Elms Beach State Park

 We visited Elms Beach before the summer crowd.  It was pleasantly cool, a fun place to explore and made a nice peaceful visit with our old dog, Sarita.

Osprey

It’s National Pet Day

My poodle posed for me a few years ago.  She is still cute and sweet.

Happy Independence Day!

My favorite Independence Day photo of Sarita, toy poodle

HVFD fireworks

River Concert Fireworks 2019

Toy poodle: Lots of legs

Still recovering from my broken left foot.  Starting to bear mild weight.  

 Her legs are more interesting than mine.

Toy Poodle

Our sweet toy poodle keeps me company a lot lately.  She sleeps even more since she went blind, but Jim sometimes gets her to play a little. We estimate her age at around 14.  

SMAWL Animal Fair May 18 2019

I decided to volunteer for SMAWL, the St. Mary's Animal Welfare League, to help take photos of the rescue animals.  I might as well make myself useful.  I think it would make me feel good to help get a pet adopted.

 Our dog, Sarita, a toy poodle rescue, enjoying the pet parade.  She is a senior, about 13 years old.  We adopted her about 3 years ago.

I loved the curly tail.

Making friends.

SMAWL volunteers

Adorable kittens at the fair.  

I assume they are up for adoption along with the older ones.

Among all of the dog and cat vendors, I met Debbie Koehler, who sells horse saddles and accessories.  Many of the saddles are older and never used.

Help for Pets supplies help to people with low and no incomes for their pets.  I would think a pet for a lonely homeless person would provide lots of love.

I met SOMD Pinups for Paws before in Leonardtown another time too.  They are a nonprofit that create vintage looking calendars and give the proceeds to animal rescue groups.  Cute outfits ladies!

They even had a kissing booth for donations.

Exotic pets were included too.  (One time I met a pet piglet at the fair).

Calvert K-9 rescue helps find missing people.  

They demonstrated how Max located Lindsey (right) using her scent.

BFF, Bone-A-Fied Friends Forever Pet Services, does dog training.  Beasley is a popular dog in pet commercials on TV.  You may have seen him in a recent chewie.com commercial.

He and his trainer are very talented.

We enjoyed the Woof it Down contest.  

This dog was willing to help his person finish off his food too.  LOL!

Pet Parade starring SMAWLIE and the banner holding volunteers.

Merry Christmas from our house to yours.

I hope you have a joyful holiday!

    Dressed up for the holiday!

Wet Dog August 8, 2018

The St. Mary's County Camera Club had a themed contest this month called Wet.  Our dog, Sarita needed a bath.  She is a toy poodle rescue.  It only made sense to combine the two.  The results were adorable and she won first place!

Which one do you like the best?

Barely Wet

Not so bad after all!

Shake it out!