Wordless Wednesday

Every Wednesday here at The World According to Lexi we like to celebrate "over the hump" day by posting a fun photo of our dog/dogs and we invite our readers to come up with a fun or witty caption for the feature photo. Here is this week's Wordless Wednesday photo of our deaf dog Nitro playing gently with our ten pound dog Tallulah.

What caption would you give this photo for Wordless Wednesday?

Saturday Pet Blogger Hop - Our First Big Snow in Virginia

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.  

It has been a very mild Winter here in Virginia. Not only has it been in the 50's and 60's everyday since October but here in Virginia we have not had any snow in the Winter of 2011-2012. Not even one flurry this Winter that is until this past weekend. We got 6"-8" of snow here in Salem Virginia. I got up early to shoot some photos here around Bluebird Farm before the wind started blowing and taking all the snow off the trees.

Later in the morning we took Nitro to the Salem Rotary Dog Park to play with his Husky friend Neeko in the snow. Neeko loves the snow. He kept making Husky Snow Angles everywhere. Here are some photos from our first big snow in Virginia last weekend. I hope you all had a great weekend last weekend because we sure did! Enjoy! Lexi, Nitro, Bailey, Tallulah, Chris and Christina

Our first Winter storm on Bluebird Farm in 2012.

Check out the contrast of our neighbor's horses against the white snow covered trees and back drop.

I just love how their pretty bright winter coat colors pop against the white snow.

Time for the neighbor horses to take a morning nap in the sunshine and wait for breakfast to be served.

The sun is just rising over the mountain.

I love this shot because the sun was just peeking over the mountain and started to make the woods glow from the virgin snow and sunlight.

Lots of texture photos..I love the texture in this shot.

Our long frozen driveway here at Bluebird Farm.

My neighbor's gates across the road.

Our front pasture was a beautiful Winter wonderland!

Even the blue sky appeared to be a darker blue against all the white snow capped trees and mountains.

The little duck pond up the road. I was expecting to see the ducks out there swimming around but they were somewhere else keeping warm.

RutttRooooowwww! Nitro: "I think I am stuck!"

Nitro frolicking at the local dog park in the snow. At this point he was the only dog at the dog park until Neeko his Husky buddy showed up a little bit later.

 Is it just me or is he just so darn handsome!?

 Gesundheit Nitro (which means "good health to you" in German).

 Nitro is "getting his daddy" in this shot!

 He sure is a bouncy boy!

 Oh my....
Here is a video on the two dogs playing. It is less then a 2 minute video. Enjoy!

 Neeko has arrived at the dog park!

 Nitro is so excited when he spots Neeko that he starts running in circles at breakneck speed!

 Nitro is very excited to see his friend Neeko!

 What a handsome Husky boy!

 WhaaaHooo..time to Rock and Roll!

 Neeko looks like a wolf...

 Nitro looks a little cold in this shot...

 Neeko every once in awhile he just stops and closes his eyes and just soaks up the vision of white snow and sunshine.

 Neeko seems to look at Nitro as his Prey animal...

 See what I mean....yummy, dog McNugget!

 Nitro is like, you can't catch me...I'm so fast now that I am in shape...just watch and take notes dude...

 Later Gator!

 Nitro: "Dude, what in the heck did you have for breakfast...your breath smells like doggy do do..just saying"

 Time out...

 Isn't Neeko just stunning?

 When they start pooping out they are like the UFC fighters who start leaning on each other to catch their breath...

 Nitro loves the tube..

 Nitro is checking out the big tube...

Nitro, Lexi, Bailey, Tallulah, Chris and I hope you enjoy what's left of Winter! xoxoxxo

Wordless Wednesday 2-22-2012

Welcome to Wordless Wednesday. To celebrate the fact that it is Wednesday "over the hump" day we like to celebrate by featuring a new photo every Wednesday. We then ask you to come up with your own clever or witty caption for our Wordless Wednesday photo. What caption would you give this photo of Nitro playing in the snow with his buddy Niko at our local dog park?

Wordless Wednesday!

Welcome to "over the hump" day! Let's celebrate by having a Wordless Wednesday. On Wordless Wednesday it is up to our readers to come up with a caption they like for a photo we post. Have fun!

What caption would you add under this photo?

Saturday Pet Blogger Hop 2-11-2012 - Our First Deaf Dogs Rock Transport

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. 

Last Friday I received a message on our Deaf Dogs Rock website pleading for help for a partially deaf 10-week old pibble puppy that was found stranded and scared on the side of a country road in North Carolina. The puppy needed to be rescued and transported or it was going to be dropped the following week at the pound in Gastonia, NC.

Instead of trying to organize a transport for the puppy to get it here to Virginia (which usually takes a lot of time), I decided I would just jump in my car and go get the puppy myself. First I called a local rescue here in Roanoke Virginia called Angels of Assisi to see if they would take the puppy into their rescue once I got it safely back to Roanoke. The folks at Angles said they would take the puppy if I lined up a foster to take care of the deaf puppy first.

I called a young lady named Ashley Leonard who I had recently been in contact with earlier in the month about another deaf puppy that needed help. Ashley also fosters for Angles of Assisi so I thought she would be the perfect person to foster the stranded puppy.  Ashley agreed to foster the puppy once I had it transported from Gastonia, NC  back to Salem VA. So I hopped in the car early Saturday morning and made the four hour drive to pick up the little "pibble". Ashley named the puppy "Madison". She was such a sweet puppy. She was so polite and well mannered that I didn't even have to put her in a travel crate on our ride home. She just laid next to me in the front seat just staring at me for the entire four hour drive home.

Here is a photo of Madison meeting her new foster Mommy Ashley for the first time (Photo by Christina Lee with special effects added).

Once we got into Salem, I took her over to meet her foster mommy Ashley. Here are some of the photos from my transport and taking her to her new foster home. Enjoy!

On the road to Gastonia!

I had to leave by 7:00 a.m. on Saturday morning to travel to Gastonia, NC and make it there safely to Petsmart by 12:00 noon.  While I was at a Truck Stop gassing up my car, I looked up on a hill and decided to take these early morning photos of some sleepy cows grazing in a field while the sun was coming up.

 Field full of cows in the early morning sun. This was taken right off a highway exit.

 Four hours later I finally see a sign for Gastonia, NC.

This is a photo of the wonderful woman who saved the little pibble Madison from sure death. Her name is Nicole Huffman and not only did she save the puppy but she took her to her local Vet Clinic to have her de-wormed and to get her shots UTD. Nicole also put Madison into temporary boarding at the clinic until I could get into town to pick her up. Nicole already has 3 small dogs and 3 young children so she wasn't in a position to keep the puppy. Thanks Nicole for saving Madison!

This is a picture of Madison as soon as I set her down in the front seat of my car for the ride home. She doesn't look to sure of me in this shot.

 She is just looking around and checking things out. She looks so pretty in her pink sweater.

 She isn't to sure what to think at this point but then she decides to settle down. Such a cute PIBBLE! 

 This is how she looked at me the entire ride home. She just stared at me for four hours..I think she was "working it" if you know what I mean.

 Still "working it"....

 What a little love bug she is...still working it....she is pretty in pink, don't you think?

It's as if she is looking at me and thinking "you know you want to take me home and keep me"..."you know you do"....and she was right I did but want to take her home and keep her but when I asked my husband Chris (I'm sure he saw this one coming) he said "no way Jose" because we already have four dogs.

 Still working it....

 Meeting her foster Mommy Ashley. What a cute pair they make!

 Even in this shot she was still working on me...don't you think? Little bugger girl!

 Look at Ashley loving on her...what a lucky puppy!

I added some special effects because I could tell this is probably how Madison was feeling and seeing things...she was seeing stars...It turns out Madison does have some hearing so that is good news but we still don't know how much. It seems she can hear things in front of her but not so good behind her.

I have another transport to do this Saturday morning. I will transporting two 8-week old beagle puppies for the Augusta Dog Adoptions and Petsmart Charitie's National Adoption weekend being held at the Waynesboro, VA. Petsmart this weekend.  

After I get back from that transport, Chris and I get to babysit the little pibble Madison from Saturday to late Sunday. We are both so excited to get the opportunity to have a rescue puppy here on Bluebird Farm this weekend. I think my little pughuahauTallulah and deaf boxer Nitro will be in heaven with this little girl. Lexi and Bailey...not so much. At least Lexi and Bailey will both get a break from Nitro and Tallulah. 

According to my dog Lexi, she wishes you all a happy and healthy weekend!

Wiggles and Kisses!

Christina and Lexi