Mom made me write that Title. I would have said something that made more sense but mom says ’tis the season to acknowledge that we have a new President. I guess we’re a few days late with this post since the inauguration was last Tuesday … but mom says the new President will be in office for the next four years so I guess we’re not too late to say “Welcome” to President Obama.

Mom says she’s glad the inauguration is over because someone needs to get back to the business of running the country … so far she’s a little concerned (she calls it “bewildered”) about some of the appointments the new President has made to his cabinet but she thinks the new Treasury Secretary will be very understanding when people make mistakes in their taxes or forget to pay their taxes. She says he didn’t pay $34,000 in taxes that were due a long time ago and he only paid them now because he wants to be Treasury Secretary so we shouldn’t have to worry about the IRS being mean to us now when we neglect to pay our taxes.  I don’t know anything about any of that except that if it means more money for chicken sticks, the new administration will be a good thing!

Guess what?? The other night Mattie almost caught a silly little rabbit in our patio! It was so exciting and she would have caught it and we could have torn it apart if that mean mom hadn’t grabbed her and made her come in the house just when she almost had the silly rabbit in her teeth! Mom didn’t even know there was a silly rabbit outside but Pouncer, Mattie, and I went running to the patio window because WE saw the silly rabbit … when mom opened the patio door to try to see what we were looking at … Mattie jumped out into the deep snow and began chasing that silly rabbit around and around. She was barking and I was barking and I wanted to go out and chase the silly rabbit too, but the snow was too deep for me … I hate snow! The silly rabbit couldn’t find a way out of the patio fence because of the deep snow so Mattie was just about to grab it in her mouth and I know she would have brought it into the house for me so we could tear it apart! But then mom ran out in the snow — with just her slippers, that was so funny! — and stopped Mattie from getting the silly rabbit! I couldn’t believe it! That was our ONE chance this whole winter to catch a silly rabbit and mom wouldn’t let us … I was SO MAD! Mom tried to explain to us that she doesn’t want to see any animal get hurt or die but it still didn’t make any sense to me … Doxies are supposed to catch little varmints and tear them apart! it’s like our JOB! The best part though — except for the part where mom ran out in the deep snow with just her little slippers on and her feet got really really cold and wet (THAT was the best part!) — was that Mattie and I each got a chicken stick to make us feel better about not getting to eat that silly rabbit.

That’s the most exciting thing that’s happened to us so far since it started to snow. I hope we’ll be able to get outside pretty soon and run around in the green grass and lay in the sunshine. This summer Mattie and I are going to find a way to catch a silly squirrel or a silly rabbit when mom isn’t watching! It’s going to be so much fun!

Right now it’s going to be fun to get a chicken stick! Bark at y’all soon.

Hey Mutchy, say hi to Lolers for us!

Mom just told me today that it’s been over a week (in human time) since I barked in my blark! I can’t even believe it. I think I’ve got the same winter disorder that mon does … she says she just wants to stop thinking in the winter, ( I think she still keeps thinking about when her next nap will be)  BOL!  Since I’m a Doxie I always take a lot of naps anyway so maybe mom just thinks she wants to be a Doxie in the winter … she’d just better not think she’s going to take MY Doxie job. I’m very very good at what I do — which is running the household — and mom would be a complete disaster at THAT!

So I guess that’s why I haven’t barked lately. I’ve settled into the winter syndrome of not doing anything until spring comes again … but I know my barking buddies want me to bark more often so I’m just going to have to make mom sit down and let me bark!

Mom’s been busy (well, that’s what she calls it, I think she’s just screwing around) with a new toy she got herself for Christmas. She calls it a DVDirect and it’s supposed to make putting pictures and movies from her camera on DVDs very easy … of course she didn’t really get it for that purpose. She really wanted it so she could copy all the movies she has recorded on the DVR to DVD. Well, that worked beautifully the first day she did it and she got some movies copied. The next weekend she started to copy more movies and then she could no longer copy movies from the DVR to a DVD …. she was distraught. She tried doing it many different ways but it didn’t work. I think the incredibly intelligent satellite people got some kind of signal that she was recording movies and they made her stop it! Mom even tried recording the movies from the DVR to a VHS tape (I don’t even know what those things are!) and then she was going to record it from the VHS tape to a DVD. THAT DIDN’T WORK EITHER!!! She could record the movie onto the tape but when she plays the tape, the images are all “scrambled” (apparently that’s an official word for all wiggly and jiggly). So mom gave up trying to record movies and is just going to use the DVDirect for camera purposes. Good thinking, mom … too bad it took you almost a whole month to figure that one out!  ROFBMAO!

It’s still too cold to go outside and play and almost too cold to go out and pee. Mom let me out last week and then turned away from the door for a moment and I finished peeing much more quickly than she thought I would, so I was waiting by the door when she came back to let me in … I was SO cold I could hardly even walk into the house so I just walked in a few steps and then sat down. Mom instantly picked me up and wrapped me in a blanket and I stayed on her lap the rest of the night … she told me over and over how sorry she was that she didn’t stay right at the door to watch for me. I know I wasn’t out there a minute but with my little legs and my bare tummy, it doesn’t take long for me to feel like I’m freezing.

It’s almost dinner time and mom’s making a special dinner I think. She is going to make some baked potatoes and crab stuffed flounder! Pouncer, Mattie, & I love it when she makes seafood because we all get little bites. I even like the baked potato but mom doesn’t let us have a lot of human food because Mattie has a sensitive tummy and mom says we should just be eating our doggie food … but we still sit and beg for little licks of mom’s food and we usually get a tiny taste. We luv our mom!

Going to go have dinner now and we’ll get a chicken stick for dessert I’m sure!  I’ll try to bark sooner next time!

That’s mom’s new greeting to everybody so I thought I’d say it to everybody too … There’s just nothing better in the whole world than peace, love, and wiener dogs so it’s starting to make perfect sense to me now!

Kismet

Everybody should have all the peace, love, and wiener dogs they could ever want in their lives! A few years ago, my mom wouldn’t have understood that part about wiener dogs at all since she’d never had a wiener dog in her life before so she didn’t even know how wondermus we are … since I rescued her though she figured it out and now she’ll never be without a wiener dog (me!) in her life ever again!

I told mom that I think it’s about time she puts a picture of me in my blark again. I don’t want anyone to ever forget how lovely I am and this picture shows off my profile to perfection.  If you look closely you can even see that I’m smiling a little bit because I am so happy to be living with my mom and never having to worry about being lost or cold or hungry ever again.  I remember being lost for a long time (about a week in human time – which is seven weeks in dog time — the puppy doctor said) so I’m grateful every day for a warm place to sleep (my mom’s bed) and lots of food and squeaky toys and my stepsister Mattie and even my alleged “cousin”, Pouncer. The thing I’m most greatful for though (besides my mom) are — you guessed it — CHICKEN STICKS! I just luv those chewy treats and just thinking about them now makes me want one … mom says she thinks I’m addicted to them whatever that means …

I think I’m going to tell mom I’m all done barking tonight so she gets off the computer and maybe she’ll realize it’s close enough to bedtime so that I can have a chicken stick now and then when we run up to the bedroom we’ll tell her we need another one! If she doesn’t give me one now, I know how to get an extra chicken stick just about every night because I just don’t go out when mom says we need to go out before bedtime, and then when I’m done with my chicken stick, I go to the bedroom door and whine a little bit so mom gets up to let me out to pee … then when I come in, I run to where the chickens sticks are and stand there wagging my tail until mom gets us “just one more” before we go to sleep. It’s so fun to have mom trained the way we need her to be!

Mom says I should tell Mutchy she’s sorry she didn’t like the movie “A Simple Plan”. I understand why Mutchy didn’t like it because it is full of snow and cold weather and movies with snow and cold weather are no fun to watch. I hope that movie didn’t scare Lola.  I like to watch movies of dogs running on a beach and playing in parks with green grass and sunshine … I wonder why mom doesn’t have more movies like that. There must be something wrong with her taste in movies!

I’m going to bark Good Night now and start working my way up the stairs to the bedroom. I hope all my friends stay warm and let’s all just think SPRING so soon we’ll have green grass and sunshine!

I can’t believe it but winter is STILL here! I thought mom said that after Christmas and after New Year’s Day it would be spring. I’m don’t know how I could have misunderstood! I’m so tired of being cold when I go outside and we don’t get to go out and look for silly squirrels and silly rabbits and it’s just no fun in the house all the time!

When mom comes home from that icky job at night and after we have our lunch, I have so much energy I just want to play all night long! I make mom throw all my sqeaky toys over and over and over and over and over again so I can run and get them and bring them back! I love to play fetch and I’m really good at it too! I think I’m so good I should be on the Olympic Fetching Team! Once in awhile even Mattie will want to play and then mom has to pull on the little rope Mattie likes to play with and she has to throw my sqeaky toys for me at the same time!  Mom’s not very coordinated sometimes so Mattie and I have to bark out loud because she’s so funny trying to do two things at once!

Mattie and I are really happy that’s it’s Thursday today so mom will be home with us for three whole days in a row! Mom says she’s disappointed that her favorite show isn’t on tonight so while she’s watching some really really stupid reality show, I reminded mom of OUR New Year’s resolution to bark in my blark regularly and she said that was a good idea … but … how could it NOT be a good idea because I’m a DOXIE and all my ideas are good ideas … except when they’re BRILLIANT ideas!

Guess what? I’m having a BRILLIANT idea right now!  Chicken stick time! I’m pretty sure I’ve got mom convinced that I need one right now! I’ll bark again soon but right now I’m going to prepare myself for my yummy chicken stick!

Hey Mutchy, mom said she wants to send you a greeting. “Peace, love, and wiener dogs!” I don’t know what that means but if it’s got wiener dogs in it, it’s got to be good!

Ok, I know New Year’s Day is gone but I still want to wish everyone a very yappy, yappy, yappy new year! My lazy mom hasn’t taken time to listen to me when I said I wanted to bark in my blark but I finally got her to sit down tonight and let me bark!

First things first … my Christmas card count … I know everyone is dying to know the final tally. Well it’s much better than even my little Doxie ego could ever have imagined … ME 71 – Mom 18.  ROFBMAO! I told mom she needs to get a scrapbook or a photo album to put all the cards and pictures in … she thought I was joking at first but then I nipped her ankle and she realized I was serious! I want to save all those beautiful pictures and cards forever so when I feel sad or lonesome, I can just take my Book Of Cards and lay there and look at it to make me feel better. Of course, I’ll have a chicken stick to snack on while I’m looking at my book so life just couldn’t be any better …

Now let me tell you about our Christmas which we finally had on New Year’s Day … mom’s human daughter and her two human children came up for a few hours. I was so excited to see them that I peed on the stairs but nobody got mad at me so I was happy about that.  I didn’t mean to pee in the house but I sometimes can’t help it when I’m so happy to see my favorite humans (besides mom of course).  The best part was that my boyfriend Sooby Doo came along!  It was SO much fun to see him and show him all around my house. He was just as happy to see us too and we ran all over and he got to play with some of my toys. Scooby’s little stepbrother, Harley, came too … he’s even smaller than I am since he’s a Chihuahua … and he ran all around checking everything out too. Scooby found some old dingo bones under mom’s bed that Mattie and I had finished chewing on, and he brought them out and chewed on them like they were right out of the package! I couldn’t believe it! I didn’t know that you could keep chewing on them until they are all gone … maybe it’s because Mattie and I get new dingo bones just about every day so we don’t have to chew on the old ones!

Mom finally let us open our presents. We got a new bag of chicken sticks and a new bag of dingo bones and we each got new squeeky toys! Mom got me something she calls a Bobo because Lola’s mom Mutchy was telling mom how much Lola loves her Bobos (she’s got like a dozen of them or something) so mom got me one too. I haven’t played with the Bobo because I don’t know if I really like it … it’s so big and long and I can’t run around the house with it and make it squeek like I can my little toys. I got a squeeky toy that looks just like a silly squirrel so I’ve been playing with that a LOT! I luv my silly squirrel!

Mattie got a squeeky toy that looks like a silly rabbit but she hasn’t played with that much. Mattie doesn’t really play with squeeky toys like I do … I don’t think she ever learned to play with toys; sometimes she’ll play with mom by pulling on the end of a little rope but she usually just sits and watches me and mom play with the squirrel or the elephant or the big bear or the little bear. Sometimes I still play with my ‘roo although he doesn’t squeek anymore because I’ve  pretty much torn him up.  He used to be my favorite toy. Mom even got me another ‘roo that I called ‘roo2 but I never liked him as much as I liked my original ‘roo so ‘roo2 hasn’t been chewed up at all.

That’s it for tonight! My new year’s resolution is to make mom help me bark in my blark more regularly … I haven’t told mom yet because it’ll have to be HER new year’s resolution too … bark, bark, bark, I’m just so funny sometimes!

Gonna start begging for a chicken stick right now … maybe I’ll get an extra one before bedtime!