23 PAWS – Play. Adore. Wag. Scratch.
| June 23, 2012 | Posted by Carrie under 23 PAWS, dogs |
How fun is this? On the 23rd of each month, I am participating in a blog hop hosted by Cinnamon at Eat, Pray, Tri. She has three adorable pups and is hosting a fun day for us to share our pet stories.
I love reading health and fitness blogs that are full of puppy pictures. Caroline has the cutest Beagle, Chewy that I want to hook up with my mom’s Beagle Betsey. So what if they live on separate coasts. Beagle love. And then I stalk follow Kerrie who shows Boxers (we had a friend growing up that showed Boxers – Heidi was my favorite of theirs)
Since this is my first 23 PAWS (which, if you didn’t read the logo carefully – stands for Play. Adore. Wag. Scratch. – so cute) link up, I thought I’d share the history of my love of dogs with you all.
When I was a kid, my family bred and showed Puli dogs – a Hungarian Sheepdog. When I was 8 or 9, I just about begged my parents to let me have one of the puppies. Up until that point, I had just adopted litters of puppies as my own and cried my little eyes out every time one went to their forever homes (prompting calls from the new owners to make sure I was okay the next day).
When that fateful litter was expected, my parents promised that I could keep the ‘pick’ girl. I was so excited. The litter came and there were 4 male dogs. No girls. I went to bed heartbroken. When we woke up in the morning, there was a 5th puppy – a girl! MINE!!!!!
We named her Esmerelda (the litter had a cartoon theme, but somehow she got named after Esmerelda the stepsister in Cinderella – although that’s not the name in the Disney movies – but that’s the story my parents told me). I called her Ezzie.
I dressed Ezzie up, I put her in doll strollers, I put on roller skates and had her pull me around. She was awesome.
Ezzie was part of our lives until shortly before MMT and I got married, she was 15 I think. When I moved out of the house, my mom actually kept her because by that time she was rather senile for a dog and we didn’t think she could handle a move, let alone manage the stairs in my apartment building.
Here is the picture I have of Ezzie on my nightstand. (I don’t remember the significance of the Gizmo doll)
Thank you for sharing your stories!! Your puppies are all sooo stinken adorable!!
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Thank you. It’s been so fun to see everyone’s fur babies.
Cute pups. My labrador retriever (who my wife unaffectionately nicknamed The Destroyer) is Sadie for short. To be more specific, her name is spelled Saadie for short. I’m about the biggest Cleveland Indians baseball fan alive and the homerun call of Tom Hamilton, the greatest play-by-play man ever is, “Swing and a Drive, Awaaaaaay Back… Gone!” So I wanted my lab to have one of those fancy schmancy really long Westminster Dog Show Names, so she’s formally
Hamilton’s Swing And A Drive.
Saadie for short.
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ha! The fancy “official” names always crack me up.
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Love the name! We had a Schnauzer named Wrigley. Her registered name was something about Extra Innings (she was a bundle of energy).
I love show dog names, they’re awesome. Such a cute story.
Fun! I love dogs:) What a fun story!
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Thanks! I think sometimes I can go on and on more about my dogs than my kids.
awww so cute!!
Thanks! We love them to pieces.
thank you for sharing….I loved this!
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So adorable, and I love your story about Ezzie!
I never had a dog when I was that little, but I had a parakeet named Esmerelda Tweekinita. I called her Emmy, but my mom called her Tweeky. She was a great, quirky, talkative little bird. Reading your post about Ezzie made me think of her, since they shared a name. 
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Cute name! Sounds like a name a little kid would make up. Thanks for sharing your story.
Oh I love puppy posts and pictures the VERY best. Since we no longer have a furbaby of our own, I am even more enamoured of eveyone else’s.
<3
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I can’t imagine not having a furbaby or two. It must be hard when you were on your boat… but maybe now? Hope you’re having a good weekend.
awwww i love them! i used to have a bichon and she was a great dog
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Yay for Bichons! He’s got the cutest temperament. But, I’ve heard that they males tend to be much more poorly behaved. My mom says that Petey gives boy dogs a bad name. But, we love him.
Puli’s!! WOW! Those dogs are intense!! They always amaze me when I watch the dog shows. Cassie is the cutest and that pic of Petey is killing me. So ridiculously cute. My friends have two Bichons and they are a handful!! So fun though! Thanks for participating and can’t wait to see more next month!
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Perfect description of the Bichon… a handful and so fun. Thanks so much for hosting. I love dog stories.
That childhood story is soooooo sad . . . till you got to keep one that is. I have a soft spot for Bichons since they look so much like Poodles.
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I think I poured on the waterworks every time someone ‘took’ one of my puppies. Not dramatic much
Gizmo, haha! All your dogs are so adorable, and I like Petey the best (so fluffy!)
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Wasn’t Gizmo awesome? I think I used to put that doll on Ezzie’s lap because I kind of thought she looked like a little gremlin. or something like that. Petey is super fluffy – when he’s freshly groomed.
Allan’s mom had a Bichon for years and we just had to put her to sleep this past fall. They are such cute fluffy little dogs!
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He is a little fluff ball. So sorry about your mother-in-law’s pup. Always sad to lose a fur baby.