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We are doing a new feature on Friday Puppy. Â (yes, another change. Â Next week it might be dogs and goats. Â who knows.)
We are featuring one special dog each Friday and that dog is the Friday Puppy.
I will ask the pup’s owners some questions about the dog, and share the answers with you.
Meet Reese. Â Your Friday Puppy for this week!
1. Why did you choose that name for your dog? When deciding on a name for this awesome dog I decided to follow the AKC guidelines of having 5 names for a dog, Reese’s Pieces Peanut Butter Cup, Reese for short. His colors say it all. He is literally the colors of this candy.
2. How old is your dog? Reese is 4
3. Where did you get your dog? Mohawk Hudson Humane Society
4. What is your dog’s favorite treat to eat? Vanilla ice cream with peanut butter sauce
5. What is your dog’s worst habit? Barking when a leaf blows by front of the window, and anything else that walks by.
6. If your dog could speak, what would be his/her first sentence? “Get your butt off the couch and take me for a walk, would ya?”
7. What is the worst thing your dog has ever done? Chewed a bottle of prescription muscle relaxants and anti-inflammatories and got admitted to the doggy ER for a week.
8. What kind of food do you give your dog? Pro Plan
9. Who is your dog’s best friend? Remey, our cat. Inseparable..
10. Why is your dog the best dog ever?
On March 9, 2011, Reese woke us up in the middle of the night by barking incessantly and crying at the stairs until someone woke up. Turns out that there were deadly amounts of carbon monoxide throughout our entire house and we could not hear the alarms going off because we had our AC (yes in March in NY) on.
The fire department and NIMO came to our house and we thankfully got out in time. The fire department told us if we hadn’t, we would have been dead within an hour.
Reese was featured on News Channel 10 for saving our lives and the lives of our 4 cats and himself. We are forever grateful to this amazing dog as we are alive today because of him. He is without a doubt the best dog in the world.
Congratulations, Reese on being this week’s Friday Puppy!
KCW
May 11, 2012 at 7:45 am
Beautiful Dog.
brent
May 11, 2012 at 8:04 am
I enjoy the new Q&A section about the pup’s
Amy
May 11, 2012 at 8:23 am
Wow what a great dog! Amazing that not only was he able to detect the carbon monoxide but that he knew it was bad and needed to get your attention. You are lucky to have found him.
llcwine
May 11, 2012 at 8:33 am
what a gorgeous dog…and a hero to boot…Congrats on being this week’s Friday Puppy!
B
May 11, 2012 at 8:43 am
Great choice! Reese is completely stunning. One of the best photos Ive seen in a long time.
Claire
May 11, 2012 at 9:41 am
What a great change of pace! And Reese is absolutely handsome!
Mike
May 11, 2012 at 9:52 am
Excellent new idea!
Janna
May 11, 2012 at 10:44 am
I absolutely love this new format. It’s so intriguing to see how dog owners love their dogs and how loyal dogs can be.
Kudos for rethinking and reworking the blog. This is the blog we know and love! Thanks Matt for making my Friday.
Aunt Janice
Jen
May 11, 2012 at 11:08 am
LOVE the new Q&A!!! And after reading this I am happy to hear that my dog isn’t the only one who barks at stupid s*** like leaves… We were starting to worry about her :)
marchi
May 11, 2012 at 11:14 am
Reese is gorgeous – what is he?
maggiemay
May 11, 2012 at 11:53 am
THis is great, Matt, thanks. I like this better .It is always nice to know the back story of how a dog came to be in someone’s life.
And Congrats to Reese’s owners for rescuing him. He returned the favor big time. Gorgeous dog.
GS5
May 11, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Def like this idea – but way to bring it with the first dog! Setting the bar pretty high!
Jill
May 11, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Love it!! new format rocks Matt and I think you are doing an awesome job!
cac
May 11, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Love the Q&A, very cool.
Reese reminds me of the Doberman I grew up with. He certainly is a special boy!
Hopeful
May 11, 2012 at 8:42 pm
There is nothing I can suggest to improve on this format! If that restaurant/bar thing doesn’t work out for you, you could be a blog page designer!
Congrats to Reese for being the inaugural Friday Puppy!!
Rich-m-p
May 11, 2012 at 10:39 pm
One helluva smart pooch! Handsome too.
(Great idea Matt!)
Chris
May 12, 2012 at 11:43 am
Reese is a Doberman Pincher/ Pink Nose Pitbull Mix.
JD
May 14, 2012 at 10:01 am
I am so not a dog person but even I enjoyed this new feature. Pretty amazing story.
Kim
May 30, 2012 at 4:56 pm
No sorry I live in Southern Cali. I finally got her to do down. And she does it well, and even tries to prdiect whether I say Up or Down .But right now she only does it when I give her the hand signal which is putting my hand on the ground. She hasn’t associated the word down very well with the action. She also for some reason always tries to put her paw on my hand as I am putting my hand down.And when I try to teach paw and reach my hand out, sometimes she goes down .