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<title>The Barking Machine</title>
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<description>Dogster diary for the dog Shakespeare</description>
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<copyright>Copyright 2013 by Shakespeare &amp; Dogster</copyright>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:42:29 PDT</pubDate>
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		<title>Mom visited and I have to get surgery</title>
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				<pubdate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:19:33 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Mom came to visit me! I was SO HAPPY to see her! I perked right up and got lots of energy and the in ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom came to visit me! I was SO HAPPY to see her! I perked right up and got lots of energy and the internal med vet opened the cage and mom sat down and I leapt onto her lap! We hugged for a bit, then I stood up cause dog, I wanted to go home! Mom told me no, that I had to stay there cause they were gonna have to do surgery on me. I'm just gonna copy and paste her book of faces status cause my paws are tired from trying to get away from mom's smothering, BOL (not really).  (Psst, don't tell mom I have her book of faces password!)

Shakey update: internal med vet said his ultrasound showed a lot going on in his abdomen. (Vet called it a hot mess, heh) His gallbladder is sick, no obstructions but its inflamed.. One of his adrenal glands looks diseased, the other is enlarged, possible tumor? His spleen is unhappy too. So they recommend surgery to really see what's going on and how to fix it, like if enlarged gland is from gland or liver, what's up with gallbladder if it needs to be removed etc. they want to do it this afternoon since he's had lots of fluids etc. 

Oh yah, while she was here, mom talked to the internal med specialist vet and the surgeon, they're gonna check out my insides and pawsibly remove my gallbladder. I'll make sure she keeps you updated cause I may not be able to type while I'm all doped up post-surgery.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Overnight report</title>
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				<pubdate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:44:14 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Hi pups, man these vets are around for long times, hard to be sneaky! I overhead the nice e-vet talk ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Hi pups, man these vets are around for long times, hard to be sneaky! I overhead the nice e-vet talking to mom last night and again this morning. This morning’s report is that I did fairly well overnight, I had an anti-nausea med and I ate and have kept it down so far, and my blood sugar held steady. The vet also started me on antibiotics cause she saw a little bacteria in my urine (ewww). I’m gonna see an internal specialist this morning and get an ultrasound so they can see all inside (ewwww). 

If I can remember what the vet told mom last night…. Let me review my notes…. My potassium is normal. My blood smear showed immature red blood cells, which I think means I’m making more. My blood clot time was 23 seconds, and 19 is normal. The xrays didn’t show evidence of obvious obstruction, but they did show a slightly enlarged area in my upper abdomen, not lots of detail tho, which is consistent with inflammation around my liver, gallbladder, and bile ducts, which is where the vet thinks the problem is from.  The vet’s still concerned about my Billy Reuben (thanks Zoe!), and she was leaning towards my liver. She mentioned three things in particular she was looking for, but I forgot what they were except for pancreatitis.. which is a word I know cause mom’s always talking about how she feeds us low fat food and we don’t get much people food cause we’re prone to that. 

The vet was asking mom if I could have gotten into anything bad, like mushrooms or xylitol or palm trees, but I’ve always been good about not getting into stuff. Plus mom watches me like a hawk, she hates mushrooms, she only chews gum at work and never drops it, and I haven’t been to Florida ever. 

Whew, I need to rest after typing all that out! 

Oh, can’t furget - thanks for the PoP!!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>At the e-vet</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/827566</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:17:12 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Sheesh, you gotta really sneak around to get to a computer here! Mom left me at the e-vet tonight ca ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Sheesh, you gotta really sneak around to get to a computer here! Mom left me at the e-vet tonight cause they need to run diagnostic tests and xrays and stuff on me. Know how I've been urka gurkaing? I even urka gurkaed rice last night, and I've been pretty lethargic all weekend too, so mom took me to the vet this afternoon. The vet thought I looked jaundiced (you shoulda seen mom's freaked out expression there, she was not expecting that at all), so they took blood work. My liver values were 8-10 times higher than they should be, and my billy-something or other value was high too. So the vet recommended mom take me to this e-vet so they could figure out what's wrong. The e-vet lady was nice and was talking to mom about liver and gallbladder and bile ducts and how they all work together, and mom was paying attention but I dunno what it means yet. They gotta run tests. I'll sneak back and let you pups know what's up when I can.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>New foods!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/827394</link>

				<pubdate>Sun, 19 May 2013 09:18:38 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>I've been urka gurking this weekend, so mom's been giving me &quot;bland&quot; human foods (they're not bland  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I've been urka gurking this weekend, so mom's been giving me "bland" human foods (they're not bland for me, they're delicious!). Yesterday she gave me pieces of boiled chicken, a tiny bit of which urka gurkaed up. This morning I got a tiny piece of banana (YUM!) and bits of scrambled eggs (YUM YUM!). OMD, why has mom never fed me these things before?!?! Just cause she doesn't eat eggs does not mean she shouldn't make them for me, altho now that she knows I like them, she says she'll make them just for me. Woof! On a related note, she's been wanting to buy a rice cooker for a while, and last night she finally bought one so she could make rice for me. Woof! There's still scrambled egg on the counter that I want but mom is waiting to see if I urka gurka anything else first.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Playing with Bela</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/818628</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 4 Mar 2013 17:54:20 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Mom posted a video of me and my doggy roommate Bela, we played a bunch on Saturday morning. We have  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom posted a video of me and my doggy roommate Bela, we played a bunch on Saturday morning. We have fun playing, we bark and grumble and play bow.  Oh, mom says to make sure to tell my furiends that she was watching the whole time and Bela is super sweet and I’m a grumbly brat (hey! I’m not barking that!), and no doggies were harmed in the making of this video. (Sheesh mom, like I’d ever let a girl dog beat me up, even if she is three times my size!)]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I&acirc;m at home freaking out!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/814977</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 5 Feb 2013 05:51:53 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>The smoke detector keeps beeping and I hate it and mom couldn&acirc;t reach it this morning even when sh ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ The smoke detector keeps beeping and I hate it and mom couldn’t reach it this morning even when she stood on a stool (she’s only 5 feet tall and the alarm is on the ceiling and the ceilings are high) and even if she hit it with a broom it’d still hang there and she still couldn’t reach it and she had to go to work to make treat money and the alarm keeps beeping and I hope my tall human roommate or mom’s tall boyfriend get here soon so they can reach the alarm and stop it.

I was freaking out so badly this morning that I didn’t want to eat my morning treats and I ran outside when mom opened the door to go out to get to work. She put me back inside, which is not where I want to be right now. 

I hope this day goes by fast cause I am not a happy dog.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Oh the dogmanity!!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/808129</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:40:02 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Thank you Dogster for choosing me as Dog of the Day!!!! If only the photo on the front page of me in ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Thank you Dogster for choosing me as Dog of the Day!!!! If only the photo on the front page of me in that stupid squirrel costume wasn't the most embarrassing photo of me ever! Sheesh! I don't care if I need mom's pawmission to get on the laptop, but I gotta change that photo to something more dognified! Not that I'm typing in my diary without mom's pawmission or anything, BOL....]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Jealous!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/802259</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:03:07 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>I'm so jealous of what my mom did earlier tonight. She killed a squirrel. She feels really bad about ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I'm so jealous of what my mom did earlier tonight. She killed a squirrel. She feels really bad about it, and says there's no way she coulda not got it cause she was on the interstate in her car and didn't see the squirrel. I wanna get a squirrel! I've been trying for eleventy years! I bark at them and chase them but I've never caught one. Yet. Mom often asks me what I'd do if I caught one, and I woof that I'd show her if I ever did catch one. Someday!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>More thank yous!!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/795076</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:33:37 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Thank you Fearless Four (not gonna type all the names, BOL) and Finley for my steaks! Yum!! And than ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Thank you Fearless Four (not gonna type all the names, BOL) and Finley for my steaks! Yum!! And thanks Austin and Doo for the baseball!

Luna, thank you for the bone and the compliment!  Thank you for the cupcake Zaidie! I'm sure it's MEATZ(tm) filled!  And thanks to Fizzy for the other cupcake, I bet that's cheese filled! If not, I got a burger from Rudy and Izzy, thank you, aroo!

Once mom's computer can get on the intrawebs, I'll make her post photos. I've got lots of showing off to do!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Barkday, aroooo!!  And other pupdates</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/794940</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:49:42 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Woof woof arooo! Happy Barkday to ME!  Mom says I'm 11 today but I don&acirc;t act like it and I'll alwa ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Woof woof arooo! Happy Barkday to ME!  Mom says I'm 11 today but I don’t act like it and I'll always be her baby puppy and.. sheesh.. knock it off mom! Just gimme my barkday treats and let me unwrap presents! No, I'm not spoiled, BOL!  I don't act my age tho, I have tons of energy and love walks and bark at everything and mark up the neighborhood and play with toys and roll in the grass and all the things dogs are supposed to do regardless of their age. I'm still a crazy goofball! Woof!
 
Anypaw! It's my first barkday in our new city and with a doggy roommate, so mom says she's gonna bake peanut butter treats for us all, woof!  (She's at work now making the treat money. Work hard mom! BOL!)

Sorry we haven't been keeping up lately - mom's laptop won't connect to the internet and we can't check Dogster on her iPhone cause its keys are way too small for our paws. (Don't ask how I'm posting now, BOL)  Me and Lacey are doing good, and we're still getting along with doggy roommate Bela (she LOVES us!). There's lots of doggies in our neighborhood that we bark to when we're out walking. There's even several stray kitties that mom won't let me chase. We’ve made lots of new people friends from all the friends that visit mom and human roommate. Me and Lacey and Bela always make them feel welcome by excitedly barking at them!

What else is new? Oh! Our schnauzer cousins Adeline and Samson and our grandpawrents came to visit us a few weeks or months ago or somethin'. That was so much fun, we got to show off our neighborhood!   

We've had stupid flea problems this summer, even though me and Lacey were on topical flea meds. (Stupid non-working meds and stupid stray cats that I can't chase.)  Mom gave us baths with flea shampooo (not made of fleas, BOL, but to get rid of fleas) and morphed into a cleaning freakazoid and washed our beds lots and vacuumed and stuff. Mom switched us to Trifexis (I looked at the box, BOL) last month and me and Lacey haven't had fleas (yet, mom tends to say, sheesh) since then.

I had my teethers cleaned last week and I only had two taken out, so even though I'm "old", I still have most of my teeth! See! "Senior" my paw! BOL! 

Thanks to Snarky Schnazers for the barkday hat! I may wear it for a second or two before I rub it off against the couch, BOL, Thanks to Sniffers and Dixis for the bone, nomnom!

Thanks to Sophie and Sammie for the star! Thanks to Sabrina and Duncan and Hamish and Zoe and Tux and Drover and Bella for all the steaks! Thanks to Whitley for the ice cream!  Thanks to Harley D and Sophie Claire for the baseball - I'm gonna go play now!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What's worse?</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/789739</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:10:15 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Sheesh! I don't know what's worse, having fleas even though mom puts flea medicine on me every month ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Sheesh! I don't know what's worse, having fleas even though mom puts flea medicine on me every month, or the baths with the flea shampoo where I have to stand in the sink all wet and soaped up for furever. I deserve more treats!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Squirrel Catcher Job Opening!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/786475</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:26:49 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Mom told me one of her friends has an interview at a company that gets squirrels out of attics. I wa ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom told me one of her friends has an interview at a company that gets squirrels out of attics. I want that job! Where do I apply?!?! I would be PAWSOME at that! I'd even work for free! Why even bother interviewing humans, just employ me and a bunch of my terrier friends! Squirrel hunting pawty!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Shakespeare Fest!?!?</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/783558</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 8 Jun 2012 10:58:16 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>There's a Shakespeare Festival starting in my new city this weekend!  I saw the poster a bunch of ti ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ There's a Shakespeare Festival starting in my new city this weekend!  I saw the poster a bunch of times on our walks and was wondering why my face wasn't on it.. and now I'm wondering why I haven't even been invited yet!  What the woof?!?  It is a festival celebrating *me*, right? Just like every day should be!

p.s. Who's Cymbeline and why is he going to be there and not me?!?
And who are these merry wives in Windsor who are going to be there later? Where's Windsor? Why are they merry? Ooo, are they on a walk? Maybe there will be dog treats!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We have flying squirrels!!!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/775108</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:06:09 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>OMD! My new city has flying squirrels!!!! If I could catch one of those I'd be the envy of all my do ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ OMD! My new city has flying squirrels!!!! If I could catch one of those I'd be the envy of all my doggy friends! Wait, mom, what? Flying squirrels is the name of our city's baseball team? What's baseball and how do flying squirrels fit in?  Do they allow dogs to play baseball with the squirrels? Ooo, are the squirrels the balls?!?! Cause that would be pawsome fun! I could see me and Zaidie and Greta Grace and Fizzy and Buddy and Whitley just throwing and catching squirrels! BOL! Woof woof woof woof woof!

Lacey wants to know if anypup has a team with "bunnies" or "rabbits" cause she'd like to play catch with them!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Whatevfur!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/774796</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:17:41 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>We were out walking earlier and I barkbarkbarked at this man who passed near us. He told me &quot;you're  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ We were out walking earlier and I barkbarkbarked at this man who passed near us. He told me "you're too pretty to be mean." What?!? Whatevfur dude! First off, I'm *handsome* cause I'm a boy, as my blue leash should clearly get across, and secondly, I am too mean, you heard me barkbarkbark! Sheesh! People need to learn dog around here! Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go get loving from my mom. And no, being a mama's boy doesn't make me a "pretty" dog, it makes me spoiled rotten, woof!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I need my space</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/759243</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:51:01 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>My silly mom's been all sad and what not that I haven't come upstairs to sleep with her and Lacey fo ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ My silly mom's been all sad and what not that I haven't come upstairs to sleep with her and Lacey for the last couple of nights. Sheesh mom, I need my space! I'm your same schnauzer that used to go in another room to nap, back when we had other rooms and no stairs in the house.  It's like she furgot who I am! BOL (The downstairs here is just one big room so I don't have many places to escape to without having to climb the stupid stairs.) Besides, I also have five zillion beds downstairs to sleep in instead of just two upstairs (Lacey and mom take up the big human bed).  I can also see and thus bark at stuff outside, I mean if the other dogs are upstairs with the humans, who's left to be security? Me, that's who. Ruuuffff!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>No Cushings!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/757457</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:13:57 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Sheesh, what a crazy week! We hung out at our grandpawrents and Addy and Samson's for the howlidays  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Sheesh, what a crazy week! We hung out at our grandpawrents and Addy and Samson's for the howlidays and we had a blast like we always do there. Except for when mom dropped me off at the v-e-t to be tested for Cushing's. The v-e-t said my senior bloodwork had a high liver enzyme that's related to Cushing's. So mom decided to have me tested in case I had it so it could be treated early. But my tests were negative! Arooo!! 

Thank you Sophie for the big PoP!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Sleepover</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/748956</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:41:30 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Shakespeare's mom here. Shakey is having a sleepover with Samson and Adeline at his grandpawrents' h ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Shakespeare's mom here. Shakey is having a sleepover with Samson and Adeline at his grandpawrents' house. When Lacey and I went to leave, Shakey decided he didn't want to go, he stayed snug in the doggy bed. He didn't move when I called him, dropped the leash, and even when Lacey and I sat in the car waiting to see if he wanted to stay or go. So I decided he was old enough to have a sleepover at his grandpawrents' house if he really wanted. He is ten after all. :)   His grandpawrents are going to be coming over tomorrow morning anyways, so they will bring him home then. I miss my mama's boy. *sniffs* Guess I have to let him grow up sometime huh? 

I hope you have a good sleepover Shakey boy, and I can't wait to see you tomorrow morning. :)]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Morning urka gurkas</title>
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				<pubdate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:28:06 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>My tummy's been bothering me all morning. Mom says it's ok, she just cleans it up and loves on me. T ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ My tummy's been bothering me all morning. Mom says it's ok, she just cleans it up and loves on me. The first couple times she wasn't up yet, so I got to snack on it.. mom said that's really gross and wondered if other pups did that. 

Mom just told me I'll probably get chicken for dinner, woof!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My Pawty Weekend - Barkday Celebrations Have Only Begun!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/735578</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:32:48 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Hurricane Irene visited us this weekend and left so many branches and leaves scattered on the ground ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Hurricane Irene visited us this weekend and left so many branches and leaves scattered on the ground around my neighborhood - so much to pee on! BOL!  

So on Saturday, me and Lacey and mom went out of town, and me and Lacey stayed at a new day care place. We were gonna stay at our usual weekend retreat (other than our grandpawrent's house), but they closed cause of the hurricane. Anypaw, the ladies at the new place in the other city were really really nice, and me and Lacey immediately jumped on them and sat in their laps, and they gave us lots of pets and treats.  I could tell mom had been kinda worried since she hadn't visited the place before, but there were lots of other doggies in the play areas and people hanging out with the doggies.  And Lacey and I make friends everywhere we go, espawcially people friends!  

So while mom was hanging out with *cats* (the horror!), Lacey and I were living it up making new people and doggy pals! We had our own hurricane pawty, woof!

Mom came and picked us up on Sunday afternoon, and boy was I glad to see her! I had a fun time but I'm a mama's boy and homedoggy at heart. Of course Sunday was my barkday! We pawtied some at day care, then we got a car ride and I love car rides, but when we got home there was no power and no air conditioning.. not a way for a pup to spend his barkday!  Mom said she couldn't bake me a barkday cake or barkday treats cause we didn't have power, but that she'd make something this week, and we'd spend all week celebrating. Sounds ok to me, I'm ok with being spoiled even more rotten every day!

So mom, where's the pawresents already?!?!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Thanks pups!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/735378</link>

				<pubdate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:59:51 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/735378</guid>
		<description>Thanks for all the barkday gifts! I haven't opened them all cause I am worn out from the weekend.. g ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Thanks for all the barkday gifts! I haven't opened them all cause I am worn out from the weekend.. got lots to tell you about after I sleep for a like 20 hours or so, BOL. 

I'm gonna be celebrating all week though!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>*blush*</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/732156</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:33:11 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/732156</guid>
		<description>Me and Lacey and mom were out walking, and some peoples were getting out of a truck, and I stopped c ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Me and Lacey and mom were out walking, and some peoples were getting out of a truck, and I stopped cause I always do that when people get out of autos cause they might want to say hi to me, and a pretty lady got out, and I barked at her, and she said "Hi handsome" and I barked some more. A pretty lady said I was a handsome boy!  Woof!  Yah, mom tells me that all the time, but you know, it's mom, it doesn't count, BOL.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>That's right mister</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/729415</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:53:16 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/729415</guid>
		<description>I barked at a neighbor today and he called me &quot;killer.&quot;   I don't know why mom laughed! ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I barked at a neighbor today and he called me "killer."   I don't know why mom laughed!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Morning car ride</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/721945</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 13 May 2011 18:50:27 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/721945</guid>
		<description>Have I mentioned that I love car rides?!? I love going places and barking at new people. Well this m ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Have I mentioned that I love car rides?!? I love going places and barking at new people. Well this morning mom took me for a car ride without Lacey! Ok, so we ended up at the v-e-t-s, which even though it has a bad rep, is always a good sniffing time, and I got to bark at another schnauzer and his owner in the lobby.  But then, the nice v-e-t- office ladies told mom that my grooming appointment is actually scheduled for *next* Friday, not today Friday, so we left with nothing done to me at all. That’s the best kind of trip to the v-e-t-s! I get to bark and sniff and then go right home! What a way to start the day, with a pawsonal car ride first thing in the morning and no v-e-t!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Call me lumpy, but not fatty!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/719962</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:52:36 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/719962</guid>
		<description>I&acirc;m not fat, I&acirc;m muscular, BOL!  Ok, ok, I have a few fatty lumps on my belly. Mom pokes at em s ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I’m not fat, I’m muscular, BOL!  Ok, ok, I have a few fatty lumps on my belly. Mom pokes at em sometimes when she's giving me belly rubbies, and she says how much she hates em and what they mean about me getting older and stuff.  I dunno, I just like belly rubs and being scratched all over. Woof!  The other night mom was poking and prodding at this bigger lump on my chest area, which only bothered me cause she wasn't rubbing my belly, but I guess the lump bothered her enough cause she said she's gonna take me to the v-e-t today to have them check the new lump out. I'm sure it will miraculously go away before then, BOL!  I had a big fatty lump on my back hip, and it bothered mom more than it bothered me, and the v-e-t-s removed it when I had to "go under" for my doggy day care injury a gazillion years ago. I hope I don't have to do that again, I had to wear a cone of shame for days and it was not cool.  Hopefully it’ll be a quick v-e-t visit and then mom will take me to the Chick Fil A drive through, nom nom nom!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I hurt my paw</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/717840</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:15:18 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
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		<description>We were out for a walk and suddenly I stopped and put my front paw up. Mom checked me out and saw a  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ We were out for a walk and suddenly I stopped and put my front paw up. Mom checked me out and saw a flying thingy stuck in the fur near my back leg, she got it free and it flew away. We walked home. When we got home, I was holding my paw up cause it hurt. Mom didn't panic and rush me to the vet, OMD! BOL!  She consulted her pet first aid book and checked my pulse and pushed in my gums and said I was ok. But then she picked me up and looked at my paw in the light and touched at it and I grrred and showed her my teeth and she let me go.  She keeps checking my paw, and I keep holding it up for her. I don't want to go to the vet, but mom keeps making those faces....]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Me, spoiled rotten? and other barkings</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/717704</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:56:27 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/717704</guid>
		<description>I gotta tell you pups, mom called me spoiled this morning, all because I wouldn't eat my boring brea ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I gotta tell you pups, mom called me spoiled this morning, all because I wouldn't eat my boring breakfast kibble without my sprinkle topping (the can says it's nupro joint supplement, whatever that means). She put my food bowl down, and I sat and looked up at her and told her with my cute puppy eyes that I wasn't eating that boring stuff without my desert topping. I sat there while she laughed, sheesh! And of course then she sprinkled my topping on. That's not spoiled, that's just eating what I like! Sheesh! Mom also called me rotten, which she got from Greta Grace and Roudy's mom on the book of faces.. My mom barked, er, posted about the other day when I was sitting by my food bowl filled with boring old kibble, protesting my dinner cause there was no sprinkle desert topping, and their mom called me rotten, like I'm a food or something, silly human!

I barked and barked at a neighborhood girl kid on my walk this afternoon and she told me "I'm not scared of you."  Sheesh!

The squirrelz are everywhere and, to quote lots of my terrier furiends, they're driving me CRAZEEE!!!!  I'd catch some too if one, mom would let me off leash or two, she'd run faster. 

Gotta go, this spoiled boy and his spoiled sister are barking for another walk!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Beware...</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/714984</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:47:46 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/714984</guid>
		<description>Beware the Ides of March! Anypup named Caesar who wants a rosette? BOL! ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Beware the Ides of March! Anypup named Caesar who wants a rosette? BOL!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mom&acirc;s going to my play</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/713694</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:22:48 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/713694</guid>
		<description>Mom&acirc;s going to see my play tomorrow night. See, my fancy AKC name is Shakespeare's Comedy of Error ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom’s going to see my play tomorrow night. See, my fancy AKC name is Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors - mom thought it'd be an appropriate registered name for me even though I was only a puppy when she named me, sheesh, thanks for the early label mom! BOL! Ok, ok, I am a big goofball funny boy, which mom tells me every day, but I’m not a comedy of *errors*, sheesh.  One of her furiends on the book of faces gave her the crazy idea to make a video montage of my silliness and name it Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors. I’m sure it’ll be better than some actual play written by my namesake cause, well, it’ll star ME!  Momma’s silly goofball makes-her-laugh-every-day boy!

To bark or not to bark, there is no question! Bark!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Call the SPCA!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/710227</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:44:39 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/710227</guid>
		<description>We told mom we had to go outside, but it's raining, so she decided to put my jacket on sheesh! so I  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ We told mom we had to go outside, but it's raining, so she decided to put my jacket on sheesh! so I sat down in defiance, and she put it on anyways, and she said, and I quote "but Shakey, torturing you is half the fun!" What the woof?!?! Not cool mom! Oh, and she also went shopping and didn't get anything for me or Lacey. She better make something good for dinner!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Talk about pawressure, BOL!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/709062</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:02:38 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/709062</guid>
		<description>So mom was telling me last night that I'm the reason all kinds of big important life changing stuff  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ So mom was telling me last night that I'm the reason all kinds of big important life changing stuff has happened over the last several years. Sheesh mom, talk about having high standards! BOL!

She says that cause of me, she joined a bunch of schnauzer internet groups and made all kinds of good friends, and of course when we joined Dogster and made lots of great pals!  Cause of me she's made lots of the bestest friends.. and me too, I have the bestest paw pals!!  It's also cause of me that mom got into schnauzer rescue, and adopted Sydney, and fostered other schnauzers, and adopted Lacey too.  But that's not all! She said it's cause of me, how much my grandpawrents love me and love my wonderful pawsonality (seriously! BOL!) and my silliness and character and stuff, it's cause of me that they adopted their very own schnauzers, my cousins Adeline and Samson. So cause of me two homeless schnauzer doggies got a great home with my family!  And now cause of me, and ok, lots of it is mostly cause of Samson, my uncle Joey, who love love loves us so much and plays with Samson almost every day, is getting a schnauzer mix doggy of his very own. 

Wow, I've accomplished so much!  Aw geez, now mom's looking at me with leaky eyes again.. that means (s)mothering's coming... gotta run!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Chiropracted again</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/705451</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:56:51 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/705451</guid>
		<description>The nice holistic vet lady messed with my back and neck again today, and although it was kinda weird ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ The nice holistic vet lady messed with my back and neck again today, and although it was kinda weird and I tried to stay in mom's lap, by the end I was making my happy grunts. The nice vet lady said I looked good - duh, of course! (Mom doesn't let me jump on anything anymore.) I even lost a pound, hey mom, where are those howliday treats?!? I gotta eat up! BOL!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I don't need no stinkin jacket!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/703561</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:20:37 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/703561</guid>
		<description>I was woofin at the door cause I wanted to go out. Mom put this jacket on me and leashed me up and o ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I was woofin at the door cause I wanted to go out. Mom put this jacket on me and leashed me up and out we went. I did my business but I wanted that jacket off! So I dropped to the ground to roll around to get that stupid jacket off and OMD the ground was COLD and covered in SNOW! Do not like! Jacket or snow! And mom was laughing at me! I'm gonna go woof neat the treat cabinet instead!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I got kiropracted!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/699613</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:30:10 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/699613</guid>
		<description>Mom took me to the holistic vet on Saturday. I remembered the office and the nice vet lady. I did my ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom took me to the holistic vet on Saturday. I remembered the office and the nice vet lady. I did my charming wiggle nub butt wiggle when I saw her.  She asked mom a bunch of questions while I hung out and sniffed around. Then the vet lady started poking at my back. Then she took me back to get xrays, which I’ve had done before but don’t like! I was all wired up to leave after that torture!  Then the vet lady poked at my back again, but she started moving part of it around, and twisting my neck, and it was kinda weird but it felt pretty good. I did my low grumbly happy sound so she’d know I liked it. Then when she was done I ran over to mom and panted all over her so she would know how I felt, BOL.  

The vet lady told mom that I have some “chronic change” in my lower back, but it’s nothing to worry about, it just isn’t as neat and clean as the rest of my back. But overall my back is good! See mom, my back is pawfectly fine! Now let me start jumping on my, er, your bed again!!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Diary of the Day!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/697564</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:35:39 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/697564</guid>
		<description>Wow!! Thank you Dogster!! Thank you for picking me for Diary of the Day! Thank you to everypup for t ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Wow!! Thank you Dogster!! Thank you for picking me for Diary of the Day! Thank you to everypup for the cool presents! Aroo! Mom bragged all over the book of faces (tm Fizzy) too, BOL!

Mom's making me and Lacey chicken tonight for celebration, arooo! I'll share if you pups want to come over!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I almost got a squirrel!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/697286</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:52:47 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/697286</guid>
		<description>And I would have too, if it weren't for my meddling mom! Sheesh! She looked and saw I almost had tha ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ And I would have too, if it weren't for my meddling mom! Sheesh! She looked and saw I almost had that sucker by the tail, and she wasn't gonna let me off leash, and I could tell she wouldn't know what to do if I caught it (ok, er, I don't know either, I just know I want one!)... so she stopped and we stopped and that darn squirrel just ra.. er.. crawled quickly forward.  Mom squealed that the poor thing (what?!?!) was hurt, and kept walking me and Lacey out of the squirrel's way so it could go somewhere where we weren't scaring it. Which was in a apartment drain pipe, BOL! A pipe with a bushy squirrel tail, BOL! So yah, I was thisclose to catching a squirrel, mom kept squealing about the poor hurt thing, I don't care if it was hurt mom, that's nature and stuff ya know!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What's a Kiropractor?</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/696914</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:11:20 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/696914</guid>
		<description>I hurt my back again this weekend. Mom furgot to block off her bed so I couldn't jump on it, and of  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I hurt my back again this weekend. Mom furgot to block off her bed so I couldn't jump on it, and of course I jumped on it! It's big and comfy and smells like mom, who had been gone furever! (Any time she's gone is furever.)  It's mom's fault, she knows I'll jump on anything even if she tells me I'm older and can't jump on stuff like I used to when I was a pup - she's even called me her grumpy old man, sheesh mom, you're old too!  Anypaw!  She too me to the v-e-t today to check me out, but she said she's prolly taking me to a doggy kiropractor too. She says it's a doggy back doctor. Ruh oh! What's he gonna do to me?!? 

Oh, the v-e-t today, well, she poked at me and found the sore spot in my back between lumbar 3 and 4, and she twisted my hips and I didn't like that. But she gave mom good medicines to give me so I feel better. Vet lady and mom talked about fancy specialist stuff that could be done to me, I don't like all that talk. I don't think mom's gonna do any of that fancy stuff, but she did tell me she'd get me a cart if I ever needed one. Mom also boiled chicken for me and Lacey, so that also makes me feel better. Nap time now, whew, what an afternoon!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Growing &quot;old&quot; with mom</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/691600</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:51:14 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/691600</guid>
		<description>Mom told me last night that we're growing old together. I guess she's kinda right, this is the first ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom told me last night that we're growing old together. I guess she's kinda right, this is the first year I've felt old, like when I hurt my back, and that she's felt old, even though neither of us are old-old, ya know?  I've had problems jumping up on stuff, and I've got a few lumps. Mom says I can't tell my furiends why she feels old or else (whatever mom, sheesh), although I will tell ya that some of the hairs on the top of her head are starting to match me, BOL!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Yum!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/688413</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:34:53 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/688413</guid>
		<description>Mom let me and Lacey sample my barkday cake!! It's YUMMY!! It's got carob powder and honey and yogur ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom let me and Lacey sample my barkday cake!! It's YUMMY!! It's got carob powder and honey and yogurt and why do I have to wait until tomorrow to eat more!!! I'm gonna go stand by the counter and bark bark bark!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I'm not the only boy dog in the furmily anymore</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/684870</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 3 Aug 2010 13:50:01 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/684870</guid>
		<description>We had a new boy doggy join the furmily this weekend; his name is Samson and he's three and crazy an ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ We had a new boy doggy join the furmily this weekend; his name is Samson and he's three and crazy and he's gonna live with my grandpawrents and Adeline. Mom's kinda sad, she says I'm not the baby of the furmily anymore. Now she says I am the ... wait fur it... pawtriarch. Sheesh! BOL!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I liked the holistic vet</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/683141</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:48:07 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>At first I wasn't so sure, I mean, I was at a vet's office for woofing out loud!  I hopped on the be ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ At first I wasn't so sure, I mean, I was at a vet's office for woofing out loud!  I hopped on the bench to get away and try and hide.  But the vet lady sat on the floor, and then mom sat on the floor, and I went and sat in mom's lap. The vet lady stretched out my back legs and massaged along my back and stretched out my front legs and massaged my legs and the half of me the vet lady wasn't stretching got to stay in mom's lap, so I was comfy and secure.  After the vet lady got done stretching and massaging me, she and mom talked about me, and I kept going up to the nice vet lady and pestering her for pets and loving and I half crawled into her lap and gave her kisses and everything. I don't kiss just anyone! I liked her!  I also liked her cause she told mom that cause I was "wood" and "inflexible" and had a "weak hind quarters" (the opposite of Ernie George, BOL! Love ya pal!), so mom should do stretching and yoga and flexibility and massage exercises with me. Comfy! The vet said schnauzers are like that, inflexible and stuff. Whatever, Lacey’s like a little noodle sometimes, BOL. I didn't get any achoopunkture or anything. Oh! She also told mom I should have more organ meat like liver and heart, yum!  Mom was squicked out by that for some reason, I dunno. She said she'd buy more liver treats though, so thanks nice vet lady! Woof! The vet also told me a few times how cute and handsome I was, roo roo!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Holistic vet</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/682876</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:17:55 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/682876</guid>
		<description>Mom told me she's taking me to a holistic vet tomorrow. Hole list of what I wonder... I hope it's no ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom told me she's taking me to a holistic vet tomorrow. Hole list of what I wonder... I hope it's not a list of shots or exams! What's achoopunksure mean?  Hey mom, haven't you noticed I'm fine this week, my back hasn't been hurting at all, I'm fine on walks, why do I have to go to another vet? I better get some people food outta this trip tomorrow.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I miss walks</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/682046</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:44:42 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Mom's out walking with Lacey and I am home, not walking. Mom says it's for my own good and all, what ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom's out walking with Lacey and I am home, not walking. Mom says it's for my own good and all, whatever, I feel fine! I miss walks! I miss sniffing all over and reading my pmail and leaving pmail for all my neighborhood pals. All I can do is sit here and bark at everyone who walks by, like I usually do, BOL. Mom said she'd get me a stroller if I ever needed one, but sheesh, I may be a mama's boy, but I'm not a wuss! Oh well, gotta get my energy out barking at the kids out back. Woof woof bark bark rrrrruuuffffff!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A good update</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/681711</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:55:22 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>The vet left a message for my mom saying my bloodwork was good. Woof! Oh, but for one liver enzyme t ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ The vet left a message for my mom saying my bloodwork was good. Woof! Oh, but for one liver enzyme that was a little elevated, so vet wants to check it again in 6 months.  I'm doing better, in fact I'm barking at mom to bring my dinner! Woof! She's giving me soft food for my medicine, I like that, woof! Dinner time!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I hurt my back</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/681584</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:44:24 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/681584</guid>
		<description>Owww. Mom was walking me yesterday and I kept sitting back on my butt cause I didn't want to walk an ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Owww. Mom was walking me yesterday and I kept sitting back on my butt cause I didn't want to walk anymore, and I didn't want to eat or drink cause I hurt. I wish I could have told mom what was wrong with me then so she didn't have to take me to the vet's today. The vet's always makes me anxious and I crawl under the chairs and hide. It was worse today cause the vet pinched me along my back and tried to push at my tummy and flip flopped my back paws around. They watched me walk a few steps and sit back on my butt, like I did yesterday. I didn't want an audience, I just wanted to go home. Oh, and they took blood from me to test at some lab somewhere. And they stuck fluid under my skin. Sheesh! I hate the vet!  Anypoo, the vet told mom I had a back injury, and to severely rest my activities for two to three weeks. It's ok, it's too hot to go on long walks anyways, I guess. I hope those painkillers kick in soon. BOL, I should be on tv with that line, BOL!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Why I love the dog parks</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/673081</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 22 May 2010 14:25:16 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Why I love the dog park, by Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors

Dog park, how do I love thee? Let me c ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Why I love the dog park, by Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors

Dog park, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
One really nice lady with lots of doggie smells and 
lots of pets and
lots of ear rubs and 
lots of scratches and pets
All for Me!

Oh dog park, I doth love the dog friendly people who go there!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Note to mom</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/671080</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 10 May 2010 14:34:58 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/671080</guid>
		<description>Just cause I bark a few random barks does not mean I want you to come smush me with hugs and kisses. ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Just cause I bark a few random barks does not mean I want you to come smush me with hugs and kisses. Sheesh!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A poem for mom for Mother&acirc;s Day</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/670190</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 5 May 2010 14:40:45 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/670190</guid>
		<description>&acirc;Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 
Rough winds  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 
And summer's lease hath all too short a date: 
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; 
And every fair from fair sometime declines, 
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; 
But thy eternal summer shall not fade, 
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; 
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, 
When in eternal lines to time thou growest; 
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, 
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” 

Hey, I have a namesake to live up to! BOL!

She likes this one from Much Ado About Nothing:
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me” 
BOL!

Love, your proud mama's boy! BOL!
Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>squirrels for breakfast</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/664625</link>

				<pubdate>Sun, 4 Apr 2010 08:01:31 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>On our walk this morning there were at least five squirrels eating birdseed around this one tree.. W ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ On our walk this morning there were at least five squirrels eating birdseed around this one tree.. What a pawsome target!  I'd have gotten them too if it weren't for those meddling kids, er, my meddling mom not letting me off the leash to run after them. I coulda had squirrels for breakfast!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Today's firsts..</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/661821</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:07:53 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
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		<description>Today I had my first yak stick, mmmm.  That sucker is hard to chew!  I needed a few breaks, and of c ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Today I had my first yak stick, mmmm.  That sucker is hard to chew!  I needed a few breaks, and of course during those my bratty sister started "guarding" it. She doesn't even like it!  So mom put it away for now.

Today I also had my first rolling around in the grass my "yard." That felt nice!!!

And then I had the first tick of the year twisted off of me. Sheesh. Stupid buggers. Mom doesn't want to put icky bug medicine on me and Lacey yet, she says she's going to wait until the first of the month cause that's our normal date.

What a day today has been!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I had a Bad Hair Day</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/661551</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:10:27 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/661551</guid>
		<description>Oh no, BOL!  I made it onto Guimauve's mom's Bad Dog Hair Day blog! ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Oh no, BOL!  I made it onto <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/179342">Guimauve's</a> mom's <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site  onClick="alert('Dogster Alert: You are about to visit an outside link that was submitted by this pet owner.');" href="http://baddoghairday.blogspot.com">Bad Dog Hair Day blog</a>!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Trapped in the car (oh, and the rest of the weekend was fun)</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/659518</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:39:19 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/659518</guid>
		<description>Not literally trapped in the car, don't worry. BOL  I wouldn't have access to mom's computer in the  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Not literally trapped in the car, don't worry. BOL  I wouldn't have access to mom's computer in the car, BOL.  I was actually trapped in the back seat and couldn’t get up front with mom!  Lacey too, but she usually stays back there anyway. I like to jump up in the front seat next to mom and sometimes put my paws on her seat so she'll pet me.  I don't know why she'd want to put a stop to that!  But she did. When we went to our grandpawrents and Addy's house yesterday, mom put us in the backseat, and now there's this blanket like barrier that keeps me from jumping in the front.  I tried to figure out a way to get up front, but mom saw me out of the corner of her eye and told me to stay. Sheesh. And she calls me a brat.

This new blanket thing is nice and soft though. It made a good nap spot on the way home last night. Even though I tried to figure out how to get on the floor behind mom's seat since that's where I usually nap in the car. I couldn't even get there. 


We had a good weekend though! On Saturday we went to the dog park and got lots of sniffs and walks.  And of course yesterday we got to run around our grandpawrents’ backyard! Aroo roo woof! Addy kept chasing me and butt-butting me. I would be enjoying a nice roll in the grass and here comes Addy, jumpin on me. (No thanks to mom, who was like “go get him Addy!” Sheesh, thanks mom.) 

Me, mom, and Lacey miss Cupcake, but she’s still in the house, in our hearts.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>It's not my birthday</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/656809</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:13:43 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/656809</guid>
		<description>Although I wish it was my birthday every day! BOL  It's the other mini schnauzer Shakespeare's birth ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Although I wish it was my birthday every day! BOL  It's the <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/483489">other mini schnauzer Shakespeare's</a> birthday! I know, I got confused for a second too. I'll still have to make mom give me extra treats, BOL.

Thank you Zaidie and Rocke and Raoudi and your family for the "un"birthday gifts!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Valentine's Tag</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/652644</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 2 Feb 2010 13:58:58 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/652644</guid>
		<description>Here are 5 things I love about my life...

1. I love my mom! I'm a proud mama's boy!

2. I love  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Here are 5 things I love about my life...

1. I love my mom! I'm a proud mama's boy!

2. I love treats and people food crumbs and those special occasions when I get canned food (like trips to grandma's house!)

3. I love going to grandma and grandpa's house, BOL!  I love it cause I get to see them and my uncle and Cupcake and Adeline and play in the yard and sometimes we even go walk on the beach.

4. I love walks so, so much. 

5. I love being a goofball and making my mom smile and then rub my belly. Sucker! BOL

Oh yah, and I can't forget how much I love Dogster and all my pawsome furiends!

&#9829; Happy Valentine's Day! &#9829;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Another yellow monster</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/650023</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:07:02 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>These last couple days on our walk I've seen and heard another big yellow monster, an impossibly big ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ These last couple days on our walk I've seen and heard another big yellow monster, an impossibly big yellow something (mom says I have to apologize to Douglas Adams, whoever that is).  I can't see it too well cause it's behind some trees, but it is loud! It has a big claw thingy on it that seems to be taking trees down.. what am I supposed to pee on then?!?  I try to drag mom in the direction opposite this yellow monster, but she and Lacey just keep moving forward. Like today I was putting all my weight into going the other direction, back towards home, and mom kept telling me it was ok (IT's NOT!) and chuckling at me (NOT FUNNY MOM!).  That big yellow monster has a claw! And it's tearing down trees! It is not safe to be near!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mom's baking dog treats!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/646327</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 2 Jan 2010 09:53:36 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/646327</guid>
		<description>OMD!! Mom's baking doggy treats! She even let me lick the peanut butter that'd spilled on the side o ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ OMD!! Mom's baking doggy treats! She even let me lick the peanut butter that'd spilled on the side of the jar, yum!  I saw her put that and honey in the mix, ohh I am so excited these are gonna be yummmmy!  

Mom bought a Three Dog Bakery cookbook so she's testing it out.  I hope she tests every recipe!

Ooo, I gotta go lick the peanut butter spoon!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Howliday Tag</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/642082</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:23:54 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
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		<description>I was tagged by my new pal Zoe! Thanks Zoe, you&acirc;ll love Santa Paws!

1) What do you like to get  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I was tagged by my new pal <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/1021351">Zoe</a>! Thanks Zoe, you’ll love Santa Paws!

1) What do you like to get in your Christmas stocking?
Treats of any and all shapes and sizes and flavors! Ooo, and bully sticks and chewies. Toys are ok too, even though mom says we don't need any. Sheesh. 

2) Have you seen Santa Paws this year?
Yep! Lacey and I saw him a month ago and we got our picture taken and it's on our Dogster pages.

3) Do you like snow, have you ever been in it?
I've been in snow and it is not fun! It sucks when it's just coming down like rain, or sometimes when there's a little bit on the sidewalks. When I was a younger pup we had snow that was almost as high as I was and that really sucked! Oh, but the worst is when it snows, mom wants to put a sweater or jacket on me, sheesh!!!

4) What do you want fur Christmas?
The treats and chewies that are too big to fit in my stocking, BOL!

5) Have you ever posed in a picture with Santa Paws?
Yep, every year since I was a pup! Well except for one year when mom wanted nice pawfessional pics of me and Sydney.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Foster sis</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/637294</link>

				<pubdate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:01:47 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>So my foster sis is here and she is CRAZY. She's either a puppy or really young and is like energeti ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ So my foster sis is here and she is CRAZY. She's either a puppy or really young and is like energetic times 10 zillion. She is playing with all my toys. I am not happy and I have been pouting to mom about it.

Ok, she is kinda fun to play with.  And that's all she wants to do!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>More scary trucks</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/636900</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:05:22 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/636900</guid>
		<description>Me, Lacey, and mom were just out walking and we saw some big bright headlights and big swirly flashy ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Me, Lacey, and mom were just out walking and we saw some big bright headlights and big swirly flashy lights at the other end of the apt complex. The air smelled funny too. We walked closer and the lights got brighter, they were attached to a few monster truck thingies that were the size of the yellow bus monster. I wouldn't let them mom and Lacey get too close cause those things scared me. Mom said fire trucks were ok to be scared of, she's scared of them too.  Mom said that's probably why Lacey was howling earlier, she howls at sirens.  We never did find out why the fire trucks were there and people were standing around, but the buildings are standing and it's not really near our place, so we think everything's ok. I never want to see those trucks again!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Branches, branches everywhere!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/635340</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:57:20 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
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		<description>Branches, branches everywhere, and all for me to pee on!  We finally got to go for an actual walk th ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Branches, branches everywhere, and all for me to pee on!  We finally got to go for an actual walk this morning for the first time in furever and it was pawtastic! Oh the leaves and branches everywhere for me to mark! The smells, arooo roo roo!! We even got to say hi to our doggy buddy Shadow, woof woof!  It's so nice to be able to go outside without getting rained on!  Can you tell I"m excited?!? BOL!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mom's new pjs</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/634981</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:40:14 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
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		<description>Oh no, mom is wearing pajama bottoms with Scotties on them! Traitor! Just cause there weren't any Sc ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Oh no, mom is wearing pajama bottoms with Scotties on them! Traitor! Just cause there weren't any Schnauzer pjs and the white Scottie reminds you of Lacey, sheesh...! I think mom needs to stop reading Ernie George's diary.  Mom = traitor!

Also, this weather sucks! I hate rain!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Adopt your own Shakespeare</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/633304</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:48:37 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
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		<description>If you're looking for your own  Shakespeare, my pal Maddie's rescue group has a Shakespeare for adop ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ If you're looking for your own  Shakespeare, my pal Maddie's rescue group <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site  onClick="alert('Dogster Alert: You are about to visit an outside link that was submitted by this pet owner.');" href="http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=15021921">has a Shakespeare for adoption</a>!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The yellow monster</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/633104</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:53:09 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/633104</guid>
		<description>Mom just started taking us for walks in the morning before she goes to work.  (And she's stopped tak ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom just started taking us for walks in the morning before she goes to work.  (And she's stopped taking us for an extra walk before dinner cause it's dark... like we can't see in the dark, sheesh. Anyways, safety first I guess, like I can't take on a bad guy....)  Ok, so during these morning walks, I've encountered this big noisy yellow monster, it comes around the corner and goes past me and picks up kids, and I don't really like kids, so then it's this big monster with kids and I do not like that at all. I'm glad it goes away fast too.

Ok, so I can't really tell it's yellow, but mom says it is and I trust her.. or do I.. she makes me keep walking past the thing! And she talks about safety, what about my safety from the monster?!?!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I was highlighted</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/631857</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:57:11 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/631857</guid>
		<description>Mom took me to the vet's this morning for a grooming, I don't know why, she always tells me how cute ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom took me to the vet's this morning for a grooming, I don't know why, she always tells me how cute I am when I'm fuzzy. Sheesh.  She also asked them to check out a little lump I have on my belly under my skin. Mom showed it to the office lady and she sprayed it with yellow - she highlighted me, BOL! It's like I have a yellow sun on my belly. Mom's worried cause Cupcake had a similar lump and it turned out to be the big "c," eep!  But Cupcake is much older than I am, and the last lump I had was a fatty lump, although I'm not fat (I’m muscular!) so I don't know really what that means.  BOL, I should ask the vet office lady to highlight my whole tummy so it means "belly rub right here please!"

Oh, yah, the lumps (there's more than one small one) are just fatty lumps. I am not fat!  No matter what my wellness report said. I'm muscular and big boned and you can feel my ribs, so there. Although, if it gets mom to take me on more walks....]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Silly mom!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/629146</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:18:12 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/629146</guid>
		<description>Sheesh, mom just told me that just cause I sit in the kitchen near the cabinet where the treats and  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Sheesh, mom just told me that just cause I sit in the kitchen near the cabinet where the treats and chewies (OMD bullysticks!!) and bark and bark are does not mean that I'm going to get anything.  Then why did she put them there?!?!  And why can't I have one now?!?! It'll shut me up, BOL!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What a great week!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/617213</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:36:16 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/617213</guid>
		<description>First my cousin Adeline had her fourth barkday on Monday! It's her very first birthday in her fureve ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ First my cousin Adeline had her fourth barkday on Monday! It's her very first birthday in her furever home with my pawsome grandpawrents. I even got to sniff on her barkday presents before mom mailed em out. Then on Wednesday mom took me and Lacey to the Bark Park! We haven't been in weeks cause it's been so hot and humid. Mom thought it'd be cool enough under the shade of the trees, and it was for like ten minutes, BOL. It was a sniffing and marking-tastic ten minutes though!

Today me and Lacey went to Wagging Tails, arooo!  But tomorrow, tomorrow is gonna be the big day! My Barkday!!! I'm going to be eight (I'm four years and four days older than Addy!) and mom is freaking out about it, sheesh. Appawrently eight is senior for a dog. Whatever, I don't feel senior unless you mean I've been in the house the longest. And I'm already salt and pepper, BOL.  

Oh yah, everypup - grab some cake! My pawsome pals <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="http://www.dogster.com/family/325918">Angus and Shaylee</a> gave me a big ol cake today - thank you Angus and Shaylee!!! (p.s. Send PoP to their dad pawlease!)]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What's instigator mean?</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/612501</link>

				<pubdate>Sun, 9 Aug 2009 08:35:29 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/612501</guid>
		<description>Mom's been calling me that since Colby showed up yesterday. Colby's a boy schnauzer who came into re ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom's been calling me that since Colby showed up yesterday. Colby's a boy schnauzer who came into rescue and he's staying with us for the weekend and maybe this week mom says.  Anypoo.  So I bark, and then Colby starts barking along with me, and sometimes Lacey barks too, and mom calls me an instigator. Is that like an alligator or something?

Also, what does brat mean?  (BOL! I know what it means and I am not a brat!)]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Festivals and a Town for ME, Shakespeare!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/611608</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 5 Aug 2009 13:49:08 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/611608</guid>
		<description>Sheesh! I've had no less than two pup pals write that they or their pawrents have gone to plays and  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Sheesh! I've had no less than two pup pals write that they or their pawrents have gone to plays and festivals about or written by Shakespeare, and they look for me, and I'm not there. What's up with that mom?!?! If they're for ME, I should be there! You may not think I read the paper with you on the weekends, but I know there was just a Shakespeare festival here and we did not go. What is wrong with this picture?!?! Sheesh!!!  

And then my pal Zaidie says he and his pawrents drove through a town named after me! A town named after ME! I gotta move there, I bet I can get treats all day every day.

Mom was even watching this "In Search of Shakespeare" tv show last night, and all she had to do was go look in her bedroom. I was there almost the whole time. Sheesh.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Best Bath Ever!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/608531</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:41:01 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/608531</guid>
		<description>I know, not words you see together at all, BOL!  Mom took me to the SPCA's Wash and Wag today cause  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I know, not words you see together at all, BOL!  Mom took me to the SPCA's Wash and Wag today cause I needed a bath and the shelter always needs donations. First they were trying to get me in a little kiddie pool, nuh uh, I don't like water! Mom helped them and finally I gave in. Sheesh. But then these nice young ladies came over and were pouring water on me and massaging me with shampoo and it was pawsome! I had at least three people petting me, it was a bath all about me! So much better than mom and the kitchen sink, BOL!  I had three to four young ladies petting just me for at least like fifteen minutes!  See, best bath ever!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I don't like this hot weather</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/607836</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:15:05 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/607836</guid>
		<description>Ever since I was a young pup, I've gotten all worn out when spending too much time in hot weather. L ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Ever since I was a young pup, I've gotten all worn out when spending too much time in hot weather. Like five minutes or so. We'll all take our walk to the mailbox and I need a good rest when we get there. We went to the dog park yesterday and even though it's shady (like trees n stuff, not scary places, BOL), I don't like the heat and go hide under the benches. I need shade breaks every few minutes, esp. when we go to dog fairs. I love spending time chilling under vendor tables, BOL!  

Maybe I should move to Canada and live with my pals up there?  Mom would have to come too cause I don't like being away from her for too long.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>No more &quot;FrankenShakey&quot;</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/593887</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 4 Jun 2009 14:01:12 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/593887</guid>
		<description>I got my sutre.. surters.. stitches out! ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I got my sutre.. surters.. stitches out!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Drain gone!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/591445</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 26 May 2009 14:31:31 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/591445</guid>
		<description>The vet took that uncomfortable drain outta my shoulder! I feel much better now, esp. since mom took ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ The vet took that uncomfortable drain outta my shoulder! I feel much better now, esp. since mom took me to chik-fil-a afterwords, yum!  My stitches come out in 9 days, and I am counting! BOL]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Happiness is...</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/590384</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:09:14 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/590384</guid>
		<description>...being able to scratch your beard and rub your face against the floor without a stupid cone on you ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ ...being able to scratch your beard and rub your face against the floor without a stupid cone on your head!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I'm home</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/589874</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 20 May 2009 16:06:06 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/589874</guid>
		<description>I'm home and wiped out and don't feel good. Mom keeps loving on me and sometimes she goes ewww my po ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I'm home and wiped out and don't feel good. Mom keeps loving on me and sometimes she goes ewww my poor baby. Lacey's calling me frankenshakey. Brat. I'm just glad to be home!!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I had a bad day!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/589560</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 19 May 2009 14:54:26 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/589560</guid>
		<description>I musta played a bit too rough at day care today, cause I have a small wound in my side. The dogtor  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I musta played a bit too rough at day care today, cause I have a small wound in my side. The dogtor says it looks like a dog bite. Mom is freaking out, imagine that.  I feel fine, I'm acting like my normal hyper goofy self.  In fact no one at the day care noticed anything cause they said I wasn't showing signs of distress and there weren't any fights.  Mom says I have to go back to the vet tomorrow and "go under" (under what?) so they can put a drain in my wound.  BOL, mom looks a little green!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Jack tossed me the football!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/552502</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:06:56 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/552502</guid>
		<description>Jack passed me the football!

Alright Pal! You made it here. I see you caught my foot ball pass. H ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/451640">Jack</a> passed me the football!

Alright Pal! You made it here. I see you caught my foot ball pass. Here is what you should do next! Hurry and pass the ball to 5 of your team mates so they can make a touch down. You are also supposed to write down 5 things about yourself that are funny. Also please leave me a bone and ask all those who visit your diary to leave you a bone so you will know they have been there! Ok…Here goes the play!

1. BOL, everything about me is funny! Mom and my grandpawrents say I'm a big ham. 
2. I'll bark and jump up on the ottoman to bring mom my leash when I sense we're going for walks.  "Get your leash" is the funniest trick I know.
3. When I first get a chewie, like a pig's ear, I'll bark at it and jump around it in circles for a few minutes. 
4. I do a hilarious head tilt! First one side, then the other, then I give up, BOL. 
5.  Oh, the funniest thing about me!! I quickly run away when someone farts!! It's that sound. But only the real thing, you can't trick me with similar noises.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Sunday was a Great Day!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/538578</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:22:43 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/538578</guid>
		<description>First off, my angel sister Sydney was picked as Schnauzer of the Week for Schnauzers Rule!  Mom and  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ First off, my angel sister Sydney was picked as Schnauzer of the Week for Schnauzers Rule!  Mom and I have been reminiscing about her.  *schnauzie sniffs*

Mom and her bf took me and Lacey to the dog park for a good long time!  (It also took them a good long time on Sunday morning to get off their butts too!)  We made all kinds of new doggy pals!! And I bested a big ol' rottie girl!  I barked and barked and barked at her and she would "hide" under her dad's legs.  Mom kept telling me that I was only 20 pounds, and she was a big 160 pounds and I was basically as big as her head and she could bap me with her paw and knock me over, but of course I didn't listen, sheesh. I knew this was a doggy girl I could finally "alpha" over, hee hee. Well, ok, her dad also said she was afraid of small dogs. Hey, I'm not a small dog! I'm bigger than her, at least in my head of course, BOL!!!

Lacey got all muddy, haha!  Oh, wait, mom says I shouldn't laugh at her cause I sorta got peed on by a schnoodle, stup, er, weird dog *schnauzie grin* - but he didn't get anything on me, it just looked like he was doing stuff.  

So yah, you know me and Lacey had a great time at the park cause we got all dirty and stinky!!  (The baths in the sink when we got home were not so great though, grrrr! BOL)]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Aroo! Thanks Dogster!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/528263</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:38:31 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/528263</guid>
		<description>Arooo roo roo! I'm a diary pick today! That'll show mom, trying to tell me to be quiet and sssshhhh. ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Arooo roo roo! I'm a diary pick today! That'll show mom, trying to tell me to be quiet and sssshhhh.  BOL!  Thank you Dogster for picking me!

Mom was off on a schnauzie adoption today. She picked up a girl schnauzie from her foster mom and drove her to meet with her new family!  I don't like when mom's gone long like that, but it's pawsome to see a fellow schnauzer get her furever home.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Tagged!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/524488</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:20:10 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/524488</guid>
		<description>Harley Davidson and Scooter tagged me! I am writing 7 things in my diary about me or of which I am v ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Harley Davidson and Scooter tagged me! I am writing 7 things in my diary about me or of which I am very grateful. (There's two different instructions so I'm combining em.)

   
1. As mom has quickly learned, I hate wearing clothes and will freeze up if she puts any on me. 
2. I do not make a good lobster, BOL. I will be grateful if mom never ever dresses me up again! 
3. I'll 'butt' (pun intended, BOL!) into Lacey if I want to play. 
4. I'm grateful mom lets me sleep wherever I want, like on her bed. 
5. I love my grandpawrents and am grateful they are the bestest dogsitters ever and they love me to pieces. 
6.  I am a spoiled rotten very loved mama's boy and am furever grateful to have one of the best moms ever! 
7.  I love and am grateful for all my pals everywhere!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Help!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/519542</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:55:00 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/519542</guid>
		<description>Mom's putting tshirts on me! Ok, the fleece sweaters in the winter when I've just been groomed, that ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom's putting tshirts on me! Ok, the fleece sweaters in the winter when I've just been groomed, that's ok (not really, BOL). But it's fall and even tho I'm naked cause the groomer shaved me down, I am still a boy doggy with fur and I am not cold and I do not need to wear tshirts. Sheesh! I am so embarassed. I'm glad mom doesn't have a camera right now!  I do have to agree with one of the tshirt's sayings tho - The Fake Fetch, It Isn't Funny!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I have a cyst</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/506126</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:33:43 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/506126</guid>
		<description>That's what the vet said after doing way too much poking and prodding on me! I tried hiding under th ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ That's what the vet said after doing way too much poking and prodding on me! I tried hiding under the chairs, but mom dragged me out so the vet could look at me. She didn't even protect me when I was in her lap, she handed me to the vet when they needed to look at me. Thanks mom, sheesh. The vet took me in the back and took some stuff outta my bump with a needle - owww! The vet said the fluid he got didn't have much in it, a few inflammatory cells but mostly it was "boring." So now mom's giving me some antibiotic and anti-inflammatory medicines, which is fine by me cause she gives them to me in soft canned foods, which I love, YUM!  The vet said mom should also give me a warm compress twice a day for 5 to 10 minutes - like I'm going to sit still for that long, BOL!  The vet said that'll make my cyst do whatever it's going to do faster, like if it's going to go away, it'll go away faster. I'm ok with that cause mom will stop poking me, BOL.

And hey, I got some teeny tiny pieces of Chik Fil A waffle fries outta the trip, so it wasn't all that bad, BOL.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What a weekend!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/505857</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:34:38 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/505857</guid>
		<description>Me and Lacey had such a pawsome weekend! On Saturday, we went to our grandpawrent's house and got lo ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Me and Lacey had such a pawsome weekend! On Saturday, we went to our grandpawrent's house and got lots of love and treats, ran around the yard a lot, played with grandpaw and uncle joe, and didn't even bother Cupcake too much, BOL.  And then on Sunday, what a day! Mom's bf came over and we all played, then we went to the Bark Park, then we went to mom's bf's pawrents house and they loved on us and even took some pictures. I like mom's bf's mom, she gave me lots of yummy treats! Lacey liked mom's bf's dad cause she sat and napped in his lap. Lacey and I got a ton of attention and playtime this weekend! Every weekend should be like this - got that mom?!? BOL!

The bad thing is mom's taking me to the vet today. Sheesh.  Mom's bf found a big round lump on my back leg today, so mom says she wants to get it checked out.  It doesn't bother me when mom touches it or anything, and I'm running around just fine. I don't need no stinking vet!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I turned 7!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/500035</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:38:50 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/500035</guid>
		<description>Thanks to everyone for my barkday wishes and presents!!  I have some of the bestest pals!  I had a p ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Thanks to everyone for my barkday wishes and presents!!  I have some of the bestest pals!  I had a pawsome barkday as always!  We didn't get to go to the dog park cause it was raining, but one of mom's friends came over and played with me and Lacey so that drained some of our energy, BOL!

Me and Lacey got canned Merrick Turducken and "French Country Cafe" with duck for dinner - my faves that I don't get enough! Mom made me a bone-shaped cake with a candle, and mom and her friend "sang" to me (more like howled, BOL). We also had treats from Salty Paws and Puparazzi that mom got on vacation the other week.  Mom also gave me "Doggie Stout" to drink but I didn't like it.  

Ooo, and I got presents too! I say this every time, but I love love love unwrapping my presents!  I got lots of treats and a little stuffed duck toy. My grandma also sent me a card, and I really enjoyed chewing the envelope, BOL.  Mom wouldn't let me chew the card, sheesh.  A very good barkday if I may say so myself, woof!!

Oh yah, and mom took me and Lacey to the dog park yesterday, and we had tons of fun!

I'll get mom to post barkday *and* dog park photos soon!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We went to the Bark Park!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/497705</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:25:46 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>OMD it was so exciting!!!! Me and mom and Sydney used to go before we moved into our old house (miss ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ OMD it was so exciting!!!! Me and mom and Sydney used to go before we moved into our old house (miss you yard, BOL) and before Sydney got sick. Now that we're in an apt again, mom took me and Lacey and registered us at the Bark Park. We got to check it out today!!! OMD, the smells, the trees, it was PAWSOME!! 

There was only one other small fuzzy dog when we got there, so Lacey and I got to run around and sniff and mark to our heart's content. Then a big lab showed up and he ran around and rolled in the mud, and then a big pit showed up and he ran around and rolled in the mud, and then the lab and pit chased each other around and got everyone kinda muddy. It was fun, BOL. Well, except for Lacey, who tried to bark and play with them, but she's kinda little so the pit and lab sorta jumped over her and got her all muddy. Now mom's cleaning her off with a wet towel, haha! BOL! 

Mom says we can now go to the Bark Park anytime we want, woof woof!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>GRRRRRRR!!!!  Pet Store Near Us</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/487670</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:27:59 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>GRRRRRRR!!!!  These  :-#  are right near us.  Anyone want to protest?   I know there's no way mom wi ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ GRRRRRRR!!!!  These  :-#  are right near us.  Anyone want to protest?   I know there's no way mom will go near that place by herself cause she'll get arrested. 
<a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="www.puppygarden.com">www.puppygarden.com</a>

Roscoe the Racehound, Hank the Handsome Hound, we gotta round up the troops!!!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Tag!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/483726</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:46:49 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>My good pal Zubee tagged me. Here's what you have to do. 

Name four jobs that you've had: 
1. Mo ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ My good pal Zubee tagged me. Here's what you have to do. 

Name four jobs that you've had: 
1. Mom's Pawsonal Security Guard 
2. Mouse Catcher 
3. Wrestling Partner 
4. Security Guard (in general) 

Name four places that you've been: 
1. Hampton, VA 
2. Nags Head, NC 
3. Durham, NC 
4. Virginia Beach, VA 

Name four places you'd rather be: 
1. With my mom 
2. On mom's bed 
3. Outside rolling in the grass 
4. On a walk anywhere!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Thanks!! Also, We Moved Again</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/477231</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:13:49 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>First I want to thank Milly for picking me as Schnauzer of the Week at Schnauzers Rule last week, an ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ First I want to thank Milly for picking me as Schnauzer of the Week at Schnauzers Rule last week, and I also want to thank everypup for the pressies and rosettes and pmails!  I had a *pawsome* week and had fun answering all your questions. It totally made up for mom packing and moving that week and thus not paying 100% attention to me. It's ok mom, my pup pals love me! :P

So we moved into an apartment this past weekend. No more yard *pout*. Our new place is right by the pet area though, so we get to see and bark to the other doggies right on our own level.  We are getting LOTS more walks, and you know how Lacey and I love our walks, woof!  And Oh My Dog, there are soooo many new doggie smells and pmails and friends to meet!!!!!!

All of our close neighbors have doggies too!!  There are two rat terriers across the outside hall, a tiny Chihuahua above them, and a super cute lhasa/shih tzu mix named Lucy above us.  Lacey and I got to meet Lucy the other morning, she is super sweet and friendly and playful, aroo!  I liked her mom, I tried to jump on her to say hi, but my mom wouldn't let me jump cause my paws were muddy.. whatever, mom, spoiling my fun! Sheesh! 

Mom said now that we don't have a yard anymore, she'll probably start taking us to the dog park again. Whee!! I loved going to the dog park!! 

I miss my yard, but this might not be a bad move as long as mom keeps up the walks and her word to take us to the dog park.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My scary moment yesterday</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/461558</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 19 May 2008 13:55:42 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Yesterday, Lacey, mom, grandma, and I went to the Paws for a Cause Festival and Dog Walk.  Lacey and ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Yesterday, Lacey, mom, grandma, and I went to the Paws for a Cause Festival and Dog Walk.  Lacey and I had a ton of fun sniffing, marking, barking at all the people and doggies, and just mouthing off all around, BOL.  

We were doing the walk with all the other doggies and their walkers, grandma was walking Lacey and mom was walking me.  Mom and I went to a wading pool to get water, and next thing I know, a big doggie had a hold of me near my left front leg. He wouldn't let go! Eek!!!  I could tell mom was calmly freaking out, and for sure I was!  I was yelping, and the other doggie was grring. I don't know what I did, I just don't think he liked me, maybe I barked at him wrong. It was only for a few seconds but it seemed like longer. Anyways, the other doggie's walker got the doggie off of me, and suddenly mom and a bunch of other people were surrounding me, checking me out.  They checked my leg and its movement, and I didn't yelp when they did that.  They didn't see any puncture wounds or blood, whew.  The other doggie's walker even stayed there to make sure I was ok - the doggie that got me was a rescue doggy, and its walker was nice and apologetic and made sure I was ok.  I just have a few scratches and had some matted fur which mom cut out before she put medicine on my scratches.  The doggie had really just gotten my fur - thank goodness for schnauzer skirts, whew!  

So after I got the a-ok from the medical team and volunteers, mom and I collapsed on the grass and took a long rest. BOL  I even rolled around on the grass and flopped over - mom took a pic of that of course! A volunteer took a picture of me too cause he thought I was cute just laying there on my back with my tongue hanging out, BOL. I was really hot and exhausted!  Even though I could walk ok, I wanted to stop and rest so much that mom carried me for most of the rest of the walk. Nah, I'm not spoiled, BOL.

What a day! 

Oh yah, someone forgot to tell mom that band-aids hurt when you pull them off of doggies too, sheesh!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We're doing a dog walk!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/458396</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 10 May 2008 15:34:12 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/458396</guid>
		<description>Mom finally signed us up for our local shelter's Paws for a Cause Dog Walk and Festival. It's next S ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom finally signed us up for our local shelter's Paws for a Cause Dog Walk and Festival. It's next Sunday, May 18. Lacey and I went last year and we had a blast!  If you live near us and want to go, here's the details: <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site  onClick="alert('Dogster Alert: You are about to visit an outside link that was submitted by this pet owner.');" href="http://www.peninsulaspca.org/dogwalk1.html">Peninsula SPCA 2nd Annual Paws for a Cause Dog Walk & Festival</a>

Mom adopted Sydney from this shelter several years ago, so we're going to walk extra hard for her. We're very pawcited!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My angel Scarlet</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/454842</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:58:59 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/454842</guid>
		<description>My girlpup Scarlet went to Rainbow Bridge last night. Mom told me the sad news last night, and she s ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ My girlpup <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/25143">Scarlet</a> went to Rainbow Bridge last night. Mom told me the sad news last night, and she said Sydney would be there to greet her and show her around Rainbow Bridge.   So my sister and my girlpup will finally get to meet. I hope Sydney tells Scarlet only the good stuff.

Scarlet's mom and my mom set me and Scarlet up when they first met; they thought we'd make a lovely couple cause we both have one ear up and one ear down, only the opposite ears of the other one.  Scarlet and I sent each other cards, messages, and pawresents. She was the best girlpup a boypup could ever have, and mom and I are really going to miss her. :(   Not nearly as much as I'm sure her mom, mom's mom, and fursiblings are going to miss her.  

Pawlease send my sweet angel <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/25143">Scarlet</a> and her family love. Angel pups, can you pawlease show <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/25143">Scarlet</a> your favorite places at the Bridge, the sunniest, warmest spots for relaxing, and where she can find the softest, cuddliest pillows and blankets.  

I will always love you, my sweet angel Scarlet.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Halp!  Dogz iz trapped!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/454065</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:51:45 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Mom's keeping me and Lacey in one room during the day now, and she says she's going to have to do th ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom's keeping me and Lacey in one room during the day now, and she says she's going to have to do this for a while. Halp! Mom says it's cause she's selling our house and she can't have me and Lacey bothering people, or worse yet, running out the front door when people come in.  Ok, I can see her point on that last one....  But still, we love to say hi to people!  Why just last week, mom put us in her bedroom for when the realtor came by to take pics of the house, and Lacey really wanted to say hi (we like the realtor lady a lot!), so she knocked the gate down. Then realtor moved the gate so I could get out, and the second she sat down, I jumped right on her lap. Woof!

Also, how are we supposed to protect the house from all these people who might be walking tho it if we're trapped in one measly room?!?]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Scarlet needs prayers</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/448342</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:11:21 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>My sweet love Scarlet's sis Sophie says Scarlet isn't doing too well today; she's lethargic and havi ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ My sweet love <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/25143">Scarlet</a>'s sis Sophie says <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/25143">Scarlet</a> isn't doing too well today; she's lethargic and having other troublesome signs. :( Please send her some strength, love, and prayers! Thanks everypup.  

Scarlet's page is <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/25143">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/25143</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Catching up!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/442452</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:37:11 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
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		<description>Hi everypup! It's been a while since me or Lacey wrote a diary entry.  We've both been so busy this  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Hi everypup! It's been a while since me or Lacey wrote a diary entry.  We've both been so busy this year teaching our foster siblings, Emmy and Charlie, how to behave, or rather, not behave, BOL!  After being with us for a few days, they went from quiet dogs to typical pawsome schnauzer barking machines, woof woof!! 

We're in "jail" for the second day in a row today - mom says something about a guy doing work our the house and we'd get in his way. Sheesh, she knows us so well, BOL!  As long as he doesn't touch my toys, I guess it's ok. Things have been changing at our house too, the carpet's gone, furniture is moved, there's boxes of stuff here and there.... I've seen this before, back when me and mom moved from my condo to the house. I think I know what's going on, but it still weirds me out.  On the plus side, my grandpawrents have been over lots of weekends to help with whatever this house stuff is, so me and Lacey have gotten tons more love and attention, arooo!  Cupcake has come over with them a couple times too, and we just love her!

Mom says that cause we've been in "jail" that she'll take us for extra long walks and car rides this weekend. Bwahahaha, she is such a sucker!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Valentines Tag</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/418853</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:58:35 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>I was Valentines tagged by my lovely pals Samara Jean and Anastasia!  I am going to tell you 5 Valen ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I was Valentines tagged by my lovely pals Samara Jean and Anastasia!  I am going to tell you 5 Valentine wishes, and then tag 5 friends with a p-mail or rosette. They will then write a diary entry and tag 5 friends with a pmail or rosette, and so on and so on...

1. I wish for Scarlet to be healthy and happy for a very very very long time! 
2. I wish for those foster dogs to go away furever so mom can get back to loving me 24/7 like she should be! 
3. I wish for more walks!
4. I wish for more treats!
5. I wish fur everypup in rescue and shelters to have a wonderful furever home!! (esp. my foster bro, sheesh!)]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Dear Santa Paws</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/398373</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:24:15 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Hi Santa Paws!

Do you remember me from all the pictures I've taken with you?!? I was a very good  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Hi Santa Paws!

Do you remember me from all the pictures I've taken with you?!? I was a very good boy every time and sat on your lap all nice and didn't jump on you or anything!  

I have been the best boy this year!!  Mom was always telling me, and she still does all the time, how happy I make her and how much I mean to her, so that counts for a lot, right? It definitely makes up for the scratches I've given her from jumping on her with excitement that she's home and from pawing at her to get outta bed and play with me.  Speaking of, I'm a good boy cause I don't hog mom's bed when she's trying to sleep, like Lacey does, sheesh.  I'm a good boy and sleep in my own beds (one of which is mom's papasan chair, but she's not using it then so I can).  Sometimes I even let mom sleep in on the weekends, like til 7am and everything! 

I'm also a good security guard cause I'll bark at stuff outside too, and I don't bark at every little thing like Lacy does. (Cry wolf much Lacey sheesh! BOL!)  When people come over to the house, or when mom and I go to someone else's house, I jump in mom's lap to protect her and let everyone else know to stay away!!  I am very protective of my mommy cause I love her so much and she loves me so so much. 

I'm also a good boy cause I'm there for my mom when she gets sad.  She's been sad a lot since my sister Sydney joined you and became an angel.  When mom's sad, I let her cry into my fur, I'll give her kisses, I make her laugh.  I even have photographic evidence of this on Sydney's Dogster page.

I make everyone laugh and bring lots of happiness to my family.

Here's what I would like for Christmas:

I want mom to give me that cozy cave bed I know she's hiding!

I would like every homeless doggy (and kitty too, sheesh!) to have a home. Just not my home cause mom has brought in enough "fosters" that take her attention away from me. 

I want puppy mills shut down and animal abuse and dog fighting to stop forever!

I want my girlfriend Scarlet to be all better and healthy!!!!!    I wish her family lots of love cause they're pawsome persons.

I would like chewies for every day! I'm not picky about what kind. If that's too much weight for your sleigh, could you give me the power to open doors and bags so I can get into the treat pantry and get treats whenever I want? Thanks!

Also, mom said she's getting me a fleece sweater like Lacey has. I don't want one, so if you could please give it to another cold doggy about my size, I'd really appawreciate it and so would that cold doggy.

To Lexie and Uno - my grandpaw wants a schnauzer (cause of me and Lacey!), so if Santa grants your wishes, one or both of your brothers can live with him! 

Woof woof!

Love,
Shakespeare]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Update on Scarlet</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/389417</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:02:21 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>Keep the power of the paw coming!!!!!!  Thank you everyone for your prayers and paws!!!

Scarlet p ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Keep the power of the paw coming!!!!!!  Thank you everyone for your prayers and paws!!!

<a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/25143">Scarlet posted an update!!</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Prayers needed for Scarlet!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/389121</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:03:47 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>My longtime gf and one of my best doggie pals Scarlet is sick.  She joined SR not too long ago.  Can ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ My longtime gf and one of my best doggie pals <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/25143">Scarlet</a> is sick.  She joined SR not too long ago.  Can you please send her some prayers and love, please?!?!  We need some power of the paw for her!!!

Pawlease light a candle for her:  <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site  onClick="alert('Dogster Alert: You are about to visit an outside link that was submitted by this pet owner.');" href="http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=SRule">http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=SRule</a>

Thank you everypup!

Scarlet's page:<a  class=bodyTextRev target=site href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/25143">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/25143</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Tag!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/387826</link>

				<pubdate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:30:13 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
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		<description>I was tagged by Jasmine, Charley, and Vanilla Schnoodle!

It's THANKSGIVING TAG!!!!

Here are th ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I was tagged by Jasmine, Charley, and Vanilla Schnoodle!

It's THANKSGIVING TAG!!!!

Here are the rules:
Because it’s Thanksgiving time, there is a change to the rules. Each player needs to tell seven special things they are thankful for. Tagged dogs must post the rules in their diary and their 7 things. Then choose 7 pups to tag and list their names. Let them know by pawmail or rosette that they have been tagged and to read your diary for the instructions on how to play.

Seven Things I’m Thankful For:

1. I'm thankful that my pals tagged me, BOL!  Really tho, I'm thankful for all my pals!!  Woof!
2. I am thankful that I got to pick such a great mom, and she didn't even make me say that.
3. I am thankful for my grandpawrents and uncle Joey, who love and spoil me almost as much as my mom.
4. I am thankful that my sister Sydney is no longer in pain and can run free now.
5. I am thankful for my sister Lacey.
6. I am thankful for TREATS!
7. I am thankful for WALKS!  Now mom, let's go on one, aroooo!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Tag! I'm it!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/376720</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:13:51 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/376720</guid>
		<description>I was tagged again!  I must be so loved, BOL. This time I was tagged by Sassy, Whitney,  Buddy Grau, ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I was tagged again!  I must be so loved, BOL. This time I was tagged by Sassy, Whitney,  Buddy Grau, and T-Bone.

Here are the rules of this dogster game of "tag" in case you've never gotten a chance to play. When you are tagged, you post 7 random facts about yourself, compose a "new DIARY entry" along with the rules and put them in your own DIARY. Then you pick 7 furs (kitties or doggies) to tag but make sure you tell them... a simple p-mail will do fine, or a rosette to tell them, but you must let them know that they have been tagged. Post their names also in your DIARY.

Here are 7 random facts about myself:

1. When mom is eating, I either sit right below her or as close to her as possible in case she drops something!  
2. Mom calls me the "zeta dog", whatever that means, BOL. 
3. I love to roll around in the grass, esp. when mom is outside and not paying attention to me. 
4. I jump into the car and go directly to the driver's seat! Then mom tells me I don't have my driver's license and to move to the passenger seat. Sheesh!
5. I know how to ham it up for the camera! 
6. As I've gotten older, my fur's become more salt than pepper. 
7. I'll only catch the tennis ball outside once or twice, then I find better things to do, like sniff or bark.

I'll let Lacey pick who we tag!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Thank You (!) and Birthday Details</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/358069</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:11:26 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/358069</guid>
		<description>Thanks to all my GREAT pals, new and &quot;old&quot;, for the birthday wishes, rosettes and, wow, all the bone ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Thanks to all my GREAT pals, new and "old", for the birthday wishes, rosettes and, wow, all the bones (yum!)!!!  I might even share my leftover frosty paws with you, hee hee hee.

My barkday was pawsome as always! I have the bestest mom!  Well except that this morning she asked me if I was "hung over", whatever that means, but I don't think it was meant to be nice, BOL.

So for my barkday yesterday, mom took me on our annual pet stores in the area trip, which I loved as always cause I get to bark and sniff and say hi and get treats!  We went to this new pet boutique called <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site  onClick="alert('Dogster Alert: You are about to visit an outside link that was submitted by this pet owner.');" href="http://www.portwarwick.com/shoppes.html">Femmes and Fidos</a> and the owner lady was so nice!  She gave me pets and ear scratches and made me a treat platter complete with pupcakes! 

Mom made frosty paws! She didn't have any small cups, so she used the storage containers she already had - and I got the biggest one of course, BOL! 

Mom gave me a new cell phone! (It's only a stuffed toy, don't worry, hee hee.) Grandma got my *own* Bobo!! Yea! She also got me a stuffed gorilla with a grass skirt and bikini top, BOL!  She told mom it's my new date, sheesh grandma!  Ooo, and she also got me a mat that's full of squeakers! Squeak squeak!  Mom got me more presents too, but I was actually so worn out that I didn't even finish opening them - imagine that!  I don't know what got into me.. oh wait, yah, too much excitement and too many treats! BOL!

Me n Lacey n Sydney were so full of treats and pupcakes and sleepy from all the pawcitement that none of us finished our frosty paws.  Sydney even fell asleep on hers, BOL!  

I'll get mom to post photos and videos when she gets home from work. And then we'll have pawty part two so I can finish opening my presents, woof!  No, wait, presents first, then photos!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I'm six today!!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/357517</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:11:50 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/357517</guid>
		<description>Arooo!! Today is my sixth birthday!! I saw mom wrapping presents yesterday (I tried to help but she  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Arooo!! Today is my sixth birthday!! I saw mom wrapping presents yesterday (I tried to help but she wouldn't let me!) and I know she was making homemade frosty paws cause I could smell them from across the house!  I know I'm gonna have a pawty today as I do every year, arooo!  Now if she'd just hurry up and get home, sheesh! Why does she have to do this 'work' thing on *my birthday*?!?!?]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Dear Michael Vick</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/355163</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:38:23 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/355163</guid>
		<description>Dear Michael Vick,
You are a complete and total bass turd. I poop at you, although you aren't worth ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Dear Michael Vick,
You are a complete and total bass turd. I poop at you, although you aren't worth the wear and tear on my sphincter.
Sincerely yours,
Gussie Finknottle,
Elvis the Ibizan,
Priscilla,
Mercury,
Rajah Q.,
Mingus Wilbur
Socks E Grrly
Shakespeare, Sydney, and Lacey

Anypup out there who'd like to turn this weasel into a human fire hydrant, copy and paste into your diary and add your name.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Love tagged!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/350431</link>

				<pubdate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:41:10 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/350431</guid>
		<description>Woof woof!  I was love tagged by Charley, Rudy Mack, Reagan, and Oliver!  What great pals I have!!   ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Woof woof!  I was love tagged by Charley, Rudy Mack, Reagan, and Oliver!  What great pals I have!!  Thank you! I'm sending my schnauzie love to all my pals, I love you all!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>More tags!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/314070</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 24 May 2007 15:09:02 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/314070</guid>
		<description>I tried to play with my foster bro Adam this morning, and he wouldn't play with me. Butthead! Anyway ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I tried to play with my foster bro Adam this morning, and he wouldn't play with me. Butthead! Anyways... BOL

I was tagged again by my pretty pal Hanalei!

Here are 7 more fun facts about Shakespeare:

1. I took my first vacation to the Outer Banks of NC when I was 11 months old. 

2. I love sand but I don't like the ocean.

3. I love my uncle (mom's brother).

4. I like to sleep under mom's bed (when I'm not in the papasan chair, BOL).

5. I get sooooo excited when I go for a walk (every day I might add! Aroo!) that I have to take a break halfway through.

6. I like to be up as high as possible so I can see everything.

7. When other people fart, I run away!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I was tagged!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/312800</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 23 May 2007 15:27:27 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/312800</guid>
		<description>My pawsome friend Duncan tagged me!

Here are the rules:

Each player starts with seven random f ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ My pawsome friend Duncan tagged me!

Here are the rules:

Each player starts with seven random facts about themselves. Dogs who are tagged, need to post in their Diary the rules & their 7 pawsome facts. Then choose 7 dogs to tag and list their names. Don’t forget to bark them a pmail that they have been tagged and to read your Diary, or, send them a fun Rosette announcing they've been Tagged!

So here are 7 fun facts about Shakespeare....

1. When I was a pup, both my ears were down. No, really!

2. I love to dig in the backyard.

3. I took Beginning Agility class at Petsmart. But I wouldn't jump over the jumps, so there went mom's hopes of an agility star, BOL.

4. I'm a mama's boy and like my pal Duncan, I am mom's best boy! (Ok, so I'm the only boy!)

5. My favorite place to sleep is the papsan chair.

6. If you're not paying attention to me, I'll bap you in the face with my paw!!! My favorite time to do this is in the morning when mom and Sydney won't get up!

7. I roll around in any spot that any male human has sat in. (Hey, I'm the only boy!)
 
Now I tag the next 7 pups!

Zoe
Jack the schnauzer pirate
Heidi
Charley
Oliver
Samara Jean
Socks
Velvet]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My Tuesday Night Adventure</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/290427</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:28:29 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/290427</guid>
		<description>Mom was up later than usual on Tuesday night so I was dying to go outside to see what doggies were u ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom was up later than usual on Tuesday night so I was dying to go outside to see what doggies were up and taking about that time of night, so of course I barked and pleaded and mom let me n Lacey outside. We ran around and excitedly told the other doggies that we were up past our bedtime.  I was at the back of the yard when I saw there was a space between the fence and the gate, and I'd never been to visit the neighbors back there - they have a really big house and a big front yard, and I had to check it out.  

So a few minutes after that, I think I hear mom calling me n Lacey, but there were so many good new smells back here!    Mom's yelling my name and "Come", which I know but I only do when there are treats involved. (Like all the other words I know, BOL.)  But wait, I sniff into the air and I smell treats! I hear mom say "Come" again, so I run and run across the big yard and run right up to mom, who gives me the treat, yum! But then I sense that she's upset and she's hugging me and I sorta think I may have done something wrong by visiting the neighbors.  She closed the gate and put a big stick in front of it too, so I don't think I'll get to explore that part of my neighborhood again.

Mom took me inside and gave me and my sisters all treats.  Mom had a heart to heart talk with me in the hallway.  She  told me how much she loves me and how I'm her baby (sheesh, duh!) and to never ever leave my yard again, and that's why I'm always on a leash when I am out of the yard (so that explains it!).]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Getting my Schnauzer on!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/280653</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:12:13 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/280653</guid>
		<description>We have mice in our house!  Mom's really freaked out and setting traps and putting food and treats i ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ We have mice in our house!  Mom's really freaked out and setting traps and putting food and treats in containers, but, like the good terrier I am, I'm kinda wound up about it.  Last night I showed mom where a mousie hole was - I was pawing at this big pillow that's against the wall in the living room, I needed mom to move it so I could get to the darn mouse or mousies... but by time she moved it, the mousies were gone, altho they'd left behind some evidence.... Mom also fussed at us doggies cause there was a lone piece of kibble there and she wanted to know how it ended up there.. like I'm gonna know, sheesh!  Anyways, mom found that the round cable hole had been chewed out so mousies could fit through, and she boarded it up.  So now, sheesh, how am I gonna be able to stake that corner out and get my mouse-catching schnauzer on?!?  I work better than any trap she's set, woof woof!

Oh yah, and after the hole discovery, mom remembered the other day when I was pawing near my crate.. she was a dummy and didn't get what I was trying to tell her at all, sheesh.. so last night she checked out that area and sure enough, the mice had left evidence there, but not a lot cause I scared them off, BOL....  But then mom fussed at me not to leave treat crumbs in my crate, like I'd ever do that, arruuf!

She was proud of me after the fact though. Can you blame her?!? Woof woof!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My Sister the Snot</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/232776</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:11:44 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/232776</guid>
		<description>Sheesh, mom's been taking Lacey all over and I'm so mad, doesn't she know she's my mom first and Lac ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Sheesh, mom's been taking Lacey all over and I'm so mad, doesn't she know she's my mom first and Lacey can just stay outside for all I care! *phhhbbbttt*   Ok, I do like her, we play and watch for squirrels together, but I don't like her taking attention away from me!  Although I gotta say that she's a good student, I've been teaching her how to outsmart mom and get away with being a brat, just like I do, er, I mean, used to do.  Mom says she's teaching Lacey how to behave just like me and that Lacey's going to class just like I used to. I bet she's nowhere near as good as me tho!!!  Actually I guess Lacey learning is ok, but only if she does it at home cause then I get treats too cause I am so smart and know everything and knew everything first!  When mom tries to get Lacey to do a Down, well, I know how to do a really good Down, so I get to show off and get treats.  Mom's starting to give us hot dogs and boy do I love hot dogs!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Today is My Birthday!!!!!!!!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/199633</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:20:20 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/199633</guid>
		<description>Happy Fifth Barkday to ME!!!!

I gotta sneak on mom's puter so I can tell everyone it's my birthda ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Happy Fifth Barkday to ME!!!!

I gotta sneak on mom's puter so I can tell everyone it's my birthday today!!! AROOOOO!!!  This morning mom wished me Happy Birthday and said I'd get a CAKE! and all my PRESENTS!! later today when she gets home from work.  I think she should have just taken the day off to play with me, but I guess she has to pay for my presents somehow. Woof!

Yesterday she took me on our annual "visit all the pet stores in the area" trip. I barked and marked my territory all over yesterday, woof!  First we went to Care A Lot, where I barked hellos to everyone of course, and mom picked up food for my sister Sydney and lots of yummy chewies for me - which I couldn't have, sheesh!  I gotta wait until later.  I left my mark in several places there, mom was embarrassed but sheesh, mom, a boy dog's gotta do what a boy dog's gotta do!

Then we went to Petsmart where I got a free birthday toy!! Thanks Petsmart! I picked out a fluffy porcupine, just like one I had when I was a puppy that mom lost. Sheesh!  She made me try to pick more expensive ones cause it was a free toy, but I just wanted that porcupine! I also barked hi to everyone and it echoed all over so even people across the store got my greetings.  Woof!!!  Oh! And I made a mini schnauzer friend!

After that we went to Petco, where once again I barked very loud hellos to everyone.  I loved those little hamsters and rats! Arooo! I barked like crazy at 'em, and stood up on my hind legs to get a better view (mom helped).  Ooo, then mom picked some treats from their Treat Bar and I got to eat those on the way home.  Aroooo!!!!!

I can't wait to get my cake and my new toys and all those yummies mom got me yesterday!!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My Tail of Devotion for Shakespeare</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/187817</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:50:37 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/187817</guid>
		<description>Shakespeare, you were my very first doggy. You wiggled in my arms and crawled on my head and I knew  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Shakespeare, you were my very first doggy. You wiggled in my arms and crawled on my head and I knew you wanted to come home with me. Best decision I ever made. You've taught me what true love and devotion are; you make me laugh and cry and love. Shakey, you are such a silly goofball and such a smart, wonderful boy. I never thought I could care for anything so much as I do you. You're my baby boy, my heart, and I love you more than anything.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My new little sister!!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/187165</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:03:49 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/187165</guid>
		<description>I got a new sister! Her name's Lacey, she's a girl schnauzer, and she's even my age (although I am t ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I got a new sister! Her name's Lacey, she's a girl schnauzer, and she's even my age (although I am technically the older brother, woof!).  My mom fosters for her schnauzer group, so sometimes I get a playmate for a few weeks.  But this time my playmate gets to stay!  I'm so excited! Lacey is so much fun!  We play and play and run and chase and tug and play and wrestle!  So we have lots of fun and my other sister Sydney gets more nap time - mom used to fuss at me for bugging her when I wanted to play.  But now I can bug my other sister to play with me and she will actually play! Arooo!!!  My mom says Lacey and I are make good playmates cause neither of us alphas the other, and we take turns in our "bottom" pack position. (My older sis Sydney's the alpha ya know.)  I just love my new little sis!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Haircut, sheesh!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/178433</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:41:38 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/178433</guid>
		<description>My mom took me to the groomer's today and he shaved me except of course for my great beard and eyebr ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ My mom took me to the groomer's today and he shaved me except of course for my great beard and eyebrows.  Sheesh!  I'm all naked n stuff, I'm so mad at my mom. I won't let her take photos, haha.  She keeps saying I must feel better, but whatever, I just want to look like a normal schnauzer again.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Another Foster Playmate</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/176207</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:16:53 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/176207</guid>
		<description>Whew, I'm all worn out this week!  My mom's fostering another mini schnauzer, this girl's name is La ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Whew, I'm all worn out this week!  My mom's fostering another mini schnauzer, this girl's name is Lady and she's four, which is just my age!  She was kinda scared and shy at first, she wouldn't stop following my mom around (sheesh!).  But after a few days, she settled right in.  My mom and I have been showing her how to play. She's a lot of fun to play with! We'll play tug o war and chase each other around. She's pretty cool, woof woof!  My mom even made a <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site  onClick="alert('Dogster Alert: You are about to visit an outside link that was submitted by this pet owner.');" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwEhLjmKjI0">video of the first time we really played</a>.

She is a pretty good foster sis, but I hope she finds a home soon cause I want my mom all to myself again, woof woof!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Finally, a Walk!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/172127</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:13:05 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/172127</guid>
		<description>Sheesh!  It's been raining since Friday and mom hasn't taken me for a walk since Saturday.  It's bee ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Sheesh!  It's been raining since Friday and mom hasn't taken me for a walk since Saturday.  It's been <i>forever</i>!  But today we <i>finally</i> got to take a nice long walk around my, I mean, our neighborhood.  I got to mark everything again, woof woof!  I met three new doggies too - two nice medium black doggies and a fuzzy weiner doggy.  The daschund, as my mom called it, rolled right over for a belly rub! Sheesh!  Ooooo!! I also almost got to chase the duckies that were in my front yard the other day!  Mom made a stupid <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site  onClick="alert('Dogster Alert: You are about to visit an outside link that was submitted by this pet owner.');" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpEsCJhgit4">video of it</a> - you can hear me n Sydney barking cause we wanted to go out and I wanted to chase them.  Sheesh.  Anyways, today I almost did!  But I'm on this stupid leash and couldn't get to em.   I didn't even have to take a break on this walk cause I was so ready to go and full of energy.  It's time for a nap now though, woof!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Dog Show and Attention</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/156253</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 19 May 2006 09:04:33 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/156253</guid>
		<description>Mom posted some vacation photos of me, Sydney, and Cupcake.  Mine are from Yappy Hour at the Outer B ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Mom posted some vacation photos of me, Sydney, and Cupcake.  Mine are from Yappy Hour at the Outer Barks, which is a really neat place!  Sydney and Cupcake's are from the deck on the house we stayed at, those silly girls both love sunbathing.  We love going to the NC Outer Banks cause it's so dog-friendly.  I still gotta get mom to write about our adventures.

Ok, so get a load of this!  Mom tells me there's this AKC Dog Show close to us next weekend - but she says she can't bring Sydney or me!  We're not registered or showable or something.  What's the woof is up with that?!? I'm an AKC registered doggy and she sure loves to show us off everywhere else!  I mean, look at how cute I am!  I'm really leery about this, maybe some other doggies will show off to her and then there will be all kinds of crazy doggies running around the house.  Sheesh!  She's going to a *DOG SHOW* without showing off her own dogs!  

On the other hand, I get to see my grandma today and I lurve my grandma! She's great for treats and love and attention, my favorite things besides walks and playing and running and barking.  And my mom says my Uncle Joey, her human brother, will be staying with us for a while.  I LOVE my Uncle Joey!  He is so much fun!  He loves to play with me and we can play for hours!  Playing is my favorite thing besides treats and love and attention walks and running and barking.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Back from vacation</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/154104</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 13 May 2006 13:58:21 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/154104</guid>
		<description>Me n Sydney n mom n Cupcake n her mom just got back from a week in the Outer Banks of NC.  We had lo ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Me n Sydney n mom n Cupcake n her mom just got back from a week in the Outer Banks of NC.  We had lots of fun!!  I got to walk all over and bark at all kinds of new people and dogs and even went to a Yappy Hour at the Outer Barks!   I'll have mom post some new pics later on.. she's unpacking and I need a nap cause I had such a great week!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Crazy Puppy in My House!!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/148009</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:56:16 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/148009</guid>
		<description>There's another dog at my house again, sheesh! Her name is Prissy and she's small like Sydney and he ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ There's another dog at my house again, sheesh! Her name is Prissy and she's small like Sydney and her hair is really long. She keeps barking and barking and trying to chase me around and getting me to chase her, she won't leave me alone!  I mean, I am handsome and all so I don't blame her.  And I do like playing with her, we'll chase each other around and we'll bark at each other and play tug o war.  But sheesh, let me cuddle with my mom in some peace!   And mom, put down the camera and pet me!!!

You can see a video of me and Prissy playing, and Sydney being smart and alpha, at <a  class=bodyTextRev target=site  onClick="alert('Dogster Alert: You are about to visit an outside link that was submitted by this pet owner.');" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBfYYekPQMw"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBfYYekPQMw </a>.  Sydney got up and wandered around - she kept telling us to knock it off, then she made them get out of her way so she could get back to her beauty sleep.
 
Mom says Prissy is going to her foster home on Saturday.  I'm gonna miss her but it'll be good to have mom all to myself again!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I love spring!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/140469</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:41:45 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/140469</guid>
		<description>Woof woof!!  It's warm outside and you know what that means?!?  Walks every day!!   Mom and I love t ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Woof woof!!  It's warm outside and you know what that means?!?  Walks every day!!   Mom and I love to walk around our neighborhood.  She likes seeing all the nice houses and yards and getting near the water - which she can only see through people's barkyards.  She says we'll walk to the beach soon, we're a mile away I think.  But I like reading the pawmail on all the trees and lightpoles and bushes.  There's a lot going on!  Sometimes we run into this westie and shih tzu, they're my size and really nice.   I also say hi to the lab and shepard mix on the corner, and the shelties and terrier mixes a couple streets over.  I wonder why they're left outside though?  I love being outside, but I couldn't imagine not getting to come in and snuggle with my mom.

Oh! And mom put a birdfeeder in the backyard so almost every time I go out, I can ruuuuunnnnnn to the back part of the yard and chase them all away!  Mom tells me I can't fly, but what does she know? BOL!

Oooo! Gotta go bark at the birds out front!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Foster Brother</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/113679</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:14:15 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/113679</guid>
		<description>Sheesh! You guys!  There's another boy doggy in my house!  My mom brought him here the other day and ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Sheesh! You guys!  There's another boy doggy in my house!  My mom brought him here the other day and said he's only going to stay for a few weeks, but that's still too long in my book.  It's my house (ok, it's Sydney's) and my mom!  This other doggy, his name is Scotty, he's following my mom around and climbing into her lap and sitting with her on the couch and she's letting him!  She's even petting him, scratching his belly, hugging him, and giving him kisses.  I'm the only one who should get those things! Ok, and Sydney too, she's cool cause she doesn't demand too much attention from mom.  But this new guy, he's all over the place, sheesh!  He won't even play chase the cat with me!  I bark and bark at him and he won't even bark back!  What's that all about?!? He hasn't even chased me yet or anything. He's all "behaved" and "sweet" whatever that means.  Woof woof woof!!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I'm a brat, hehe!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/101975</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:08:00 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/101975</guid>
		<description>I almost tricked my mom this morning!  She kept calling and calling for me to come inside.. she even ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I almost tricked my mom this morning!  She kept calling and calling for me to come inside.. she even used the magic word treat.. but that didn't fool me, I stayed right outside. Parked my butt in one spot and wouldn't move.  Then when I saw her walking towards me, I ran further back, ha ha ha ha!  She won't get me!  But of couse that meany picked me up (the indignity, sheesh!!) and carried me inside.  I even grred at her but she told me not to talk back to her, like that's gonna stop me, sheesh!  So I ended up having to go inside.. I just can't win sometimes!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Happy HOWLidays!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/101973</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:04:49 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/101973</guid>
		<description>Aroooo!! I am so excited cause I know the holidays are coming up!  I love love love Christmas!!  I l ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Aroooo!! I am so excited cause I know the holidays are coming up!  I love love love Christmas!!  I love all the paper and presents and bows and ribbons and people and attention and paper!!   Mom's been coming home with bags that smell like treats and like the doggy stores we go to.. but she won't share yet darnit..  I can't wait to see what she got.. of course I hope she wraps everything in lots of paper cause that's my favorite part!

Happy Howlidays to all my friends, woof woof!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Thanks Shakespeare!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/87027</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:13:02 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/87027</guid>
		<description>Thanks for to my great-named and super talented pal Shakespeare for my rosette!  Woof woof!!! ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Thanks for to my great-named and super talented pal Shakespeare for my rosette!  Woof woof!!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I love Attention!!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/87024</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:11:16 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/87024</guid>
		<description>I got lots and lots of attention this weekend!  On Saturday my mom's friend came to visit and she pe ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I got lots and lots of attention this weekend!  On Saturday my mom's friend came to visit and she petted me a lot.  She has a lab named Billie whom I've played with before, she was fun but bigger than me (technically - I'm really the size of a great dane!).  Then the next day my uncle Bob's parents came over and they love me, hehe... they gave me lots of love and attention and let me jump on them and sit on their laps.  They have a technically bigger doggie than me too, I've met her before too.  And then, my grandparents and Cupcake came over!!!!  I love my grandparents and Cupcake!!! Arrrooooo!!  So I had lots and lots of people giving me attention and I loved every minute of it!  That's how every day should be for me, woof!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My cousin Cupcake</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/82902</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:01:41 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/82902</guid>
		<description>Sheesh! My cousin Cupcake was a diary of the day?!?  All she does is nap, and she hardly ever wants  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Sheesh! My cousin Cupcake was a diary of the day?!?  All she does is nap, and she hardly ever wants to play with me.  I'm way more talkative than her.   I bark all the time.. ok, so I got her barking more too, but I still have her beat in the amount of barking, woof woof woof!

I guess it's ok tho cause several of my schanuzer pals have been diaries of the day!  So does that make Cupcake an honorary schanuzer?  She's kinda cool sometimes.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Congrats Buddy!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/81986</link>

				<pubdate>Sat, 8 Oct 2005 08:37:56 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/81986</guid>
		<description>Arroooo! Congrats to our pal Buddy for being Diary of the Day! ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Arroooo! Congrats to our pal Buddy for being Diary of the Day!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Our friend Molly!!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/81721</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 7 Oct 2005 04:33:11 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/81721</guid>
		<description>Arooooo!!!!   One of our bestest friends Molly is Diary of the Day today!!!  Congrats to her and her ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Arooooo!!!!   One of our bestest friends Molly is Diary of the Day today!!!  Congrats to her and her humom, who's one of our humom's bestest friends too.    YEA MOLLY!!!!!

p.s. Molly is my gf Scarlet's sister!! Molly's humom, you better give my gf Scarlet some extra loving too!

p.p.s. Thanks for all my bones!!  Yum!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Attention galore!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/75670</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:01:58 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/75670</guid>
		<description>Arooo, this week's been lots of fun so far!  First I got to go to my grandparents' house and see my  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Arooo, this week's been lots of fun so far!  First I got to go to my grandparents' house and see my Uncle Joey, my humom's brother!!  He's so much fun and I got to give him hugs and kisses and we played a bunch.  Then he and my grandparents and my grandma's brother all came over to *my* house, rooooo roooo!  We all played and ran around my yard and I got lots of attention and it was so much fun!  Mom's even been giving me pieces of chicken and cheese cause she's been giving my sister Sydney lots of that and she can't resist my cute self, woof woof!

I'm kinda confused tho cause my humom won't let me bug Sydney as much.  She says Sydney's sick - what's that mean?  Why can't I play with her?  When I try and play with her, she doesn't even grrr at me like she usually does but my humom fusses instead.  Sheesh!

Ooooo!  People outside, gotta go back to my window and bark!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Thanks!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/73269</link>

				<pubdate>Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:40:10 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/73269</guid>
		<description>Wow, thanks for all my bones, whoever gave them all to me. Arrroooo! ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Wow, thanks for all my bones, whoever gave them all to me. Arrroooo!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>It's my Birthday!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/71500</link>

				<pubdate>Sun, 28 Aug 2005 06:58:33 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/71500</guid>
		<description>Happy Birthday to me!
Happy Birthday to me!
Happy Birthday to meeeeee!
Happy Birthday to me!

W ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Happy Birthday to me!
Happy Birthday to me!
Happy Birthday to meeeeee!
Happy Birthday to me!

Woooo woooooo wooooo!

I've been a pain all day, haha.  Today mom says we're gonna go to all the pet stores and get more stuff for me!  And we're gonna get Frosty Paws and all kinds of other goodies! 

Oooo, I gotta go bark at passersby to let them know it's my birthday!

Thanks Dogster for my birthday wishes!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>*My* Neighborhood</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/71064</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:06:12 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/71064</guid>
		<description>Me n mom n Sydney went on a walk around the new neighborhood yesterday.  I marked all over the place ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Me n mom n Sydney went on a walk around the new neighborhood yesterday.  I marked all over the place, so now it's *my* new neighborhood.  Woof woof!!

Oh yah, and my barkday is Sunday!!  I can't wait!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Birthday shopping!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/70253</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:32:50 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/70253</guid>
		<description>Arroooo! Last night I got to go with mom to the store to buy Sydney's canned food - Syd eats it caus ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Arroooo! Last night I got to go with mom to the store to buy Sydney's canned food - Syd eats it cause she only has half of her teeth, but sometimes she also eats my Wellness kibble.. hey, mom, wait a sec.. Oh, yah, I get a scoop of canned too.  Okay.  Anyways, so me n mom went to the store and she let me pick out some of my birthday presents!!  She let me sniff at lots of treats and chewies, and I licked one so she had to buy it, haha!   She kept trying to get me to pick out a toy or two, but I was more interested in all the yummy treats!  I saw her get a couple toys but don't tell her I saw, k?  I wanted the treats while she was buying them at the counter, but she said I had to wait until Sunday, sheesh!   But then we went to chik-fil-a drive through and they gave me a milkbone, so I still got a treat even tho it's not my birthday.. Yet.

I'm gonna get presents soon, aroooo!  And that means Wrapping Paper!!!  Ooooooo!!!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My crazy weekend!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/69964</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:04:11 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/69964</guid>
		<description>I'm so mad!  My humom took me to the dreaded groomer's on Saturday. And he shaved me!!!  Said I was  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I'm so mad!  My humom took me to the dreaded groomer's on Saturday. And he shaved me!!!  Said I was too matted, sheesh mom, don'tcha know that after I roll around in the grass and mud you're supposed to brush me out? So what if I don't wanna sit still while you do it? I'm a schnauzer, I can't stay still!  It's not in my nature!  Aroooo!  Anyways, I look silly in my handsome way and I am much cooler.  My humom better start brushing me better when my hair starts growin back.

Oh yah, and the groomer is such a tattletale!!  He told my humom that I had an total attitude problem this time.  Sheesh, again, hello, schnauzer here!  I can only be good for so long!   My humom said cause I was a brat that I was grounded, but I know she can't do that cause I gotta do my doggy business outside. Haha!

I overheard the groomer and my humom sayin that even though I'm usually really good (of course!), that I had more attitude this time cause we just moved into our new house, like that might be makin me act up.  But I was ok when me n mom moved into our last place. I dunno, what do you doggies think?   How do you act when you move into a new house?

Oh yah, my barkday is in less than a week!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My birthday...</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/67183</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:37:48 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/67183</guid>
		<description>...is coming up soon, on the 28th!!  I'm going to be FOUR!  You have lots of time to buy me presents ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ ...is coming up soon, on the 28th!!  I'm going to be FOUR!  You have lots of time to buy me presents!  I like toys and treats, any kinds work.   Or you can just come visit and give me all your attention all the time, woof woof!  Ooo, I wonder what my humom has planned this year?  Last year we spent all day at the dog park and I got a doggy safe cake and lots of presents.  Maybe this year I can have a party in my backyard, that would be fun!  I gotta go keep bugging my humom about this.....]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Thanks Miss Nellie!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/67024</link>

				<pubdate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:28:29 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/67024</guid>
		<description>Woooof!  I wanna thank my new friend Miss Nellie's Beautiful Song for my Rosette!  I gotta get my hu ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Woooof!  I wanna thank my new friend Miss Nellie's Beautiful Song for my Rosette!  I gotta get my humom to join dogster plus so I can send my friends cool stuff too.  Plus I know there's tons more pictures of adorable me that need to be shared with everyone, arooo!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My new favorite place</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/66847</link>

				<pubdate>Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:26:50 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/66847</guid>
		<description>My new house has a  really big window that I can see the whole street from!  I just hop up on the be ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ My new house has a  really big window that I can see the whole street from!  I just hop up on the bench, watch everything, and bark at all the people and animals that dare venture near my terriroty.  I have a bigger place to protect now, woof!   I love to stare out the big window, I love watching everything!!   Ooo, some one's walking by now.. Gotta go bark at em, it's my job!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What a fun weekend!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/66088</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:22:31 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/66088</guid>
		<description>I ran around my yard alllll weekend, I love it!  My humom played ball with me a lot (I like it when  ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I ran around my yard alllll weekend, I love it!  My humom played ball with me a lot (I like it when her email is screwed up, more play time for me!).  Sometimes uncle bob would stop working long enough to toss the ball too.  My grandparents and Cupcake came over on Sat and so me n Cupcake got to run around the yard together.   Oooo, I got in touch with my inner guard dog cause I got to chase the neighbor's kitty cat outta *my* yard.   Aroooo!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My New YARD!!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/64410</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 2 Aug 2005 09:14:27 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/64410</guid>
		<description>You guys!!!  Guess what?!?!?!  I have my very own backyard!! No more leashes, just lots of running f ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ You guys!!!  Guess what?!?!?!  I have my very own backyard!! No more leashes, just lots of running free and sniffing and running and marking up the place (you know, gotta do what a boy's gotta do)!  I love my yard so much!!  When my humom first let me outside, I ran so fast straight across it, I ran around the back and the side, and wow, it's so much fun!  I love to run run run!  When I'm not bugging my humom or sister or dad or the cat (bark!) I just hang out by the door cause I want to go outside.. I love being outside, arooooo!  I love being free and running and I pout whenever mom wants me to go inside, geez, mom, what'd ya get the yard for if I can't be in it all the time?!?!   Ooo, maybe soon my squirrel and bird enemies will show up and I can chase them around too, aroooo!

p.s. Thank you to my talented friend Shakespeare for my very first rosette!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I like my grandparents house!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/62506</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:20:34 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
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		<description>So me n Sydney have been hanging out at my grandparent's house for a few days.  We love it here caus ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ So me n Sydney have been hanging out at my grandparent's house for a few days.  We love it here cause we get to see Cupcake and run around in the big yard and I get to hang out in my grandpa's lap and grandma gives us lots of treats.   Aroooo!!     My humom said that when we come home next that we're gonna be in our new big house and get to run around our very own yard!  I hope it's as big as my grandparent's yard.  Woof woof!  I'm gonna go outside again now!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hi to all my doggie friends!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/60470</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:04:23 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
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		<description>Aroooo!  I'm so exicted cause I was thinking about how many super cool friends me n Sydney have here ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Aroooo!  I'm so exicted cause I was thinking about how many super cool friends me n Sydney have here..  I want to play with all of em!  But since my humom says we can't all fit in the house now (sheesh mom!), I can at least say hi!!!  Maybe when we get into the new house my humom will let me have everyone over for Frosty Paws!  Woof!

Oooo..  squirrel at the patio .. gotta go!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What's going on?!?</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/60340</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:14:09 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
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		<description>So my humom has been putting stuff in boxes, and there's boxes all over my house!  She put our colla ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ So my humom has been putting stuff in boxes, and there's boxes all over my house!  She put our collars and bowls and medicines in a box. She even put some of my toys in a box, so like now I only have twenty toys to play with instead of forty, sheeesh!  But she says that it's ok cause I'll have a bigger house and a yard in a few days - a yard!!!  I had one when I was a puppy and I loved it.. I hope mom's not playin with me cause if I get a yard.. woooof wooof!!  I can't wait to run around and play ball and chase my dad, aroooo!

Oooo, gotta go bark at the night sky, be back in a few!! Wooooof!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Congrats Bailey!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/58626</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:16:26 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/58626</guid>
		<description>Woof woof!! Me n Sydney want to give a bark out to our friend Bailey, who is Dogster's Dog of the We ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Woof woof!! Me n Sydney want to give a bark out to our friend Bailey, who is Dogster's Dog of the Week!  Arooo!! Congrats Bailey!  Schnauzers rule!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My New Friend!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/48260</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 30 May 2005 18:35:36 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
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		<description>I made a new friend today!  Her name's Misty and she's a shepard, but she doesn't have sheep n stuff ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I made a new friend today!  Her name's Misty and she's a shepard, but she doesn't have sheep n stuff.  She has cool toys tho, and her humom has good treats.  My humom says she's daddy's parent's doggy, like Cupcake is my parent's doggy.. so does that make Misty my cousin too?   Misty has a great big yard and she's a big dog too, like three times my size.  But she's really sweet and followed me around the yard and made sure I was doing ok.   Like, sheesh, I'm a schnauzer, I can bark anything away if it bugs me, arrooooo!  I had lots of fun tho cause I got to run around a yard and get treats and meet new people and make a new doggy friend.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Ah ha..</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/47622</link>

				<pubdate>Fri, 27 May 2005 16:22:01 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/47622</guid>
		<description>I found one thing I don't like!  So Cupcake is staying with us this weekend, and she doesn't want to ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I found one thing I don't like!  So Cupcake is staying with us this weekend, and she doesn't want to play with me!  She just wants to snuggle up to *my* humom, sheesh!  She doesn't wanna play, Sydney only plays for a few minutes, and sheesh, the cat sure doesn't want to play.  What's a hyper barking machine to do?]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hee hee..</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/42891</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 3 May 2005 15:06:45 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
		<guid ispermalink="true">http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/42891</guid>
		<description>So I love lots of things!  I love barking and playing and barking and chewing on toys and barking an ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ So I love lots of things!  I love barking and playing and barking and chewing on toys and barking and bugging my sister and my humom and barking and being outside and presents and everything!  I think the only thing I don't love is a bath, blech!  But I love rolling around after my bath.. esp. on the grass, haha...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I  love spring!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/42890</link>

				<pubdate>Tue, 3 May 2005 15:04:46 PDT</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
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		<description>I love the warm weather now!  I get to spend lots of time outside, altho not as much as I want, mom, ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I love the warm weather now!  I get to spend lots of time outside, altho not as much as I want, mom, sheesh!  I get to roll around all in the grass and smush myself into it and chase all the birds and squirrels and roll around in the grass some more. Woof woof!!  Let's go out mom!!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Christmas!</title>
		<link>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/24123/diary/The_barking_machine/17618</link>

				<pubdate>Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:10:04 PST</pubdate>
		<author>Shakespeare ~ writing at dogster.com</author>
		<category></category>		
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		<description>Woof woof!! I love love love Christmastime!  This year I got to see my Uncle Joey and my Uncle Benny ...</description>

		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Woof woof!! I love love love Christmastime!  This year I got to see my Uncle Joey and my Uncle Benny and my grandma and grandpaw and Cupcake and I got lots of attention and love and treats.. I got to sit on everyone's lap a million times too!  Oooo, and I got about a million presents!  I lost count cause I was too busy playing with the wrapping paper. I love that stuff!  

When we got to my grandma and grandpaw's house, I knew exactly where the tree was so I immediately ran to it and grabbed a present and ran into the living room where everyone was!  I started to unwrap it but then I decided to go say hi to Cupcake and then my gramdma and when I looked back the present was right back under the tree.   But I got to open it after a yummy breakfast.  I got to open lots and lots more, I got lots of cool squeaky toys, hee hee, I'm driving mom crazy!]]></content:encoded>
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