New Arrival!

  After a long wait ARF's is proud to present to you "Hanes" he was born June 24th, 2010. He's named Hanes because every time I turn my back his mom is stealing my socks and putting them in her whelping box! Hanes popped out at 4oz meaning at the time he had an estimated adult weight of 4lbs, but as we all no that's not set in stone and can change as he matures. He is White with Fawn Merle spots and should have a long coat. I will be posting updated pictures weekly now that he's past his most critical time. Thanks for your patience!

COLORSTROLOGY?????

   All right people, we've all heard of Astrology and Numerology, possibly even Reflexology, but Colorstrology? During an outing to renew our County License for the dogs my mom "The Cookie Lady" and I "Princess Pooper Scooper" stopped at Big Lots to do a little retail therapy. Tucked on the back of a shelf in the craft isle was a little book called: Colorstrology: By Michele Bernhardt. Basically it states the following:

  "Learn about the science of Colorstrology. YOUR BIRTHDAY COLOR is a key that connects your INNER and OUTER WORLD. It resonates with the qualities that you have within. Its purpose is to align you with your ESSENTIAL self while supporting you on your life's JOURNEY."

  I thought to myself this will be great, I'll check out what my birth color is since I'm getting ready to turn 40 very soon and if I really like the color maybe I can incorporate it into a redecorating project that's coming up. Here is what my birth color is: Golden Apricot defined as influential, methodical, and lively. Sounds great so far and it's a nice color. I then proceed to read the whole definition which states: 

  YOU notice opportunity and are always ready for something new and exciting. You are quick on your feet and people naturally like you. You are usually found with a smile on your face no matter how hard you are working. Most of you have a way with finances. Your personal color helps ground your aspirations. Wearing, meditating or surrounding yourself with Golden Apricot reminds you to keep things fresh and not to get stuck in old ideas, habits or relationships.

  Little did I know how soon I would be surrounded by Golden Apricot, it was almost as if the Colorstology Gods could see that I needed to revamp a few areas in my life, as well as paint my living room, and they decided that I should have numerous color samples personally delivered to me so that I could start wearing and surrounding myself with my personal color.

  Unfortunately the Color Gods have a wicked sense of humor and the little minion that they chose to deliver my personal color is named Roxy. I still haven't figured out what happened but when we got home Roxy had thrown up in about a million places, including my bed, my office, my hallway, bathroom, living room and lo and behold the color of it all was the perfect shade of Golden Apricot. Not only was I surrounded by it, I took some time to meditate about the clean up method I was going to use, and by the end I was wearing it.     

  So I guess Colorstrology is the real deal and thankfully not a load of crap, literally. Needless to say Roxy is fine, I think there were some bug parts mixed in one of the puddles. Oh, and in case you're wondering, bad luck be damned I do believe I'll be going with something along the lines of green for my project. Or not, I think I see Roxy eating grass...

Love Bites, literally!

  Most of the puppies have gone to their new homes now and the feedback is that they are all settling in nicely. One of the remaining pups "Venus" is the last puppy in one of the litters and I am contemplating keeping her. She is ridiculously cute and you could hook her tail up to generate power since it wags so fast. Because she was the last puppy she was very lonely and sad the day that everyone else got picked up and I allowed her to sleep in the bed with us that night. Not the smartest thing I've ever done, but when she's less than 2 lbs and howling like a wounded wolf I tend to think with my heart and not my head. Needless to say she's been there pretty much every night since then. Most of the time she just curls up on my neck and sleeps 
through the night, except that one night where she got up and crawled over to Mr. Pooper Scooper and peed on his shoulder. Ooops! I guess when you're little and you gotta go you gotta go! And then there was this morning, a peaceful nights sleep for all, the bed was dry (always a plus) and then the alarm went off...next thing I know there's little paws on my face and I'm smelling puppy breath (so far so good) a few licks and I'm thinking "Is there any better way to wake up than to sweet smelling puppy kisses?" Then out of nowhere, CHOMP!, right on my chin, and my nose, and my lip, and then my ear! What happened to my sweet puppy? Someone switched her for a furry piranha in the middle of the night without me knowing! Needless to say this got the little four legged tooth a one way trip to her pen to burn off some energy. So yes friends, love bites sometimes, but just look at that face and tell me if you could stay mad at her?

Visiting Day!

 

Snoopy & Fruitloop's puppies get to visit with each other while I clean their pens.

We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Programing!

  Well friends a lot has happened since we last posted here at ARF's. We will spare you the the boring details and highlight the good things that have happened recently. Princess Pooper Scooper is currently ankle deep in it again because we've had three litters of Chihuahuas. Our new Chi parents are Snoopy & Flip, Fruitloop & Ready, and Godiva & Champ and between the three of them we have ten gorgeous puppies. Snoppy & Flip produced four of the cutest little long coat pups. Fruitloop & Ready had four unbelievable little applehead Chi's and I do mean little. One little girl only weighs 12 ounces at six weeks old. Godiva and Champ had two chunky little handsome boys. The picture above is of the two older litters eating lunch and playing while their mom's get a well deserved break. Check out http://arfchis.com/ to see more pics of our babies.

  Yes you read that right! We now have our very own really cool (if I do say so myself) website called ARF! Chihuahuas built for us by our friend Jen of Figgy Newton Web Design. Check us both out at the following links: http://arfchis.com/ and http://webdesign.figgynewton.com/

  Arf's really wants to thank Chi Wow! @ http://chiwow.com/ for allowing Ready to participate in the making of one of our litters.Check out the awesome Chi Wow! site (also built by Jen) to see how gorgeous he is.

Changing of the Guard and Piddle Pads!

  Well friends, it finally happened today. The changing of the guard, the passing of the torch, whatever you want to call it, it's now my responsibility to clean up puppy poop from Roxy's litter. She formally turned in her resignation this morning.The pups are well on their way to being completely weaned and I guess that means it's time for Princess Pooper Scooper to spring into action once again and here I thought we had such a nice arrangement. The puppies are starting to really develop their own personalities now. The Chocolate female is the most outgoing and her tail never stops wagging. The little boy just wants to be cuddled and the Merle female is the licker of the bunch. Click the link to watch recent video of the puppies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vBuznOwdlA

  In other news ARF! Chihuahuas has some new friends we'd like to introduce to you. This is Buddy (in the center) and his visiting girlfriends. Buddy is a Katahdin Ram and his girlfriends are here visiting from North Marion High School's FFA program. Buddy is doing his part to help support the FFA program by helping out with next years crop of baby lambs for the students to show in the fair. You never know what you'll find here at ARF! Chihuahuas. We'll introduce some of our other friends next time. 

  Until next time friends "sniff..sniff" at least for Princess Pooper Scooper doody calls...

Roxy & Pippen Litter Update!

 

Here is a new picture of mom & her pups, from left to right it's girl, girl, boy. Poor Roxy looks like she's thinking "Are they ever going to do anything besides eat?" There is also a short video of the pups on YouTube now.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx66qNDhAZQ