Crazy summer

My husband had knee surgery and has been off work for the past 6-weeks. I have been able to work more hours (so I haven't had much time to post...sorry!). And because he is home with the dogs, I don't have to worry about getting home to care for them.
That being said, this is what I see when I leave for work each morning...

I guess this is the dog days of summer for BOTH Rocco and his daddy?

Rocco's Report Card

My husband and I went to Arizona last week, and Rocco and Molly were boarded at a brand new facility. We were able to access their web cam and we were able to watch Rocco & Molly throughout our trip.
I hated to leave them and was alwaying thinking about them while we were away.
When we picked them up, we got this report card that melted my heart.
How sweet!





If you are unable to read it, it reads as follows:

It was a joy to have Rocco & Molly stay with us. Molly loves to play fetch and Rocco loves to chase her. Rocco made new friends this week, and the ladies particularly love the big guy. Both dogs love to play first thing in the a.m., then turn into big lap dogs, rolling over for a belly scratch, and of course, kisses from Rocco.
We loved watching the 2 of them cuddle up together for a nap~so sweet!
All of us so enjoyed Molly & Rocco & hope to see them again.

Drum roll please....the photos have arrived!

This is how my husband summed them up.
"Well, not as bad as I thought, but not as good as they could have been".

You be the judge.







My husband is not happy with the platform we are sitting on. He thinks it should have looked like we were sitting in the GRASS.

Men.

Hey, the dogs look good and we look reasonably happy. What more could we ask for? Right?

Wow! A new post!

I know! A new Rocco post!
It's like winning the lottery, your birthday and Christmas all-in-one!

Sorry it's been so long overdue. But here is a good story for you.

We took Rocco & Molly for professional photos 2-weeks ago. Our local Humane Society offered photos with a pet photographer. My husband and I were really excited to have them photographed. We had them washed so they were clean and shiny, we gave them coordinating bandannas. They looked great! We were laughing in the car on the way there.
It was a great family moment.

And then we got there.

By the time it was our turn for photos, we had been sitting outside in the hot sun for 45 minutes (it was almost 80 degrees that day), the dogs were panting fools, their bandannas were lopsided, Molly was drooling and her bandanna was drenched, and my husband was throwing a temper tantrum.

You get the picture.

The lovely family moment was out the window and we had not even taken one photo yet.

We were finally summoned into the photography trailer, and the photography assistant was trying to arrange my dogs in a artistically pleasing way. They wanted the dogs staged on a platform.

Easy enough, right?

Nope.

Rocco kept trying to jump off and Molly kept looking at an invisible spot on the ceiling and would not look into the camera. When Rocco would sit, Molly would stand, and when Molly would sit, Rocco would stand. We could NOT coordinate them.
And the photographer kept blowing a high pitched whistle to get the dogs attention, but it would upset Rocco and he would bark and cry. My husband asked him to stop with the whistle. SEVERAL times. And for each photo the photographer would blow the whistle to get them to look into the camera but it would upset Rocco.

By the time my husband looked at me and said out loud "If he doesn't stop with the whistle I am going to shove that whistle up his a--" I knew our photo session was over. The photographer was only 2-feet away as I informed my husband through my clenched teeth.

The photos should arrive in 4-6 weeks, and $98 worth of photos later, I still don't know if it was worth it.

I'll let you know when the photos arrive.

That's MY Daddy!

Rocco LOVES his daddy.
LOES, LOVES, LOVES his daddy.
And he jealous of anyone that gets his daddy's attention.

So when Molly (who has trouble jumping onto the bed since her ACL surgery last year) jumped onto the bed yesterday morning to give HER daddy a kiss, Rocco went into jealously overdrive.

Here is the evidence.

First, he seems to trying to block daddy's view of Molly.



Then he just keeps moving closer.







Poor Rocco.
He has serious sibling rivalry.