Awards from Sugar

Sugar the Golden Retriever has done me the great honor of  conferring two awards upon me, Lola, and recipients are tasked with passing it on, as I understand things. Thank you, Sugar. This is pawsome.

Here are the rules for the Happy 101 Award

Copy the image and paste it to my blog

List 10 things that make me happy, and do one of them today

List 10 bloggers who brighten my day

This not a toughie. One of the greatest things about being a dog is that so many things make us happy. The list of things that make us not happy tends to be much shorter. Here are my most favorite 10:

• Love and attention from my humans. That's the most basic thing.
• Walkies! I love walks so much that it's very hard to stand still while they put my harness on. Impossibly hard, in fact.
• Chasing squirrels. My humans really hate when I try to combine chasing squirrels with walkies, as we Shar Pei are medium sized but just as strong as much taller dogs. But when it's two of your favorite things at once it's awfully hard to resist. 
• When my humans come home. I don't care for it when they go out and don't take me with them, but the joy of reunion is almost worth it.
• Treats. Who doesn't like a nice treat? What I like to do is keep my humans guessing as to which treat I'll be in the mood for at any given time. This results in quite an assortment of treats in the house. They really are eager to please.
• Company. I enjoy entertaining quite a bit. 
• My through the fence dog neighbors. Now that it's spring I'm seeing more of them.
• Belly rubs. They are the best thing and I've got my humans trained to give quite good ones.
• Toys - with special emphasis on ring shaped rawhide, squeeky toys and, of course, tennis balls.
• Cheese. I am very much a cheesehound.

I think that's ten. Counting is not one of my best things.

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Here are the rules for the Sunshine Award

Post the award

Send the award to 12 bloggers

Post links and leave a comment on the 12 blogs

Put these instructions in my post so they'll know what to do

I would like to pass on these awards to...

Mayzie, Toby, Hero, Mango, (and Dexter, too if Mango wants help), Bolo, Lorenza, Lois, Gentle Ben, Farley, Loki and Juno, Tommy, Bernie, and the gang at ABSharpeii. If any of you got tagged while we were working on this post, well, it's just because you bring sunshine to many.

On edit: I just realized I was supposed list 10 blogs that brighten my day for the first award. Well, all of the 12 of the bloggers  right above would be in that list, plus quite a few others, so perhaps we can leave it at that.

Mayzie tagged me!

I'm honored, being so new to the furrysphere, to have been tagged with a meme and I thank Mayzie for thinking of me. The rules for this meme are as followes:

 Go to your first photo folder, find the 10th picture, post that photo and explain the story behind it. Then, tag five blogs to do the same. 

Well, when it comes to the photo, this is just a little embarassing. Here it is:

There really isn't that much of a story behind this one. It was the last snow of the season. I love the snow. In all my seven years I've never seen snow like we had this year. It was wonderful! This last one wasn't so deep here, but it was still fun. Here I'm in back of the shed, checking under a wood pile just in case there was a squirrel that required my attention. Blog Mom thought it was soooo funny to snap a photo of me in that position. Moms are embarassing sometimes. I prefer number nine, which I like to think makes me look like a St. Bernard, making my way through the snowy mountains to rescue some humans from an avalanche.If you don't happen to know that it was taken  right behind my shed. And if you ignore the chainlink fence there.

Now comes the hard part: Tagging five friends. Because I know this meme has been going around but I can't exactly remember who's done it and who hasn't. So, if you already have, or if you don't want to that's fine. But here goes. I tag, Hero, Lois Lane, Bernie, Tommy, et al and Lorenza. Let me know if you decide to go ahead and do it.

Edited to say I'm tagging Toby, too. I just kind of figured he might be busy with school, training as he is for such a serious job. I'm glad that guide dogs still get to have some fun.