On a Roll!

Boy oh boy! I must really be on a roll!! I'm a Daily Diary pick again today! Three time in one month... it must be some sort of record! And I'm pretty sure it is a personal record. The diary gods must be smiling down on me! Thanks everyone!

OMD!

Oh my dog!! I'm a Daily Diary pick again today! What's the chances of that happening two days in a row?? I'm simply stunned... and honored beyond words. Thank you Dogster!

Thank you!

Thank you Dogster for making me one of the Daily Diary Picks! My family & I are very honored. While we don't make it to Dogster as often as we used to, we still love everyone & everything about this site.

And in case I don't make it back to the diary before then... I want to wish everypup a very Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Don’t need no stinkin’ groundhog!

Written on Jan 30, 2012

I don’t need no stinkin’ groundhog to tell me that spring has sprung! According to the man in the talking box, we are supposed to have a week almost filled with warm sunny days! WooHoo! Days perfect for taking long naps in the sun. After the soggy winter we’ve been having, it will be nice to visit with Mr Sunshine for the next few days. And it looks like some flowers are trying to poke their heads up through the ground… ahhh… color wonderful color!

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Flippers, Fins & Gills

Written on Jan 23, 2012

Flippers, fins & gills… items needed to survive in our current weather pattern. Seems like all we have is rain! We had about an inch of rain on Saturday and I think we probably had that much again this morning! My paws are pruning up from all the moisture! I think I need to be a fish in my next life, or maybe a duck so I can enjoy all this wet weather :-/

Rain Rain Go Away

Written on Jan 20, 2012

I’m thinking about an old nursery rhyme… it goes something like this:

Rain rain go away,
Come again another day

I’m so tired of gray, gloomy, soggy days! I’m ready for nice, warm, sunny spring days. Do you have any clue where I can find some? I’m willing to forgo some treats in order to get a few of those days! All this rain we’ve had these past few months is making me feel blue.

Happy New Year

Written on Jan 02, 2012

Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year!

I started mine out with a clean start. Meaning the mom said we smelled and it was time for a bath! EEEKK!! Well, truthfully I like baths and didn’t mind. Pixie hates baths and wasn’t so happy about it. And Ugg, well it was the first time mom gave him a bath. He was very curious and stood with his front paws on the edge of the tub, watching while I was scrubbed & rinsed. When it was his turn, he didn’t do too bad. Mom’s hoping he will end up like me, a water-loving dog.

And I want to welcome back Ol’ Man Winter. Just when I was thinking he didn’t like us anymore, he appeared! It’s been very blustery today and late this afternoon, the snow arrived! WooHoo! Okay, it isn’t major snow, more like flurries and light snow showers. We probably will only get about 1/4″ of snow total and that’s if we are lucky. Nothing like what we had last winter. Tomorrow is supposed to be very cold with some nasty wind chills. Sounds like another perfect day to lounge around the house and sleep.

Too Much of Anything is No Good

Written on Dec 22, 2011

Mom kept telling me “Patton, too much of anything is no good.” Did I listen to her? Nope, I didn’t. I guess I should have because she might have been onto something.

Remember me raving about how I love this time of year? All the wonderful goodies that Santa brings me? Well, I overindulged in some of those goodies. They were wonderful going down and all was good for a while… then 3:30am rolled around.

I had a rumbly in my tumbly… I thought if I got up and walked around a little, maybe my stomach would feel better. It didn’t work. Mom thought I was being my normal guard dog self. Figured that I wanted to go outside to simply patrol the yard perimeter. So she told me to hop back up on the bed and go to sleep.

I was a good boy, did what she asked me to. She rubbed my ears to help me settle down. (I ADORE ear rubs!) Then I started yawning… and then I started licking my lips. That got mom’s attention super fast. She leaped out of bed at the same time she was asking me if I needed to go outside. Well duh! That was a stupid question. Yes I needed to go outside, I was going to be sick!

We raced down the hall to the deck door. While mom was unlocking it… well, it was too late. I got sick :-( I still wanted to go out, so mom let me out in the yard while she cleaned things up. When I came inside, mom snuggled with me in my favorite chair for a little while before we went back to bed.

Needless to say, I wasn’t so treat obsessed yesterday. Sleeping seemed to make more sense, you know take things easy. Tonight, I’m working on getting back on a “normal” treat schedule. I’m back to being a cookie monster!

Wonderful Time of Year

Written Dec 18, 2011

This is a wonderful time of the year! Last year was really cold and snowy, but this year is much warmer with rain instead of snow. I’m more fond of the snow than I am of the rain, but I’ll make do with either. The snow and cold make it seem more like Christmas.

The reason I enjoy this time of year is because of all the goodies! Santa Paws comes to visit us several time. The first two times, Santa Paws ships gifts to us. We get to open them on certain days and always have to take special photos of them. I’m not sure what mom does with them, but she says that Santa and his friends wants to see them. Anyway, those gifts start the season off right. They always seem to contain wonderful, tasty treats! And toys! WooHoo!! We love treats and toys.

Then on Christmas morning, Santa leaves more goodies for us! I’m not sure how he gets into my house without me hearing him… but he does!! Boy Oh Boy! I love Christmas morning!! Even more goodies and toys!

OUCH!

I was sitting on the couch next to Mom on Wednesday night & she was rubbing my face. Ahhh … nice! And then she noticed that her hand was wet, then she noticed that it was blood on her hand! Yikes! I was bleeding. Seems like something had injured my ear.

Mom cleaned the blood off of me and put some nice ointment on my ouchie ear. She was worried that I catch some critter in the yard and that was how I hurt my ear. After a careful examination of the yard, no deceased critters were located.

On Thursday night, dad noticed that I was holding my head up higher than normal when Ugg was around. Remember that Ugg is a puppy, with razor-sharp puppy teeth. Ugg is now the most likely culprit for my injured ear. The peeps seem to think that Ugg jumped up and caught the end of my ear with those terrible teeth!

I can’t wait until Ugg matures enough to be a responsible sibling and stops the biting attacks.