Jerry G. Dawg here, hanging out on the farm in Florida. I’m so excited to head into the 14th month after my amputation and cancer diagnosis, and I just want to wish you all a very hoppy, healthy new year.

May we all live long and prosper. Keep on hopping on, tripawd friends!

I love Christmas. Well OK, I really don’t care what day it is. If I get to open a present, it’s a great day. I just love tearing into packages! Even if it is something my people have given to me before and just re-wrapped again. I don’t care, it’s the unwrapping I really like.

This year was extra special for me. It was my 1oth Christmas. My 9th with Jim and René, and my second as a Tripawd. But as you can see, I still enjoy opening my own presents. Especially if it’s my favorite talking Barney!

Oh I am such a good dog. My Mom and Dad and I are living on a farm right now, and there are so many things for me to do here, I don’t know where to begin.

Wait, I know. I could begin by chasing chickens around the yard and eating them up for dinner. After all, my Mom feeds me chicken and eggs all the time. Bet a real live chicken would taste sooooo good! I see them, all plump and tender, flocking about. I want one so bad, but every time I get too close, Mom freaks out and I have to sit back down like a good dog.

I must be mellowing with age. In my younger days, I never would have stood for this!

Last week, I drank the waters of the Fountain of Youth. No, really, I did. Mom and Dad took me to St. Augustine, Florida, and we found the Fountain of Youth together. They walked inside and filled my water bowl and I drank and drank and drank. Now I feel so good, just like a young pup all over again!

Sometimes just believing is the best medicine there is.

  Yes, it’s getting to be that time. For all of you holiday shoppers, here’s a great idea that benefits a wonderful cause that’s close to all of our hearts.

Cru Vin Dogs, a wine importing company from Colorado, has announced:

In honor of our newest charitable partner, the Morris Animal Foundation, we will donate an additional 10% of all wine and merchandise purchases made from November 16th through December 31st, 2007 to the Morris Animal Foundation’s Canine Cancer Campaign.

So if you’re doing the gift giving thing this season, give the gift of fabulous wine, and help put a stop to canine cancer.

When my people and I helped out as workampers at Safe Harbor Farm for a couple weeks, I was outnumbered by cats. Now, I haven’t cared much for cats ever since I was attacked by a couple kittens years ago. But I mean I was seriously outnumbered here! So I behaved myself and got used to them.

When we volunteered at an adoption day, we met some cool cat people. And when I heard about Nemo, who only has three legs himself, I figured he must be pretty cool too. So maybe all cats aren’t that bad. At least those with three legs are OK by me.

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When we were camped out next to the Protani family at the McDowell Nature Preserve in Charlotte, I got in some good quality time with some people my size. I just love playing with kids, but they sure tire me out.

Just look at all the fun we had below … and be sure to check out my three-legged dog videos page for all the latest movies from my cross-country adventure!

While we are on the road, I like to go visit animal shelters. They make me sad, but I hope that at least the toys I’m giving to my adoptable pup pals will brighten their day.

I have to remind myself that dogs live in the moment, and their stay at the shelter is just a short time that will hopefully be followed by a happy family coming in to find their forever friend.

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A while back when we were camping in Vermont, Mom and Dad met the campground owner, Lesley Nase, who is a real animal communicator and shamanic healer. She was a neat lady who had two big dogs of her own, and we all got along great. One day, Lesley was kind enough to do a psychic reading just for me, and after she had taken her journey, she came over to our campsite to talk about it. Dad also asked her what kind of advice she had for people who have or are going through illness with their animals, and she talks about that too.

If you want to meet her and talk about your own Tripawd, you can go to her website or just send her a note.

When I was camping in Maine, I met the coolest lady dog. Her name is Ally (but her parents have a nickname for her; “Haggle Baggle Bag o’ Bones”!).

Ally is a retired racing Greyound. She is Seventeen Years Old!

Her Mom and Dad rescued her from a bad situation. Ally was living in a moving van, it was really sad. Now she lives in a home in Colorado, with so much love and attention! She gets around so great, you wouldn’t believe it. She eats a lot, but she keeps that slender girlish figure, and is as graceful and elegant as a gazelle.

And not only that, Ally has a sister that is thirteen years old!

I told Mom and Dad that I want to eat whatever it is that they’re eating every night. Lucky gals!