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!!!

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!

 Well, I don’t know if it even needs to be said … but I’m still FAAAAARRRRRR ahead in the Christmas Card challenge with my mom.

As of today, I have 40, that’s Four Zero, 4 0, Forty, For Tee, Fort ee … got it??  Mom, however, has received only Two, as in 2, To, Too, Tu, (as in “et tu brute’?” — mom’s been reading Shakespeare to me at night and that’s the only part I’ve remembered so far) … Anyway, I’m so far ahead mom will never ever catch up with me … I think it’s so funny I’ve just been ROFBMAO …

I hope my blaking buddies didn’t mind that I let Mattie bark in my blark last night. She doesn’t get much chance to talk (of course that’s certainly not because I’m talking all the time. I only talk when there’s something that needs to be said and is it MY fault that those occasions happen so frequently??).  She told me that she really enjoyed barking to all my friends and it looks like Lola already has said she will be friends with Mattie so Mattie is feeling really good about that.

So now we’re going to go pester mom for chicken sticks … I can’t wait until tomorrow when I’ll get even more cards and mom will get NONE because I’m pretty sure she only has two human friends so she’s gotten all the cards she’ll ever get!

This is Mattie barking tonight. Kismet said I could bark in her blark to say Merry Christmas to all of Kismet’s friends and I hope they’ll be my friends sometime too. So, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everybody!

I don’t talk as much as Kismet because I’m a Terrier and my personality is a lot different than a Doxie. I’m a lot more athletic because I’m not two doggies long and a half a dog high like Kismet is. I’ve got normal size legs and a normal size body so I can jump up on things and I can twirl around and walk on my hind legs … I twirl a lot when I know mom’s going to give me a treat! I don’t usually say anything to mom but I think she’s trying to get me to talk to her more because sometimes she tells me I have to say “please” before I get my treat. It’s hard to learn to talk when you’re as old as I am but if I even am able to make a little sound, mom gets so excited and tells me how good I’m doing and then we all run to the kitchen and I get my treat!

I’ve been living with my mom for less than two years but I’m really happy to be here. Kismet and Pouncer had already been living with mom for a long time but when she heard I needed a new home, she decided that I could live with them. It was real different at first being here because mom took me to somebody she calls a puppy doctor … I hadn’t been to see a puppy doctor for at least four years and I needed a lot of things done. I had to get all kinds of shots that hurt and then they put a little chip between my shoulders. Mom says that’s so I’ll be able to get home again if I ever get lost. I hope I never get lost, I don’t ever want to live anywhere else! The worst thing the puppy doctor had to do was to clean my teeth and I had to have a lot of teeth pulled out because they were rotting in my mouth. I guess the bad teeth gave me bad breath too because no one would get close to my face until they were pulled out. Now mom gives me hugs and kisses all the time and she never says I have bad breath!

After I’d been with mom about five months, we were going for a little walk by the lake and a big mean dog got loose from her dad and ran down the hill and tried to kill me. She just came down the hill so fast mom didn’t even see her coming and she rolled me over and was tearing me up before mom could get to her to pull her off of me. Then we rushed to the emergency puppy hospital and they gave me some medicine so I couldn’t feel the pain anymore, they took x-rays and that mean dog had torn up my insides so bad that my intestines had fallen and were just being held up by the skin of my belly.  The puppy doctors said they thought they could fix me so mom told them to do that. Of course, when they operated I was much more badly hurt than they had thought so they had a hard time repairing the damage. Some of my intestines had to be removed and then stitched back together. When I woke up I was in a cage with heat lamps and tubes everywhere and my body was stitched up and bandaged. I didn’t even know what happened but I was scared and everything hurt and they wouldn’t let me go home right away. I had to stay in the hospital for about four days and then mom took me home. Mom took a lot of time off from work for the next two weeks to take care of me. These pictures of me were taken shortly after I got home. When I look at them now, I can’t believe how bruised I was. But I know I was really sore for a long time and I didn’t even want anybody to touch me. In this picture to the right, I was trying to smile at mom and tell her that I was getting better and that things would be ok again soon. Once the stitches were out and the cone off my head I was as bouncy as ever … mom, however, says she was so emotionally drained she laid on the couch for two days! (Mom says I should tell everybody that if they click on the picture, it will get real big and you’ll see some of mom’s shot glass collection behind me. She says to be sure I say that it’s just a collection and she really doesn’t use all of them every day! … yeah right, mom, BOL)

After I had my initial puppy doctor work and got fixed up from being run over by that mean dog (mom calls me her $5000 dog … good thing she got me for free!) everything has been very good for me. I like my stepsister, Kismet, and I even like my cousin, Pouncer. I’m a lot like Kismet in some ways because I can’t wait to catch a silly squirrel or a silly rabbit and tear it apart. I guess we’ll have to wait for summer now because mom says all those silly squirrels and silly rabbits are sleeping because it’s winter. I’m also a lot like Kismet in that I LOVE chicken sticks … I think I’m going to tell mom that we need one right now … I’m not used to talking so much and I know mom’s going to give me a reward for barking in Kismet’s blark!

Kismet will be back soon with an update on the Christmas cards challenge she has with mom. I don’t want to give anything away … but Kismet is still waaaaaaay ahead! Shhhhh, don’t tell anyone I barked that!

We had a very busy weekend. Mom had to get some Christmas cards made so I could send them out to all my new friends! Mom was going to make the cards on her computer herself but then she decided she would just do it the easy way and made them on the Walgreen’s website. They were ready in an hour! I couldn’t believe it was so fast! Much faster than if mom had gone to the store to buy card stock paper and then she said she was almost out of colored inks and by the time she fumbled around trying to force creativity that just isn’t there (sorry, mom … I luv you but … well, you know) … we wouldn’t have even been started by tonight.

So I’ve got my cards … they have my picture on them and mom put Mattie’s picture on them too although mine is bigger and that’s the way it should be since I’m the Doxie in this house … and we addressed a bunch of them to my friends at Dogs With Blogs. Actually mom addressed them all since I’m not very good at holding a pen in my paws (no opposable thumbs, you know) and I just watched her and made sure she spelled all the names right. It was a fun afternoon! Not as much fun as catching and tearing apart a silly squirrel would be but fun for being inside.

Remember I said we were working on another project for my blark? Well, it’s not quite ready yet … actually I think it really is ready but mom says she needs to wait for an email from somebody before she can put it on my blark … I just think that’s so silly. I want to put it on my blark NOW! I’m almost in the mood to put my ears inside out again and tell mom what I really think … but since it’s so close to Christmas, I suppose I should just pretend to agree … I KNOW I’m going to get lots of presents this year and I don’t want to spoil that!

Mattie says she wants to bark in my blark sometime and I told her that she could. I’m pretty sure she won’t be as interesting as I am but mom says Mattie should have a chance to bark too. So, once again, since it’s close to Christmas ………..

Time to get mom ready for bed … sometimes it takes a while for her to realize that we’re right and it’s time to go to sleep. Mom can be so silly sometimes!

I’ll be blarking again soon! Oh yes, it’s chicken stick time too!

Mattie and Kismet

FINALLY … Mom’s got a picture of Mattie and me to put on my blark. It’s only about 4 months too late but I’ll get over it … I still don’t have a picture of me with my little coat but mom’s promised me that she’ll take a picture of me SOON with my little coat (and maybe even my little booties … but I hate my little booties so maybe I won’t let her do that.)

Anyway, this is my stepsister Mattie right after she moved into our house. She still wasn’t sure exactly what was going on I guess because she looks a little apprehensive but she’s a lot different now! (If you click on the picture, it’ll get real big so Mattie and I are almost life-sized! That’s just so cool!)

Notice how BIG I am in this picture and how photogenic I am. I’m certainly a Doxie Princess and I’m not afraid to let anyone know it!

Still no word on what’s happening with the CHICKEN STICK shortage. I think I’m going to have to write to the President of the United States and tell him that we need some of that bailout money to fund the CHICKEN STICK people so they get back on track and make more chickens so they can make more CHICKEN STICKS!  Mom gave us Turkey Jerky for our bedtime snack last night and she thought we wouldn’t notice but we did … we didn’t say anything last night but it better not happen again! I think there are some little pieces of chicken sticks left yet because we each got a half a stick this morning when mom went to her icky job so we were ok for a little while until we started to think about it and now we’re distraught again. It’s so hard being a little dog and not knowing what’s going on with the chicken sticks!

Just one more day before Thanksgiving! Maybe we’ll get some real turkey meat for a little treat! I just know mom will give us a few little bites … I can’t wait!

Mom was telling me tonight about one of her friends, Michael, who is very sick with throat cancer and is undergoing treatment for it. He still has lots of treatments left and he’s feeling pretty sick so mom is feeling sad for her friend. Mattie and I feel sad too when mom feels sad. I told mom to tell Michael that Pouncer, Mattie, and I want to meet him so he needs to get well so he can come over and see us sometime. Mom said she would tell him and she also said she told him about my blark so if he feels well enough, he can read it and know that we’re all thinking of him. So, if you’re reading this Michael, GET WELL!

This was a short weekend because mom had to work part of the day on Friday so we didn’t have as much time together as we usually do … we did get to go for a couple of walks even though it was sort of cold out and sometimes it was even snowing a little bit. Mattie likes snow but I hate it! My little legs aren’t tall enough to keep my tummy out of the cold grass so I get cold and wet real fast! But it was really funny this morning when mom took us for a walk … we were walking down a little hill and mom’s foot slipped on the wet grass and she fell down! It was so funny!  She even dropped Mattie’s leash and Mattie ran out on the road but when mom called her, she came right back. We were all really glad there were no cars on the street just then! Then we all just sat in the grass and laughed at our silly mom … finally mom untangled her legs (they weren’t even broken!) and we got down the hill and went back to the house. Mom was telling us about some guy on her caseload at work who was telling her a story about how some other guy attacked him (so he says but mom’s not so sure about that!) and when he was defending himself, the guy fell down a hill and was dead. So we’re really glad that didn’t happen to mom when she fell down the hill!

If anyone read my last blark about my wearing my ears inside out … I started to do it again a couple of times this weekend but mom won’t let me do that anymore. She says that’s just ‘ho-ish’ behavior and she won’t let me look like that. I don’t know exactly what that means but I guess if mom doesn’t want me to wear my ears like that I won’t do it … except during the day when she’s at that icky job and we’re home alone!! Bark, bark, bark … I think that’s just so funny! Mom doesn’t know what we do during the day so she can’t stop me!

Ok, I’m done blarking for tonight … everybody send good thoughts to mom’s friend, Michael … and I’m going to tell Mattie that she has to ask for a chicken stick!

Oops, forgot to say hi to Mutchy and Lola. I’m still waiting for Mutchy to let Lola do a blark like me!

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Mom says the weekend is almost over and she says I’m getting lazy again (I hate it when she says things like that because I am NOT lazy … I just get so exhausted from napping that I have take another nap!) and that I need to blark in my blark tonight. So blarking it is!

It was cold and wet so Mattie and I didn’t get to go for very many walks, but we did go out for short walk this afternoon … I’ve decided mom is sort of a wuss because she thought it was real cold but Mattie and I didn’t think it was so bad and we had our “zoomers” on but didn’t get to zoom around too long because mom said we had to go in. I don’t understand why she thought it was cold, she shouldn’t be as cold as Mattie and me because she’s taller so she’s closer to the sun than we are and we weren’t really cold at all. It just makes no sense to me.

Mom did watch a couple of movies this weekend; she finally watched the movie that Mutchy loaned her, “Office Space.” Mutchy told her it was one of the funniest movies ever and mom said it was okay but it wasn’t anything like “Very Bad Things” because there just wasn’t any mutilation or murder or burying bodies in the desert and then digging them up again or trying to drown someone in a toilet so it wasn’t quite as funny as “Very Bad Things”.  I thought it was a better movie because “Very Bad Things” scared me …

Mom was home with us all weekend except for a few hours on Saturday morning when she went out to breakfast with a “friend” … I really can’t believe mom has any human friends since she has Mattie and me to be her friends so I don’t know why she even has to go out on the weekends EVER! But she did go out and when she came home she told us that she’d had some wonderful things called “Mimosas”. I have no idea what they are but she didn’t bring Mattie and Pouncer and me any Mimosas so we were mad at her for a little while. But THEN she gave Mattie and me a chicken stick so we were all done being mad at our wonderful mom … bark, bark, bark. I just have to bark out loud sometimes when I bark something so funny …

Also this weekend, I made another new friend, Happy. Happy has a blog too and I told mom to put a link to Happy’s blog on my blark. I LOVE making new friends!

Ok, we’re off to chicken stick dreamland. First we have to get a real chicken stick though … Mattie and I are starting to give mom the “stare” so she’ll get the hint.

Blarks to all my friends!

I’m blarking tonight and it’s really really dark. Mom tried to explain something to me about how the time changes and now it’s going to be really really dark really really early, but I don’t understand much about how time works so I didn’t know what she was talking about. Mattie and I only have two things we understand about time … now and never. When mom’s home, the time is all about now and when she’s not home it’s never. We like the now part of time much better than the never time.

Anyway, that’s why it’s so dark already tonight and I’m almost ready for bed even though it’s still early (mom says.)

This weekend wasn’t very much fun. Mom was sick on Friday and Saturday. This isn’t ALL bad since we got to lay around on the bed with mom for two whole days, but we didn’t get to go outside at all for our afternoon walk on Saturday. We did have a little walk in the morning but in the afternoon when it was time to go out and we were sitting up and looking at mom expectantly … mom kept saying something about not being able to take us for a walk. At first I thought she was just teasing us but then it got dark and mom didn’t get out of bed so we finally gave up and laid down.  I even used my most pleading Doxie voice to try to convince her we wanted to go outside for a walk really bad but mom just asked me not to beg and that we wouldn’t be going outside. It was very sad for us.

Mom and I didn’t even get to watch the very funny movie (as Mutchy says) that Mutchy loaned to mom last week. So I still don’t know if mom will think “Office Space” is funnier than “Very Bad Things” … I hope we get to watch it soon.

One good thing that happened this weekend is that I made a new friend! A miniature long-haired Doxie named Ruby read my blark and wrote a comment on it! I LOVE it when other Doxies write to me! Mom showed me Ruby’s blog and it’s very cool … it has videos of Ruby playing with other dogs and also playing by herself in the yard doing “crazy 8’s”. I sat on mom’s lap and watched the videos and got so excited at seeing the dogs playing, I started barking and trying to get into the computer to play with them! I told mom she has to put videos of Mattie and Pouncer and ME on my blark and she said she would. I hope she does because it looks like Ruby’s mom really put a lot of work into Ruby’s blog … LOTS more than mom has done for ME and I don’t like it! Mom put a link to Ruby’s blog onto my blark so everybody can see Ruby too … you have to promise to always read MY blark first though before you go to read Ruby’s even if hers is (temporarily) much more fun than mine!

I need to sign off now. I can almost taste the chicken stick aleady! I’m sure mom is going to want to go to bed early since she’s still not feeling well and she has to get up and go to the “icky job” tomorrow!

Caio For Naio! (I know that’s not German but I heard mom say that once so I thought I would say it too!)