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!!!

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!

Little BoBo and Me

This is the latest picture mom took of me … My friend Lola sent me another present … A little BoBo!  (Thank Lola for me, Mutchy) I really like the little BoBo but of course my silly mom had to take the picture of me when I was SO BUSY chewing my Dingo Bone that I wasn’t really paying much attention to little BoBo right at the very moment. PLUS she caught me in mid-gnaw so my mouth looks very stoopid. Mom laughs at me but I don’t think she should even have put this picture in my blark! One of these days I’m going to take a picture of mom when she looks stoopid (how about right now, mom … you look pretty stoopid right now I think with flat hair and no makeup and just flopped on the couch … BOL!) and I’m going to put the picture in HER blog so everybody and their dog can laugh at HER for a change!

A little good news: We’ve actually been able to get out for little walks now and then so the days are much more fun now when mom’s home. We’ve been spotting some silly squirrels off in the distance but we haven’t gotten close enough to even chase one yet, let alone catching it and tearing it apart! We did see one run up a tree that was very near us today but by the time we got there the silly squirrel was all the way up in the tree and I swear I could hear it laughing at us! I hate that! But we know where he’s living now so the next time we get out there, we’ll know just where to look for that silly squirrel!

Ok, we’re off to bed and chicken stick land … hurry up, mom. I don’t want you to spend any more time on this post when you’ve got that stoopid picture of me in it!  I’m going to need to bark again real soon and make mom put some nice pictures of me on the blark … I’m Kismet and I’m NOT amused!

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!

Kismet & Bun Bun

Hi everybody! Can you even believe it? Mom took ANOTHER picture of me for my blark!  That’s two times in a row!  This is me with my new favorite toy, Bun Bun. I used to love ‘Roo best but he got so old and chewed up and he doesn’t even scream anymore when I bite his butt so he’s not nearly as much fun as he was when he was new. Bun Bun still screams really loud when I bite him just right. In this picture, I was pretending Bun Bun was my baby puppy and when mom was teasing me about taking my puppy away, I gave her “The Look”.  Mom usually gets the hint right away when I give her that special Doxie glare and leaves my Bun Bun alone!

Guess what else … It was 65 wonderful degrees today and mom took us out for a walk in the muddy mud after she got home from her icky job … that was so much fun! Mattie and I splashed through the mud puddles and ran around in the muddy wet grass … we ran around and sniffed everything in sight and somethings that weren’t in sight at all!  Sniffing the ground is just like reading the newspaper is to humans because we find out all the things that have been happening in our community during the winter!

We even saw some silly squirrels but they were too far away to chase. I scoped out their territory though so when it’s not so muddy, I’m going to make mom take us over there so I can catch one of those silly squirrels and tear it apart!

Mom showed me the new slide show Mutchy helped Lola make and it’s on Lola’s blog. I think it shows off Lola’s sassy side to perfection … everybody needs to go to Lola’s blog right now and watch the little slide show. It makes me proud to be a Doxie just like Lola!

Now I’m going to tell mom it’s time to go to bed because I want my chicken stick!

Ok, well this was just about the most disappointing day of my whole entire Doxie life … yesterday mom told me that today is Groundhog Day … so, what do YOU think that would mean?? I was sure it meant that mom was going to take me outside and help me find a silly groundhog and let me catch it and tear it apart! I could hardly sleep all night just thinking about how much FUN that was going to be. (In fact, I didn’t even get to sleep until about 3:30 this morning and then I didn’t get mom up at the usual 5:00 a.m. but I slept until almost 7 and mom was late to work … that was so funny!)

Anyway, when mom woke up she jumped up and went off to that icky job just like she always does on Monday. I couldn’t believe it! What was going on? Why didn’t I get to go outside and catch a silly groundhog?? Why would it even be called groundhog day if there isn’t a silly groundhog in sight??

So I moped around all day and felt really confused about why there wasn’t a silly groundhog anywhere for me to catch and tear apart! Tonight when mom came home I asked her why I wasn’t allowed to chase a silly groundhog today since it’s Groundhog DAY … mom laughed at me a little bit and then she took me in her lap and told me she was sorry for not explaining it better to me yesterday. She says Groundhog Day is a day that humans use as a barometer for trying to determine how long it will be before spring finally comes again.  Somebody somewhere in some other state called Pencilvainya I think she said, actual humans reach into an actual silly groundhog’s den and pull him out of the den. They do that while the silly groundhog is still sound asleep and not even thinking of waking up yet so I think that silly groundhog must be really, really MAD at those humans. Then they hold that silly groundhog up to the sun and see if any of the humans can see his shadow … well, DUH … of course if you hold something up to the sun, it’s going to cast a shadow! Even Doxies know that! So then when one of the humans comes to the conclusion that they can see the shadow, there’s a BIG announcement that there will be six more weeks of winter! Then everyone in the country goes into a deep depression because they’re so tired of winter and they all want spring to come tomorrow! (Here’s a little hint: On the calendar February 2 is ALWAYS exactly six weeks before spring begins so whether or not the silly groundhog sees his shadow, there will ALWAYS be six more weeks of winter. Humans can be so stoopid sometimes!) They’ve even got a name for the silly groundhog … Mr. Phil or something like that. Mom says there’s a human named Phil at work and she was going to ask him to go outside today to see if she could see HIS shadow and predict that it will be six more weeks before spring … but it was pretty sunny out today so she was pretty sure she’d see his shadow … plus he’s one of the really big bossy people so she thought maybe he wouldn’t even want to play her silly little game.

So after mom explained all that nonsense to me, I sort of understood that I wasn’t going to catch a silly groundhog today and tear it apart. I was still sort of sad but it’s just one of the silly things the humans do to amuse themselves in the winter so I guess it’s ok.

I did explain to mom in no uncertain terms that since I didn’t get to catch a silly groundhog and tear it apart today, she needs to give me an extra big chicken stick that i can grab up off the floor and then tear it apart! So she did … she doesn’t know it yet, but I’m going to get another one before I go to bed!

I’ll bark again soon. Mom says Lola’s updated her blog bark so we’re going to go read that now!

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!

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!

There ya’ go! That’s the count (as of today ’cause my lazy mom didn’t get yesterday’s mail yet) for the Christmas Card Challenge. Pretty darn good I think for a previously unknown little Doxie who had never in the History Of The World, (at least for the past 5 Christmases since I’ve been with my mom) received even ONE Christmas card. Now I have 61! Most of mom’s cards are from her coworkers and I don’t think they should even count since they’re pretty much forced to give her cards, whether or not they even really want to!

We haven’t been allowed to open our presents yet because mom wants to wait until we get together with her human daughter and her family. I’m not very happy about that but since I have so many cards to look at and count, I guess I can wait. Mom says we’ll either go to see her human daughter on Saturday (and then I’ll get to see my boyfriend, Scooby, too!) or they’ll come to see us on Sunday. I hope that Scooby gets to come along if they come to see us on Sunday … I don’t think Scooby’s ever seen where I live now and I know he wants to come with them!

I told mom I need to bark in my blark early today because mom is having snacks and I see she poured a glass of wine for herself … I know she’s just trying to forget that I got all those nice cards … so I thought I should make her help me with my blark before she gets too many of those wine glasses. ROFBMAO!

Mattie and Pouncer and I all got extra hugs and kisses this morning because it’s Christmas Day and Mattie and I each even got a WHOLE chicken stick for a treat when we got up. Mom has put some real chicken and other stuff in the slow cookery thingy for dinner so I’m sure we’ll get some chicken pieces later and maybe mom will even light candles and we’ll have a candlelight dinner!  She usually does that for my birthday (mom just made up a date for my birthday (July 2) since I rescued her and she doesn’t know when my birthday really is) or our anniversary (May 18) but I think she might do it tonight too for Christmas!

I’m gonna try to get mom to give us another chicken stick … sometimes now when I start to ask for one, Mattie — mom is trying to teach her to talk too — will manage to make a little sound and then mom gets so excited that Mattie is learning to talk that she junps up and gets us a chicken stick instantly! I like it when Mattie talks to mom!

If I get any more cards, I’ll be sure to update the final count in my next blark. I’m pretty sure I have more cards in the mailbox but mom just doesn’t want to get the mail because she knows I’ll get even more cards!

Hey Mutchy, mom says you’re a slacker and you’re not even going to be at work for at least the next week but I told her that I want to say hi to Lola anyway because it’s not Lola’s fault that you’re a slacker! So, hi Lola!