I'm already 3!

OMD! I cannot believe that Mamma let it go over a year since she wrote in my diary. She's been writing in FiFiGiGi's diary for the past 3 days and just thought to check when she wrote for me last. This is what happens when you're not the only dog anymore!

My little sister, FiFiGiGi thinks she knows about Fashion and about writing blogs and about being the coolest, so they are "blogging" for her. I think that's nice if you want to hear about dresses and parties and winning contests and stuff. But I'd rather write about real things like going to the park!

Today we went to Tompkin's Square, our usual dog run. We went with our friend Louis, he's a brown Toy Poodle and his mom Monica. It was kinda cold and damp, but I was in a running mood. I like to run. A new dog came in and I just started running zoomies around him. Mamma was laughing and laughing. She likes when I have the zoomies. FiFiGiGi wasn't in the mood. She kept jumping up into Mamma's arms and trying to snuggle into her coat. Louis was refereeing a couple of King Charles Cavalier puppies who were wrestling and running. Louis didn't think they were doing it right at all.

I'll try to make sure that Mamma updates MY diary at least once a week, if she's going to do FiGi's every woofing day!

Ciao for now,
Meteor

It's my birthday! I'm 2!

So, today is my birthday. Mamma and my Danny have been talking and talking about it, so I guess it's some big deal. Who would have thought that turning two would be so huge? We're not having a party today, cause it's a school night, but on Saturday we're having a big blast at my Danny's workshop, with a bunch of dogs and a bunch of people and a cake and a doggie meatloaf. Mamma and my Danny want to raise money for a charity called the Rabies Challenge Fund, so they're having the party for people to come and give money. That will help pay for research so that we don't have to get as many rabies shots in our lifetime and I for one don't like shots, so I'm all for less! The dogs don't have to pay, they just have to come and eat treats and play with FiFiGiGi and me. We have a blue tunnel to run through and my Danny might even put up a hurdle or two. AND did I tell you that the cake is for people and pups? My mamma thinks of everything.

Tonight I get a Cornish Game Hen for my birthday dinner. I'm so excited. I never had one before, but my Danny says they're yummy.

Thanks for checking in on me on my birthday,
woof,
Meteor

She's here! FiFiGiGi

Well, they did it. They got me a sister. I'm so excited, she's the best toy I ever got! Her name is FiFiGiGi and they call her Figi. Well, my Danny calls her Peach, but I call her tons of fun. I wasn't too sure about her at first, I was just a little worried that she would be an attention hog, but she's cool and she loves me and she loves my Danny and she's not too crazy about Mamma, so it's all good. She plays with toys and she knows how to roll a ball already and she's only 8 weeks old. By the time she's grown she's going to be the coolest playmate ever!

If I had known having a sister would be so fun I might have done it sooner. But of course, Figi wasn't born until now, so we couldn't have.

BTW, she's my real sister from my real parents, Romeo and Juliette in KY. Mamma flew down there to get her, just like she did when I was 7 weeks old too.

I can't wait until summer so she and I can play on the beach. That will be the greatest!

until then, stay warm,
Meteor

They're thinking about getting me a sister!

I can't believe this. Mamma is actually thinking about getting another dog. OK, she isn't just any other dog, she's my real sister from my real mommy and daddy, but she's still another dog who will want to love my mamma and my Danny and eat my food and sleep in our bed! I don't know if I will like that. I don't know if this means I don't get to go everywhere and do everything I do now, of now I have to stay home and babysit. She's only 1 week old, so we have 7 weeks before she gets here, if she's coming. I don't know how they will know if it's right or not. I like when Beanie (my little brother) comes to visit, but I like it when he goes home too. OH WOE IS ME, or maybe not. Maybe it's OH HAPPY DAY... we'll know more in a couple of weeks. Sigh. Meteor

Summer time, and the living is easy...

Well, folks,
School's out for the summer, and that means that my Mamma is around every single day, and my Danny is too. We are living large at the beach house in Fire Island and we went to Pennsylvania to visit some of the family and next week we're going to Chicago for the American Federation of Teachers convention and don't forget that this weekend is a big holiday 4th of July and everyone I love is coming to the beach house, (ok, not everyone, but Donna and Damien and Dave and Eileen and Gideon) and we're going to party! Today Gremie and Biggie and their mommy Jee are here and we ran and ran on the beach and had such a great time! Then Mamma and I had My Danny take our picture on the front deck. Now I'm so tired I can hardly stay awake!

More sun and sand tomorrow! Love it!
Stay cool,
Meteor

I have Lyme Disease, but don't worry, I'll be ok.

I did a bad thing. I went under the Fire Island House and I was messing around with a bunch of TICKS. When I came out from under there I was covered with the little buggers and Mamma and My Danny were very upset. Mamma rushed me into the shower and some of the ticks washed off. Some of them were marching up Mamma's arms, but she wasn't worried about that. All she was worried about was getting them off of me. Well, out of about 100 ticks, she got off all but 30. 30 Ticks! It took her 3 weeks to get them all out of my fur and out of my skin. A lot of them were biting me, but I didn't want her to take them out. They were my friends from Fire Island! She used a icky icky shampoo that was supposed to kill them but all it did was turn my fur into steel wool and she had to cut my coat very short. Then My Danny came up with the bullseye rash on his arm, so we knew he had Lyme Disease. He went to the Dr. and they gave him antibiotics and the first one made him really sick and throwing up. The doctor gave him a different one and now he's going to be fine in 3 weeks. Mamma took me to my vet (she loves my vet, I don't know what she sees in him), and he did a blood test and ba boom, Lyme Disease. My titer was 32, so the vet said we can treat it with herbal medicine instead of antibiotics. Listen to this! If I was going to use antibiotics it would have been the same one that My Danny was on first AND the same dose as he was on too! My Danny weighs 18 times what I weigh (I'm 10lbs). Mamma said NO WAY was I going to take that medicine unless it was life or death. I have no sypmtoms anyway, so we are going to try herbal and homeopathic remedies and then we're going to retest in 2 months. Whew. What a horrible adventure.

No more under the house for me!

Brooklyn Designs Show and Mamma's sneaker, yum

SO, this weekend was the Brooklyn Designs show. I hate the Brooklyn Designs show. My Danny works all year to get ready for it, and goes into serious over drive the week before. Mamma and I had to work with him in his shop on the Wednesday night before until 3:00 in the MORNING! We were waxing and buffing (Mamma wanted to buff the wax with my booty, but I said NO WAY) all night long. Then they left me all alone all weekend. On Friday Mamma came home around 6 and then we went to the after party. I love parties, that almost makes up for the rest of the weekend. I had cheese and crackers and tiny roast beef sandwiches... :) On Saturday I got picked up at 4:30 and we snuck me into the show (did I tell you how amazing the sectional sofa that Danny built is?) and then we went to another after party, but no snacks there... Yesterday they left me all alone until 8:30 at night. Well, today I showed Mamma what I thought of that. She was taking a nap in the living room, and she took off her sneakers. HA. I love sneakers. Especially the insoles. When she woke up I had sprinkled the foam insole all over the living room. Let her try to go out and leave me in those again!

If you want to see the beautiful furniture that my Danny makes you can go to his website at www.danielmoyerdesign.com

He makes skateboards too... and he named one Meteor after me!

Thank goodness that show only comes once a year.

Agility Class!

Mamma had another great idea. She thought we should go to another kind of class, since I flunked out of Therapy Dog School. We're going to Agility, where I can growl if I want to. But guess what! I don't want to growl there. It is actually fun. I do something, Mamma clicks, and I get a treat. And the things I have to do are just fine. Jump over a bar, go through a tunnel, go through a hoop. I'd do those things anyway, even if I didn't get a treat. Next week we're not going to go to the park before class though. I was SO exhausted by the middle of class that I just got into Mamma's arms and snuggled instead of taking my treats!

We're babysitting for Beanie (Caramel) again, so I'm extra tired. He still didn't get neutered, so he's still wearing a diaper to keep him from pissing all over our house. Other than that, he's a great kid and I like having him around to wrestle all day and night. Today we're going to Uncle Matt and Aunt KT's house in New Paltz for Passover, and Beanie and I have to ride together in one bag on the train. WHEW, is Mamma going to be tired! Good thing the little guy is a runt and only weighs about 4 1/2 lbs.

Mamma made a Facebook page, now she's going to try to figure out how to link my super cool page with her boring Facebook one...

Good to be the coolest one in the family...
Meteor

The Tale of the Missing Eye

On Valentine's day my Mamma gave me a cute frog toy, holding a Be Mine heart. I loved him and I had him on my bed. Then the next day my friend Gideon came over with his mommy, Eileen. That Gideon. He is a toy killer! (Gideon is a Brussels Griffon, and he doesn't even belong to Dogster.) He went to my bed and took my frog to play with. I was watching him closely and then he started to get too rough. NEXT thing we know, the eye is missing from my new toy. I never rip up my toys, I have every one I ever got, even the baby my breeder gave to Mamma when she got me. We looked everywhere for that eye, but no go. I took my frog away and hid it from Gideon so he couldn't hurt it any more. Eileen just KNEW that Gideon had eaten that eye, she just knew. So in the morning when Gideon pooed on his wee-wee pad she looked closely and DON'TCHA KNOW, there was that pesky eye!! Eileen is a great friend, she picked it up, washed it and sprayed it with rubbing alcohol. Then she wrapped it up all pretty and gave it back to Mamma.

My Danny says no one should see what that eye has seen, but I'm just glad that my Valentine froggy is all fixed and back on my bed!

Today is My Birthday

You can't believe what's going on around here. There's going to be a party. It's going to be at a "place". And it's going to be for ME! Mamma and Danny have been working all weekend on the food and the arrangements. All my NY friends are invited, people and dogs. And there's going to be a cake. Mamma baked a carrot cake for dogs and people to eat, and it says "Happy 1st Birthday Meteor". That's me. It's my birthday. Whooooo HOOOO. I'll tell ya all about it later, but believe me, my people know how to throw a party. I'm too excited. I think I'll go rip up my wee wee pad to get some of my energy out.