Well

My human and I are still adjusting to the new location. It's much noisier which makes my walks a bit scary at times. I also won't just go out on my tie out line because of the noise my human has to come with me or I will just stand and whine.

The hardest thing for me though has been people are not friendly to me here. Where we lived before everyone knew my name and would say hi and sometimes pet me. Here almost no one pets me and even if they look at me and smile they don't say anything. They are all busy going places and doing things and I can't get used to it. I ever so hopefully try to approach each one wagging nearly my whole body and they just keep going.

Home at last

Well at the beginning of the month my human finally found a place that would take a dog (and a cat) It took her a little longer to actually get out of hospital but she did on Wednesday. Her friends initially tried to say I should say where I was until the place was a little more settled but we needed to be together and she said as much so before long someone arrived to bring me to my human.

My last place was quite lovely in every respect except the fact my human wasn't there. I was quite adored and my human has been told should she ever need a dog sitter they would love to have me again. (Well I am really cute and charming :P) Of course my human has no intention of going anywhere without me anytime soon but it's still nice to have a place to go that isn't a kennel.

My human is getting an incredible amount of help from her friends from Kolot Mayim but she is still finding all this pretty stressful and I worry about her. I keep close and kiss her as much as I can so she cannot forget how much I love her but I don't think she forgets that ever. I have it on good authority that when she was sick she frequently said she just wanted to be back together with me. It's just tough. Her arthritis is bad so she gets sore after just a little unpacking. She wasn't there to pack the stuff so it isn't precisely clear where anything is and what got packed and what got thrown out remains a bit of a mystery. All I can really do is watch and encourage my human to come to bed with me so I can try to lick away the stress but I am all too aware that wasn't enough before. I can feel my human relax a bit though and she tells me I am the best dog in the world. I of course know that. I didn't want to be separated from my human but everywhere I went everyone loved me. It feels so good to sleep with my human though. My human and I are grateful for all the people who stepped up both to look after me and to help my human but nothing compares to being in the arms of my actual human again.

Confusing

Went to see my human again. I was confused and not sure what to do. I kept looking at the human who has me now trying to work out what to do. I was afraid in a way to hope that this was my human with me and suspected we would soon be separated again. After awhile I settled at the foot of her bed and when she was petting me I let out a little whimper of sadness. I just want to be with her again. Sure enough after not enough time I was carried out of there. My human always takes me with her. What's different this time?

My human

My human wound up getting sick from the stress of trying to find us all a new home. It's been very strange for me. One day a slightly familiar human arrived and my human walked me out to her car and put me in my bed in the back seat and the lady human drove off with me. I am normally freaked out by cars but I was a bit stunned by all this and had no idea what was going on. I stayed there for a week.

I was starting to think maybe my human was dead or had given me away and so began trying out the new human as a replacement. I slept in her bed a few times instead of my own. Then one day the new lady human took me to see my original human at a place called a hospital. My human was sitting outside in a chair with wheels on it with her rabbi.

I was frantic to see her again. I had been so worried. She still smelled sad and now a bit sick as well but I could tell my visit was helping her.

A few days after that I went to stay with my human's nephew. I was much more used to him. His house is the complete opposite of my human's home. He lives with a bunch of other boys and other students come over all the time. I get multiple walks a day as many of the kids seem to be missing their own dogs and girls are always kissing me. I do still miss my own human of course but it is pretty fun here for me.

We go a few times a week to see my human. I hope she will feel better soon and find us a new home as I not only miss her but that darned cat hasn't been in my life in almost a month now. My human says we will get the cat when we have a place as it is too hard for a cat to go to multiple places.

My human has a doctor that is going to try to get me officially made a therapy dog. I am not sure what that means beyond being able to be with my human anywhere which would be good. I hope I wouldn't have to wear one of those goofy vests though.

Worried about my human

My human and myself and The Cat have to move. My human seems to be taking this very hard. I don't know quite what is going on but I know it takes me a long time to try to lick the sorrow from her when she comes home to me. I don't really know how to help beyond that.

I guess it is hard to find a place where we can all be together and my human won't do without either of us. I wish I could do more but she tells me I am doing more than 6 kilograms of dog should be expected to do.

My Dogiversary

Today is my three year Dogiversary. My human explained that she has been my human for three years now. She gave me a new stuffed toy with this explanation so I am a huge fan. The first time I had one my human was away from me for the first ever having a kneee replaced and last year she was about to have another one done and a bit preoccupied but this year she is fit to focus on how wonderful I am.

Earlier this week it was Hallowe'en. The radio was full of vets coming on saying how scary that is for dogs but I love it. Before dark my human put on her costume and took me for a nice long walk. More people than usual came up to talk to her and me so that was great. Then when it got dark we went upstairs and a steady stream of children arrived at the door. My human would give them something and they would go away but most of them did pet me while they were waiting for my human to spring into action. I did have to stay on my leash because some of the little humans could have been afraid of me but this year none were. A few said they had seen us earlier when we were having our walk.

Looking forward to another year of life with my human. She is pretty well trained by now.

Guilt Entry

The other day my human's mother asked whatever happened to my blog so here we sit trying to think of something to say.

Now that I am an adult dog not much of note happens. My human had more surgery this winter and spent a number of months resting on the sofa bed again. The cat and I enjoyed that. The downside to all these surgeries for the human though has been major weight gain for me. I went to the vet a few weeks ago and I had gained 4 pounds! Considering I was only a little over 10 pounds last year that's pretty major.

The human is taking that pretty seriously. She cut back on my food and even though she is having some new issue with her back that is making walking painful again she has had me out on some longer walks. I lost over a pound already so she thinks she will have me back down to my goal weight fairly fast. I am so hungry all the time though!

I have been doing much better on the whole house training front. My human was beginning to think I would never get it into my brain that I couldn't go inside the house when the weather was bad but it has been months now since my last accident indoors. Why the human calls them accidents I don't really know. They were quite deliberate.

My human retired my faithful companion Mr Bear recently. She had sewn his stomach up a good 50 times or so in my lifetime and since I seem to take such great joy in ripping out the stitching she has given up on fixing him.

That's about all the news from here. You can see I live a pretty dull life now.

Been awhile

It has been awhile since my human updated my page. I guess not much new happens in our lives.

She bought me a new bed tonight. I never had been very interested in the dog bed that is here but she thought it might smell too much of Tiny (the dog who had my human before me) I mainly like to lie on a blanket beside my human so she put the blanket on my new bed and I am half in and half out of it but I prefer this to the other bed.

The weather has been pretty bad this year. Don't get up into the park much because when it has rained for a few days the path is too muddy. I do love to get up there though as there are usually more dogs and even better more people to say hello to. My human keeps telling me that people are not just outside for my benefit but I have no clue what she means by that. What else could they possibly be out there for but to say hello to cute. adorable me?

An odd month

November was a strange month at our place. My human left me for the first time ever! Right before what would have been my first year anniversary of being her dog she had to go and have an operation. After a few days she came back and it didn't seem like it was like the operation I had because she didn't have to wear a cone on her head but she wasn't moving around much.

To be honest I kind of liked it. The cat and I spent many hours curled up on top of the human. She slept a lot and watched dvds in bed. She hardly ever left the house so this was all an improvement in my eyes. The only bad thing was she couldn't take me for walks. She claims she got a new knee but I have no idea what that is. Finally she started walking me again last week so things are improving.

The weather here has been awful though. The wind was so strong on the weekend I thought I might just blow away. I would only do my business if my human put a leash on me and came out into the yard with me which is still a bit tough for her to do but she limped around with me every few hours. I trained her well.

I am one

My human woke me up this morning by singing Happy Birthday to me. She added a few lines about what a great dog I am and how much she loves me. I am not sure what all this Happy Birthday business is about but all day long people were saying that to me.

She tells me I am no longer technically a puppy and she expects me to smarten up on some things. Of course she knows I am still going to be me and that nothing major is going to change. I think I have her trained pretty well though so I am not too worried about the years ahead.

I had an interesting summer holiday in August. We went to my human's parents place first. That was good and bad. The good bit was that I usually got an extra walk with my humans mother every day and I liked to lie on top of that person and have her hold my chewing bones. It was great as it doubled the amount of time I could have someone willing to do that every day. The bad part is my human kept going swimming in something called a lake without me.

I found out what swimming was the hard way a bit later when we went on to Alberta. We went to a cabin and went out in this thing that they call a boat. It is a bit like a car but it doesn't have wheels and goes over water. Up until now my experiences with water have been in small quantities so when my human stood up in the boat and dove into the water I thought I could just walk over to her the way I do in the shower. The water gave way under me and I was surrounded by it. Fortunately I found out I could do that swimming thing too. I was not a happy dog about it. My human said she gives me credit for my Lassie like rescue attempt despite it not working out so well and her not needing recuing.

Her brother also had bought a dog since we were last there. I would like to say I like my fur cousin but he is about 4 times heavier than me and much taller. He seemed to find it fun to put my head in his mouth. I was not too keen on his idea of play. I spent a lot of time scrambling for my human's lap.