Tales and Tails

by Jules on January 3, 2013

Last month Pamela from Something Wagging this Way Comes created the Pet Blogger Gift Exchange, a fun way to exchange encouragement, compliments, and a little bit of link love with another blogger. I was excited to see that I was paired with Tales and Tails, but also a little intimidated! I’m sure you have seen the beautiful photos on her site, I visit it daily just to see what her four pups are up to! Yes, you read that right, daily. Mrs. Taleteller (and sometimes Bunny) post DAILY! Maybe they will write a post and tell us how they manage it!

How can one pick from so many great posts? I can’t, which will hopefully explain my procrastination. I’m a deadline driven kind of girl, and let’s face it, I still have three whole days before the Pet Blogger Gift Exchange ends! But I digress.

Let me just start by saying that I love all of the tales that are told on this blog, and the images? Where does one find the time to take so many beautiful images? Yesterday, while doing a little poking around, I found her Flickr Daily Dog Photostream. Go ahead, click on the link, I’m sure you’ve got an hour or so to kill looking at pictures of her adorable dogs, right?

Bunny is obviously the model of the group. She is always up for a photo shoot, and never seems to disappoint her photographer. But she’s not just another pretty face, she is also a thoughtful writer and aspiring therapy dog. I always look forward to her posts, and was most recently truly moved by this one: Looking for More Beautiful. It really helped me feel better on a very sad day.

I started following Tales and Tails right around the time that they got Kuster. I drove my hubby crazy showing him the adorable pictures of baby Kuster and this particular post had me laughing for days! It’s Getting Nippley in Here. I think Kuster and Mr. Taleteller have worked things out, and now Kuster is training to be a Search and Rescue dog. I love how she describes him in this post as a mix of goofball puppy and serious working dog.

Bunny and Kuster are not the only adorable characters on this blog – Blueberry keeps them on their toes too! I really giggle when I read posts like this one. Now seriously, who could get angry at that sweet face? I especially loved how Morgan got in on the action – they are quite a pair. Speaking of Morgan, I really loved this birthday post, what a lucky girl she is to have landed with the Taletellers :)

I got a huge kick out of the fact that they attempted to photograph the four dogs together for Christmas, and succeeded! We have some funny outtakes of our own from several years ago when we tried to do a picture of the two of us with the three cats and Cali. In most of the photos we were just giggling and the animals were giving each other the stink-eye – (next year I challenge you and Mr. Taleteller to get in the picture!)

I don’t think it is possible that you haven’t visited Tales and Tails, but if you haven’t, make sure you have plenty of time when you do, there is a lot to see!! I would have included some pictures in this post, but I just couldn’t choose, I’ll leave you with one of the adorable outtakes I swiped from their holiday session – they are such sweet pups! Thanks Pamela for the chance to participate (next time, you might want to give me tighter deadlines!) I hope you’ll head on over to all of the blogs that were nice enough to participate!

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  • Colby

    I just clicked on the link in my feed thinking I was headed over to Tales and Tails and imagine my surprise when I arrived at the Daily Dog Blog! We love the pictures on Tales and Tails too! Hearing about Kuster’s training reminds me a lot of working with our guide dogs pups. Thanks for sharing!

    • http://www.thedailydogblog.com Julie Melfi

      Thanks for stopping by! I love reading about your work with the guide dog pups too!!

  • houndstooth4

    Oh, thank you for all the kind words! I was intimidated when I found out that I was going to be writing about you. I waited to post until after Christmas because life has been so hectic for us and I wanted to do you justice when I posted on our blog, but you did so much better than me! I need a deadline, too, though. lol You reminded my husband about the nippley post and he cracked up laughing all over again!

  • All Things Collie

    Thank you for telling us about this wonderful blog! :)

  • Jodi

    Great post, the nippley title has be interested. (Go figure!) So I’m heading over, this was a great post and a fun gift exchange. Great job Jules!!

  • http://bringingupbella.com/ Leslie

    We love Tales and Tails and must have started following them about the same time as you – when Kuster arrived. Of course, I can also appreciate the slightly ‘intimidated’ feeling since it wasn’t until this year that I think I commented on one of their posts. Absolutely stunning photographs, great tales and a blogging schedule that I can’t even imagine.

    The “seeing more beautiful” post really touched me as well.

  • Jet

    Hey Cali and the Felines, Jet here. Hi Miss Julie.

    Oh we LOVE Bunny, Mrs T. and the family… we love their writing, their photos are … wowee wow wow and we love learning about the family as well. Great gift you gave them. :)

  • Pamela | Something Wagging

    Tales and Tails was one of the first blogs I started to follow. I love the photos. I love the stories. I love reading Bunny’s very regal perspective on the family’s adventures.

    You shared some fabulous links.

    Thanks for joining in the Pet Blogger Gift Exchange!

  • snoopy@snoopysdogblog

    Yay, another great blog in the exchange! :) I’m super impressed they post every day!! And that they got a photo of the 4 of them for Christmas, I’m the only dog in our family and it was super hard to get our family picture done with me in it, of course I blame the humans for moving each time – Tee Hee :)

    I hope you’re having a fun day,

    Your pal Snoopy :)

  • Jen@MyBrownNewfies

    What a wonderful gift to a wonderful blog, and one of our favorites!

  • http://twitter.com/wantmorepuppies Pup Fan

    Really nice post about T&T. The photography on that blog is amazing. I hope to someday be half as good!

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