Update

I haven't updated in a while, so Mommy said I should. I looked over my past entries and I have come a long way since then! I no longer have a daddy. He got mean and mommy almost had to get a restraining order for him to leave her alone. He also got a new lady friend and decided against ever seeing me again. So he can kiss my tail. I love my mommy better anyways! And my Auntie Dawn, Gramma, and Granpa!

I started attacking the mail lately. Mommy tells me it isn't a good thing. I try to ignore it, but I can't resist it! It is so fun! I even tried getting the mail lady, which made mommy really mad.

I got a new cousin! Auntie Dawn adopted another shelter dog, Winnie Rose (well, Winifred, but no one ever calls her that), but she is still a puppy. She drives me nuts some times. She always wants to play! She usually sleeps with me and mommy because she can't get up and chew things she is not supposed to. Winnie is my friend on here.

My mommy still dresses me up in clothes. After a car accident last year, I use my doggie seat. It was a hot day, so mommy let me unhooked from my car seat so I could reach the window, but then this lady pulled out and I hit the dashboard! It totalled her sable, but now we have a cool truck that is all mine!

Mommy cleans cats for a rescue group. She cleans them at Colliers and Petsmart. I am a good girl. I go with her and sit in a kennel at Colliers until she's done. At petsmart, I get to roam free cause we're in a little room. It's funny cause mommy is allergic to kitties, so I get to see her sneeze a lot.

I discovered new doggie treats, too! I love pigs ears! Mommy said they are alternatives that come in a green package. I do not care, they are just good! I like to chew on hooves, too, but we three dogs fight over them, so the last one got thrown out. :(

I spend lots of time with my mommy now. She even got me a pink and green camo bed that says "major diva" on the inside. She said it is from Target. I want to go and pick out my own stuff, but she says they won't let me in the store. :( I like to curl up on that bed and sleep. It is next to mommy when she is on the computer.

I still go to the animal shelter with mommy. She has not been happy, though, cause I randomly hate other dogs. I wish I could explain it to her, but I can't. One day I will hate a dog, like Patrick, Auntie Petra's foster dog. But now we are fine together. Mommy calls me picky and whenever I decide I don't like a dog, for some reason she puts me in my kennel. I try and tell the dog I do not like it and go away, but she says I am too loud and a bad dog when I do it.

Mommy went away overnight this weekend. I did not like that. She did bring me a treat, though! I was so excited to see her! I kept jumping on her to have her pick me up, which is something I never do. She smelled like Lucy, but did not bring her home for me to play with.

My wardrobe has gotten so big now. It is bigger than mommies! I share with my cousin. Of course I get to wear the cutest clothes first! I still do not like wearing clothes, but I get used to it. Especially when people tell me I am cute.

Okay, that is it for now. This entry was exhausting! I need a nap!

Like Mother Like Daughter

Recently I've started this habit of licking my mommy's blankets. Mommy did some research and found out it can start out of boredom then turn into a small bit of OCD. She started laughing like she was crazy. I was a bit scared, but I was next to Grandma, so I thought she would protect me. Then Mommy told Grandma and Grandma started laughing like she was crazy! Mommy said we may not win a look-a-like contest, but we can win a most-a-like contest. The more I do, the more I act just like my mommy!

Superstar!

Wow, it as been a while since I have written. I have much to say! To start with, I can say, "Neener neener!" For a couple months now, I have been blamed for getting into the bathroom trash and dragging out unmentionables. Late last night, my mommy went into the bathroom and almost tripped on my Auntie Thistle scurrying out of the room. She was the perpetator! I am set free! Whoo!

Auntie Dawn decided she wanted a doggie of her own (a cousin! eeee! I'm so excited) and has passively started looking. She wants a female, smoothcoat dachshund, more from a rescue group than a breeder. I hope it's someone my age so I can play with her!

A couple weeks ago I turned two! Happy birthday to meeeee! I got lots of nifty presents and an awesome birthday party. Sampson and Delilah celebrated their first birthdays then, too. The photograph of me in the pink dress and lei is my birthday outfit. (Mommy said I look funny in frilly clothes. Her and Gramma say I'm a tomboy.) Not only did lots of doggies come, but their owners came, too. We all had lots of fun. The day after the party, I slept a lot. I was exhausted!

Do I look like a star? Old Navy is looking for a new mascot and Mommy entered me in the contest! Celebrity Judges will choose 6 dogs that the public will get to vote on. I hope they choose me as one of the six! It would be so cool to make it that far! After all, Mommy is always telling me how cute I look!

You should come visit me at the Salinas Animal Shelter. I have lots of friends there who need a home.
Clover Grace

Heap o' Trouble

Mommy has been so proud of me. She said I was being such a good little girl. Sophie, Cousin Andrea's dogger, is spending the weekdays with Mommy and Grandma while her family goes to Las Vegas. Mommy thought it would be a treat for me to come over and play with her. I got in trouble THREE times tonight!

The first time was when I peed square in the middle of Auntie Dawn's room. Boy, Auntie Dawn was not happy with me! And neither was Mommy. She kept yelling at me, telling me no and she didn't even rub my belly when I rolled over and offered it to her!

The second time was when Daddy was going to our house. Mommy said I got to stay with her for the night because Daddy couldn't take me home on his motorcycle. They were saying goodbye at the door and I slipped out between their legs. Both of them were running after me and yelling. I guess I really worried Mommy because later she told Grandma I seriously almost got hit by two different cars. Mommy called Auntie Dawn on her cell phone and she came out and they trapped me between a car in the driveway and the house. Mommy was already mad that Grandpa left the sprinklers on for five hours on the same spot, so I just added to it cause I was running around in the wet grass.

When we got back in the house, Mommy was ranting about how I was in a whole you-know-what-load of trouble. She shut me in the bathroom, the one place she knows I hate going. I heard her still yelling and banging around and when she came back in, she had a towel. That meant I got a bath! I tried hiding in the corner but apparently I'm not small enough. Mommy washed me and I jumped out of the tub twice and shook off. Usually Mommy screams and tries to hide when I shake, but this time she grabbed me and plopped me right back in the tub. I guess she doesn't care when her clothes are already wet.

When Grandma came in the house Mommy was still livid. She took me and held me and wispered it was okay in my ear. It may look okay, but she's not the one who has to be stuck in the same room as Mommy! Mommy's said next time she's gonna call Animal Control and let me spend a couple days in a kennel so I'd learn how much I should appreciate her so I don't run away anymore.

Hopefully tomorrow will be much better for the both of us.

Clover Bad Dog :(

Today I got yelled at by Mommy-twice! The first time was when we went and dropped Auntie Dawn's phone off at her work cause she left it at home. I rolled over on my tummy for Auntie Dawn to pet me and I did something Mommy called submissive peeing. I hadn't done it in so long she thought I was past that phase with Dawn. She was not happy that I peed on Auntie Dawn's office floor and Auntie Dawn wasn't happy that she had to clean it up.

The second time was at Mommy's work. I tried stealing Tippy's Greenie and Tippy caught me. She got mad at me and we got in a little tiffle. Auntie Rayne broke us apart, yelled at me, and spanked me. Then Mommy grabbed my collar when I tried to get away and made me spend time in my kennel. Mommy was not happy with me and I think she would have spanked me if Auntie Rayne hadn't gotten to me first.

After work, Mommy brought me to her house. I took a nap while she watched a boring DVD about cars. Every once in a while she would call someone and talk about it. I don't know why she was watching it. She fell asleep on the third segment. Me? I slept through it all!

As punishment of being a bad dog today, at least to me, Mommy tried painting my toe nails green. I wouldn't sit still for her and kept messing up the nail polish so she just took it off. I even got nail polish in my mouth when I was trying to run away. Mommy said next time she is going to have Auntie Dawn help like last time. When Mommy took the nail polish off me, I kept hiding my face in the crook of her arm to get away from the smell.

When Mommy took the nail polish off my nails, she discovered there are lines on all my nails. Mommy compared them to rings on a tree. My nails are black for a stretch, then the light brown rings show, then my nails are black again. Mommy tried looking it up on what she called a web (but I know better than that...I see no spiders!) but she didn't find anything (of course not! the only webs around here are in the corners of her room by the ceiling!). She said it could be some sort of vitamin deficiency, but she has no other ideas. She said she is gonna ask people at work to see if she needs to worry about it.

Daddy came to visit me after he got off work. Mommy thought he was going to bring me home, but he is going back to work to help clean for a health inspection that is coming up, so I get to spend the night with Mommy.

Mommy gave me a new toy! It looks like a little lamb. I really wanted her big purple donkey with bunny ears that Mommy called Easter Eeyore, but she wouldn't let me play with it. She has lots of fun looking toys of that donkey but she won't let me touch ANY of them. It makes me sad. I would have so much fun! Oh, well. At least I have the lamb!

Mommy told me it is bed time now. Daddy has to go to work and Mommy wants to see how she can make my jean jacket all purdy.

I did it again!

Today was a fun day! When I was at work with Mommy, I got to play with Peaches and Foxy. Both dogs are smaller than me, but we still like to play. Foxy will get to go home soon cause she got adopted like me, but Mommy said she still wants to socializer to make sure she's happy when she leaves.

Peaches was a bad dog today. She kept opening the gate to leave the office. Of course the rest of us figured if she was out, we should get to be too! I took off running myself once to the door because I wanted to go outside. Mommy put me in one of the play yards and told me to be a good girl and don't get my head stuck in the fence. What did I do? I got my head stuck in the fence! It's not my fault--I was only trying to squeeze through!

Mommy forgot to bring me some of my yummy dog food so when we got to her home from work I got to eat it. I licked the bowl all clean! But I am really tired now from all my playing so I am going to take a nap while mommy cleans herself up and then I will crash when I get to Daddy's house!

What a fun day!

Anyone else notice it's dachshund week on dogster? I noticed! Maybe that's cause I'm a dachund. ^_^ Since it's dachshund week, you should leave me an extra bone cause I'm a dachshund!

I had such a fun day today! When Daddy took me for my morning walk after he got off work, I saw a kittie and chased it. It ran up a tree and I even tried to follow! Daddy thought it was hilarious. He tried taking a picture but I fell down before he could.

Mommy picked me up and we went to visit Auntie Dawn and her work. She works in a old office that looks like it's out of the 70s. Eww! I like it, though, because her office has a loooooong hallway and I got to run up and down it! I even made little noises which made Mommy and Auntie laugh. Mommy even stuck me in the "cute little pink hoodie" so everyone could see how cute I look in it. I have a jean jacket, too, but it's a bit big for me. I don't care, though, cause I feel tuff!

I got to show off my tricks I'm trying to learn, too. I don't always do it on command, though. I'd much rather listen if there was a treat in front of me! I am learning to sit, lay down, play dead, roll over, and "up" (which means for me to sit up on my butt, but I always want to get on my two back legs).

After lunch, I went with Mommy to drop a ton of junk off at a lady's house who is having a garage sell. Her room looks a bit more open without so much junk in. Of course, she's got so much sewing stuff and yarn it will look like a storage room yet! I got to meet her dog, Patches, too. I wanted to play with her but Mommy didn't want to stay cause there were six people she didn't know there and she didn't want to butt in.

Then I gotta go on a car ride and go back home to Daddy and tell him what a wonderful day I had! Daddy had just dragged himself out of bed and was lazing on the couch so I got to join him and take a much deserved nap.

Take your puppers to work day!

I am such a lucky doggie! For me, it is take your puppy to work day, every day! Not that my mommy takes me to work with her every day, though. My mommy works at the city animal shelter. She works in customer service and talks to people, though she prefers the animals!

Even I have a job! I get to test other animals to see if they are dog tolerant. Isn't that fun? Tippy has been going to work with her mommy longer than me, but she's not very nice. Her mommy calls her misunderstood, but I call her no fun cause I always wanna play! Good thing I get to play with Frankie, and Nissa, and Peaches.

I didn't go to work with mommy today, though, cause she didn't want to deal with me. I'm always trying to escape from the front desk! I want to greet doggies to play with them and explore. I only pretend I like following mommy around--usually I go in the opposite direction than her!

My favorite time is the car ride to and from work. I get to hop up in the back of the car and sit by the very back window. It's a seat made just for me! Mommy says I lay over secret compartment where they can store stuff, but I think she should remove the top and add a comfy blankie for me!

I like visiting mommy's house, but I prefer to spend the night with Daddy. Daddy has a couple cats, but they love to tolerate me. Mommy lives with a mean old puppy she said is named Thistle, but I prefer to refer to her as Devil Doggie. I've tried being friends with her, but she either lunges for me ready to bite or won't let me in the house. I keep telling Daddy I need a friend, but he says three animals is enough for now.