I’m so GRINNIN’!!! I heard from Ruffy out in Arizona, and I want to share his note with you. He’s so gorgeous … my oh my. I’m going to put his picture right here somewhere. You can write to me too, I just love getting fan mail! Thanks Ruffy, love you too!
Dear Aidish,
Mom’s been reading your blog to me and I wanted to put my own two cents in.
Who the heck am I, you might ask and why would I assume I should have anything to say on your web site?
Well, let me tell ya, just as Snoopy has a cousin who lives in desert, you have a cousin, a few litters removed, who lives in the desert. I, like Spike, that’s Snoopy’s cousin, have a handsome mustache, I live near cactus and I’d wear a fedora if mom found one for me. At least for a photo or two.
My mom met your mom at a cool dog show in New York the year I was born. That was a long time ago, in dog years. Bo, the founder of your biscuit business, somehow knew my mom was going to need me. He convinced both our moms that this was so and when I was old enough, Steve, of Pine Tree Kennels, put me in a crate and flew me to Arizona.
Life can be pretty cool in AZ, well not in the summer, but winters are nice. I am the only wire haired Vizsla in the state. I’m very handsome and brave and take very good care of my humans. I get lots of attention wherever I go because no one here has ever seen a wire haired Vizsla before. Silly Arizonans. Did you know there’s a Wire Haired Vizsla Club? Yep, here is. We’re that important..
I do love Bo’s Bones. It’s my birthright, as I think I’m a nephew of Jazz, most directly. I got cute reindeer for Christmas this year and I’m hoping Valentine Hearts will be arriving in the mail some day soon.
So, whipper snapper, take good care of your humans and those geese too. I enjoy hearing about all your hunting experiences and am glad to know you’re there keeping your eyes and nose on the bakery.
Ruff
Thanks everybody for writing to me and wishing me a happy new year! You too! I’m still pretty busy, seems like now Mom has even more big plans and she’s talking about me being in DogWorld (well, not me personally but you know, my biscuits!) and she’s dancing around the bakery. She says the whole world needs my (ok, our) biscuits and we’re gonna make dogs everywhere happy too. I’m all for that! They haven’t called me yet to be on the cover but I am waiting by the phone.
I’ve told you that we Vizslas 
are versatile hunting dogs. Here’s a picture of me with Big Game, my favorite stuffed snake. (first I chewed off the head … ) Someday I’m going to show you one of me with one of these huge geese from the backyard, but that will have to wait a bit … they’re mean! But Happy New Year everyone, it’s not too late to wish that for all our friends!
I love Holidays!! Wishing you good health and good cheer!
FINALLY! I wait all year for holidays! I have my 4 stockings all hung and I check them about every hour in case someone sneaks something in there — but Mom and the Boss are still in the bakery most of the time so they’re not on top of the ‘stocking’ thing yet. I have my eye on one of the Reindeer (did you see those?) and mine has a plaid ribbon. I’m keeping a pretty close eye on that too, just in case Jazzy thinks he’s going to get it first.
This has been a good year around here. Mom found Lauren to help us bake, and Lauren is one of my VERRRRY favorite people. I think she’s owned by a couple of cats but she’s still a good person. She always talks to me, she knows I’m important, and she takes me for walks. I’m going to get a picture of Lauren so you can meet her too. She’s NICE. She makes a lot of the Puppy Kisses and Bit’s Chips and she and Mom sometimes sit for hours packing up Squirrels. I’d help, but I’m not allowed. Not Fair.
So, you just keep checking back and wave some more and I’ll write back. From me and Mom and the Boss, and the rest of the crew here too — whether you celebrate Chanukah, Christmas, or simply believe in Good — we wish you a season of joy, health, and prosperity. Mom says there’s room for all of us who believe in Good.
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SNOW!!! Mom seems happy that we don’t have any, but I remember snuffling it up my nose and how it tickled. I want more! In the meantime, everybody in the bakery is making Snowmen — big ones (my favorite) and little ones (my second 
favorite) and these huuuuge Reindeer with ribbons and Santa’s Boots (why does everyone laugh about these?) and Chanukah stuff and then they start on all those Squirrels. It’s a good thing I’m a Versatile Hunting Dog, because I like Squirrels just as much as I like birds. And they’re everywhere, I see bunches of them every morning. If Mom would just let me take off after them they’d never come down out of those trees.
In the meantime, Mom said I should show you the Snowmen since she’s been slow to get their picture on the Shop page. (This is my ribbon, I just loaned it to Mom for the picture.) Here you go — you see them from me, here, first! TaDAAAA!
This is my new friend Daisy! She’s a gorgeous Springer Spaniel and she has been waiting and waiting and … WAITING to get a Jack o’Lantern. 
Her mom and my mom are best friends for at least a thousand years and her mom asked for one even before they were out of the oven. Daisy came to visit us at the Genesee Hunt a few weeks ago and she FINALLY got her biscuit. I know what she means — they’re really worth waiting for. I don’t usually have to wait too long though, because I’m sitting at the door when the bakers come in for lunch. Want to join me??
Hi Everybody! The geese are back on the river! I know this because I’m a Bird Dog — well, actually we Vizslas are Versatile Hunting Dogs — but I specialize in Geese. And mice. And squirrels. And butterflies. It’s hard to specialize when you’re Versatile, but I do my best. Mom caught me in one of my rare quiet moments, so she took this picture right away.
Look for the Jack o’Lantern biscuits she’s going to post in the next day or so. I give the bakers all kinds of good ideas for silly faces. I like the scary ones best, well … maybe I like the silly ones best, but I’m not sure. I like them all. At the Regional Market people buy them as she’s hanging them up. My ideas rule! You’ll see ‘em in a few days, I promise. I’ll keep reminding her. I sit on her feet when she’s at the computer, that way she can’t overlook my list of To Do’s. She needs to get pictures of our Puppy Kisses on the web too!
Happy Hallo’ween everybody — what’s your new favorite?
Did I tell you that Mom’s taking our biscuits to the big regional market nearby? She meets lots of my fans (ok, Bo’s fans too) and they always talk about their dogs. Some of them are rescued dogs. Mom says ‘rescued’ means they needed a home and a person to love them really badly. My new friend Milo needed a home and his person John found him. Mom says good things happen when people love a dog.
If you’re thinking of getting a dog or pup, please talk to the good folks at your animal shelter. Your dog is looking for you, but may not have a way to find you … please look there for your friend first.
Back to the bakery for me. Who knows what kind of trouble they can get into if I’m not there to supervise! Thanks for reading, please write to me. I’ll write back (when Mom’s not looking)!
Summer! Isn’t it grand?! It’s my favorite time of year, but right now it’s just a little bit hot. I live on a river in upstate NY and we’re not too used to this 90degree stuff. My friend Ruffy lives in Arizona and he tells me it’s like this most of the year there but MAN how does anybody get used to this? My feet get hot just walking across the driveway!
Anyway, summer is when Mom makes all the funnest biscuits. She’s icing Daisy biscuits right now, and I gave her the idea. I like to sniff flowers and she and I go for long walks together. She even mows around the daisies because they’re so pretty. So I sniff ‘em and Mom got the idea from me! See? I don’t know what they’d do without me, they really need my help on almost everything.
Mom and the bakery crew are doing extra of everything these days. They have a stand at the CNY Regional Market in Syracuse NY and every Saturday Mom leaves real early to share our biscuits with dogs from there. I keep offering to go, but it really is darned early and I like to sleep in. One of these days I’ll get up in time … really, I will!
Come on in, look around, and try one of the pretty Daisy biscuits. I helped taste-test the icing and it’s good. I kept telling Mom to make more so I could test it again, but she finally caught on. Oh well, when she smears the icing we all get to share the biscuit, so that’s ok. Enjoy your summer and check back real soon!
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Ever hunt for butterflies? Me too. One of the orange ones just landed on my nose!
We’re making new biscuits!! Mom gets these crazy ideas about making new biscuits, so I’m always ready to help her out. I like “Lip Smackers” the best. They’re silly lookin’, like people’s lips when they pucker up to kiss each other. I’ve always found my tongue was better at everything, but hey, they work with what they have.
Mom’s making this new icing stuff and I lick the bowls when she’s done. It has yogurt powder in it and it’s grrrreeaaat! She’s puttin’ it on cats and ribbons and rabbits and flowers and all kinds of stuff. She does get a little crazy sometimes. I think she’d put it on me if I sat next to the biscuits …
When Mom’s in the bakery I sit and look out the big window at the goslings. We have dozens of Canadian geese on the river, and whole bunches of goslings. They’re about football-size now, and I’m very busy keeping track of where they are. It’s a tough job, but after all — I’m a bird dog!
*People keep asking me about my name. It’s Hungarian, the word for “beloved” or “sweetheart”. That’s because I was pretty special right from the minute I was born! I was just waiting for Boss and Mom to come find me. But I moved in and took over, so things are running fine now.