Thursday, March 18, 2010

Thoughtful Thursday - Missing Josh, one year later

It was one year ago today that Momma got the awful phone call that her nephew Josh had died. It has been a very difficult year for everyone. You can read more about Josh on his Mom's blog here. Josh's mom and his sister are running a half-marathon and full marathon, respectively, in Washington DC on Saturday. They are running in Josh's memory and also raising money for his memorial fund, which will be used for education and prevention of teen suicide. If you are there, give them a shout out. They or their supporters will be wearing shirts with "33" on them. Tell them Biggie's Momma sent you.

Hug your teens and tell them you love them. No problem they face is so insurmountable that they should feel so alone and lost.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Yes, my momma is still alive and well...

Hi all Dog Pile contestants and spectators. What can I say? My Momma has all this work piled on her before and after her sickies and she is also realizing she's a little more HTML-challenged than she thought. Also she almost didn't make it home because she ABANDONED me to go to a conference somewhere and then she said it snowed so much here in NYC that she couldn't get back. Excuses, excuses. I had no problem at all walking and rolling in the snow, so I don't know why an airplane would have all that trouble.
Pardon the grainy discolored image. P-Daddy took it with his cell phone at midnight when he took me out. This is what happens when the Mommies leave - the boyz have no routine and we eat food from a box and I get my picture taken in an empty bus lot at midnight. As you can see, snow not even up to my belly. I don't see what the big deal is.

Anyway, don't worry, she is fine. She is just being LAZY. And she will finish the Dog Pile postings soon.

Friday, February 12, 2010

MangoMinster (tm) Dog Pile: "Not as Big as Biggie" Group"

FIRST OF ALL: A BIGGIE GIGANTIC THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE COMPETITORS AND THANK YOU TO MANGO FOR HOSTING MANGO MINSTER! As you can see, this was a very tough competition.

I will do the judging and good stuff in a later post after I get the Big Dogs posted. In the meantime, enjoy! Momma worked a little on her bloggy skills, so click on names to find their bloggies and click on pictures to Biggie-fy. Excuse me while I find some fresh snow to FacePlow... brb...

TEN items!! stuffed dog, big bird (balanced on my neck), purple bird, 2 bones (orange and white), snuffaluffagus, demon deacon (mommy's college mascot), bear, stuffed girl animal, ostrich (covering up my girly parts)


SEVEN: 1. A rope toy 2. A knot bone 3. A green hippo stuffie (My Favorite) 4. A fat head Rhinocerous stuffie 5. A blue Care Bear Stuffie 6. A fat head beagle stuffie 7. Another Rope toy (We're not sure this one counts since it is partially touching the bed on the end.) (Ok, we'll count it.)


EIGHT: marker, a red pen, pad, nylabone, mirror, key, bone and squirrley =8


SIX: 2 yellow keys, a square puzzle, a ball, squirrley and a key = 6. My body couldn't hold anything else. My square toy has 3 balls in it, but I know that would be cheatin.


THIRTEEN: 1. 2, 3, 4 - beany bones, 5, 6, 7,8, - dog pull toys,9, 10. 11, 12, 13 plastic chewy toys, i.e. the peppermint, the baba, the pink bone, and the blue hollow toy.


FORTY: 4 pibull figurines; 3 stuffies; 3 chocolate mint candies; 30 smartie candies


THREE: 1 brown hound, 1 pink puppy, and 1 big white bunny (the other stuffies are for effect, since you can't get a lot of stuff on a little spazzy dog)


SEVENTEEN: 1. Brown pilgrim dog with hat 2. White bear with broken arm 3. White dog with black eye spot 4. Black lab 5.Basset hound 6. Pooh Bear 7. Black cat 8. brown boxer dog 9.Squirrel 10. Rattie 11. Grey Cat 12. Pink Mouse 13. Orange Bug 14. Lammie Pie 15. Brown sttuffed rat 16. Chiwawa with pink foof on collar 17. small stuffed giraffe




TWELVE: deer antler unstuffable (from Dexter) Froggie(for Norwood) stuffed camo bone (from Twix) squeakie fish squeakie rabbit purple nylon paw toy mink (fake) stuffed squeakie four (4) pull ropes


SIXTEEN: 1. I have a blue & pink fabric toy on me (looks like a squid) 2. Reindeer 3. Star 4. Moon 5. Sun 6. Gator 7. Rope Toy 8. Santa (red looks like blanket) tug toy with 16 squeakers living in him (you can see his leg) 9. Lobster 10. Starbarks Coffee (white toy) 11. Saxaphone (cat toy) 12. Blue Bone 13. Blue Mouse (cat toy on my neck) 14. Gray Mouse (cat toy on my neck) 15. Skunk toy 16. Santa Mouse Toy


FIVE items: (front to back)
1. Toughie tugger; 2. Toughie tugger rope; 3. Toughie tugger tennis ball; 4. Green half-moon stuffie; 5. White face stuffie


FOURTEEN things, not including the duck and the jack toy, they is kinda on my back legs but have fallen off a bit, so dunno if they count. ok, I got a puzzle toy on my head, a blue scarf, a felt ball (pink thing) a tiny teddy toy, a blue toy, a pen (the pink and white bit just behind the tiny teddy), A santa toy, a catnip toy, a tug rope, a watch, 3 balls and a pink bone toy.



EIGHT items: They are a CD, a bone, a medicine bottle, antibiotic ointment, nail clippers, a pen, a cell phone and a peppermint.


That's me sporting the 11 ribbons that I won in agility that weekend. Well, I actually won 12, but they ran out of the green "qualifying" ribbons, so we didn't have that one for the picture (come to think of it, they still owe us that one...). Because of the flash it's kinda hard to count, and one is overlapped almost completely. So call it 10 if you need to.


NINETEEN items (that can be seen from lower right to lower left): Orange key, green bottle toy, yellow-green duck, AKC squirrel, PetSmart red stuffed bone, blue crinkle rabbit, blue Nylabone, pheasant, blue star, blackdog w/red nose, AKC skunk, camo deer, brownish-orange ASPCA lamb, fuzzy AKC mouse, blue denim ball, 2 Merrick dog bones, AKC Malard duck, yellow loofa head.


From top to bottom:
SEVENTEEN: 1.baseball mitt 2.rawhide bone 3.match box car 4.beige stuffy 5.candy cane 6.banana 7.brush 8.yellow/black stuffy 9.pink headband 10.yellow comb (under brush) 11.white hangar 12.book under hangar 13.white diaper 14.crayons 15.blue popsicle holder 16.snowman
17.red/white dishcloth (it is draped across her back and hangs over the side)


FOURTEEN items (loosely as seen from lower right to lower left): blackdog w/red nose, PetSmart red stuffed bone, fuzzy AKC mouse, blue denim ball, pheasant, brownish-orange ASPCA lamb, blue crinkle rabbit, camo deer, Dog Whisperer squirrel, AKC skunk, AKC squirrel, 3 Merrick dog bones

EIGHTEEN: 1. teapot lid (head) - 2. compass - 3. pool cue chalk - 4. horse drawn carriage - 5. watch - 6, 7: cups - 8, 9: cup plates - 10: coffee pot - 11: water jug - 12. emery nail stick - 13: lock - 14. floss - 15. thimble - 16. oops floss under water jug - 17, 18: skateboards



FIFTEEN toys (pink bear,horse,bug rattle,striped squid,Red dog,chicken Christmas tree,yellow dog,grey octopus,lion,yellow dog,tiger rattle,Bumblebee,clown,tiger,cow)


"I got TWENTY SEVEN items, but the shoe slid off and was leaning against the couch so it doesn't count. The other items, going left to right, are a glove, lotion, measuring tape, eyedrops, a pen, a cell phone, a paper flower, scissors, a sock, a clip, a candle (shaped like a pink flower), a bone, another clip, a medicine bottle, a glass dog, a peppermint, another cell phone, a clicker, a Tide pen, another regular pen (next to the Tide pen almost hidden), a lighter, a light bulb, a CD, stamps and two pennies (on my leg)"


LOTS of stuffies!!



ONE: a honey bee hive? or is that a strange yellow turban with holes?


SIX stuffie friends: Red, Horse, Green, Doggy 1, Doggy 2, and Cow (From bottom to top)



NINE items in the pile: Knife, Fork, Spoon, Book, toy, pencil, cotton reel, remote control, Sellotape crown

Sunday, February 7, 2010

MangoMinster (tm) Dog PIle: Progress Report


I finally got Momma to get her rear in gear and I am happy to say that she's uploaded all the pictures in the "small" dog category. Next up, the big dogs and then she has to make links to all your bloggies and THEN the hard part begins ... the judging. I showed P-Daddy a preview of the "small" dog pictures and first he said,

"That's not a small dog!"

and then he said,

"I like THAT picture!"

and then he said,

"No wait, THAT one is really good!"

and then he looked at another one and said,

"Where's the dog in that one?"

and another one he BOL'd.

I can see that P-Daddy is no help at all.

By the way, the picture at the top of this post is of me and Auntie Pita when she came to visit in November. I am doing my best snuggly suck-up dog, because she gives the best ear scratches. Just a random picture that bears no relation at all to anything in this post.

MangoMinster (tm) Dog PIle Contestants: "Almost as Big as Biggie (plus a whole bunch of Great Danes) Group"

Momma is really good at human pile. Unfortunately she isn't so good at techie bloggy stuff since she's out of practice! Here is the almost as big as me contestant list. If you don't see your name on EITHER list please pee-mail me ASAP at Biggie.The.Kuvasz@gmail.com because that means Momma is being a ditz and she has to find your entry. (Yes, I finally have my own pee-mail address).

By the way... I almost didn't really need 2 dogergories of contestants because you all were very creative with your dog-piling, which made this event VERY hard to judge! Also, I know the sizing was somewhat arbitrary, but really, there are so many of you in the 45-70 pound weight class and I know that most people think of you all as "big" dogs but from the Great Dane/Kuvasz/Mastiff perspective, well, sorry. But remember, especially if you are a boy dog. SIZE. DOESN'T. MATTER.

(Momma's note: I'm just the secretary; all the commentary is Biggie's)

"Almost as Big and Great Danes" Contestants

Name: Hero
Humans name(s): Alex
Bloggy Address: hopeandgreyz.blogspot.com
Breed(s): greyhound

Name: Maggie
Human name(s):
Bloggy Address: northfordmaggie.blogspot.com
Breed(s): Airedale

Name: Randi the Lab/Newf
Human name(s): Angela
Bloggy Address: randithelabnewf.blogspot.com
Breed(s): Lab/Newf (duh!)

Name: Honey
Human name(s):
Bloggy Address: www.bighoneydog.com/honeys-blog
Breed(s): Great Dane - hubba hubba!

Name: Byron
Human name(s):
Bloggy Address: doggoneit-byronsblog.blogspot.com
Breed(s): St. Bernard mix - same size as me!

Name: Moose
Human name(s): Momma Dana
Bloggy Address: dewdana.blogspot.com
Breed(s): Labrador(k)

Name: Miss M and Mr. B
Human name(s):
Bloggy Address: pittiesinthecity.blogspot.com
Breed(s): pitties

Name: Zack
Human name(s): Ms. K
Bloggy Address: kit-dogdaze.blogspot.com
Breed(s): Blond lab (my favorite kind of lab!)

Name: El'bow
Human name(s): Sanne
Bloggy Address: elbouwii.blogspot.com
Breed(s): English Mastiff

Name: Samantha
Human name(s): Miche
Bloggy Address: sammiegolden.blogspot.com
Breed(s): golden girl (more hubba hubba)

Name: Halle
Human name(s): Ina
Bloggy Address: ina-offret.blogspot.com
Breed(s): standard poodle

Name: Kasha
Human name(s): Denise
Bloggy Address: kashathedaintydane.wordpress.com
Breed(s): Harlequin Great Dane (hubba hubba)

Name: Toby
Human name(s): Allie
Bloggy Address: guidedogawareness.blogspot.com
Breed(s): yellow lab

Name: Darwin
Human name(s): Brooke
Bloggy Address: evolutionofdarwin.blogspot.com
Breed(s): Great Dane (Sorry for the gender confusion, if Momma would let me smell you we wouldn't have this misunderstanding. Will you be my Valentine?)

Name: Lexi
Human name(s): Laura
Bloggy Address: doggyadventures.wordpress.com
Breed(s): Great Dane girl (7 months) I am already in love with you since my #1 grrrrlfriend is also named Lexi. xoxo

Name: Master Teal'c
Human name(s):
Bloggy Address: dogslifedownunder.com
Breed(s): Staffy (but with a name like MASTER Teal'c, I put him with the big dogz)

Name: Duke
Human name(s): Anita
Bloggy Address: pawsandpastries.blogspot.com
Breed(s): Great Dane and other stuff

Name: Tucker
Human name(s): Tucker's Momma (wow, what a coincidence her name is Tucker's Momma!)
Bloggy Address: greatdanetucker.blogspot.com
Breed(s): Great Dane teenager (Ok, Tucker, I'm guessing YOU are a boy. I would know for sure if Momma would let me sniff your butt. Don't you go sniffing around my Great Dane grrlz, ok?)

Name: Molly aka Monga the Monster
Human Names(s): Tim and Elfi
Bloggy Address: InkyandMolly.blogspot.com
Breed(s): Airedale/Monster

Name: Mango!!
Human name(s): Mango Momma and Master
Bloggy Address: mangosgreatadventures.blogspot.com
Breed: Relentlessly Huge Mastiff

MangoMinster (tm) Dog PIle Contestants: "Not as Big as Biggie Group"

Sorry, Momma was in a human pile competition by piling work and sickies on top of herself, but I finally got her to stop moaning and groaning and get to work on my contest. There ended up being so many contestants that I had to make 2 categories. They are, arbitrarily, "not as big as me" and "almost as big as me through bigger than me" groups. Since this will take a bit of time and I know you are all waiting for results, so check back here for the judging and updating. When you get into the lab/pittie sizes I just had to make a judgment call on big or small - Mango and I call Dexter "Pee Wee" but to most dogs he is pretty big. So there you go.

Edited to add the ORIGINAL Pee-Wee and Mrs. Magoo. I'm so embarrassed.


Contestants (in no sensible order whatsoever):
name: Gracie
human's name: Amy
breed: Yorkie

name: Prince (May be moved to "almost as Big as Biggie")
human's name: Mike & Jennifer
breed: labbie/pit bull mix

name: Benny
human's name: Benny & Lily's humans
breed: French bulldogs

name: Lily
human's name: Benny & Lily's humans
breed: French bulldogs

name: Sally Ann
human's name:
breed: Welsh Terrier

name: BRINKS
breed: pitbull

name: Cookie Monster is One Tough Cookie (aka Cookie)
Human name: Channy
breed or predominant breedS: Multipoo (Miniature Poodle, Lhasa Apso, and something else, possibly sheep)

your name: Daisy aka Daisy dog, Pink daisy Dog, Pink Daisy
your human's name: Annie
your bloggy address:
Daisydog.wordpress.com
your breed or predominant: Pretty Pink Pit Bull

Name: Frankie Furter
Breed: Dachshund... Long haired

-My name is benjamin barker!
-my mom is lisa.
-my blog address is http://TheWorldofHansel.blogspot.com
-I am a pure bred Miniature Schnauzer

- Name: Alex P. Kitten
- Human's name: Mom & Dad
- Breed: Purebred silver Maine CoonDogCat

-your name: Penny
-your human's name if they want: Dee
-your bloggy address: www.ludwigvanpup.blogspot.com
-your breed or predominant breedS (like the rest of Mango Minster, mixed up confused breeds is ok): cross breed, springy spaniel

Name: Jackal
Human: Achieve1dream
Bloggy Address: jackaltraining.blogspot.com
Breed(s): Beagle/Mountain Cur

Name: Brutus (the Frenchie)
Human's name: Michelle
Bloggy address:
www.brutusthefrenchie.blogspot.com
Breed: French Bulldog

- your name: Baby Rocket Dog
-your human's name: Cassie & Patrick
-your bloggy address: "Baby Rocket Dog and Hootie" www.hootieandbabyrocketdog.blogspot.com
-your breed: Airedale Terrier

My name is Jazzi
my Mom is Diana
I am a little scottie and from neck to tail about 20 inches and weight ?? a girl never gives out her weight LOL

Name: Twinkie

Blog address: twinkietinydog

Breed: definitely confused Chi byproduct


Name: Hootie (aka Hairy Houdini)

Human: Cassie

Bloggy: Baby Rocket Dog and Hootie" www.hootieandbabyrocketdog.blogspot.com

Breed: Welsh Terrier


Name: Pepsi

Bloggy Address: http://hopeandgreyz.blogspot.com

Breed: Jack Russell/Beagle Mix


Name: Storm

Human: Achieve1dream

Bloggy address: stormglory.blogspot.com

Breed: Siberian husky


Name: Miss Kylie

Humans: Ali and Matt

Bloggy address: misskyliem.wordpress.com

Breed(s): Border Collie/Flat Coat Retriever


Name: Dexter, aka Pee-Wee

Humans: Master and Dexter Momma

bloggy address: mangosgreatadventures.blogspot.com

Breed: cracker dog labradork!


Name: Cinnamon

Human's Name: Momo

Bloggy Address: beaglesnz.blogspot.com

Breed: Beagle


Name: Mrs. Magoo

Human's Name: Michelle

Bloggy Address: smallbrowndogs.blogspot.com

Breed: Border terrier

Friday, January 29, 2010

Dog Pile Update

Sorry I haven't been around lately - I had to go take care of my Momma cuz she went and got sickies AGAIN! Anyway, she wanted me to say we have been getting your entries and she hopes to do some bloggie updating and visiting your bloggies soon. She's just had a lot of stuff on her mind. I tried to tell her that is why doggie minds are better. You can't pile so much stuff on them. She doesn't listen...

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Mango Minster DOG PILE Update!

Well, the entries for my Mango Minster Sanctioned Event, DOG PILE, are coming and and I am realizing a couple of things:

1. There will definitely be two size groups, though the "smaller" dogs are giving the big dogs a run for their money!

2. I am really glad I am just judging and not competing, because there are some really great entries already. All I can say is: WOW.

3. Edited to add another ROOL: NO PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS ALLOWED. No fair waiting til your dog is just home from a traumatic tutoring and then piling stuff on. This is supposed to be a fun game.


That being said, I decided to send some artistic inspiration your way. They're not the most colorful pictures, but they show off my favorite daily-use Buddy Biscuits, which are great for dogs with tummy issues. They are organic, human grade and corn, soy, gluten, dairy, egg, salt and sugar free. In fact, they smell so good that my Momma has almost eaten them thinking they were people cookies! (Actually the Itty Bitty Buddy Biscuits are the best size for training - and really cute - but they don't sell them in the 10-pound bulk cheaper boxes, so Momma breaks up the regular size ones. I have never gotten to eat a whole Buddy Biscuit before.)

Also they are really good to stick in your pocket because they're not greasy or smelly.


"Chiropractic Buddy Biscuits"


"Little Men and Big Dog"

Monday, January 11, 2010

Announcing my Mango Minster Sanctioned Event: DOG PILE!

My friend Mango the Mastiff is hosting Mango Minster again this year. It is a most excellent photo dog show. Any dog can enter in a variety of categories - go HERE, to Mango's special MangoMinster site to see how to enter.

This year, I am sponsoring a special talent event called DOG PILE. The rules are simple:

1. Take stuff and pile it on yourself (yourself being the dog, not your human).

2. Have your human take ONE picture of it and pee-mail it to me at Biggie.the.Kuvasz@gmail.com BY FEBRUARY 1.

3. In the email, include the following information:
-your name
-your human's name if they want
-your bloggy address
-your breed or predominant breedS (like the rest of Mango Minster, mixed up confused breeds is ok)
-your approximate size or surface area
-the number of things you have piled on you and a list of what they are
-NO PHOTOSHOPPED or otherwise altered pictures!!

4. Winners with the most # of things piled on will win a $20 donation made in their name to Kuvasz Rescue or a dog product or toy of my choosing.

5. The decisions of The Great White (that's me, judging) will be final. If we get enough entries I might arbitrarily make small dog/large dog categories since a dog with a large surface area can have more stuff piled on him than, say, a toy poodle.

Clarifications:
-each thing piled on the dog must actually be ON the dog, not next to or touching or leaning.
-stuffies, shoes, toys, pieces of biscuit or liver, all count so long as they are visible in the picture without Biggie-fying the picture.
-blankets, appliances, grandfather clocks, other cracker dogs and children (and stuff like that) are not appropriate

EXAMPLES:

Here I am demonstrating a proper Dog Pile contestant entry:

My score with this entry would be 4: the duck, the gingerbread house, the squeaky truck and the rope bone. The fluffy ball does not count. I am also not capitalizing on the small toys - I think there is something INSIDE the gingerbread house but you can't see it without Biggiefying the picture, and it is not directly ON me, it is inside the gingerbread house that is on me. So it doesn't count.


Here is a sad Dog Pile entry that would get a score of ZERO:

The dog bed is all tangled up in me and I am using it to pin my Orvis chicken. Not a good entry, despite the laser eyes.

Keep checking back here for exciting updates!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Happy New Year!

How better to ring in the new year than with my 200th post! 2009 was a pretty rough year all around. We lost Josh and we'll probably never know why, and my Uncle Jesse went to the Rainbow Bridge unexpectedly. Also this year many of my kuvasz friends lost loved ones, so we kuvs had to be strong for our people.

I've been cooped up at home with my humans this weekend and it's been boooooring. Momma walked me a few minutes after midnight on Jan. 1 and there were all these weird people out. We live near where the ball dropped and so there were lots of loud drunk people. I'm a one-dog temperance society. 'nuff said.

I did have some fun this year, and after lots of pestering Momma finally made a movie of one of my more fun days in 2009 - I got to wrassle with my girlfriend Lexi while my Auntie Pita was visiting. Enjoy. And yes, I like me some dominant grrlz! (P.S. some of this video is PG-2 so you might want to screen it first for your puppies.)