Author: The Jody

Funny thing about the new hosting company! Their setup is different than the old one, and anyone who tried to go to https://www.bigdumptruck.com/ or https://www.bigdumptruck.com/index.htm instead of index.php got a placeholder screen. I had no idea until Mr. Dump tried to get to the site this morning. Apologies!

There were two screwed up things in my PETsMART.com order. One, they sent me the wrong retractable leash. And then they sent me an extra pooper scooper thingy. He doesn’t poop THAT much.

The customer service lady was very nice. I had her laughing about the leash. You see, I ordered a Flexi Comfort Grip Small. They sent me a Classic All Belt Large. That’s right large. My little bundle of fluff weighs, oh, about 3 pounds or so. If that. This leash is means for dogs up to 150 pounds. “If my cockapoo ever gets to weigh 150 pounds, I suspect I’m doing something very very wrong.” (He should, as an adult, weigh about 1/10 that amount.)

She told me if I wanted to take it to a retail location, I could swap it out for the one I actually paid for, so I’ll probably do that tomorrow. As for the pooper scooper, she said I should donate it to a local shelter, because it would cost them more to get it back and for them to process the return than the thing is worth. So I’m going to do that. It’s a neat little device, invented by a 10 year old boy who was in charge of cleaning up after his golden retriever. It uses regular grocery store shopping bags. I’m very impressed that a kid came up with this, got the patent, and they now sell them in retail stores.

Other than that, today is my annual physical. I’m so looking forward to it. *sigh*

Here are more pictures for those of you who have been bugging me.

I believe I’m back in business. Sorry if you stopped by last night and saw only older posts…that was the snapshot view. My password wasn’t working so I couldn’t log in and update the site at all. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, and now I think everything is back in working order. Do let me know if you spot anything funky. Comments especially…the paths are all changed and I may have missed one in the commenting setup files.

So, happy Friday, everyone! Looking forward to the floods? (Locals only)

(Okay, maybe I haven’t posted 432 cute puppy stories. But I thought maybe it would be better to talk about a cute puppy than to freak about what happened in London. Happy Code Orange, everyone!)

Last night, after we gave Phantom a bath, I was sitting on the kitchen floor struggling to dry him with a towel (I ordered a chamois-type thing to help get him dry faster – can’t wait until it gets here) and he was attacking/playing with the ends of the towel. I had Junior bring over Phantom’s “Baby” this kind of rabbity-doggy looking stuffed toy that’s literally as big as he is. He loves this thing, if love means trying to pull and chew its ears off.

So once distracted by Baby, I handed the towel to Junior to put in the hamper. Phantom saw all this, and when Junior came back out to the kitchen, Phantom shot him a dirty look, gave a little growl, and grabbed Baby and dragged him over to me, away from Junior, as if to say “I let you take the towel, but you can have Baby when you pry him from my cold dead teeth!”

I guess the lesson learned is “nobody puts baby in a corner”. No wait, wrong lesson.

I don’t think my stuff is done being moved yet, and when I looked at the staging site, it appears that some of the comments made after the snapshot was taking will be missing. Just wanted to give a heads up. I’m going to try to get a copy of the comment file on the current server right now, so maybe some of them can be recoved.

In other dog news, not a peep all night, until we got up when the alarm went off at 6. His whole doggy playyard was dry as a bone, no pee or poop. I took him right outside in the drizzle and he did both. Woo hoo!

Also, Junior picked out the name Phantom. He saw a picture of the little guy (the one on the photo page at the bottom) and said we should call him Phantom because “He looks like Danny Phantom.” (A cartoon character). When I found out that his coloring is actually considered “phantom” by breeders, we stuck with the name. Even though my sister and brother-in-law were calling him Shadow (his mom’s name, btw) and I’ve been caught calling him by Junior’s name. Oopsie!