Tagged!

I have been tagged by Bean to answer some questions, which is ok by me because it means my slacker Mom finally breaks her lack of updates for me.

What color is your collar?
Dark brown, I just got it and it's so much comfier than my old blue plaid collar. It's leather, and round so no hard edges!

What kind of food do you eat?
Raw meats and cubes of frozen 'gloop' my Mom and Dad make, with lots of veggies and oils and good stuff for me. That's for dinner. Breakfast I get Evo right now, used to get Orijen but it made me gassy. Hee.

What is your favorite treat?
Watermelon, currently. I can jump high enough to grab it from my Moms hand when she's standing up!

Do you have a Valentine or significant other?
Can't tame this man. (Although Nicki if you're reading I might be tamed for you, maybe.)

Do you get table scraps?
Nope. If I sit like a good boy I might get some watermelon when they've finished eating, but dang, sitting like a good boy for so long is hard work!

What is your favorite toy?
His name is Sherman the Sheep, but he's currently at the sewing hospital because we played rough again. He's the same size as me, and I love rolling around with him. Also nyla bones. And socks. And kongs, ooooh, and bouncy balls. Always those.

When is your birthday?
October 3, 2008 (Tomorrow! Horray for smelly food!)

How many times do you get to eat?
Breakfast, dinner and snacks sometimes. If we go for long walks/adventures I get snacks when we get back because I'm a movin' shakin' runnin' machine according to my Mom.

What is your favorite color?
Meat colour.

How much do you weigh?
My Mom huffs and puffs when she picks me up, because I'm such a big man, at 17 lbs.

Do you like to be brushed and groomed?
What's a brush? I don't care for baths, but it's ok when I jump in the shower with Mom and she soaps me up. Warm towels afterwars are AWESOME. If she's real quick about cleaning my ears it's ok, but I get restless if it's more than 2 qtips per ear. Nail clipping is a bit nerve wracking, but Mom is pretty good at chillaxin' me.

What is your most favorite thing to do?
Roll around in bed with Mom and Dad in the morning when we first get up. I have a strict stretch routine that takes approximately 3.5 minutes, and then it's go time. They're not allowed out of bed without at least 2 minutes of play. Also making dogs at the park chase me.

Do you hope all your pals put this in your diary?
Yes! It's fun to learn about everyone elses lives!

I won't full out tag anyone, but if you read this, it would be awesome to see your answers too!

Busy, huh.

Wow my Mom is a total slacker.
She tells me she's been real busy lately, which is why she's been neglecting to update my diary for me.

She was gone for a few days, and then when she came back had this weird drawing on her side, that she wouldn't let me lick. Not fair! She brought me some new clothes though, so it wasn't all bad.

Then we had a ton of people over for her birthday, and a nice dinner too. Of course I was included, I got more liver than usual - YUM!
With Dads help I got Mom an awesome gift, and even signed her card. I may not be an agility dog yet, but I'm agile alright!

Now Mom is getting all excited about going to something called Premier. All I know is she keeps telling me I'm going to meet lots of other dogs, which sounds alright. I'm a little bummed I won't get to meet my girl Nicki, or her brother Bean. Also my almost identical twin Beanie can't make it, because they live real far away.
But I promise to sniff as much butt, and play with as many pups as possible, just for you guys.

Mom says we won't be gone long, and that she'll have plenty of wonderful pictures once she's back.

Don't miss me too much, k?

Friend!

I have a new friend. His name is Friday, and he's so much fun to be around I whine a little bit when his Mom takes him home. That's him in the new picture of me!

I got to meet him at his house, a couple weekends ago. I was a bit scared at first, mostly because he came barreling down the stairs and I didn't know how to take it.
But then we started playing, and boy it was fun.

I was even allowed to use my teeth! The Mommie never lets me use my teeth when I play with her, meanie.

He came over to my house on Saturday, and I showed him around my backyard. He wasn't as interested as me in sniffin it all, to make sure it was the same. I tried telling him how important he was, but he just wanted to play.
Ok I figured, we can play for now, I'll sniff later.
We played for hours! It was awesome. Then I got really tired, and fell asleep in Moms lap. She snuck me up to bed, and I didn't get to sniff the yard!!!
I'm pretty sure some shennanigans went on that I'll never know about, thanks to my missing the opportunity to sniff that night.

But I sure do like playing with Friday.

Jazz

My Mom says she's too angry right now to talk about anything else, but wants to get the word out there in anyway possible.

A little guy like me, named Jazz has been rescued from an evil woman who hurt him, and left him to get sick and skinny in a shower stall.
He can't even stand up on his own he's so weak, and is now blind due to the infections ravaging his poor little body.

Please help the woman taking care of him, he needs so much medical attention - even if you just read this story and pass along the link, or donate 50 cents, it will help him.

http://easttennesseebloodhoundrescue.chipin.com/jazz -the-terrier_

Seasonal issues!

Whew! It was so nice on Saturday, Mom slathered me in that yucky white stuff, and we went to hang out in the backyard.
She was playing this weird game with me - hanging clothes on this line, and not letting me tug them down! What is that about??
Eventually she rigged it so even if I jumped real high I couldn't reach them. Meanie.

Then I tricked Mom and Dad into letting me sleep on the bed, with the fan pointing on us all night. Once I got over the whole wind on my face part, it was real nice and cool. I love it when they fall for that trick, my curling up real tiny and sparse like on the end of the bed so they think I'll stay there all night. Then BLAMO as soon as they're asleep for real, I dig my nice cold nose under the blankets between them, and stretch out real long so I can cuddle with them. They love it, they just won't admit it.

We woke up Sunday though, and it was so gross outside! After the first attempt to go outside, I realized that water was coming fast and hard from the sky, I turned my cute little butt around and stormed back upstairs.
About 10 minutes later I figured I had concentrated long enough to make the sun come out, by staring at the bells, so I rang them to go downstairs and check. No luck! I can't believe it! I tried one more time, before finally admiting defeat and going out in the rain. Man I hate the rain.
So we stayed inside and I convinced the parentals not to go out and get errands done, instead we watched movies and cuddled.

Awesome weekend overall.

USA! US... oh.

Mom and I were going to drive this weekend, on what she calls a road trip.

We were supposed to be going to see a puppy named Lucy, that might have been my older sister. Mom was all excited for it, had all my papers in order and bought all sorts of weird lookin' stuff for her and her co pilot.

She was getting me all excited too - I mean I am a born American, and who wouldn't love a return to native soil??

Then Saturday night she complained that we wouldn't be going anymore. The lady we were going to see had a family emergency and wouldn't be home to let us meet Lucy.

It ended up working out ok in the end - it was sunny on Sunday and I spent most of it patroling the backyard, scaring the birds away. We also went to my Nanas house, and I got to play with my third favourite person ever, Keesha. She's so much fun to play with!

Mom also told me she's real proud of me, that I'm growing up to be a lovely little gentleman. For some reason when I ring these bells by the gate, to let her know I wanna go outside, she goes mental, telling me how good I am.
Of course I am! Surprised it took so long for you to finally see it!

Teehee

A girl dog called me handsome today.
Lots of people tell me I'm cute, when Mom takes me out.
But never anyone as beautiful as her.

Her brother seems like a really nice guy too. Maybe one day we can all play together. I bet Nicki can race real fast.
Sigh.

I think I'm in love.

Mom says we can't go to see them cuz they're real far away, and she has some nonsense she calls a job to keep her busy.
I tried telling her I wouldn't leave her for Nicki - I mean, unless Nicki can open the fridge door to help me get the good stuff out.
Then all bets are off.

Ouch!

Man I love the sun.
Yesterday Mom and I were outside almost all day, diggin' stuff up, throwin' stuff around.
It was awesome.

Except for the part when she rubbed this white stinky stuff all over my back, and snout and ears. Yuck.

Then later after I had overseen some gardening, Mom and I went inside for a quick bath - and Mom started fussing over me, like I was dyin' or something. Saying I was all red on my back. Well duh, I'm a pink and red. What a goof

She kept telling me she should have put a shirt on me, that she didn't realize we'd been outside all that long, all sorts of nonsense.
The bath was nice and cool though, which felt really good. I got some yucky stuff called Calendula gel rubbed on me afterwards, didn't like that too much.

It all worked out though, apparently it was Feed Caillou Proper day, and I got all sorts of yummy stuff. That delicious green tripe, and chicken back, and yoghurt, my veggie cube AND apples. Man, I need to spend all day outside more often, it was delicious.

Aww poop.

In my kitchen, near the stairs down to Cat Land, there is a small section of wall, upon which is now hung a string of bells.
Mom and Dad get all excited ringing them before we go outside - I mean they go bonkers jingling them, and talking in high excited voices.

Whatever - I just wait for them to hurry up and get it out of their systems, so that we can go outside and play.

Mom gave me a big lecture this morning, before she took me out, involving the bells which she kept jingling. Goodness knows what the heck she was going on about, but jeeze louise did it take longer than it should have! I just wanted out to pee!
Good thing I had partially relieved myself on my bed minutes prior, otherwise I don't know how I'd have made it.

Don't get me wrong - I love my Mom and Dad but they are weirdos sometimes.

My Yard.

This morning when I dutifully woke up Mom and Dad, I got them up a bit earlier than usual, with good reason.
I could just smell it, something was different, better, this morning.

When Mom took me outside bleary eyed and stumbling, it didn't take more than a second for me to realize what it was - SUNSHINE AND WARMTH!

My zoomies were so enthusiastic this morning, even the squirrels had to stop and stare.
Mom said something about spring - whatever that means - either way I don't have to wear more than my one blue sweater when we go out in the morning now! Everything in my yard smells so good now, it's so hard to concentrate.

I even found new previously buried sticks in the leaf pile by the shed - BONUS!

I can't wait until lunch time when Mom lets me out again, there were so many more smells to investigate!