My new sister is coming!

I am very happy tonight. Mom said her friend is leaving tomorrow to come here from Kansas, then she told me she was bringing a new sister for me to play with. That will make me very happy!! I am the only toy poodle in this whole family. Well, Beanie is pretty small, in fact, I weigh more than he does, but he is not a "real" toy poodle, he is a too small miniature poodle. Bubbles (that's my new friend's name) is a real toy poodle and she is white, too! She is coming from the same place that I did. I don't remember it too much, but I knew her momma, and I think her daddy is my daddy, so she will be my real sister. Tonight I am playing lots with Beanie, cuz Mom got us all those new toys so we wouldn't mess up the clean house. It's pretty hard to mess it up when she has locked up the trash can and put everything that Jenny could possibly reach away so she can't get it down for us. In fact, I can't even pee on the rugs cuz she washed them all so they don't smell right anymore. I have to run to the door so she will let me outside.
Well, I gotta run in the bedroom now so Mom will know it's time for us to go to bed! Catch ya later.

Play day or work day??

Hee hee hee, all the big poodles got haircuts and baths today. Not me or Beanie or Chaz... we got ours the other day and we were still clean! Dunno why we stayed clean, it's still raining every day. Today was very nice in the morning. So, then Mom decided to mow the lawn after work. We were all bummed cuz we thought she was gonna take us down to the big yard. Next time I looked outside it was pouring! Sooo, we all figured she wouldn't mow the lawn cuz it would be too wet. If she couldn't mow the lawn, then we would HAVE to go play in the big yard, right? Wrong... we all forgot about the broken fence. Well, the sun came out again and Mom mowed the lawn. We decided that means she will saw down the trees tomorrow after work, IF it doesn't rain. Soooo, we are hoping to play down there tomorrow night, if she will let us. We all promised to stay out of the pond and to not roll in any nightcrawlers! That is going to be the hardest part of all! No good pictures will come of that play time, I am sure. Good pictures only come when we are fishing or rolling or playing in the garden.

My new friend Bubbles.

Well, my new friend Bubbles is here. The first night Mom took her and me and Beanie down to the big yard to play. We were having lots of fun and all playing pretty well together. Mom took lots of photos, but it was kind of dark and they didn't look too good. Bubbles ran right up to the pond, but she didn't fall in it! She did see Jenny's yellow frog, but she didn't try to kiss him, either.
Yesterday we all (well, me and Beanie and Bubbles and Roswell and Chaz) stayed in the pup pen with the flapping door. Bubbles got out it okay, but she would not come back up the ramp! Anyway, at the end of the day, she was even dirtier than I was!!! That must have been very hard for her, cuz I was pretty dirty myself!!! She had to have another bath today cuz she is going to visit the dog handler at a dog show tomorrow, but I am not going so I am still dirty!!!
Did you know Mom's friend called me a prima donna??? In fact she said I was more of a prima donna than Bubbles, which was pretty bad. All I was doing was lying on the dog bed with my front legs crossed and watching her and Mom. Everyone else was racing around like maniacs! Well, got to go to sleep now, catch ya later!

Fun with my niece Bubbles

Mom did get some photos of me and Bubbles. One of them shows her trying to steal MY attention. Look very, very closely at my head and you will see my mouth is open cuz I was gonna nip her if she came any closer! In the other one, she was protecting her former mom from me, of all things!!!
Actually it is kind of nice having someone here that is smaller than me. Mom just weighed us, and Bubbles is 4 pounds, I am 5 pounds and Beanie is 6 pounds. Sooo, I am not the smallest anymore, yea!
Already Bubbles is learning not to bark so much. She used to live with lots of toy poodles and she was a barker with all of them but Mom hates barking dogs so none of us bark. We all stare at Bubbles and it makes her stop barking. Well, Mom says I have to get off the puter now so she can do some work.

I go to obedience school

Finally, tonight I got to go to obedience school with Mom. It was an advanced class, so I felt pretty special. Before class started, Mom and I filled all the mosquito torches and lit them. Well, when everyone came and we started working and Mom gave me a piece of cheese, I wouldn't eat it. It smelled just like torch fuel, which was nasty!!! So, Mom ran home and washed her hands, then I LOVED the cheese. Chaz was right, it is really tasty! Pretty soon I discovered all I had to do was sit and I got a piece of cheese, so that was a no brainer. We did lots and lots of heeling and I was very, very good. Then we did some stands, and I wasn't so good at that. In breed, the handler guy held on to me when we did a stand, in obedience Mom wants me to stand there all by myself! Gotta work on that, I guess.
Then we did something called a figure of eight, or was it a figure of nine? Anyway, we had to heel around two chairs. Those chairs were pretty big and Mom got me pretty close to them, so that wasn't so good at first, but finally I realized she wasn't gonna let me run into them.
After that we did some sit stays and down stays. Nothing to that... after all , I know how to stay on a grooming table for over an hour without moving. Finally, we did some recalls. That was pretty easy, too. All I had to do was run up to Mom and sit in front of her and eat my cheese. Duh.
Then, we all sat around and they talked. I was FREEZING... it is very, very cold here tonight and so I had to climb under Mom's vest. Everyone laughed at me and called me a fuu fuu dog! I'll show them when I win first place at my obedience shows!!!

I am very tired!

Boy am I beat! Me and Beanie and Bubbles and Roswell and Chaz stayed outside all day long playing! It was very nice out there... we have a big tree for shade, and it was cool and comfy today. We ran and ran and chased each other up and down the ramp. We played tug of war with all the toys. We only did a little barking... Mom came home at noon and said she could hear us all the way over at work! We couldn't help it, we were having so much fun!
Now I am so tired I fell asleep with my new toy. I was so sound asleep that Mom was even worried that I might be not feeling good. When she said that, I did manage to jump up and look wide awake for a little bit, but back to sleep I fell. Mom put me in my crate so I could nap in peace without Jenny and Toto walking on me while they were playing! Hope she doesn't forget I am in here when she goes to bed... I wanna sleep in the big bed with all of them! Good night.

I'm in prison!

Drats, Mom has me in prison. The same heat thing happened to me that happened to Jenny a while back. I told Mom I should at least be able to come out at night and sleep in the bed with them, but she said that even though Toto and Beanie are neutered, I will bug them way too much for anyone to get any sleep. And, besides, there is the issue of her white bedspread. She likes it white, not all spotted, I guess.
Anyway, now that I am a Champion and all growed up and tested, Mom is going to let me have some babies. I am gonna go visit the dog handler guy on Wednesday, and meet with Denny, an old friend of mine down there. I can't wait to see all my friends down there... even the girls that took care of me all the time. Hey, my friend Pinki is still there... maybe I can stay in her kennel with her if I am good. Meanwhile, I am stuck in my crate with only Bubbles to keep me company. I suppose it could be worse... Jenny was stuck way over in the boarding kennel all alone. And, Mom even lets me go outside and play with Bubbles. But, I was really sure I was going to get to go kayaking this time! Mom says dogs in heat can't go kayaking because there may be other boy dogs there and it would upset them too much. Hmm, I would stay in the kayak! I am really little, I could even hide in the kayak. Maybe next time????

I'm home again!!!

Mom and Jenny came down to pick me up today. They met one of the girls from down here about halfway. She let me ride on her car seat... Mom made me ride in a crate! Jenny was on the seat, tho, and she got yelled at cuz she snuck out right in traffic while Mom was getting gas!
Anyway, I had a nice tryst with Denny. He was pretty nice, he brought me a flower, even. And, I saw Pinki again, she was happy to see me, I guess. She is kinda thinking she's better than us mere champions now that she is being specialed. Hrump! I told Chaz to be very careful, especially around her, but he still hurt his leg the first night he was there. He won't say what happened, so he must have been doing something he wasn't supposed to do. Probably was climbing on the fence like he did here when he got stuck that time. It's better today, so I could come home alone and he's staying there. When the handler guy called Mom this morning, I could hear Chaz trying to yell to her, but I guess she didn't hear him, or if she did, she thought he was telling her he was having fun. He was outside with the handler guy and his friend practicing walking and running for his shows. They said he was very handsome. Not me, I am very pretty!
Well, I've got to go re-establish my position on the dog bed... the Queen B thinks it's all hers now!

Playing with the dot.

Tonight Mom let me out with the other dogs again. Toto was snuffing me all over, and so was Beanie, but I just walked away from them, so Mom left me out here to play with them. Anyway, she was messing with us with that stupid laser dot light. Me and Toto were trying to get a few zzz's, but she kept moving it around in front of us. I tried a few times to get it, but neither Toto nor I are as obsessed with it as Jenny is. Mom did get a photo of me and Toto... you can see the dot on my ear, which brings me to the big problem with chasing the dot. Just as you get close to it, it gets blocked by a part of your body, and is gone. It seems a little pointless to keep chasing a point that you can never catch. Me, I prefer to chase something more concrete... something I can sink my teeth into when I finally get it. Toto and I discussed that, and we quit chasing the dot. Mom and Jenny were a little put out by our lack of enthusiasm... they kept playing with the stupid dot. Toto offered to steal it off the desk and kill the dot, but we are afraid Mom will just get another one. I told him that we should just wait a few days... kids get tired of their toys really fast, and I am sure Mom and Jenny will tire of that thing soon enough. Meanwhile, we will just continue napping.

Me and Beanie, back together again.

I luv my Beanie. He and I always are doing stuff together. I have missed him while I was in prison. Tonight Mom put us back together again, but she came outside with us and sat on the porch while we played. Of course, she had her camera with her! She did take a photo of me and Bean standing together on the porch and put it on my page. She says it's kind of weird how we are always doing exactly the same thing in the photos. I guess we think alike? It is a kind of deceptive photo cuz it makes me look lots bigger than him. I am really just a tiny bit taller than him, but he is heavier than me. (He is getting fatter, after all his comments about fat dogs! Mom is gonna have to put him on the green bean diet. Beanies for the Beanie, hee hee hee.) Anyway, since we are now resting together on the dog bed, it looks like I will be able to sleep in the bedroom tonight instead of in my crate. That will be very, very nice because it's supposed to be very, very cold here tonight. I will need the extra bodies to help keep me warm! If I get right beside Mom and have Jenny and Toto sleep on the other side of me, I should be plenty warm. Maybe I will let Beanie in there with me, too, cuz he is pretty small, too. Us smaller ones get cold! Speaking of cold, Mom loves to take photos of us poodles playing in the snow. But, so far, she has never had to take a picture of a pure white one like me. She said she may have to dye me pink so I will show up! I told her she would spot my black eyes and black nose. She said there are lots of black things in the snow around here with all us poodles using that yard, and most of them weren't eyes or a nose! I think she meant pupsicles!! Anyone know what a pupsicle is???? I do, I do!! I like pupsicles, in fact, I can't wait for Winter now that I remembered pupsicles!!!