Wimsey's Place

Akupunkture: those crazi humins...

2009-12-17T12:46:00.000-08:00

Recently mi humin lost her mind. Again. Shee took mi to a new vet (I cud tell by the smell) who turned mi into a pin cushon! What waz shee thinking!?!

Shee murmurred something about this helping mi arthritis (whatever that iz) and that akupunkture (whatever that iz) iz a well-respected medicine.

But pins? In mee! Iz this leegal?!

Well, now that I hav ceen to that new vet three times, i reelized he doez smell a little different than mi other doktors. And the pins don't reely hurt, and it haz been eezier to get around lately.

From pins? In mee? Well ... OK.

Im in Heven

2009-12-09T12:28:00.000-08:00

On Sundae, mi first nanni kame to vizit me. When i waz a puppi, she kame every day. After SHE had a puppi, she didn't kome becuz she waz taking out her puppi.

I missed her, and it was wonderful to see her again after all theze years. (Her puppi is az big az mi puppi now, btw.)

Hoops

2009-10-05T12:35:00.000-07:00

There are gust so manee things rong with this piktur. If the humin wanted the ball, he shuld hav kept it.

cee no evil, or much else

2009-08-31T12:33:00.000-07:00

Mi humin took mi to my doktor last weekend. Doktors make mi nurvus, but mine is nice and koos at me. That helps.

Shi told mi humin somthing I'd been trying to tell her for a long time: i dont cee so well anymore. I like when the lites are on, becuz that makes it eazier, and i don't want mi humin puppi leaving things on the ground anymore. And no more moving furnichure.

My humin assures mi that, 'Yur wish iz mi command.' It beter be.

Kooling Down

2009-07-28T14:10:00.000-07:00

i do not like it kold. i also do not like it hot. Last nite waz horribl, todea iz horribl.

To kool off, i went with mi grandhumins to the office to get sum things dun:

I had my grandhumin give mi a glas of water.
I had mi grandhumin give mi snaks.
I ate lunch.
I slept.

This iz much better.

Cyotee Puppiez

2009-07-22T12:17:00.000-07:00

Run, puppiez, run!

Shee looks innosent

2009-06-24T12:18:00.000-07:00

That Kat is gettin meerer than ever. Mi humin snapt this of That Kat when shi waz sleepin. Don't bee fooled. That Kat hides in the darknes until shi kan attak mi.

Sundey in the Park With Humins

2009-06-02T08:39:00.000-07:00

Mi humins took mi to the park to watch other humins. It waz hot. I don't like hot (or cold, for that mater).

Not Mi, Never Mi

2009-05-19T13:52:00.000-07:00

Someone sent mi this, laffing about this dog wining some dum obediance thing.

Grrr. I hav staff.

TGIF

2009-05-08T09:03:00.000-07:00

Frist i wake up. (i git up reely early.)

Then i com downstares.

Then i take a nap (to prepare for mi day).

A Uneek Lunch

2009-04-22T12:41:00.000-07:00

Lunch todae waz pritty good -- after mi grandhumin fixt it up.

Dri biskits are fore the birdz (or catz), and theze started out that way.

But grandhumin added butter yesterday and creem cheeze today -- CHEEZE! -- so I waz happi. I also herd her say, "Peenut butter wud go well on them, too, I think," so I no my brane waves got it her.

Dezert waz ther kat's food. He won't miss it.

Gettin' the newz

2009-04-20T07:52:00.000-07:00

Whi do mi humins torture mi so?

Kan I Get Frys With That?

2009-04-02T13:00:00.000-07:00

One of mi grandhumins invited mi to lunch. Shi's the one who butters mi bonz, to. No buttered bonz todai! Shi eats meet!

1 ov Mi Staffers

2009-03-30T13:32:00.000-07:00

1 ov mi staff membrs iz getting married (whatevr that iz). I don't think it wil afect are relationship.

He shud hav nown

2009-03-25T07:44:00.000-07:00

I red about a sante bernard who froze to some ice. Sum humins saved him -- but, geesh, what's the poont of going outside beefore June??

Frist Petz

2009-03-06T16:04:00.000-08:00

I wazn't surprized to no that mi ansesters were humins' first petz. I red about it in Slate. Mi JRT mom alwayz sed I lookt like a wolf. Kan't yuu cee the rezemblince?

a sunnee spot

2009-02-25T12:35:00.000-08:00

Another long driv home. At leest there waz sun -- and i'm glad mi puppi didn't confuz mi with her pretend petz.

ougta be a law

2009-02-13T13:00:00.000-08:00

Mi humins nevr leeve at nite. That's in ther contrakt. But the other nite, this hapen ... It wazn't rite!

Then I diskovrd what mi humins did. And whi in the world waz I left out?! I wud hav barkt for mi puppi. Shez rite there in the front. Can't mis her red fur.

9 to 5

2009-01-29T13:58:00.000-08:00

A terriors work iz never done. Mi grandhumins gave mi a job. I'm now in the reel estate bizness.

An importint thing I do iz to keep out the mailman, but he doezn't get it, and keeps comin. He also so tries too bribe mi, but hiz treets are only so-so. Mi grandhuman butters them and then they are OK.

Peddi-what?!

2009-01-27T09:22:00.001-08:00

If mi humin gits anee smart ideeas, shi'll bee sorri. I sau thiz on Slate. I'm with the evil kat on this one.

Sad, sad dogg

2009-01-21T11:58:00.001-08:00

Mi humin sent mi this video that anothr humin sent her. I ask you: Iz this pathetik or what? Mi humin used to tri to get mi to chase balls. Pluleeze. If you wanted the ball so bad, whi did you throw it away in the frist place?

long driv homee

2009-01-10T21:25:00.000-08:00

Mi humin, mi puppi, and i went to visit an old frend ov ourz. Shee lives a long way from us, and the driv homee alwayz makes mi sleepy. Good thing i didn't hav to drive this time.

I Luv Krismass!

2008-12-25T19:04:00.000-08:00

Ooooh, Nooooooo

2008-12-22T15:39:00.000-08:00

This iz NOT in mi contract. No, no, no. I will bee inside sleeping til this iz over.

Tirkey!

2008-11-28T23:19:00.000-08:00

Mi humin got togrther with other humins too ete -- alot. I had to reminde them that I waz there. But mi traning pad off.

Trainin Mi Puppi

2008-11-07T12:30:00.000-08:00

Az you'll cee, i never stop teechin mi puppi important things -- lik feedin mi. She lerning quik, to.

humin bites shark, saves terrior

2008-09-30T14:52:00.000-07:00

Just saw thiss on msnbc: A humin saved hiz terrior from a shark. Mi humin wud hav dun that to, I think.

Luv handels??

2008-09-23T14:27:00.000-07:00

What xactly ar luv handles? Mi humin and mi evil doktor were talking abut mee having "luv handles" but I dont hav any handles. Isn't that what shi uzes to open the fridge?

Lending Mi Mug

2008-09-22T14:36:00.000-07:00

This iz one of mi favorit pictures of mi. I'm well nown at SPU wher mi humin works.

Top 10 dogz a sham

2008-09-18T11:25:00.000-07:00

I waz surfin the internet todae and saw this dum article abot the 10 most populer dogz. What a krok.

Sure, be humin to a bulldog or boxer. Yu mite as well pet a brik. A podle?! Yikes. Talk abut snoty. All thae want to talk abut is themselvz. Labz just want yu to give them a beer while they scratch themselfs.

Whare iz the Jack Rusel? I ask. Nevermind, we'r to good for them.

Snokwamee Falls

2008-09-10T12:16:00.000-07:00

Mi grandhumins and nu puppi took mi to a place they kalled Snokwamee Falls yesterdae. The best part of the trip waz sleepin on mi grandhumin's lap durin the drive. When wi arrived, mi puppi sed that I had to stay in the kar becuz a stoopid sine sed "No dogz allowed." Who ever herd of such a thing!? It didn't say "No terriers allowed," so I shud hav ben OK.

Traneing the Nu Puppi

2008-08-29T12:59:00.000-07:00

That nu puppi my humin brought home last yeer, is staying. Shi iz not az eezy to trane az mi big humin waz, it turns out. Thankfuly, mi first humin helps mi, and, in fact, growls more than mi.

pit-bul krimefiters

2008-05-23T08:04:00.000-07:00

this week, I waz reeding the newzpaer and saw a peece from the Spokesman-Revue today about ate pit bulls on deth roe.

Ironically, while surfing the web, I red about LawDogsUSA. Thay trane pit bulls to become drug- and bomb-detection dogs.

I sent the link to LawDogs to the woman trying to save the ate, and am now hoping something good can come from this for at least one or two of the terriers. Wee terriers hav to stick together--unles they want mi cheeze, that iz.

Kold Sone Dae!

2008-04-14T07:44:00.000-07:00

Yesterdae, mi humins forgot that it's STILL not summer -- and they made mi walk a long wae. We ended up at an ice creem store, but I had too wate outside while mi human puppy ordered for us. When I say "ordered for us," tho, I meen "for them"! I onli had the last of mi main humin's bole of ice creem -- but it waz good.

It waz even colder walking home. And it raned.

I am sleeping xtra hard this morning.

Aneething for cheeze?

2008-03-28T08:31:00.000-07:00

Mi humin went off her rocker. Shee sed someone gave her this koat for mi. Doez that meen i hav to ware it?! Well ... if therz cheeze involved, OK, just this once...

Waz that a problim?

2008-03-25T09:48:00.001-07:00

Mi humin waz in that weerd indoor rane she calls a "showr," and i was boored -- and the treets were rite there (sort ov).

Why shud it be a problem for mi to move the treets from the window to the couch. I kan reech them alot easier ther ... and shi and mi humin puppi eat in front ov the TV all the time. So whatz the problim?

In the Newz

2008-03-21T08:42:00.000-07:00

Mi humin emailed mi a link this morning to an article on cnn.com abot ME. I may need to have my humin carry a pen with, so i kan sine autografs now.

mi chare

2008-03-20T07:18:00.000-07:00

So i went to mi grandhumins' house this morning like usual. I jumped on mi chare -- but they had forgotten to put mi blanket on it.

Thankfilly, mi grandhumin noticed rite away and got it for mi. I acepted her apology.

THEN, mi humin puppi climbed in. Geesh, get yor own chare.

Daelite Savinz Time

2008-03-10T15:55:00.000-07:00

Mi humin getz up when itz dark, and i hav never been able to brak her of that -- tri az I mite.

Then this weekend, it waz even worse... Whatz up with that??

(On the up side, shee fed me sooner on Sundae. I did not point out her oops.)

Mi Dae

2008-03-08T11:50:00.000-08:00

This week mi nannee, Suzan, kame to visit mi. I luv it when shi visits. I waz in mi box sleepin and she let mi out. She even brot mi frend, Hank, (he'z evin smaller than mi!) and a new frend, Mocha. (She waz cute!). We all went for a walk and then shi gave mi treets.

It waz a good visit.

A gloriess dae

2008-02-26T08:08:00.000-08:00

Yesterdae mi humins were home neerly all dae -- sleepin. And i got to sleep with them! Yippeee!!

The nite before they were up alot, makin awful noises in the bathroom and sayin somethin about the flu, whatever that is. I say bring it on if I git to hav mi humins around all dae!

Mi Chaire

2008-02-17T23:12:00.000-08:00

Hav i told yu about dinnertime at home? Mi humins put plates and stuff at the hi table, and then they dont evin start eating rite away once the food iz on the table! They sit ther with ther eyz closed (mi puppi has herz open alot of timez tho), and then sumone finaly sayz "Amen." Thatz like a klicker, i think. Bcuz thats when they dive in.

I hav a chaire at the table to. Itz rite at the end, so I think itz the hed. Often I'm ther before anyine else. Mi human sayz I hav this chaire because then i don't hav to beg. i KNO i'm getting something.

That Kat sometimez sitz on MI chaire, too. i hate that. i leave when shi comes, unless the dinner includes cheeze. Then I wate her out.

long tim no post

2008-02-12T12:10:00.000-08:00

O how thingz hav changed since i last rote. I dont cee mi nany as much anymore, but shi did kome over on Saturdae. I gave her kisses. She, of korse, gave mi lotz more.

She kame to kut That Kat's clawz. When mi staff trim that wild animal'z nails, i stay back. Ther iz usually weeping and gashing of humin skin.

Mi humin trimmed mi nails a week ago, but I dont complain like That Kat does. She's over the top. (I've seen her shred mi doktor.)

Things r goin well with mi humin puppi. I'm training her every dae, and she's given mi another warm bed to use -- and shi likes to play more than mi old humin does. She also gives mi cheez whenever shi eats some, to. Sweet.

Mi Puppi

2007-04-10T22:25:00.000-07:00

Mi new humin puppi is tring too teech mi new tricks. I dont need nue triks that dont involv cheeze. Thatz the trik I'm teeching her--feed mi cheeze at all timz. She's a sweet pushover, reely, so i get alot of cheeze. Shee's also a good seet in the kar. I'm loving mi puppi.

A New Staf Member

2007-03-19T13:30:00.000-07:00

it looks like i'm gettin a new member on mi staf. Mi humin iz adoptin (whatever that meens) a humin puppy, and the little humin seems to bee veri trainable. Last Thurzday, shi kame to mi house and when we had lunch, shi fed me most of her cheese.

The little humin tried to play with that kat, to, but the kat ran away. Ha! More cheeze for mi!

Little humins kan be a-OK.

Yeer End

2007-01-08T13:05:00.000-08:00

Mi humin waz doing odd things lately. First, she made that kat and i live in the dark -- and kold -- for hours! (Something about a massive power outage, whatever that iz.) She wazn't happi either, but no amount of brain waves from mi cud get her to turn on the lights, and heet. On the plus side, we all got to go to bed earli and sleep in. Now i make sure too sleep neer the extra heeter.

Xmas kame recently, too! Yaaaah! Mi nanny gave me a grate, red bug. I killed it and plan to kil it again. i kan't be too careful with red bugs. Mi grandhumins gave mi treets! TREETS! Mi humin put them in mi kar, so I make sure to go with her whenever i kan to get one.

The weerdest thing about the holidaz is all the peeple who com over. Every dae more peeple were around--but they didn't all give me cheeze. Whatz with that?

Saterday Nite Life

2006-12-05T10:34:00.000-08:00

Mi staff kept mi bizy last Saterday. (I’v even had to sleep hard on Sundae and Monday to recooperate. But Saterday waz fun.)

First mi mane humin woke mi up early and put mi in my box. Unusual for a Saterday, but I went back to sleep until one of mi grandhumans came to get mi. I got some breckfast (bacin and eggs), and then he took mi to hiz office. We workt hard, with mi supervizing while sitting on hiz lap. But that waz only the beginning on mi day!

In the earli evening, I took mi humin to a parti. It waz alot of girlz. I waz the onli guy … but there waz CHEEZE, lots of CHEEZE! Mi human made sure I got a big peece, and I ate it. But the evening wazn’t voer yet!

Mi humin and mi exchange student put mi back into the car and drove to ANOTHER party!! The night waz dark, but I recognized this waz the way to mi nanny’s and mi teecher’s house! We didn’t git there soon, tho, becuz mi humin went rite past the street I knew she waz supposed to turn on. I sent brain waves to mi exchange student, and that saved the day. Kyoka told mi humin she messed up and shuld turn around. She did, and we were back on track.

I looked out the window to help guide them to the rite place, and FINALLY we made it. More of mi staff waz there, but so were my frends — Hank, Lola, and Bella. And also more CHEESE! A table full of CHEESE! I saluted to a few humans (a big crowd pleezer), and I got more CHEESE. This was a great party!

Several humin puppies were there, too. Have yu ever spent time with humin puppiez? They can be loud, reely loud. They also run and poke dogs. One little one poked Lola, and Lola rolled over to play dead. It didn’t work. The humin puppy kept patting Lola’s tummi. Run, Lola, run!!! Just to be safe, I had mi humin carri mi — it waz also the best way for mi to see what waz happening, and make sure we didn’t run out of cheese.

The parti waz fun but I waz beet … I’d been up since waaaay before it waz lite, and when I asked to go upstairs to sleep, mi human wudn’t let mi (something about it not being mi house). But blankets and pillows were up there!
Shi finanly took mi home and I went strate to bed. It waz a good day, with good frends, and good cheeze.

i kan hold it

2006-11-27T13:08:00.000-08:00

Have yu ben outside lately? It iz kold--and dark. The wether iz horible, with rane and kold and dark and rane! And mi humin refuses to let mi sleep. She sayz she's keeping mi on a "schedule," whatever that meens. She takes me out in the morning EARLI, and then mi staff makes mi go out more later. I tell them over and over that i can hold it till May, but no one beleves me.

May izn't that far away... It will be warm again. I think. I hope. Till then, I will take a nap.

Mi Staff

2006-10-24T14:38:00.000-07:00

I hav a reelly good staff that I like veri much. When I talk to colleegues, they are jelus, and I’m not surprised. Let mi describe the staf and yu will understand:

My humin: She’s my rite-paw persen. Shi even takes mi outside in the middle of the nite if I ask her. (I hav to stand on her to wake her up, but shi gets up.)

Mi grandhumans (both): They hav given mi a special chair, bacon for breakfast, laps to sleeep on, and potti brakes whin necessary.

Mi nanni: She rocks! Shi lets mi do whatever I want; shi brings over frends, including Hank, and shi plays with me and gives mi extra treets.

Mi teecher: I no pretty much everything, but shi’s taut mi humin a lot, especially how to speek to me right. Mi teecher also smells like turkee hotdogs. (They gro in her pockets.) How perfect is that?!

Mi groceree store workrs: Everi Sundae mi humin (she'z also mi driver) takes mi to mi grocery store. The humins here are the best. They give mi lots of extra treets, and I am happi to salute them!

That kat I live with iz not on mi staff. And I am NOT on herz either. No matter what shi tells you.

Graduaten

2006-10-12T12:53:00.000-07:00

This fall, I took classes at mi local park (I like this park). Other dogz were in the class, too, but I waz the boss. (I told them all that on the first dae seven weekz ago. I only had to set a cuple of them strate a cuple times. Mostly they were good.)

Becuz it’s not summer anymore, the dayz got shorter and colder. I don’t like colder, so I had mi human pick me up alot. I also had a better vue when I was higher, and so it waz eazier to see if any of mi classmates were getting out of line.

On mondae, we had graduation, but first we had too pass a reely hard test with standing, siting, downing, staying, and lotz of other stuff. Mi human kept letting her leesh (what I use to keep control of her) get tangled arond mi legs. Shee lost us alot of time, but I still came in second. Yu shud of seen mi run when shi called mi—and had cheese. I luv cheeze, maybi a little more than her. (Don’t tell her I sed that.)

I waz named “The Most Likely to Suceed,” and I got a book. i'm reeding it now.

teh doctre

2006-07-19T12:27:00.000-07:00

Mi doctre iz nice, but i dont want to seee her agin for a long time. i had to see her too timz last week, and she pulled out mi blood! Then, THEN, shi took mi into teh back ov the dreded clinic and TRIMMED MI NAILS!!!! If I'v sed it once, i'v sed it a thousend timez: I like mi nails long, especialy the black nail.

Happi biRthday Olivre

2006-07-08T22:21:00.000-07:00

Today, was anothre relly good dae. I went to the birthdae parti of a frend of mine named Oliver. (He's the long dogg with the fanci coller.)

We playd gamez, I gav Olivr a card and sined it with paw printz. Then, THEN we had cake (just for us; i told mi humin it waz humin poison. HA!!) It waz relly, relly good.

Hapi birthdae, Oliver! May next yeer be full yur favorit cheeze.

the grandhuminz.2

2006-07-05T12:38:00.001-07:00

2 Fridaes ago mi human took mi to work with her. Last Fridae, mi grandhuminz took mi to the park. Mi grandhuminz rockk!

We walkt thru the woodz and I smelld lotz of grass -- ate grasss to. I also met other dogz, including a boss-dog (someone sed a "dobbie," whatever that means). i jus sed "Yessir, nice to meet you, sir," when we past him. He nodded.

it waz a good day.

work, wrok, work

2006-06-26T13:21:00.000-07:00

On Fryday, mi human surprizd me bi taking mi too the place she goez during the week. She sed it waz Take Your Dog to Wrok Day.

I helpt her alot, az you can seee. Shi watchez a computr all day (at leest most ov it) and becuz shi doez that sometimz at home, to, i new just what to do.

The day waz fun. i slept, i walked bi some water, and lotz ov nice humins stopped in to say helo to mi. One humin even gave mi a big peece of cheeze. I wil alwayz work for cheeze.

Teh Box

2006-05-24T12:48:00.000-07:00

Mi humin haz gone crazi. Shi haz mi lockt in a box every afternoon now. i dont like it veri much. Its dark, and teh krazy kat laffs at mi when i'm inside...

The only good thing--if you kan call it that--is that the box seems too grow treets -- alot ov treets. (The treets arent az good az cheeze, but thay are stil good, so i eat them.)

Shi tries to be all happi when shi puts mi in the box, like itz a good thing, but i'm NOT happi abot it--and shi knos it. Shi sez it's for mi own good (and the good of her carpits, or somethin like that), but i'm not convinct. Shi even told mi afternooon humin, Suzane, to put mi in the box.

Mi humi doesn't kno it yet, but i hid a screwdrivr in the box and i plan to take it apart while shi's at work. Soon.

The Kat and the New Humin

2006-05-04T22:08:00.000-07:00

i dont understand. There iz a new humin in the house and shee seems too like the crazy kat more than mi. Shee doeznt feed mi and sayz everythin she's eeting is "dog poisin." i dont beelieve it.

Shhe trys too play with the kat, and shee doezn't get it that the kat is dangerous, reely dangerous. You think the kat iz being nice, but she iz NOT. Beware new little humin, beware.

the grandhuminz

2006-03-07T12:46:00.000-08:00

Recinteli mi house haz had monsters on the roof--while mi humin wazn't home. If i cud have seen them, i wud hav scard them away, but becuz they were on the roof, i just wanted to get out of the hous. Lukily, mi granhumins new the mosters were ther and they let mi go to ther hous.

The monsters stayed arond for several daz.

today, the monsters were gone (FINALY!), but it haz been relly nice bing with mi grandhumins. (I kan sit on ther laps and ther kat--az cranky az mine!--leeves mi alone.) So todai i told them i wanted to visit. It took mi a few minites to make mi grandhumin understand, but i explaned slowly. (i wudn't go to mi door, but pulled him to hiz door to show him what i wanted.) That worked and by 10 a.m., i was sitting in hiz chair in THER hous. Just like i wanted.

mi winter parti

2006-01-04T12:36:00.000-08:00

Recintlee mi humin and grandumins thru mi a partee. They do this everi wintre—with a tree and prezents. I don’t usually go #1 on the tree but I cud if I want to.

After a few daz with mi tree up, I get too opin pakeges, and that’s fun. They hav special treets inside for mi. The kat gets things too, evin tho its mi parti. I open her packages, too.

I cant wate til next yeer.

humin puppies

2005-12-20T12:46:00.000-08:00

i'm tired. For the last sevral daze mi humin had peepl in and out ov our hous all the time. Shi kalled them sistrs, neeces, and a nefew. The neeces and nefew were humin puppies. They kissed mi hed alot, even tho my humin kapt telling them not too. (She kisses mi all the time, tho, so i think shi waz jelus.)

on Sundae, the humins were in a flurri, in & out ov the house. Then they left mi alone with the HPs--and more kame too, including one who told them what too doo. We wacht and movie, and the puppiez karried mi arond, even tho my humin had told them not too. i didn't mind, but when they ran down the hall with mi, i wanted to run miself (i run faster becuz i have 4 legz).

The peepl left yesterday and todai. Now I can sleep on mi couch w/o sharing it. But i do miss the xtra kisses. They were kute puppiez.

Kat explosion

2005-11-23T07:18:00.002-08:00

Recently mi humin shovd the crazi kat into that greeen box. Shi doez this when she's goin to take the kat to The Place. Sometimz i go to The Place. I dont like goin, even tho the humins ther r nice. They put needls in mi, and poke mi. Mi humin sayz this iz r "docter," whatever that meens.

Welll, yesterdai the crazi kat went. Mi humin took mi too. The nice humin came in, and i waz veri hapy that she didn't tuch mi. Shi poked the kat, and the kat's eyez got big. Then shi picked up the kat--and the kat exploded. Fur waz flying; humins wer screemin; and the kat screemd louder than anyone.

finally, the kat jumpt into the greeen box, and the humins panted. The docter had blood on her face; mi humin's hand had blood comin out of it, to.

i cud hav told them that this kat waz capable of this.

when we kame home, the kat wanted to sit on mi humin's lap, and the humin let her. i think she's afraid of her.

all dogz bite

2005-11-16T12:19:00.000-08:00

i went with mi humin to her carz docter. It wazn't sick but needed a chekup. Several other humins were there to--one with a loud humin puppi. (i don't mind humin puppis, but i'm nevr sure what ther thinkin and they poke mi face.)

That puppi's mother draged her to mi humin and sed in a hi voice, "Iz he the nice kind of doggie, or the mean, biting kind of doggie?"

i cud feel my humin get tense, because she took a deeep breth. (I worri when she takes thoz deep breths, becuz who nos what she'll do next.)

"All dogz bite," shi finally sed. "Just like all humins can bite."

The big humin blinked.

"Do you want to pet the dog?" mi humin asked the humin puppi. But the big humin answerd. "I don't think shi wants too based on yur answer," she sed and dragged her puppi away.

Kaptin Terrier??

2005-10-31T12:44:00.000-08:00

What i dont doo for mi humin. She insisted i dres up for some strange humin holiday called (i think) Holoween. She kept callin mi "Kaptain Terrier from planet K-9, or som sily thing...

I went along with it, becuz cheeze waz involved--and shi took me to mi favorite store 2 times in ONE day.

Yes, put that costume on mi, and be quik abot it!

trainin humins

2005-10-07T12:21:00.000-07:00

Mi humin iz good 2 live with, & shee waz ez to train. (She thinks she trained mi, but it waz the other way arond.)

i taught her 2 play a game with mi that includs givin mi a little treet whenever i want (i like getting cheeze the best). i hav her ask mi 2 do somethin like sit or stay or whatever. When i do it, she gets all excited and makes mi toy click. Sometimz she forgets 2 mak the clicker click, and then i hav to do the trick again. When she finally notices, she clicks--and i get mi treet.

So far, i can get her to ask mi to sit, down, stay, stand, rollovr, dance, giv her 10, and (a reel crowd-pleezer) "be shy." Whenever i do that (it's putting my paw ovr my nose), even if she hasn't sed, "be shy," she laffs and gives mi a treet.

I even trained her to giv mi a treat when she leeves the house.

The Monster!

2005-10-03T13:52:00.000-07:00

Last nite, I'm minding mi own biznes and returin home after going potti in the yard. Mi humin unhooked the leash i use to kepe her close and opens the garage door to let us in. The lite comes on and OHMIGOSH, the monstr from the woodz is inside, just bihind the door! He hissed; I yelled; mi human screemed.

The monster darted past us and ran into the woodz--with mi rite behind. I waz fast, reely fast. I cud of caut the monster, tooo, but mi human waz scared and she called mi back. I thot about pretnding I cudn't heer her, but when she sayz the majic words, there's cheeze involved. So i stopped and went back.

The monster got away. This time.

earli burd action

2005-09-29T15:22:00.000-07:00

i like too sleep in. alot. mi humin likes to git up earli. alot. Now that its cold and dark in the mornin, it's evin more important to sleep to stay helthy and redy for importint things like cheeze. She also makes mi go outside earli. I don't like doing that, but yesterdai it was important. One of those wild kats were in the driveway. When I saw it, i ran after it and chased it into the woodz. Mi human wudn't let mi follow it into the woodz or i would have caut it. Then it'd be sorri. I went back to sleep after that, knowing i'd done mi job for the day.

terrier parti?

2005-09-23T12:25:00.000-07:00

Todai i red about anohter terrier like mi who got hiz voter registration card. I want won to. i wud vote in all the mager electionz and work for mi candidates. Maybi i will run for office. i'm fast and wud bi a good choice. Here'z mi Terrier Parti platform:

Cheeze in every frigerator. Rain onlee at nite. Warm wethr. No squirrels.

Klose Kall

2005-09-19T12:15:00.000-07:00

Yesterday waz the most importint day of mi week, az yu kno: It was MudBay Dai.

Everi Sondai, mi humin takes me to mi groceri store, and I make sure nothin haz happined to the place sinc the last time I waz there (i.e., the Sondai befor). We get things for the kat, too, but mostly the trip iz for mi. The humins there like mi, and i like them alot. They hav good treets for mi--& i get to stand on the kounter, which most other dogs kan't do.

Yesterdai, tho, wi had a close call. Mi humin almost forgot to get my special treets: pupperoni sticks. i had to stop her before she got in her kar. When she finaly understood what i waz trying to tell her, she went rite back in. Missin accomplisht.

a bizi week

2005-09-14T13:01:00.000-07:00

terriers ar bizi peeple. On mondai my humin took mi to play groop. I played with 2 rat terriers (one in partkilar waz veri cute), a big lab puppi, a big Bostin terrier, a loud-mouth beegle, & a black lab. We no how 2 run hard & play hard. When I got home, I spept hard, to.

Then on tuezdai, mi humin buddi (she comz everydai to visit mi) took mi 4 a special drive to a park! A PARK!! i met alot of dogz, and lotz of humins stopt to say "Hi" to mi and tell mi frend i'm cute. (i am cute.) One littl dog wasz wearing pink. her Name is Tia, and i really likt her. i also met Roman, & we'd bee good buddys if we meet again.

so when i got home again, i had to take a hard nap.

Mi groceri store

2005-09-12T12:10:00.000-07:00

Everi Sundae, my humin takes mi to mi favorit place in the hole wurld: Mudd Bay Graneri. She calls it mi "groceri store." (She took piktures of it and mi frends ther yesturday, but she kant make her kamera give her the piktures.)

I realy like the other humins there. They give mi good things too eat, & pet mi. Sometimes i let other dogs come to, but it's mi store. Yesterdai another terier kame. He was nice, and we played while the humins watcht. They are so eaze to pleeze.

I got to stand on the counter for extraa treets before we went home.

Oops

2005-09-09T12:10:00.000-07:00

i didnt meen to bite mi humin, it juss happined. Oops. i trained her too hold mi bone while i chew it (i get much beter grip for mi teeth). But this bone waz realy short. I'd eatin almost all of it. And oops. She yelpt and i stopt nawing and lickt her fingr too tell her i was sory. i need a biggr bone, i think.

grandhumin & the wild kat

2005-09-08T07:34:00.000-07:00

beehind mi house are lots ov treez. Monsters live in thoz woodz. i'm sure of it. The newist monster looks like a grae and white kat: big and meen. Evin meener than Miss B. kan bee. (ok, she's not reely meen; just kranki.)

Yesterday mi humin was gone (don't no where she goes everi day; she just disapeers) and won ov mi grandhumins kame too sea mi. She took mi outside neer the hauntid woodz. There waz the big grae kat. Being a terrier, i went after it. But it turnd intoo A MONSTER! It kame at mi!! Well, not bing a puppi, i yelled. i waz goin to charg aftr it sum more, but mi grandhumin pikt mi up. Sometimes its hard to bee small.

That kat/monster waz just lucki mi grandhumin saved it.

horrer in eveng

2005-09-07T07:20:00.000-07:00

i was sleepin, mindin mi own bizness last nite, when mi humin got out the red dimon. She coo'd somthing abot, "trimmin your nails." Well, when she kame at mi, i jumpt off mi nest--but shee had cheeze in her other hand. ohmygosh! A dimon in one hand and heven in the othr!!!!

i tried that new stupid trik over and over (brushin mi paw ovr mi face), but it didnt work. Thats alwaz workt beefour. She laffs and givez mi anythng! But not last nite...

Bunter, the kat who thinks shee runz things, new she didt hav to worri abot the dimon, bcuz mi humin is afraid of her sometimz. Miss B (az she insists on bein' called) sayz realli bad wordz when the clippers com neer her. So mi human just gave her cheeze. Iz that fair?!

i held out az long az i cud, puttin mi pawz under mi, but that cheeze, that cheeze waz there. She wudn't giv mi any unles i let her trim mi nailz. She gav Miss B alot...

Finaly, i let her do my nailz--all but one. (I like that nail long.)

I got the cheeze.