Buffys 3rd Birthday!

It's Buffy's Birthday today! I can't believe my big girl is 3, time really does fly...

We're celebrating her day in style, with a beautiful 'snuggle bed' from the fabulous Charley Chau and a bundle of goodies from the lovely Laughing Dog! She got a large 'Dotty Chocolate' snuggle bed, plus 3 packs of 'Oaties'.

She's thrilled with her gifts, I love how excited she gets! She's super excited to show her gifts off to my dad and step mum too, who will be visiting soon to bring her a little gift, so we'll update asap about that!

Love & licks,
Rio, Jonny, Birthday Girl Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe, Lily and Lola.
xo

Buffy's 'paw-ly' paw :(

Today we decided it was high time for a 'spa day', so the girls all got brushed out, dry shampooed and had their nails clipped. It all went smoothly, until we got to Buffy's nails, when we discovered one of her nails on her right hind paw had a split down it, right into the quick and it had bled a little :(

It looks to be a few days old, so we've no idea how she did it! You can't see the split in the picture but you can see a little bit of dried blood and a little piece missing on the end of her nail, where the split starts D:

(click the picture to enlarge it.)

1. Is where the dried blood is & 2. Is where you can see the split starting.

It doesn't seem to be hurting her so I smoothed the edge of the nail off and gave it 2 coats of an extra strong clear top coat to hold it together and stop it splitting more as it hopefully grows out!

Isn't she a brave little soldier?

Love & licks,
Rio, Jonny, brave Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe, Lily and Lola.
xo

We're 'Dotti' for dogs!

It's been an eventful week or so at our house, ups and downs, a few sad times, but not things to dwell on here! We'd rather tell you our good news :)

Buffy got a new toy, a 'Dotti', yes it should be shared but Buffy is the toy monster in our house, so it's become her 'Baby' lol. Simple things please simple pups :)

She's taken to snoozing on it too!

Sleeping beauty...

And some news we've been waiting a while to share...

Meet Hilton number 5!

Adorable no?
She's finally coming to live with us this Wednesday, so we thought we'd share the news at last :)
She's Monroe and Lily's half sister! (Same dad for all 3).
Name wise we're torn between Lola and Clover, we might end up doing a poll xD

More pics/vids to come soon!

Love & licks,

Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe and Lily.
xo

Ravishing Rafferty

It feels like it's been a while since we had any really nice pictures of Rafferty, as most people will know by now, she's more than a little camera shy. However, we did manage to snap a few shots of her gorgeous self earlier and thought we'd share them with you now ^^

And just because we can't let anyone feel left out..

Hope you enjoy ^^
Love & licks,
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe & Lily.
xo

Happy half birthday Lily and Alfie!

Lily and Alfie turned 6 months old this month, on the 5th, I've been meaning to post about it since but despite taking pictures specifically for a post, I kept completely forgetting/being too busy, so time to make up for it!

I haven't got any new pics of Alfie, I'll have to get my dad to take some, but here's some 6 month birthday pictures of Lily, hope you enjoy! :)

How stunning is my girl growing up to be!?! 

Okay, so I might be a little biased, but I think she's gorgeous, just like the rest of my girls...
Speaking of...

I know this was supposed to be a (late) Lily post, but you can't leave out the rest of the Hilton clan!

We've don't really have anything to update, so we'll go away, do something blog worthy and return in a day or 2 with tales to delight! (And hopefully some pictures of Alfie!) :)

Ciao for now Bloggers!
Love & licks,
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe & Lily.
xo

Adorable Buffy?

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Doggy deliveries...

It's been about 2 weeks since our last post, so we thought it was high time to share some pictures and what not :)

Not much has really been going on, although by the name of the post you may have guessed we ordered some more things... ;)

We just ordered a few bits and bobs over the weekend, a giant (51cm tall) giraffe that squeaks and rattles, another tub of Coachies (as we were running low), some dried duck fillet pieces, some dried liver pieces, a slipper toy, a fleece tug rope, a twisty nylon chew toy, several Nylabones and Marrowbones in various flavours, (bacon, jerky and chicken I think) and our pièce de résistance, a huge batch of dried beef knuckles!

As hilarious as it seems to some people, that my 'wimpy handbag dogs' might be able to tackle these huge cuts of bone, they absolutely adore them and we'd recommend them to any dog owner, whether your pooch is big or small! ^^

A few pictures of the bits that have already arrived;

The giraffe... 

They love rugby tackling this, although Monroe spends most of her time trying to get it onto the sofa...

The fleece tug rope. 

(Yes, they are in the basket feasting on the beef knuckles, they were so distracted by them that the new toy didn't even register!)

Buffy trying to fit the entire bone in her mouth by the looks of things...

Buffy and Monroe :)

Buffy and Monroe again.

Lily joining them! 

(They're actually sharing them surprisingly well, mind you, the bones are so big I don't think they notice each other chewing it!)

Deliveries aside, we've been sifting through some junk on the pc and found some old pictures and videos* of Buffy and a few of Rafferty too.
We'll sort through them and we'll do a past times type post sometime this week, along with updates as the rest of our things arrive :)

Ciao for now!
Love & licks,
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe & Lily.
xo

 *Taster video of Buffy...

P.S As ever, if anyone wants to know where we got anything we've ordered, feel free to drop us a line via the links in the side bar! >>>

General Update.

It's been a while since we posted, so time for a quick update!

Not too much has happened, Lily and Alfie have both started losing their teeth, we think Lily's pretty much done losing hers now.

Buffy, Rafferty and Monroe are all doing well and trundling along, being spoilt as ever.
I had to order them some more food the other day, so naturally the got another toy, just a little vanilla flavoured rubber ball that you can stuff with kibble/paste etc.
I shall have to try and get a picture of it :)

Lily might be getting a change of (middle) name, from 'Armani' to 'Laurent*'... as we may need to use Armani elsewhere...which leads us to the biggest news we have, we may be adding to the Hilton clan once again, although we're sticking to the Hilton chihuahua format for sure!

We'll know more by the weekend (maybe a lot more ;D) so we'll post Saturday/Sunday ^^

That's it for now, so we'll leave you to digest that! Toodles!
Love & licks,
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe & Lily.
xo

*Rafferty's middle name is 'Yves' as in, Yves St Laurent, so we thought 'Laurent' would be cute :) Thoughts on this? Hmm.

News, updates and pictures of Alfie too!

How rude Rafferty! 

 Just kidding, she was asking for a lick of some nummy food no doubt! ;D

We've been neglecting our posting a little the past few days, had some things on with Lily finally getting her 2nd jab, Rafferty getting her booster shot, sorting for Monroe and Lily to get micro chipped in a week or 2 plus seeing people and all the usual!

The rainbow rubber ring finally came! Aaaand none of them like it -.-

Not even Buffy... Typical we know. 

They're all in love with Mr. Octopus, the headless kong zebra, and their various rope tug toys right now, but we'll see in a few weeks when we're planning to order some more things!

Also, there's been talk of another addition after it didn't work out with Rae, this time we will be sticking by our breed, our girls just don't handle bigger pups! 

It's a shame, but they have to come first and we love our 4 Hilton chi's :)

We'll do a blog post once we know more, all we can really say is we are looking at one but she's only about 10 days old now, so our details are limited, one thing we can say is she'll be Monroe and Lily's half sister (Sugar is their daddy)... 

But we'll post more about her as time goes by!

We snatched a few pics of Alfie as promised, he (and ofc Lily) are coming up 5 months old now! 

We can hardly believe how time has flown...

Incredible how much he's changed, we still think he's a cutie, although we might be a little bit biased ;)

That's all for now blogspot-ees,
We'll be back soon!

Love & licks as ever,
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe and Lily.
xo

Buffy's such a...

Classy dog. Gimp.

 

.../facepalm.

Buffy's such a classy dog...

Need proof? Well look no further...

 

Enough said! 

Love & licks,
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe and Lily.
xo

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree....♪♫

Slightly later than planned, it's our 'Christmas tree post'! Woooo! Exciting stuff right? ;)

Seeing as we're not really sure how much crap we can chat about about tree's, festive or otherwise, we'll just post a few pictures for your enjoyment!

Yes, we know, we haven't wrapped all our presents yet, but to be fair to us the last of the girls toys arrived today and we're still waiting on Rafferty's tracksuit! So there ;D

Now for the cute stuff;

 'Chihuahua sofa stealing', a sport favoured by my girls.

 Crazy mid-wag tail! (Hugging daddy, cue ear kisses)

 OHai.

 Buffy :)

 Monroe sucking her baby blankey...

 Lily posing :)

 Upside down Buffy.

 Spot the chihuahua!

 Nose smudged camera lens...

^Our number 1 in things that make you go 'awww' :)

In other news our BSL t shirt and wrist band arrived this morning (see our original post here) and we're thrilled, time to wear them out and spread the word!

On the subject of Staffies, we found an incredible Australian based site dedicated to the breed and we're dying to order practically everything from their store!
Narrowed it down to 3 choices items though, a t shirt, a necklace and a fridge magnet :)
Shall be ordering those asap come the new year!

On that note, we shall love you and leave you!
Back soon...

Love & licks,
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe and Lily.
xo