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Albert's Tails, er... Tales

Fresh Powder

I love snow. Snow is even better when your're the first one running through it. Nana visited yesterday and brought treats and stuff and today I got to go outside and walk. Dad and I walked down the street and back before walking around the house. We also stopped to talk to the big pack of labs down the street. There are two grownups and three pups. They're all so big compared to me but I still like to talk to them anyway. Midnight, the black one, wanted to play with me really bad but she's so big, she almost ran me over! It was a pretty cool day.

The holidays are over

This was my second Christmas and New Years. It was a very interesting time. My little sister, Kimberly, is going through the dog version of the terrible twos. She got into trouble so many times during the holidays, I'm surprised that she didn't earn herself more nicknames than what she has.

Come to think of it, she did earn one. Nana came over again for Christmas this year but this time we had a second guest. Kimmy and I finally met dad's sister. Aunt Kelley is really nice. She likes to pick me up, and pet me and give me kisses and tell me how sweet and fluffy and cute and soft I am. She calls Kimmy "Crackhead."

Every time Aunt Kelley sat down, Kimmy would jump up in her lap and start trying to lick her face weather she wanted it or not. All in all it was a great time when I got to have the attention of 3 people. I got some toys and treats for Christmas. Kimmy technically got more than I did for Christmas but that's only because I already had a coat and she didn't. No big though.

I found out that Nana is going to be living with us soon because her boyfriend went to the bridge after being sick for a really long time. I feel sad for Nana and yet I can also hardly wait for her to live here.

Winter Wonderland

It took me two days but dad finally figured it out. I sat next to where my harness used to be for two days.

I think I'm getting ahead of myself though. The day after we got back from our last Christmas trip, dad had to go to work for a few hours. When he got home, he saw a bunch of stuff on the floor that was tore up. Kimmy got the blame and punishment for most of it...

I got punished for my harness being broken. The part that goes around my chest and clicks shut to hold onto me was chewed off. I got a spanking for it. I told dad I was really sorry for letting Kimmy chew up my harness and he apologized to me for the spanking.

I don't like spankings but I did get a new more pawesome manly harness out of the deal.

Anyways, at the time I didn't have my new harness yet so dad said he didn't want to take me outside without one. He finally broke down and used the harness I wear in the car instead. He put it on me and then put my coat on top of it.

After that came the fun part. I dove into the nearest snowbank and shoved my face in up to my ears. I bounded through snow that was higher than my chest. I rolled in it until I looked like a four legged yeti. Then dad took me around the yard and I got to drag him through all the fresh snow in the backyard.

He made me go in after that where I chased Kimmy around for about half an hour or so. Then I passed out from exhaustion. It was so much fun, I can hardly wait to do it again!