I must have lost my mind.  Princess Penny here.  I almost blew it with my new parents.  They give me everything and I know they love me, but I decided I wanted to go for a walk - only I was not on a leash and they were on their way out.

I slipped past my dad - mom was ready to get into the car only she tried to come and get me.  Now you see I know she can't walk that fast and I don't know what I was thinking I just kept walking.  Smelling this and Smelling that.  Dodging just the right way so that she could not grab me and take me back to the house. 

Roger got into the car and tried to lure me into the car, but I'm to smart for that - I made them think I was going to get in, and darted in the opposite direction.  Dad then got out and he started to follow me, (What made him think I was going to walk any different for him than I did her).  I did not want to go home. 

Well Teresa gets in the car and she thinks she is going to head me off only there was a group of people ahead, and she knows I am a sucker for rubs, particularly on my belly, so she asks the people to grab me if I get close. Well before I can get to them there was this really great bush, and it smelled so good I got lost in it and Roger was able to grab me and put my leash on.  Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

In the meantime, Teresa told Roger that the next time I take off like that to let me and either follow me in the car to find out where I want to walk to or let me go if that is what I want.  If she does not want to stay we should not let her feel like she has to stay in a house where she is free from the elements, gets great food and treats, gets lots of love and belly rubs, lets her do what she wants pretty much and is even getting along with the birdies, but if she want to go let her.

She then lists all the reasons why its ok to let me go, like the birdies won't have to be on the look out for me, there won't be anymore hair everywhere, won't have to worry about coming home on time, etc. etc.  Now you have to understand she is saying all this and acting like I'm not sitting right there hearing all this - Do you think this was what humans call 'reverse psychology'.  hmmmmmmmmmm.

Well I guess I will be greatful for what I have, at least until the next time I want to go for a walk, but maybe I will walk real slow so they can catch me a lot sooner.  What do you think?

Hi Penny here.  Can't stay long because I have to make plans so I can have time with dad even if he is playing with the birds.

When dad has Sushi with him she sits on his shoulder all day if he would let her, otherwise she hollers and hollers in her house.  If I try to stand on dad leg, she comes down to bite my nose.  That is just not nice.  It's also not fair.  I can't help it if I'm to big to sit in his lap.  I'd really like that while we are upstairs like he lets me lay beside him on the couch.  But it is not happening. 

Who's the Princess around here!!!  She things she's the princess cause dad calls her his special baby.  Special baby. Nahhhhhha.  Mom said she thinks I could be one of those dogs they use as therapy - that's it a Therapy Dog.  Now that's special.  Let's see if you can do that you noisy bird.

Next time I'll tell you a story about Robin the Conure.  Boy there was some feathers flying and mom.... oh you just have to wait.

Don't forget I still writing that book for your guys on What a Dog Needs-What a Dog Wants.

Hi Princess Penny here.  This is a blog post that I did yesterday at another spot and it was really good that I decided to post it here for everyone else to enjoy.  Not sure if this is the place for something like this, but we figured that even marketers have pets. ruf ruf!

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself - my name is Penny a.k.a. Princess Penny, but don't let the title fool ya - I'm just a regular girl. I'm pretty rich to - I own two human parents, 2 adoptive human people, and I will introduce you to the new brothers and sisters I have later. They have feathers...hehe... and I'm.....you know.... a bird dog... I'm So In HEAVEN!

I was found wandering around lost, lonely and by all accounts stinkin, by these really nice human people (my now adoptive human parents), Pappa Howard and Momma Cass. (She is not the singin one) They tried really hard to find the humans I skipped out on, but couldnt. They really wanted to keep me, but they have these 3 huge cats, Mama Cat and her two boys. 40lbs each, I swear. HUGE and mean. They would corner me and knock me down. I'm not use to being treated that way.

Anyway, Pappa Howard was talking to his friend Roger who really took a shine to me, but could not figure out how he was going to tell Teresa that he wanted to take care of me. You see at the time that I was sucking up and batting my eyes to him for that week, Teresa was in the hospital. She had told Roger that 5 parrots were enough animals, and that after her dog crossed over a couple years back, NO MORE DOGS. Yeah, right!

Well Roger, I call him dad now, brought Teresa over to meet me. She was not moved by my tail - opps - tale and wanted no part of me. They explained that Pappa Howard could not keep me because of his cats and that I would have to go to a shelter. I could see that struck a nerve and played up the eyes. You know us Beagles have the most beautiful sad eyes they could melt an iceburg. Well, she told Dad that I would be his dog and that he would have to clean up after me, walk me, give me baths, and that both of us were out in the yard if I got to friendly with the birds.

Well it's almost a year and I'm still here. Mom has softened some. Dad still is the one who walks me and cleans up after me (boy when she sticks to her guns you can't move her). But she does feed me most times. Dad's not the greatest when it comes to feeding me or my 5 brothers and sisters. He's got boring taste and the amounts are not that filling.

I'm Princess Penny to Dad and I can't do no wrong. (Boy does he have a lot to still learn). I still see Pappa Howard and Momma Cass. They really come over to play with me , but they will talk to my human parents so as not to appear rude.

Well my secretary Teresa's fingers are getting tired so I have to stop for now, but I'll be back and introduce you to my brothers and sisters.

Come back soon
Princess Penny

P.S. I'm writing a book about what human parents should know about what dogs want and what dogs need.

P.P.S. Once my secretary figures out how to put MY picture up you will see how cute Beagles can be too!

This is a bit off track, but sadness has hit home.  We run a small rescue of parrots.  Our very first purchase was a blue headed Pionus, who after 6 years have only recently learned that we have a female.  Anyway, Diego (Diega) has gotten a bug of some sort.  And this is affecting my husband Roger so very much.  You see I wanted her and after bringing her home there was never any doubt that she wanted roger as her favorite human companion.  Funny thing is though she was Roger's #1 bird, she would only talk with me.  She would say hi to roger, but would speak with me.  This use to frustrate him so.

But now she is ill and we are not sure if she is going to make it.  Roger called our vet and he was not going to be in but his staff recommended another doctor to take her to.  They did her blook work and took xray, but you know - if you have a doctor that you are familiar with and trust - it is hard and pretty expensive going to a different vet.  In our case we had no choice.

This is so hard for Roger.  You see, he was never a bird person until he met me, I should say till he met Diego.  The two of them would be in his office to the small hours of the night.  Diego would sit on his shoulder and just watch him.  They are pretty cute to watch.

To hear the distress cries - just eats at Roger.  I keep telling him that just like he can feel Diego's not feeling well - Diego can feel his distress too.   It just about broke my heart to hear Roger say that the new sentence Diego was saying to him "Love You" was really him crying that she was not feeling good.  I tried, but not too successfully I might add, that the bird was saying love you, because he does.

Just watching him makes me sad because there is nothing I can do to relieve him or Diego except be there for each of them.

"love you" Roger from Diego and all your other feathered children.

It seems like forever since I have posted, but I hope that it will not happen again.  Many changes, some good, some not so good have been rolling though this household that made me not so concerned about this blog.

I looked over some of my past blogs and found that I fall under all the procrastinators out there.  Not having the motivation, even though I wrote about just that thing.  I would have to say that I am one of those who has been a perpetual student.  Reading this, not understanding that, and not really having anyone to talk to about getting my foot wet.

I guess that is the point – getting your feet wet.  Whether you are a success or not will never be seen – if you don’t at least try to get your feet wet – hell – get the whole body wet for that matter.  Just jump the hell in and maybe you  - ME – will sink or swim.

I want to swim – but I have to admit that I am a visual person – I learn best if someone talks me though something, so much better than just reading about stuff.

Like I have all these applications for blogging, article marketing, some really good software, BUT I still have no clue how to work any of it.  And as much as I hate to admit it, I have been on the net for over a year – hell lets be honest, its more like 2 years and still have nothing to show for all the reading and buying this or that.  I have been paying for the last 3 years for 3 or 4 domains and nothing on them.  I did have one that I was working on – looked pretty good, but still nothing.

Here’s two questions:  Do you need to have a website or can you just have a blog for everything?  I have yet to get anyone to answer that one.   And second I have my domain host, but have not been able to figure out how to get my domains to work independently of each other.  I.e.  newbies2pro.net – I tried to start another domain: beaksbarksmeow.com, but found that it got listed under newbies2pro, what gives with that?

Well this one is going to be short, but I will look in on this to see if anyone has an answer for the above question or maybe even a suggestion on how to really get started.