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My Diary

July 3, 2008

Dear Diary,

At 5:45am this morning:

The best way to wake up a sleeping human (without resorting to open warfare such as barking and pawing) is to walk into the bedroom, give a good firm shake of the head so that the tags on the collar jingles loudly and the ears flap. That's usually enough to scare them out of even a fairly deep slumber. And they can't really blame you for needing to shake in the morning either....

Monday, February 18

Dear Diary,

Human man is gone again. īNother one of those early morning outings to the airport in pouring rain.

But itīs okay because I got to go see my friend Oscar, the collie-afghan mix (who was formerly thought to be a black lab until they DNA tested him) and his human woman, Jenne. It was great - I played with Oscar, licked him in the face until he growled at me, kissed and hugged Jenne. The bad part was that as usual, I couldnīt find the cats...they are there, I KNOW they are, but I never get to see them and the smell of them everywhere, on the furniture, on those climbing poles and cat igloos, is really driving me nuts.

Anyway, it was nice with an outing - I have been very neglected lately.

Thursday, February 14

Dear Diary,

I had a very difficult day (and night) yesterday. It began at 1:30 am when the snow started falling from the roof with big crashes. I do NOT like when things fall from above and I just knew it was about to fall on my head so I got up and went to tell my humans about it.

My human being...well, humans, and kind of slow, thought I had a stomach problem since I was coming to see them in the middle of the night. Twice they took me out but when I didnīt go and didnīt act sick they started catching on. Especially as a new big crashing piece of snow came down from the roof while we were outside.

So finally, they told me I could sleep with them instead, which was nice but sort of crowded. We tried that for about a half hour but then my human woman almost squished me when she was trying to turn over so I got up again. I really didnīt know what to do so I decided to walk around the kitchen for a while and think about it. After ten minutes or so, the human woman came out to me - she claimed that my pacing kept her awake. Then she went and got my blankie out of my crate and put it next to the bed so I could sleep on that.

But that meant that I was very tired yesterday and the snow STILL kept crashing off the roof so I decided it was better to stick very close to my humans all day - as in my body touching their feet at all times.

Today, itīs Valentineīs and I feel much better - itīs silent outside. But how come they bought each other Valentineīs and none for me? Thatīs just not right. I want a Valentine too.