All by himself...

Rene and I took off for Sedona for 5 days (to post celebrate our anniversary, more on that on 7Dresses) and we needed to figure out what to do with Whiskey.... sad to say our wonderful friend and longtime dog-sitter, Gabe, recently moved to Texas (very sad) and letting Grandma Nance and Grandpa Jack watch him was out of the question (sorry mom) and we really did not want to kennel him. SO after much thought we decided to leave him at home and have Abby come over and feed him. What this really meant was that we needed to get a Doggie Door!

We attempted to buy on.... and for $250 we brought one home..... and since we have a custom 8 ft sliding glass door IT DID NOT FIT!!!!!

SO RENE DECIDED TO MAKE ONE:

The picture is a crapy phone pic (sorry) but I am really impressed with his work!

AND WHISKEY LOVES IT!!!! This way he can be in and out all day and no worries (though we did have Abby come and lock him in at night because of the coyotes).

During the week he managed to drag all of his "indoor" toys into the back yard but overall kept the house pretty clean. But we can tell he was pretty lonely. He was SO EXCITED to see us when we came home but I think this was the best situation as he could be at home on his own territory. Good job Rene!

Tucson for the weekend

Have you ever been a dog sitter?  I actually love having another dog around for Whiskey to play with and we are lucky enough to have a great friend, Gabe, who we exchange the favor with.  If we go out of town he takes Whiskey and when he goes away we take Indy... it works out very nicely. Plus our dogs our best friends and love to play together so selfishly we love that Whiskey gets worn out! 

This past memorial weekend we were "dog sitting" Indy as her owner was hiking the Grand Canyon (I know, I am jealous too).  We decided to make a quick trip to Tucson to visit some family and it was a grand ol time!  Tucson is pretty dog friendly and we ended up taking the dogs (along with the rest of the fam) to a park.  We had fun playing fetch with the dogs as the nieces and nephews flew kites.  Please enjoy the pictures...