Umm Boy Comfy Bed and Yummy Pillow

Just before the 4th of July my Mistress got a pretty new comforter for the bed, made in Portugal and called Matisse. It is embroidered and is comfy cotton so it is washable (good thing). Our Mistress was in bed the other night reading and Bert was laying next to the bed on the floor. We both know better than to get on the bed. We have our own beds and comfy places to lay. Anyway there is always a lot of fire crackers around here and people firing guns around the 4th of July. Well there was a loud shot and Bert jumped up on the bed next to the Mistess so fast-like the blink of an eye. He was scared and she let him lay there so she could comfort him and cuddle him, but little did she know that the shot scared the pee right out of Bert and the comforter got wet! Later that night she made Bert get off the bed so she and the Master could go to sleep. Low and behold there was a yellow stain on the brand new comforter! Well off came the comforter and into the wash it went, she said no time like the present to see how good it's washing capabilities were. She was so good to my Dad, comforting him when he was afraid and then never saying a word about the accident and calmly taking the quilt to the washing machine. By the way it did wash up very nicely and the yellow stain came right out!

Well I decided I wanted to see what that comforter felt like next to my skin so Friday I hopped up on the bed and laid down pretty as you please because Wednesday we had gotten groomed and yes siree I am pretty! I settled in for a long winters nap but the matching pillow to the new quilt caught my eye so I decided to play around with it before I went to sleep. I think I am still a pup and I like to "teeth" on things like soft pillows. So I teethed all around the edges of the pillow and got it all good and wet. Then I found the little cleaning tag and it was in the way, so I tore it off. Well I got rid of that offending tag that's for sure. Once I tore it off I heard my Master coming, so I batted the pillow onto the floor and got rid of the pillow fast. Then I just laid on the bed pretty as you please as if nothing was wrong.

The Master came into the bedroom because he had heard me rip the tag and found the pillow on the floor and he made me get off the bed. He said the Mistress would be mad at me if I tore up the new pillow! No she wouldn't she would still love me, after all I tore the carpet all up and she never got mad, she just installed new tile and bought me a high class condo that I go in when they leave the house-so there Master!

Well the mistress came home and she sprayed the nice pillow with an organic spray that I don't like to chew. Darn it all my fun has been spoiled. She laughed when the Master told her the story and then she gave me LOVE!

The Tug Jar

My mistress brought home a new toy last weekend and it is a tug jar. She put treats in it and they more you tug it the more the stopper does not allow the treats to come out. I am so smart though, the other end where you put the treats in screws on and it has little wholes in it that you can smell the treats through. Well, guess what, I figured out how to unscrew the end and all the treats fell right out without me having to do any work! I was so proud of myself! Since I did that the Master has been really screwing the end on hard, but I now have figured how to get the treats out the correct end!

Poodle Rescue Sponsored a Poodle Romp

Our local poodle rescue group sponsored a Poodle Romp today and Bert and I went. Well I tell you we were the best dressed poodles of the whole group. Everyone said they loved the way we were groomed! My Mistress she said I was so good, I stuck right by her side in the shade. She is fussy about me and Bert not being to hot. She brought water and treats for us and we were good, we shared our treats with other dogs and we waited patiently for our turn to have a treat. I smelled a lot of poodle rear ends today and found some I liked and some I just looked at and thought who do you think you are, King/Queen Poodle or what? Some of those little dogs are so funny, they have to bark since they are so little so that they get my attention so I can look down my nose at them. Bert had fun, he went through the tunnel but I was a little shy of it. I sat back and watched which was just fine. After we came home I have been napping, boy was I tired with seeing so many dogs that looked like me!

Hey I Got a High Class Condo!

Yep was I ever surprised, I got a very high classed condo for home and a doggy pup tent for the Motorhome. Why you ask? Well I like to eat things, as referenced in my carpet eating story below. My owners decided it wasn't safe for me to be left alone so they found an oak crate that looks like a nice piece of furniture and they put in a nice blanket which I promptly ate. Well then I had to lay on the flooring of the crate for awhile until I learned my lesson. After a few weeks they put in a nice lammy blanket. I like that fleece that looks like lamb fur and I don't eat that I just mouth it. It makes me feel good. Now I have this think lammy blanket in the crate. When they leave I go right in and they always leave me with a cong with cookies and some special toys I only play with when I am in the crate. I know the love me and I am in the condo to protect me. They never leave me for long and I don't mind.

I am glad to be back on here and updating my site. Bert and I love dogster. Bert doesn't have to go in a crate because he doesn't eat everything in site! He has free rein of the house. Well what can I say I am just a youngster compared to my old Dad!

Thankful for Passing my CGC!

Wow, it is Thanksgiving Day and my Mistress and I are particularly thankful for my passing my Canine Good Citizen Test on November 9, 2008. My Mistress she was really nervous but she sat down and looked me in the eye and had a heart to heart talk with me before I went into the ring. She said she knew I could pass the test and she was proud of me either way and that she loved me. I was inspired and love shown back to her through my warm brown eyes. I knew that no matter what she would smile and hug me and love me and that I didn't need a CGC for her to be proud of me, but I also knew that I was smart and I could pass this test with her as my leader. Well we were first in the ring that day, an awesome responsibility to be number 1, but she told me I was number 1 in her book anyway. The judges were so complimentary of my beautiful coat and grooming. They loved how I let them touch and groom me. My mistress she beamed and it warmed my heart to see her so happy. I knew she was concerned that I would go down and stay down for the time it took her to walk 20 feet on a long lead and return to me but I stayed and I watched and I didn't move a muscle until she came back and walked around me. Then she walked out the 10 feet for the recall and I got a little confused and started to get up, but she set me back down and I knew then what I had to do, I had to wait until she called me and I waited and I watched her with this warm brown eyes that are adoring of my mistress. She went out the 10 feet and called me and I came a running and sat right in front of her. Oh did I get loves and pats and warm hugs and I basked in the limelight. Then we walked through the crowd and the people making lots of noises and that didn't phase me because my Mistress she was right there beside me leading me all the way. Oh she is so good to be with and I love her! The last part of her leaving me was no problem because I knew she would never leave me for good and that it would be a short time before she came back and sure enough out I came and I PASSED the CGC. Not all the dogs passed the test that day. Our friend from obiedience training, Sadie the Mastif did not pass and we were disappointed for her and her Mistress but they will try again and with practice I know Sadie can pass the CGC, just like ME!

By the way tomorrow Bert my Dad and I get a Christmas photo taken by our Master. We have little red and white collars to wear and we were just groomed yesterday so we look so pretty. A new photo of us will be up soon!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We will have lots of family over today and will run and play and have a great turkey day.

Yummy Carpet

I had a great night last night. My mistress and master left Bert and I home and went out to dinner with some friends last night. Well you know I am still a pup and I like to explore and chew so I started in the hallway and was able to pull up the carpet in the hall! Yep I did it alright and I didn't want Bert to help me, I wanted to do it all by myself! Well not only did I pull the carpet up on one door way I did it to two door ways and down the hall, then I pulled the capet back where they had pieced it together and I exposed the foam padding. I had a ball. I even chewed some of the carpet so I could make carpet rags. Yep it was fun. When my mistress came in she just looked and said well we will go and see if we can replace the carpet in the hallway. She thought it was a tad dirty after my handiwork! My master said they will have to create me when they go out so I can be comfortable as I must have anxiety when they are gone. I love them, they never yelled at me or hit me they just took it in stride. My mistress is going to set me up for obedience training when school starts again in September. She and I will have fun. I am so smart I can learn anything! Even how to pull up carpet :) Yum Yum it was good tasteing too!

Wow What a Find-Leather Birkenstocks!

Well I have decided that leather is right up my taste bud alley. My mistress was washing her rubber flip flops which I really love to chew on when she isn't looking and so she searched around and found her old leather Birkenstocks to wear while the flip flops were drying. She was flopping around in them and I saw LEATHER! I watched her every move and when she slipped them under the bed while she was in the shower I eye balled them big time. While I knew she was otherwise engaged I pulled one out and moved it to another room just to see if she would notice one was gone. If she noticed I would act all innocent and blame it on the old dog Fritz who she adores and never even gives a cross look to. Well she never realized I had the sandal and off she went to work. Now I waited until the Master was in the shower and then I went to town on the sandal. I chewed on the sides, yum yum that old leather was sooooooft and tasty. Then I found the little end pieces that came out of the buckle and I chewed them off. Then I decided to chew the middle of one of the straps and poof it broke. Now I knew I was in trouble. Before maybe the Mistress would have thought it accidentally got put through the shredder but now she will for sure know that it somehow got chewed. Well I heard the shower go off now and I am acting all innocent like. I don't even go into the same room where the sandal is but the Master goes in and sees the sandal up on the couch and he knows I am the culpret. He waits until the Mistress comes home and puts the sandals together on the floor as if nothing is wrong just to see how long it will take her to see the damage. Oh she saw the damage immediately and she knew it was me! I was waiting to hear yelling but she never yells she just smiled and said I bet it was the Ace Miester exercising his baby gums :) AWWH she loves me!

I LOVE Leather and Rubber-What a yum yum combination!

A week ago I was playing with my Dad, Bert, and I decided I would bite his leather collar off! Yes how I love to romp and play and I get excited playing with my Dad. He gives me a run for my money but I get back at him by doing things he does not expect like ducking whe we frollick and sending him over the top of me or changing directions real quick and he goes the other way. Boy do I huff and pant and get excited when I can do something to get my Dad off balance! So, the other day I decided my teeth needed to be exercised. You know I am still just a pup at 20 months old and my Dad has this nice round thick black leather collar that looked so yummy! UMMMMMMMM. So I nawed and nawed at it and finally it broke in two, how I did it I will never know as it was really thick! However it broke in two and fell to the floor. Well you know anything on the floor is fair game so I decided to eat the end with the little wholes in it. UMMMMM, Yum, Oh how delicious that felt to my teeth and gums. After I was done my Master came in and saw the collar on the floor. He called my Mistress at work and said "better bring home Bert a new collar today". Then he told her the story and she couldn't believe it. Well she doesn't know everything about me yet right?? So that night Bert got a new collar which they have not put back on him yet-Darn, I want that so I can start chewing again!

A couple of days later guess what came up? The little piece of leather. I gave my Mistress and Master back a present! Well lucky I didn't eat to much and I left the buckle and tags alone, they should be thankful for that.

I also like rubber! My mistress has these slip in crocks and she loves to flap around in them. I chase her and step on the backs and we think it is great fun! She sometimes leaves them under her bed and I found the one that smelled delicious and you know what? It tasted delicious too! I nawed and chewed little bits off so she would remember when she wears them that I was here! Well she remembers alright, now she puts them in the closet and I can't have any more fun! I like all the toys she gives us but these other things are more fun to chew and naw on. Well I will grow out of this stage sometime, but in the mean time I continue to enjoy leather and rubber-a GREAT Combination! Very flavorful, you should try it sometime!

Bears and Sheep taste Yum Yum

My mistress went to the store today and she brought home these environmentally eco friendly bears and sheep for me to play with. No not the real thing silly, toys! Well the old man he loved his little bear and he nawed at that thing all afternoon. Bert and I however each got a toy, his was a bear and mine a sheep. We tore into them like we had never seen a toy before which is so funny considering how many toys we have! Yum yum, we were nawing and pulling and teething on these things and yeow finally I got into mine and found environmentally eco friendly cotton batting, so good for the earth, but yuck it didn't taste so good so I pulled and spit and pulled and spit until I had all the innerds pulled right out. Then I found the squeaker and pulled it out too. And then I found a little rawhid stick to each. I never had a toy that ended with a rawhide stick! What fun to find that little treat inside. Well pretty soon my mistress who had been picking up the cotton batting all afternoon took a look at what was left of both of the toys that my Dad Bert and I had been playing with and she said "Well look at the carcauses!" We laughted as we had kept her busy all afternoon picking up after us as we totally distroyed the two toys she brought home for us. Later we went after ald man Fritz's toy bear but the mistress took it away to give to Fritz for another day. Was that fare? I don't think so!

I am loving my new home and am relaxed and happy and when my master talks to me I wag my tail so hard to let him know how much I love him. I am getting really good at sitting now and my mistress is excited to see how SMART I am-of course I am SMART I am Bert's son and he has his CGC!

PS-Iwill get my CGC someday too!

Wow I learned to sit today!

Today my Mistress is so excited because I learned to sit! Can you believe that? Now I was always taught not to sit because I was a show dog and show dogs don't sit or we get in trouble. My Dad, Bert, he was a show dog too and when our mistress was praising Bert for sitting I thought he had gone NUTS! But no he was sitting pretty as you please and waiting for his cookies! You see he has this tag on his collar and it says he is a Canine Good Citizen. Well don't you know my Mistress is talking to me about getting my CGC too? So I decided whe would be really happy if I learned to sit because the other day I ate some of her rubber flip flops. I loved those pink rubber flip flops pushing against my lips. They felt soooooooooo good. Anyway she didn't get mad at all she just laughed and told the Master, we have a pupster in the house! Anyway after that episode I thought I better do something she would like and she was so happy when I sat on command today. Her face lit up and she smiled and patted me and gave me cookies and told me how proud she was of me. My chest puffed out and I was proud of me too. I guess show dogs, well retired champion show dogs, CAN SIT!

Not only did those rubber flip flops taste good on my lips I love to follow my Mistress real close when she is wearing them and tease her by stepping on the backs of them while she is walking. She laughs and turns around to give me pats and loves.

I am lucky I found a home where I am truly loved and adored. I know the old dog Fritz likes me because he just lays around and looks at me. Bert is getting used to my antics and the Mistress's daughter and son in law came to see how beautiful I am. I let them pet me and Mason gave me treats! The old Grandma came to see me too. Yes, I am lucky and very happy!