Minne Monday

Recovering from the best Birthday weekend ever. A trip to Two Bostons, new toys, Bowser Beer and a salmon treat. 

Not to mention, clean new sheets on the bed, I love that. Thanks mom and dad.

Love Minne

Dog Birthdays

If you have a dog you know how awesome dog Birthdays can be. I was reminded today that my little Boston turns 4 years old on the 28th of this month (a few weeks after the hubs turns the big 3-0). Thanks to our favorite pet boutique, Two Bostons, we just received Minne's 1st birthday email.

Minne has her own email address. If you'd like to wish her well on her big day, send all emails to minnewhetsel@gmail.com. Sometimes she responds, but to be fair she doesn't have fingers and her email box fills up quickly with emails from Petsmart, Pet Co, and Two Bostons.

PS if you live in the western suburbs and own a dog, go visit the Two Boston stores. Seriously, you won't be disappointed and bring your pup with!

Minne Monday

Minne is really a wonder dog.



Last night she was able to move this big bowl full of water from one side of the room to the other. As you can tell, the bowl is still full of water. There doesn't appear to be any water on the floor. If you have a dog you will find this amazing.

PS we still can't find her food bowl. Maybe this is her way of telling us she is on a diet? Or maybe she wants to take a trip to her favorite Doggie store and get something new?

Minne Monday

Our Boston Terrier has a very hard time with stuffed animals, Actually stuffed animals have a really hard time with our Boston Terrier. Minne loves them so much, that within a matter of seconds the toy is unstuffed and in pieces. Case in point, the "supper tough toy" Rant the Ant:

One day we were walking through our favorite pet store, Two Bostons when we heard a lady talking about these less destructible stuffed toys. The trick is that the toy is filled with layers of a tough mesh material rather than being stuffed with the cotton like stuffing pictured above. The makers of the toy went one step further and attached each of the body parts separately. Which means, once part of the toy is gone, there's still some more to play with.

The toy was $22 but we love our pup and feel bad that she can't enjoy toys like other dogs, so we forked over the cash and brought the new toy home. Once we walked into the house with the blue Two Bostons Bag Minne came running in waiting to see what was inside. (Over the past 3 years she has learned that different colored bags mean different things. Grocery bags mean nothing. Vet bags usually mean medicine. But the blue bags mean toys and treats from Two Bostons.) After tearing the bag apart and finding what a stuffed raccoon that we had named Rowdy she seamed pretty pleased.

She walked around the house all day with Rowdie, chewing and biting the beady little eyes and all the limbs. We woke up the next morning and Rowdie was still fully in tact. In was astonishing the thing made it a few minutes yet along 15+ hours. The next few days Minne brought Rowdie everywhere. He slept in our bed with us. (my husband has what he thinks is an amazing photo of this..I'm still waiting for him to send it)

Rowdie even got to join Minne in her favorite ritual. After we take the laundry out of the dryer, Minne leaps into the pile and lays there until the pile is warm (we don't allow this ritual on whites, she knows it too). So for the next 2 weeks Rowdie would also lay on warm laundry piles with Minne. At this point you can see Rowdie's face has about had it.

At the start of 3 weeks, Minne had completely torn the face off and dragged around Rowdies body. It was only a few days later till only the limbs remained. I recieved this very pathetic looking photo while I was on my work trip to Atlanta.

Minne Turns 3

Today one of my pride and joys turns 3 (or what we would like to say is 21 in Doggie years). I haven’t had the chance to introduce you yet to my 17 lbs Boston Terrier so I thought today would be a prime opportunity.

I believe this was taken during our drive from Minneapolis to Indianapolis for the NFL opener in Indy a few years back.

I went my whole life wanting a dog, but I knew with my families fast paced life style and small home, having a dog didn’t seem to fit in. While being in college I started doing research on breeds and every dog who walked by I would have to introduce myself too. I did some nannying along with some dog sitting and overtime knew I wanted a dog. Especially a French Bulldog or a Boston Terrier. After college, I moved up to the twin city areas with my ex boyfriend and soon moved in with a few girls in a cute townhome style apartment in Minneapolis (don’t worry he's only my ex boyfriend because he's my husband).

While in Minneapolis I was browsing the local paper puppy for sale ads and guess what I found? A brand new litter of Boston Terriers that would be available in a few weeks. After getting roommate approval and talking to the ex boyfriend, I decided I would go look at the dog, but I promised I wouldn’t bring one home...I lied. Well not really. At the time, my intention really was just to see the puppy.

I thought I took this photo from the Indy Star years ago, but I could be wrong, if I am please let me know.

After playing with the litter for a few hours, we ended up driving home with an 8 week old female Boston Terrier. While thinking of the names, Minneapolis seamed perfect, yet a little long. Minneapolis was the place where I took my first job out of college and it was the place where my little girl is from. After a few days, we decided to call her Minne short for Minneapolis.

Minne's First Snow at about 10 weeks old, about 4.5 lbs

Since that day she has brought nothing but happiness to our hearts. Don’t get me wrong, the dog training was a pain in the but and there are times she still acts out but for the most part she is a great dog who gives us nothing but love. So for her Birthday last year we wanted to do something really special for her, so we threw her a doggy party.

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All her local friends came to sing to her! It was such a fun Party!



We wanted to do the same thing this year, but we downsized our apartment this past year and our apartment doesn’t allow “visiting” pets so a dog party is out. We opted for the next best thing, we made a visit to our favorite local pet store, Two Bostons and let Minne pick out some goodies for her big day. I think she'll be getting her Birthday donut tonight.



We will also be doing a trip to Elwood this weekend so Minne will spend her Birthday weekend with her new cousin Buddy (a 4+month old French Bulldog Boston Terrier mix). We are sure there will be plenty of new videos and photos to share soon.