Miss y'all!!

Oh how I miss my Dogster furrends! Mama says she's workin' so much and goin' to school on this 'ol computer and we just haven't been good enuff to get our turn on the computer I guess! Poor us!

On the good side, Mom and Dad took us to a NEW DOG PARK here in our little tiny town! There were about 6 dogs there and I even got to go in and play with them!

I preferred playing with Mama, but I was all social and pretty and all the doggies wanted to hump me! Mama said that was a compliment, but I was happy every time she shooed them off me! BOL!

That was mon-yoo-men-tol in my and Mama's book! Ulli isn't nice enough to play at the dog park, but we'll keep hoping!!!

If anyone is wonderin', we're getting fed yummy good, are very happy and exercised, and we're getting a bath in about a week! Slightly needing a bath is not much of a hardship in my book! BOL!!

We love you, all our furrends!!! We're gonna put it on our calendar to get on here again WAY MORE OFTEN!

Barks and waggs!!

Bath curious!

I’m getting brave, y’all! Sometimes I’ll peek into the bathroom when mom is in there, but if she even looks or talks to me I scurry away like a little mousie!

You see, I didn’t have a bath my whole life, for almost 2 years. Then my Mom and Dad picked me and Ulli up for the first time (we had just met! Kinda) and took us across the country, THEN forced us in a bath! It was horror! I cried at the door the whole time Ulli was in there! We were both phobic of the bath after that.

Nowadays we get showers in the back yard with the hose. That bathroom has such a stigma! Ooooh! Scary!!! Those memories! That echo!

Then one day, I decided to get brave! What if I went into the bathroom while Mama is in the bath? What if I sit and lie down? I did it! I even let her pet me with her wet hands! She said I was bath-baptized! I hung out in there with her.

I’m still alive to tell about it!!

Bravery can be a scary thing, but if you’re lucky (and I was!!!) it isn’t so bad! Whew! Conquered the bathroom!!! Next? The world!!

I've been tagged!!

My furrend Jolanda tagged me and Ulli! We are to tell you 10 things we loooove! Here goes!

Things I love…..

1. FOOD!! I love raw meat, tuna, kibble, and food processed veggies!

2. I love the bed. Mom and Dad think it’s their bed, but I guarantee I spend more time on it!

3. I love Ulli. She is a lot of fun to play with! And I ALWAYS win!!!

4. I love Mommy. She’s my favorite Mommy! She is nice to me and gives me lots of gentle pets and kisses.

5. I love Daddy. He’s acceptable when Mommy’s not around.

6. I love sunbathing. Sitting in the yard, basking in the sun, feeling the warmth on me is really nice.

7. I love when I can BUMP Ulli out of the way and get the pawrents attention without them knowing what I did!! BOL!! Sometimes it pays to be a big girl!

8. I love ‘me time’. When Mom and Dad come home for lunch I usually stay upstairs. It’s right in the middle of my nap time! They’re leaving again anyway, I’ll see them later! I love when they come home for the night too!

9. I love taking Ulli’s toys and hiding them! Okay, so I ALWAYS hide them upstairs in plain sight, but it still takes her awhile to find them!

10. I love training. It stretches my brain, I catch on quick and I feel SOOO smart!!!


I don't know who to tag - so if you have read this and haven't been tagged yet, YOU'RE TAGGED! How 'bout that? BOL!

Have a good day everyone!

Owie!?

I'm restless, I'm whiney, I'm a fidget! We ran that one day, fell down, took
a day off, then ran again, and daddy ran us the next day.

Mama says she has a bruise and it still hurts, so she thinks maybe I have a
bruise too.

She rubbed my hips this morning and it really felt good! Thanks Mama! She
says I need a hot salt wet towel for my hips. Then I'll need a bath! She
said that's okay, we're starting to smell 'doggy' anyways. Humph.

Reckon I can sit still enough to let a hot wet salt towel to help me?

I know! What if we introduce hot dogs into the equation? Hmmm!! I think that
could work - no sense in not trying, huh? BOL!!

Update: Daddy took us on a really slooooooow bike ride, he said it was really a walk, and I loved it! I had fun and clowned around with Ulli! I seemed okay, do you think it could be that Mom and Dad are on MY bed at night? That's MYYY bed! I LOVE it! It LOVES me! Hm. Mama says she's keeping a close eye on me. Maybe a hand too - she can pet me!!!

The socialite!

I'm officially a socialite! Mama had people over for the first time last night! They were nice knitting ladies. I was curious and wanted to sniff them! Who are you? Where have you been? What does your house smell like?

One lady smelled like a BUNNY! She said her bunny's name is Joey too!! Wow! How about that??

They fed me cheese and hot dogs, and I did a high five, laid down, and rolled over! Yeah, I was showing off!

The first lady was super interesting, and by the time the second lady came over I was a little worn out! The second lady was a little nervous, but my smile put her at ease eventually!

Spilt milk

Don't cry over spilt milk! That's what Mama said when we took tumble # 2 on the bike yesterday!! Whoops! Ulli & I were trying to anticipate Mama turning left, and misjudged! We turned left, tumbled over each other, and then Mama fell down too! She said she is very happy she didn't get road rash! She landed on her hands, backwards like a crab! She says I get the night off tonight because although I'm not limping she thinks I got the worst of the fall (between me and Ulli that is).

Mama found us two cow femur bones at the butcher. She says they are HUGE! We're waiting for them to thaw out, but I'm pretty sure they are for us and not soup! BOL!! Wish us luck! I'll be dreaming of femurs tonight!!

Sweet sleepy me!

Mama says I'm the sweetest dog ever. Just wanted to put that out there. She had a big day at work and watched Daddy get some surgical procedure, when she got home I cuddled with her and we slept for 90 minutes! I love my Mommy! I love to cuddle too! Sometimes people get real busy and don't have a lot of time to cuddle!

Everyone, take a minute to cuddle! Or... better yet, five! Or thirty! Or more! Cuddling is real nice. Try it!

Me me me me me me!!!

Woof woof! I'm a diary pick of the day! Sweet 'ol me! Yay! Thanks Dogster, I do well with positive reinforcement! BOL!!!

Speaking of positive reinforcement, I'm doing GREAT with my 'Relax on a Mat' exercise! I lie right down, and I've started shifting from hip to hip! Mom says when I shift my weight to one hip while lying down I'm relaxed more. So I go left, (treat), right, (treat), left, (treat), right, (treat) and so on!!

Mama says since I'm SO good it's time to up the ante! I have to start lowering my head and maybe lay it down on the mat? Then she says we'll start 'Relax on a Max' in different places in the house! Oooh! Variety!

Thanks to all my people out there at Dogster! I love each and every one of you!!!

I'm a pro at relaxing!

You say, "Jump", I say, "How high?"
You say, "Relax", I say "Okay!"

We're learning a new behavior! It's called 'Relax on a Mat'. We have a special towel just for this exercise. Mom says she's waiting for me to relax on my own. In less than 5 minutes, I'm lying down, have my weight shifted to one hip, and am content! This is a fun exercise! Can we do it again?

This will teach me and Ulli how to relax on our own in other situations. She says. Me? I'm fine! But I do like to get Ulli worked up! BOL!!! It's fun! And easy!! BOL BOL!!!

We're HOOOOOOOOOME!!!!

Hip hip hooray! There's no place like home! There's no place like home!

We had an okay time at the bored place, but it was pretty boring. We thought mama and daddy had left us, but one day they came back!!! Weeeeee! I had been saving my energy for something - I pummeled mommy and she is a little beat up to show for it!

We got home, took a bike ride and had baths (BRRRRR! - outside with the hose!) and had a lot of make-up snuggling to do! We're still trying to make up.

There's no place like home! There's no place like home! There's no place like home! We are soooooo happy!

We really missed our Dogster furrends too! We felt like pioneers being without an internet connection!! BOL!!