Now I'm Freezing & Starving!!!

Mom was getting the idea that I was getting a bit plump. Then, she took me over to work for a bath the other day. Gee, just cuz I have a few "love handles" you would think I was obese in Mom's opinion. It's not like she is Twiggy, ya know! (Mom says probably no one will remember who Twiggy is, hehehe!) Anyway, I told Mom those extra pounds were supposed to help keep me warmer. Well, she didn't buy that one, either!
Soo, now I am on starvation rations and worse yet, she always locks Toto's crate when he's not in it so I can't help him finish his dinner. Worse yet, she locked off Smokeys food AND his litter box so that's out, too.
Now I am praying for Summer cuz in the Summer I stay outside lots and I run and run and run...running is good exercise and burns calories! Mom said she didn't need to turn the outside light on at work today cuz it was still light enough at 5PM without it. That is a sure sign of Spring coming, I think. Written as we are waiting for another 8 - 10 inch snowstorm to start!!!
Mom tried bringing me to daycare but that didn't work at all... I never left the comfy chair at her desk!!!!!

Dieting?????????

Uh oh, Mom was looking at my new photos and she decided she needed a closer look. Soo, she took off my pajamas! I have been found out! I am way too PLUMP! First I told Mom it was supposed to keep me warmer. She told me that didn't work for her so it probably wouldn't work for me, either. Well. My next excuse was that I couldn't run in the snow so it was the fault of mother nature since it was tooo cold for me to run. That one sounded pretty good to me, I thought. Nope, she wasn't buying that, either.
Mom says she has finally found out WHY I keep getting plumper and plumper and am now fat. She caught me sneaking into Toto's crate and eating all his left over dinner. She was wondering why he wasn't getting any heavier when it seemed like he was finally eating all his dinner. Oooops.
Soo, now Mom is closing Toto's crate door when he comes out. And, she is actually feeding me LESS food. And, she says she is increasing my exercise by bringing me to daycare, starting tomorrow morning.
Well, the daycare part is good, I guess??? I LIKE daycare!

THREE thousand visitors for me!!!!

Wow, I just checked my page and I have 3,000 visitors right now!!! That is sooo cool cuz Mom immediately ran and got my bully stick and I am chewing it in her bedroom right now!
Yeah, I did go play in the snow today. It was cold and wet and did I mention COLD???
Well, thanks for your visits... the bully stick is GREAT!!!

No new photos for ME!!!

Ya know, everyone is bragging about all their new photos, (or not, Lola!) Well, at least Lola got ONE new one, I didn't get ANY, unless you count that one of Barney where I am way in the front with my butt to the camera.
Mom's excuse... she said it's too hard to make an unhappy dog look happy in the snow. Hey, I resent that...today, for example, I raced down the hill (she had a great shot of my behind) and ran around for a whole several minutes. I even went way over to the back of the pen and left a deposit there so everyone would know I had been out there.
I do have to admit... when you have NO hair it gets mighty cold standing around in all that snow. Mom gets her long johns on, she puts on a warm fleece, then her heavy winter parka, then her hat and her gloves. She didn't even bother to put my extra jacket on over my fleece pajamas. EVERYONE knows that pajamas are not warm enough to wear outside alone in the freezing winter, even if they are fleece. Yeah, they are fine when we are hanging around inside the house with the furnace running, they are even okay in the early fall, but winter requires MORE clothes.
I think tomorrow when she asks us all if we want to go out I am gonna run into the living room and hide instead!!!!

Mom is mad at ME!!!

I was only trying to help. You see, it gets very cold in our house at bedtime...that is why it's bedtime and she sometimes gets so engrossed with the computer that she forgets it's bed time. Well, the other guys would just stare at her and keep staring. Well, Toto would jump up on her once in a while and Ali kept standing in front of the bedroom door and sighing. None of that was working and we were getting colder and more tired.
A few days ago I came up with a solution. Now I stand a few feet away from her and I bark. And I bark and bark and bark until she finally notices. When she notices me, I race over to the bedroom door. It works okay, but it is getting harder and harder. Now, she makes me run up and jump on her after I bark about ten or more times. And, she tries to shuss me, but I don't listen, of course. I just keep barking. Tonight she got up and went into the bathroom to brush her teeth and I had to follow her all the way, barking the whole time!!!
It is very, very important to make sure we get to bed on time. If we don't, then I won't get to sleep before Smokey comes along to wake me up. Then, my whole schedule is ruined and I might be ugly all the next day from lack of sleep.

wow, Diary Daily Pick for ME!!!

Mom said I was a diary daily pick this morning. Wow, that is sooo cool. And, if lots of pups visit my page I will also get enough visitors for a bully stick since I will be at 3,000!!!
Soo, please visit my page! Barney got one on New Year's Day cuz he reached 1000... guess you know who the pupular one here is, hehehe!!!
Well, gotta go play with my kitty before Mom leaves for work. Thanks for your visits!!

New year...

Gee, I wonder if the New Year starts with temps in the high forties that means it will stay that warm for the rest of the winter? Somehow I bet that won't happen!!!
Mom keeps dragging me and Barney down into that cold, freezing, wet, nasty lab pen and expecting us to enjoy ourselves and run around like those crazy poodles. Doesn't she realize that even with our pajamas on, our bellies and legs and feet and neck are still exposed to that cold wetness. Today wasn't too too bad, IF you stayed in the sun and didn't walk around at all. I could actually feel the warmth of that sun right on my back. If all that snow hadn't been underfoot, I could have imagined it was summer. But, then one of those poodles would fly by and shower me with all that wet snow. Brrrr and Grrrrrr!
At least the weekend is over now and since it gets dark BEFORE Mom gets out of work, I should be safe until next weekend.
Hey, my buddy Smokey has been getting me in lots of trouble lately. In the middle of the night, right after Mom gets to sleep, he pounces on me and wakes me up to play. I can't help myself, I have to play with him and then Mom yells at ME and makes ME go in my crate. Doesn't she remember how quietly and calmly I slept BEFORE she brought Smokey home? Why doesn't HE have to go sleep in HIS crate??????

Nice new bedding.....

Nope, it's not for our dog beds, it is for Mom's bed!!! She got a gift certificate to Amazon from one of her boarding clients so she ordered a new comforter and duvet cover for her bed to go along with that nice, new, fuzzy blanket she also got for Christmas. Well, the comforter came today so as soon as she got home from work she fixed the bed with all the new bedding. Now, I can't wait until it's time to go to bed! I LOVE nice, fluffy comforters and fuzzy blankets. I am going to have to claim the best spot so I can bury myself right in the middle of the bed. Only problem is that Smokey comes along in the middle of the night and starts bugging me. Then, I have to stick my head out and he grabs my long crest hair and the game is on! Too bad we usually end up waking up Mom... she is not usually too happy to wake up in the middle of the night for some reason. Maybe she will be happier with her new comforter...more comforted, so to speak??? We shall find out later tonight, I guess!

Peace to all God's creatures.

Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with us!!! Mom says that us dogs are actually more peaceful than many humans!

We want to wish everyone a most Happy, Healthy Holiday Season. May all your wishes come true, but most of all, may you enter the new year with a renewed feeling of love and compassion for all our fellow living creatures, be they human, or canine, or feline, or any. May we all do our part to conserve and protect our world so that it will be as we know it for future generations to come. May we all leave the petty and bickering behind and welcome the coming year as a new chance to put forth our best!!!

Happy Howladays from our family to yours!!!

My clothing...

It has come to my attention that lots of people are picking on MY MOM cuz of the way she dressed me the other day. While those poodles must have everything matching and fitting just so, with the designer labels showing, that is not me! I appreciate Mom's desire to provide warmth and comfort to me if I must be outside in the snow and I don't even care what she puts on me to achieve that result.
Mom says when she was little and was going out to play in the snow she wore anything and everything she could find to keep warm. In fact, she and her friend even wore some red plaid wool hunting pants once a few years ago when they went kayaking with a kayaking club in a ritzy town in nearby Vermont. Those others may have looked better in their matching kayaking pants and pullovers and even matching gloves but...Mom was toasty warm and those guys sure didn't appear too warm!
Soo, if my Mom wants to put an old, blue sweatshirt over my lime green PJ's I will not complain and I will understand it was for MY comfort! Until I get some new designer clothes that are REALLY WARM, I will happily wear whatever works! Watch out... next time I might have my purple PJ's and my orange and red sweater over them!!!