The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,200 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

It is with a very heavy heart that I announce that Tango’s brother Cash went to puppy heaven.  They discovered that his body was full of cancer so they made the very difficult decision to say goodbye.  Our hearts go out to you.

Cash

2004FEB14 – 2011JUL26

I have loved this breed for years.  I can hardly wait to see the new puppies and watch them grow.  I am hoping to add a Berner to our family in the future.

Attention litter-bugs: puppycam ready to switch on.

I saw this YouTube video and I couldn’t stop laughing.  Anyone who has/had a dog can relate to this.  The lab’s facial expressions are just priceless.  Although Wally never looks guilty (that’s Tango’s specialty) he does have the classic Golden Retriever “love me/I’m so proud of myself”  slanty-eye-smiley-face.  Everyone lucky enough to be owned by a Golden knows that one.  Too cute!!!

Spring can’t come soon enough for us this year. According to the weather gods, our region hasn’t seen such a long, grey, snowy and bleak winter since the 1970’s. This picture was taken on the weekend. It shows Don standing in front of the snow mound on the side of our driveway. It is hard to get the perspective right……Don is over 6 feet tall and the snow is several feet taller than he is and this isn’t even the highest that it was. It is going to be well into June before all this white stuff melts away naturally. We might have to fire up the old snow blower to start breaking down the mound and throwing it into the middle of the cul-de-sac to help it melt quicker.

On Saturday we drove almost 3 hours south of here. As we got further away from home, there was less and less snow. When we got to our destination, the ditches and fields along the highway were bare grass. Quite a noticable contrast to what we have here.

It has been a really tough winter for Team Tango to train. It has been either brutally cold or they have been very limited on where there could go because of the depth of the snow. Even with 30″ snow shoes on, Don was still stinking a foot or more into the snow and poor Tango would do “face plants” when she was in a full run and the snow suddenly gave way below her.

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 5,000 times in 2010. That’s about 12 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 112 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 185 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 59mb. That’s about 4 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was November 1st with 123 views. The most popular post that day was Our Dogs.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were WordPress Dashboard, facebook.com, en.wordpress.com, mail.live.com, and mail.yahoo.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for lifeinthedoghouse.ca, lifeinthedoghouse, http://www.lifeinthedoghouse, puppy sleep, and http://www.lifeinthedoghouse.ca.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Our Dogs January 2010

Photos February 2010

My Quilts March 2010
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About Us January 2010

Puppy Halloween Party October 2010

2010 was a great year for ‘Life in Dog House’.  All 3 two-legged kids came for a visit and we added anothor four-legged member to our household. Team Tango participated in 2 missing person and 3 cadaver searches and were re-certified for another year.

I’ve updated the banner with more current pictures of the dogs.  My boy Wally is really starting to develop the classic old golden white muzzle.   I guess that is to be expected since he is almost 10 years old.  He is still really young at heart and physically (other than the white hairs on his face) he looks and acts like a dog half his age. 

We don’t know what 2011 will bring but if it is even half as good as 2010 we will be truly blessed. 

This story is perfect for this time of year.   Once again a dog shows us the true meaning of love, hope and giving.

For the last two days we have been blanketed with thick smoke from forest fires in BC.  Visibility is quite poor and there are air quality warnings.  They even cancelled Tango’s training session last night so neither dogs or humans would be exposed.  I have asthma and I am noticing that my breathing is affected. Yesterday there was only a few blocks visibility…..today is a little better.  Don took this picture from his office downtown.  It looks like it is night time but the picture was actually taken in the middle of the afternoon.  The wind direction is supposed to begin shifting tomorrow so hopefully that will improve our air quality.