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Introducing the Extraordinary E Litter
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| Taya and her Extraordinary E’s make their debut |
On behalf of Canine Companions for Independence and Eukanuba we are completely jazzed to introduce you to Taya and her Extraordinary E’s.
Eight little yellow cottonballs, five girls and three boys. All ridiculously precious little packages in downy puppy fur.
Mom and pups are healthy and doing well.
Starting today September 15 this new family will be livestreamed on the Eukanuba Puppy Channel. Click for link or enter http://livestre.am/45S9Q into your browser.
So grab your favorite beverage and get comfy. It’s a wonderful time to sit back and watch the awesomeness of new life.
Watch live 7 days a week during these hours 8am – 9pm PST, 9am – 10pm MDT, 10am-11pm CDT and 11am-12am EST
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How many buns in the oven?
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| Photo courtesy Canine Companions for Independence and Eukanuba |
Puppies, they are a’cookin. Taya shows us her upcoming E litter for Canine Companions for Independence. How many do you see in there?
However many, each of these tiny images will be born in the world with the destiny of being someone’s miracle. Assistance dogs in the making, rather literally.
Does anyone else think this is completely and totally awesome?
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Why does Twitter Noob sound naughty when you say it out loud?
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| Vote for your favorite puppy name |
I have to admit, I tell my Favorite Kid. I hate feeling like such a noob. I’m just not getting this Twitter thing.
It’s where you type in status updates that can only be 140 characters . . ., he begins to explain.
Yeah, I guess I know that. But I don’t get why. I mean, what do people talk about with such urgent need? Honestly, what could I be doing that needs to be announced like, right now? My imagination is cranking as I think about something clever that would net me some followers, though.
Well, there’s those thoughtful quotes that I could borrow from another puppy raiser’s Facebook statuses (thanks D.N.!), like . . .
Every time I read ROFL, I hear Scooby Doo trying to say waffle.
or maybe
I just watched my dog chase his tail for ten minutes and thought “Wow, dogs are easily entertained.” Then I realized I just watched my dog chase his tail for ten minutes.
Well, you could do that, says the kid. Or you might tweet when you’ve updated the dog blog and add a link to the site. Post some cute photos of the dogs doing something funny. Stuff like that. Sometimes, Ma, it’s fun just to follow others to see what they’re doing.
Why does that sound like stalking? I wonder. Oh, because it kinda is.
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| Follow @PuppySword |
I created my PuppySword Twitter account earlier in the year, but just could not get myself inspired to use it much. While I’m trying to build up some street cred, I’ve started following some folk who share such profundities as to make it all worth my while. Celebs like Jim Gaffigan (“so suddenly wearing a sombrero while I jog makes me a wierdo?”) and Simon Pegg (“Minnie won’t sit still. Think it’s because she had her bum shaved today. She usual experiences a little discomfort post groom. I know I do”) are great for making me snort when I laugh. Extra special when I imagine the words in their voices.
And the other dog bloggers out there keep me motivated. PupFan and Pamela at S_Wagging are always a good source of dog-related info and Elizabeth at the Chronicles of Cardigan is just a genius writer. (When I grow up, I want to be like them. And have long legs. I want that too.) I’ve added NPR and CNN updates because I wanna be all smart that way. My Twitter newsfeed is on a constant roll providing all the trivia an information voyeur like me wants to see in 140 characters or less.
Ah, but just this past week I’m starting to see why instant news at your fingertips can be useful to the information hungry masses.
E litter puppy name voting closes on Sept 14.
With the upcoming CCI E litter showing up so soon, there’s some rather important stuff that’s gotta get out there all timely like. Taya’s E litter is due this week, possibly on September 15. There’s the important task of voting for the name of the first born pup. Whether the first pup will be a girl or boy is a secret that Taya’s keeping for now. So we get to vote on two names.
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| CCI’s Y litter (Yaxley in green collar). Photo courtesy S. Nash |
Hey, choose whatever name is meaningful to you, of course. But I have to just get out there that I don’t think there are nearly enough assistance dogs named Elvis. We need at least one more.
And I voted for Emma for a little girly girl pup that is destined to grow up to be a miracle for someone.
Click on the caption under the CCI photo on top or click here to vote for your favorite puppy name.
Live stream of the puppies coming up
And once the fun buns are out of the oven, Eukanuba has arranged for a live stream of their fuzzy goodness. Teeth-gritting meetings at work? No problem, hook your laptop into the feed and feel the stress melt away as you watch the live action. Slipping out of your chair during another boring presentation? No matter, you know where to turn now, don’t you?
Over the next eight weeks, never will you lament there’s nothing good to watch on cable. Instead, you’ll just wave your hand dismissively at the TV and crank up the laptop to watch bouncy retriever pups at play.
When the pups are named, you can pick your favorite cotton ball or two to follow. After eight weeks, the pups will go out to their puppy raisers. And many of these folk will be online in the various social media forums to share their pup’s derring-do over the next sixteen months.
Sounds like you just yourself got a full calendar of puppy goodness.
Try to keep up now
Ok, so here’s where to get the latest scoop on this Eukanuba sponsored CCI E litter.
CCI on Twitter and CCI on Facebook.
Eukanuba on Twitter and Eukanuba on Facebook
Donna, the future puppy raiser of an E puppy (woot woot!) on Twitter: Follow @PuppySword
Oh, and of course right here on the dog blog. I’ll give you a heads up now to add memory to your laptops. I’m gonna be sharing puppy photos soon. Lots and lots of ’em. !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);
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GIMME AN E! Please?
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| Gimme an E! |
Sharing space with two cats in our modest ranch-style starter home had its challenges, the most impactful being the olfactory offense. The cat boxes reeked. All the time. Even though we were generous to give the cats an ersatz bathroom of their very own, the mixed aroma of perfumed cat litter and fresh litter snickers wafted throughout the house like a vengeful ghost.
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| Hey, my food . . .HEY LADY! My food bowl is empty! Charlie Cat requesting more, please. |
Just the cost of doing business with cats, I thought, as I would scoop the boxes with head tipped away to avoid a direct nasal hit. Then one rainy day, I’m impressively multi-tasking by relaxing with a magazine while actively avoiding heavy housework. Was it (ironically) Good Housekeeping? No, actually I don’t recall the fateful periodical, but I do remember one particular full page ad. It was a collection of colored pencil drawings showing a healthy cat, a litter box and . . .whats this? Holy Cow, could it be true? An ad for Iams Cat Food claiming smaller and less smelly stool! With high quality ingredients that metabolize more efficiently . . . what does that even mean? But I don’t care. I’m headin’ for the feed store to get me some of this amazing stuff.
So that was the day I stopped feeding the colorful kibbles that I always had a coupon for and instead paid the extra buck for the plain brown niblets in the bright orange bag. In a short time, the cats looked healthier, smelled better and stopped vomiting hairballs that stained the carpet in fruit loopy colors. And yes, as advertised, their poop was indeed presented in tidy little brown packages nestled atop the sand.
Dang, y’all. Truth in advertising, go fig.
Impressed with this discovery, I look over at Jack the Wonder Dog and we share a hmmm moment. Our huge Labrador-based mutt had the cats trumped in the poop department. The only saving grace was that his recycled dog food was deposited in the fresh suburban air of the backyard. Right, most of the time. This is the same sweet dog that we were told to just take him home and enjoy him by an obedience school. Ok, maybe two obedience schools. His brain got full, bless his little golden heart.
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| Jack the Wonder Dog. Not a CCI dog. Picture a thought balloon over his head with a question mark in it. And yep, that’s him all over. |
But switching the big guy over to that green bag of Iams Chunks made such a remarkable difference in the quality of his coat. And his poo? Indeed smaller and firmer. If ya gotta scoop up the stuff, this is the best you could hope for, I think.
And so began my love affair with The Iams Company, a family owned local business in 1993 when I applied for a job in the plant office. But tragically, I was rejected. The interview feedback was something about thinking I might be too “thin-skinned” (and just what did they mean by THAT!?!) for this rough and tumble plant manager. But no matter, my resume was forwarded to another manager in the R&D facility. And I found my home there.
And here we are, nearly twenty years later. I’m still in love with my job and absolutely passionate about the products we make. I don’t want to get all commercial-like on you, but I feed my beloved furry friends Eukanuba. I’d rather fight than switch, as they say.
Is is possible to be passionate about dog food? I say yes. Yes, it is. Does it make me a great conversationalist? So, how ’bout them nice brown kibbles? Liking that poop? Ok, maybe not so much.
So anyway, P&G Pet Care and the Eukanuba brand have been very supportive of Canine Companions for Independence over these past few years. And I’m so proud to have a connection as well. So I’m particularly jazzed about this deal with Eukanuba sponsoring a CCI puppy litter. The upcoming soon-to-be-famous E litter.
I’m especially giddy excited to be chosen to raise one of these little furry canine masterpieces. The gorgeous Taya will be introducing the E litter to the world on September 15. Well, on or around that date. You know how these things go. But in the meantime, there’s work to be done y’all.
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| Taya enjoys a special kinda tummy rub during her ultrasound. |
From the Eukanuba Facebook page . . .
The Journey to Extraordinary Starts – Meet Taya! A Canine Companions for Independence Breeder Dog pregnant and due approximately September 15th – Taya will have the “E” Litter and Eukanuba is sponsoring this litter hoping to donate $100,000 to CCI to help provide assistance dogs to those in need of one. You can help us donate by clicking daily on this tab: http://on.fb.me/EukanubaCCI
Oh sure, that’s the easy part, clicking a button to assist Eukanuba’s donation to CCI. Please do that. But there’s some really serious business, too. Submitting a name suggestion for the pups presents a whole nuther challenge.
Ok, think of a name that starts with the letter E. Now say it out loud a couple of times. Sound ok? Right, now go to your back door and shout it real loud. No, loud. So the neighbors can hear you. Feeling pretty good about it? Is this still a name that a puppy raiser wouldn’t curse you for? Keep in mind we’ll be saying the pup’s name about a gadzillion times over sixteen months. No pressure though.
I would suggest two or three syllable names are lovely. Four syllables are to be avoided. A dirty deed is done before you can finish saying Enceladus.
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| Smart, beautiful and doesn’t even look pregnant. If she were a person, this would irritate me terribly. |
Instructions, including suggestions from CCI, are on Euk’s Facebook. Check ‘er out. And on behalf of fellow puppy raisers, please be kind with the suggestions, of course. You may want to hold back on Eurythmic and Estheticia and such. It’s not becoming to spit when we call the pups.
Go. Do. Be Dog. 