A Cavalier Version Of "The Princess And The Pea"

By katie, on June 23rd, 2010%

In the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tail, “The Princess and the Pea” a prince is searching for a true princess to marry. Apparently in 1835 there were a plethora of imitation princesses and the discriminating prince had to exercise due caution.

During a thunder and rainstorm a princess just happened to seek out shelter at the castle, but still he wanted to be sure she was the genuine article. So to discern the trueness of the bedraggled princess the old queen devised a test for her. She put a pea under a pile 20 mattresses and 20 eiderdown beds. Which makes me feel very bad for the poor eider ducks who had to give up all their eiderdown.

In the morning the old queen asked the princess how she slept and the princess said she slept very poorly indeed, for there was something very hard in her bed. Strangely this was the correct answer for the prince for only a true princess could be so sensitive as that!

At this point I would like to interject that in 2010 some would refer to this as “high maintenance” instead of princess like.

I’m sure there is a moral to Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tail but the moral of this story is one you may have heard before:

I keep telling you not all cavaliers are princesses!

We hope you enjoyed this bedtime story of “A Cavalier Version of the Princess and the Pea” as much as Maizey obviously did!

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Look My Girls Are Famous!

By katie, on June 19th, 2010%

So a very long time ago, before I joined the world of blogging and started plastering my girls faces all over the place, Resq Tails posted some pics of Meeka when she was visiting them. Typical of all of Resq Tails pics they are beautiful and for weeks I went are around telling everyone that Meeka was famous.

Now we found this way cool site called Cavalier King Charles A Day where you submit your photo’s and they choose a new one to post. Very cool! So now Maizey is famous too! And because I’m a picture glutton and couldn’t decide which pic to enter I entered two and they posted them both!

So just click the links to see my famous 4legged friends!

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The Cocklebur Debacle

By katie, on June 13th, 2010%

It is a humbling and yes, slightly humiliating thing when your 4legged little girl schools you in L2 handling.

Anyone with a 4legged friend know ALL burs are evil. On the scale of evil burs cockleburs rate right below foxtails.

Maizey’s front leg and the cockleburs

Basically cockleburs work like really mean velcro to Cavalier hair. It’s not pretty. Especially when the 2legged member of the team is wailing and bawling about cutting off Cavalier ears and split ends.

Let me paint the picture. On our recent jaunt in the mountains Maizey, Dare and Layla met a cocklebur bush. Before I knew what had happened Maizey was trotting off down the trail with both ears, two legs and a tail full of cockleburs. Of course Layla got her fair share, and even Dare couldn’t manage to avoid them completely.

Enter the humiliating part. That would be me with the wailing and bawling. Of course I scooped her up planted myself on a rock and flopped her over to start taking them out. Yes, still with the wailing and bawling.

“crazymomlady, please quiet the wailing and bawling!” 

Maizey? She was completely fine. I laid her on her side on my lap and she munched the field grass next to us the whole time Marie expertly removed them. As Marie says, “L2 handling? This is L33 handling and she passes with flying colors!” I however failed. Even L2 handling specifies “There must be minimal fussing.” I guess wailing and bawling does qualify as fussing.

Meanwhile Dare was a great help as she got in the bag and brought first the comb and then the slicker brush to us. When we didn’t seem to use them she also helpfully brought us a poop bag and finally her leash. We tried to show our gratitude, but she did seem a little peeved when we didn’t use her helpful contributions.

Thankfully, due to Marie’s experienced removal, some deep conditioner, and some more Cowboy Magic all is well in the continuing saga of the Cavalier ears.

Layla and Dare say, “Don’t worry we’re all still as gorgeous as always!”
Maizey says, “And I still have my ears!”

The 4legged lesson? Cockleburs are not your friends!

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How ‘Bout 21 Miles In 30 days?

By katie, on June 12th, 2010%

Our 40 Miles In 30 Days Challenge is over. It turned out to be a 21 miles in 30 days challenge. But it was 21 miles we really enjoyed. And a great thanks to everyone who joined or supported us!

One thing I like about the challenges for myself and the girls is that at the end it gives a great chance to look back and evaluate how it went. This time I just got distracted. There are so many things I want to learn and so little time sometimes I have a hard time focusing!

I also found that with the weather getting nicer we were doing many more outside activities, and while not the physical exercise of walking, it is still good time together. Especially the training we are doing out on the yard now.

Its interesting how even the daily life lessons are different now that we are out and about more. A small thing, but very important to me, is the time spent in the garden which has led to a whole new kind of Zen, garden zen. As in, “No Maizey you and the Nellie monster can NOT have the zoomies in my newly planted garden!” Another garden lesson, “go out!” As in, “UGG! Quit rolling in the newly watered seeds and getting all muddy! In fact just GO OUT of the garden!”

Have I mentioned not all Cavaliers are princesses?

And overseeing it all is my serene Meeka, surveying her kingdom.

As for walking challenges? We will do a new one, and maybe next time the miles won’t win!

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