Smoochable Accessories for Valentine's Day

As Valentine's Day quickly approaches, Athena has been preparing to be the smoochiest dog in all of Portland.  Our friends over at Our Waldo Bungie have been helping to outfit Athena in the sweetest of Valentine's fashions to help her to receive lots of kisses on February 14th.

Just Dog Gone Cute Collars

As many of you know, we were the lucky winners of a Just Dog Gone Cute ribbon collar during Our Waldo Bungie's recent Giveaway-a-Day.  After lots of ribbon suggestions from Kelly (Just Dog Gone Cute's master mind), we decided on a Valentine's themed collar with "Hoo do u Love?" ribbon for Athena.

This collar is perfection with its pink and red sparkly ribbon that shows off Athena's lovable personality.  I just want to smooch her up when she wears this new collar!

Not only does Kelly create adorable ribbon collars for holidays, special occasions, and everyday fanciness, she also makes "Adopt Me" collars that would be perfect for any dog looking for their forever home.  We are totally smitten with Just Dog Gone Cute!

Tiennot Knits Bow Ties

Also featured in Our Waldo Bungie's 2012 Giveaway-a-Day were Tiennot Knits Sweater's newest line of knitted bow ties that the very handsome Chick and Doodlebug from Love and a Six Foot Leash modeled.  Athena definitely felt the smoochies coming on when she saw those handsome fellas wearing their very dapper bow ties.  She was ever so excited when her very own girly bow tie arrived in the mail!

Not only is this bow tie just the cutest thing I've ever seen, it's a PERFECT match to Athena's custom Tiennot Knits Sweater.  Athena has modeled it all around town already and everyone stops to admire its fanciness.  I especially love it when she wears it on her head like a headband because she looks just like Miss Hello Pitty.

Seeing as Athena has TWO Valentine's collars to wear on heart day, we might just have to extend it to become heart week so that she can get some good wear out of both of her new accessories.  I just know she's going to get lots of extra smoochies in these cuties.  I'm thinking even her new daycare boyfriend, Timber, might even send her an extra box of Sweathearts when he sees her wearing these adorable collars.

Big smooches for the Thean Bean from Timber

Will your pooch be sporting any Valentine's fashions this year?

Athena's Got a Boyfriend...

Athena is very much a single lady who likes to scope out her dating options while out and about.  But, there's one dog in particular that makes Athena get all googley-eyed.

Meet Hercules:

The first time that Athena met this handsome dog was on a typical morning walk.  When I say typical, I mean that we can always expect to have the pleasure of meeting at least one off-leash dog  Our first encounter with Hercules was when he ran from his front yard to greet Miss Athena.  It was love at first sight for the both of them.  Athena did not greet Hercules with her usual play bow, play bow, play bow, "hey let's play!" attitude, but instead she whined and whined.  The two of them calmly sniffed one another and whined excessively.

The next time that we walked by Hercules' yard, he ran out again for another off-leash greeting.  This was when we learned that his name is Hercules because his owner called him back to the yard and scolded him with a, "Hercules!  You know that you aren't allowed to leave the yard!"  Yeah, I'm sure he really knows that he's not allowed to leave the yard when you leave the gate wide open...

But back to the love story, Athena and Hercules get to see each other at least a couple of times per week on our morning walks.  We can usually count on Hercules being in his front yard waiting for his girlfriend to walk by.  Unlike most dogs in the neighborhood, Hercules does not bark at us.  Instead, he whines and howls as if to say, "Athena, you are so beautiful!"  Athena tries her best to lead us over to Hercules' yard as she whines right back at him.

Of course I googled "Why do dogs whine at each other?" and found a list of different reasons why these two lovebirds might have the urge to whine.  We are simply assuming that they whine because they want to greet or play with one another.  I probably don't help the situation much though because whenever we are nearing Hercules' yard I start my lovebird talk with, "Is your boyfriend out today Athena?"

Any other thoughts about why Athena and Hercules do this major whining at each other (I might be upset though if you don't believe that it's due to true love).  Also, any ideas as to what breed of dog Hercules is?