Good Week

This week has been stupendous! My mom had her grrrrly parts removed a week ago today and she stayed home all week with me. Then yesterday she celebrated her fiftieth bark, er, birthday! She says the hysterectomommy was the bestest birthday present ever and she has recuperated from it so well she can go back to work today! I'm gonna miss her terribly this week since she spent last week at home with me but we just want to say that we think the success of her surgerary and the happiness of her birthday are directly related to the wooferful doggers and peeps here on dogster! We got such tremendous support in p-mails, gifties, phone calls, notes, and on and on from our dogster pals that we are sure that had some influence on the success of both the surgery and the birthday! Thanks dogster! We think you are great but the woofers and peeps who pawrticipate are really the greatestestest ever! Hugs and schnauzer schmacks to all of you but most 'specially to our Fatboys pals!

Mason and his mom, Margaret

Tagged! Again, danggit!

My barfing buddy, Bond, Charles Bond, has tagged me with the same tag game I just got tagged with two weeks ago! Naturally mom says I do not have to pawrticipant but I did want to acknowledge that a secret agent had been by and creeped me out! Charlie is crazy by the way and if he comes by your place, don't feed him! He'll barf on you or chew some wires or something. Just lately he has gone all suave and debonair so I'm calling Bond, Charles Bond but he really is a little menace so watch out!

Mason, running off to hide

Tagged, dang it

I was tagged by my cute friend Paisley. I guess it is okay since she is just a little weeeee pup. However, we do not pass these things on. So I will not be subjecting any pups to this form of torture! BOL! But in the interest of following along as far as I can...

Four Jobs I have had in my life:

1. Helping mom in the kitchen by cleaning the floors.
2. Helping dad in the yard by eating select grass blades and deer poop
3. Keeping squirrels off mom's bird feeders
4. Helping mom with her depression (my only real job)

Four places I have lived:

1. Bear Creek Pike
2. Rip Steel Road
3. Center Star Road
4. All in Columbia, TN, just different houses, my dad is a builder

Four place I have been:

1. Jekyll Island, Georgia
2. Atlanta, Georgia
3. Birmingham, Alabama
4. Land between the Lakes

Four Favorite Foods:

1. Sweet potatoes
2. Cornbread
3. Pork, any kind
4. Pound cake
(but don't tell about these last two 'cause they aren't good for me)

Four places I would rather be:

1. Wherever my mom is
2. Wherever my mom is
3. Wherever my mom is
4. Wherever my mom is

Arrrrroooooo!

Valentine Tag

Okay, so it's the day after my furiend the Ratman's barkday and Mackenzie has come along and kindly valentine tagged me! The rules (I don't know who makes 'em up so I don't think I have to follow 'em perzactly) say I have to make five valentine wishes and tag five pups. I'll make the wishes but I won't be torturing the pups with the tag! BOL! Mom says it's kinda like a chain mail and she just cannot allow me to do that. It's bad manners where she comes from! Mom! (Mason has paws on hips!)

1. I wish all animal abuse and cruelty would cease and desist FOREVER!

2. I wish all doggies everywhere had enough to eat!

3. I wish all doggies everywhere had warm sunshine to lay in!

4. I hope my grrrlfuriend Bridget gives me a smooch for Valentines! and

5. I hope mom gets me a special treat for Valentines!

Thank you, thank you very much,
Mason

Dog of the Day! Arrroooo

Let me just say, right after Thank You!, that I know it is the Elvis suit! Dogster is really a big Elvis fan and once they caught sight of me in my Elvis jumpsuit, they just couldn't resist rewarding me with the Dog of the Day status! Mom and I love Dogster, where else can you hang out and bark and scratch and sniff all you want and talk about it! And we discuss things like food allergies and bumps and lumps and collars and all things dog so we can be safe and healthy! We hold each other's paws when one of us is sick and bring bones to celebrate, well I get cake, I love cake! It's a wooferful place to hang out and mom and I are both grateful to have it. To be Dog of the Day is just such an honor! Thank you, thank you very much!

Mason and his mom

Turkey Tag

Okay, my shiny black furiend MacTavish has turkey tagged me and while I will respond with seven things I am thankful for, I will not be tagging seven pups and torturing them with a chain game of tag! BOL!

1. I am thankful for Dogster introducing me to all the other wooferful pups out there! Arrrooo!

2. I am thankful I have the bestest mom in the world!

3. I am thankful for sweet potatoes, carrots, and cornbread!

4. I am thankful for my ability to be of service to my mom!

5. I am thankful I get to go to the library with my mom!

6. I am thankful I am a southern dogger! Woof!

7. I am thankful to spend my days in Fatboy's Place with my furiends!

Arrrroooo!

Night Vision

My mom ordered me a Visiglow collar a week or two ago thinking it would help her see me at night when I go out to do my bidness. You know, with these awful shorter daylight hours, I'm out in the dark more and mom loses me. Well, dad says take a flashlight but mom loses me in the flashlight 'cause I move too fast, plus she's too lazy to hold that flashlight up. So this visiglow collar came in and it is wooferful! I'm a disco dog and mom can see me all over the yard! She says it gives her such peace of mind, what mind? But that's a whole 'nother story! I have this blinking red circle around my neck and mom can see me! Arrrroooo!

Mason

Barkday 2007

I turned seven on 10/05/07 and my furiends at Fatboy's Place threw me a wooferful pawrty! We had bacon wrapped cake, ribs, sweet potatoes, ham, pork chops, steaks, cornbread, all of my favorite things! It was unbowowable! Can you tell I like pork? A lot! I'm also just a tad southern.

If every pup had furiends like mine at Fatboy's they would be most fortunate! I got gifties in the mail, new tee shirts and new toys and some treats! I had no idea I was so loved by my dogster furiends! Arrrrooooo!

Thanks for being a great place to hang out, Dogster! And a personal woof to all my rowdy pals at Fatboys!

Mason

Summer Tag

Well, would you believe there is a summer tag game going around Dogster? My pal Cooper got overheated and tagged me, one of his best buds. What was he thinking? And of course it's a hundred degrees today where I live so I've lost my mind too! Here we go again, BOL!

1. I love sweet potatoes, cornbread, and pound cake!
2. I am a southern boy!
3. I am absolutely spoiled rotten! You don't think so, my mom's boss keeps treats in her desk just for me!
4. My grrrl furiend's name is Bridget.
5. Sometimes I get to go to work with my mom!

The Rules: (if it's easy enough for me, anypup can do it!)
Make a diary entry, giving 5 pawsome facts about yourself!

Choose 5 pals to tag, and list them last!

Post the rules of the game.

Send your pals a pmail or rosette telling them they have been tagged!

Write 5 facts and tag 5 friends.

7/18/07

I was 'love tagged' by my cookie monster furiend Cooper and I felt so good afterwards, that I lit a cigarrette, no, no, wait a minute, that's not right. It felt so good to have one of my dogster friends say such nice things about me, I felt compelled to do the same thing. I'm love tagging my three buddies. Apparently this is going around dogster and I only get to pick three which will be hard but here goes:

1. Bridget, the Diva Dog! Well, I have to pick her, 'cause she's my grrrl! She's all the things you could want in a grrrl! She is beautiful, she likes to be pampered, she likes to nap, she can be snippy when the situation calls for it, and did I say that she was beautiful! And she has this adorable little habit of sleeping in sleeves! She's sooo cute! Arrroooo!

2. Ratty, aka Ratzilla! Ratty is really a terrieristo in disguise as a chi! He terrorizes the big dogs which really takes courage and I admire that tremendously. And Ratty has a way with the grrrls, well, it's a way anyway. He's very handsome and he talks to me when I need it most! Ratty is my pal even though he gets thrown into the trash can occasionally. He's also very sneaky and there is a lot to be said for sneaky! You can get a lot of good food that way!

3. Sidney, the attitudenal white dog! Sidney is my big brother because we both have such snotty attitudes. He may be the only dog I know who can be as snotty as me and I can do snotty! Sidney is really a softy under all that white fur but he likes to growl and grouse a lot so we let him. He's got a gazillion brothers and sisters, mostly bigger than he is, and he keeps them all in line, or at least he tells me he does! I love Sidney!

I love and admire all three of these wonderful dogs and I met them all in Fatboy's Place, dogster's coolest bar!

Mason