I got mom’s attention again tonight and told her in no uncertain barks that she needs to let me start barking in my blark again … it’s been MONTHS … and that’s not in doggie time either, that’s in real human time so you can imagine how long it’s been for me in doggie time!

I’ve got lots of news to tell everybody about the things I did last summer and how much fun I had chasing those silly squirrels! Not it’s cold and snowy again and I don’t even like going outside. I went today to do my business and my little feet and tummy got so cold I could hardly get back in the house! Mom picked me up and wrapped me in a blanky until I was warm again. I HATE the snow and cold!

Last summer Mattie and me and our human sister Dede and mom went on our first road trip!  It was very exciting and mom said she couldn’t believe Mattie and me are such good little travelers! Actually the driving part was not exciting, it was just long. We went all the way to another state, I think mom said it’s called North Dakota and we went all the way to Bismarck! Mom stopped a couple of times along the way so Mattie and I could jump out of our crates and do our business and she would offer us a little water, and then we’d jump back in the crates and we’d start driving again. When we got to Bismarck we stayed at mom’s sister’s house and she has a nice big back yard that’s completely fenced so we didn’t have to be on leashes when we were outside! That was so cool! I really almost caught a silly squirrel the next morning because I wasn’t on that stooopid leash but that silly squirrel was still faster than I was and it ran right up a tree in front of me! I was always sure that I’d be able to catch a silly squirrel if I was free but those silly squirrels are a lot faster than I ever imagined! We only stayed in Bismarck for two nights and then we started home again … I was happy to be going home because I luv my home with Mattie and mom. But then mom stopped in a town called Jamestown and we met a lady there with a dog! He looked a little bit like my boyfriend Scooby Doo but he was a little taller and didn’t have so much black color. I couldn’t believe it when mom and Dede put him in the car with us! They told Mattie and me that his name was Boo Boo and he was going to have a new home in Minnesota because his mom in North Dakota didn’t want him anymore. Boo Boo told me that he is 10 years old and he’d been living with his North Dakota mom since he was a pup. I couldn’t understand why she would send him away … but Boo Boo said that last year around Christmas time his mom had given him to a shelter and he had been there about 2 months waiting for someone to adopt him. One day in February his mom had come back in to the shelter and saw that Boo Boo was still there. I guess she felt bad then for giving him away because she took him back! Boo Boo said that he was so sad about being given away that his face had turned so gray that his mom hardly even recognized him! So he lived with him mom again for awhile and then she decided to give him away again and my human sister Dede had just happened to see a picture of him and sent it to my mom. My mom has a coworker who was looking for a little dog, so she said she would take Boo Boo. So that’s why Boo Boo ended up in the car with us. When we got home, Boo Boo stayed with us for two nights and then went to his new home. Mom says Boo Boo has a very nice home with a mom who takes him to to vet when he needs to go, gets his nails trimmed every month, and buys him all kinds of new clothes for the winter. I’m glad Boo Boo has a nice home because I didn’t want him to stay with us … he tried to play with my toys and I can’t have that happening! EVER! BOL!!!  Boo Boo’s psycho North Dakota mom then changed her mind again and wanted him back! She was going to come all the way to Minnesota to get him even though she had no idea where he is. Mom said she told Dede that Boo Boo is very happy where he is and has a much better life now that he’s living with people who really love him so there’s no way that psycho lady is getting Boo Boo back just to give him away again in a few months!!

Hey, guess what … I haven’t barked in my blark for so long, I’m already getting tired! I need a little chicken stick for a bedtime snack now and then I’m going to tell mom it’s time for bed. (Yes, I’m still in control of this household and that’s just the way it’s always going to be!)

Happy New Year to all my friends and MY resolution is to make mom help me bark in my blark more often! Ok, chicken stick, ready or not, here I come!!!

Scary critter in the grass

This is the scariest thing I’ve EVER seen and I hope somebody can tell me what it is! You’ll never even believe where we saw this … right by the lake right by our house! I couldn’t even believe that something like this could live this close to me and I’ve never even seen it before. I don’t know what it is and I hope somebody who is reading this can tell me what it is and what its purpose is because from what I saw of it, it’s like totally useless!

Mom and Mattie and I were taking our usual walk down by the lake a few days ago and I was sniffing around the trees trying to find out where the silly squirrels were hiding and Mattie was looking for frogs in the weeds by the lake when suddenly Mattie started barking so loud! I didn’t pay much attention at first because that silly Mattie sometimes starts barking at just nothing … but this time she didn’t stop barking and she sounded very fierce. Mom was looking at the grass by the lake and then she told me to come over and look at what Mattie had found. At first I didn’t see anything and I got really close to it before I even saw it because it was just sitting there and it looked almost like a rock … then it moved its head a little bit and suddenly I saw it even had legs! I started barking and barking and I could feel the hair stand up on my back because I was so excited and I have to admit I was even a little scared! Mattie kept barking too and finally the rock-like thing started moving its legs even more and then it actually started to walk! That made me get really scared and I turned around and ran the other way! Mom was laughing at me and she said she thought I was a lot braver than that … but I was just so scared, MOM! You shouldn’t laugh at me when I’m scared of something! The rock started crawling towards the weeds and suddenly it was gone! Mattie kept wanting to run after it but mom wouldn’t let her get too close to it … (so I’m sure I was right to be scared if mom wouldn’t even let Mattie get up to it) … then I started sniffing the grass where the rock had been sitting and it smelled like nothing I had ever smelled before. I don’t know what that was!  I was still feeling real scared so everytime a leaf or a blade of grass would move, I would just about jump out of my skin … of course that made mom laugh at me even more.  (Big meanie mom)  Mom teased me all night about that walking rock thing and even tonight when I asked her to write in my blark to see if anyone knows what that thing was, she laughed at me again!

So if anybody, human or dog, knows what that critter is, please let me know. I want to look it up in Wikipedia and find out what to do next time I see something like that crawling around in the grass. 

(bow) Wow, I just got all worked up again just thinking about that experience, so I’m pretty sure I need a chicken stick to calm my nerves … hurry up, mom, it’s not good for Doxies to have a nervous breakdown!

Actually our anniversary was way back on May 18th but that lazy mom just didn’t listen to me at all when I told her I wanted to blark about that lucky day in her life … that day when she found me in the parking gargage in the apartment bulding where she lived at the time. (Actually, the way it really happened was that I found HER but she still is saying it the wrong way around… ) I don’t know when mom turned into such a slug that she doesn’t take the time to let me bark in my blark any more … I had to get really serious with her tonight and tell her that I NEED to bark and I need to bark NOW!

I was really proud of mom though on our anniversary day … she took treats to work and some pictures of me and she even wrote a little poem about how much she loves me … I’m going to share all the pictures and the poem with my friends here too so everyone gets to enjoy our special day (even if it is almost two weeks too late) …

And this is the poem mom wrote for me:

It’s Kismet

If you had said five years ago that I would love again, I’d have said you are mistaken, I’ve loved all I can stand.

Though I found her lost and frightened and saved her from the streets, now looking back I realize, it’s she who rescued me.

So here we are together, she’s next to me each night. She slips beneath the blankets and curls up by my side.

As I think how much I love her, and what a good friend she has been … I feel her move beside me, and then she licks my hand.

So that’s the little poem mom wrote for me … I really like it and I wish I could write a poem for HER too because I really do love my mom even if she makes me mad sometimes when she doesn’t always listen to me when I try to tell her something important (like barking in my blark!).

Mom promised me she’d do better from now on and let me bark more often. She’s been doing pretty good on the chicken stick supply lately so I can’t get too mad at her … BOL!

Speaking of chicken sticks … I’m ready to have one right now since I had to bark so much … hurry up, mom. I’m wasting away here … I need a chicken stick to keep my strength up!

I cannot even believe what happened today … mom went to her human daughter’s house and left Mattie and me at home! I’m distraught! She didn’t even tell us she was going although right before she left she looked at us and asked us if we wanted to go with her or if we wanted to stay home and take naps in her bed … I remember I Iifted up my ears a little bit and looked at her and waited for her to tell us where she was going but she didn’t even say the word “Scooby” … if she had I would have run down the stairs so fast and been waiting at the door to get in the car and go with her! She just looked out the window at the torrential downpout and then said she thought we’d be happier just staying home because it was so rainy and muddy out there. She was gone a few hours — which is like a day in dog time — and when she came back I could smell Scooby and Harley everywhere! Mom took some pictures of Scooby and Harley and I told her that she had to put them on my blark so at least I could see them again and I wanted everybody else to see them too .. so here they are:

Looks like mom only got one picture of my boyfriend Scooby, the Min Pin, and lots of pictures of his little brother, Harly the Chihuahua … wassup with that??  Oh, and then she had to take a picture of one of those stoopid cats that live in the house with my boyfriend.

Mom says this stoopid cat’s name is Sprout and he’s a Himalayan cat. Well geez, mom I could have figured THAT out by myself … just look at this picture, anyone can see that him alayin’ … Sometimes I don’t think mom realizes how smart I really am!

So obviously mom had lots of fun without us today but when she got home she said she was glad we didn’t come along because it was so cold and rainy that we wouldn’t have had any fun anyway … she says we’ll all go down to the farm again when it’s warm and sunny outside. She didn’t even walk through the mud to see her horse Allee today or the little mini donkey Joker because it was so rainy, so we know she’ll go down again sometime soon.  Mom can only go so many days without getting her fix of horse smells — which includes horse poop smells! Yum …

So now it’s almost bedtime and you all know what that means … chicken sticks!  In about ten minutes I’m going to be chowing down so it’s Roger and Out! Kismet has left the blark!

OMD you guys, I just have to tell you what a fun time Mattie and I had last Friday night!

Actually Friday didn’t really start out to be so much fun since it was the day for our annual visit to the Puppy Doctor.  Mattie and I had to have our blood test for Heartworm and then mom told them to give us something new called “Bordatella” which they put right up our nostils. I always stand real still when we go to the Puppy Doctor because I’ve figured out that the more quiet I am, the quicker they’ll let me go back to lay in mom’s arms so I was just as good as I could be but Mattie hates everything about the Puppy Doctor and she was real wiggly as always.  But we finally got done and then we went home and took real long naps because we were so tired from being poked and prodded … we had no idea of the fun time mom had planned for us that night!

Mom took us for a little walk in the afternoon and she was telling us that we going to “go see Lola” … I didn’t know who Lola was but I knew we were going somewhere fun so I did my business real fast and led the way back to the house. Mattie hasn’t quite figured out that when mom says “go see …. ” that something fun is going to happen so she took a little longer but when we got back to the house, mom put the crates in the car and told us to jump in. I thought maybe we were going to see my boyfriend Scooby but mom hadn’t said “Scooby” so I didn’t really know where we were headed. We drove off in a different direction than we usually do so I was sitting in my crate and I kept asking mom where we were going … she just kept telling me that we’d be there soon. When we stopped, I didn’t know where we were but mom let us out of the car and there I saw Lola for the first time! She looks a lot like me except she’s black and tan but she’s really cute just like me so I liked her right away. Mattie liked her too and we were all friends right then! Then we got to go into Lola’s house and Mattie and I ran all around looking at her toys and we got to see where Lola sleeps and everything. Lola has a very nice house and Mattie & I liked visiting her. Lola’s mom and dad, Mutchy and Mr Mutchy, were really nice to us and let us jump on the furniture and look out the windows and I even had to bark a little bit now and then. Then mom gave Lola, Mattie, and me each a chicken stick. I don’t think Lola has ever had a chicken stick before because she grabbed hers with all her teeth and tried to swallow it whole! Mutchy had to open her mouth and take the chicken stick out and cut it into little pieces so Lola wouldn’t choke on it. I’ve never seen anybody eat a chicken stick like that! Even Scooby at least chews it up a little bit before he swallows it … I think Mutchy needs to get Lola chicken sticks all the time now so she’s learns how to eat them!

Then mom moved our crates into the Mutchmobile and we all went for another ride with Mr Mutchy driving. When we stopped this time, we were at a place called Scoopy Poo’s Dog Haus and as soon as I got out of the Mutchmobile, I could tell there were lots of dogs there and I started barking and barking. We went into the Dog Haus and there were other little dogs running around and playing with each other! I’d never seen so many other dogs in one place before! There was even a real BIG dog — mom said it was a Burmese Mountain Dog — and he was just hanging out with the little dogs and having fun with us. Mom took our leashes off and we checked out all the other dog butts and they did the same with us. Mattie and I were in total Meet ‘n Greet mode so we went all over and met everybody … once in awhile I had to let one or the other of the dogs know who was really in charge of the room (that would be ME) but once I got them to move a step or two away from me I turned around with my little smug smile and went off to check out some other doggies. Lola was a little shy and stayed close to Mutchy but once in awhile she came out for a little bit to see what was going on too.  Mom and Mutchy and Mr Mutchy sat in chairs and watched us play and even had a beer so they were having fun too!

Then Mattie and I went to the photography room and a nice lady was there taking pictures of us. I didn’t like standing where she wanted me to stand and Mattie was so wiggly as usual that we weren’t quite as cooperative as mom had hoped we would be for the picture taking. But the nice lady took a few pictures of us and then we went back into the playroom for a little while.  Then mom put our leashes back on and we ran back to the Mutchmobile and got back in our crates for the ride back to Lola’s house. We were really tired and slept most of the way although once in awhile I thought I should be riding on mom’s lap instead of in the crate and I told her so!

We were really happy to get back to our own house that night because we’d had such a big day! We went right to sleep after mom went to bed and didn’t even ask for a Dingo Bone that night. (We still got our usual bedtime chicken stick of course because some things are just too important to forget!) We were even still tired the next day and mom laughed at us because we were sleeping so much!

Mom told us that the pictures that the nice lady took of us are on line now and mom says that ALL of Lola’s pictures look beautiful but there is only one or two of me that she likes and she says there’s one of Mattie who is laughing right at the camera with her eyes closed that is real funny. If she buys any of the pictures I’m going to make her put them on this blark so everyone can see them!

So that was our exciting weekend … I hope we get to go to more playdays with other little dogs sometime and I hope we get to see Lola lots more times too!

Now it’s bedtime and chicken stick time! Everyone have a great week!

These are the pictures of me with my Funny Bone. Mom’s friend Mutchy (Lola’s mom) said Lola wanted to give me a present so she decided to give me her Funny Bone. I love it! It’s just my size and it screams when I bite it … I love screaming toys! I played it with on the couch all night when mom gave it to me. I especially liked the scent because it was like Lola was right here with me! I’ve never met Lola but I know I’ll recognize her now when I see her because I have her scent memorized! So thanks for the great present Lola! Mom asked me if I wanted to give Lola a present so I told mom to give Lola that Big BoBo I got for Christmas. It was SO BIG that I didn’t see how I could even play with it … I guess mom thought I was a Great Dane or a Mastiff or something when she bought that huge BoBo. I should never let mom go shopping at PetCo by herself because she obviously doesn’t know how to buy toys that I would play with! I hope Lola can play with the BoBo … mom says she thinks Lola likes bigger toys that she can drag around so this would be perfect for her. I like little toys that I can hold in my mouth and carry around because I like to pretend they’re my puppies and I’m taking care of them like a good mommy.

We’re so happy that the weather is a little nicer now and maybe that icky winter has ended. We’ve been getting out for little walks this weekend and we luv our walks! We haven’t seen many silly squirrels or silly rabbits yet but pretty soon they’ll be everywhere!

So everybody think spring! And chicken sticks! I promise not to step in any mud puddles today mom if you give me a chicken stick right now! I’ve been a good girl all morning so I know I deserve an extra chicken stick today!

I know you’ve all been wondering why I haven’t barked lately and I’m gonna tell you … it’s because my lazy mom wouldn’t take some new pictues of me. I told her I WAS NOT going to bark in my blark until she took some pictures and I stuck to my Doxie guns. So tonight she got the camera — oh, big deal, mom, it was on the table right next to the couch — and took a couple of pictures of me and even took some of Mattie too.

This is my elegant profile

So this is my favorite one … it shows off my profile to perfection. You can see I was trying to look very poised and sophisticated here and of course that’s exactly how it turned out. I even have a little smile on my Doxie lips because I knew I looked so totally fine … or “fly” as the contemporary saying goes. I’m a Doxie that looks very “fly”. I’m so glad mom got this great shot of me because a few minutes later, when I’d relaxed a little bit and didn’t think she was going to be taking any more pictures — I mean, really, she doesn’t take pictures for three months and then she can’t put the camera away? How could I know she was going to take a few candid shots too — she took some pictures of me that I’m not totally in love with … I think she could have at least warned me that she still had the camera in her hands.

My ho-dog pose

I was thinking I deserved a tummy rub after that great picture she took of me and just as I was getting into prime position for the impending rub-fest, FLASH, there was another picture being taken. I was so unhappy that I almost didn’t let mom rub my tummy after that but then I regained my senses … I mean, I need every tummy rub I can get so I couldn’t let one get away.  Mom laughs at this picture of me and says I look like a ‘ho dog … I don’t know what that even means but I’m sure it’s a great compliment because I AM a Doxie after all … I still think Mutchy’s picture of Lola with her nose in the flower was a lot nicer than the pictures mom took of me but I guess I should just be happy I finally have some new pictures. One of these days when mom’s at her icky job I’m going to call Mutchy myself and tell her I want HER to take some pictures of me.  That’ll show my silly mom!

Mattie & the Ghost Dogs

This is one of the pictures of Mattie that mom took tonight. Mom said Mattie would feel bad if I didn’t let her have a picture in my blark too so I said it was okay. Mattie’s not nearly as cute as I am so I don’t mind if she has a picture in my blark now and then. Mom was really surprised when she saw the picture because it clearly shows the “ghost dogs” mom says are in our house … mom says she’s pretty sure this is conclusive proof that our house has dog spirits living here. She’s going to call the Ghost Dog Whisperer tomorrow and maybe the picture will be on the cover of the National Enquirer soon (because inquiring minds want to know) and we’ll all be very famous. Of course mom says we’ll never forget all the little people who helped us get where we will be soon … rich and famous. I’m going to make sure mom knows that all the credit for our impending fame and riches goes to ME because if I hadn’t insisted mom take pictures of me, she wouldn’t have gotten that once-in-a-lifetime shot of Mattie and the ghost dogs! Once again, it’s a Doxie victory!

So I’m pretty sure I’m owed at least TWO chicken sticks tonight … it’s going to be a very good night!

I feel so sad that this weekend is already over and mom says she’s getting herself mentally prepared to go to that icky job tomorrow. I like it best when mom just stays home with us all day! We didn’t even get to go outside at all … it was so cold and it snowed so we just had to stay in the house all the time. Mom looked out the window at night when it was snowing and she said it was “snowing like rain.” I don’t know what that means but I was really glad that I could just snuggle under the covers with Mattie and mom and stay warm.

Mom said I should tell my loyal fans (and I know I have a lot of them!) to check out the badge on the top left side of my blark … it’s a badge with a little video and a link to a rescue organization called “A Place To Bark.” This amazing lady from Tennessee is rescuing all kinds of dogs and cats from high-kill shelters and taking care of them until they can go to new homes.  Mom let me watch the video with her and I just about went crazy when I heard all the dogs barking and I could SEE them on the screen but I couldn’t get to them! I kept jumping at the screen and then running around to look behind the computer because I knew those noisy dogs were in the house somewhere, but I could never find them! But I was SO impressed with the video and the help these dogs are getting … you see, I was lost one time too for about a week and I didn’t have anyone to love me and take care of me so I know how sad those dogs and cats were before they were rescued.  I was really lucky that I was able to find and rescue my mom so now I’m always happy and warm and have lots to eat (including chicken sticks!), and I have my step sister Matter and my alleged cousin Pouncer. Some of the pups and kitties at A Place To Bark came from very abusive situations but they all love their new home and they especially love the kind lady who saved them just like I love my mom! There’s even a link so you can send a donation to A Place To Bark if you want to help.

Mom also showed me Lola’s new picture on her blog. Mom says Mutchy took the picture herself and when I saw it I was SO jealous! It’s a lovely picture and I’m sure Lola is so proud of how beautiful she looks. I don’t know why mom doesn’t take pictures of me more often … I can see her camera right now … just sitting on the table beside the couch all ready to go but no pictures being taken, wassup wit dat?? … I’m gonna tell mom that the next time I bark in my blark, she better have a new picture of me! If she doesn’t, I’m going to tell Lola to have Mutchy come and take pictures of me! That’ll teach that lazy mom!

I hope mom’s not so lazy that she forgets our chicken sticks tonight … but I’m not really too worried. Ever since Mattie came to live with us, she’s made it HER job to make sure mom remembers to bring chicken sticks up to bed. While I go up to bed and crawl under the covers, Mattie keeps an eye on mom and follows her around to make sure she doesn’t start up those steps without chicken sticks in hand!  Mattie likes having that job, it makes her feel good that she can do something to help the chicken stick cause, and she really likes it that mom always tells her “thank you” for reminding her to bring them.

Have a great week everyone! Hope you all have your own version of chicken sticks in your life … everyone should be as happy and Mattie and I are when we get those special treats!

Hey everybody, mom asked me to tell you about this wonderful lady she knows through Twitter named Bridget.  Mom had sent a picture of me to Bridget and she got two digital portraits of me back! I was definitely a proud Doxie that day! I asked mom to take pictures of the portraits so I could put them in my blark … of course the actual portraits look a lot better than the pictures but this gives you an idea how wondermus they are. Mom and I LUV them! Mom is going to get extra special frames and hang them right up in our actual house so everyone can see how extra special I am.  Mom says Bridget has a very special gift because she’s able to talk to animals in a special language and help them with their problems and help their moms and dads understand them better too. That sounds like something every pet mom or dad should do. I know there are times when I wish mom would understand me instantly! When I want an extra chicken stick it sometimes takes two or even three of my “special” barks to make her pay attention to me … I can’t even believe that mom isn’t always listening to me right away when I have something to say.

 You can read about “Pets Are Talking” by clicking on the link on this page; be sure to read about some of the animals with which Bridget has communicated. Mom read the one to me about Icky the cat and I was so amazed I couldn’t even believe my long ears. I think mom should take some of those lessons from Bridget so she could communicate with Mattie, Pouncer, and me ALL the time instead of just part of the time. Mom also has that spooky Arab mare named Allee that she really needs to communicate with … and mom’s daughter, my human sister Dede, has a horse named Pistol that was abused for a long time before he came to live with Dede and I’m sure Pistol has lots of things that he could tell Dede about his life and what he needs to feel safe and to trust people. So I think Bridget should just come to Minnesota and she could spend a lot of time talking to us and Allee and Pistol and all Dede’s other horses and dogs … that could almost be a full time job!

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my beautiful portraits and reading about mom’s friend Bridget. I’m so happy with my portraits that I don’t know if I’ll even need a chicken stick tonight  … I’m about as happy as I can be right now!  PSYCHE!!!!  i’m just kidding!!!!!  I ALWAYS need my chicken sticks and mom just better not forget it or I’ll tell Bridget about her!  ROFBMAO!!

I’m just SO excited today! I’ve seen LOTS of silly squirrels running around again! I can’t wait until it gets warm enough so we can go for walks and I can catch a silly squirrel and tear it apart! Mom showed me the first two squirrels this morning … they were just sitting on the patio fence as pretty as you please and didn’t even know I was just a few feet away in the house watching them!  Mom and I were sitting on the couch together and when mom saw them, she said to me, “Look, squirrels!”. She pointed out the patio window, and being the smart Doxie I am, I looked out the window to where she was pointing … and there they were! I jumped off the couch and ran to the window and Mattie followed me and we were barking at the silly squirrels. Then mom let us out of the house and we raced through the snow barking and growling but the silly squirrels jumped off the fence and ran away! They are such cowards! I can’t believe they won’t stand and fight! I know I’m going to catch a silly squirrel this summer and tear it apart and I can’t wait!

Mom is letting me bark in my blark while she’s watching a really stupid movie. I think she said it’s called One Missed Call and mom says it’s a lot more stupid than she ever imagined it would be. She said she wished she could record it to a DVD and give it to Mutchy so Mutchy could enjoy it too!  I think she’s just teasing me about Mutchy enjoying it … she’s told me that Mutchy sometimes thinks clowns will eat her when she goes to sleep so this movie would not be a good movie for Mutchy to watch! She would have nightmares for sure and would never ever sleep again!

Mom’s going to have to give me extra chicken sticks tonight  because this movie is even too scary for her and she’s going to want me to sleep really really close to her to protect her and keep her from having bad dreams. So I’ll do that but it’s gonna cost her … I think I’ll get at least THREE extra chickens sticks … and if the movie gets any more scary, I’ll get FOUR! I love movies that scare mom! I gotta go protect her right now because the movie is becoming more frightening by the second! I’m gonna get FIVE chicken sticks!

I’ll let you know next time how many I really got before the night was over!