Birthday Excitement

Mother nature has arranged a wonderful light show for my birthday.  When I say wonderful I really mean scary, noisy, dribbling and shaking with fear thunderstorm.  Thankfully my human came home in time to whisk me round the block before the rain came.  She is now glued to the weather channel watching the next storm come in.  Hopefully we will get away with just rain and thunder, I don't think my nerves will take another tornado warning.  And there I was thinking she was getting the matches out to light the candles on my cake. 

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me. 

Can you believe it I am 10?  TEN!  Where did the years go?  One minute I'm running free as a dog who slipped his lead, chasing bunnies through the fields, the next I'm in a crate on a plane to a life of thunderstorms, hot weather, and walks on the lead.

My human is planning a party for me this weekend.  She says it's for the Royal wedding but I know that's just a ruse to put me off the scent.  I hope we have sausages on sticks, and sausages not on sticks for that matter.  Just sausages, that would be nice.  Hmmmm sausages!

I need a nap.

Long arm of the law

Well that's been an entertaining few hours.  When we got back from my walk the other night I alerted my human to a business card on the floor at our door.  She wanted to walk right past it but I insisted she pick it up.  It's a good job she did as it was from the local sheriff.  Talk about guilty conscience, she paced back and forwards for ages before finally ringing the number on the card.  Predictably there was no answer so she spent the entire night wondering what dastardly deed had caught up with her.  I was surprised how long her list was.  Luckily for me she wasn't arrested, and I don't have to go in a home, he was looking for a previous occupier.  Phew!  My belly rubs are safe for now. 

How to...

make an impression.  Not all first impressions are good and some are certainly more memorable than others.  Take Jack for example, I still remember him piddling on my human's feet when he first met her.  we had some people round for lunch yesterday.  I'd never met them before so naturally I had to put on a good show.  When they arrived I greeted them with my favourite toy - the floppy bunny.  We played a bit of tug and a bit of fetch; I had a lick of their exposed flesh as normal, then they settled down to lunch.  Hmmm roast pork with all the trimmings.... queue my staring role of the day ... I threw up on the rug next to the dinning table.  It wasn't just a little cough either it the was the full Monty so to speak.  To say I wasn't very popular was an understatement.  Better out than in I always say.  And to our visitors if you are reading this... I'm sorry if I put you off your creme brulee.

Good deed or just nuts?

My human has gone nuts.  It's snowing like heck, the power keeps going off, it's as cold as heck and all of a sudden she grabs her coat, gloves and boots and is out the door quicker than you can say Pedigree Chum.  Then two minutes later she's back, grabs some cardboard from the garage then out the door again.  Slightly curious I get up from my warm bed and wander to the window to watch the spectacle.  She kicks the cardboard under the car wheels, then gets her sizable frame behind the car and two minutes later the driver is shaking her hand and trying to give her money.  Apparently the guy had been shoveling snow and trying to move his car for over an hour.  I'm very proud of my human - her brains and bulk have some use after all :-)
  

Snowdog

Just wondering why my human only cleared to here.  Does she expect me to wade through that lot? 

Ice, ice baby

Well that was a new experience.  Either my paws have been polished overnight or something happened to the pavement.  Apart from it being really, really cold on the old paws, it's ridiculously slippy.  Everywhere is covered in ice.  My human had to clear a path just to get out of the house and even then it was the shortest walk in history.  It's impossible to walk on the road or the pavement  so we hopped from grunchy grass verge to crunchy grass verge.  Even my 4 paw drive couldn't get any traction.  It's not funny or dignified losing control of your legs. 

It doesn't look much but it is all ice.

Happy New Year

Alright so we are well in to January but it's taken me this long to recover from my Christmas holiday.  I had such good fun but it was very tiring.  Endless walks, plenty of room to run around and best of all, off the lead. 

My mate Jake got a lovely Christmas present... a puppy called Piper.  She is ever so cute but hard work.  So much energy from such a little bundle.  I thought Jack was hyperactive... Piper was non-stop.  It's a good job I'm such a laid back guy, others wouldn't be as tolerant.  She is beautiful though.  Almost makes me want to ask my human to get one to keep me company... but then again I like my peace and quiet.  I think I'm too old to be training puppies. 

White Christmas

Merry Christmas everybody.  I'm on holiday at Jack's house with his human family.  As you can see I've made myself at home and made friends with Marmite the cat.  It's not all lazing around though, I get to go out loads of times during the day, I must say it's very nice.

Christmas Day was a bit upsetting not being with my human and not getting any presents either.  Santa Paws clearly didn't get the message that I'd moved so I guess he must have left all my presents at my house.

I was so excited Christmas morning.  I helped Santa put the presents under the tree the night before, point of interest, reindeer stink!  Not surprising really with the amount of work they have to do - it's one BIG sleigh they are hauling.  I was awake bright and early waiting for the little human to get up and run downstairs all excited and ready to tear in to the wrapping paper.  Five O'clock came and went, 6 O'clock passed.  Come on, what sort of 4 year old isn't awake at the crack of dawn on Christmas morning?  I couldn't contain myself any longer so I started making a fuss to be let out.  They were all up pretty soon after that... works every time! 

It started snowing mid morning - how cool is that, a proper white Christmas.  

Princess Ben

A windchill of -16oC for this morning's walk - if that doesn't wake you up nothing will.

I must pack my bags for my holiday at my mate Jack's.  I'm so looking forward to it.  His little human is wonderful.  See how she looked after me at Thanksgiving....

The gloves are on

My human has bought new gloves.  No more makeshift hand warmers for her. 

Is it wrong?

If it's 7 degrees below with a windchill doubling that, is it wrong for your human to warm her hands on your poop?  It is bagged but it feels wrong.