!"


JD - *Rip!* "Told you Max - I'm IN!!"


"Oh wow, oh wow, oh WOW.....!"


"Where to start, where to start....? Nellie and Calvert sent us a great card too - it was very tasty, he he he!"


Max - "Ohmigosh, ohmigosh! Look what I've found JD! Look at this great squeaky stuffie duckie - oh wow, oh wow!"


JD - "Squeaky hot-dog or nylabone? Ohh, the decisions that a puppy has to make....!"


"Look at this AMAZING 'statue of dogerty'!! Isn't it superb? Female human thought so - she loved it SO much she's got it in her office as an ornament and won't let us play with it - humph!"


"Hurry UP and open the bag of new tennis balls female human - we wanna play with them NOW!!!"

Max - Nellie and Calvert - we can not thank you enough! It took us half an hour to make our way through all the great goodies you sent us - whew!

JD - We know we've been a bit spoiled over the past few weeks - and we've loved every minute of it, he he he!

Max - We really do want all our pals to know how heartfelt our thanks are. We want to send out big schnauzer snuggles to you all and we'd like to say....

JD - ....that we love you all - we love blogging and we love to blog!

Max - After all the excitement over the past few weeks it seemed a bit strange when our humans went back to work today.

JD - We missed them loads - we were so delighted when female human got back home that we haven't left her side since! In fact - she's typing this post into her netbook for us at a rather crooked angle as we're currently asleep on her lap....

Max - ....as you can see from the photo below, which male human has just snapped on his i-phone, he he he!

"Snuffle, snuffle! S'good to have you back female human....sigh!!!"

Join in the fun at Pet Pride....

2010 - so far so good!

JD - Hello everyone - happy new year!

Max - 2010 has been GREAT so far - we've been to the beach!

Max - "Woo-hoo - the tide's out! Can't beat the feeling of sand between your paws....!"

JD - And we went with our Labrador pals - Pudding and Thunder! We had SO much fun playing chase together - even though they're MUCH faster than us, he he!

Pudding and Thunder - "Ha ha - can't catch us!!"
JD and Max "Puff, pant! S'not fair - you girls have MUCH longer legs.....!"

Max - We can't wait to carry on sharing our adventures with all our wonderful blogging pals during 2010!

JD - Thank you all your great friendship!! The wonders of blogging made the World our playground during 2009 and - as we did with Pudding and Thunder in pup-son today - we also play and romp with you all in our dreams....

Max - .....it's FUN! We hope you've all had a good start to the year too!

Christmas - Part 1!

JD - Hi everyone - we're sorry we haven't posted for a while....

We NEARLY had a white Christmas! This was our garden a few days before the big day - sadly, ALL the snow had melted by the time 25th December dawned - such a shame!

Max - ....we're afraid our humans have been extremely lazy recently doing things like sleeping and eating and entertaining friends and watching films and reading books and then eating some more!!

Male human gave us a chewy, squeaky Christmas Cracker toy on Christmas eve - we loved it! It had a great rope to chew on running through it - great fun!

JD - We're so sorry we haven't been to visit your blogs for a few days - sheesh - humans eh?!!

JD tries to shake his Christmas hat off - he wasn't really a fan!

Max - Still, we've been having a GREAT time! As the song says - 'we wish it could be Christmas EVERY DAY!!'

JD - Christmas Day was GREAT! We met up with loads of our pals at the park at 7.00 am- there were 8 humans and TWELVE doggies! We had SUCH a fun romp - we rarely manage to get together all at the same time you see!

Max - Well, the humans opened a few bottles of Bucks Fizz as they walked round and had a Christmas drink whilst us doggies played chase and bitey face together and investigated all the great sniffs!

JD - We don't have any photos of this memorable walk unfortunately, as the humans didn't have room for their flashy boxes with them because of the bottles and glasses they were all carrying - he he he! Still, as they said themselves - 'sometimes you have to experience the moment in the flesh (or fur!) instead of behind the lens of a flashy box' - or something like that at any rate!!

Female human came down with flu just before Christmas and was a bit poorly - she's only ever had flu once before and admits she moaned a LOT this time round, he he he! We looked after her by snuggling up on the sofa with her - judging by the goofy look on her face we obviously have healing paws! Hey - note Sparky's great picture on the sofa just behind - we're gonna blog about that soon....!

Max - Christmas has been SO much fun, our paws have barely touched the ground! We were far too young last year to have any idea what was going on - after all, back then we'd only lived with our new humans for a mere 6 days when Christmas Day arrived!

A fun snowman chew-toy from our pals Neo, Ellie and Stig!

JD - But this year we've enjoyed every second! So we thought we'd publish a few Christmas posts! Today's post is loads of photos of us opening some of our presents - wow, it was FUN! And guess what - today, even MORE parcels and cards turned up, so we'll post about these soon as we haven't had time to open them yet!

Us playing with a fun Snowman chew-toy - thanks Neo, Ellie and Stig, you're the best!

Max - We'd like to thank everyone for your Christmas wishes and Christmas cards and Christmas goodies - they've all meant so much. You're the best pals a couple of schnauzers could have!

Us investigating a huge pile of presents.....wow, some GREAT smells in here.....!

JD - We're very, very happy that we have made such great pals through blogging - we love you all!

Max - "Do you like our special Christmas stockings? Female human was everso excited when she bought us these - he he he!"

JD - "Oooh, another Christmas Stocking? From our mother-in-law you say? Ooh, it smells so good.....!"

JD - "Oh wow - a doggie treat cracker! I love our mother-in-law!"
Max - "I second that JD!!"

Max - "Hmmm, a very interesting looking box here from our pals Harry, Millie and Pretty Pippa! Wonder what's inside.....?"

Max - "Enough with the flashy box humans - open the present already!!"

JD - "Oh wow - a stuffie bone, a stuffie doggie, special treats for walkies and a big box of biscuits! Thank you Harry, Millie and Pretty Pippa - and your human the wonderful 'M', our treat lady of Holland Park!"

JD - "This is so exciting - we got a parcel on Christmas Eve from our pal Cobi who's from Singapore!"
Max - "We weren't allowed to open it until Christmas Day - posing with it and not being able to open it immediately was AGONY!!"

JD - "We finally got to open Cobi's present! Cobi sent us a keepsake box each - it is WONDERFUL!! Thank you SO much Cobi! We also love the salmon treats - super-yummy!"
Max - "Female human loved our keepsake boxes so much she cried a little! We'll make a clay paw-print each and display them with a photo of ourselves - when we've done this we'll blog about it and show you the end result. It's pawsome - we LOVE it! Thank you Cobi!!"

Max - And we hope you've all had as good a Christmas as we have!!

Max - "I love my new stuffie snake from the humans that hisses and also has bells in it - but I DO wish I didn't have to wear this hat.....sigh!"

The Bootie-licious Winners!!

JD - Hello everyone - we hope you're all ready for Christmas!

Max - We were too young to understand what was going on last year, but this year it's different!

JD - There are lots of visitors making a fuss of us (naturally!), there are lots of brightly wrapped parcels with our names on them underneath a tree that's INDOORS (what's all THAT about?!), the house is full of amazing smells and we've been having SO much fun playing in the snow.

JD and Max find hide and seek rather easy in the snow!

Max - AND female human has even gone to the trouble of getting a bright red nose to impersonate Rudolph - we're very impressed!

JD - It's something to do with her having a cold or some such thing - why she went and got herself a cold whilst she's taking time off work is a mystery to us. You'd have thought she'd have waited until she went back to work - humans are so odd sometimes....!

Max - Anyway, the only downside to the season - as far as we can see - is the humans strange compulsion to dress us up in antlers or hats or some such frippery!

Max - "Hey - what's that on your head JD?" JD - "Um, I'm not really sure Max, but every time I wear it female human gives me a biscuit so I thought I'd just go with it....!"

JD - Yes - it is somewhat annoying to say the least!

Max - ANYWAY - we would like to apologise for not getting our paws out and publishing our 'bootie-licous' winners any earlier. We blame the humans really - gadding off AGAIN to party at the O2 last week without a care for us and OUR needs - humph!


JD - But now, without further ado - we can announce the results! However, before we do we would like to thank our great pals Nellie & Calvert, Santa & Minnie and Guinness, Saige and Groucho who have ALL helped us to host this competition.

Max - Because of their generosity of spirit - and wonderful wit! - this competition has been truly international!! As you can see from the four red blobs on the map below, the 'bootie-licious' competition has been brought to you courtesy of England, New York, Novia Scotia and Kuala Lumpur - isn't that wonderful?!

JD and Max - "Wow - we thought the World was bigger somehow.....!"

JD - Thank you to Nellie and Calvert....

Some fine hiney action demonstrated by Nellie and Calvert!

Max - .... and Santa and Minnie....

Some wonderful bootie-sychronisity from Santa and Minnie!

JD - .... and Guinness, Saige and Groucho. You guys are the BEST - we love you!

A perfect three-point bottom figuration from the Wolfies and Groucho!

Max - Here is the photo that 'launched a thousand butt photographs'- well, it was the inspiration behind the competition anyway, he he he!

Work it Groucho, work it!!

JD - We're just pleased we didn't have to vote - ALL the entries were fantastic and ALL were worthy of winning we don't think we could have made our mind up! Thank you SO much to everyone who entered - it has been so much fun hosting it!

Max - So, without further ado, we are proud to hand over to Guinness, Saige and Groucho to announce the winners, as voted for by you, the blogging public....!

CATEGORY ONE - TAIL PLACEMENT

Joint 1st Place between - Fatty from "The Schnauzer Blog"....

Guinness, Saige and Groucho - "Groucho here! Fatty had me at HELLO with this entry! Any dog who can weave a tale with her tail is sure to make all ends meet to secure first prize. Fatty, you have come full circle to win this category! Well done!"
....and - Mango from "Mango's Great Adventures"

Guinness, Saige and Groucho - "Saige here - and tied for first place is my buddy in hugeness... Mango. Looking more like a banana than a Mango The Relentlessly Huge's tail placement is a real wag. He is a 'flat out' winner as he strategically guards future generations. That Mango...discreet, always discreet!"
2nd Place - Lily from "Fold n Unfold"

Guinness, Saige and Groucho - "Groucho again, and it appears little Lily has taken curling lessons from me! Well done, well done...and at a mere 14 weeks old at the time of this photo she is also our youngest contestant. Lily has secured 2nd prize and all 3 of us fell for this little sweetie hook, line and sinker!"

CATEGORY TWO - NIFTY NUBBINS

1st Place -Benny from "Doggy Days"

Guinness, Saige and Groucho - "Guinness here and with paws crossed for the win Benny did not come up short! Hehehe!! What is that Saige? You say you have a sudden craving for some Rump Roast??? Hmmmm....well, no wonder, with a LANDSLIDE win for first place Benny has everyone craving for a little piece of that sweet meat....congrats to Benny - and please pass the salt!"
Joint 2nd Place between - Cobi from . A Dash of Salt & Pepper"....

Guinness, Saige and Groucho - "Groucho again and there is a 3 way split for 2nd place...hey Saige, can I make a butt joke about a split? No? Stop being weird you say? OK, well here we have the adorable Cobi shaking his Salt and Pepper on the boardwalk. This little rascal shakes his derriere for 2nd place...great job Cobi!"
....and - Lily from "Doggy Days"....

Guinness, Saige and Groucho - "...and showing off her better half who could resist these drumsticks? Lily has us all craving our holiday turkey dinner and shares the 2nd place win with this delicious picture! Bravo Lily!"
....and - Oskar from "The Daily Oskar"

Guinness, Saige and Groucho - "Oskar is the final winner for 2nd place, but what we really want to know is who noticed the tail? Look at that face! Do we all agree a cuteness overload warning should be in affect here or what?! Great job cute little guy. You win on both fronts...or should we say ends."

CATEGORY THREE - FLUFFY BUTT

1st Place - Elliot from "Dip-Dip & The Bridge"

Guinness, Saige and Groucho - "Saige here - and moving on to my favorite category, we have the Fluffy Butt contest! And look! Is that the end of a Q-tip? No, It is the end of our first place winner, Elliot! Elliot is also the youngest canine entrant of the entire contest. Who can resist this cottony softness of a bottom! Well done little fella!"
2nd Place - Sasha from "Pupalicious!"

Guinness, Saige and Groucho - "And here we have Sasha with a chimney sweep broom for a tail! Due to the height factor, this is one of my personal favorite entries. And look at that mischievous grin. Sasha is certainly tuned into 2nd place with her built in antenna! "

CATEGORY FOUR - BOTTOMS UP!

Joint 1st Place between - Virus from "The WriggleButts"

Guinness, Saige and Groucho - "Groucho at the keyboard because Saige and Guinness are at a loss for words over this brilliant picture. Why is "You're a Strange Animal" playing in the background? This shot says so many things to me. If you turn your head to the left, you can see a goose neck. Look at it front on and it transforms to a howler monkey of the rainforest! No wonder this fascinating and talented kitty has earned 1st place. Well done Virus!"
....and - Sasha from "Pupalicious!"

Guinness, Saige and Groucho - "Sasha does it again with her high rise! This little 'yummy bummy' is so cute we give it a standing ovation! First place! Way to go Sasha!"
2nd Place - Fatty from The Schnauzer Blog"

Guinness, Saige and Groucho - Guinness: "Peek-a-boo, I see you! No, it is not an elephant trunk...it is Fatty showing off her ASSets! Nothing that cute should ever be hidden...you wag that tail with pride Fatty. Great job on 2nd place!"

CATEGORY FIVE - JUST FOR FUN

1st Place - Ally from "The Schnauzer Blog"
Guinness, Saige and Groucho - Saige:"WOOO! Watch out! Here comes a landslide! No, no...it is Ally and she has won by a landslide! " Guinness: " Wow, first place? What a bargain! Half off - no heads, just tails here!"
2nd Place - Brutus from "Brutus The Frenchie"

Guinness, Saige and Groucho - Guinness: "Way to cover your butt Brutus! You won second place with this adorable picture. Is that what you were looking for? All 3 of us just love that little wiggle wag of yours. Great job buddy!
Guinness - Well that was a great contest. We would like to thank JD and Max for letting us comment on the winners!

Saige - And we think ALL the entries were amazing and creative and thoughtful.

Groucho - But MY butt takes top spot, and I am the one who inspired it all. So none of this would even have been possible without my unique nether region...hello... hello? Saige...? Guinness...? Where are you going...what are you doing with the duct tape....??

JD - He he he!! Aww, thanks guys!

Max - Yes, thanks SO much!

JD - So, can all the 1st and 2nd place winners please e-mail us via the 'contact us' button on the top navigation bit of our blog as we have a modest prize to send to all you for being so bootie-licious!

JD and Max - Happy Christmas everyone - we hope you all have a great time over the next few days!!