• Walk your dogs during the coolest time of the day.  Remember, if you cannot comfortably stand bare feet on the tar/cement for 5 seconds, NEITHER CAN THEY.
• If outside, make sure your dogs have a shady spot and access to lots of cool water.  Be careful not to spray sunscreen and insect repellent on your animals, it can be dangerous, since they lick themselves.
• NEVER LEAVE YOUR DOGS IN A WARM/HOT VEHICLE - it easily overheats, similar to an oven, even with a cracked window, or in the shade.  If it's 70 degrees outside, it could be 89 within 10 minutes, 99 within 20 minutes.  Dogs die in hot cars every summer, even when their body temperatures just rise a few degrees.  With their long hair and small bodies, Yorkies are especially at risk

• Exercise/walk your dogs early in the morning, before the heat and festivities start.
• Keep them inside, and check all perimeters: room, doors, windows, yard, gates and fences.
• If crate trained, consider the safety thereof, and blanket the crate (to cut down on noise and increase safety).
• Distract your dogs with toys, feeder toys, meals or comfort them by drawing the curtains or pulling the blinds.  You could also add some music.
• If your dog has a history of being fearful of loud noises, consider talking to your veterinarian about medication, to use a Thundershirt, a natural remedy (e.g. Rescue Remedy), or even just massage your dog and spend time with it.

Summer is here.  My most favorite time of year.  People and pups taking evening walks, and me waving "Hello!" as they pass my house.  This is me at my most favorite window.  It was absolutely made for just me.  Right height, right size.  And the plant in the basket makes a nice back rest for me.  I could just sit here all day, and I do on most of the weekends.  From early morning until the sun goes down, I'm either here at my window or practicing my napping skills in the family room. 

Next Monday is Independence Day - the Fourth of July.  That's the day Mom takes me upstairs to our home office, sits me on her knee and we watch fireworks out the big window.  "Boom-boom", and then beautiful bursts of colored fire light up the sky.  Mom says "Oooooooooh, Pretty!" and I agree with her.  I'm safe in her arms and not scared at all.   A lot of pups don't like the noise, though, so this is a reminder to all  you Pup Parents to make sure your fur kids are safe and sound and that they know you will protect them.  So many run away from home, sometimes with tragic endings.  Share the beauty and excitement of traditional fireworks shows with your babies and they will be everly so grateful.

Hope you all are having a wonderful year and are enjoying your summer as much as I am.

Love you,

Mary-Margaret O'Brien 
"Yorkie prayers are Angel's wishes!"

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Tucker has been adopted!

I just wanted to let you know that we absolutely love Tucker! 

He is such a good boy. He started crying a little on our way home, but I think it might have been because the ride was a bit long. We got stuck in a little traffic. After we got home we walked Tucker to the park that is near us. They have a fenced in area there for horseshoes but people use it as a dog play area mostly and there is rarely anyone there. I thought it would be a great place to play fetch with him, but once we got there I realized that there is quite a gap between the ground and the closure gate. So I changed my mind about that and we just walked him and played fetch in our hallway at home. You are right about him needing an actual fenced yard to run without worry. I'm really going to put the pressure on James to get that going here. After all that play Tucker took a long nap and Ethan waited for him to wake. Ethan said "I thought they said this dog was active?!?! He sleeps for a long time!" We laughed. Eventually he woke and played again before going to bed for the night. I fed him just like you said to, but at 4 am he did vomit. I got it cleaned up and took him potty. I think maybe it's just him adjusting? James thinks it's because at the park he kept wanting to eat the grass and sticks. I kept taking the sticks away because I didn't want him to eat that stuff or choke, but I'm sure he did eat a little grass. That could have made him sick maybe? Last thing, James and Logan aren't having any allergic reactions to him, but Ethan woke up with allergies acting up. Ethan has never been allergic to pet dander, but he does have seasonal allergies to pollen. I'm thinking maybe it's just Tucker bringing in pollen on him when he comes in from playing and potty. So I've started wiping him down with a damp towel with he comes in. I'm hoping that will help. I will look it up online and see how other people manage it. We will figure it out. Here are some cute pics for you though! Thank you so much for letting us have him. He is a doll baby!

Vanessa  

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Marvelous Max has been adopted!

Alisa flew from Lexington, KY to San Francisco today to adopt Marvelous Max.  She is driving back home, instead of flying, to spend some quality time with Max and see a lot of our country.

He is one lucky boy and we are thrilled to see him go to such a great home.

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Puddin has been adopted!

Here is a picture of Puddin, now Finn, 

and his new mom, Carrie.