Update On Mom

Thank you everybody for thinking about Mom and sending her good wishes. Surgery didn't go the way it was planned. Mom was a bunch sicker than everybody thought or that Mom was letting on. The doctor said she had to have been sick for at least 2 years, probably more. The 45 minute surgery ended up taking almost 2 hours AND she had to stay the night! I'm being really careful around her trying not to bump her, but her tummy smells funny and I keep trying to lick it. She's really really sore, but today is much better. She can't go back to work for awhile longer (WOOHOO!) and she still sits a lot. Now that I can get up on the couch, I let her scratch my ears to pass the time. I still can't get up in the bed for a morning snuggle though.
My AO4 training is really paying off, too. The house next door to us was finally sold and the new neighbors moved in the day Mom came home and so I have to get used to the new noises and new people. If I'm in the house and I hear a noise outside, I use my AO4 "woowooowooo" to warn everybody outside that this house is protected. Every time I do the "woowooowooo" Mom laughs and Dad asks why I'm doing that. Obviously they know nothing about home protection! Good thing I'm here!
The night Mom had to stay at the hospital, Dad stayed with her. Good thing, too because Mom had a really rough night. They gave her a BUNCH of liquids through her IV during surgery so she had to pee every hour all night long. The next morning Grandma came and let us out and Aunt Cassie came by at lucnh to let us out, but they wouldn't tell us anything about Mom. That's because Mom wasn't released until after lunch so they didn't know anything. That night and the next night, we locked Mom in the bedroom by herself so nobody would accidently bump her and hurt her. The first night was a little rough, but the next night she slept all night so then we all moved back in the bedroom and slept in our own beds. WOOOOHOOOOOOOOO! I can't wait until we get to do our morning snuggles again!
Mom can do almost everything on her own, but we still have to keep an eye on her and Dad has to help her out of bed in the morning. She can't bend over which means even though she's up walking around and feeling better she can't get the chewies out of the can. I'm going to have to remind Dad to get them out before he leaves for work if he goes to work tomorrow. Dad also won't let Mom take a shower if nobody is home. Mom understands, but she's still trying to get the tape residue and yellow iodine stuff on of her so she wants about 3 showers a day. (Another reason she's crazy! 3 baths in 1 day, I complain if I have 1 every 3 months!) Today she says her cuts itch really bad which means they're healing.
She goes back to the doctor next week so she can get released to go back to work. I think she likes being at home though. I know we really like having her home all day, although it does cut into our normal day of sleeping.
It sounds like she's waking up from her nap, so I better go check on her. Thanks again everybody and hopefully now that I've rested up and I don't have to keep such a close eye on her anymore, I'll get back to posting more. I'll try getting caught up on everybody's blogs now. I have almost a week to catch up on everybody though!!!

Don't Believe The Crazy Woman!

My Mom is telling everybody this crazy story that I have NO idea where she got it from! I think the pain and stress of the surgery are getting to her head!!!!
This morning she didn't go into work before her appointment at the hospital and so we slept in a little bit and well, her story is that I was laying on one side of her leg and my cat brother was laying on the other side on top of her leg and then her leg fell asleep so she moved her leg and then when she got out of bed Gunnar's head was on my neck and his arm was wrapped around me and we were cuddling! THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED!!!! I would never cuddle with him!!!! The real story was I was sleeping and after Mom moved her leg the evil Gunnar snuck up on me and tried strangling me! Mom just caught him before he got too far and then he did his stupid innocent kitty face which made it look like we were cuddling! That's the real story!!
I won't be posting for a couple of days. Hopefully Saturday or Sunday Mom will give me a break from taking care of her so I can post then. Dad said we don't have to do the liquid diet like Mom does. THANK DOGNESS!!!!! Mom made some Jello this weekend for her and I tried a little and it was good, but a dog can't live on that stuff! We need meat and cheese and peanut butter and treats and chewies and whatever else anybody can think of that is really yummy for dogs.
I'm going to go take another nap now. Aunt Cassie came over last night and played fetch with me for awhile. Mom's plan of wearing me out isn't working cuz I sleep all day when they're gone. (SEE! Told you she's crazy!) Mom washed the bed comforter so it makes a nice place to take a nap, especially since the airconditioner vent is blowing almost directly on the bottom of the bed. THAT's why Mom's feet are always cold!!!!!

My Weekend

This is my new toy!! Isn't it great? I love it!! It's so much fun! It's really not big enough to swim in like I do when I'm camping, but that's okay.















This one looks kind of bad because it looks like Dad is pushing me in, but we were wrestling so I gues he sort of was pushing me down. Anyway, Mom wanted me to show you the reason she wouldn't get in with me even though I really wanted her to. She said the water is nasty and this was way before the water grossed her out so much she had to change it.













Mom and Dad got it for both Sasha and I and Dad put her in and Sasha didn't like it so she got out and went and hid under a bush.













Mom got the annoying balls out that I love to squeek and squeek and squeek and squeek and squeek...... (bet you know why they're called the annoying balls now). I played with the red one (it's my favorite).

















Then I played with the blue ball. Mom said she's trying to wear me out so when she comes home from surgery on Thursday, I'll be too tired to be chaotic. It's working. Mom was in the house before I woke up at lunch. Mom kept asking me if I was getting tired of playing fetch all weekend. Of course not! Then she asked if I could be more annoying so I squeeked faster!











I'm glad Mom was only sick 1 day this weekend. I had to take care of her all day Saturday and then she played with me all day Sunday and Monday. I wish she didn't have to go back to work. I need to find Mom a job she can do at home. That way we still get toys and treats, but she's home to throw my ball and fill my pool!

Great Weekend!

Mom and Dad got me a new toy for outside and it's really really cool and I love it and Sasha doesn't like it so I get it all to myself and I love it and it's lots of fun and Mom got the annoying squeeky balls out to play with and I can take them outside to play with my new toy and bring them inside to annoy Mom and Dad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PHEW! This has been a really great weekend! Saturday wasn't so good because Mom was really sick. I took care of her all day though. She slept until 3:oo in the afternoon! That day was kind of boring, but the last 2 days have made up for it. I'll tell you about my new outside toy tomorrow! It's so much fun! I'd tell you about it today, but Mom is getting ready to go outside in a little bit and I don't have time to download the pictures from the camera and tell you about it! Be sure to check in tomorrow to see my really cool new outside toy! GOTTA GO!! MOM SAYS IT'S TIME TO GO OUTSIDE!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! (Better check in in the afternoon tomorrow for my new toy update. I think I'm going to have to sleep all morning to recover from this wonderful weekend! Mom and Dad need to take 3 day weekends more often!!!) Hope everybody else is having a great Memorial Weekend!!!

Tags

I've been tagged for 2 different things so I better get to work. First I want to tahnk everybody for their good wishes for my Mom. She says she doesn't have time to think about being nervous. She's planning a special event for her job for June 9th. I hope she feels better by then. She's put a lot of work into it already. She said she's going to have everything ready for it before next Wednesday just in case though. She has really been feeling bad the past few days so she's also looking forward to feeling better soon. I'm working on trying to rememebr to be not so hyper around her. I'm sure Dad will have to remind me a bunch of times.
Okay the first tag is from Luckie. I'm supposed to tell why I started blogging. I just looked to see when my first post was and I was really suprised! Tomorrow is my 1 year anniversary! I can't believe it's been a year already! I also noticed I went for a very long time without comments. Once I joined Dogs With Blogs.
My Mom has been doing a blog for awhile for her art stuff and the Wheelin' Nut stuff (Mom won't let me put links in until she updates stuff. When she finally has time to work on that I'll definately share them with you because they're really cool.) Mom found a few animal blogs and got addicted to reading them one is a cat! Max is a lot like my brother Gunnar. Then Mom found Roo and she looks EXACTLY like my sister Sasha. Mom would talk about these animal blogs and I thought I could do that! A year ago I was also in trouble quit a bit so I decided to find a way to distract myself from the doing bad stuff. The end of June, will be 2 years that Mom and Dad adopted me. A year ago I was still a little nervous that Mom and Dad might not keep me. I was thinking maybe that's what's supposed to happen. You live with one family for a year then move to a new one. Sasha and Gunnar both assured me that wasn't how it worked, but I really didn't trust them yet. Mom encouraged me to blog, too. She thought I was such a unique dog that I should share my adventures with everybody. I love meeting new dog friends (and their humans)and I also like finding out my parents aren't the only weird ones (even though my parents seem to be weirder than most). Blogging is a great way to get advice on different things and get support for different things.
I'm going to tag Dory, Marvin and Nanook.

Okay, now Dory (who is sort of my sister) has tagged me, too.
Here's the rules for it:
1. Each person tagged starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
2. The person tagged blogs about each of these facts and posts these rules.
3. At the end of the blog entry, list eight people to get tagged.
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’ve been tagged, and to read your blog.
Eight random facts/habits about me? Okay, here we go.
1. When we are camping I let myself in and out of the ten all by myself. I want to get up and have coffee with my buddy Chuck and Mom and Dad don't get up in time so I get out on my own and then at night after lots of running around on the trails and playing in the creeks I want to go to bed before them so I go to bed myself. I freaked Mom out when I did that last summer for the first time. She thought a monster was outside the tent running around and then she was worried I had run off that night. Silly Mom! I'd never do that!
2. Water is the one of the funnest things in the entire world, unless it's meant to clean. I will chase hose water jump in creeks and rivers, but as soon as I'm told to get in the bathtub or there's soap outside next to the hose, I suddenly have a large fear of water.
3. Mom says this is a really weird one. I love my choke chain. Mom isn't sure where I got it because she doesn't like them. It must have been a thing from my rescue place because anytime a dog was out of a pin they had to have a choke chain on. Anyway, I've never used it for it's purpose (thank goodness!)but after a bath I like to wait to dry before I get my collar put back on so Mom and Dad will put the chain on. I like it because it's more of a neckles. It makes me feel pretty. When someone pulls it out I get REALLY excited.
4. I LOVE Jeeps. Dad is a Jeep freak and I know that the Jeeps go fun places. Mom's car goes on the hunting trips, but the Jeeps go camping and places Mom's little Kia can't go.
5. I LOVE pheasant hunting and I'm really good at flushing birds, but I refuse to retrieve the bird. It's a dead bird! I've never seen a human put a dead bird (other than one that's been cooked) in their mouth!!
6. I was a military family dog before Mom and Dad got me from the rescue. In my first year I lived in Alabama, Colorado and one more state that I can't remember the name of right now. I have to say I like Colorado the best because that's where Mom and Dad are!
7. I have favorite colors. For all those humans that think dogs are colorblind - YOU'RE WRONG! My favorite colors are florecent orange and camo. Those 2 colors mean fun stuff!
8. This one is a little embarassing. I wrestle with my car brother and he puts me in head locks. Mom is trying to get a picture of him standing (he doesn't do that much) so you can see how huge he really is! I usually win our wrestling matches. The couple times I didn't win was because Mom hadn't clipped his claws in awhile (they're daggers!!).
PHEW! That was a lot of work. Now I have to tag 8!?!?!?! Okay let's go with Luckie, Fig, Girl Girl (this will be a gret way for us to learn more about you), Marvin, Flash and Peanut and Sherman, Penny and Lola.
Okay, that wore me out. Mom and dad are off this weekend so I hope we do something fun. Their wedding anniversary is June 4th and since Mom will be recovering from surgery maybe they'll do something REALLY fun this weekend that involves a Jeep and ME! Next week I won't be bloggin much because I'll be taking care of Mom, but I'll check in when I can. Have a GREAT weekend everybody!!! I'm going to go take a nap now. Tagging makes me really tired.

Being Good

I am trying really hard to be a good dog today. It's raining and gloomy and I get bored really easily when it's like this. I also have a thing for gloves. I always move Dad's gloves around the house if he leaves them laying around where I can reach. Today Mom had a pair of gloves on the coffee table and I moved them.I don't chew them, just move them. I don't know why and I always get in trouble for it. I had to spend some time in jail at lunch time and I thought Mom was going to make me stay in jail until she got home but she asked me if I was going to be a good girl and I did the thing where I sit and wag my tail really really fast on the floor and give her puppy eyes with my ears back. She can't resist that look (unless I did something REALLY bad like chewed up her favorite pen)! I'm going to go focus on being good again. I didn't get my lunch time treat and now I'm really hungry!

My Boyfriend

I have a boyfriend!! I told Flash yes! Some of you know Flash from his brother Peanut's blog. Flash gets Friday's to blog and I've noticed Peanut has let Flash blog a little more than just Friday's. Isn't he a nice brother? I've never had a boyfriend before. I'm a little nervous. Flash is very cute though and he likes to have fun so I think we'll be a good couple.
I helped Mom water her plants last night. She was talking to them again and she wasn't being as nice this time! She read somewhere to plant gardens in old tires to help them become big healthy plants. Well, the plants are still small and not much is happening and then this weekend on of the tomato plants died. This weekend Mom also saw big really healthy tomato plants at the store and so now she is going to go buy one of those plants to replace the dead one and so the other plants can see what they are supposed to look like. I'm totally positive my Mom has lost her marbles!
Mom and Dad had to make a bunch of phone calls last night, too. While Mom was talking to her grandma, she played fetch with me until the tennis ball had an accident. (Mom wants me to be sure to tell you that the accident was my teeth constantly putting pressure on the poor ball.) It looks like Mom's grandma isn't going to get to come to Colorado this summer because of gas prices. Mom's bummed, but she kind of knew it was going to happen. Hopefully we'll still be able to go visit Grandma Cheese this summer though.
Mom has to eat low fat foods for awhile because of her surgery and I don't like it. Everything is so plain and there's a bunch of vegetables. I hardly ever get a piece of food now at dinner time. It's really depressing! I want bacon and hamburger and icecream and lots of cheese! I heard Mom tell someone last night that she'll have to only have liquids for a little while. I sure hope Dad doesn't think a liquid diet will be good for all of us! Sasha and I eat our dogfood like we're supposed to, but we get bored with it so we get a treat of human food once in awhile. Right now, our dry dogfood is a treat!! I sure hope Mom gets better soon!

Boring Weekend

This weekend wasn't very exciting. I tried to show Mom that I can take care of the litterbox for her, but instead she yelled and scarred the crap out of me. Doesn't she know that sound echoes in a litter box so if your head is in the litterbox and someone yells "HEY! GET OUT OF THERE!" your heart skips about 4 beats? Mom and I tried to vacuum, but it was clogged. Mom said it was clogged with my hair, but I reminded her I'm not the only one that sheds in this house. Sasha doesn't, but Gunnar keeps up pretty good with me, but because most of his is white and grey and my hair is black I got blamed because it was mostly black. When Dad came home he fixed it and Mom vacuumed and I made sure the vacuum didn't attack her. I chase the vacuum and bark at it until it stops making noise. Mom says it's not helpful at all. She just doesn't appreciate good help! Later Mom washed some blankets that had been on the bed for the winter and when she took them out of the dryer, she put them on the couch and was going to fold them to put them away for the summer. She decided to wait unil tonight to put fold them because she was really tired so while they went to the surgeon earlier I made a nest so I could show Mom that she doesn't have to worry about trying to get comfy after her surgery, I'd take care of that. She laughed and said it was a very good nest, but she's putting the blankets away tonight anyway.
Dad mowed the weeds again last night. He said he knew it needed to be done when he saw Sasha lift her leg to go potty. Everybody, but Sasha thought that was funny. Dad said there's a lot of grass that's trying to push the weeds out in the front yard. Now we just have to figure out how to make the grass spread in the back yard so I can play in the grass.
It looks like Mom will have her surgery on May 31, that's next Thursday. Dad said the doctor told him that we have to do everything for Mom for a few days. I volunteered to wash dishes! Gunnar volunteered to sleep and eat for her and Sasha volunteered to whine for her. I think we have all the important things covered.
It looks like there's another rain storm coming in so I'm going to get off the computer. The wind is blowing stuff against the house and I need to make sure it's really not someone trying to break into the house.

Getting Stuff Done

First I have to tell you that that picture of Sasha with her ears trimmed is a bad picture. She wanted me to tell everybody that she isn't that fat, she was turning completley around to look at Mom so that's why it looks like she has no neck. Gunnar is that fat, though.
Mom decided since she never uses her blog, I can take over the blogger account. I just have to find the picture I want to use and my picture will show up in the comments like a bunch of you have! I'm so excited! I'm still letting her use my account for her blog, but it will be MY info now. WOOHOO!
Mom was talking to the plants last night. It was really embarassing! We had a really bad rain storm before she came home from work. There was pea-sized hail so Mom was really worried about her plants. She went out and the watermelon and cucumbers were okay because they're still really small. Her tomato plants didn't look so great though. She told them it would be okay and to stay strong. I went and hid under my shade bush. (Mom says she talks to her plants because she's never been able to keep plants alive so she's trying anything to get them to stay alive. It seems to be working on most of them. Some of the flowers and the strawberries obviously didn't like her talking to them though.) The plants were blown over. The plants are in sort of a protective area so the hail didn't beat them up, but the wind wasn't nice to them. This weekend we're going to do some stuff to the plants so snails and caterpillars leave them alone. Mom said it's an experiment so I think I'll hide under my bush again. I am going to help her with some house work though. She wants the floros clean before her surgery so she can walk around the house without shoes on and not get grossed out by the feeling on her feet. Sasha and I track in a lot of mud since we have no grass and then the floors get all yucky. Mom said she's going to make sure Gunnar's litterbox has all fresh litter in it so Dad doesn't have to clean that. I told Mom I'd take care of the litterbox for her, but she has to take down the babygate. Mom said no way. She said it grosses her out seeing the litter on my nose and it's bad enough Sasha has poop breathe, she doesn't need 2 dogs with poop breathe.
Dad is off today so he's been doing a bunch of stuff on the Big Jeep since he won't be able to work on it very much when Mom has her surgery. It sounds like he's coming in for a break, I better go see if he's ready for my help! Have a great weekend everybody!!!

Hilarious Story!!!

I have a really funny story for you, but first I need to tell all the dacshunds and Tadpole to not take offense. Tadpole just went through something similar to this recently so I don't this to make us not be friends anymore. Gunnar and I are the only ones laughing about this. Mom feels REALLY REALLY REALLY guilty and Dad is being nice. He thinks it's funny but he's not laughing in front of everybody because he doesn't want Mom to feel bad (especially before her surgery) and he doesn't want Sasha to start that poor puppy whine thing. So to all my dacshund friends and Tadpole, I'm sorry, but this is hilarious!!
Last night Mom and Dad decided we needed our ears cleaned and I needed my cortizone spray stuff for the itchies. Sasha is a longhaired Dacshund and when she gets groomed Mom doesn't let the Groomer do much to her ears or tail because Mom says those are Sasha's cutest pieces. BUT Sasha has to have her ears trimmed once in awhile because they fall in her food and the tips of her ears get yucky. Mom trimmed Sasha's ears last night, too. Here's what she looked like before:



This is the after picture!!! HER EARS ARE UNEVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hehehe I know, it's not nice to laugh at her, but I can't help it! I've been nice to her and gave her kisses last night after Mom noticed they were uneven, but it's still funny!!!!
Afterwards Mom asked Gunnar if he was ready for his turn and this is the look Mom got. She took that as a "No, don't touch me!"

Mom should be home for lunch pretty soon so I better go watch for her. Yesterday I didn't hear her until she walked in! She woke me up by opening the door! I feel so guilty if I'm not at the door ready to say "WELCOME HOME I LOVE YOU" to Mom when she comes home.

Nothing Going On

I don't have anything exciting to blog about today. It keeps raining so Mom and I haven't had to water the garden. She still goes out and talks to the plants though. She's weird. Do any of you have Mom's that go out to the garden and tell the plants to hurry up and get bigger and tell the plants how cute they are? There's one tomato plant that she keeps saying "you're such a cute and strong plant, you're doing such a good job growing" The cucumber plants aren't doing so good. Mom says they're jelous of the attention the tomatoes are getting. The watermelon plants are in the ground now and so far she hasn't killed them. The flowers in the front yard are doing pretty good, too. I don't hear her talk to them very much because I don't go in the front yard very much. If I go out the fron I'm usually jumping in a Jeep or going out to check on Dad's progress on the Big Jeep. I think Mom's given up on her strawberry plants. She said she thought it was weird that Strawberry plant could grow from just roots and since nothing is happening, she thinks she's going to give up on them until next year. She doesn't talk to the strawberries very much so maybe there is something to this plant talk stuff. I think she's still weird.
Mom and Dad are going to meet with the surgeon on Monday to get the details of the surgery and plan the date. Mom says she hopes it's soon. She's having the pain go into her back today.
I'm going to go take a nap now. Hopefully I'll have something a little more interesting to talk about tomorrow.

Tagging

I forgot to tag 3 more dogs yesterday! There's so much going on right now! I think most everybody has been tagged. I asked Sasha for some help figuring out who to tag so of course we have some dachies on our list. I'm tagging Copper, Hershey (if he has time, Mom says new babies take up a lot of time), Hana and of course we need a lab on the list so I'm adding a 4th tag, Ranger. Here's the instructions for all of you that I'm tagging. Here's what you do, find pictures of you with your tummy in the air and post it and then tag 3 others to share their photos.
I have to get offline now in case the doctor's office calls to leave Mom a message about her surgery. They should be scheduling it soon. She didn't feel good at all this morning. She thinks a little of it might be nerves though. I'm taking really good care of her. I'm also practicing not sitting on her in the bed and on the couch. I know after she has the surgery, I have to be really really careful not to bump her and hurt her. Hopefully we'll find out today when she goes in for surgery.

Belly Shot

Luckie tagged me for a belly shot. I didn't have any so Mom and I had to work on getting one this weekend. It's not a very good one because I'm very shy about other's seeing my belly. You can't see my belly, but I'm on my back so it will have to do.
I just read the terrible news about Fufu I'm going to miss him. He was so much fun! I'm sure his sister will do a great job taking over his blog.
My mom has to have surgery. She's getting her gallbladder out. I'm not sure what that is, but it must not be important if she can live without it. I'll be taking care of Mom for awhile so I won't be posting every day. I'll be sure to let you know she's okay though. She's nervous and excited. Nervous because it's surgery and excited because the pain will go away.
Mom and Dad will be home soon so I'm going to go wait to hear if they know when the surgery is.

It's Back!!

It's amazing! My outside toy reappeared in my yard last night!!! My stick is still missing but it's time for a new one anyway. Next time Mom and Dad go to Petsmart they'll get me a new one.
I'm really tired this morning because Sasha kept us up last night. I don't know what she was doing, but first she acted like she was going to throw up so Mom asked if she wanted to go outside. Usually Sasha hates going outside after dark so I went with her to make sure she was okay, but after a few minutes I was ready to go back inside but she wanted to sniff everything in the yard. That was really annoying. After we went back to bed, Sasha started going into the computer room and looking out the window and whining and going back and forth from the bedroom to the computer room. Mom finally told Sasha to go to bed and tucked her into her bed and she was ok, but that was about 3 am and that was also after 3 hours of her being a brat! Don't let her innocent look fool you!
Mom's stomache pain is finally bad enough she decided to go to the doctor! This is a first! She called the doctor to make an appointment because she doesn't feel good. She must be in a lot of pain! I think it's stress from work.
I'm going to go take a nap now. I've been waking Sasha up every so often to bug her because she interrupted my sleeping time last night!

Just Stuff

Nothing exciting is going on right now. Some of you asked about my Mom's artwork and as soon as she remembers where her cd's are, I'll post some of her stuff. She does lots of stuff. I'd tell you to go to her website, but she hasn't updated it in a long time so it kind of sucks.
There's still a bunch of treats and they're a little better today than they were on Sunday. Mom and Dad have been talking about how to improve the recipe so I'm excited about that. The problem is we have to get through these first and Mom made a double batch!
Mom was excited last night because I made a hole in the tip of my toy so it doesn't make a noise anymore. She says it's still weird that it smells like lemonade. It's too muddy since it's been raiing everynight to play outside so Mom and I have been spending a lot of time with my new toy. Tadpole asked where they got my new toy and they got it at Walmart. Our store is out of the pink ones but Mom is talking about getting a yellow one just to see if it smells like lemonade, too. Fine with me! That means I get more toys! I don't take toys outside anymore because the neighbors keep stealing them. My stick and my other toy are in their yard! Dad says he's sure I dropped it in the hole under the fence and that's how they got over there, but I don't remember doing that so I don't believe him, I believe they stole them.
I'm going to wait for Mom to get home now. Dad is working a really long day so I'll have to help Mom with yard stuff again tonight. Hopefully I'll have something more ecxiting tomorrow.

New Toy

Mom made the treats yesterday and I can't share the recipe with you because I don't want your moms to make something that disgusting for all of you. I like you all too much to do that! Mom said she'll play witht the recipe a little and she's sure she can make them better. I'm sure they can't get any worse!!! They were so bad I threw up!! I'm pretending that something else was bugging my tummy and that's why I puked all over the kitchen floor so Mom doesn't feel too bad about making something so disgusting. Sasha and I are eating them when Mom and Dad give them to us, but we never ask for one. We hope they go away soon so Mom will get us something good. She's really good at baking and making yummy stuff so we know this is rare and not completely her fault. YUCK!!
Since I don't have a yummy treat recipe for you, here's some pictures of me and my new toy. Mom says it was the best $2.97 they've ever spent. It's soooo much fun. It was supposed to be my new outside toy since I think someone stole my rubber stick and tennis balls, but it's so much fun it quickly became an inside toy. Here's a closeup picture of it. Although there's a lot less blue on one end now and there's a crack on the end with the missing blue.














Doesn't it look like a fun toy? Mom says it's hard to take pictures of me with it because it makes me zoom all over the house (or yard). Most of the pictures she took were really blurry or you could only see my tail. The squeeker in it wasn't working when Mom and Dad got it, but I can make it make a funny air noise that Mom says is WAY more annoying than a squeek. It's soooooo much fun!! Mom says it's really weird because it smells like lemonade. Mom says maybe that's to cover up my nasty breathe. Whatever, I don't care!! I'm going to go play with it somemore before Mom comes home to play with me. I'm going to get the taste of the toy in my mouth so hopefully when Mom gives me another treat, it won't taste so bad.

Cheese

Even though I didn't get to participate in the Dogs With Blogs Chat because my stupid computer chose that day not to work, I still participated in celebrating. Here are pictures of our cheese and Sparkling Cider (Mom said we can't have any drunk puppies so we didn't get wine).





Mom says it's really hard getting a piture of us eating cheese because it's gone so fast. Sasha joined me in the celebration but Mom says she inhales cheese so there aren't any pictures of Sasha.
There are a lot of people around my house right now. I don't like it, but Mom says this happens every year so I have to get used to it. This weekend is the Music and Blossom Festival. I guess a long time ago there were lots of orchards around here and they would celebrate when the blossoms started coming out and they have a big parade and craft shows and a rodeo and a 5k race and school band competitions and a carnival and I'm sure I'm missing something. Mom and Aunt Cassie are going to go to the craft shows and the parade tomorrow. Dad doesn't want to go so I'm going to help him work on the Jeep. Mom wants to start selling her artwork at the local craft and art shows (cuz there's a bunch during the summer) so her and Aunt Cassie are going to go look to get some ideas on displaying Mom's artwork and when Mom gets enough money saved up, she's going to sell her art at them.
I have pictures of me and my new toy and some other pictures of me playing with Dad that I'll post next week now that the pictures are working again. I have to go read all the other dog blogs so when Dad gets home I can go help him.
Have a great weekend everybody!

That Darn Mom!!!!

My Mom forgot about us yesterday! Mom or Dad usually come home at lunch and let us out and feed Gunnar around lunch time. Well, yesterday Dad met with a factory rep for his work and Mom had a lucky pot (she says I say it wrong, but I'm not trusting her right now). She was supposed to come home and let us out after and SHE FORGOT!!! Gunnar was bad that morning and didn't get breakfast so he was starving to death and drove Sasha and I crazy from whining so much. I tried to feed him myself, but I couldn't get the can open. So when Dad came home to rescue us after work we were doing the potty dance and Gunnar almost couldn't lift his head (I'm exacerating to be more dramatic, he coudl stand to miss a few more meals).
THEN Mom asked if I'd help her water the garden! Can you believe that she forgets about us then asks for help? Mom's a clutz. She's always banging her giant head on stuff and hitting her elbows and legs on stuff. Last night she stepped off the patio step and BOOM! she fell. It took her a long time to fall because she kept trying to catch herself. She stepped on the wiggly brick and then fell onto the smaller bricks. She's really sore today because she tried so hard to not fall. At first I was laughing and saying "HAHA that's what you get for fogetting us!" but I'm a worrier and so I had to go check on her and when she came home for lunch I didn't ask her to play fetch because I know her arms are really sore.
BUT I was going to share more pictures with you today and you know what she did? She left the card in the camera and you need those darn thumbs to get the camera card out of the camera! I'll make sure she remembers to take it out tomorrow. The pictures yesterday I think helped me because the Army of 4 posted their new members and I'm one!
Tonight I'm going to talk my Mom into finally making those yummy treats she found in a magazine for us. If they're yummy, I'll share the recipe with all of you so you can get someone to make them for you, too. I wonder if they're ok for cats to eat. Gunnar's birthday is Sunday and I could give him one of the treats as my gift. He probably won't eat it though (he's picky, but he sure doesn't look it!) and that way I could eat his!
I'm going to go watch the kids across the alley. Those brats drive me crazy. They lost their soccer ball by my fence the other night and I let them know they were not allowed near my fence. My Dad keeps talking about putting up a privacy fence and I wish he would hurry up cuz thos kids make my hair stand up.

I Want to Join The AO4

I'm going to try pictures today. Blogger is acting weird so hopefully it will work.
The storm last night didn't hit my town! We got a little rain after it got dark, but nothing compared to what was coming straight at us. My Dad was out at a shop in the next town over and he said it was BAD! He said that there was lots of hail and rain and wind and it was a mess! He took a picture on his cellphone and the hail looked like it was a snow blizzard. It didn't make it to our house though and after hearing Dad talk about it, I'm glad it didn't. I do okay with storms, but I prefer not to have to listen to them. Mom was glad it rained because then she didn't have to go out and water the garden. They haven't gotten the hoses ready for the summer so she has to take watering jugs of water out to water. She said once the plants start getting bigger she won't be able to do it anymore so the hoses will definately have to be out by then. Silly parents, if they would stop procrastinating, it would be easier!
The Army of 4 is recruiting new members and I told them I wanted to join. I'm not sure what I'd be good at, but I'm really good at cleaning guns. Here are some pictures of me helping Dad clean guns. Dad says I'm very helpful. Mom says she was trying to get me looking at Dad and the guns because I was really cute, but her camera has a funny flash so I kept looking at the camera. I'm confused. She didn't want me looking at the camera, but she's always trying to get me to look at the camera to get my picture taken. She needs to make up her mind!





If this works, there will be more pictures coming soon!

Very Bored

I have sooooo many pictures to show you, but Mom has to load them at work because the computer is still messed up and she's really far behind at work. She didn't even come home for lunch today! Dad had to take her lunch. Tomorrow she has a lucky pot thing at work again, but she said since Dad has to meet with some people at lunch, she'll come let us out for sometime.
Mom is doing better today. I curled up on the couch with her last night and cuddled even though it was too hot for cuddling. Dad cuddled with us, too. She's still a little sad, but nothing like yesterday. She said funerals always wear her out, that's why she only goes to funerals of people she knew really well and cared about a lot.
I told you yesterday that Mom doesn't get a long with a lot of her family. I've met Mom's mom a couple times and I really don't like her. When Mom's brother came over I let him know I didn't like him at all. I kept barking at him and my hair stood up even though Mom kept saying he was okay, I knew he wasn't. I knew that he wasn't a good person to my Mom so I had to make sure he knew not to mess with her. My Mom's mom seemed okay, but I still didn't like her very much either. Mom said that her mom hates labs because she thinks they're stupid dogs!!! Can you believe that? I'm really smart and so are a lot of labs I know!!! Anyway, my Mom and her grandma (her mom's mom) are reuniting this summer sort of and I can't wait! We're going to go visit Grandma Cheese and Aunt Cassie is going to try to come up for part of the week, but most of all I'm excited because my mom is going to reunite with family that her mom made mad years ago so she didn't hear from them much. Mom said she has 2 younger cousins that she's never met that she'll finally get to meet, too. Since Sasha and I are going, you know what that means? WE GET TO PLAY WITH THE KIDS, TOO!!!! The plans still aren't final, but I'm still excited about the trip, mostly for Mom. Dad's excited about meeting Mom's family for the first time, too.
There's a REALLY bad storm headed our way. They're saying to get away from the windows so I better go since the computer it right next to a huge window. Hopefully Mom will have pictures for me to share tomorrow.

Stupid Computer!

Mom and I tried really really hard to get on Friday night for the DWB pawty and it wouldn't let us connect to the internet! I was really mad! We decided to try again on Saturday and it still didn't work! Dad finally got it to work last night but it would only go to a few sites and it kick off after a few mintues. I did enjoy the cheese even though I couldn't enjoy it with the others. Mom spent so much time trying to get the computer to work that she didn't make our special treats!! She found a recipe in a magazine for dog treats and was going to make them this weekend and didn't have time. She said she'll try after work this week. I'm also going to have her upload my pictures at work to the internet because this computer is being very difficult! She won't be doing it today though. Dad took Mom to a funeral this morning. Mom is very sad. They came home after the funeral and then went back to work and Mom said she didn't want to go back. Mom doesn't get along with most of her family and she worked at a place for a long time and they became her family and it was one of those people that died.
On Saturday, Mom and I were outside. She was planting plants and I was playing and I lost my rubber stick. I have no idea where it went. Mom, Aunt Cassie and I looked for it for a long time. Dad thinks maybe the neighbors took it, but I don't know how. Anyway, Dad said next time they go to Petsmart, they'll get me a new one (the other one had a bunch of holes in it anyway). Mom said they'd get me a new outside toy when they went to the store and they did. I love it so much I brought it inside and now it's an inside toy. Mom said it's weird because it smells like lemonade. I take it outside and as long as it's not really dirty, Dad said I can bring it inside. It's really cool and as soon as I can get pictures to load, I'll post pictures of it.
I'm going to go take a nap now. When Mom gets home I have to help her water her garden and finish laundry. Dad is getting the Big Jeep finished and hopefully we can take it out for a test run on Sunday!!

Test Post

This is a test to make sure I can still post. I have pictures to share and can't get it to work. I might have to wait for Mom to help me.
Update: I'll try the pictures later. Blogger isn't cooperating with me right now. grrrr. I'm going to try to stop in for the party tomorrow as long as I don't have to spend all day helping Mom with her garden.

Home Again Chip

Mom wants me to ask all of you if any of you know about Home Again chips. I have one from my previous family. Mom and Dad have the chip number and they know it's a Home Again chip, but they aren't sure what to do now. Do any of you have a Home Again chip? If so, do you know how Mom and Dad would change the info to the chip and is there a cost and any other info you might have for them. I don't run off, but I travel to so many different places with Mom and Dad and there's sometimes I'm off my leash at those places and since I already have the chip, then Mom decided to look into making sure the chip info is in Mom and Dad's name. I've only run off once and it scarred the crap out of Mom really bad. They were doing construction across the street and she kept yelling for me. (That's when she realized Kaos was a silly name for a dog. All the construction workers kept looking at her funny.) I just ran down to the park for a quick roll in the grass. The gate in the bak yard was broke and I was going to come back before Mom even realized I was gone, but Mom realized I was gone before I could get back. She was out in the front yard and when I came back she looked like she was going to cry and she hugged me, then she yelled at me. I don't run off like that anymore. Mom yells really loud and her face gets all red and her eyes look like they're going to pop out when she gets mad from worrying about me. She said she was worried the construction workers were going to run over me with their trucks. I promised I wouldn't do it again, but Dad fixed the gate that night just to make sure.
If any of you have any advice for Mom and Dad, they would really appreciate it. Mom said she's sure she could find the info on the internet, but she doesn't have time any more to search the internet for stuff because of her job and I'm not very good at it (I'm still looking for info on the monsters).
This has been a really boring week. Mom bougt the cheese for the Dogs With Blogs party this weekend. I home I'll be able to get on to join the chat, but Dad is planning on doing the transmission in the Big Jeep and Mom and I will have to help him with some things. I'm going to try to go to the chat even if it's just for a few minutes. I CAN'T WAIT!

Vote For Thrawn!

Remember in yesterday's post I said the one dacshund was gone? He's back!!!! I'm soooo confused!! The ones across the alley haven't been outside for a couple days so I've taken a break from watching out for them.
If you haven't yet, be sure to go vote for photo of the month at Dogs With Blogs ! Thrawn is still my favorite. That picture makes me laugh sooooo hard! My mom is too slow to get pictures like this of me. Thrawn's Mom is very quick though. I can't stop laughing!
I'm going to go watch for Mom to get home for lunch now.

Neighbors

I love lots of people, but the people across the alley make my hair stand up straight!!!! I LOVE kids, but the kids across the alley make me want to bite someone! They broke up concrete in their backyard and then the stupid kids started throwing pieces of it at Sasha and I. Then they wonder why we always bark at them!!! Every month they have a new dog and then all of a sudden the dog is gone. Mom and Dad haven't seen them throw stuff at us, but they do, they better watch out! Mom isn't a mean lady until somone threatens her babies! If you want to see fire shoot out of Dad's ears and nose, be mean to us and you'll definately see lots of fire.
The neighbirs next door are getting rid of their dogs. It's sad, but at the same time they never pay with the dogs. The dacshund that played fetch is already gone. The dacshund that growls at everybody (including his family) and the annoying beagle are still there, but are going to leave soon. The neighbors like playing with me and I've figured out this cool way to play fetch across the fence. Once all the dogs are gone, the adults said I get all the toys that the dogs never played with. WOOHOO!! The beagle used to be fun to play with, but he started getting on my nerves when he started jumping fences and howling and barking at 1:00 am (I don't like to be woken up at night). After that, I didn't like playing with him anymore. He also has to hump everything!!! It's really annoying! The kids at that house are good. They play fetch with me and scratch my ears and aren't mean or crazy.
Friday while Dad was doing some stuff, the good neighbor adults played fetch with me and then they played with me again Saturday morning because Mom still wasn't feeling good. She feels better now so hopefully by this weekend she'll play fetch with me. She wants to work in her garden really bad which means she'll be outside with a hose!!!!!! The plants are growing inside and Mom and Dad are working on getting the corner that they will eventually get planted in. Mom's excited because she really wants fresh tomoatoes this summer and watermelon. Sasha LOVES watermelon so she's excited, too. I think it's okay, but it takes a long time for Mom to get it ready for us because she has to cut it up and take the seeds out. Sasha likes watermelon almost as much as cheese!
This is a long post about silly stuff so I'm going to stop now. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have something more exciting to post about. Right now everything is pretty boring with Mom being sick.
Hope everybody had a good weekend!

Dad's Home!

Dad's home today! I have to go help him work on the Big Jeep. If the Big Jeep is fixed for the summer that means I definately get to go camping!!!!
This is also my 150th post! Woohoo!!
Gotta go! He's getting ready to go outside!
Have a great weekend everybody!

My Name

There's a lot of dogs out there telling how they got their name so I decided to tell my story, too.
When my Mom, Dad and Aunt Cassie came to the rescue place and picked me out, my name was Shananae and they called me Naenae for short. Needless to say I hated that name!! When I first came home I was still in my nervous around men stage so Mom was the one that had to call for me and she tried not to use my name because they knew they were going to change it. When she did use it, I really didn't answer to it because I really hated it!! (Sorry if there's anybody out there with that name.) Mom said it also didn't fit me.
So since Mom named Gunnar (Sasha was named before my Mom got custody of her), it was Dad's turn to name me. I was VERY chaotic the first few days so Dad decided Chaos was a good name. Dad's name is Kris with a K instead of Ch so they decided I would be Kaos instead of Chaos. After a few days I started to show my sweet side so they added Lady to the front of it so that it didn't sound so........chaotic. Mom thinks it's funny saying "Good Kaos" or "Silly Kaos." She doesn't seem to think it's funny to say "Bad Kaos" though.
That's how I became Lady Kaos. I kind of like that it's unique, but I also think my parents are weird. When they finally get me some kids to play with, I hope they don't name them weird names, too. Sasha's middle name is Doo because Mom is a Scooby Doo freak.
I'm going to go watch the people across the alley. I don't like them and they've been doing a lot of stuff in their back yard and I need to make sure they don't get too close to my back yard.

Dog Of The Year

Thank you Dory for the link to become Dog Of The Year! Don't I look good on the cover of a magazine? If you haven't already, you should get your's too! Here's the link!

















Mom made me do one for Sasha, too. Sasha's cute, but she doesn't pose for pictures as good as I do. I think I'm going to have Mom print at myne so I can hang it on the wall and remind Mom and Dad how special I am!




















I think I have Mom's cold now. My nose is itchy and so are my ears. Mom seemed to feel better after sleeping all day and drooling on the couch so I'm going to go do that now.

Nurse Kaos

My Mom ended up staying home for work yesterday because she didn't feel good. She was grossing me out and I'm a dog so that means she was really gross. She had to call Dad to tell him to bring her another box of kleenex at lunch. She just bought the first box on Sunday and she already needed a new one! Now you see why she grossed me out? Mom is very whiney when she's sick, too. Worse than Sasha! She's feeling much better today. She doesn't whine as much and she still has the same box of kleenex that Dad brought her.
Okay, here's an update on my ball. You all had great ideas, but they really wouldn't work. Tadpole's idea of howing really loud wouldn't work because I think my howl sounds funny so I never do it unless nobody is looking. I did sort of do a version of this idea though. Dory's idea of having my cat brother sneak in wouldn't work because first of all he never listens to me, but mostly because he's afraid to go outside and it's a detached garage and he'd have a heart attack before he got to the door. Luckie's idea of them getting me a new one definatly wouldn't work because well.....this was a freshly stolen one from the neighbor kids. So here's what happened. Dad went out to the garage Sunday and I went with him and I tried to get it out again. I started to whine and Dad gave me a lecture. He said if I promised to not bring the tennis ball in the garge again, he'd get it. Of course I said I promised! I got my ball and when Mom came out to talk to Dad in the garage, I didn't take the ball in the garage, I just set it on the stop up into the garage and made sure it didn't roll. I'm glad I got my ball back. It wasn't the one I showed you how gross it looked. I had only stole this one 2 days ago! It wasn't even broken in yet! Thanks for your help everybody!
I'm really tired from taking care of Mom yesterday so I'm going to get caught up on reading some blogs and then go take a nap. It's hard taking care of sick people.

I Have A Problem & Need Advice

I know I'm not supposed to have my tennis ball in the garage, but I get so excited when Mom comes outside because that usually means that she's going to throw my ball for me. Yesterday at lunch Mom went out to the garage to talk to Dad and I kept dropping my ball a Mom's feet to get her to throw it. Dad doesn't want me doing that in the garage because he doesn't want my ball to get into something and then I put it in my mouth. I understand that, but Mom wasn't paying attention to me! Then it happened. My ball rolled under the tool box! It's too far back for me to reach. Dad says it's going to stay there to remind me not to bring the ball in the garage. Mom says she's not getting down on the garage floor to get it and she's definately not sticking her hand under the toolbox (she's EXTREMELY afraid of mice - I think that's why I have a cat brother). So I need to figure out how to get my ball out. Any ideas? It's snowing outside so even if I had it, I can't play with it. Right now I know where my ball is, if it had been outside last night I wouldn't know where it is. If any of you have ideas on how to get my ball, I would appreciate it VERY much.
Mom keeps coughing and sneezing and sniffing. It's really gross and annoying, especially at night. She can't take any cold medicine because it will react with her other medication and she definatley doesn't want that again. She says it's allergies because the pollen count is so high right now. It's snowing, the flowers are covered with snow. I think Mom is just trying to get out of going to the people vet again.
It's kind of cold in this room so I'm going to go curl up in Mom's blanket on the couch for a nap.
Have a good weekend everybody!

Payback

I got paid back for making fun of Sasha the other night. My cat brother Gunnar has this cube thing that he LOVES to play in. It's soft and has 3 holes to go through and a piece of string with stuff on it hanging down in the middle. Dad thinks it's fun to throw my rope through one of the holes so I have to stick my head in it. As long as someone is throwing my rope, I'm okay with it........or I used to be. Last night it got stuck on my head. Luckily Mom didn't have her camera out and couldn't get to it in time. They wouldn't help me get it off either! They just kept laughing at me! I finally got it off myself and then Gunnar got mad because I moved his cube. Dad moved it back to where Gunnar left it and then Gunnar went and sat in front of it and guarded it until Dad started throwing my rope in it again. I made sure I didn't stik my entire head in it though. Mom says she'll be more prepared tonight. I guess that means she's going to sit on the couch with her camera waiting for me to get into an embarassing situation.
This morning Dad and I made a Mom sandwich. He was on one side and I was on the other and we were all cuddling before it was time to get out of bed for Mom (Dad is off today! He's sleeping in though so I decided to come post real quick before I start helping him in the yard.). We were all snoozing and then Sasha got jealous. I had my head on Mom's pillow and Sasha came and sat on my head and then wiggled between Mom and I. Mom laughed and asked Sasha if she needed to cuddle, too. Mom had to get up after she scratched Sasha's ears a little so we cuddled up with Dad for awhile longer.
My poor head can't take much more abuse! I'm beginning to think it's too big even though I've been told I have a small head for a lab. At least my head isn't as big as Mom's! She's always hitting it on stuff and getting it stuck in clothes and can't wear hats because they won't stay on.
It sounds like Dad is getting up so I better go help him now. Hopefully I won't have any embarassing pictures to show you tomorrow.

New Hobby

Mom told me last night I needed a new hobby. I think she's the one that needs to make throwing my rope a hobby! I love playing fetch! Mom says it's annoying and after awhile it's gross. It's sooooooo much fun though! I can play fetch for hours! I let Mom and Dad take turns throwing my rope so it's not like one has to do all the work!
Later on, I curled up with Mom. She was cold (like always) and the curve in her legs made a nice comfy place to snooze. Mom scratched my ears and rubbed my nose (that always makes me go to sleep). Mom said something about how cudley and lovey I am now. June will be my 2nd anniversary of being with Mom and Dad and they always talk about how different I am now. Grandma does the same thing. Grandma says my name Kaos doesn't fit anymore (Mom says it does, just not all day every day anymore). Mom says she loves how I'll curl up and cuddle with her on the coach now. We take long naps with her sleeping on me or me curled up near her. She says I'm such a good cuddler that she's thinking about making Dad sleep on the floor and I'll take his place on the bed. I don't think that will really happen though, but I notice when Mom says that, Dad cuddles more.
I also heard Mom and Dad talking about a week long vacation to Wray in July. I didn't hear a lot of the details and it sort of sounds like there aren't many details anyway, but I know that's where Grandma Cheese lives and that's where I go pheasant hunting. I don't think we can go pheasant hunting though, but I'm sure I'll be able to chase the rabbits named Jack. It sounds like we're going to go visit someone Mom hasn't seen in a really long time. I think she was saying it was her grandma and she hasn't seen her in about 15 years. Can you imagine not seeing your grandma for that long? I LOVE when I go see my grandma or when she comes to see me. There aren't many plans for the trip yet, but it sounds like the plans that are there include Sasha and I!!
I'm going to go practice my cute Schmakos face. Mom is such a sucker for that face and it always gets me Schmakos. OH! Mom found a Schamkos coupon in her purse! She said it has to be used by next month. No problem! She should clean out her purse more often!

Mean But HILARIOUS

Mom is doing much better today. She is convinced it was the medicatino she was on. She hasn't taken it since Friday and now she feels great. The bad medicine is out of her so now all the good ones can work correctly. I don't think her brain is working very well though. Last night she asked if I could go 1 day without playing fetch. At first I thought she was kidding. SHE WASN'T! Of course I can't!!! That's like her going 1 day without breathing. It is not possible.
Okay, now the mean but hilarious story. Sasha can't jump up on the bed like Gunnar and I can so Mom and Dad got a bench storage thing for her to use to jump up. It's at the bottom of the bed and there's usually a blanket or something like that on it and it's padded and if it were a little wider, I'm sure I'd enjoy napping there. Gunnar LOVES to nap there. If it's cold outside (like last night) Dad usually turns the heater on in the bedroom so Mom won't shiver so much and keep everybody awake, so Gunnar has that blowing on him and he's curled up in a blanket on a nice cumfy pad. Sounds like a good spot to nap doesn't it? Well, last night Mom asked if Sasha and I were ready for bed and of course we were so we went running into the bedroom. I immediately jumped up on the bed. Sasha and I get to cuddle with Mom for awhile before Dad comes to bed to warm it up for Mom. I got into position and waited for Mom and Sasha. Sasha wasn't coming and Mom was laughing and told Gunnar that was mean. Of course I had to go inspect. I looked down on the bench and Gunnar had his arm stretched out. He's a long cat anyway so with his arm stretched out he covered the entire bench. Sasha avoids Gunnar because Gunnar is so much bigger than her and she wasn't very nice to him when he was a kitten and smaller than her and he likes to remind her of what she did to him. So Sasha couldn't jump up on the bench to get up onto the bed. It was hilrious!! Mom put Sasha up on the bed and then rubbed Gunnar's belly which always makes him fold up into a ball. THEN, when it was time for us to get in our beds, Sasha couldn't get down. Gunnar had sprawled out so his entire body was covering the bench. She couldn't jump down on my bed either because I was in my bed. Dad laughed and told her to jump down on Gunnar. She's not supposed to just jump down on the floor because she's a dachsie and that's bad for her back. So Dad had to put Sasha on the floor. I am so glad I'm not smaller than the cat!! Nothing against all you dachsies out there though! I love playing with Sasha and the neighbor dachsies, but I also like being able to beat up the cat whenever I feel like it. Sasha's a miniature so she really has trouble beating Gunnar up.
I'm going to go take a nap now before Mom comes home. Sasha and I are going to talk her into giving us 2 Schmakos each! We try everyday, but we're feeling very confident today. Mom feels guilty because we had to get rid of the milkbones and she can't find her homemade dog biscuit recipe. We get lots of stuff when Mom feels guilty.

Easter Was a BLAST!

We went to Grandma's for Easter! It was great. That's me standing in Grandma's living room! Sasha's hiding in the sunroom, we're not sure why though. It was too cold and it snowed almost all day so I didn't get to play much outside. I played inside though and ate lots of great food and begged for chocolate. If dogs aren't supposed to eat chocolate, then why do they make it smell so good to us? We got something even better than chocolate though. SCHMAKOS!! mmmmmm, that makes me hungry thinking about them, I hope someone comes home for lunch soon to give us another one.
I had to take care of Mom all weekend. She had a really bad reaction with her medications and didn't feel good all weekend. I was really worried about her and let Dad know he needed go check on her. When she left this morning for work she was acting kind of weird. I think she should call the doctor, but she hates going to the doctor. When Dad comes home for lunch I'm going to let him know that Mom needs to call and if she doesn't, Dad should. I'd do it, but no other humans understand me except Mom and Dad (and sometimes they aren't so good). This is another reason Mom needs to find a job where she can stay home with me all day. That way I can keep an eye on her! How am I supposed to know how she's feeling if I'm at home and she's at the office?
I hope everybody else had a good Easter! I went to Grandma's!!!! I know I already said that, but I LOVE Grandma's house!!! Her yard is so HUGE and there's so much grass! I ran in it and wasn't covered in mud like at our house!
I'm going to go watch for Mom and Dad now. I REALLY want a Schmakos! Why do they have to put them up so high and is such a strong container? I don't think they trust us!

NOT MY MILKBONES!!!!!

Yesterday my milkbones were added to the dog food recall! I'm very upset. Mom said the bag we have is probably old enough that it's okay, but we're not taking any chances. I'm so upset! I can't believe I'm not going to get my lunch time milkbone anymore! Mom said not to worry, but she's not the one that is having part of her daily routine messed up! Don't humans know that a dog depends on a routine and when that routine is messed up, the entire day is thrown off? Mom says I can have a Schmakos at lunch today which helps a little (I LOVE Schmakos!!!!!). Mom said she has a recipe somwhere for dog biscuits. She loves baking so she won't mind making us homemade biscuits, but it still won't be the same! If Schmakos goes on the list of recalls I don't know what I'll do!!! If my dog food goes on, too Sasha and I are in BIG touble. Sasha's very picky about what she eats and Purina is the only brand that doesn't upset my tummy. When Mom and Dad adopted me the rescue place said that my old owners said I could only eat Purina. The rescue people said they tried other stuff and sure enough, Purina is what I have to eat. So Mom and Dad tried something else just because and I was soon put back on Purina. (Why don't humans listen to each other?) Mom said Sasha went through several different bags of food before they decided to try giving her my food. Sasha was almost 3 when she finally ate the same food regularly. If they recall our food, Mom and Dad are going to freak out! Purina also makes a dry catfood for indoor cats that has no fish in it for Gunnar. I really hope they don't have to change his food because fish REALLY doesn't agree with him.
Okay, enough venting about the pet food recall. Sasha got hurt last night and almost gave Mom a heart attack. Sasha doesn't play a lot of fetch because she's gotten hurt pretty bad a few times. They were all accidents, but she doesn't care. Well, the past few days she's been playing again and having fun. Mom's been really excited about it. Last night Dad was throwing my rope and Mom was throwing Sasha's buttless bunnie and Sasaha hit the coffee table. She started walking off and Mom knew she was hurt bad because she was going to the bedroom. Usually if she's not really hurt or just a little hurt, Sasha will run to Mom and whine and want to be told she's a poor puppy. Dad said she was limping so Mom caught up to her in the hallway and then all of a sudden we hear Mom scream "SHE'S BLEEDING! THERE'S BLOOD! LOTS OF BLOOD!" Dad and I went running to the hallway and Mom had blood all over her arm and shirt. When Sasha hit the coffee table, she bent her nail back just right. It wasn't as bad as Mom thought, but Mom's a Mom and freaks out when her babies bleed (especially Sasha!). Mom and Dad got Sasha cleaned up and wrapped her foot and told her not to mess with it. She walked funny for awhile and I laughed at her because I now know what I look like when Dad puts my boots on me. Mom got cleaned up too and then we all went to bed. This morning Mom and Dad cleaned Sasha's foot and there was no new blood. They cleaned off the dried blood and whent ahead and wrapped it up again so she wouldn't mess with it. If that was me, that bandage wouldn't stay on very long, but Sasha leaves her's on. (I think she thinks it gives her more sympathy.) They said tonight they'd take it off and she probably won't need it back on. Mom told me to take care of Sasha today, but her poor puppy faces don't work on me! Okay, maybe a little. I did get up and check on her a few times last night and I keep licking her bandage. I just want to make sure Dad gets the bandage on right.
Sunday is Easter and Grandma said she wants Sasha and I to come for Easter! WOOHOO!!! I hope Mom and Dad do take us! I LOVE Grandma's house! There's so much grass to roll and play in! Have a good Easter everybody!

Mom Needs A New Job!

Does anybody know of a job that Mom could do from home? She got promoted a few months ago and she's always tired and she says her pay didn't improve very much. They didn't replace her position so she's doing 2 jobs and is having a hard time keeping up. Sometimes she doesn't come home for lunch to see us and when she gets home, she's too tired to come outside and play with us. I think she needs to find a job that she can stay home with us all day. I'm going to do some research for her and find something. She's no fun when she's tired and it disrupts our routine when she doesn't come home for lunch! Do any of your Mom's work from home? She needs to make enough money to keep spoiling us though. If she can't afford Schmakoes and chewies then that won't work! That made me drool on the keyboard. oops! I'm going to go find a chewie now and hopefully Mom will come home for lunch even though she said she probably won't.

Cheese Radar

Do any of you out there have a special radar for anything? My sister Sasha has a freakishly strong Cheese Radar. She can be asleep in the bedroom and hear Dad open a cheese rapper out on the back porch at the barbeque. She also knows the shredded cheese bag sound and the sound of a block of cheese wrapper. When she was having her hip problem, she still waddled into the kitchen when she heard the cheese wrapper (she was hoping for magic cheese though). Last summer we went to Wray and Sasha, Mom and I were out in the yard behind the house playing and all of a sudden Sasha REALLY wanted to go inside. Mom brought us in and Grandma Cheese (that's her new nickname because she gives us cheese all the time) was getting Cheese out for sandwiches for lunch! Mom was a little freaked out that she heard the cheese from the back yard.
My cat brother Gunnar has a same radar for BBQ flavored chips. Gunnar doesn't usually have much to do with human food unless it's a BBQ flavored chip, then watch out! When Mom and Dad make fish he's usually right there begging for some, but he's not allowed to have fish cuz it doesn't agree with him at all!!!! Mom and Dad have to get a special kind of dry food that doesn't have fish in it or we all suffer BADLY!!
Mom says I have a Jeep radar. Whenever I hear a Jeep running in the driveway I want to be out in the Jeep going wherever it's going. I don't care who's Jeep it is and if it's just going around to the alley to pull in the back yard, I MUST be in it. Otherwise I whine and drive Mom crazy (which is usually what happens). It can be one of the quiet Jeeps and I'll still hear it.
My Jeep Radar and Gunnar's BBQ chip Radar is nothing compared to the Cheese Radar of Sasha. Maybe it's because she's older than us and has more experience. Whatever the reason, I agree with Mom and Dad when they call her a cheese freak. By the way, the rabbit in the picture with Sasha no longer has a tail or butt stuffing as of last night.
Do any of you have weird radars and are they as freakish as Sasha's? I'm kind of curious how weird we really are. Mom and Dad say we're weird all the time. I say we learned from them though.

How To Swim In Your Water Dish

I know you've been waiting for this! I was sort of being a pain while Mom was trying to take the pictures though. Mom would wait a long time with me to get my in the dish and then she'd go inside and hear sploosh sploosh sploosh! I thought it was fun, but I don't think Mom did. That was her paypack from last week! Last night Mom and Dad were plying fetch inside with Sasha and I and Mom said "Aren't you tired of playing fetch?" Mom says some pretty funny stuff, but I think that is the funniest thing I've ever heard her say! Of course not!!!!
Okay, here are the steps:
Step 1: See how dirty the water dish is from not being used much over the winter. Bang out as much dirt as you can.















Step 2: Clean out the rest of the dirt with water.















Step 3: Fill the water dish up to the top. That way there's lots of water for swimming.















Step 4: Run and Run and Run and Run and Run and get really hot and tired.
















Step5: First clean off your ball. All that dirt starts to taste funny on you ball after awhile. DO NOT hand the ball to Mom right after coming out of the water dish. She doesn't like that and will ignore you until the gooey feeling in her hand goes away. Bounce it on the patio a few times to get the excess water off, THEN hand it to Mom for more throwing.












Step 6: Step into the water dish with your front feet.













Step 7: Stand in the water for a few minutes.













Step 8: This is the swimming part. Splash water onto your back legs and all over the patio. This picture was supposed to be of me swimming, but I tricked Mom and stepped out instead. She went inside to change her batteries and I swam! hehehe














Step 9: After a good swim in the water dish, lay on the patio in the water you splashed everywhere. Cement is the best patio material because if it's in the shade, it's usually cool.

That's how you swim in your water dish! Remember to only do this outside! Mom and Dad get really mad if you do it inside. Sometimes they forget to set up your outside dish though and if you do it once inside, they'll get the hint to fill the outside dish.

Enjoy! It's a BLAST!!!