My GPS Camera Phone

Somehow, this week started off as crazy cat lady week, but I assure you that this will be the only one for the rest of this week.

If you don’t remember her, this is my cat Nessa (Slayer of Dogs). The name is short for Vanessa, the name she had when I rescued her long ago. Supposedly her name was Hester at one point, because a co-worker saw her and said she was a foster home for her once. Yeah, whatever, I’m not calling my cat Hester. She answers to Nessa, but also Nessie, princess, kitty, hey you, doyouwantsometreats, annoying pest and many others.

But never Hester.

Camera: Nokia 5610 XpressMusic

Yes, “frog” and bunny. Kind of like dog and bunny.

Photo credit: Nancy.

Bath night in my house. Three wet dogs. Loads of wallowing in dog self-pity while allowing the flea killer to do work it’s magic. For the record, they were freaking out and running around all happy-like after the torture bath shown above.

From left to right: Thor (American Eskimo), Rosie (Chihuahua), Sage (Cockapoo). No dogs’ feelings were hurt during this photo shoot.

Wednesday night was bath night. Thankfully, I managed to cram it into the list of things to do before Thursday, the day of my surgery.

You see, we are experiencing a flea and tick problem again. Fleas and ticks are a major nuisance that are incredibly difficult to get rid of. Strangely, we had no problems with ticks until last summer. They just came out of the woodwork. This summer, we thought we were ready for the onslaught, but to our amazement, they came back in force.

Enter the dog bath.

There’s this great flea and tick shampoo for dogs that foams up like shaving cream, which makes it easier to apply and thoroughly work into the skin. For it to eradicate the bands of rogue vermin, it must remain on the dog for about five minutes. To make better use of the time, I decided to wash two dogs at once; Rosie the Chihuahua, who just so happens to love baths as you can tell from the picture, and Sage, our beloved Cockapoo, who is also a huge fan of bath time. Don’t be fooled by the look on her face.

Once the poisonous destroyer of vermin is applied, you wait.

And wait.

For five long minutes.

What better time for pictures than now? Two pitiful looking dogs staring you down with those big puppy dog eyes is a hard shot to pass up. I’m happy to report that they survived the torturous bath, emerging flea and tick free. A quick shot of Advantix flea and tick treatment and we’re on the road to winning the tick battle. But we have yet to win the war.

Flea and tick season has just begun.

Your GPS Camera Phone: guest post by Melinda at Funny Dog Picture.

I was at work a couple months ago and I saw an employee of mine at work on his day off walking out of the store with a large bulge in the front of his zip-up hoodie. It was apparent that there was something in his jacket and thinking that the only reason to do that is to steal, I went after him. Turns out he came in to try to get someone to switch shifts with him and did not want to leave his new puppy at home! When he pulled down the zipper and showed my the dog I had to pull out my cell phone and take a picture!

Taken with a Nokia 6133.