My 1st Dog Park visit

Last week was my very first day at the dog park. My friend BENNY invited me and my sister to come join him for his 1 year birthday party there. My sister was too busy resting to go, but I did. I was really frightened at first. I spent maybe the first half hour barking and growling at the other dogs because I was scared. However, once my mom and dad finally let me free in the park, I had a ball.

I made lots of new friends and ran around with other cool dogs. I also got to meet and play with Benny. I can't wait to go back.

Playtime!!!

Ok, I have been playing with a racketball for the last 30 minutes, I am not sure though since I do not know how to tell time yet. Since daddy was playing the XBOX, I decided to play by myself. I love racketballs because when I throw them, they bounce all over the place and I get to run around and catch them. Sometimes, it goes under a chair and I have to flatten myself like a pancake in order to get it. It doesn't matter though, since I love to play with it.

I am very lucky since when I lived nextdoor, I NEVER got to play with anything. Now I get my pick. Sometimes the decisions are very hard because theree is so much to choose from. Oh well, I will just steal what my sister is chewing on, how about that.

OOOOO..... hey look, a bone!!! Gotta go.

Gardeners can be fun!!

Today I learned that gardeners can be fun. My mommy and daddy had their gardeners build a fence for them today, and let Bella and I go out and have fun with them every now and then. I used to be afraid of them, but Bella loves them and barks at them to play with her. I decided to join in with her today. The gardeners jumped around with us and let us chase them today. We had a lot of fun with them. I am looking forward to next Thursday, when i get to see them again.

Another weekend, more workers.

Well, it is another weekend and the yard is filled with workers. I happen to like the gardners who are here, but sis and I cannot go out because Dad says we will bother them and they will not be able to work. Well, so another day of having to stay indoors and not be able to play. Maybe tomorrow we will get to play.

Mommy & Daddy trust me in the house!!!

Since Bella hurt her paw and needs to stay off of it as much as possible, my mommy and daddy needed to make that grand desicion. "Can we trust our little girl alone inside the house." I think I made their desicion making much harder because last time (when I was a puppy) I ripped apart a chair.

However, for the sake of my sister, Bella, they decided to try it.

"I AM A BIG GIRL NOW!!" I spent an entire week inside alone with Bella, and didn't do anything wrong. My mommy and daddy even got someone to walk me midweek. I was a bit nervous to begin with, but in the end, I loved it.

Now it is raining, maybe I will stay in the house today, since now I can be trusted.

I went to the snow!!!

Boy did I have fun last weekend. Here, in sunny Southern California, it snowed. It snowed pretty low in the mountains and my mommy and daddy brought me to the snow. Bella had to stay home and let her nurt paw heal.

At first, I didn't know what to make of the cold stuff. By the way, it was really cold. However, I learned to like it. I especially liked it when daddy took me hiking around the hillside.

No, actually I think my favorite part was getting back into the warm car and sleeping all the way home.

I went swimming!

Guess what...
I went swimming in a pool last week. The nice friendly person who comes each week to walk me, took me to a pool. We went there because my friends Hula and Megan, chocolate labs, love to swim. i went as far as the first stp, but got scared. Pools are deep, you know. I wanted to swim so much since I love to play with Hula. I eventully got adventurous and stepped from the first step onto the second one, cut fell in.
Yu would have been proud of me since I didn't panic or nothin' I merely swam to the edge and climbed back out.

I wonder if I will do that again? Mayby I will go in on my own this time.

I'm in Agility!!!

Hey, Guess what...

My mommy and daddy enrolled me in AGILITY classes. I went for the second time last Sunday. Boy, is it great! There are lots of other dogs, and I have lots of fun running all over the equipment. I think my favorite is the jump. I like to jump. Teach says that I am very good at it too. I like it when people praise me like that. It makes me want to do more. I can also tell you the piece of the course that I hate the most too. It is the tire jump. There is a big tire hanging that I am supposed to jump through, but it is kind of scary. I hope I get used to it, though, cause I really like doing it too.

WOW, Is it HOT!!!

Wow, It has been so hot lately. It got up to 116 degrees here one Saturday. At about 1:30 p.m. our power went out. Mommy and daddy packed us into the car and took us over to our friend Gayle's house. It was nice, she had power. She also has Darby which Bella and I love to play with, even though it was too hot to play, so we just hung out. Much of the time, I was very busy hunting her cats. I love to hunt cats, but that's all I do. I don't eat them or nothin' I just like to hunt.
Finally, at night we went home, and the power was still out. Boy, was it hot!! Bella and I went into the bedroom, but eventually went out into the familyroom to join mommy and daddy.

Just when we thought that te heat would not go away, the power came back on, and we all enjoyed a nice cool (yet short) night's sleep.

Agility in my backyard

Hey, I don't mean to brag but my daddy built me some inexpensive agility equipment for me to use. Well, I let Bella use it too. She likes to run interferance when I am running the course. Auntie Gayle brings Darby over too, and we use it together. I have my very own jump, weave-poles, tunnel, tire jump, and pause table. My daddy built them out of PVC pipes (whatever that is). He said that it was really easy and made all of the equipment for less than it would cost to buy just one of them. Anyone interested in making their own agility equipment should email me and I will forward the message onto my daddy.

Well, gotta go now, I am learning to not be afraid of the tire jump anymore.

Chow Bow Wow