MaggieMoose: Prickles & Twigs

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

Rudyard Kipling

  In our children's book MaggieMooseTracks® Making Friends we portray a fictionalized Maggie lost in the forest searching for her real family. In one of her adventures she comes across a mishap from Polly the porcupine who filled her face with painful porcupine quills. In real life, sometimes we get hurt by others words or actions without their intention to hurt us. Maggie and I know that humans make mistakes. Animals too. After all, if Maggie held a grudge against me for something she considered 'not nice' how could she enjoy her twig in peace? We like to believe the best in others. And like our fictionalized Maggie, we forgive, forget and move on. It saves us so much trouble just like Rudyard Kipling says.

MaggieMoose: Sprouted Bouquet Of Little Cookies

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

 "If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers."

Ben Vereen

  Once upon a time there was a dog named Cookie. She had a litter of 13 puppies. This dog was part of the family of English Springer Spaniels that Maggie came from. I remember telling the breeder 'Wow, 13 puppies is a baker's dozen. And your dog's name is Cookie!' Too cute. Maggie and I thought this is a great seed of an idea for our first kid's book MaggieMooseTracks® Making Friends. The next ingredient we wanted for our first children's book was a feel good message for all the kids and families. Maggie, being part moose really understands what it means to be different in a normal dog world. Our goal was to promote the preciousness for being different in a child's world. Many families are different too. Maggie and I celebrate diversity in life much like a mixed bouquet of flowers. All flowers are wonderful, all are beautiful, and all are a pleasure to appreciate. After all, Maggie is not your typical dog. I ask myself how many families have dogs that bring in twigs for show & tell? And with such pride! Maggie is a diverse world unto herself, making our family different too. Her responsibility as 'twig' entertainer prompts Maggie to promote something of value for the wee ones through her children's book series MaggieMooseTracks®. ALERT: For those that already read Chapter 1 online and LOVED it, there is Book 2 in the wings...

Yesterday's twig 'catch of the day'

Back at the ranch, Maggie and I are counting the days down (it's down to days) until our 1st book MaggieMooseTracks® Making Friends is published on Amazon.com, Kindle, iBooks and PDF on our website MaggieMooseTracks.com. While we impatiently wait, we wanted to share the real dog Cookie with her baker's dozen of little Cookie puppies. Such cute little sprouts! 

Since MaggieMoose is quite the globe trotter in friendships around the world (blog read in 87+ countries), our book MaggieMooseTracks® Making Friends is currently being translated into Japanese. It will be ready for purchase right after our 1st book is out in June 2013. We have the Spanish language in the pipeline too. Living life with moose size pawsabilities around the world! WOOF WOOF