Bark in the Park!

Yesterday was Bark in the Park at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington! That's a pawesome day when the Texas Rangers open their ballpark up to their fans of the canine persuasion. Isn't that nice of them?? This year they had 689 dogs attend!! They even get to do a parade around the field before the start of the game so everyone can admire them.

I didn't get to go this year, but my furiend Zoe, an LBR alum, took her momma. She dressed up for the occasion and looked just beeYOUtiful.

It was pretty cold yesterday, so she did a grreat job of keeping her momma warm while they watched the game. Hopefully I'll get to go next year!

My exhausting weekends

Some of you may have noticed I've been very quiet on weekends lately. Well, it's because I'm keeping myself very, very busy. This is three weeks ago.

This is two weeks ago. I'm getting very tired.

And this is last week. I may need a nap to recover from it.

While I'm off busily guarding my house from danger, Momma is off dressing in funny clothes and talking in silly accents at something called a renny-sauce faire.

I don't get it, but she leaves us for hours and hours and HOURS to do it!! She's gone so long that she has somebody come over and hang out with us while she's gone. That's good, because I get time for guarding the couch then, but she never sends anyone who knows how to use my yaptop and help me read my furiends' blogs! Siiiiiigh. Anyway, we're halfway through the faire season! As soon as May is over, we'll be back to normal and able to read and comment on weekends again. Just wanted to make sure all my furiends know that it's not MY fault, it's MOMMA'S. So there.

Wordless Wednesday: Boxers & Bluebonnets!

LBR foster Betty Boop 

LBR alums Linus & Lulu 

LBR alum Lulu 

LBR foster Billie Jean

LBR alums Cotton and Annie

I love a happy ending!

Hi there, everybody! I've got some wonderful new furiends stopping by the blog today, thanks to my big interview today as a member of Mayor Madi's cabinet. Cinderella and I are the co-Directors of Housing, aka Foster Placement. See, most of you folks out there have your very own blogs, but this isn't MY blog. The Legacy Chronicles is the OFFICIAL blog of Legacy Boxer Rescue, the totally pawesome rescue group that Cinderella and I were both adopted from. We blog to share all the news about LBR and the wonders of adoption so we can can help find homes for all the pups out there who haven't found their wonderful furever homes like all of us.

Well, in honor of our official introduction as Directors of Housing, I wanted to have a VERY special post. And fortunately, a very special dog had a very special day this weekend, so what else could my post be about but her?? Once upon a time, there was the absolute cutest pup you've ever seen, named Napoli.

Yeah, you thought I was exaggerating about the cute factor, didn't you? Take another look.

Napi was a very special pup because she was born with something called "hydrocephalus." That's a big long mouthful of a word that means she had water on her head. It sounds silly, doesn't it? But it can affect a pup's development, and we weren't sure how long Napi would live or what kind of life she would have. Her foster momma took her in as a tiny puppy, knowing that she might never be adopted and might have to go to the Rainbow Bridge at any time.

But Napoli surprised us all by settling in pretty nicely to her foster home!

Time passed, and everybody loved Napoli. (Wouldn't you???) She had a lot of problems with her development -- she was a lot slower to grow up and reach milestones compared to other pups her age. But those things smoothed out as time went on and her foster momma worked and worked with her. Finally, her foster momma realized that Napoli was actually ready for a furever home of her own, if she could find the right one.

But then something SUPER special happened! Napoli's foster momma got a call from someone who had adopted one of her earlier foster dogs, Rider. They loved Rider VERY much and spoiled him the way a boxer should be spoiled. But sadly, Rider's big brother Pre had just gone to the Rainbow Bridge, and Rider was missing him SO much. Rider's family decided they were ready for a new dog, and when they were looking at LBR's website, they fell in love with Napi-doodle!!

 Napi and Rider met, and it was love at first sight. The whole family fell in love with pretty Napi, and Napoli loved them too! So now our sweet Napoli has found her furever home, and I just KNOW they're all going to live happily ever after.

Sigh. Don't you just LOVE a happy ending??

Happy Park Day!

It's Park Day here in Blogville, at last!! I've been looking forward to today since Finn and Gizmo announced it, and now it's HERE!!!

Momma and I decided to try out the brand new DOG PARK that they opened in my town in honor of Park Day. And guys, it's not just in my town, it's JUST down the road from us!! How pawesome is that?!

I'd never been to this park before -- it's only been open about a week -- so I had to wander around and get a good, long sniff of everything.

This annoyed Momma, who kept telling me, "I brought you here so you could RUN!" (She'd been feeling sick and brought me to the park to let me get some exercise without taking me for a long walk herself.)

And I did run -- after I gave the park the Casey sniff of approval. Grreat place! There's lots of room to run, a bunch of grreat trees, and interesting scents everywhere.

This was fun, Momma. Can we do it again??

Be sure to check out Finn's post for all the other pups pawticipating in Park Day! I bet we can learn all about some PAWESOME parks all over the world today!!

(PeeS: For those wondering why I was alone -- Cinderella doesn't go to dog parks. She gets a little stressed out at all the strange pups there and spends all her time barking at them and trying to whip them into shape instead of enjoying herself. So she spent the afternoon napping while we were at the park, and after we got back Momma took her out to the backyard and let her bask in the sun for as long as she wanted!)

Nature Walk

Cinderella and I were out walking yesterday when suddenly we went on alert! Do you see what we saw?

It's hard to see, but just to the right of the tree straight in front of me, there's a totally pawesome bird! I've never seen one like it around here before. It was a light blue-gray and had a skinny body and tall neck. It looked like some kind of water bird, but we weren't near water. Cinderella and I wanted to go say hello, but Momma said he was probably still moving in and didn't want visitors yet. Maybe I'll bring him a neighborly gift if we see him again.

What kind of cool stuff do you see on your walks?

Wordless Wednesday

LBR alum Champ