What a wonderfur day!

Hi Pals,
Just want to fill you in on all the fun I had fur my Barkday. It was pawtastic. Plenty of my favorite foods, steak, peanut butter, mashed potaoes, ground beef, sweet potato and cheese! I got a ride in the car, a long Sunday morning walk and I got to set the pace fur the evening walk. I could sniff as long as I wantd. And then the presents and well wishes. I want to thank MR Jack O'Freckles for the nifty picture. And I got cheese and hats and steak and a cuppy cake. Thanks in no particular order to Fizzy, Scooter, Misty, Mr Cutter, Pepper, Austin, Doo, Sophie Clare, HD, Whitley, Finley, Riley, Zoe and Zaidie. It was a great day made so much better thanks to all my pals.

Happy Barkday to me!

Today I am six! It's a wonderfur day. I had my long Sunday morning walk all through town. Fur some reason Mum brought Hammy along too. Can't figure out why, it's my day not his, anypaw it was wonderfur. We got a tiny bit of snow over night and I love to eat snow. So I had a few quick nibbles on the way. When I got home I got a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast. I love peanut butter and I only get a sandwich on my barkday. I heard there will be steak in my honor this evening and Mum will even light the grill to make it. There is also a rumor that I and only me get to ride in the car to Petco to pick out a new toy. How's that for a special day!

Saturday Night

So we started the weekend just like normal, early walk, back to bed, Mum get’s up and goes to the store, everybody else sleeps in. The regular Saturday stuff. Then in the afternoon we get our walk and dinner and are getting ready to enjoy the evening camping out on the peeps when they start doing weird stuff. They both go up to their rooms and change into going out clothes. What is this? They haven’t left us alone on a Saturday night in months. Hammy and I are left home alone with a plain old dog food dinner. At least they left the TV on fur us.
They return after an unacceptable period of time. Mum hooks us up for a privacy please stretch of the legs. We all then settle in to watch a bit of TV. Mum was holding me like she always does cradled in her arm with my head braced on the back of the recliner. All of a sudden I’m making these strange noises and then a burst of urka gurkas. Like a fountain I was, gushing forth some unpleasant discharge all over my belly and Mum’s shirt and pants. Luckily the chair was spared. My first mom ran and got some towels so she could take me and Mum went and got out of those smelly, wet clothes. I got a bath and was banished from sleeping with my first mom like I do every night. So much fur sympathy fur the poor pup that wasn’t feeling well. Mum let me sleep in her room, but not on the bed. I was fine once I got whatever it was out. I think I was just upset about my Saturday evening routine being broken. What do you think?

Heroic Barking!

Yesterday afternoon I heard some strange noises outside the house. Being head of security here I was up to the job. Seems someone we don’t know was roaming around in our yard and peering in the windows in the basement and at the back door. I told Hammy to snap too and we proceeded to bark the alarm! Chased that guy out of here. I think we should get a reward from Mum. What do you think?
Mum here: Seems there have been a rash of break ins around town. The boys did a great job of sounding the alarm and our neighbor across the street came out on his porch and told the stranger to get out of there before those Dobermans get out and attack you. Scotties really do sound like much larger dogs.

Morning Walk

Every morning, before the sun comes up, Mum gets up and takes us out fur our morning walk. We go up our block to the end and turn right, then down two blocks and turn right again. After this we can add a little variety. Sometimes we just turn right and stay on the same side of the street, and sometimes we cross the street! Wow, what a thrilling life we lead here in South Jersey. After that we proceed down 3 blocks, turn right, go one block, another right fur one block and then the last right turn on our street to head home. Along the way we stop and sniff and do privacy please. Sometimes we find little treasures on our way. If Hammy is sniffing over there and pulling a little, Mum will turn away from me fur just long enough, and I can snag something good. Being a handsome Scottie I have a very nice, full beard. And as a wheaten it is a light tan color. So if I find something the same color and it is small enough to fit under my beard I can on occasion pick up something I want to bring home fur later. This is what happened yesterday. I found the perfect treat, a large pizza crust, no tomato left on it, so no tell tale color on me or it. We had gone to the point on our walk where variety sets in and I opted to take the shorter route. No big deal, sometimes I need to freshen up my marking on that side of the street. Everything was moving along as I had hoped. We get to the end of our street, normally we continue to get to that last block with the open lot. Great sniffing there. Well I decided I wanted to get home with my prize, so I turned up our block. Mum was very surprised, you see I will normally walk until I drop if you let me. So she said something about maybe I wasn’t feeling well. Any who, we get in the house on the sun porch and this is the tricky part. The leash and harness come off here. The leash is easy, now I have to have this pizza crust in exactly the right spot so Mum can get the harness over my head. Oh NO! She discovered my prize. All that work lost. It was just too big this time. I’ll have to look for a piece that is just a little bit shorter next time so I can get that harness past it. She threw it out and said something about not knowing what had chewed on it before I got it and getting sick and some other stuff. But I wasn’t listening anymore, just too disappointed. So I ate my breakfast and sulked.

Great Thanksgiving weekend

Wow, it was wonderfur. We had 4 whole days in a row with Mum and my first Mom. They both would come and go a bit but no lockdown. We had free run of the whole house all the time.
The weather was great on Thursday and Friday and we had plenty of time out in the yard on patrol. Friday afternoon Mum made us put on our new ties fur our holiday pictures. They were quite pleased with the results. How could the pictures be bad when you have 2 handsome Scottish lads as the subject? BOL!
On Saturday Mum baked a turkey breast. It smelled terrific in here, when it was done, we each got a taste. Boy was that good. It was so good I didn’t eat my dinner that night because I was holding out fur turkey. Got a tiny taste but not the amount I was hoping fur. So I broke down and ate breakfast with no turkey, boo.
Got some great yard patrol work done yesterday. Our neighbor called and told Mum there were 3 turkeys walking up the driveway next door. What he didn’t know was there were 3 turkeys in our back yard! Mum told us to get to work and out we went. I went to the left toward the 3 in the driveway and Hammy took the 3 in our yard on the right. I barked mine really well. They went all the way to the far side of that yard and eventually took off flying. Hammy got those 3 out of our yard real fast. They flew up in the tree and hung out there fur a while. Then they took off too, all heading back to the river a block and a half over to the North. I wish we could have caught one then we could have had our own turkey dinner.

Snow?

We have managed to survive that nasty Sandy lady last week and then there was snow yesterday. But it was just a little too warm here to stay around. That’s a shame cause I love snow. I’m still waiting fur my snow delivery from last winter. I ordered it but it never showed up. I didn’t know who to call to complain about the missing snow, so I just continued to wait. It finally comes and the temperature is too warm. It just all melted. I’m so disappointed.

Wow I'm in da loop!

Diary of the Day! Thanks to every pup and Dogster fur all the honors, well wishes and pressies. We will get around to thanking you all individually soon, but fur now Mum has to do that work thing so I am only getting this quick note. This is a great honor and on Halloween! Guess I should have left the silly head piece on, NOT! BOL.

Nasty Sandy

We are fine. That nasty Sandy was here fur a very long time. Our power went out around 8 PM last night and didn't come back on until around 2 this afternoon. That was a long time but better than what the power company said. They said could be anywhere up to 7 - 10 days before everybody is back up and running.
The good news is both Hammy and I were perfect pups during all this. Mum drug us out at the best times and we did our business and then went right back in the house. Also our house held up great even with all those strong winds. Didn't even lose a shingle. So we are very happy pups. Just wanted to drop a line so you know we are fine. Hope to hear from the rest of our pals that were in the line of fire. Bark at you later!

But why not?

We were on our evening walk last evening and as we headed down the next street sidewalk there it was, right in the middle of the sidewalk, 10 feet ahead. Mum said you better move on squirrel or these guys will be after you, but it only twitched its tail. It was trying to get away but fur some reason it couldn’t. Hammy & I were pulling as hard as we could but Mum, she’s got a tight grip and some extra ballast to keep us on course. So we got rerouted across to the other side of the street. The neighbor came out and said “thanks for leaving it there, now I have to take care of it”. The squirrel was still alive and I don’t know what happened to him. I know what Hammy & I had in mind. Mum said no. But why not?