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TODAY’S TIDBIT:  Happy Easter, folks!  We’re going to church on Good Friday so we thought we’d wish everyone a very Happy Easter today!  Marilyn and I hope that the Easter bunny is good to all of you!  See you on Wednesday for TODAY’S TIDBIT.

Happy Easter Love Hope, Kathryn and Gideon

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I'm pretty in pink for Easter, mommy!

TODAY’S TIDBIT:  Easter is right around the corner!!!  I love all the coloured baskets,  fancy wrap and bows that we use to decorate our beautiful Easter creations.  And so do our Yorkies.  But it’s so important to keep all wrap, bows and decorations away from your Yorkie!

Be especially careful if you have baskets full of shreds of coloured paper and plastic that’s designed to imitate straw.  Your dog could easily choke on bits of it and get pieces wrapped around her intestines that could cause serious if not fatal injuries.

If your Yorkie has ingested some ribbon or shredded plastic straw and you can see it sticking out of their mouth or little behind NEVER TRY TO PULL IT OUT!!!  It could be quite long and deep in the digestive tract.

TAKE YOUR YORKIE TO THE VET IMMEDIATELY OR THE EMERGENCY VET CLINIC AND HAVE YOUR VET REMOVE THE FOREIGN OBJECT.

Easter is a fun time for everyone but we have to be super diligent in protecting our dogs.  See you on Friday for TODAY’S TIDBIT.

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TODAY’S TIDBIT:  Have a wonderful Valentine’s Day, everybody!  Remember to cuddle your Yorkie and keep all the chocolate goodies away from your furry sweetheart.  See you on Wednesday for TODAY’S TIDBIT.

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Merry Christmas from all of us at AbsoluteYorkies.com!

TODAY’S TIDBIT:  Merry Christmas, everybody!  Thank you for sending in your cutie Christmas pics of your wonderful dogs all dressed up for Christmas! 

Thank you too for reading our blog and for loving your dogs as much as we love ours!  We’re away for the holidays so see you on Wednesday, January 11, 2012!  We have lots of pics so make sure you keep scrolling right to the bottom of the page!  We did our best to keep the names of your dogs correct but our apologies if we’ve made any errors.  Enjoy!

Enzo & Darla

Sweet Little Girl With A Sweet Yorkie

Mimi

Dion

Yvette's Yorkies

Bella

Yorkies4Ever

FuFuFashions MPACK

Dianne's Yorkies

Maddie

Maddie Playing Santa

Kea

Bree

Cutie Yorkie in a holiday t-shirt

Judy's Christmas Gang

Dakota

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TODAY’S TIDBIT:  We’d like to celebrate Christmas again this year at AbsoluteYorkies.com with a fun photo gallery of our furry friends in their favourite Christmas outfits (or maybe I should say “your” favourite outfits for your dog)!  We had lots of wonderful photos last year  and hope that everyone sends their pics in again this year! 

We’re asking you to send us a photo of your dog dressed for Christmas! We love our Yorkies but we’d like to share this invitation with owners of all breeds of dogs.

Just a few quick guidelines:

• One photo per email address.
• More than one dog can be in the photo but no people please.
• Photos should be saved as .jpeg, .bmp, .gif or .png files.
• Deadline for accepting photos is 12:00 midnight (EST) Friday, December 16, 2011.
• Send your photos to kathryn@absoluteyorkies.com or if you have any questions you can contact us at that email address.

So don’t be shy! Share your doggy’s Christmas photo with us. Have a wonderful day everyone and see you on Wednesday for TODAY’S TIDBIT. ***Happy Thanksgiving to all of you in the US!  We’ll continue our Disaster Planning Series  with Judy Wright next Wednesday***

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Photo: US War Dog Association

TODAY’S TIDBIT:  It’s Remembrance Day today, a very important and memorable day when we honour the very special men and women who have risked their own lives so that we can enjoy the freedom we have today. 

While remembering our soldiers, take a moment to think about the courageous canines who gave their lives for us in war.  Last year, we honoured our canine warriors by writing, “Remember Our Courageous Canine Soldiers” and we thought we’d post it again to honour our doggy veterans.

Remember Our Courageous Canine Soldiers
TODAY’S TIDBIT:  November 11 is a day of remembrance and reflection.  We honour the brave men and women who gave up their own lives so that we could live ours.  But soldiers did not fight alone – dogs saved thousands of lives in battle before and are still heroes today.

Canine heroes come in all shapes and sizes.  The muddy trenches were infested with rats so with their natural instinct for hunting and killing rats, terriers were used as “ratters” in WWI to get rid of the disgusting vermin.  One famous ratter, an Irish Terrier named, Norah went with her owner, Private Thomas Radford of the Canadian Veterinary Corp to the front lines and killed thousands of rats during her years at war.

Red Cross Dogs played just as vital a role as ratters.  Carrying medical supplies, these dogs would track the wounded and return to the trenches carrying a wounded soldier’s cap or helmet and then lead the medics back to the injured soldier.  Amazing.   Today, dogs sniff out bombs and weapons in war torn countries. 

Thousands of people owe their lives to these brave canine soldiers.  Lest we forget.

***The United States War Dog Association  honours war dogs and their handlers.  Check out their website.***   

See you on Wednesday for TODAY’S TIDBIT.

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It's Halloween, mommy!

TODAY’S TIDBIT:  Happy Halloween, folks!  This year, Gideon is decked out in a little Froggie outfit while Hope is adorned in a cute Pink Unicorn costume!  We’ve included a short video below that we made yesterday while trying on their costumes.  Enjoy! 

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TODAY’S TIDBIT: Happy Canada Day everybody! We’re celebrating so we won’t be posting anything new today.  Enjoy your holiday and see you on Monday for TODAY’S TIDBIT.   ***Checkout the picture of Marilyn and I on our “Contact Us” page!***

I love Canada Day, mommy!

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Easter Hugs from Tinkerbell, Gideon and Hope!

TODAY’S TIDBIT:  Happy Easter everyone!  Have a lovely holiday and a BIG YORKIE HUG to all of you!  See you on Monday for TODAY’S TIDBIT.

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Be Our Valentine, mommy!

TODAY’S TIDBIT:  Lots of Yorkie LOVE from everybody here at AbsoluteYorkies.com!  Cuddle up with your Yorkie and your sweetheart (if you don’t have a sweetheart your Yorkie will be happy to have all the attention) and enjoy your day!

You might receive a lovely gift from an admirer so we wanted to remind everyone that some gifts are better kept away from your Yorkie:

Chocolate
Chocolate smells and tastes wonderful but is TOXIC to your Yorkie so no sharing this Valentine treat with your Yorkie.

Stuffed Toys
Little stuffed toys are so cute as Valentine gifts but many have removable parts like eyes, bows and stuffing that could get caught in your Yorkie’s throat or intestinal tract if swallowed.   

Fruit Baskets
I LOVE fruit especially grapes but grapes are TOXIC to your Yorkie so please don’t think you’re being kind to your Yorkie by sharing your grapes.

Have a great Valentine’s Day everybody and see you on Wednesday for TODAY’S TIDBIT.  (If you love chocolate, check out our other website, www.MySaggyButt.com for pictures and read my story after spending the morning with a Chocolatier at his shop!  Very yummy!!!)

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