WARNING!! Major Cuteness!

If you don't want to see some MAJOR cuteness, you better hurry and look away now! Aunt Gillian emailed Mom puppy pictures. The first one is the male. There's only 6 pictures, but there's 7 puppies (remember, my Ant Gillian is a dork).

They get to go to their new homes starting Tuesday. So far 1 for sure has a new home and 2 more possibly. Anybody need a puppy in their house? Mom says no way to us adopting any cuz they're too much like their Mom. My cousin Bailey is a very smart girl. She can escape from anything and can eevn open sliding doors (doesn't close them though) and can eat an entire package of cookies without tearing up the package! That takes talent!!

I also got an award from Marvin. It's the best friends award!! THANKS MARVIN!!

I will pass on the award to Dory, Flash & Peanut, Sparky & Patches, and anybody else who hasn't been awarded it yet. It's so hard singling people out for these awards. i want to give them to everydoggy!!
Have a great weekend everybody! I'll hopefully figure out this mystery stuff soon and hopefully have something cool to tell you about on Monday!

More Clues

Okay, I think I have part of it figured out. I think Mom and Dad are going somewhere for Dad's work and we have to stay home and Grandma is going to come let us out at lunch and maybe after work depending on how late Mom and Dad are. There aren't any bags out like they have to pack and stay over night. It must be in another town because Dad is going to tune up Mom's car tonight. What I don't get though is why we had to take baths if Grandma is going to come let us out? What does she care if we stink in our own house? She didn't care at Christmas! I think there's more to the plan that I'm missing though. It's tha bath thing that's throwing this entire thing off. We didn't have to use the special going to play in the wilderness shampoo (it's kind of expensive so Mom and Dad only use that when we're playing a lot outside and going somewhere fun because it keeps fleas and ticks off), we used the normal flowery stuff Grandma gave us. It makes us all fluffy and smell like flowers. Labs are NOT supposed to be soft and fluffy! Our fur is supposed to be slick so that when we play in the water, the water slides off and we dry a lot faster. If I'm fluffy, how am I supposed to have any kind of fun? Nothing against you fluffy dogs, I just really like my slick lab fur.
It's getting cold again. I think it's going to snow again. It was warm this morning and our other 4 inches started melting pretty good. There is a pile of snow over at the school that is from them plowing the sidewalk, driveways and parking lots that would make a WONDERFUL snow fort. Mom says no way though because it's all full of dirt. It's almost as tall as My Jeep! I'd love to go drive my Jeep over it, but Dad says no because the school would get mad for us tearing up their grass. That could be payback for those kids throwing their trash in our yard. Dad said it wouldn't.
I'm going to go sniff for clues some more.

Stormy's Orders

Mom FINALLY got my picture with my helmet done. I think I'm the last one. Supreme Commander Stormy gave the orders a week ago and I'm just now completing them. I hope this doesn't affect my performance report! Mom said she'd been putting it off because she knew she'd have to spend a lot of time trying to resize the picture or helmet. She's so good that the picture she decided to use is a perfect fit! Silly woman! Look at my serious face in this picture. It looks like I'm in deep concentration and focussed on my mission. (Really Mom is holding my tennis ball and I'm waiting for her to throw it.)

I'm still working on figuring out next weekend. It sounds like Dad is waiting on an agenda from someone he works with. But I have no idea what that means. Mom is worried about the weather, too. That doesn't mean anything though. They had to go to a couple towns over last night for a doctor's appointment and ended up in the middle of a blizzard. It normally takes about 30-45 minutes to get home from there, but last night it took an hour and a half for them to get home. This morning there was 4 inches of snow on the ground. Dad called Mom earlier and he said there's some places he's been this morning that have 6 inches. Luckily there was a 2 hour delay on school so Mom didn't have to worry about school kids and buses and stuff like that (there's 3 school zones between our house and her work). The roads are really slick and yucky. This is the kind of weather Mom wishes she had a Jeep instead of a Kia. I told Mom to take my Jeep this morning, but she said she's be okay in her car. I think really she can't reach to clean off the windshield and Dad had already cleaned off her car for her. She got stuck twice trying to get out of the driveway because there's so much ice and snow. If it wasn't so cold outside I'd try to go build a snow fort like Zim's. Instead, I'll stay inside and make sure the blankets on the beds and the couch are nice and fluffy and warm. Plus, this way I can search for more clues about this weekend - even though I don't think there are any more clues!

Stay warm if you're included in this big snow storm that just blew through Colorado!

A Beautiful Relaxing Sunday RUINED!

Okay, let me set the picture up for you. It's Sunday and when we wake up it's chilly and it snowed the night before. The snow it still coming down, but it's the big fluffy wet snow so it's melting pretty fast. It's causing some mud in the backyard, but that's okay because we plan on staying inside most of the day with Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad go run some errands really fast and then come home and Dad starts a big fire in the fireplace to get the house really warm so we could all curl up in front of the fire all day. Mom made some banana bread so the smell was really good in the house, too. But guess why the house needed to be really warm? CUZ WE GOT BATHS!!! Yes, that's right, we had to curl up by the fire because Dad gave Sasha and I a bath! We've gotten out of taking a bath for a little longer than usual because it's been too cold and Sasha gets extremely whiney when she gets cold. But because of what ever is going on next weekend, we had to take baths!!! What ever is going on better be totally worth it!!! My dear Flash asked if they maybe are getting rid of us and I'm pretty sure that's not it, cuz mom is also talking about stuff I need to do after this weekend. Plus who would take care of Mom without me around? Gunnar is so not going to do that! I also don't think I'm getting kids. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed on that one though. Grandma is involved in this, too! There's no bags out, there's no boxes, no talking about plans except that "the dogs need a bath before next weekend."
After my bath I did a lot of zoomies between the living room and dining room to dry off faster. I mostly curled up by the fireplace though. Sasha was so desperate to get dry and warm she curled up with Gunnar on my living room bed! Sasha and I also kept rolling on our blankets and toys trying to get out stink back, but it didn't work very well. Dad even brushed us to get any loose fur off! This is terrible!! We did get a bunch of Schmakos as a reward, but I still hate baths. This weekend better be one of the greatest weekends ever! I was kind of grumpy for the rest of the day after my bath, but it made Mom feel sorry for me so I got lots of belly rubs and ear scratches. Sasha took full advantage of the guilt, too. Mom wears fake fingernails because she bites her nails and makes them really sore. She redid them that morning so they were in perfect condition for some major belly and ear scratches. I love when she does that! BUT that doesn't make me feel better about the bath!

A Mystery

The weather man was finally right. It's actually warm today! I didn't know he meant the actual end of the week was what he meant by "the end of the week will be warmer." It's supposed to be warm this weekend, too so we're going to take down the Christmas decorations. Mom and Dad keep acting funny though. They keep talking about next weekend. I have no idea what they're talking about. We have to get the decorations put away before next weekend, we have to get organized for next weekend and stuff like that. Does anybody know what's going on next weekend? There's not a holiday I didn't know about is there? I don't think anybody is coming to visit (unless they're staying at another place, you can't fit anything else in our spare room) and I don't think we're having a party or anything like that. I have no idea what's going on! Nobody is telling me anything!! If any of you know of anything I'm missing out on, PLEASE let me know! I hate not knowing stuff. Grandma knows about it, too because she keeps calling and asking questions about Sasha and I. Dad says she's worried. ABOUT WHAT??? I'm going to go sniff around and see if I can find any clues now. If any of you out there hear anything or know of anything, let me know. Thanks a bunch!!
Have a great weekend!

Too Cold

It's too cold to do much of anything today. The weather guy said it's supposed to be in the 50's the rest of the week. He lied! It was 31 yesterday and 15 today!!!! I'm going back to my pile of blankets on the couch now. Hopefully it will be warmer tomorrow. Don't trust the weather guy!!!

Don't Like New Year's

I decided I don't like New Year's. I wanted to go to bed, but Mom wouldn't let me. Then at midnight she woke me up and said "Okay Kaos you can go to sleep now" and then gave me a new year's kiss. Luckily everybody slept in the next morning. Staying up that late makes me grumpy so I think next year Mom is going to let us all go to bed when we want. I got to spend 4 entire days with Dad home though. He took Monday off so he could have 4 days off in a row. I love having Dad home that many days in a row, but it makes me very tired so I'm kind of glad everybody went back to work today because I'm exhausted. I have some pictures to show you of the torture I had to go through this weekend, You're not going to believe what they did to me and then they tried convincing me it was going to help me. Whatever! I'm going back to the couch now for another nap before Dad gets home. It's really cold outside so I've been cuddled up in the blankets on the couch all day. I love snow, but I hate this really cold all day stuff. The weather guy said we might get snow before the weekend, but then the weekend it should warm up. I might sleep through it all because I'm so tired. It's tough being such a fun dog.

Happy New Year

We just wanted to tell every dog, cat, hamster and human:
Happy New Year!!!!!
Love
Kaos & Hilary

Christmas - Chapter 2

First I want to tell all of you I'm updating my link list. I had so many to add I'm pretty sure I forgot to ask a few of you if it's okay. If' you're on my link list and don't want to be, please let me know. I use that list to visit everybody's blogs everyday cuz Mom and I use different computers and it's too hard to keep track of the bookmarks on 2 computers. I hope I can get the rest in today, but I don't know since there's so many pictures.
First we have Grandma's presants to us. Mom didn't get many pictures of us with Grandma's gifts because we were so fast and crazy. Sasha and I each got a baggie of chewies that are really long. They're really cool cuz I can hold them, in my paws and not have to bend over so far to reach them. I got a new rope with millions of knots (it's half undone already) and Sasha and Gunnar got a mouse on a string. Yes, Sasha got a cat toy and I'm jealous. That little mouse is tons of fun to play with. I can play with it as long as I promise not to tear it up. I've had it taken away many times since Christmas. Sasha loves the mouse because it's small and she can flip it around and do crazy things with it. There's no pictures of her with it because she's too fast.




























Okay, now for my Aunt Gillian. Mom says Aunt Gillian is the biggest dork she's ever known. Mom is 9 years older than her sister and pretty much raised her. Does that mean Mom taught her sister her dorky ways? No, cuz I agree with Mom. My Aunt Gillian is a dork! ANYWAY, Mom and Aunt Gillian play jokes on each other when it comes to gifts. For Mom's birthday this year my Aunt Gillian wrapped up miniature candy bars indivdualy and then put them in a Scooby-Doo tackle box with a HUGE amount of confetti. Mom's birthday was in October and we're still finding confetti and she opened that outside!! So Mom and Dad started planning paybacks. First, there was a tire iron she needed for her truck. She was totally not surprised when she opened it. Can you see the dorkness in this picture?














Then came the BIG one. This was hilarious and took forever to wrap and unwrap.
There was this big box (it was made for a radiator and fit under the tree perfectly with everything else perfectly inside).

















Then there was another box.














And then another.














And finally the jack for her truck. Through the unwrapping process there was also a t-shirt, 6 pairs of socks (individually wrapped in pairs of course) and a little grow your own boyfriend thing. I think my Mom was having more fun laughing at Aunt Gillian than Aunt Gillian did opening all of those presants. It took Mom and Dad forever to wrap all of those boxes and socks and Mom says it was totally worth it. Aunt Gillian turns 21 next September and Mom is already starting to plan for that. Maybe Aunt Gillian did learn her dorkiness from my Mom.














There was TONS of wrapping paper and boxes when Aunt Gillian finally finished and Gunnar had a blast playing in all of it. He was upset when Dad cleaned it all up. Gunnar wanted it left out all week, but Mom and Dad said noway. There was too much and you couldn't walk through the living room very well. They did let him keep a box though.














I got them all in! I'm exhausted just thinking about all the fun I had on Christmas. I better go take a nap now just in case Mom and Dad plan some more fun adventures for this weekend that I don't know about.
Have a good weekend!!!

Christmas - Chapter 1

It looks like every pup, cat, hamster and human had a good Christmas. I couldn't post yesterday because I was so exhausted and slept the entire day until Mom and Dad got home from work and then I wanted to play fetch and they were too tired.
It's going to take several posts because Mom took so many pictures and I want to share a bunch of them with you. Here's Chapter 1 of Our Christmas 2007.
Gunnar spent all day Christmas Eve guarding the presants.













There were no presants under the tree for us though. They were in our stocking and they were put there after Mom and Dad got home from work. I was kind of upset about it because it looked like we weren't getting any presants! BUT the reason they waited was because of the smell! Sasha and I could smell the wonderful smell of a special treat we get every Christmas. YUMMY BONES!!! Dad got the stockings down for us and Sasha and I went crazy.















I got my bone first because I'm bigger and I kept stepping on Sasha.














It took Dad forever to get the bone unwrapped. He wouldn't let me do it because he said I'd eat the wrapper.















I took the bone straight to my living room bed because I knew Mom didn't want me to get the carpet messy.














The bone was too big for Sasha to carry so she stayed where Dad put it.














Gunnar got this purple ball thing on a string that drives me crazy! I don't know why, but as soon as he starts playing with it, I go psycho!














Santa brough Sasha and I some Schmakos and Gunnar got some of the Chicken and Cheese treats he likes. He also brought us a new water dish. It holds lots of water. It's great!! Gunnar always drank all the water in the other one and it was always empty. There's a problem with this new water jug though. As you can see in this picture, Gunnar is afraid of it. Sasha is, too, but she's been seen drinking out of it. See how Gunnar is all stretched out in the picture below. The jug wasn't making any noise or anything. Don't worry though, Dad put a bowl of water out for Gunnar to convince him to drink and it's right beside the new one so hopefully he'll be convinced to drink out of the new one. If not, Mom says she'll get the syringes out from when Gunnar was sick and force him to drink again (nobody wants that again!!!). It's because of him we got the bigger water jug and he's afraid of it!! What a dork!!













That's all for now. Check back tomorrow to see what Grandma brought us!! I have to tell you about my Aunt Gillian's gift, too. She's also a dork.
Oh yeah, I didn't get the kids I asked for. Mom says Santa doesn't bring kids as gifts. If anybody knows how I can get some kids, let me know. Mom isn't being helpful in explaining how that works.

My Sunday

LOOK WHAT I DID THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!!












We didn't get more snow, we went and found snow. We went for a ride in MY Jeep and played!












This is MY Jeep on the trail we were on. We were actually going on another trail, but the gate was closed so we got out and of the Jeep to play.












I chased a rabbit and some birds and ate some snow (Dad kept telling me not to or I'd get to cold, but I couldn't help it)!! My Aunt Gillian threw snow at me and we played snow monster. Right after this picture Aunt Gillian got her foot stuck in the snow and I dug her foot out. The crazy girl doesn't own anything but cowboy boots!!! She needs to go shopping with Mom and Dad sometime and find her a good deal on some real boots! Mom was laughing too hard to take the picture of me digging her foot out.











Since we couldn't get through the gate we went to another place to eat lunch. There was less snow there and I've been dove hunting in that spot before so I went to work sniffing right away. Mom kept telling me to take a break. That's when I realized we were stopping for lunch. After I ate half of Mom's ham sandwich and some chips my slob of an aunt dropped on the ground, I went back to sniffing.






















Last night we did a photo shoot for Mom. Usually when Dad puts the antlers on me and Mom pulls out her camera, the antlers come off, but I decided to let Mom take my picture. I refused to stand so the tree or the fireplace was my background though. Mom settled for a few presants and the shoe wrack.














Mom says Gunnar's is the best Bah-Humbug picture she's ever seen. I'd have to agree. Gunnar better hope Santa doesn't see this! I know Santa reads my blog though! HAHAHAH!














It took 4 shots to get this picture of Sasha. Mom says every picture she has of Sasha, she looks worried.











Mom keeps reading things that say a tired dog is a good dog and boy am I a good dog!! Sasha was at Grandma's house while we were playing (she gets cold really easy and car sick when we're playing in the Jeep) so she's pretty tired, too. Mom says she gets the afternoon off today so when she gets home we're going to start baking bread and pie for tomorrow and we're going to make a cheese ball!!! Cheese and ball!! Two of my favorite things!!!
I better go take another nap so I'll be all rested up to help Mom. I can't wait for tomorrow!!!! I hope all you dogs, cats, hamsters and humans have a wonderful Christmas!! I KNOW I AM!!!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!

Lots Of Thank Yous

Thank you for all the nice comments for Mom and for my "situation." Mom's not doing great today. She says things are starting to sink in a little now. I let Mom and Sasha have a moment this morning because they needed to. Mom and Sasha have been together for longer than Mom and Dad have been together and have been through a lot together. I could only take it for so long though because I'm very jealous!! I had to get my cheer up kisses and hugs in, too. Mom told me again that I'm the bestest hugger ever.
Thanks for all the new dogs checking out my blog. I promise I'll check your's out soon. I'm going to be adding a bunch of you to my links bar thing, too. I might talk Mom into staying home with me to help me get my blog updated this afternoon or next week sometime. That will keep her busy and be close by so I can keep an eye on her at the same time.
My next thank you's go out to my dear Flash's Grammie and also to the AO4. Here was Grammie's comment from yesterday about my "situation:" "Those are not lab prints. They were made by a special alien Christmas invader. I have seen them in the past. They only come out in December and they always get on a table. They are known to have tuffs of black fur. Case Closed." She is so smart!!! Zim said " gotta tell ya ... a coyote got into our fenced in back yard the other day and left prints in the snow that look EXACTLY like that. Really. Or maybe the cat drew the prints like finger/paw painting to try to frame you. Amber thinks maybe Santa's reindeer were on a recon mission and accidentally got on the table. Yep ... I'd go with reindeer. Definitely not YOUR prints, at any case. Trust me, I'm a Siberian.Play bows,Zim. "
So I was going to convince Mom and Dad that the prints were DEFINATELY something like Grammie and those smart Siberians were describing. BUT, we found out yesterday that my fellow Colorado dog friend, Ginger, was the one that was right! This was her comment: "Well, duh! OBVIOUSLY a really big, dirty squirrel has broken into your house and walked all over, trying to get you in trouble! Those squirrels are wiley and evil I tell you!Nubbin wagsGinger." When Dad was letting us out after he got home from work yesterday I could see something in the lilac bush. I told Sasha I saw something and as soon as Dad opened the door, we ZOOOMED to the bush and there as a squirell!! I tried to corner him for questioning, but Sasha tried to kill him (she hasn't met her quota for the year). Of course he got scarred and got awaybefrore I cold get him to answer and I'm pretty sure he had a heart attache a couple blocks away. I know it was him that snuck into my house and tried to get me in trouble! Squirrels can fit in small places and are really quiet. I was busy guarding the front door, Sasha was busy guarding the bed and Gunnar ws busy guarding the computer room chair so the kitchen, laundry and dining room were totally open areas for him to sneak into my house and frame me!!! I'm glad that's over. Thanks for all your help everybody!!! And keep an eye out for those sneaky squirrels!! Ginger's right!!!
On Ginger's blog she also had some fun stuff. You have to try these out! I know what reindeer I am and my elf name! Here's my results! It's so much fun! Thanks for sharing Ginger!!
I'm Rudolph!! Mom says the description fits me perfectly!!

You Are Rudolph

Sweet and shy, you tend to be happiest when you're making someone else happy. Why You're Naughty: You sometimes stick that nose where it doesn't belong Why You're Nice: Christmas would be a sad affair without you!

Which of Santa's Reindeer Are You?

My Elf Name

Your Elf Name Is...

Trixie Blinking Bum

What's" Your Elf Name?

Thanks again everybody for thoughts and wishes to my Mom. Grammie, your comment made Mom cry, but she said in a good way. Even though Mom and her mom weren't close or really on speaking terms, it's still hard because it was her mom. Her brother and stepfather are being mean about stuff, too which isn't helping at all. I met Mom's brother once and boy did I let him know what I thought of him. Mom was really surprised when I went off on him for no reason. Mom said though that dogs have a good scent (Mom says it's actually sense, but I'm the dog, not her!) when it comes to people and his scent was bad!!! I've never met Mom's stepdad, but I bet his scent stinks, too.

It's almost time for Mom to come home for her lunch break now so I better go wait for her. Have a great weekend everybody and if I don't post next week, Have a Merry Christmas!!! I hope Santa Paws is very generous to all of you!!

Love Kaos

More Evidence & Mom

Hi everydoggy. Mom found some black lab fur on the table with the other evidence. I pointed out there's a black lab across the alley and sometimes she forgets to lock the back door. That backfired because then it was my fault for letting a strange dog into the house. I'm still working on figuring out the "truth." Thanks for all the suggestions so far. They've all been very helpful even though Mom doesn't believe any of them.
I'm not worried about Santa not bringing me presants anymore though. I sooo totally made up for it yesterday. I was getting ready to go post more about the new evidence and all of a sudden Mom came home. It was only 2:30 so I was really surprised she was home already. We all went to tell her we missed her, but I could tell something was wrong. She didn't tell us anything, but we knew something was wrong. We tried to get Mom to play with us to cheer her up and then we got the hint this was not play time so Sasha, Gunnar and I all crawled up on the couch and watched cartoons with Mom. It turns out my Mom's mother died yesterday morning. My Aunt Gillian called Mom at work after their sister-in-law called my Aunt during lunch. Aunt Gillian tried catching Mom on her lunch break but she was still talking to their sister-in-law. My Mom and my aunt didn't have a good relationship with their mom, but it's still sad when someone you know dies, especially a parent or other family member. Mom is doing okay. She says it's mostly confusion she's dealing with right now. Her Mom was diagnosed with cancer a couple months ago and it spread really really fast. I only met the lady a couple times and both time I barked at her really loud. The last time she came to my house she upset my Mom really really bad and NOBODY does that to my Mom. I hadn't been living with my family very long when that happened (only a few weeks), but I loved my Mom a lot from the first day so I wasn't going to let someone be so mean to someone so wonderful. Sasha told me about when she lived with our Mom's Mom. Sasha is the one the started calling her the "Mean Lady." Sasha said she was always getting blamed for stuff that the other pets in the house would do. How can you blame a miniature dacshund for peeing a lake's worth on a rug when there's a St. Bernard living in the house? Sasha had to spend a lot of time kenneled up when she lived there. Sasha said Aunt Gillian helped take care of her, but she was too young to stick up for Sasha. After Sasha and Mom moved into our house with Dad, Mom and Sasha would still go to the other house to visit and Sasha would still get blamed for chewing on stuff. One time she even got blamed for being the only dog that would poop on the floor when Mom's brother's little dog was there and was well known for pooping in the house unlike Sasha. Sasha said the lady was always mean to Mom and she didn't like Dad. How can you not like Dad? He's one of the bestest people in the world!! So you can see why Mom is deling with some confusion. We made Mom feel lots better when she came home early and we all cuddled with her all night. OH! Dad took Mom and Aunt Gillian to a restaurant to eat so nobody had to make dinner and guess what! Mom brought us back some french fries for taking care of her afterwork! She said the hamburger was way too yummy to not eat herself, but that's okay, she needed that to keep up her strength anyway. The french fries were very yummy and enough for us. Some of them even had ketchup on them!!! Mom said she's going to work until her boss annoys her too much today. I think she should have taken me with her to scare the mean people away, but I have to stay and guard the house.
Anyway, if you have anymore ideas on my table situation, let me know. Thanks!!

HELP!!

If anybody knows the number to those CSI guys, PLEASE let me know. I need help BAD!! I bet the AO4 would help me! They'd do a better job anyway since they're dogs! They would totally be able to interpret the evidence better than a human!

Okay, so here's what happened. Mom and Dad came home from work last night and saw these prints on the dining room table. Dad said it looked like Gunnar had been on the table. Mom freaked out because even if she hadn't just cleaned the litterbox, there's no way Gunnar could get that much mud anywhere in the house (Mom hasn't wattered the houseplants in a couple weeks either so they're all bone dry and sad looking). Mom said those were lab paw prints! Can you believe that? Without even doing any official DNA, mud sample test or taking any pawprints, I automatically get blamed! After Mom took the picture she said the picture definately proved they are definatly lab prints because they're bigger than cat or dacshund prints and the prints from the pads are definately lab shaped. She said that it must have happened right after she left for lunch because she let me inside and didn't have time to clean off my paws so they were still muddy. I am so not convinced. What happened to being tried by a jury of my peers? What about innocent until proven guilty? There's no proof as to how I got up there and there's no proven motive. The pulled out chair and the tons of canned and boxed up food and cookies for Christmas on the table are all circumstantial. There's no proof!!

If anybody out there can help, please do! Mom's sign says 7 days to Christmas and I don't want this to get back to Santa!!!!

Go Vote!

Hi everybody! DWB has December's photo of the month voting ready. You HAVE to go for Peanut's picture cuz it makes me laugh every time I look at it and because it's my dear Flash's brother.

My belly hasn't been feeling good lately. It gurgles a lot and according to Mom, my gas is really bad. My butt makes funny noises once in awhile and I turn around real quick to see what's going on, but I never catch what's happening. Mom and Dad think it's hilarious but I can never see what's so funny. Anyway, since my belly is grumbling again, I'm going to go take a nap and wait for Dad to come home and let me out. Mom is trying to convince me that putting her cold hands on my belly should help me. I actually think she's the cause of it though.

Have a good weekend everydog and stay warm. It's starting to snow again here so hopefully Mom and Dad will throw snowballs at me this weekend. (That's a good thing. They don't actually throw them at me and hit me, they throw them above my head and I jump up and catch them. It's tons of fun as long as the snowball is soft and there's not a puddle of mud to land in.)

Reast In Peace Thrawn

After writting my post about my mom's cold hands I went to read everybody's blogs and saw the sad news that Thrawn from the Brat Pack has joined his brother Dakota over the Rainbow Bridge. I'm very sad to hear the news. This has to be really hard for Maryann and the rest of the pack so I'm sending lots of hugs and doggy kisses to all of them. I'm sure Thrawn and Dakota are happy to be together again and are going to watch over not only their pack, but the rest of us, too. I already miss you Thrawn.

Cold Hands

Today is a complaining post and I'll make it short. Okay, you know how us dogs have warm bellies because of the fur and because some of us like to curl up in balls to take naps? Well, my Mom has issues with her hands getting cold all the time. She's always trying to put them on Dad's warm neck or my warm belly (Sasha's belly isn't warm enough or big enough). Why should Dad and I have to warm up Mom's cold hands when there are lots of things she could do to warm them up herself? She does the same thing with her feet! I'm glad I don't sleep in the big bed at night when it's cold outside because Mom can't sleep if her feet are cold which means Dad doesn't sleep until Mom's feet are warm. Last night Dad wouldn't let her touch his neck and I wasn't paying attention to what was going on so when he stood up, I took his place on the couch and all of a sudden there were big chunks of ice on my belly! Mom tried to make Dad feel guilty by saying that I was letting her warm her hands on my belly and I wasn't runing away like Dad did. BALONY!!! I couldn't move because of the shock of the paralyzing cold pressed on my nice warm belly!!!
K, I'm done now. Just had to vent a little. Thanks for listening.

Christmas Lights In Snow

Last night Mom went out and took pictures of our house with the Christmas lights and the snow. Our house is decorated for both day and night. Once school is out for Christmas break Mom said she'd take some day pictures. It's too scary to go out in the street right now to take the pictures. She might get run over and we definataley don't want that!! These first 2 are pictures of the front.















This is a lamp post. In the day, you can see a big red bow and red tinsel wrapped around it and at night there's red and white lights. Mom loves the lamp post.














These are little snowmen along the pathway to the street. They looked pretty funny out there without the snow, now they're happy little snowmen. Mom noticed this year that she has a thing for snowmen. Grandma watched a show that said you should have a theme to your Christmas decorations and Mom and Grandma agreed that was silly. Then when Mom and Dad were putting the ornaments on the tree they noticed there were a lot of snowmen ornaments, then as they unpacked other stuff they noticed Mom has been collecting snowman stuff for a long time! That snowman she won at the Christmas party the other night fits right it.















It's really cold today so I'm going back to my blanket on the couch. Mom got stuck trying to get out of the driveway this morning so hopefully she'll make it in the driveway for lunch so Sasha and I can go outside. Sasha and I both agreed it was too cold to go out before Mom left for work this morning. It was so cold this morning Gunnar was up on the bed with us instead of off doing his indepedent stuff. When it's cold out, Gunnar is a big cuddle kitty.
Stay warm every pup!

Snow!

There's a lot of snow outside!!! So much Sasha is a very mad puppy dog. I'm so glad I'm not a short dog. This morning I went out to play and I came inside and showed Mom my snow nose. She was running late for work so she couldn't take a picture of it. It was also really cold so I didn't want to wait very long. The snow we had this weekend was really wet and really really cold, but this snow from last night is fluffy snow. I hope the snow stays for Christmas. Mom's car is short like Sasha though so even though Mom loves to play in snow, she's really getting annoyed with the snow. That's what happens when you buy a Kia instead of a Jeep!! If it gets too much deeper I'll let her drive my Jeep, she won't have to worry about getting stuck in it. Although, if it's so deep that she needs to take my Jeep to work, she shouldn't be going to work anyway! Instead, she should make some hot chocolate and curl up with me on the couch while Dad makes a fire. OR een better! She could make some hot chocolate and pack a water dish and we could all go play in the snow in my Jeep! THEN we can come home and Dad can make a fire.
There is a problem with this snow though. It's the same problem I have every time it snows. I can't find my toys. I know they're out there and Mom always tells me I should leave them on the porch, but I always forget. So they're out there somewhere. A lady that works with my Mom was telling her about a place she lived where they always had a lot of snow in big huge drifts. They had a backetball hoop in their back yard and if the ball went over the hoop and landed in the snowbank, they had to wait until Spring to find their balls. They thought it was hilarious when Spring came along and there were like 20 balls behind the hoop. If I had been there, I would have gone in for them! I love burrowing through the snow! Sasha likes burrowing through the blankets when it gets this cold. Mom added another blanket to Sasha's bed to try to get her to stay in her own bed at night. She gets cold and either gets in bed with Mom and Dad or with me and then we don't sleep well. So far the extra blanket is working great and Mom wishes she had figured that out years ago. (Sasha just turned 5 - Mom's a little slow with obvious stuff sometimes.) We're all sleeping much better now.
I'm going to go find a nice warm blanket to curl up in now. Mom has blankets everywhere this time of year. It's great! Hope all you dogs that have snow are having fun and staying warm. If you're in the area with all those icestorms, be very careful! We had a small one last week and I slid across the porch. Luckily the only thing hurt was my pride. Stuff like that is very dangeous.

Christmas Party

I'm kind of in a bad mood today because of this snowman.Yes he's cute, but he ruined my night last night. Mom and Dad came home and put nice clothes on and took MY Jeep to a Christmas party and then about 8 hours later came home and we all went to bed. (It was only 2 hours, but that's NOT the point!) Dad won this snowman and Mom won a crystal snowman and angel (the picture of those didn't turn out because you can see through them.) How am I supposed to take care of my Mom and Dad if they run off in my Jeep for parties? They better stay home tonight and all weekend. Mom's got some major baking to get done before Christmas and really hasn't started it. Aren't you supposed to finish your chores before you go out and do fun stuff? Sheesh!!

When Mom was putting her shoes on this morning Gunnar showed Mom how upset he was that they weren't home last night and showed her what he'd do if she went out again tonight. He ripped a bow off Grandma's gift. Gunnar has a thing for playing with bows so Mom didn't see it as a threat, she saw a cute kitty playing with another Christmas bow and said, "As long as you don't mess with any more of the gifts, you can play with that bow, I'm sure Grandma won't mind that there's a bow missing from her gift." Gunnar started at Mom and then attacked the bow hoping Mom would get the point but instead she said, "You are too cute Gunnar, I wish I had time to take your picture." She totally missed the point! Hopefully they'll stay home tonight, otherwise Gunnar and I are opening all the presants under the tree which I will point out don't have any of our names on! There's a couple for Aunt Gillian and one for Grandma, but none for the ones that deserve it the most!!

It's really cold today and the weather guy said we're supposed to have snow this weekend which I am totally excited about! I can't wait for there to be enough snow to go out and play in and take my Jeep out and play in.

I'm going to go curl up in a blanket now. This room gets too cold sometimes. I need to figure out how to fix that if this is where I'm going to keep my kids that Santa is hopefully going to bring me for Christmas. I don't want them to freeze!

Have a good weekend everydoggy and hammy!

Another Puppy Picture

I know I keep promising pictures of my adventure, but the puppy pictures are too cute not to share! Look at them!! The boy is the 3rd one in with his head burried. Aunt Gillian says he's a bully when it comes to feeding time. Well, duh! He has 6 sisters!!

I'm going to go wrestle with Gunnar now. He's been a big butthead lately. Mom keeps threatening him with staying locked up in the bedroom all day on Christmas Day while Grandma is here if he doesn't straighen up. I figure I'll help make him really tired when Mom and Dad aren't home so he's too tired to get in trouble once they get home from work.

Aren't those puppies sooooo cute? What is with me? I'm getting all mushy over puppies! I don't want puppies! I want human kids!! OH! I was going to ask Santa for some kids in my letter! Santa, if you're reading this, I would REALLY REALLY like some of my own kids to play with and lick and love!!

Anyway, I better go wrestle Gunnar now.

PUPPIES

Here are the puppies. The final count is 7. The first one was the only problem she had because she came out backwards. Luckily everybody else came out the normal way. Mommy Bailey, the babies and Aunt Gillian are all totally exhausted and are doing a lot of sleeping today. The babies are hard to get pictures of because the flash reflects off of them.















Out of 7 puppies, this guy is the only boy!!!















Here is Mommy Bailey with her babies. Aunt Gillian says she's a really good mommy. When she needs to go outside she lets her Mom know and then Bailey will get out of the kennel and stand outside the kennel until Aunt Gillian locks the kennel door - not just shuts the door, it has to be locked. And then she goes outside and gets a drink and a bite to eat and then goes back to her babies. Aunt Gillian also said that anytime my cousin Bodee or the cats come around the kennel, Bailey growls at them until they go away. She only lets Aunt Gillian touch the puppies and even when Aunt Gillian has one, she's keeping a very close eye on her. Aren't they cute?














Mom got her camera working so I have pictures to show you of me on my adventure, but that can wait. Today is all about my cousin Bailey and her puppies.

What A Day!

This has been a very busy day already and it's been really exciting! First Mom came home for lunch and she said I got one of those fabulous cards that Dory's Mom was making and then Mom gave Sasha and I a milkbone and Sasha got distracted and I snagged her milkbone and Mom didn't get mad, she laughed instead and told Sasha she should pay more attention and then right before Mom and Dad left to go back to work my Aunt Gillian called and my cousin Bailey is having puppies right now as I type this! *breathe, breathe* I haven't gotten to play with my cousin Bailey for a really long time because she is pregnant and I can't wait until the puppies are all grown up enough to go find their forever homes so she can come play with me again because I really like playing with her and I've never met my other cousin Bodee and even after the puppies are gone it might be awhile until I get to play with her because she's going to get the surgery done so she can't have anymore puppies since there's some frisky stuff going on between her and her brother. *breathe, breathe* Aunt Gillian just called Mom again and there's 2 puppies. The first was a little girl and the second was a little boy and they're mostly white with some black. Bailey is a red healer and Bodee is a blue healer so Mom and Aunt Gillian were wondering if they'd be purple. What dorks!!!! *breathe, breathe* Hopefully tomorrow I'll have the final count for you. So far Bailey is doing okay and Bodee is being a bad daddy, he's been hiding outside all day. Sheesh! Acording to the timeline of the other 2 puppies she should be getting ready to have the 3rd puppy pretty soon so I better go wait for an update!

Letter To Santa

Here's my antler picture. Mom had to use her old camera because she forgot the batteries she was going to borrow from work. All the practicing didn't work. As soon as the camera came out I started flicking the antlers off and being chaotic so I wouldn't get caught in them, but then they were sneaky and they brought out the bacon Schmakos. You can see I'm nowhere near the Christmas tree and I'm totally not looking at Mom and the camera, Dad had the Schmakos so Dad got my full attention. Mom says she'll try again. I say good luck with that. I'll show you pictures of Sasha and Gunnar next week. Even though I'm not looking at the camera, my picture is lots better than Sasha's. Mom says Gunnar did the best. That was just luck though. He was trying not to get stepped on, it had nothing to do with being a good boy. I will admit that this is a terrific shot of my awesome collar from my sister Dory!
Mom and Dad are taking off work tomorrow to spend the entire day with me. Mom says she has to use her last vacation day before December 1st so she chose to take it Noember 30th. She's a procrastinator. She waits until the last minute to do things a lot. But that's okay because she'll be home with ME! That means I won't be posting tomorrow so every dog have a great weekend!
Here's my letter to Santa:

Dear Santa,
I hope you had a great year. I will be sure to save you a couple of Mom's cookies that she is going to make with my help cuz I know how much you love them.
First, I would like to ask you to give Schmakos to all the DWB dogs. Some of them have never had them before and that is just so wrong! The commercial says "dogs go wacko for Schmakos" and OH BOY do I!!! The bacon and the marrow ones are my favorite, but the others are pretty good, too so whatever flavors you can come up with for everydog is perfect.
Next I would like to ask you to get something very sepcial for my Mom and Dad. Mom had a rough year with having her gallbladder out and then everything going on with her mother and friends. Mom was so sick before her surgery and should have felt better afterwards, but then people started making her sad and that makes me very sad. I cuddle and snuggle with her a lot to show her how loved she is, but I know she is still sad inside. Dad takes very good care of all of us so he deserves something nice, too. I love my parents very much. I know I'm safe here and I know that if they decide to move, they'll take me with them. I've been with them for a little over 2 years now and it's been the bestest 2 years of my life. I only get yelled out when I'm in BIG trouble and I can't remember the last time I was hit. I get to go on adventures instead of being left at home and I gets TONS of love.
There's really nothing I need this year. I have a nice warm and comfy bed to sleep on, lots of yummy treats and food and LOTS of toys. What I would really like is some grass to roll and play in. That's something Mom and Dad want ,too. You could bring me a new bone like you do every year, too. The onld one is fine, I still use it because they're so great and I know you put a lot of thought into them, but there isn't much taste to it anymore and pieces are starting to break off and Mom is worried about me choking on a piece or it making me sick.
I have one more thing to ask for. It's not for me, it's for all those dogs out there that don't have a wonderful home like I do. Before I came to live with my Mom and Dad I didn't know how it felt to feel true love. My Mom and Dad love me so much that I have almost totally forgotten about my old life. I'm getting lots better when people in uniforms come around and the only men I'm afraid of are African American men (I'm working really hard on that one though. I don't act like I'm going to kill the neighbor's brother anymore as long as he stays away from me and my family). I was lucky that my old family took me to a rescue place and I'm even more lucky that a few days later my Mom and Dad drove 45 minutes to just check out that shelter. I wasn't there long enough to really even remember much about it, but I know they were nice to me and nice to Mom and Dad. Not all dogs are as lucky as me though. Could you make sure lots of dogs that aren't as lucky as me get to find really good homes. I now know that there are lots of loving families out there and every dog deserves to know what real love feels like. It's the bestest feeling in the world!
Thanks a lot Santa! Have a safe trip and a Merry Christmas!
Love
Lady Kaos
PS I just thought of another thing. Could you get us a bathroom trash can with a lid so Sasha will stop dragging the bathroom trash out all over. It grosses Mom out and it's kind of embarassing if company comes over. Thanks a bunch!

Wheelin' Mutt

Today is dedicated to promoting my Mom and Dad's Wheelin' Website. There is a bunch of cool stuff for people that like rock crawling and 4-wheeling and now there's stuff for us dogs that like to go, too. The human stuff is called "Wheelin' Nut" and the dog stuff is called "Wheelin' Mutt." My Mom is so clever for coming up with Wheelin' Mutt. These are the items for sale for Wheelin' Mutts. Click on any of the pictures and they'll take you to the Wheelin' Mutt section of the website. There's also some of my Mom's art stuff on that site. The Wheelin' stuff is more popular though. I'm hoping Wheelin' Mutt is popular, too since I was the inspiration for it.

I think tonight my Mom is going to borrow camera batteries from work and we're going to work on our Christmas pictures. I have to get my letter to Santa in tomorrow since I won't be able to post on Friday (Mom and Dad are taking the day off to spend with me!!). Plus, Mom wants to get the Chrstmas letter sent out pretty soon so she can focus on making cookies and pies and snack stuff for Christmas. I love helping Mom make Christmas cookies because she's a slob. We have a system worked out so that she doen't trip over me while I'm cleaning up her mess on the floor. Our kitchen is really tiny so there's not much room to move around in and if you're not careful, you get tripped over a lot. Mom is pretty good about not stepping on me while I'm helping, but Dad always steps on me while he's cooking. Mom says she learned to cook with dogs running around the kitchen so she's used to it. She said at the mean lady's house she had to work around a St. Bernard!!! Ther's no way a St. Bernard would fit in our kitchen!

Mom grounded Sasha today and maybe for tomorrow and Friday, too. Sasha gets into the bathroom trash and she usually leaves it in the bathroom, but today she drug it out into the living room. I told her not to do it, but she thinks because she's older, she doesn't have to listen to me. I'm totally smarter though. When Mom walked in at lunch time there was kleenex all over the living room. Mom got totally grossed out and knew exactly who did it. I used to take the blame for everything no matter if it was my fault or not. When Mom walks in and I lay my ears down and curl my tail between my legs, she knows I'm guilty for something. Sasha went to hide and I did lay my ears down or tuck my tail so she knew it was Sasha, plus she's seen Sasha get in the bathroom trash before. I prefer the kitchen trash. If I'm going to get in trouble for getting in the trash, I make sure it tastes good! Bathroom trash is yucky!!! So she's grounded until Mom decides she's not anymore. Mom caves so easily though, so Sasha isn't too worried about spending too much time kenneled up.

I'm going to go take a nap now. The boxer across the alley has been quiet today and hasn't been outside when I've been outside which has been really nice. He asks such stupid questions!! Wish me luck tonight!!

On Guard

First I just wanted to let you know Mom's sign says there's 27 days until Christmas!!! Mom sewed strings on Sasha's Santa hat last night and Sasha tried it on and it fits perfectly so it looks liek the pictures will be happening soon. I'm ready to get them over with. Mom has to use her old slow camera because her good one has battery issues still (she's very sad about it).
Last night some mean people called and cussed Dad out. I knew right away I needed to go into protection mode, especially when Dad wasn't in the same room as Mom. I stayed close to Mom all night to make sure she was okay. I woofed at any little noise to make sure they knew to stay away. Dad and I are going to have to find a new place to go hunting, but that's okay. I'm not going to let those people treat my Mom bad anymore! They aren't allowed in my house anymore and that's not because of Dad's rule, it's because of MY rule!
Mom got some stuff done for our online store and it's for dogs! I'll hopefully be posting pictures of them soon so you guys can see how cool they are. Since Mom doesn't hang out with Aunt Cassie (this will be the last time I call her that), she has lots of spare time to work on her arts and crafts stuff. She's been doing a lot of cross stitch lately. Right now she's working on gifts, but pretty soon she's going to start getting stuff ready to sell. If any of you know where Mom can sell her cross stitch stuff, let me know. I'm going to use my blog to help her promote her stuff. She found a really cool website that is an online craft show. The next show is in January so she's going to get stuff she's already done and some new stuff together to sell at that. She's really excited about that and she's also going to set her art website up to sell them there. I'm hoping she starts making enough from there so she can quit her job and take care of me all day. I love when she stays home with us all day. I know a lot of you out there have crafty parents so if you have any advice for my Mom, I'll happily pass it on to her.
I better go check on the boxer in the alley again. Now he wants to know what time of day the alley has the most cars to bark out. I have no idea! I spend a lot of time inside because my Mom needs my help cleaning and baking and she also needs protected. So weird!

Christmas Is Coming!

Mom has this really cool sign that says how many days until Christmas it is and guess what!! There's 28 days unil Christmas!! This weekend we put up our tree and other decoratoins and yesterday Mom and Dad put the decorations outside. They wouldn't lt me help with that part though because they thought I would get in trouble or something. We all know I wouldn't do that!!
Mom and Dad went to the store on Saturday and came back with some bad stuff. There's a little Santa hat for Sasha ( Mom has to put strings on it to hold it on Sasha's head) and there was a pait of reindeer antlers for me. I really don't like them at all. Mom's camera is still havig issues so we practiced posing for the Christmas letter photos. I haven't decided if I want her to hurry up and figure the camera thing out. I'm tired of practicing for the real thing, but I also don't want everybody they send cards to to see how ridiculous I look with reindeer antlers on. Wearing the antlers makes Mom smile though so I guess I'm okay with wearing them.
I'm also working on my letter for Santa. I saw yesterday that the Brat Pack is doing a Santa letter contest and even has a special blog set up for it. I have to get my letter done for their deadline. That way Santa will be sure to read it in time. I think it was very clever of the Brat Pack to make it very convenient for Santa to read all of our letters by putting them all in one place. You guys are all so smart!!
I hear the boxer across the alley barking again so I better go check out what's going on. He just moved in not long ago and I've been helping him adjust to the new neighborhood. He barks at me a lot so I bark back. He lives where the bad lab used to live. I'm glad I don't have to worry about that bad lab jumping fences again, but this boxer needs a lot of barking at. He has so many questions about our neighborhood and the alley between our houses and I'm trying to help him out but who in the world knows the squirel to dog ratio in the alley? I don't really know how many dogs are in the alley or how many squirrels there are, plus why would he want to know that? He's a weird one.
I'm going to see if Mom will get the pictures off her camera tomorrow from my adventure that seems like a really long time ago. I think she's able to do that much with her camera. Poor Mom, I didn't know she could breathe without that camera attached to her all the time.
OH, one more thing. I think I'm caught up on eerybody's blogs. I haven't checked into the DWB website yet though so if there's anything exciting I need to know about right away.

Thanksgiving

Hey everybody! I'm back!!! I think. I've been REALLY busy. Mom has been going through some stuff with the mean lady that she used to call mom and with Aunt Cassie. Let's just say they're both mean to Mom and I'm not going to let either of them near my Mom ever again. This could mean no more pheasant hunting trips to Grandma and Grandpa Cheese's though, but I'm wiling to give those up if it's not good for Mom.
Anyway, yesterday was Thanksgiving and I have decided Thanksgiving is my most favorite holiday ever!!! We spent all day at Grandma's house!! It was great!!! Then they made some food and we got some turkey!! It was very very yummy. THEN they started eating pie and Mom put whipped cream on our noses! I LOVE Whipped Cream Noses!!! Sasha and I played all day long. Grandma realized why Mom says it is illegal to buy is squeek toys. Grandma said she's going to buy some quiet toys for days we're there all day like that. It was so much fun! Finally I couldn't move anymore so Sasha and I plopped in the middle of the floor for a quick nap. Mom's batteries in her camera all died, not because she didn't charge them, because she wore them out! She's recharged those batteries so much they no longer work. She said the same thing happened to her batteries at work and they were about the same age as her camera at home. Mom is hard on cmera batteries! When we came home, Sasha went and curled up in my new bed and I curled up on the couch with Mom and Dad. Aunt Gillian came by for leftovers and we got some more turkey and then we went back to sleep. When it was finally time for bed, I didn't warm up Mom's spot first like I always do, I went straight to my bed and when Dad took the trash out, I made him go by himself. I felt bad, but he understood. Sasha and I have been sleeping all day. Gunnar didn't go to Grandma's yesterday and I seriously think he needs to rethink his feelings about going on car rides. Grandma's house has fun toys, a HUGE yard with grass and there's yummy food there, too. I LOVE Grandma's house!!!!
I'm going to go take another nap now. I promise I'll have some cool pictures of that adventure on soon and I'm going to be posting more now, too. I have some other cool stuff to share with all of you, too! I'm going to be working on getting caught up on everybody's blogs, too. If there is anything really important or exciting I should know about, post a comment to let me know. I've missed all of you A LOT!!!
Have a great weekend everybody! I'm going to help Mom and Dad put the Christmas decorations up and probably do a lot more sleeping.