We were out at Petsmart last Saturday in Woodbury for the Wags and Whiskers Adoption day there. We brought Phoebe out to get her some exposure. Unfortunately she is still a little skiddish with new people and it makes it hard for people to get to know her. We’ll work on it and hopefully find her a forever home soon.
Here’s a couple of photos from the day. 
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Phoebe is our newest foster pup that is looking for a forever home. She’s roughly 8-9 months old and still very puppyish. She is potty trained but still has accidents once in awhile, but for the most part she is pretty good. Phoebe is a Pitbull Mix, not sure what she is mixed with, but she is pretty tiny, around 30 lbs and probably not going to get much bigger.
She seemed to probably have a rough puppyhood from the way she acts, not sure on the backstory, but she is very skiddish around guys. We are working with her and she is doing much better in the 2 weeks she has been with us thus far. If you are interested in meeting Phoebe or looking for another resucue pup please contact Wags and Whiskers of MN at wwww.wagsmn.com
Rocky Boxer Pitbull Mix (Bullboxer)
Rocky and Kasha
Rocky at Work with me on "Bring your dog to work day"
Kasha at the Dog Park playing with a great Dane
Kasha (Cane Corso Mastiff)
Rocky and Kasha just chillin
Rock Star
Rocky at work with me looking curiosuly to see who is out in the hallway.
Kasha just chillin.
Rocky playing with the mascott at the St. Paul Saints Game!
Rocky displaying a goofy face as only he can.
Kasha Showing off her puppy eyes! how can you resist.
Rocky (Pitbull Boxer Mix or Bullboxer) and Kasha (Cane Corso Mastiff)
Rocky's doing goofy faces again.
Most of the Photos were taken by my Girlfriend. You can view more of her work now on Facebook.
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Hello World. lol
It’s been awhile since i have posted a blog post, been super busy with Riley’s Baseball and other things, seems like there isn’t much time for anything else these days.
Walk for Animals this year wasn’t that great, it was cold, rainy and pretty miserable. We did raise $500 for the event so that was awesome and thanks to those who donated. We did walk the whole 5 miles, all 6 of us. Cisco, Kasha, Rocky, Cassidy, Riley and I.
Riley’s baseball is wrapping up. He made Majors this year which was nice, he made some improvements and seems to be a lot more motivated then he was in the beginning of the year. I wish he could play more, but the League he is in only allows 9 manned teams with Subs, and now he is a sub which really is kind of a shitty deal, but what can you do, I told him if he didn’t want to sub he would have to step it up on the playing field. He seems like he enjoyed it for the most part. Hopefully he gets to bring home a trophy this year, that would be awesome.
Haven’t got to ride as much this summer due to schedule and weather. What a miserable spring/summer so far, storms and rain seem to be the theme these days. Hopefully get some riding in before the season ends.
Done a lot of Dog Park days with the dogs this spring, more then I have in the past. Here’s a Video of Rocky and Kasha Playing at Rice Creek Park.
Here’s one with Rocky(boxer/pitbull) and Kasha(Cane Corso) at Cassidy’s Parents place recently. Playing and having a good time with each other.
Riley got his first sportbike. it’s a Mini Pocket Bike. Thanks to the Francos, he enjoys it a lot.
Some Video of him Riding it.
I’ll try and post up some more, but that’s all i have for now. Thanks for reading.
-JW
I’ll be participating in the walk for Animals on April 30th, 2011 Golden Valley MN. This will be my first time doing the walk. For those that don’t know what it is, “The Walk for Animals is your opportunity to help the 35,000 companion animals that Animal Humane Society will care for this year. Make no bones about it, these animals need your help. Begin raising pledges now and get ready for the best stand-up-on-your-hind-legs-and-bark event of the year!”
We are going to bring the three pups with us, Rocky, Cisco(unless he is adopted to his forever home by then) and Kasha. Should be fun. If you would like to help sponsor us for the walk that would be awesome. Here’s a link where you can donate Click Here to Donate
I’ll definetly post pictures of when we go.
Thank you.
-JW
Here’s some pics of our dogs we will be bringing.
Kasha our Cane Corso
Cisco He's our Foster Pitbull Still looking for his forever home.
Rocky, Pitbull Boxer Mix
So it’s been awhile since I have posted a blog, to be honest I have been so caught up with everything going on lately that I haven’t even had the time to sit down and write anything. Anyways, so I am just going on a random spree here, and not even sure what to write about at this point.
I guess I’ll start with my recent boom in web traffic hits to my site. Those of you familiar with WordPress.com, knows that in the dashboard there’s a built in statistics report. It’s actually pretty cool, easy to read. I started this blog last January and it started off as a few hits here and there. I averaged maybe around 300-600 hits a month. Which is fine, I didn’t create this blog for mainstream, but more for an outlet for me. So I have noticed a trend lately on the stats. One day last week I actually had 798 hits on one day. It’s the big spike on the first chart below.
Daily Stats from mid November 2010 to December 22nd 2010.
Below is statistics on my site just for the one blog post since I posted it last February.
Am I really that interesting? Probably not, it’s more based on one article I blogged about (Click here to see the blog). Animal Planets awesome show “Pitbulls and Parolees”. The new season kicked off and I started getting a lot more hits on my site.
If you look at the comments on that blog, you’ll notice that people obviously did not read the blog and assumed my site is related to Villalobos Rescue (aka Pitbulls and Parolees), which I am not at all, just like the show, admirers of what they do and like one thing I saw on their site enough to write about it once. I did just change the title of the blog to hopefully divert some of those who think i am affiliated with them.
I just thought that was funny and wanted to share. If you haven’t seen the show, I like it a lot, it’s an awesome show about pitbulls and the drama that goes with running a rescue with Parolees. http://animal.discovery.com/tv/pitbulls-and-parolees/
If you want to check out Villalobos official website: http://www.vrcpitbull.com/home.htm
Happy Holidays to everyone ,
Thanks,
JW
I got Rock Star (AKA Rocky), my Boxer Pitbull Mix about a year and half ago now. He was about 6-7 months old when we got him. I fostered him for about a month or two before just saying screw and adopted him outright. He was an awesome dog right off the bat, and I felt like he just belonged in the house with me and my son. I am not sure the exact birthdate, but Riley and I decided we would just make it Ocotber, since it was close to what we figured it would be. So my little howling mutt is now 2 years old, an adult pitbull boxer mix, nothing but good things from him and couldn’t have asked for a better companion, friend, and family member then this guy. Happy Birthday Rocky.
Here’s his Birthday Present. Looks gross, but he loved every minute of it.
I just picked up this little guy the other day for Wags and Whiskers of Minnesota. I am a temp foster for Wags and Whiskers, i basically only foster pitbulls because I think they need the most attention right now with all the bad publicity these guys get. I am not going to get into all the hoopla about it on this post, you can search the internet all you want and find all the good and bad information you want on pitbulls. Pitbulls are like any other dog, they have their tendancies just as any other breed does, but from my experience that these very active dogs need positive environments and training. Their aptitude to please their owners and people in general is amazing to me, and with a little training, they make awesome family dogs.
Cisco is a great dog, he’s a 1+ year old Brindle American Pitbull Terrier well socialized with other dogs and does well with cats and children. I am almost tempted to keep him myself to be honest, but I’ll have to keep myself in check. He is very playful, if you love playing ball with a dog, this dog is definetly for you. He constantly wants a ball or toy in his mouth and is always happy all the time it seems. He’s not a big dog, he’s probably right around 40 lbs and not going to get much bigger than that. If you are interested in adopting Cisco, please contact Wags and Whiskers at wagsmn@gmail.com or fill out an adoption form here Click Here to Fill out Adoption Form.
Visit Wags and Whiskers website: wagsmn.com
Here’s some pics. I’ll post some more when I get a chance to take some
So a friend convinced me to take Rocky to a dog park. If you go back to a previous blog I wrote (http://insolublevitality.com/2010/02/23/scared-to-take-my-dog-to-a-dog-park/), you can read why I was hesitant to do so in the first place.
He had a blast going to Minnehaha off Leash Park in MPLS. I was a little nervous at first since it was our first visit to any dog park, let alone one this big with a lot of dogs present. We couldn’t have had a more pleasant time there, he got to go on trails, hit the water on the river and do a little climbing on trees which I had no idea he would like so much. His recall and obedience really showed me how far a long he has come. I would just say his name, and no matter what was there distracting him he would come by my side, it was definitely awesome.
Here’s some pictures from that day, although my phone camera didn’t do such a good job this time.
