October Randomness

We had several great weeks in October for Illinois and Mom has been trying to keep us occupied and take lots of walks with us.  Though we don't have a lot of great places to walk we have gotten to go to the people park a few times near our 2-legged brothers house.  Other then that we just get to walk around the small pond that is located near our house, but this getting boring because we have done like those sniffs 1,000 times or more. So here are just some miscellanous pictures we have taken on some walks and stuff through the month of October.  We hope we get a few more good days/weeks before the snow starts flying, as our Mom is a huge, did we say HUGE, wimp when it comes to the cold.  So she says she is getting all our walks in know before the snow blows, yea right Lady....

So here ya go with some picture overload

One of the many cats that live on our property

Some pretty fall trees 

This is "Forrest Park" near our 2-legged brothers house 

This is Winston looking for his drink and snacks after we got back from the park.  This is in our 2-legged brothers back yard 

This is us resting in the park shelter 

Okay, this is the top of the shelter 

And know for some of the most awesome pictures (okay, I am a little bias) on these because I actually have no idea how they turned out so well.  I have a Fuji DSLR camera that has lots of settings, but I don't have a clue how to use them.  I normally keep it on "Auto/Shake Free" mode.  I need to take a class to learn about all the various setting and stuff.  Okay, enough babbling here ya go.

October 16, 2011 - Sun Rise

Out our back door

This is my one and only Trick or Treater that I had this year.  This is my great nephew who was dressed as a dog.  Oh, so cute.  It was actually suppose to be a St. Bernard but he would not wear the barrel.  I just think he looked like a hound dog which just tickeled me "orange". 

Check out that little tail

Sniffs, The HoundDogs



Happy Halloween

We do not have any hounds in our house anymore that like to pawticipate in dressing up.  So we have just decided to give you a collection of various different pumpkins that we found out on the internet.

Basset Hound Pumpkin

Just a cool pumpkin carving and picture

Pokey Little Puppy

I Love Big Butts/Boobs and I cannot lie

A little Pug cutness

A Greyhound Pumpkin

A Puppy Pumpkin

How do you make Pumpkin Pie? 

A Whopper of a Pumpkin 

We hope nobody feels like this tomorrow

Sniffs, The HoundDogs

P.S. -- Don't forget to sign-up for the Christmas/Holiday Card Exchange.  You can find all the details HERE or by clicking on the picture on the sidebar.

Show Us Your Treat Jar and Christmas Card Exchange

We don't really get into the whole dress up thing for Halloween.  Last year we tried it and Winston could not be caught to get dressed, Winston ate Amiee's costume off her before we even got it on her.  So this year we heard about The Cybersibes holding a Halloween event to help your local shelter.  They are calling it Show Us Your Treat Jar.  So this year we are going to pawticipate in this great Halloween event and show you our treat jar and then drop a bag of treats off at our local shelter as well.  Won't you join us?

Here is our very first treat jar we used when we had all four of the hound dogs.  We went through a lot more treats back then.  Tabby and Cleo had to have a treat every time you walked in the door or they came inside from going potty or heck sometimes they even thought they needed a treat to go outside to potty.  This treat jar has pretty much been retired since we are just down to Winston and Amiee for right know.  They are not as demanding on the treats as the other two were.

This is a picture of our very favorite treat with our "retired" treat jar.

This is what our human Mom came up with for a new treat jar for us to use.  These are more festive she says and goes with the holiday theme.  In this jar we have some homemade peanut butter treats that our Mom makes for us.  We get these crumbled up on our foodables before we eat.

This is another festive treat jar that holds our "favorite" soft treats. We have gotten very spoiled on these and prefer these over Mom's homemade treats anymore.  Please don't tell her we said that though.

This is another picture of our favorite soft treats on top of our treat jars

Mom tried to get a picture of Winston sitting by the treats we were going to donate to shelter but he thought she meant to inspect them.  He would not sit still, see why we don't dress up.

This is our version of showing you our treat jar.  Mom sat it on the floor and told us to sit nicely for a picture.  (HA HA HA)  We just wanted to show you really what is in our treat jar and how much we like them.  Of course, this was the quickest we seen her snap that flashy beast so she could safe the treat jar.

Hey, what do you think of our Halloween Costumes this year?  Can you guess what we are?

We hope you like our treat jars and goodies they get stocked with.  This is picture of the two bags of treats we will be donating to our local Humane Society.  We hope they like them as well as we do.

So remember - Post a pic of your treats, and give a box of treats to your local shelter.... because every furkid deserves a treat!

ALSO REMEMBER TO SEND US YOUR ADDY'S IF YOU WANT TO GET IN ON THE CHRISTMAS/HOLIDAY CARD EXCHANGE.  See the details here.

The HoundDogs

Blogville 2011 Christmas/Holiday Card Exchange

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Blogville 2011 Christmas/Holiday Card Exchange

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Did you pawticipate last year?  Did the fur-kids get more cards then the humans last year?

They did at The HoundDogs house

 Fur-Kids Christmas Cards (2010)

Human Christmas Cards (2010)

The past few weeks Jazzi's Mom has been hard at work getting the elves together that will compile the lists of names and stuffs for everyone to use.  If you would like to pawticipate and see how many more caards you can get then the humans, here is all you have to do.

Grab the picture below and post it on your blog, so everyone knows you are pawticipating

Send some very important details to the elves that will be collecting the secret information for your State

Blog Name 

Blog Addy

Email Addy

Snail Mail Addy

Note:  Make sure to include your Dogs/Cats names so they can be properly addressed

If the State you live in begins with A-L send an email to HoundDogMom at: hounddogmomDOTjeakinsATgmailDOTcom

If the State you live in begins with M-Z send an email to Finn's Mom at:  marianneDOTdDOThowardATgmailDOTcom

If you live Overseas including Australia send an email to Schanauzer Days Mom at:  schnauzerdaysATyahooDOTcoDOTuk

 If you are super busy or want to go GREEN, feel free to send an e-card

If you celebrate Hanukkah or want to send any other Holiday card that is okay as well

DEADLINE - NO EXCEPTIONS  NOVEMBER, 19, 2011

No personal information will be posted on any blogs, as the secret elves are working to ensure this information remains confidential and will be supplied only to pawticipating individuals.  A final list will be complied and mailed to everyone that has supplied the necessary information.

So come one.....come all.......

Let’s see if we can get the mail person

to stuff our mailboxes this year

Sniffs, The HoundDogs and HoundDogMom