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Daisy's Journal, as dictated to her mom who knows how to type

Went to mom's work and smelled some STINKY MUD!!

Sooo sorry pup pals, I've been terribly remiss in writing in my journal. I have an interesting story for ya, though!

So last weekend, mom worked some late nights, and I just luuuuv luv luv it when that happens because she gets to take me to work with her. YAY! Such fun, such fun! Especially since it was so hot, these past two weeks we never went on walks during the evening, because it was still in the 100s heat index at 10 pm at night. You guys know how I feel about all that so I won't harp on it again. But because of that I was just soooo bored bored bored all day!! So anyway, we went up to her office at school and whenever she takes me up to work she always brings a towel for me to lay on and my bone and Bil-Jac to stuff into it to keep me busy. Yum-MEE! This time we didn't stay in her office like usual but went into this new room that I'd never been in before. She said it was another lab room. Mom then went into this most AMAZING thing...it was a HUGE freezer! I could even walk around in it! Wait... is this... heaven?... for hot doggies in the summer? I wanted to stay in there, it felt sooo good and there were some really interesting smelling things in there, small lidded cups and large vials with strange looking and smelling liquids (mom called them "samples"). Oh, don't worry, they were all sealed tight, but of course I am a Dog and we have quite the superior sense of smell, you know, so I really gave those things a long snuffle-sniff. There were also these long skinny semicircle-shaped, well, *things* that I'd never seen before, lying on the freezer floor. Mom called them sediment cores. She then pulled one out of this special cooler and let me smell it. Oh. My. Doggies. It smelled so GOOOOD! I whuffed and snuffed it for a looooong time. It was like, this sulfur-smelling salt-marsh stinky all-sorts-of-dead-stuff-in-it mud (mom calls it *sediment*, yeah whatever, potato-pohtahtoe). It just had to be heavenly-for-dogs-to-roll-in-mud! But sadly she took it out of the walk-in freezer and laid it on a table and proceeded to scrape off tiny samples of it and put it in baggies. She said she was "sampling" the core for later analyses she was going to do. Whatever! If you ain't gonna let me roll in it then gimme my Bone! (which she did, she's well trained, you know.)

Oh, and after I finished my Kong, mom was still sampling her core, so I stood at the door to the walk-in freezer and then just stared at it, and slowly wagged my tail until mom noticed me. She understands my doggie language so well! She laughed and opened the door to let me in again, to sniff around and just stand there, ahhhhh that feels soooo good! Remember, fur coat here! Seriously, we need to get one of these for the house.

So, we stayed there till after midnight and she was happy cuz she got all of her sampling finished. I was happy too, cuz I wasn't laying around the house bored, and I got to smell that exquisitely lovely-smelling mud!!

I'll write more this weekend, mom says we'll get to do something fun since it's supposed to cool down to the mid-80s, so I'll let you know!

~Daisydog

pant pant pant pant pant

Okay, I just have to vent. Jeez-doggies it's hot here in South Carolina! 7 am this morning, I wake up my mom to feed me because of course I'm STARVING, and when I go outside, *bam* it's like running into a sauna. Yes, dogs know what saunas are...that's what we walk into every time we go outside with our fur coats, people! Jeez. This humidity thing, it sucks big time during the summer. What is it, maybe 76 degrees? Ahhh, so cool. Yeah, cool my stinky-butt. With easily 80% humidity it feels like 90 degrees, and it's only 7 am!! Mom complains about it too, so I know it ain't just my stinkin' fur coat here. And those lucky humans get to sweat, too. It's just not fair.

Then I go outside around 6 pm after I remind mom to feed me again, and jeez, it's a frickin' wall of water outside! This time, I'm talking rain. Like clockwork. Mom thinks she can set her clock to when I pester her to feed me, well, you might as well set the evening clock to the stupid late afternoon rain showers. One day I swear it rained but there were no clouds, the humid air literally just fell out of the sky. REALLY. Just...FELL. Yeah, and like that rain will really cools things off around here. I thought it was humid and hot BEFORE the rain, you go out afterwards and you might as well just bring out the shampoo and lather up outside. Heat index don't get below 90 here till round 10, 11 pm. And I'm supposed to go for a "walkie" in my fur coat in this? Right. But mom still makes me go for a short 1/2 mile walk for exercise and by the time we get back I swear my tongue is dragging the ground. Hey! Hello!?! I can't sweat here! I have a fur coat! Quit making me walk out in this stupid heat and humidity! I don't care if the "sun's gone down", it AIN'T COOLER!!! And hey, I'm 10 years old. I don't need any exercise, I'm in my golden years!! I try to make mom feel bad by dropping with a huge huff on my Canine Cooler pad after drinking like a gallon of water (okay, I'm exaggerating just a bit). But I do drink my bowl almost dry, and I make sure I pant REAL LOUD so mom knows what I suffer for her. Huffff! BIIIG siiigghhh.

I think I'll capitalize on mom's guilt and toss my big black kong at her, so she will laugh and go fill it up with treats for me. Yep! Works like a charm!! See ya doggies later!

Doggie hooligans loose in the neighborhood!!!

Yesterday was such an exciting day!! Mom and me were outside and she kept telling me to "do my business" which of course I pretend to think it means sniff around and doodle-dawdle. Hey you can't rush these things! All of a sudden mom says "Daisy come on inside! inside!" and hurries me back in the house, and then goes back OUTSIDE without me!! I bark at her of course at such an indignity and then I see WHY...there were two loose dogs running around our neighborhood!!! OOOOHHHHH!!! Pet-peeve!! pet-peeve!! I yipped and yarped and rooffed and ruffed but she wouldn't let me out!! It's MY JOB to protect HER!!!! She was clapping at the dogs and telling them to "go on", oh my Doggies I'm going CRAZY here!! Lemme OUT!! RARRRARRRRR ROH! ROH! ROH! I even try to dig open the screen door but of course it's heavy glass and metal so that doesn't work, darnit. Mom claps at me and points her finger and says "NO" in that bad-Daisy tone-of-voice so I know she saw me try to do that. Oops.

Then the dogs ran down the street into another person's yard, and I saw a couple neighbors-people come outside and mom and them all chatted for a bit, and then a policeman came!!! And then it looks like the owner came and got the dogs in the car, not without them running around some more like hooligans. I yipped and yapped everytime I saw something or someone that might come let me out to help but no one did! NO FAIR! RARRRrrrr rooorrrrrr, ruf, YIP! Rooorrrrrrrr, rrrrrgrrrrrrrrrrrr... whiiiine...

Finally mom comes walking back and I press up against the screen door just wiggling all over the place so excited to see her safe and back with me!! I sniff her all over real good to find out what happened, turns out those dogs are the ones that are getting loose ALL the time and have terrorized several neighbors small dogs and cats, treed a couple cats, and the owners keep letting it happen!! One of mom's neighbors said that the owners are gone all the time and the dogs are just crazy-bored with no stimulation, so once they see a chance to escape they go for it. Now I kind of feel sorry for them...okay I'm over it. {;> Mom said that the policeman may have given the owner a ticket for it since those dogs have been reported numerous times, but probably just a warning. Maybe that will make the owner be more responsible, but who knows. Why can't people who own dogs be more responsible about them, ya know? I know YOU dogster pups know, cuz your owners would never do such a thing! But if a person doesn't have time (or won't make the time!!) to take care of a dog, don't own one!!! Even doggies know that much! Everybody go lick your human and show your appreciation! Woof!