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Hey Everyblogger...

We apawlogize for being MIA for almost a month now. Our lives haven't been too exciting lately. Swisher has been the main priority around here. We wanted to update you guys about him since you all sent that good Juju juice. As you can see, he's still wearing the Cone of Shame and is not 100% better yet.

He's already had a few special eye doctor visits. When he went back after the first visit, they said it wasn't better. Continue meds and Cone of Shame. For his next appointment, no change. So they did this procedure called Burr Ketatectomy, where they put some numbing medicine on your eye and then with a special tool, they remove stuff from the top layer of the eye. He got meds and more Cone of Shame time. His eye was really red the next day, which worried Mom, so she took him in to get checked. Eye Dr said it was normal side affects from the procedure, and gave her some pain meds to put in his food. Eye Dr also told Mom that if he doesn't start to heal faster, they were going to do another procedure called a Keratectomy, where they sew his eye shut just a little to help his eye heal. He had been doing good for a while, but last Friday he started squinting and his eye was watering a lot. So Mom took him back, they checked him out. Still not much change. So Eye Dr just decided to do the surgery that morning. They made room for him on the schedule, called in all the appropriate nurses and doctors, and even shaved his arms to get ready for the IV.

Then they asked Mom if he had eaten that day and she said yes, and just like that, the surgery was canceled. The surgery needs to be done on an empty stomach. So Swish was released. They gave Mom new meds. Instead of eye drops, they gave her some ointment to put in his eye, more Cone of Shame time, and said see you in 2 weeks.

So Swish has 2 weeks to get better. And since you all sent Juju up the wazoo, Swish saved some extra Juju in his back pocket in case he'd need anymore for later. But feel free to send as much Juju you want. We pawmise not to put it to waste.

Swish is a soldier though. He's still the same crazy big brother as always. He gets to come to work with me and Mom more often now. We hang out in our patio and play.

I'm not afraid of the cone much anymore either, I can get close to him and cuddle... when he let's me. Bol.

And in even better news.. guess what?!?! Today is our...

Isn't that exciting?!?!?!

We wanted to do something special for all our special blogger furiends out there. After all, we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you guys and gals. So it's pretty simple. No essay writing. No application qualification. No contest. It's easy, just leave a comment. You have until next Saturday midnight our time (we live in CA), and we'll randomly pick a winner (we'll contact you later for your physical address), and that winner will get a special package in the mail. Isn't that pawesome!

Thanks so much pals and gals! You guys are great!

One more exciting bit of news! ... We're on TWITTER!

That's right. Anyone who's on there and wants to chat, drop us a line @OakleynSwisher . We already started following some of you. We enjoy catching up with you guys.

We apawlogize for the long post. Hope to hear from you. Get those comments in for a good prize!

Lots of licks,
Oakley.... and Swisher

JuJu Request

Hey there... Oakley here...

I kind of have an odd request today, for some JuJu. You know, feel good juice. But not for me, for my brother Swisher. I'm not exactly sure how these requests work, but our blog friend Puglet does it all the time and seems to get great results. Swish has been having some eye problems lately. Mom had to take Swish to the ER vet in the middle of the night on Saturday. He was squinting a lot and his eye looked really red. I've had my own issues with my eyes, but Mom was extra worried about him since he only has one eye. They told Mom that they think his eye is scratched. They gave him some medicine and the terrible Cone of Shame.

Vet told Mom to watch him for a couple days and come back on Wednesday. They did. Vet said still not much change. So they put a contact lens in his eye to help speed up the process and more meds.

One of Mom's coffee cups is now one of our PetMeds pharmacies.

I might have to get a part time job pretty soon. Mine and my brother's bills are not cheap.

Swish is a trooper though. He can't really play with me or a bone or a stuffy. But he still sits in his favorite spot and plays watch dog. He hasn't been coming to work with me and Mom much, 'cause she doesn't want to take a chance of him getting more hurt. The cone isn't bothering him much either. I'm more scared of it than he is. When he first got home I wouldn't stop barking at him. He left to the Vet and came back a transformer!

I hope he gets well soon. He's been getting a lot of extra attention lately and that's interrupting my cuddle space with Mom on the couch. She even gave him her pillow pet to lay with. She says because the cone takes up too much space in his bed or something. Whatever.

So any JuJu you guys got laying around, can you please send it my brother's way? That way he can play with me and I get my couch space back. Oh, and so his eye can get better too. Thanks.

Lots of licks,

Oakley... and Swisher

Hoodie Wordless Wednesday

Lots of licks,
Oakley and Swisher

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Opening presents on Christmas is fun and all, but opening presents after is even better! It's like Christmas all over again. This time these presents were from our girls Kitty and Coco.

The girls totally know our personalities...

We got two stuffies. Oakley went straight towards the Kong Wubba. It's strong and durable and can play tug-o-war for hours. Swisher went for the holiday Giraffe that's soft and squishy.

And we got some new treats!

Pork Chomps mini twists. Mmmmm smells delicious.

Wasting no time.

Tasty!

The girls also sent us a Christmas photo of them. Don't they look lovely?

Kisses to you Coco.

We put your card up with all our other holiday cards.

Let's not forget our 'COOL' shirts either.

They fit and look great!

Thank you so much girls. You ladies are sweethearts! We hope you had a Very Merry Christmas and liked our gifts as well. Can't wait to see the video you post.

To everyone in blog land... Have a safe and wonderful New Years!


Talk to you guys NEXT YEAR! Bol.


Lots of licks
Oakley and Swisher

Santa Paws came to town. Twice!

Hey all of you! Boy did we have a great Christmas weekend. Santa Paws came to town, TWICE! and brought us all sorts of cool stuff!

Let us tell you how our Christmas went... bare with us, there's a lot of pics. Puparazzi was everywhere. Bol.


Our first Christmas celebration was at home this past Thursday when Aunt V came over for our gift exchange. Check out all our presents!

Ok those are not ALL ours, they're Mom's and Aunt V's too.

First we opened our stockings...

Inside we had: Snowman and Christmas tree stuffies from our neighbors, pet ear and eye wipes,

...Swisher got his own purple hippopotamus, and I got small fun size tennis balls from Aunt V!

Ok time to open some presents from Aunt V!

In box number 1 we got stuffies. A red candy cane for Swisher.

And a green Christmas tree for Oak.
In box number 2 we got some cool graphic tees.
Oakley's is the tootsie pop Owl. Swisher's is a scrabble shirt. Bol.


In box number 3 were some warm fleece pull overs.
Blue for Oak.
Red for Swish.
But Swish is too buff for the red one, so Mom has to exchange it. Bol.

Lastly, but definitely not least, box number 4 was to the both of us...
Christmas Cookies!

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Next were presents from Mom.

This present was way too big for us to open, Aunt V had to help us. Can you tell what it is?

A Mickey pet bed! How pawesome!

Next from Mom was a costco size box full of peanut butter cookies! 3.5 lbs of it!

But that wasn't it, Mom's boss got us some cool things too.

She got us this Freezy Pup Kit, that comes with a recipe to make delicious frozen treats for us. Also a Pick Pocket Pouch you can attach to our leashes for our walks that you can store things. Like Moms keys or our poop bags. Neat. And then she got us this iQube, dog puzzle toy.

OMD I love these kinda toys!

That was a PAWESOME first Christmas! We got so much stuff and are so excited to play with everything and eat ALL the treats! By the end of the night, there was only one casualty. Bol.

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For our next Christmas celebration, Friday morning we headed to Fresno to visit our Grandma and Grandpaw, Mom's parents. We love going to their house. We got to run around with Swisher's dog Mom and Sister, Penny and Diamond, cuddle with Grandma and Grandpaw on the couch and open more presents.

Grandma and Grandpaw got us a 3 pack of stuffies and this cool I love PetHead grooming kit. That us in the background playing with our stuffies. At the time, shampoo didn't seem that exciting. Bol.

It comes with 2 shampoos and a deodorizing spray. And it smells SOOOO good. Mom sprayed it on us and we smell delicious! Smells like strawberry or fruit roll ups. Bol. But it's for the pet with sensatory skin like us, cuz I'm sure most of you know "Life's an itch"!

We had such a wonderful Christmas. We want to say thank you very much for all the Christmas presents. We tried to be good boys this year and not end up on Santa Paws' naughty list. I think we did a good job.

Hope everyblogger had a wonderful Christmas holiday as us!

Lots of licks,
Swisher and Oakley

Pee.S. Kitty + Coco, we got your Christmas package and will be blogging soon about that. Thank you girls. Hope you got ours.

It's begining to look a lot like Christmas...

Hi everyblogger... Swisher here...

We've kinda been slacking on our blogging lately, our apawlogies, but we tried to play catch up today. Can you believe it's almost Christmas?

Thanksgiving came and went so fast, it seems as if Grandma was just here. By the end of the week, we'll be in Fresno, celebrating Christmas over there with her and Grandpaw.

It was only right for us to get to decorating. We like to decorate to get us in the Christmas spirit. Mom got some new lights for our front window, and brought out our festive holiday Christmas colored blanket.

Aunt V came over to help decorate also. She was in charge of the garlands, stockings, and wrapping presents. But I think she was getting a little out of hand with the garland.

I think Aunt V is getting us confused with the Christmas tree. I better be getting some treats for this.


Our bookshelf is full of some of our favorite holiday decorations.
1. Holiday Smurf
2. Singing/Barking dog
(which we LOVE to bark back at)
3. Stockings
4. Christmas Cards
This is our pawesome little tree. Look at all those presents!

Of course, no Christmas celebrating is without our annual Christmas card. This year Mom agreed to go simple and just let us wear Christmas t-shirts. Which we were SO happy about. Although Aunt V did get inspired when she put that garland around us... she got a bright idea for our cards...lights!

Aren't the back of our shirts pawesome? Bol.

After about 57 out takes, and 5 different positions, these were the end result.

(Please excuse bad phone photo with bad lighting.)

Hope everyone is getting excited about Santa Paws coming this weekend. We think we've been good boys this year and gave Mom our wish lists. At the top of mine, is PIZZA! Bol.

Wishing everyblogger out there a Happy Holidays, Season Greetings,
and a Very Merry Christmas!


Lots of licks,
Swisher... and Oakley