Check Out Our New Website - Deaf Dogs Rock

It has been a real adventure training and bringing up my deaf boxer puppy. Nitro and I have had our challenges for sure but we adore each other. When I was looking for resources back when I first adopted Nitro from the shelter, I noticed there wasn't a lot of websites about deaf dogs. I really wanted to connect with other deaf dog owners to get their advice but unfortunately there were very few sites available and most of them dated back to the late 90's.

Last week my husband Chris asked me what I wanted  for my birthday and I told him all I wanted was a really nice website to be the "go to" place for people who own or are thinking about adopting a deaf dog. I told him if he could give me just one week of his programming time that we could work together and launch a new site. I gotta tell you we worked our tails off this week but the new website is the best birthday present he could have given me. He stepped right up to the challenge and Deaf Dogs Rock was created. Today we are launching it on my birthday just like he promised!  A big  thanks goes out to my husband Chris for all his hard work.  We started this project together last weekend and today is our official launch. Because we love all of our followers of The World According To Lexi, we invite you to be the first to take a tour of our new baby www.deafdogsrock.com

We hope you enjoy our new website.

Below is our badge to Deaf Dogs Rock. If you have a minute, go ahead and click on it and check us out. If you know someone with a deaf dog, a rescue or shelter that occasionally has deaf dogs for adoption, please feel free to share our new site with them.

Special Effects Sunday - Dedicated To Kristin G. at Dogs Rock

This week has been a crazy busy week. My sweet husband Chris and I are launching a new website for deaf dogs and their owners hopefully by next week. What that means is we have had a very hectic week. So far in the last five days I have done somewhere around 40 posts and I am doing the new site in Wordpress. I'm really not one to readily embrace change but now I am learning Wordpress. I like blogger but it has many glitches for example, I can never reply to folks who leave comments. When I try to leave a comment to reply, blogger makes me log in over and over and over again. I usually give up because I get so frustrating so with that being said, I want to thank all of you for coming to visit us here at Lexi's World. Lexi and I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts and smiles with us.

I did get a chance to go to a few of my favorite blogs on Saturday morning (around 12:30am) and I really enjoyed my friend Kristin G's amazing photo gallery she put up for the Saturday Pet Blogger Hop. You see Kristin has the most elegant dogs I have ever seen and she decided to do a photo layout of two of her dogs in black and white.

Kristin is the head writer and photographer over at Dogs Rock blog. She has totally inspired me by posting some of the most beautiful black and white photos of her dogs Zoe and Xander. For Special Effects Sunday this week I decided to dedicate this post to Kristin G. and Dogs Rock because I think they ROCK!

Grrrrr...

Nitro is Clark Gable in this photo

This is his Paul Newman pose...

I shot these for the launch of our new deaf dog website. I will let you know what the new web address is as soon as we get things a little more organized.

In the photos above I added a little twist because I love Nitro's blue eye. I went 90% black and white and 10% with a little color so I could draw attention to Nitro's colored patch over his blue eye.

Happy Special Effects Sunday! Thanks for following The World According To Lexi. According to my dog Lexi, you are the best!

Lexi and Christina

Saturday Pet Blogger Hop - Silly Dog Playing Tag With Horse

Lexi, Nitro, Tallulah, Bailey, and I are excited to participate in this weeks Saturday Pet Blogger Hop. Special thanks goes out to our Pet Blog Hop hosts, Life With Dogs, Two Little Cavaliers, and Confessions of the Plume! If you would like to read some entertaining pet blogger posts in the Saturday Pet Blogger Hop, just click on one of the host links above or click on the purple Pet Blogger Hop button on the right side of our homepage. 

According to my dog Lexi, she thinks the dog is very brave! Here on Bluebird Farm the dogs don't get to mix with the horses because we worry about them getting kicked or even killed. My mare Reiny is not a big fan of dogs. I do take Nitro out to the barn to see my big horse Skippy and he is very affectionate with him so maybe one day I will get a video of them smooching but in the mean time, check out this video of the dog playing tag with the horse. Happy Pet Blog Hopping!

Dog Having Fun With Horse

Since we have Nitro here on Bluebird Farm, things have changed so much mainly because Nitro is a Boxer. Boxers are just different in every way. If they get their mind set on one object or a task they will stay focused on that item or task until they get it done. Since we have lots of dogs and horses here on Bluebird Farm, I thought this video was a good representation of what goes on when you mix horses with dogs or in this case a show horse with a boxer. Silly boxer boy! Enjoy!

Happy Wordless Wednesday!

What caption would you give this photo for Wordless Wednesday?

Enjoy The Love!

According to my dog Lexi, she thinks you should all watch this video and as she puts it "enjoy the love"...

Welcome To Our Marvelous Monday Photo of The Week!

Look at these two boxer babies! This is Chloe (from L to R) and the white boxer wearing the blue "collar of shame" is Brickel. Look how much they adore each other. Thanks to our new boxer friend Vicky Sitterly for letting us share her two babies with all of our blog followers. According to my dog Lexi, she thinks they are both adorable! Happy Marvelous Monday!

Special Effects Sunday!

According to my dog Lexi, it is Special Effects Sunday here on the World According To Lexi. What that means is I get to play and have fun with my photos by applying layers of special effects and hopefully you will all enjoy the different graphic combinations. Happy Summer Sunday!

I have chosen this photo of Nitro chilling out in the back yard to start our Special Effects Sunday.Look at this "landshark's" jaws! It is a good thing he is a sweet gentle and loving boy!

 Here I did a little brightness and added a Poster effect.

 This photo represents how Nitro felt this past week with temps in the 95 to 100 degree range.

 This special effect photo I call "Morning Breath Nitro".....

"Mosaic Nitro"

This special effect would be a great on a photo card around Easter time because of the soft pastel colors.
We hope you enjoyed our little excursion into Special Effects Sunday.

Happy Sunday!

Lexi, Nitro, Bailey, Tallulah, Christina and Chris
(The Bluebird Farm Pack)

Great Dane the World's Biggest Dog..But He is Terrified of Chihuahuas

I found this on MailOnline in the News and I thought it was a great article...enjoy my dog loving friends!

Imagine taking him for walkies! George the Great Dane is 7ft long, weighs 18st and is the worlds biggest dog...but he's terrified of chihuahuas

By DAVE NASSER

Last updated at 12:37 AM on 23rd July 2011

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The first time we saw George, our beloved Great Dane, he was no more than a tiny, cowering ball of fuzzy fur. 

As my wife Christie opened the door of the crate he’d travelled in, he teetered to a standing position and looked out at us, moving his head slowly from side to side, taking in the wonder of it all. 

Finally, as if weighing us up and deciding we were acceptable, he tentatively pushed his little nose forward and gave Christie her first lick.

Though it didn’t really register, George’s paws were comically large even then. But all we saw was this cute puppy. 

We certainly never dreamed he would one day become the biggest dog in the world, standing nearly 4ft high at the shoulder, 7ft long and weighing nearly 18 stone. Right now, he just looked bewildered.

He came into our lives in January 2006, just a few months after we had married and set up home in Arizona. We both had busy jobs, Christie selling medical equipment while I was a property developer, but she had always planned that, once she had a house of her own, she would also have a dog.

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Saturday Pet Blogger Hop - Summer Time is Fair Time!

Lexi, Nitro, Tallulah, Bailey, and I are excited to participate in this weeks Saturday Pet Blogger Hop. Special thanks goes out to our Pet Blog Hop hosts, Life With Dogs, Two Little Cavaliers, and Confessions of the Plume! If you would like to read some entertaining pet blogger posts in the Saturday Pet Blogger Hop, just click on one of the host links above or click on the purple Pet Blogger Hop button on the right side of our homepage. Happy Pet Blog Hopping!

The first week of July is the Salem Fair here in Salem Virginia. We go every year, walk around, snack on great fair food and check out all the exhibits. Chris and I had a great time and we even got to eat some Kettle Corn (which is our favorite popcorn to eat). Below are some photo from our Salem Fair outing. Enjoy!

 This is a baby Dromedary Camel. They are white and will turn brown as they are growing up.

 The baby Dromedary Camel was giving his human mommy smooches while she was trying to bottle feed him.

 Here are tow baby African Equids otherwise known as Zebras. It was a long hot day and now they are resting in the cool breeze of the summer evening.

 I don't know what all the animals are called but here are some photos of some cute exotic animals.

 This is a little Miniture pinto colt. He will probably finish his height out at around 32"-38"

 Here are a couple of Llamas resting after a long hot day. Check out the "lion" hair cut on the red Llama!

 Suuuueeeee! Suuuuueee! That's how we call pigs in Iowa!

Below are photos of the Salem Fair grounds at night. I love the bright lights against the dark July sky!

 I shot these with my new Nikon Coolpix P500. It is suppose to do really well in low light with no flash and I think the camera did a great job of photographing all the beautiful neon lights. What  do you think?

 Every kid's dream...A slushy machine with every flavor!

 I am a big horse lover so I absolutely love the old fashioned Carousel

 There were lots of toys to be won...

 Little Chihuahuas hanging everywhere!

 Weeeeee!

 The Salem Fair had a couple of different sized Ferris Wheels so if someone is scard of going up really high they could ride in the smaller Ferris Wheel.

 A Fair would not be a true Fair without Funnel Cake.

They also had these cool little arcade games available for those who want to take a chance with their money to win more money.

 This is the smaller Ferris Wheel. I love the royal blue lights on this one.

 Weeeeeee!

 Yummmmmy..

 Weeeeee!

 I love this old classic ride....The Zipper! Remember those when we were kids?

The End.