One more visit with the puppies before we get to bring ours home next week.
We were the only ones visiting the puppies today. When we got there, they were all outside in their outdoor pen while their indoor pen was being cleaned. It seems they all like to pile into their little doghouse.
After a few minutes, the puppies noticed they had visitors and were all eager to greet us.
We got to take Simba out to play with on the front lawn. We also brought some toys to leave with him and his littermates, so that when we bring him home he’ll have some familiar smells with him for the first few nights.
We played with him for a while, and then Simba got tired and decided to take a nap.
We let him nap for a while out on the front lawn, and then took him back to his littermates, who also decided to have an after-lunch nap.
Next week Monday we get to bring him home! Check out the rest of the pictures in the gallery.
Search log spam?
Sometimes the search terms I find in the activity log for my blog really puzzles me.
Over in the sidebar, there’s a block called Search the blog. It doesn’t say ‘Search the Web’ or ‘Search the Internet’. It says ‘Search the blog’. That’s exactly what it does: search this blog using MT’s search function. That’s all it does too. It doesn’t search anything else. So why has someone been feeding the blog search long strings of spam URLs? Is this perhaps another attempt at spammers to hijack blogs? As if comment spam isn’t bad enough.
I don’t know about anybody else, but I don’t display search terms that people have entered anywhere in the blog or in stats, so the only place they’re visible is through MT’s admin interface. But perhaps there are some people who do show off recent search terms. It seems like spammers might be trying to capitalize on that by inserting spammy search strings which would then end up showing up in bloggers’ visible search term lists.
Wonder if anybody else has seen this happening.
She’s so spoiled
Looking through the growing collection of Nala pictures, you can definitely see how much we spoil Nala (doesn’t everybody love to spoil their dogs rotten?)
Right now she gets the back seat of the car all to herself, complete with her own pillow to rest on. She’s going to have to get used to sharing the back seat soon though.
A fun day at PetFest
We managed to make it out to Pet Fest today before all the big rain started coming down. It was a little windy though, but it was a nice day for being in the park. Lots of people and lots of dogs to see (and for Nala to visit with). Had a really great time at Pet Fest (our first time going…forgot to bring the camera though) and saw some great vendors selling dog related things. One of my favourites were the door mats sold by Dog Lovers @ Home. The wife couldn’t resist getting Nala another pair of Doggles, so we got her a pair of the Racing Flames ILS doggles.
One of the reasons we went was to see if we could get Nala past the Canine Good Citizen test. After taking her out walking around to see the booths, visit other dogs and see/participate in some of the contests (gotta tucker her out a bit so she’s not so wound up), she managed to pass the test on her very first try! Yay!!! She’s well on the way to one of our goals of getting her into therapy dog work. We’re also looking forward to trying out some dog agility with her.
Go Nala (CGC)!
2006 Hurricane forecast
The official NHC hurricane forecast won’t be out for a couple of months yet, but Dr. Bill Gray’s updated April forecast is calling for another active season with 17 named storms, 9 hurricanes (5 of them intense) along with a 64% probability of a major hurricane making landfall along the eastern coast of the US. Hopefully we won’t see a repeat of last year’s storm season.
The report makes for an interesting read and offers a look at some of the things looked at to come up with a hurricane forecast.