I'm only 7!

Still just a pup!
Half Kodi's age. HALF!
Good thing he's hanging around, I've still got a lot to learn about life.

I had a wonderful birthday cuz all the peeps were home and on vacation to celebrate with me!
Those are my favorite days.
We went on lots of walks,
had extra treats,
naps,
playtimes,
visited relatives who also gave me extra holiday fudz (I especially liked the Ham Sammiches from grampa!)
so many rides in the car, I can't even count them all!
We slept in,
we got new toys,
it was just a non-stop pawty.
now mom is back to the grind and Dad is on vacation - woohoo, best week ever!
He bought us a special bag of pupperonis for this momentous vacation week.

It's good to be me!

Spring Fever

I've got it.
Now I just need the spring weather!
We had a very rainy morning today
and since the peeps like to get us walking early, we all went out in the downpour
About halfway through our 1/4 mile walk, I got tired of the rain and just wanted to walk back to the car.
blah. boo for rain.

So, later on, we're all moping around the house when all of a sudden, the sun came out!
The peeps said, let's put on our rain boots and go fur a hike
WAHOOOO!!!
(Dad wanted to leave us at home can you imagine?!?!? but we all piled in the car and went with)
A second walk, and it was muddy, and wet, and so much fun, pals!
The path we walked on was like a river
and there were lakes and ponds and flooded areas the whole way.
Howevfur, Dad was trying to take pictures of wildlife (we're not wild enuff, I guess BOL), so I had to practice heeling
Heeling + Spring fever = me getting in trouble more often than not BOL!

a new nickname...not fur the faint of heart.

Dad has given me a new nickname...a few new nicknames:
Black Death
Grim Reaper and his favorite,
the Black Plague; bringing death far and wide.
It's been quite a week, pals, quite a week.
In one day, I almost took down a 13 lined ground skwerl while we were out hiking around
(I woulda finished him off except fur mom and dad got in the way! and saved the little menace)
after that, we drove home and there was a regular skwerl in the neighbor's yard
I blew outta the car, the chase was ON!
He spotted me and took off across the neighbor's backyard with me hot on his heels
he pulled a surprise hairpin turn and went up on the neighbor's deck
at this point, I heard the peeps (well, just mom, really...I think I heard Dad cheering me on but maybe that's just the adrenaline) calling me, so I turned and sauntered back towards my own house
It just so happened that the skwerl raced across the neighbors deck back towards my house!!!
All I saw was flying skwerl when he jumped off the deck and landed in the grass Right in front of me OMD!!!
He flew across our driveway and front yard and scrambled up our tree
At that point the chase ended, cuz I haven't learned to climb trees yet.
I'll tell you what, pals, it's spring and I've got a taste fur blood.
I don't go for leisurely walks anymore, I keep my nose to the grindstone,
ever watchful fur skwerls of any kind.
Black Plague. watch out, skwerls, I'm comin' fur ya.

"Spring" forward, my butt!

I had to push my momma out of bed this morning!
She was up at 5 am, Which was good and very impressive,
but then she went back to bed.
I decided I would let her nap fur a little while.
But when 8:30 rolled around and she was still sawing logs,
I had to take matters into my own paws.
I stood next to her and told her it was time fur breakfast.
nothing.
I jumped up and nosed her in the face.
nothing.
finally, I had to jump up on the bed, stomp all over her, physically pull the covers back with my teeth and roll her over using my nose.
Then she got the hint.
Good grief, this time change is brutal.
I'm napping in the sun right now, after all that work.

the one that got away

they say the early bird catches the worm
I counter with:
the early dog catches the skwerl.
Or in my case, almost catches the skwerl.
Mom let us out very early - it was still dark out,
most of the neighbors were still snoring away.
BAM!
Out we go, me and Roxy, onto the deck
scattering a whole gaggle of skwerls!
Jumping from branch to branch, most of them got away quick
but one made the sorry mistake of running through the snow
Pals, we still have about 4 feet of snow in our backyard
Some of it has hardened enough to walk on, but the skwerls in our yard are fat and heavy
(cuz the peeps feed them nuts and birdseed and waffles and pancakes - no, I'm not kidding, pals)
So this poor skwerl would run along top of the snow, then sink, then run, sink, run, sink
Until finally, I caught him!!!! YES, I CAUGHT HIM!!!
Then, I heard this screaming and realized it was my mom
She's going, "MAXMAXMAXSTOPDROPITSTOPMAXMAX MMMMAAAXXXX!!!!!"
So, I figure, she's pretty upset, so I race over to make sure she's not having a heart attack or something.
She wasn't.
Me and Roxy walk in the door...and mom is mumbling something about 'sure, it's all fun and games until they actually catch a skwerl, Oh, My Dog, that poor skwerl, I can't believe Max actually caught him....' etc etc.
Then she told dad and we saw him put out extra food for the skwerls, more nuts, birdseeds, dried fruit.
Now, every time we go outside, the peeps hold us back while they WARN THE SKWERLS to scatter!
It's ridiculous, I tell ya.
I've got a job to do and My own people are trying to stop me. sheesh.

it's been a long time since we've been in this situation

all three of us,
soaking wet,
lounging around.
looking sad and pitiful.

you guessed it,
It's bath day.

We're trying to look pitiful enough for mom to remember this and guilt her into never giving us a bath again!
Every time she walks by, we look up at her with sad eyes
'why did you do this to us, mom?'
I wonder if she's falling for it?

dear dog park pups;

need I remind you?
every time...
nobody comes near my momma

a new farmily member

he's small and furry and his name is peanut.
they tell me he's a guinea pig
he scares me.
I'm not sure why, but he scares me and whenever the peeps bring him in a room, I leave.
It's a good thing he's going to live with the parrots.
The parrots have their own heated parrot room inside the garage.
The pig can't get into the house and come by me on his own,
so that's good news.
I hope he stays out there.
I don't like that pig.
at all.

coming at them from a new direction

I've got a new strategy to get those skwerls.
They sit outside my window and eat the birdseed.
I figure, if all the birdseed is gone, the skwerls will be gone
Maybe they'll starve, maybe they'll just GO AWAY, I don't care
as long as they are gone.
So my new strategy is to eat up all the birdseed I can get.
It's not working yet...
but I've got all winter.

It's great to get out and all...but

I don't know about this running thing.
mom likes to take us out running with her
the problem is that we have to be on a leash for mostly the whole way
we get freedom for maybe 1/2 mile - during which time we race around like maniacs through the deep snow, It's PAWSOME
Anyfur, like I said, I don't know about running on the leash..
I mean, I like to get out as much as the next pup,
but after about 3.5 miles, I start to drag my paws in hopes that mom will get the hint and let us off leash.
she doesn't.
Roxy has taken to trying to trip her BOL
Mom got pretty upset about that yesterday, so Roxy took it easy on her today and just went with the flow.
I took that to mean it was my turn to drag paw.
She didn't let us off leash when I did that,
but we did get to stop for some extra pets
Hey, works for me BOL!