Can you believe it?? It's not snowing today. We, me and the Bugsadoodle, even got to go for a walk around tha lake. Mommy used this as a training opportunity for that little Bugs. See even though hims has been with us for two months now, the weather has not been good enough to work on hims training and walking on tha leash etiquette. So today hims got a lot of learning on how to walk like a good puppy on tha leash. It was really hard for Bugs to. There was a lot of distractions for that little puppy. Peoples was walking thems dogs and the little ones wanted to bark and growl at us. At first Bugs barked back but after awhile hims got the idea that it wasn't polite to bark at other dogs. Of cours me, the Murphster, was a very, very good dog and set a really good example for Bugs.

But now let me get the the really important stuff. Today Mommy and Daddy went shopping and bought us dogs some new dog treats. Thems bought us some beef jerky nuggets and boy is thems good stuff. Mommy said it was just as cheap to buy the jerky for us as it was to buy that ole ground meal treats. Me has to tell you, if you give me and Bugs a choice, we'd take the jerky any day. Of course we would never, ever turn down the ground meal dog treats either. No sense looking a gift treat in the mouth.

Anyway, there is a problem. See jerky is human food that Mommy thought to substitute for us dogs and since it's human food Daddy wants to eat it too. Hims thinks it would be a good snack for a Daddy..............NOT! This is for us puppies and we never, ever share our food with humans. That's their job, to share tha food with us. Me and Bugs is a teeny bit worried that Daddy might like our treats too much and eat them all and where would that leave us? Treatless is where.

Murphy

7 weekends of snow

Mommy said if it's tha weekend then it must be snowing and hers is right. This is tha 7th weekend in a row there's been snow falling when we gets up in tha morning. Eberybody has tha cabin fever but mostly it's us dogs cause Mommy and Daddy gets out to go to work during tha week. And poor Bugs is suffering tha worst cause hims has to stay caged up cause of hims getting fixed on Thursday.

Me still don't know what was wrong with him that had to be fixed him seemed perfectly fine to me. Me did notice that getting fixed has something to do with losing tha family jewels cause when Bugs came home hims was gone too!!! Me hates to tell that little Doodlebug but when them takes the family jewels to fix them ya don't get them back. Mine has been out to be fixed for almost a year now and me hasn't heard a word on when them are going to be returned in good working order. Family jewels must be awfully hard to fix when thems gets broken.

Guess me will go take a nap, there's not much else to do around here today.

Murphy

Two Weeks

We've had this little doodlebug for two weeks now and to tell you tha truth sometimes it feels like 2 years. Me loves having a little bubba (that's how thems calls brothers in TX) cause me has someone to play with but other times it's a pain in tha neck. Bugs wants to have all my toys and bones no matter what hims already has to play with. Okay so maybe me wants to have all hime toys and bones too but that's different. Me is the older puppy and should have all of tha toys and bones. It's only fair don't ya think? AND to make matters worse, Mommy won't let me have hims little stuffed toys cause hers says me will tear them up, and me would too. In fact me did get hold of Bugs little red lobster toy and runned outside with it and tore all of the stuffings out and then played keep away from Bugs.

Last night that little Bugs was playing with one of me toys and when me tried to take it away from him Mommy and Daddy gots mad and made me go to time out in me crate. Do you know what that little poopy head puppy did? Hims pranced all around me crate and stucked hims tongue out at me and made faces cause me was in the crate and hims was out. This is not fair! Just because me does that to him during the day while our peoples is gone to work don't mean hims can do it to me when me is in time out!

Most of tha time though it is fun, fun, fun to have that little guy around. We run in and out of that doggie door all of tha day when hims is loose from his crate. And we plays keep the kong for the bugs too. That's one of me favorite games cause hims isn't as fast as me and so hims can't catch me and get tha kong. Me didn't realize how lonely me was until hims came so me guesses it will be okay if hims wants to take me toys sometimes. Me really loves Bugs a lot and is happy hims is here.

Murphy

Uh Oh

This little bug sure did get himself into trouble this weekend. Hims eated Mommy's laptop cord right in half!! And you know what? Mommy didn't even get mad at him. Hers said it was hers fault cause hers should have been paying attention to what hims was doing when hims was laying there under her feets. Grrrr.......me don't get it. This is a very bad thing to do and me never ever did nothin like that. Then along comes this little doodle bug and in tha first week hims is living with us hims goes and eats Mommy's laptop cord right in two. Daddy was more upset about Bugs doing this than Mommy was. Hims says doing "doggie day care" is hard work and hims don't remember me being this high maintenance. That's cause me was a VERY good little boxer puppy and would never ever do nothing bad like that, especially with it being almost time for Christmas. Me told that little puppy that hims has to be good cause Santa is keeping track of all of these things.

Murphy

Trip to tha Vet

Bugs has been with us for 5 days now and hims is learning lots of things. One of tha things hims learned about last night and today was snow. Bugs is a Texas dawg (that's how hims says dog) and hadn't never seen snow before. Hims thought it was big fun last night but this morning it was really deep and hims didn't like having to go potty in tha deep snow. Me don't blame him much cause me don't like it much either and me is much taller than hims is. Mommy even went outside and shoveled him a place to go but Bugs thinks this cold snowy weather if for tha birds or tha very least long haired dogs like huskys. Another thing him learned is to use the dog door and go outside when hims needs to potty even with all that deep snow on tha ground. Mommy and Daddy was very proud of him. Of course hims is just copying me his big brudder.

Me helped Mommy and Daddy take tha little doddle bug to tha vet tonight for a wellness checkup. My vet thought hims was a cute little fellow and said me was doing a really good job of putting him in his place when gets to bossy. Tha only thing was that hims got a lot of treats so hims would take hims pills and me only got a tiny itty bitty treat. We both got drops in our noses for kennel cough cause we is going to stay with tha vet this weekend. Bugs behaved himself like a good little boy just like me. Dr Morton thinks we is really good boys. So how come if me is such a good boy Bugs got more treats than me???

Murphy

Day 1 with the new puppy

Having a little brudder is going to be fun, fun, fun. Mommy let me sleep in the spare bedroom with her cause hers didn't want us to be playing all night. Daddy thoughts hims would start teaching Bugs to sleep beside hims bed like me sleeps beside Mommy but that didn't work so Bugs had to spend the night in hims crate. Hims didn't seem to mind though, not like me did. Mommy and Daddy still laugh when they thinks about me going "Aaahhhwoooo" whenever thems would try to make me sleep in me crate.

This is how me and Bugs spended our very first day together. We played and played and played and in between playing Mommy putted that little boy in his crate so hers could have some peace and quiet. It was a good thing that Mommy decided to stay home today cause that way my little bug didn't have to spend hims whole day in hims crate. Mommy even thinks that before to long we will be able to play outside unsupervised. See how nice we is standing together?

Me has to go take a nap now cause all this playing is hard work and tires out a big boxer puppy.

A new puppy in tha house

Thems is home!!! And they broughted a new little baby brother for me. Hims name is Bugs and hims is from Austin, TX. Hims is Great Dane/Boxer mix and is a blue merle coloring. Hims looks more like a great dane than a boxer me thinks. Mommy says hims is a Southern puppy and will probably say things like "ya'll" and "yehaw" cause that's how thems talks in TX. This is Bugs and Daddy meeting for the berry firstes time. Daddy even wore a shirt the same color as Bugs so thems would match. Hims has had a really tough life for a little guy only 4 months old. Hims was found wandering the streets of Austin with a big dog and was picked up by some really nice people at P.A.W.S. of Austin. There hims was put in a foster home until Mommy and Daddy saw hims picture on Petfinder.com and asked if thems could adopt him. They traveled for almost a thousand miles just to get him.

Mommy said that little fellow is a world class traveler too. Hims curled up in the back of the car and went right to sleep and would wake up to get water and go potty. Hims even got to spend the night in a motel. (grrrr........how comes me never got to spend the night in a motel?) Mommy said hims was really good there too and didn't have no accidents, although hims has had two already in Mommy's office since thems got home.

Me thinks having a little brother is going to be lots of fun. Me peoples putted him in the outside kennel at first so we could sniff each other before we actually got introduced. fter we got used to the smell of each other thems let us out to play. We have played and played and played this afternoon. This little bug sure knows how to play like a boxer puppy. We've played so hard that me is tired.

Hims is a little pushy though, cause hims thinks hims can have all the toys and bones. Mommy says hers thinks that cause hims was on his own for a little while but she is sure we can work it out. Since me is the big brother, me has to show him who is in charge and how to be a good puppy. That's going to have to wait for another day cause me needs to go take a nap. Me is one tired boxer puppy.

Murphy.

This has been some weekend!!!!

This has been some weekend!!!!

Mommy gave to me two new stuffed animals. One was a Koloa Bear and tha other was a little Monkey. Me was having a really good time with that ole Koloa Bear until me started to eat its little plastic nose and them Mommy tooked it from me. Hers says hers can't understand why me has to eat them. Hers thinks me should just snuggle up to stuffed animals and play with them really easy. But me isn't that kind of dog. Me likes to play rough with things. Hers said that a Boxer shouldn’t eat plastic cause it wasn’t good for their digestive system.

Then hers gaved to me a cute teeny, tiny Monkey to play with. Now isn’t that monkey just the cutest thing. Look at how me is giving it a boxer hug. There was only one little bitty problem. Me chewed it’s head off on Sunday morning and Mommy had to go pick up its stuffings in the yard before Daddy could mow.

After all these new toys, me came back inside to play with Daddy. Mommy tooked some pictures of me and Daddy playing. This will give you an idea of how me managed to make Daddy’s chair flip over. See this is what happens, Daddy will say “Murphy come here” and me jumps off the floor and lands square on hims chest and that’s what will flip hims chair over we found out.

Me didn't flip Daddy out of hims chair this time. And as you can see, me is still a teeny tiny lap puppy.

Today we did some yard work. Well actually Mommy and Daddy did tha yard work and me watched and laughed at them, just like Baywee says you have to do. Mommy went around and scooped strategically placed poop so Daddy could mow. Me doesn't think that Mommy and Daddy appreciate how much work and thought goes into placing the poop in all the right places. If thems did thems wouldn't always be picking it up. Me did learn one valuable lesson about laughing at your peoples. Thems don’t like to be laughed at and thems put me in tha outside kennel. Thems said it was to keep me safe but me knows it was to get even for laughing at them.

Me will have to write more about this weekend cause Mommy tooked lots of pictures and hers wants to post them all. MOMMYS!!!

Murphy

What not to do on a Sunday Morning

There are some very, very, very valuable lessons learned on Sunday Mornings. Me knows cause me was finding them out this morning. For some silly reason Mommy and Daddy likes to "sleep in" on tha weekend. What them is sleeping in me doesn't know but thems gets really cranky if you try to get them up to play to early. This is very confusing for a boxer puppy cause during the week thems gets up and undogly hours to go to the work places but on weekends thems doesn't.

Sometime during the night Mommy went into the spare bedroom to sleep cause Daddy was snoring really loudly. When hers does that me gets to get in tha bed with her and sleep. Now me knows the rules for sleeping with Mommy on these rare occasions and me follows them to a T. During the week there is no rules for waking Mommy up but on the weekend there is lots of them. Me founded out this morning through trial and error what some of them rules was.

1. Do not sit on Mommy anywhere!!! Hers is not really happy to wake up with a 90 # boxer puppy sitting on her.

2. Do not lick or put a cold nose on Mommy anywhere!!!! Hers doesn't like to shocked awake by icy cold things.

3. Making whining noises, little barks or yips is generally not a good thing either, specially if you are looking right at her face.

4. Bringing toys to tha bed and trying to poke them into her face, under the covers or into her hand really makes her mad.

5. Biting her toes can get you banned from tha bed and tha bedroom so it's not a good idea either.

6. If you wake Mommy up to go outside, you better go outside. Her is not in the mood to play silly Boxer games on the weekend mornings.

Me has a feeling there is more but me just hasn't stumbled on them yet. Now me is ready to go take a little dog nap. After all me has been up for 1 whole hour and me needs to rest. Trying to get Mommy up is hard work.


Murphy

Drill Master Sargent Mommy

Me made a startling discovery today. Me Mommy is a Drill Master and her is a tough drill master to boot. Today Mommy and Daddy tooked me for a walk but instead of letting me go where ever me wanted to and sniff at anything me wanted, Mommy made me walk right beside her! Now what fun is this me wants to know????? Me walks right beside Mommy all the times inside tha house so why should me have to do this when we is outside walking?? Outside there is lots of things to see and hear and smell. On top of everything else, Mommy would be walking me and all of a sudden her would say "sit Murpy" and me would have to stop walking (just when me was doing it right) and sit and look at her. Doesn't this sound like a Boxer Boot Camp to you?? It does to me. Me was expecting her to say "drop and give me 20 boxer" Me isn't a Boxer Marine me is just a plain little boxer puppy. We was walking past some little kids and thems looked like thems needed a nice boxer kiss but nooooooo me had to sit there and look at mommy and pretend me didn't see them little kids. Doesn't her knows how hard it is for me to ignore them little kids when thems need boxer kisses so badly??

Going for a walk with Mommy is becoming quite a chore. What fun is this walking going to be if me has to walk right beside her?? Me has to figger out how to get around this. Mommy says that her can be as stubborn as me and that cause her is the more stubborn than me, that her will get her way. Hummmm we'll just see about that. Me can be a pretty hard headed little boxer puppy.

Private Murphy who's thinking of going AWOL