February 12,2011

Today is my Birthday! Wahoo! Mom says she thinks I am 7 now. But there has been many confusions about my age due to the paperwork from the start. I am still just as playful as I was when I was a puppy. As long as mom gives me those wonderful massages she does for me to not be so stiff. This winter has been very long, I had a couple of days where I became very lethargic and mom had to bring me to my Vet Er nearest to home. They gave me some pills that made the pain lessen and told me I had to have strict bed rest for 48hrs no jumping. That was easy for me as I didn't feel well. When it was over those 48hrs I was as good as new! Strange how it just came up on me and then after those 2 days in bed I was back to perfect. Mom said there were a few other dogs in our town that went through it as well.
All I can say is thank goodness for the Vet's help and for mom taking such good care of me. She even slept downstairs on the sofa next to my bed for those days so I would not be lonely. We get along great. I love my mommy and she loves me. I hope everyone has had a great winter and is feeling well.
Mom says, there are times she wonders how she got so lucky to find me. I lick her face allot and say Same here! :)
I wish all dogs could find a great furever home like I did.
Well, it is time for me to get another beef stick from mom, she is trying to spoil me more today since it is my birthday! But I wonder, is that possible?? BOL

Sunday,March 28,2010

Wow It is 2010 A whole new Year which even sounds strange when it rolls off my people friends tongues when they say it! Barking Out Loud .
It has been a very long Winter, and the Cold was not very good for my mom. She spent allot of it really sick. :( So she and I didn't get to spend allot of time going places this Winter. I didn't mind all that much, I got to cuddle up with her in her big bed, stay warm inside and she still dressed me warm whenever I needed to go out side for my potty time. Of course, I would take advantage of my time outside and roll around and make doggy angels in the snow and run and jump ''like a deer or bunny '', my mom said. Which always makes her laugh.
Last-night, Papa gave me my 'Spring Haircut', or as mom called it my 'Easter Haircut' so I don't have to look so messy anymore. I am such a rebel about getting my hair brushed that my mom says I get too many tangles in my undercoat . We have all the right stuff, but I fight and I walk away so papa and mom have decided to keep my hair trimmed shorter in the warmer months ( I actually am much happier with it like this).
With my hair trimmed short I have this neat looking birthmark that shows up brilliantly on my back more than when my hair is long. (it is how my hair grows,naturally, the white hair pattern in contrast to the gray) It forms what my human parents call a question mark.
Well, that's about all of my news for updates folks, mom says now that it is Spring she and I will hopefully be able to post more often as she will probably be feeling better.Her doctor has started her on a new med and we are hoping it will help. Papa and her were whispering about good news, me making more new friends soon, and they were giggling allot ... ??? I don't quite understand yet,, but when they smile I smile....... I mean what's a dog to do right??
Catch ya dog pals laterz...
Bandit

Hoping every Dog pal and human pal had nice holidays

Hi everyone, I have been very busy with my mom with the Christmas holiday and all the visiting and merriment of the goings on those bring. I had so much fun over the holidays. I hope everyone in Dogster enjoyed their holidays as much as we did. BOL.
Momma told me I was a lucky dog because not all dogs are as lucky as I am to have a warm place to live, blankets and toys to cuddle up with for naps and gifts to open on Christmas morning. So I made certain to let Santa know that he should let the dogs that don't have what I have have something nice as well. Perhaps a blanket and a bite to eat from his turkey meal . I would gladly give from my table but, I had to stay home on the Christmas meal time alone myself. Because mom's family still leaves me out of their mealtimes. They just still don't get it. Mom says they are just too stubborn to understand the needs of some people and their dogs. Because they don't see her disability every day as they don't see her everyday so it is not something they can understand.
Some humans are more simple headed than us Dogs..BOL.
Mom and I set out cookies for Santa and I double checked in the morning and yup, he ate them! Mom took a picture of me while I was checking..
I don't know why but she just kept laughing and saying 'how cute'.
we went to Dad's folks house up in Barton,VT for a visit and had a 2nd holiday there. I liked that. But grandma W laughed at my pj's! That was ok, I laughed at her spotted socks. she looked like she wanted to be a cougar cat.. BOL. We had allot of fun. The New Year is here mom says, time for New Beginnings and happy times. Feels the same to me I don't understand the big fuss. All I know is we still have fluffy white snow out side to run and play in and get my paws all wet in. It is fun,but, it sure gets COLD after a little while. Booties are great for those moments. If you don't wear them yet, get your parents to look for some for you! They help keep your feet warm and dry, and your licker from getting sick if you walk over that salty stuff on the sidewalks .

White Stuff Is Here ! 10/29/08

Yeah that is what I barked! The White Stuff is here! I went out yesterday morning and it was raining. I could deal with that okay.Even though I do not much care for the rain. I was NOT going to let Mom put that dreaded Yellow rain jacket on me yesterday Again, No way! No How! I had ENOUGH of that thing over the rainy weekend at my Daddy's. So I just hugged the side of the house and did my outside ritual in the rain. I even got to chase that pain in the neck squirrel who continues to spread nuts all over my patio! He is a nuisance.
Later on in the afternoon my boy (my skin brother) came home from school (where he goes during the weekdays), and he told my mom he was going to swear at her! Well, that sure opened my eyes BIG! I was all Shocked Why I was thinking would he want to do that? But then he smiled at our Mom and just said 'It is Snowing outside!' and she said 'Stop swearing you naughty naughty boy! It is too early for that nasty word in this house!' and they both laughed. I was very confused until uh oh, sure enough my skin brother comes over to me and says 'Time for you to go outside in the SNOW!'
The next thing I knew, I was standing outside in the cold the wind blowing my ears around, surrounded by what was grass just that morning, now covered in a blanket of White stuff! I quickly jumped into the only green patch I could see left. But my skin brother laughed at me with this scary kind of laugh and says ' Oh no you don't, not in Mom's garden! Back in the Snow for you !' And he tosses me back onto the white stuff! My little feet were getting wet and cold, he didn't even put my booties on my lil' feet, Thank Dog, Mommy had already dressed me in my lovely sweater earlier or I surely would have been frozen! I knew I had to just do what he expected or I would surely not get back inside so I watered Mom's garden from outside of her little white fence hee hee BOL and he couldn't stop me from doing that ! skin boy 0 Bandit 1 !
He finally took me inside and Mom said 'ok good boy! time for a treat!' and I got some yummy beef stew. mmm mmm good.
Later on when It was time to take our small nightly walk Mom and I faced even more of the white stuff coming down, Mom said it is going to keep coming down now for a few days. She didn't look very happy about it when she said that. I guess if we go out dress up on scare night we will have my booties on. hmm I wonder what Mom is going to make me wear this year? She hasn't been trying on any silly costumes yet. Please not the pumpkin one again,, Daddy joked about making me be a bumble bee but I really do not like those. Mom joked about putting her devil horns on my head, she has black ones and purple ones of her own. She also has bunny ears, shh don't let anyone know I said that. If she even thinks of turning me into a bunny OMD! I will run so fast...
Well, everyone, Have a spooky Halloween. I'm already Spooked thinking of it.. BOL
Snow on pumpkins there should be a bark law against that!!

My weekend at my Daddy's October 17-19 2008

I had another fun weekend at my Daddy's in Vermont! Friday wasn't much of a special night. Mom and Dad went to their bowling night as usual. And mom came home very over tired, she told me she wished I had gone with her though, because she had one of her really bad spells towards the end of the night.. :( she had a seizure and she had to go through it all by herself because I wasn't there with her. rrruff! She told me she knew something was not right because her body was hurting all over and she just didn't feel ok so she sat down on the bench and the next thing she knew Daddy was waking her up telling her she had been through a long one for a little over 15 minutes.. grrr he should have brought her somewhere but he let her lay there that entire time... Sometimes my Daddy doesn't use what mom calls 'common since'. That was too long too long.. grr
On Saturday Mom and I spent some time in Daddy's backyard, because she needed allot of fresh air and the sun was out. It was nice to be outside and I kept chasing the apples as they fell from the tree. Daddy was using some loud tools in the house and I don't like those sounds they make so Mom said we could stand for some fresh air anyhow. She is so good to me. Later on after we all napped we got into the truck and went to my friend Sophie's house. To my surprise some of her cousins were there. Mom was a little nervous about letting me off the leash at first because they were some pretty big dogs! Merlin is a Newfoundland . He was the big male cousin. She said she was most nervous about how I was going to take to him. But I thought Merlin was really nice. He let me climb on him, tug at his ears and tease him by running underneath him and through his legs and all around him . We wrestled allot for hours. Mom said she would have loved to have video taped our play date but it would have not been able to be shown here because I got too rambunctious.. and started to be a little too naughty.. I didn't play much with my good pal Sophie and Mom says I might have made her sad by leaving her out on all the wrestling. But I will go back again to Sophie's home and play with her on another time. Sophie and I love to run around the kitchen in fast circles around the island chasing each other. Then we go out to the yard and we chase each other some more! She is a cairn terrier so she is more my own size.. She is allot of fun to chase too. Mom says when Sophie and I get together I am always a good boy so perhaps for the next play date she can video tape us playing. Sophie was the first dog I ever made friends with. She showed me how to kiss frogs. BOL
My weekend ended on a sort of sad note though, while mom and dad were sleeping Saturday night, one of my dew claws fell off and ouch! Does it still hurt allot. Mom is making me wear one of my winter booties on the paw so I won't keep licking and chewing at the paw because she said I was making it swell up and get all red and she thinks if I can't keep doing that perhaps it will heal faster. I don't much like looking like a rock punk start,, brother Troy keeps teasing me and saying I look like Michael Jackson! grrr I hope Mom is right and we can take this bootie off soon. It is just a bother! and it hurts a bit when I step down on it..

Dad gave me my last haircut before Winter

Yup I got my last haircut before the Winter from my Dad last night! Of course I wiggled and squirmed so much that he said 'we aren't quite finished yet, but we'll let you go for a couple of days like this and finish it off then. You are much to wiggly now.' BOL I always win doing the wiggle dance !
I just do not like the noisy thing he shaves me down with. But dad tries real hard to start off with the scissors but he says the chance of cutting me is bigger with using the scissors because I wiggle so much. Mom tries helping me stay calm and still. And they always give me little breaks so I get to run around shaking off all my loose fur all over the house AND DO I! Mom even takes me outside for a potty break atleast once during my haircut. But you know, I don't think I would get away with all of that at my old groomers. Before dad came into the picture Mom use to send me to a lady that had a hair cutting place beneath my Vet/Dr. but that lady costed allot of $ and one time she cut my fur /hair around my face so that I came out looking like her other customers she had there that day---Bichons! oh I was not NOT happy and neither was my mom. plus she over charged mom that one time. Mom stopped sending me to her that very last time. Making me look like a Bichon! no thank you. Don't get me wrong, they are nice pups too, but I am a Chinese Crested and there is a distinct difference in our heads and facial characteristics. And that groomer should have known that she had cut my hair/fur before and done a splendid job. My Dad, well, he tries his best. And Mom says, we can't complain about the price. BOL.. atleast I Know he won't hurt me even if I wiggle and dance or try to run off. And he never harnesses me to make me stay put. in fact he does it in the living room which mom goes nuts about, but he cleans up the mess. Mom says when my haircut is complete she will oh boy, post a new updated picture of me. How embarrassing. oh well. time to wake up Dad now.. He has to work

My Backyard Fears Ocotber 7,2008

Well, This afternoon I was already to face my backyard fears. Mom was so proud of me, So was I :) I ran right up to Mom and I barked ''OuT!'' As loud and fearless as I could muster up so she could know I meant business and I meant I was really wanting to face that scary backyard right then and there no matter what! I reeeally had to go do my 'business and fast'.. Mom hurried and helped me to the back door all smiles and proud of me .. She let me out the back door and watched over me as I did what I had to do. Congratulating me and saying 'Good boy Bandit !' when I was all done. I was so happy and the air felt so good I didn't want to go back inside quite yet. The air was crisp the leaves were crunching beneath my feet the birds were singing as if chiming in with my Mom in praise for me as well.
My mom stood there and watched over me from inside the door but neither her nor I expected what would happen next. Out of nowhere came that pesty neighbor dog I have listed as my biggest Pet Peeve, Fuku the Shiba Inu that lives down at the end of our block! His little girl let him sneak out the door and he ran right at me and attacked me from behind!
Luckily I was able to bark and wiggle away from him real fast and my mom ran out the door and snatched me up quick and got me back inside so I was safe..
Fuku's human mom said she was really very sorry and she tried to catch him, but he is very fast and he managed to run out of the neighborhood. Lucky for him because Mom would have scolded him for hurting me. But Mom was more concerned about me and checked me over from my ears to my tail to my paws once we got inside and said I got lucky, no injuries except my pride. But that I was really fast at wiggling away and she was very proud I managed to get away from him so well. Tonight she took me out for my 'business' on a small walk just in case that meanie hasn't come home yet. She said better off safe than sorry. But in the morning, she and I will go back out in the backyard because we will not let my backyard fears or Fuku take over.. no way.. I am a big boy and I like my yard.. Way too much ...
Mom says when you fall you get up otherwise you get all muddy when the rain starts pouring down .... BOL

My Weekend at Daddy's in Vermont 1st weekend of Oct08

I spent the weekend at my Daddy's with both of my parents (my human parents) this past weekend.Daddy lives in Vermont. It is way kool there. I like going there cause I get to ride in the back of his truck in my special seat he made for me with my comfy bed, unless they fall for my tricks then they let me come up front with them and I get to hang my head out the window and sit on mom's lap for part of the way also. But when I get to Daddy's he has a huge backyard and a long rope run that I get to go out on and I feel so free! I love to roll in the grass, pee on all the bushes and smell the apples that grow on his apple tree. Sometimes apples fall from the tree and I roll on them, but mom always gives me grief for doing that because she says they make my fur sticky..
Saturday morning while mom was still sleeping daddy brought me next door where he and I got to watch a hunter have his bear weighed in, he got a 300 pound black bear with a bow and arrow! At first I was afraid because it was really huge and I thought it was going to get me, but daddy laughed and told me he was dead and I could look all I wanted. He had a funny smell to him but he sure was huge and I was glad he couldn't hurt me. I don't understand why he had to be killed but daddy said the hunters do that sometimes. There was another one on Sunday but I didn't ask Daddy to bring me over. I felt bad for the bears.
But I know in Vermont there are allot of bears and moose that run free all over the woods so maybe they do it so they don't take over the world. Or so they don't get hit by the cars when they are near the roads. Sometimes we do see them on the highways too. We see allot of deers next to the roads in the winters.
Once me and daddy chased one deer off of a friend's land, back up into the woods because it kept eating from his garden. And his wife was getting very angry. I thought that was allot of fun. Mommy was scared I wasn't going to come back from that run ... I did of course, with my white paws all dirty.. she had Daddy give me a bath that night.. I didn't mind, I like baths with Daddy. He climbs in with me and we shower together.. He is funny like that..
I got to see my Daddy's parents this weekend also, they came up for a short visit, grandma even took me for a short walk. She loves to spoil me.. I even got Grandpa to pet me even though he still claims he doesn't really like dogs, I am irresistible..
Mommy said next time we go to Daddy's house I might need to wear my sweater because it is getting too chilly up there to go for the ride in the back of the truck without it. I guess it must be Fall now she makes me wear my sweaters in the season they call Fall and a warm parka in the season they call winter. I don't mind much because they keep my little body warmer. And Mommy says this winter she might get me a brand new winter parka cause the one I have been wearing the past winters is starting to get too old. Perhaps my next one will be blue, I like blue..

todays entry Friday,October 3,2008

Well, last night my mommy didn't feel so great so I took her up to bed kinda early. But that got reallly boring for me. I like to take care of her when she doesn't feel well, but I get a bit rambunctious she says, and still need to get up and run around the house from time to time. So I paced the floor a little and licked her nose from time to time just to make sure she was ok. When my boy Troy came home he tried to put me outside in the back yard but I was very stubborn and waited for mom to come downstairs and forced her to let me go out in the front yard. She let me out in the back yard as well, but I shook and kept running back to the back door and jumping at the screen, I don't know why she doesn't believe me but something is really scaring me out there! Eventually she did let me go pee pee out in the front yard but she told me that it cannot keep happening.
I let mom sleep for a couple of more hours but then I jumped on mom around 5 A.M. and made her follow me downstairs, ha ha mom, I just wanted to let you know that big brother Troy, slept the entire night on the sofa last night and never went up to his room. But mom didn't get angry, she gave me a treat and said good boy, and we just went back up to bed. We woke up together to a scary man's voice yelling next door, we have a new neighbor moving in. Boy does he like to yell allot! I'm not so certain I am going to like that man.. but, maybe he has a little boy who will play with me and that might make up for his yelling. I don't see a pet.. hmm. But I hope the man doesn't keep scaring me and mom awake so early every morning. We don't like waking up like that much. Mom said if I jumped any higher I would have hit the ceiling.. I think she was just a little bit exaggerating there though. Although, I can jump pretty high..
Well, mom wanted to add a new background to my page but got a bit confused, she said she just didn't understand how. so it is in the pictures content now until she can get some help. She blames it on her Fibro fog whatever that is..lol. Humans are so odd sometimes..
I am just being lazy today and laying around on the sofa watching her try to get things done and refusing to go out in that back yard today. I don't know why but I just don't want to go there.. She tried putting me out there again this morning but again I ran back to the door jumped up to the screen and whined. Mom thinks it is no longer about the neighbors cat and is wondering if the maintenance man might have sprayed something out there on the grass to keep me off of it. She says she sure hopes not. Doesn't even know if there is such a thing, But sure hopes to find out. We have had this home for almost 4 years now, why the sudden change is what we need to know. Strange hey?
Well, mom says she needs to get back to doing other things now. I am grabbing my favorite toy bone hoping she will play now,, time to tease mommy again..

Our First day as a Dogster member 10/01/08

Well today was our first day as a member of this Dogster website. My mom and I had allot of fun introducing ourselves into the Dog House and hanging out here checking out stories and pictures and profiles of so many loved pets. We had so much fun mom didn't get much of her household chores done. LOL> but of course mom did not forget to give me (Bandit) allot of attention, time for playing tease the momma with my favorite toy. Also, I made sure to let mom know whenever I needed to take my outside times for the necessary's If you all know what I mean..
I think there is a new CAT in my neighborhood, whenever mom puts me outside in the back I can sniff that irritable smell of a nearby kitty perusing my MY yard.. Oh that makes me so angry! I just don't like kitty cats that use My area to do their necessary's. I claimed it long ago, and it is mine... So mom says if I continue whining and refusing to go out there without her having to bribe me to step off the pavement of our patio and onto the grass she is going to have to start taking me for walks or worse yet, reintroduce my old litter box back into the house. I didn't mind using the litter box when I was younger, nope not at all, my mom filled it with old newspapers shreddings and I didn't have to worry about being let outside when I needed to go, I could just walk over to it and get er done as some funny guy says on the TV box mom and I watch together sometimes. ( I especially liked this convenience during the brrr cold winter days and nights)
But Daddy does not think a big grown up dog like me, should be using such a thing. He convinced mom to get me to go outdoors awhile back, and I think Daddy will be angry if he sees I have to go back to that ol' thing . So hopefully that kitty will stop coming around My area. Mom says it is either that or I will have to learn how to ' just deal with it', I don't like the sounds of that one bit!
Anyhow, mom and I have already begun to make some new pup pals on here and we are very excited about that. this site shows allot of promise. Mom says she can't wait to come back again very soon. Oh, and she even says she has allot of cute and silly pictures of me to add into my profile page. Oh boy, I hope not my Halloween costume ones. Those are soooo embarrassing, but she seems to enjoy showing those off. well, Woof Woof it is time to get my mom to take her medications and send her to bed for the night. She is lucky, she has a huge Queen bed which I sometimes share with her, (I love to cuddle, and sleep near her legs), often I sleep at the bottom of mom's bed where she has an old trunk covered with comfy floor pillows and a blanket. And now even my big BIG doggie bed fits there. with my blue paws fleece blanket and my oh yawn,, thinking of it makes me tired... time to grab my fav toy and get up to bed.
This was a great 1 st day!! WOOF WOOF! paw ya laters........