A Budadog- day-trip to the kennels that actually went smoothly:)

Finally we're home after a day of minor wrong turns only. In addition to this we also succeeded in NOT forgetting the drugs for the dogs out at the kennels, NOR did we take the wrong dog out from kennels and into foster care. More surprisingly, we even managed NOT to cause any damage to the car :)
(KNOCK ON WOOD!!!)

A couple of times every week some of the girls will take a road trip to the kennels to either collect or deliver dogs, or to give drugs (such as dewormers, spot-ons etc).
The road trips are in fact real roadtrips! The kennels are situated only one hour's drive outside of Budapest, but for certain reasons (...) a Budadog-daytrip is in fact a DAY TRIP!

Ida enjoying a fresh nice apple, made only for her, while blessing this day - praying for no unplanned events to occur... :D


Runa after arriving to the first kennel. She probably cannot wait to bring out the doctor's box!!!

Ida after arriving to Jenő bácsi's (Uncle Jenö's) kennel. The kennel lies in Monor, which is a village 45km south-east of Budapest. This kennel is what we call the "Dog Hotel", as Jenó spoils the poochies to pieces.
Ida's extreme joy here is due to the approaching puppy.

Jenö and the puppy that made Ida's day :)

Ida and the puppy that made Ida's day :)

From left: Amanda, James and Dougal "Kiraly" (King)

From left: Dougal "Kiraly", James and Amanda

When we opened the dog yard to let Benny out for vaccination the poochies broke loose, and had a little spin around in Jenö's own yard. As usual, when this happens, good hearted Jenö gets some nice, tasty, canned soft-food to lure the doggies back into the dog yard.



Vaccination of Benny - Ida is being "taught" how to do it. Here she is comforting Benny, who is not really happy with the situation of having to be poked and bothered when he was planning on having his five minutes of running around in bácsi's yard.




After poking and annoying Benny, bácsi gladly let him run free a bit before putting him back into the dog yard.
"Here comes Benny!!!!" Completely and utterly filled with happiness!


Jénö's anya (mother) at the front porch throwing some treats down to Benny

Apparently, Benny was not the only one who got treats from Jénös anya today :D


Me and Ida got freshly baked Hungarian buns. Mmmmmm :)


A "few" hours later we're driving home from Feco's kennels in Dunakeszi, a village 20km north of Budapest.
At Feco's we did blood samples and collected dogs that went into fostering today :)
Rex - the gorgeous little puppy man who was found together with his mum (Reena, also a budadog). They were tied up to a short, short chain, starving, with a bowl of frozen water;
Xena - the beautiful woman with the prettiest face;
Twiggy, the wise :)

"May this day continue as smoothly as it started"


Rex, the gorgeous little puppy man, wants to sit on Ida's lap.


ALVIN!!!! Alvin gets his foster-mum back, and Faye gets her foster-baby-boy back :D
It is always fun to see reunions of happy foster-parents and happy foster-poochies when their foster-parents return from vacations :) :) :)
Twiggy and her brand new foster-mum, Christina.
When we were at the kennels in Dunakeszi today, and Feco went to get Twiggy he turned around to us, looked seriously at us and said "Twiggy, nagyón jó kutya" which means "Twiggy is a very good dog". When coming from Feco, and the way he said it, we believe that it is absolutely true : ) : )


By Ida Aksnes and Runa Vintervold

Photoshoot in City park

Exam period is over and it is time to update the pictures of some of the dogs:

Junior:









Truls:




Bailey:








Timmy:





Sylvester:







Susanne Karlsen

Samuel is visiting

Samuel is an older man with a skin condition, so we have to take him to a specialist next week, this is the reason he is now visiting with me and my two girls for a couple of days.

Here is a photo from when he first arrived to our friend in Heves.


Samuel got a bath yesterday, but still smells like kennel, poor thing, so we need to take him to a hairdresser who can treat his fur and skin gently.

He has walked around the apartment and sniffed everything possible to sniff, and is now content with chewing a bone he found.
It is pretty dark already, so the pictures are not the best, I better take some more tomorrow that we can update his profile on the homepage with.
Samuel is a careful old gentleman, and does not trust everybody he meets, and he makes people feel very good about themselves when he shows you that he trusts you.

He has taken a few breaks in his sniffing to come over to me and lick my hand, before walking around sniffing again :)
Samuel LOVES food! So the food is now on a higher shelf than normal, lucky for me he is too little to even try to jump up on anything, and he seems to lazy and grown up to bother really ;)

Samuel needs a fosterhome really soon and he is also up for adoption :)

Maud Kristine Heier

Matilda, the strong one

Our newest addition got her name, Matilda, because it means; powerful in battle.

Matilda was rescued by our friend in Heves after she got several phone calls regarding this thin puli who was walking around town begging for food. She got food from the local police station and in front of a warehouse.

When she was rescued she was sitting in the winter wind , shivering like a leaf in the in front of a "Spar" shop. Matilda was not able or willing to move, she seemed like she had given up completely.

Matilda is so skinny, that even through her long fur, you can easily see her spine.
Her fur was in such an awful condition that we had to cut it of at once, we could not let her have all that filth any longer and the fur was so twisted together that it hurt her when she streched her feet.


Matilda seems to be quite young, about 1.5-2 years old. We can not believe that someone has left this sweet, young, trusting girl out in the cold all winter to fend for herself.


Matilda is still in Heves with our friend there, and she tells us that Matilda is so tired that she has hardly moved at all since she took her in. She seems very grateful to be in a safe and warm environment where she gets food served to her and is not something she has to beg for anymore.


She is full of flees at the moment, and Matilda will get a thorough check at the veterenarians office with bloodtests and everything else the veterinarian feels is neccesary.

Matilda will also need an appointment with a very kind hairdresser that we use to get her skin and fur back to normal . She is good with scared dogs, and knows what they need :)

We look forward to get to know her better, and we are sure she will be a joy to know!
Matilda needs a fosterhome with understanding of what she has been through and also ready for when the real Puli shines through, which will happen when she feels more secure :)



Maud Kristine Heier