All week Mom has been telling me she had a surprise for me on the weekend, a little adventure with just the two of us. I love having alone time with Mom so I was pretty excited. The Twin Cities Pet Expo was on the weekend and for the first year ever, they were allowing people to bring their pets. Mom went alone a few years ago and said she would only go again if she could bring a dog, so this was her chance, and we were going to go Saturday morning. As you may have heard, we had a huge storm Thursday night into Friday, about a foot of snow, lots of high winds, major highways were closed, there were over a thousand accidents and several thousand vehicles that slid off roadways. It has been really bad. Friday night on the news and Saturday morning they said people should only travel if it was absolutely necessary as the driving conditions were so bad. What about going to the expo???
If there is one thing that Mom and us dogs have in common, it is determination and stubbornness. This means that yes, Mom seat belted me in good and snug, and we headed off on the road hoping to get to the Expo and back without incident. She had both our lives in her paws and we made it the roughly fifty mile round trip. Top highway speed was around forty mph on the good stretches. It was solid ice pack and like driving over a washboard the entire way. I think my furry self is still vibrating from that ride!
This was one huge place I must say! I look like a dwarf in the photos! The first exhibit we stopped at was the wabbit agility area. (Note the wabbits behind me) Mom was all excited to see how I would react to a bunch of wabbits. Well, sorry Mom, but I do have some manners. I refused to even look at or sniff in the direction of the wabbits. One lady came over to us with a wabbit and stopped to chat. I thought Mom was going to have heart failure but I had no interest. The woman said that since they smell like house pets they have a different scent and I wouldn’t be as apt to hunt. She also said that if she put the wabbit down I would most likely go after it. Mom was happy when that was over with!
Since I am on the #ScoopThatPoop team, I had to stop at the Pet Yard Pick Up stand. I have some ideas for the next blog hop. Note all the lovely poop samples on the table behind me 🙂
We wandered the aisles looking for interesting dog products. I got a bag to keep some of my swag in. There wasn’t much swag to be had, though. It seems like at least half the booths were animal rescue. That is fine, but we were really there to find products and there weren’t as many as we had hoped for. I don’t know if we will go back again next year or not, but it was fun to go at least this one time for me.
Mom’s favorite stand was the Iron Works. They had so much cute stuff (cats and dogs), she couldn’t decide on anything because there was simply too much. The great part about this place is that they are with Rescued Paws and their money goes to helping pets. You can order their products online, so we will probably do that.
At one point someone called out “It’s Emma!”. That always freaks Mom out a bit. I think she may be jealous that I am often recognized and she is not. It turned out to be Chris, a groomer from a place I used to go for grooming. She is now at a new place. I may give them a shot at stripping my coat one of these days. Everywhere we went people wanted to pet me and know all about me, so I passed out a lot of my business cards and loved all the attention.
The only bad part of the Expo was when Mom turned around and saw a huge snake on a table about ten feet away from us. She kind of screamed, the lady with the snake gave her a nasty look and we proceeded to go forward as fast as possible, only to run into another table with snakes. Mom grabbed my leash and we bolted out of that aisle and never went back. Poor Mom has such a fear of them even if I am along to protect her.
The mischief was on me for my ignoring wabbits and on Mom for screaming at the snakes. I’m joining in the Monday Mischief blog hop brought to you by Alfie’s Blog, Snoopy’s Dog Blog, My Brown Newfies.
We love those iron works too 🙂 What a great day just you and Mom had xxooxxx
Mollie and Alfie
It was fun, but the best part was having all her attention.
It all sounded like fun until you got to the snakes!!
I am sorry but I had a good belly laugh over the snake. 🙂 I love the Iron Works art too. It is very cool. If you pick one out (it is all nice) I hope you will share which you picked. 🙂
🙂 Mom is really scared of them! We are looking at those iron things on the website and will decide one of these days!
Yikes a big snake on a table would have running away sharpish too. Love the iron work. Glad you and mum had a great time. Have a marvellous Monday.
Best wishes Molly
Except for the creepy snakes, it was great.
Interesting reaction to the rabbits. Luckily their were no squirrels. Sorry about the snakes but Emma would have protected you.
OMD snakes mom would have been out of there faster than yours!! We have an expo here to but it’s a buyers show so no one wants to give out samples, I got to go with Sugar so we did have some fun. Love Dolly
I think we would prefer that kind of an expo, but it was a good experience no matter what.
Sounds like fun Emma. I would have screamed at the snakes too probably – not a fan.
I guess we just don’t consider them pets and did not expect to see them so it was an added shock!
Your mom is very very brave to go out in that kind of weather. Looks like you had fun, minus the snakes of course.
Saw lots of stuff and lots of dogs. The attention was lots of fun!
Wabbits and snakes and Emma, oh my! Maybe some of the vendors could not get there due to the weather? Glad you and your mom had safe travels. The mom’s back hurts just reading about the vibrating roads. She hurt her back really bad when she and Maggie got rear ended by a bus! They are both lucky to have survived. I have to go to the doctor today for my 12 week vaccinations. I also have to make a couple of stops to show off my new self. XOXO Sparkle the PBGV
Make sure you only get the vaccinations you need 🙂 I’m sure you will like the vet since you are still so young. Bailie didn’t get her rabies until she was almost six months old. We like to take it easy on vaccinations that are optional and not real necessary for us.
The mom will not allow me to have the lepto-something vaccination – ever. It is not supposed to be agreeable for us Peebs. I will get my rabies at 4 months. The vet was nice until she shoved something up my butt. YIKES! What indignity! now I have to take a yummy liquid med for something that is in my poop. XOXO Sparkle the PBGV
Oh my. Sounds like your vet got a bit too fresh! The main thing is that you are healthy!
I love the iron works art! So cool! Glad you and your mom made it there and back home safe and sound!
It is really cool stuff!
Oh, I canNOT wait to hear what your idea is for #ScoopThatPoop, Emma. That table with all the poop samples was funny. I hope you had a good time at the expo!
*Cairn cuddles*
Oz
I have to get my creative fur on as there is only so much to do with poop 😉
Looks like you had a fabulous time! Those Iron Work pieces look really cool! I’m going to check them out.
The iron work was the highlight of the whole expo for us for sure!
I am glad you and Mom made it safely and dodged the snakes too!
Those awful reptiles were quite the unwanted surprise!
Looks like so much fun at the expo! You pose so well too!
I love to model and be the center of attention.
An adventure with someone who hates snakes? Reminded me of Indiana Jones – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClwIj3x24Q4
Way to brave the storm.
Mom couldn’t go see that movie and never has because she heard about that snake scene. She really can’t handle snakes 🙂
BOL at the snake! They scare me to!!! No worries!
Love the Iron pieces.
((husky hugz))
frum our pack at love is being owned by a husky
Snakes aren’t really pets in our book, but we know some folks like them.
I am addicted to pet expos, I would have gone in the snow too! We rarely miss one. I am thinking about going to Toronto (about five hours from here) for Woofstock which is supposed to be the best of the best as Pet Expos go. Glad you had a good time!
I wish we had a really good one. This one wasn’t as good as we were hoping, but it was still fun.
My Mom LOVES Pet Expos but so far hasn’t brought me to one….darn. Thanks for your comment this morning on my blog, but I am DAKOTA not Cody BOL xoxoxo
AAHHHH…I read both blogs close together early in the morning…shame on me 🙂 I will send you a treat to make up for it.
What an adventure the two of you experienced. I don’t know which would have scared me more, the snake or driving on the icy roads. Both would be very dangerous for us! LOL!
Both were scary 🙂 bit Mom and I did have fun.
Sounds like a pretty cool adventure guys! I have watched Rabbit agility videos on youtube before. The manager of our vet clinic was very scared of snakes too. We always had to warn her not to come to the treatment area when there was a snake at the clinic.
Yeah, we just don’t do reptiles but snakes are the absolute worst! We watched a wabbit do the agility course. He was super slow but hopped through it all.
Looks like the storm kept a lot of the people away. The last time I went to an expo in my area they had so many animals for sale and I tried to stay away from that area. I don’t blame mom for screaming at the snake, the woman who had it should have had a little more understanding, not everyone is a snake fan.
It was so unexpected. We never think of them as pets, but some people do. There were actually more folks there than we expected but it was still not real big.
Whew! My Mom Person would NOT have been going out on a day like that!! Luckily we rarely have a day like that! That expo looks like quite a bit of fun! Rabbits and snakes! Oh my! I’m glad you both survived!! Thanks for sharing!
If you let weather keep you home in MN, you would never get anywhere here 🙂
Y’all are brave souls to live up there!
Mom grew up here, so she loves it. Us dogs have learned to live here.
Our pet expo is in March, and we LOVE to go…. It’s so much fun, and we’ve met so many FURRends. Glad you got to go, and so happy you all were safe. What did you all buy?
Did not buy much, they weren’t selling much interesting stuff. We will order something from iron works when we decide what. Our expo is just pretty small and mostly rescue stuff.
Who would have guessed they’d have snakes there? Or that you would not be interested in the wabbits? It sounds like you had a good time with your Mom, Emma, and that you got lots of attention there. I’m glad your trip was safe, even though scary on those roads!
It was a fun little outing even with the scary parts!
Looks like you had fun. I’m guessing your mom would not have had fun at reptile and amphibian show my son dragged me to years ago. I never saw so many snakes in one place in my life.
–Woofs (and purrs) from Life with Dogs and Cats.
No, she would not go. She is not even sure if she would go for a million dollars!
Hey Emma
You guys sure are adventurous to go in those weather conditions! Glad you were all safe! 🙂
My Mum is scared of snakes too (Dad loves them), can you believe everyone on their trip was looking to see if they could spot an Anaconda? Everyone except Mum, she was happy seeing the other wild life and thought the Tarantula and Caymans were scary enough!
I hope you’re having a fun day,
Your pal Snoopy 🙂
That is one reason Mom would not go to the Amazon is the reptiles. She sticks with Amazon.com…much safer 😉
That sounds like a fun adventure, although I would not like driving in bad weather – and I don’t like snakes either! I’m with your mom on that one! Those ironworks things are sure cute! What a fun outing! We went to a dog show this weekend, but Rita didn’t get to come along. Poor Rita. 🙁
I was happy to go to the pet expo. It seems like pets should be allowed at pet events, but strangely, humans often don’t allow us.
wowzers, you guys did have a bad couple of snow days. Looks like you made up for it at the fun pet expo. Thanks for the tour enjoyed following along with you.
Thank you. We do have plenty of snow finally. We can’t even see to pull out of our driveway it is piled so high!
Roooo Emma – can you give me the directions to where the wabbits are? I might just go have a sniff and see if that woman was right – I’m sure they still smell really tasty and you were just being your well behaved self! *Waggy tail*
Mom still can’t believe it because I am an avid wabbit and squirrel hunter and with nose work she has seen how keen my nose is, but I wasn’t interested.
Those Iron Workses stuff really are cute!
They have awesome stuff!
I’m not surprised your ran away from the snakes typist would been exactly the same!!
Yeah, they are nasty in our opinion.
How FUN! That the same expo group that we went last Summer. I bet many did not attend due to the weather. Will check the Iron Works. Golden Woofs
I think you expo had many more dog product booths from what it looked like. Surprisingly, it was pretty busy despite the weather and almost all the vendors showed up too.
Wow you guys are brave going all the way to the show in that weather. It just goes to show you that everyone has different phobias. Me, I would have been fine with the snake…but the drive…no way. LOL!
Rabbit agility? Really?
Wabbit agility, really! We watched one hop the course! I guess growing up in MN, Mom learned early to not let winter stop her but it was rather scary on the road.
What a fab time you had, shame about the snakes though!
Thankfully, the snakes were seen shortly before we were going to leave anyway.
I’m really impressed that you managed to ignore the wabbits! I can understand your mum being a bit nervous about that encounter.
She still can’t believe it!