The Big Race Banquet

Headed to the Great Race Banquet.  Hope we see you there

We are just honored to be attending the Great Race Banquet.  It was a great race with Pip vs. Bunny and then showing us it was "friends" that are the most import things in life at the end.


We remember getting ready for the big race, we had great seats.

Cleo and Amiee took the upper seats to see and cheer on Bunny and Winston took to the ground so he could make sure and see and cheer on Pip.

In case you missed it you can find all the details here at The Great Race.


We were not exactly sure what we should bring to the banquet so we had the human bake up some wonderful peanut butter treats.

Peanut Butter Treats

And some of the famous pupcakes that she had made for Winston's Bark Day.

Peanut Butter Pupcakes

Here are lots more blogs that are pawticipating in the Banquet.  Make sure you check them out as well.

Pip http://pipinthegame.blogspot.com

Bunny http://tailsandtales.com

Puddles http://wethreedoxies.blogspot.com

Roo http://dearhsdogblog.blogspot.com

Also along with the the banquet and all the fun activities, we will be kicking off the auction for our dear furend Richie.   The auction starts this Saturday and runs through March 13.  All proceeds will help to cover medical costs for Richie.  Richie is a foster dog and his rescue organization is having financial troubles.  He needs care now, but his veterinarian cannot see him until some of his bills are paid. You can find all the details for that at the new auction Site http://pawsofpeace.blogspot.com/ The site opens SATURDAY!!  Or you can click on the picture on the sidebar to get to the auction site as well.

additional auction info link http://slimmerpugs.blogspot.com/

The HoundDogs

Cleo, Winston, Amiee 

Wordless Wednesday - 2/23/2011

Wordless Wednesday

Amiee

Wordless Wednesday - 2/16/2011

Wordless Wednesday

Just A Little Different

Our Blog was Catjacked!

The HoundDogs

Cleo, Winston and Amiee

Valentine's Day 2011

The HoundDogs - Cleo, Winston and Amiee

Mango Minster 2011 - Insane Cracker Dog Voting Open

Mango Minster 2011

Today is the Day you all have been waiting for........

Insane Cracker Dog(s)

This category is very special to us today, as we are in the line up for the Insane Cracker Dog(s) category. 

You can check out our entry on the official Mango Minster 2011 blog or read all about the Insane Cracker Basset Hound Dog(s) official entry here.

VOTE FOR THE INSANE CRACKER BASSETS

Just in case that was not enough to convience you here is a few more shots of how we can demonstrate our Insane Cracker dogness.

To vote for your favorite Insane Cracker Dog(s) just leave a comment on who you want to vote for.  They are keeping it a surprise so don't worry if your comments don't appear.  They will appear once the winner has been selected.

Last but not Least

You still have time to vote for us in the Side Competetion for the Photo Contest that  Hootie and Baby Rocket Dog are hosting.  You can still cast your vote for your favorite dress up photo.  There are actually two different catagories that you can vote on.  Group Photo and Pooches Choice.

 You have until 2/11/11 VOTING CLOSES AT 11:59PM Arizona Time

Maybe you would like to CAST your vote for Miss Cleo

Group Photo - VOTE FOR #6 Cleo and Her Rock and Roll Momma

  OR

Pooches Choice - VOTE FOR #15 Cleo


Sniffs, The HoundDogs
Cleo, Winston and Amiee

Mango Minster 2011 - Kittehs Voting Open

Mango Minster 2011

Today we present..........

Kittehs Category

To vote for your favorite Kitteh just leave a comment on who you want to vote for.  They are keeping it a surprise so don't worry if your comments don't appear.  They will appear once the winner has been selected.

Also, we have Winners for the Good-Old Dog Category

Good-Old-Dog Winners Announced

You can still cast your vote for Bad Sports Reader's Choice until Noon, EST TODAY (2-10).  Just scroll down and post your vote. 

Bad Sports Category

Make sure you are checking in everyday at Mango Minster 2011 to cast your votes.

Last but not Least

The Side Competetion for the Photo Contest that  Hootie and Baby Rocket Dog are hosting is still going on.
You can still cast your vote for your favorite dress up photo.  There are actually two different catagories that you can vote on.  Group Photo and Pooches Choice.

 You have until 2/11/11 VOTING CLOSES AT 11:59PM Arizona Time

Maybe you would like to CAST your vote for Miss Cleo

Group Photo - VOTE FOR #6 Cleo and Her Rock and Roll Momma

  OR

Pooches Choice - VOTE FOR #15 Cleo


Sniffs, The HoundDogs
Cleo, Winston and Amiee

Wordless Wednesday - 2/9/2011

Wordless Wednesday

Sniffs, The HoundDogs

Cleo, Winston and Amiee

Mango Minster 2011 - Bad Sports Voting Open

Mango Minster 2011

Today we have the category

Bad Sports

Let the voting begin.......

VOTE

FOR

Martha

Just leave your comment that you want Martha to win the Bad Sports Category on the Mango Minster post for Bad Sports.


Also, you will want to check out the WINNERS for the Shameless Diva Category.

Congratualtions to all the WINNERS!!

Sniffs, The HoundDogs
Cleo, Winston, Amiee

Mango Minster 2011 - Good Old Dogs Are Up for Voting

MANGO MINSTER 2011

Today we have.........

GOOD OLD DOGS CATEGORY

Again, lots of great entries and we just are not sure who we will vote for in this category.  Sherman is looking pretty Good Ol Dog and we know that Rusty the Rooster is definately a Good Ol Dog.

So HURRY UP and CAST YOUR VOTE TODAY!

Don't forget the

MANGO MINSTER 2011 - SIDE CONTESTS
Winners Announced for Two
Voting still going on for One

The Photo Contest by Hootie and Baby Rocket is still going on.  You can still cast your vote for your favorite dress up photo.  There are actually two different catagories that you can vote on.  Group Photo and Pooches Choice.

Maybe you would like to CAST your vote for Cleo

Group Photo - VOTE FOR #6 Cleo and Her Rock and Roll Momma

  OR

Pooches Choice - VOTE FOR #15 Cleo


Deadline to cast your vote for this is 2/11/2011 at 11:59PM (Arizona Time)

Noodles has announced the winners of her fabulous name game contest!

Click  here to check out the results.

Norwood has announced the winners of his Find Your Better Half Contest.

Click here to check out the results.

Sniffs, The Hounddogs
Cleo, Winston and Amiee 

Let the Games Begin - Mango Minster 2011

It's official, the Mango Minster 2011 has begun

Today and Today only, you can cast your vote for the most Shameless Diva category.  Make sure you stop over and cast your vote TODAY.

Mango Minster - Shameless Diva

We just don't know what to do, some of our best blogging friends are in this category and we just don't know what to do.

We have Layla a sweet basset hound that we know from the Illinois Basset Waddle.

We have Bailey are very first blogging buddy all the way from Scotland.  She is a true Diva, from what we can tell and Winston is just a little smitten on this girl.

Avalon and Sammie who we got to know from the Jazzie Gift Exchange.  These girls really like to show their stuff.

There are so many great entries for this category and who would have thought there were so many Shameless Diva fur-kids out there.  Don't you know that once its on the internet you can never get rid of it.

We will be busy all day finishing up our reading of these great postings and casting our vote by early evening.  We want to wish GOOD LUCK to all those SHAMELESS DIVAS out there.

BUT WAIT..........

WE NEED YOUR HELP.........

Cleo has entered herself into the side competetion that Hootie and Baby Rocket are having.  We need your votes to help us win the Group Photo Category and Individual Pooches.  So won't you please go over and check out all the great entries for this Side Competetion.

CAST YOUR VOTE FOR...#6 ~ Rock & Roll Cleo in her Basset skirt (no, not a poodle skirt!) & her HoundDogMommy

CAST YOUR VOTE FOR #15 ~ CleoThis outfit was made from children's clothes. All the decorations were done by Cleo's mommy

The HoundDogs

Cleo, Winston and Amiee

Winston's 4th Bark Day Celebration (1/30/2011)

We had a very low key celebration with Winston with the immediate family.  I made my very first attempt at making pup cakes for him.  The thing is I didn't have have a large muffin tin so I just arranged them in pie pan.  So he sort of had a pup cake pie.

Winston was served breakfast and dinner in the bowl that I won from Blueberry's auction.  It came with a story behind the "red" theme.

 Winston eating birthday breakfast, in the recliner

We waited till around Noon for them to try the famous peanut butter pup cake pie that mom made the day before.  She makes us treats all the time but this was the first attempt at pup cakes minus the muffin tin.

Pup cakes before being frosted

 

Winston sampled the frosting

 Orange Frosted Pup Cakes

HoundDogMom's creative decorating skills

More frosting sampling.  I guess different color must taste different

Finally, we get to taste these tasty treats.

Winston licked all the frosting off his before running into the other room

 Of course, he runs to the couch

Cleo also licked all the frosting off first

I think Cleo felt that maybe just a little bit to much Peanut Butter.  That stuff is sticky!

Amiee enjoyed the frosting first as well

Yum Yum

We have no pictures of the pressies that he got, because I failed to take pictures.  But overall, I think it was a great day we eat and lounged around and snuggled all day.  The pup cakes were a huge hit and were so easy to make.

Thanks for all the great birthday wishes that you sent my way.

Winston and Mom

The Big Race Pip vs. Bunny

The Big Race Pip vs. Bunny

Don't forget to tune in for the race of the century!
 Saturday, February 5, 2011

Gee Whiz, was that Bunny that flew by us.....She was as fast as these 50mph winds we had during our Blizzard 2011. 

 Go Bunny Go!

The HoundDogs
Cleo, Winston and Amiee 

Healing Vibes are needed for Twix

We are needing some healing vibes and Power of the Paw sent to Twix.  We have just heard that Twix has taken a serious turn and the VET is very confused and not sure exactly what is causing her sickies.  Twix's Mom and Dad are open for any ideas if you have them. 

Please if you have extra minutes stop by and visit and leave her some words of encouragement.

Also, if you have any suggestions for her Mom and Dad, please leave them on their blog.  There might just be that one person in blogville that has the magic answer. 

Drools and Healing Vibes,
The HoundDogs (Cleo, Winston and Amiee) and HDM

Surviving Snowpocalypse 2011 (2/2/2011)

Snowpocalypse 2011

(This appears to be the official name everyone has given this storm)

Just like all our other blogging friends in the MidWest we got SNOW. Not as much as some of our Illinois friends, but once you get more than a couple of inches it just all seems to blend together. In Bloomington, IL we got a reported 13 inches, but with 50mph winds we woke up to about 2 foot drifts in the backyard. Could not open either the front door or the back door and had no idea where the street began and where it ended. We finally got brave after HDD went out and sholved our paths for us. We played outside most of the day, but Mom made us come in and warm our toes up when she seen Cleo standing on 3 legs.

Looking out our backdoor

Looking out our side window from indoors, there is a road out there

This is a picture of the cat shelter for all the outside door cats eat and stay.  They are actually inside that topper and will come out of the small whole.  The other is their platform/cover that they get fed on.

Back yard pictures, and yes Winston has his own fire hydrant.

Amiee wishing Daddy would get busy shoveling.

Looking out front door, could hardly open it for the drift.

Amiee trying to get a little morale support.

I do believe she is having an "Insane Cracker Dog" momment here before the paths got made for them.

Amiee doing a little preliminary plowing

Winston

HDD shoveling the ramp to begin the paths

These paths are pretty much identical as what they run in the summer time amazing hey sniff it out

HDD beginning to shovel the paths 

This aeaa out here is pretty much the poop station, so it got dug out right away

Sunshine the outside cat

 HDD walking through the drifts of snow on our road.

 

Getting ready to dig out the 20inches in my father-in-laws driveway

Stupid driver



We also have a great video of the dogs being all crazy that we will post later.  This one was so long with pictures, we hope we didn't get bored.

The HoundDogs

Cleo, Winston and Amiee