Tagging!

My pal Shakespeare tagged me, so I'm tagging some of my pals!

Here are the rules:
Each player starts with seven random facts about themselves. Dogs who are tagged need to post the rules & their 7 pawsome facts in their Diary. Then they choose 7 dogs to tag and list their names. Don’t forget to bark them a pmail that they have been tagged and to read your Diary, or, send them a fun Rosette announcing they've been Tagged!

1. I am Great at barking and I am guardian of the house.
2. I love to go on walks- anytime.
3. I love to fight Drover.
4. I like baby carrots.
5. I love popcorn.
6. My Snakey is my favorite toy.
7. I am Daddy's little helper.

Here's who I tagged! (Forgive me if I retag anyone!)
Mojo
Xena *Warrior Princess*
Shiyan
River
Miss Izzabelle Satterfield
Momo
Melvin Eugene

Bright and Early, on the job!

Busy morning from my lookout spot on the back of the couch! Three different groups of people went walking or jogging by about 6:30 to 7:00 this morning! I have got a lot of barks in me when I am on the job of security!
I am Schnauzer, hear me bark!
I am not sure how long I may be able to keep my back-of-the couch-at-the-big-window lookout. Mommy told me she may need to move the furniture Again! Something about summer and brother and sister may want to sleep in.
Yesterday I watched while Mommy and Brother took turns riding a noisy blue thing in the front yard, where I am not allowed without my leash on. That thing looks fun to ride on, I could ride on Brother's lap.

I pulled a sneaky on Mommy. She got each of us dogs yummy bones the other day. They are kinda messy so they are supposed to be outside bones. HA! One at a time I have been sneaking them inside! They are all in here now! Sister did toss one of them back outside, it had little ants on it. I barked the ants off and brought it back inside! Hee hee.
Back to my chew bones, Pups!

My new lookout spot!

My mom is the greatest! She moved the living room furniture around yesterday. Now I can sit on the back of the couch and look out the big window! I can see cars and trucks and people and birds and dogs and way over there some sheep. And besides seeing all these things I can Bark at them all! I am good at barking. Security patrol- that's me.
When the family was moving stuff around, they were shaking their heads at Mommy. They know how seriously I take my job.
A bonus is that I can put lots of little Schnauzer boogies on the window!
Bark ya later, Pups!

Thanks Dogster!

Yay! I'm a diary pick of the day! Thanks Dogster! It's such an honor, and thank you to all my loyal fans who helped me get to this place today. Without you, I would still be...um...
Tee hee! I'm just kidding. I've always wanted to write something like that! Anyway, thanks again Dogster!
~Zoe~

A Stinkin' Stupid Idea

I am a very generous pup when it comes to giving away our Dogster rosettes. I can't wait until we get a new load at the end of the month. I like to guess what the special monthly rosette might be.

Mother says that I am hogging the rosettes! I am not, I love to give them away. I like to give them to my pals and sick dogs and dogs that have gone to the rainbow bridge. She has come up with a stinkin' stupid idea for me to share them with the other 11 pets around here. That's only like 2 for each of us and one left to fight over. I am the baby of the family and I deserve more than every other pup or kitty.

My family is too cheap to buy me more zealies so I could get stars and rosettes to give away. I mean, Daddy and my human brother and sister have paychecks and they won't share. Mommy says she uses the money to buy us food and toys. Man, I haven't had a new toy in months and Drover tore that one up anyway.

Maybe I can give the rest of the rosettes away before anypet notices. I will have to be sneaky because somebody is always on Dogster or Catster around here.

Finally!

I've been bugging my family for the last week to write in my diary for me. They always said they were too busy, or they forgot. Hmph. Well, I finally got Sister in front of the computer to type for me.

Well, first of all, my guestbook isn't working! At least it wasn't a few minutes ago when I checked it. The pictures and map aren't showing up. I'll have one of my humans figure out how to fix it. Thanks to everyone who's signed my guestbook! I love looking at all the pics!

The other day, I was nearly killded! I went running back to Mommy and Daddy's bedroom and jumped up on the bed like I usually do. This time, though, Mom was cutting up one of Daddy's old shirts, and she nearly cut my beard off when I jumped up there!

There's something weird going on around here. A few days ago, Mommy was doing stuff in our old chicken house- moving things around, sweeping it out, that sort of stuff. Drover and me were able to go in the chicken pen and help her out. Now, though, Mom says I can't go in there! I don't know why. She goes in there a lot, and I just want to help her out! She said something about "chicks" being in there, and she doesn't want me to hurt or scare them. I keep telling her that I wouldn't hurt them, but she still won't let me in.

I'll bark you Dogsters later- tail wiggles to you all!
~Zoe~

Goin' to work!

My pal Jelly was barking in her diary about how her Mommy took her to work with her. My Daddy and Sister work- I want to go to work with them! I was thinking about ways to make working lots of fun!

At Daddy's job, he fixes big army trucks and vehicles. The area he works in has a big concrete floor. He has a chair with wheels on it, and some flat things he lays on and rolls under cars. I could get on those, and go zooming around the room! It'd be fun! There's also a big mechanical hoist-type thing. I could get Daddy to make me a harness, and go up and down and around the room on the hoist! I could also crawl around in the army trucks

Sister cleans buildings at her job. At one big building, there's an elevator. I would ride up and down in it. I could also get lots of stuff out of the vending machines. Sister and her co-workers use carts to pull their cleaning supplies around- I could ride on one! There's also a cool little forklift that's in one part of the building and I could drive that around! Oh yeah- today when Sister was cleaning, there were some balloons in one room, and a sign that said "Happy Birthday". I think somebody's going to have a birthday party on Monday! I want to go with Sister then, and get some cake and ice cream! Everybody would think I was so cute, they'd give me some! Boy- this'll be exciting!

Bark you pups later!
~Zoe~

Who's Echo?

Our days start early around here. After Tod gets Mommy out of bed and she feeds the kitties, us dogs get our breakfast. It's dark outside first thing but there are always things to bark at. Sometimes it's real noisy: the cows are mooing, sheep are maaing, birds are making their noises. Country life can be loud!
This morning though it was quiet except for the neighbor dogs barking. They live about a fourth of a mile away. Mommy stepped outside with me to listen to the morning sounds. We could hear the neighbor dogs and I was barking back to them. Then I heard another dog talking back to me! Mommy called the dog Echo. I don't know where that dog lives. It sounded like the dog was barking to me from the river bottom. Sounded like a little dog bark. I don't know about this. I hope Echo isn't some homeless dog that will come to our doorstep. Mom would start feeding it and before you know it, Echo would be moving in. We are starting to run out of room for dog crates and couch space. No room for more dogs!

Where's a pup to go?

I don't know where I am supposed to go potty. Mommy had been watering the yard for the past 2 days. I helped her move the hose around. So what does she do but set it up so that I can't get off the backsteps? How am I supposed to go potty? I do not like to get wet, I do not want to get polka dotted by the cold water. She's Way over there somewhere calling to me to "come on, Zoe, you won't get wet". Yeah, right. I saw her back, she's polka dotted.
Ok, so this morning it's raining and now it's snowing.
I am not going outside until the sun comes out again. Humph.

Hairshrinks

Yesterday, Mom and Brother took Drover and me into town to get our hairshrinks. The whole thing started off wrong. Usually I ride shotgun in the front seat, but this time, Drover hopped in the front seat, plopped down on Brother's lap, and rode there all the way into town! I had to sit in the back seat. Hmph.
At the groomers, things went like I had been expecting. I got thrown in the washing machine so my hair would shrink, then I got thrown in the dryer, then my ears got ironed out. There were a lot of dogs there, so it took awhile. The groomer was working on Drover when Mom came in to check on us. I was in a cage, and I did a little happy/nervous dance when I saw Mom. I was thinking that she would go ahead and pick me up, and we would go get some milkshakes while Drover was getting done. But nope! Mom ducked back out the door, leaving me in the cage!
Well, we were finally done, and Mom got us both. Both of us dogs had on stupid bandanas around our necks. I got to ride shotgun on the way home, at least.
When we got back to the house, I took Drover's bandana off him, then Brother took mine off of me. I don't like those stinkin' bandanas!

I was tired after my big day, and I was still tired today. This evening, I was wanting to go to bed around 8 o'clock- about an hour before when I usually go to bed. Mom wasn't sure if I actually wanted to go to bed, so she had me stay up for awhile longer.
Well, I'm not sure why- it might have been 'cause we didn't go for a walk today, or maybe it was a sugar high, but pretty soon I started wrestling with Drover. While I was playing with him, I started zooming around the house! I'd go running down the hall, jump on the loveseat, jump down, run around the living room, attack Drover, zoom around... Once I sort of bounced off the side of the couch! I was having fun!
Right after that, I crashed. Mom let me go to bed then, and that's where I am now!

Talk to you all later!
Arrooos!
~Zoe~