Hello to Blogville

Hello to my Blogville furends on this rainy Vancouver day.  The weather has been so cold and wet that I don't like going fur long walks. My tummy is so close to the grrround that my white furs get all muddy and I get cold.  I do have a rain coat, but my paws get so wet and as I said, so does my belly.

I could also use an umbrella on days like these!

This weather is no fun like when the sun is all shining. That's when I could go fur hours!

So this evening I decided to stay indoors and work on designing my pawfect home, just in case I ever want to become an interior dogcorator. Combining my wish fur peace and my love of cozy beds, this is what I designed. Efurrything is close to the grround fur dogs.
What do you think?

Lots of room for chasing balls and playing squeaky toy games.

I would have placed a fire hydrant in there but Mimi said it might give me ideas. Even on the most miserable days I have to go out, if only fur a few minutes, to do my business.

Until Next time, this is

Louis Dog Armstrong

Louis the Blogging Dog

Thoroughly Poetic Thursday

Once again I am joining Sammy from One Spoiled Cat with his Thoroughly Poetic Thursday poetry challenge. Today's poem features the letter "U".

UNDER

Under everything I go

Under not over

Fast and not slow.

Looking fur my squeaky toy

Because it gives me so much joy.

I think I left it under a chair,

But when I look it isn't there;

Under tables and under hats,

But all I find are baseball bats!

I hope Sammy likes my poem and I hope you do too.

It was a little bit hard to write.

Until Next Time

From Beautifur Vancouver

This is

Louis Dog Armstrong

Louis the Blogging Dog

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

Today is Canadian Thanksgiving. Fur Hazuzu and me it is an opportunity to stuff ourselves with yummy turkey.

Kitties and dogs dreams come true!

The pawpose of this holiday is fur peeps to remember to be thankful and to give thanks.

As you pawbably know, the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the first English settlers in North America after their first harvest. This was in 1621. The feast lasted three days, and was attended by 90 indigenous First Nations people and 53 pilgrims. We don't know how many dogs. The pilgrims were very hungry when they furst arrived in North America but the First Nations people taught them about the wild turkeys that lived in the region. This literally saved their butts from starvation. This is why we always have turkey, along with autumn vegetables, at our Thanksgiving dinners. 

Peeps all over North America have celebrated this holiday ever since, although Canada and the United States do it on different days. Back in 1621, pawever, Canada and the USA had not yet been formed. 

This painting is called The First Thanksgiving. It was painted by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris in 1899. Mimi says that Ferris romanticized the first Thanksgiving by adding elements that are unrealistic but appealing to the emotions. Pawsonally, I like the painting because it has a dog who is watching the plate of turkey. There is nothing unrealistic about that!

See the dog getting in on the turkey!

Here in Canada we have a long weekend. Tomorrow (Monday) is a statutory holiday. Most peeps with dogs would see this as a good oppawtunity to take their dogs out to somewhere special, but not Mimi!

In our pack family, Thanksgiving is a day when we all think about what we are grrateful for in our lives. At the dinner, the peeps go around the table and everybuddy says things they are thankful for.

Mimi is being selfish. She sees the Thanksgiving long weekend as a great chance to binge watch the Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries on Netflix. She has abandoned her responsibilities and has watched fifteen episodes in the past three days. I don't get it!

Miss Fisher puts Hazuzu and me to sleep. Here I am in front of episode 13:

Good night! There are no dogs in this programme!

Miss Phrynie Fisher is a private detective and this is what she looks like:

Mimi has abandoned her life to watch this person.

This is not the first time Mimi has done this. It happened with Bones, Prison Break, Downton Abbey, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and more that this dog can even remember. What the cat and I have learned through all of this is that she goes into an altered state of consciousness where she becomes irresponsible. Dishes pile up, my walks are shorter, she doesn't leave the house. She quits baking and makes the easiest meals. Pawever, she will come out of it eventually, once the series is over. we just have to wait.

Meanwhile, we have enough food, water and treats. And now there is turkey.

 Hazuzu and wish you all, anipals and peeps and especially our Blogville furends

Happy Thanksgiving!

From Vancouver,

Louis Dog Armstrong

Louis the Blogging Dog

Louisdog's This and That

It's time fur another This and That post. Just a little bit of this and a little bit of that.  Here goes:

THIS

Do you remember my good pal So-So?  I have mentioned him before. So-So is one of my best furrends. He lives in my 'hood and he was rescued from death row by our neighbors. Everybuddy loves So-So because he is so gentle and loving.

Anypaw, So-So came over this morning to play with me. His mom and Mimi had tea and CHOCOLATE. Why they would have one of the things that dog's can't have is a mystery. How rude of them to eat it in front of us!

Here I am wid So-So and his mom.

THAT

Hazuzu likes to sit in cardboard boxes, laundry baskets and market bags.  I like boxes and laundry baskets myself, but I do draw the line at market bags. They are too small to make a comfortable spot.

Today Mimi left one of these bags in the living room with some of her clothes in it. Hazuzu wasted no time claiming it as his own.

The kitty is actually inside the bag.

THIS

Mimi says I look scruffy so she made an appointment fur me to have a furcut at my fave place. It's called Spa Dog. Kaylee is the one who gives me a bath and cuts my fur. They have treats there, everything is organic and it all smells so good.  This is me with Kaylee, after one of my furcuts:

Kaylee loves dogs.

THAT

I rruff cute anipal photos. Here are some of little girld wid anipals.

A grrrl wid a tree rat. She better be careful! 

Real furever love!

A sweet baby goat wid his furrend.

They are having quite a conversation!

Well this is the end of this and that. Or that is the end of this. 

Until next time,

Coming to you from Vancouver, BC,

this is

Louis Dog Armstrong

Louis the Blogging Dog

The Smartest Dog

Woofy hello to everybuddy. I want to tell you about my anipal Juno.

Juno and his mom came by to visit me. Mimi always gets the treats out when Juno comes over and Juno always shows off by doing tricks that I don't know how to do. Stuff like "play peek-a-boo". The peeps all make a big deal out of his antics.

 I don't mind because whenever he does a cool trick and gets a treat, I get one too. I end up with as many treats as Juno, even though I don't have to do a thing!

Does that prove that I'm the smartest dog in the room?

My Anipal Juno

Until Next Time,

Louis Dog Armstrong

Louis the Blogging Dog

Happy Caturday!

Happy Caturday to everybuddy!

I asked Hazuzu if he would like to make a guest post today, but he didn't want to. He did say, pawever, that he might do one another time. I would like that because his kitty perspective on things is different than mine.

Hazuzu on a Caturday

For Hazuzu, every day is Caturday.

Today I thought I would show you a couple of Mimi's Cat paintings. They are in Hazuzu's Etsy store. Can you believe ir?  My kitty has his own store, in pawtnership with Mimi. The name of the store?  You might have guessed - HAZUZU.  Mimi makes the art and Hazuzu does the rest. At least that's how I think it works.

Now back to the paintings. This one is called "Happiness with a Cat".

Happiness with a Cat

This painting is called "Orange Cat on a Rug". 

Orange Cat on a Rug

This next one is not a painting. Mimi makes a lot of jewelry and this is a pair of kitty earrings. 

Hand Made Kitty Earrings

If you have time and you want to, you can visit Hazuzu's Etsy Store and look around. There is never any pressure and you can see the kind of work that Mimi does.

Once again, Happy Caturday!

From Vancouver this is

Louis Dog Armstrong

Louis the Blogging Dog

Sitting Pretty at the Pawlympics

Aroo!! I am super excited! I won another gold medal at the Blogville Pawlympics!

The event was "Sitting Pretty". Lots of dogs and kitties entered. It was grreat fur me because I haven't been in Blogville vvery long butt I am meeting a lot of new furriends through these Pawlympic competitions.

Here I am sitting pretty.  What do you think of my style?

I luv the way Dory put a heart over the i in my name!

Dory did a genius job organizing this event. There were a lot of  contestants butt she managed to keep everything and everyone under control. She also showed her own sitting pretty skills. What an amazing dog she is!

The pawthletes were all so grrreat that everyone got a medal. I am woofy pleased wid mine! Everyone I live wid is impressed, especially the kitty Hazuzu. He is not very sociable but maybe next year he will pawticipate.

This is my medal:

I love my medal!

Tonight I think I will sleep wid my medal.

Thank you Dory fur making this pawssible! 

Until Next Time,

From Vancouver,

Louis Dog Armstrong

Louis the Blogging Dog

Home Made Dog Food

I just published my very best favorite recipe for home made Liver Veggie Dinner for Dogs.

This is what it looks like. Yummy, don't you think?  Look at that sauce and those green beans!

This tastes so yummy!

The post also explains how to modify the recipe for kitties.

If you want to check it out, the recipe is at Louis the Blogging Dog, my Wordpress site.

Do any of my Blogville furriends make their own kitty or dog food? If you do, do you have any dog food recipes to share? Even though Mimi can't make my food all the time, whenever she does I look at it as a sign of love.

From Vancouver,
Louis Dog Armstrong
Louis the Blogging Dog

The Kitty and Me

Most of my readers know that I have my own kitty. Actually, he is more like a brother. Today I will tell you about him. I think that writing about the kitty is a grrreat Caturday thing to do.

This is my brother-kitty

My kitty's name is Hazuzu. Hazuzu is four years old in human years.

Autumn (who was our beloved girl-person and who crossed the Rainbow Bridge three years ago when she was just 17) and Eric (Autumn's brother who still lives with Mimi) named Hazuzu after the Professor's pet gargoyle in the TV show Futurama. Mimi wanted to call him Jupiter but she was outvoted. Anypaw, the name Hazuzu suits him.

Hazuzu is big and orange

Hazuzu is a lot bigger than I am, but we got him when he was just a little kitten and I was already grown up. I protected him when he was a baby, and I also herded him. For example, I always stopped him from scratching the furniture, and i still do, even though he is much bigger than me. The kitty listens to me and does what I say!

We never hurt each other. Hazuzu has never scratched me and I would protect him with my life if I had to.

Once when my furriend Buddy tried to chase Hazuzu, I went after Buddy! Even though Buddy is my good furriend!

I like to take Hazuzu for walks.

Hazuzu is different from other cats because he has a disability. He can't make sounds. He can't purr, hiss, meaow, or make any of the other sounds that cats make. He never could.

Hazuzu is allowed to go out while the sun is out. After dark he stays inside with the rest of us. This is because there are a lot of coyotes and raccoons in our 'hood. He is safer indoors.

Another thing about Hazuzu is that he is a champion mouser. He brings mice and birds to the door. Mimi says it's too bad for the birds, but he is just being a cat. She tried the bell around his neck but somebody told her that he could get caught under a bush with it. since he can't meaow to let us know if he is in trouble, she lets him go free all day long. He comes in a lot to sleep and eat, but he loves it outside, especially in the summertime.

Tea time with Hazuzu!

I hope you liked getting to know my kitty. We think he is magnificent and that he looks like a lion.

Until Next Time,

From Vancouver,

Louis Dog Armstrong

Louis the Blogging Dog

Louisdog's This & That

Louisdog's This & That

Hello to everyone!
I thought that today I would post a bit of this and a bit of that. Here we go:

1. This

This is a question for the Blogville community. I can't help it but I am a disorganized dog in an organized world. 

I can't find the information about where to send my Blogville Pawlympics Closing Pawty Photo. There is a dead lion for this that I don't want to miss and I have looked on quite a few Blogville blogs butt I can't find who to send my photo to.  Would someone please let me know? I rruffa good pawty and I don't want to miss this one!

2. That

Mimi bought me a new harness! What do you think of it? She says that the black and white design goes well with my fur. To me it is quite comfurtable.

How do I look?

3. This

Last night when I took Mimi for a walk we came upon one of these guys. Not this exact one because Mimi didn't have her phone with her. Right away she picked me up and carried me because she is pawsitive that they like to eat little white dogs. Is she right? Pawbably!

4. That

This is another question for my new furriends in Blogville. It's about the election for mayor. How does voting take place? Can all three candy dates win? Just to let you know, I am having a ruff time deciding. They are all smart and would all do good jobs! 

5. This

If you haven't already, pawlease "follow" me using the Blogger gadget on my sidebar. I am proud of the 16 followers I now have but I would rrufff to have even more! My followers are all impawtant to me!

6. That

I don't think there are any lemurs in Blogville, but they are the sweetest, cutest animals. Every wild lemur in the world lives in Madagascar. There are many different types of lemurs, butt all are endangered. I want to remember the endangered animals and help them if I can.

Lemurs are friendly & they don't hurt anything!

Well thanks for stopping by Louisdog'sLife and reading this. I wish each and every one of my readers the very best, today and always.

"One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why."

     - Author Unknown

From Vancouver, BC,

Louis Dog Armstrong

Louis the Blogging Dog

Louisdog Goes to Scotland

Louisdog Goes to Scotland

My next Pawlympics event is Ear Flapping, which will be on August 10th. That gives me a couple of days to practice Munro Bagging, which will be on  August 16th. Since Munro bagging is all about climbing the mountains of Scotland, it seemed like a good idea to fly over to Europe and practice there.

I was able to get a quick flight from Vancouver, and here I am this morning in Bonnie Scotland! Pawsome!

The air here is fresh and cool. So far, I  have found that the dogs are the same as the ones in Vancouver. I thought they would all be like Sweet William the Scot or Bouncing Bertie, but really, they are all different, just like the dogs in Vancouver.

I thought that Scottish dogs would mostly look like this one!

As soon as my plane landed I took a taxi from the airport to the mountains. In my luggage I brought a pup tent so I don't have to worry about finding a dog friendly hotel. I'll sleep in the countryside. The taxi dropped me off at a good climbing spot and I started walking. The first human I came across was this guy:

Aroo! Aroo!

Dogs don't like the bagpipes much but Mimi does. She says she like them because she has so many Scottish ancestors. She thinks it's genetic.

I have a lot of French and Maltese ancestors because my dad was a Maltese Terrier and my mom was a French Poodle. They didn't know about bagpipes.

Anypaw, here I am in Scotland and even though I am small I am brave to be here widout my pack. Maybe I will call myself Braveheart Louis!

Sending my woofy rruff to Mimi, Hazuzu my kitty, Eric and all my Blogville furriends.  I gotta go now and practice my munro bagging!

From Scotland,

Braveheart Louis Dog Armstrong
Louis the Blogging Dog

Vintage Dogs

He Haw!!!  Arooo!

Louis Dog here...

Mimi and I woof vintage photos, especially ones with furry beings in them, although feathers are good too.  Here are some vintage photos of dogs from our collection that have to do with (you guessed it!) - dogs. By the way, maybe I shouldn't say this but Mimi is kind of vintage herself. Anywoof, she thinks that antique pictures are cool and so do I.

I 

Two grrrreat dogs with their boy.

This kid has a pocket full of treats!

My momma the blackpoodle never bathed me like this!

Who is the smart one in this photo?

Taking the kitties fur a ride.

I hope you enjoyed these vintage photos of dogs.

Until next time this is

Louis Dog Armstrong

Louis the Blogging Dog