Not such a big boy after all.

This morning when Mom let me out of my crate, I ran around with my newly replaced crate toy! This is my rope dog (#4) that lives in my crate. Generally it is just a piece of rope as I like to eat appendages. Mom was all happy this morning cause she thought he was still whole. "Just think" , she said to me, "you are growing up and becoming a big boy! You've had that toy for three days and he still has all his appendages!". But she was wrong. I had eaten an ear. When she went to pick it up, she noticed it only had one ear and sighed!

Catching up!

Well finally, Mom is going to catch up on stuff. It's been a busy week. First of all, as you know, I was forced to have my bottom and belly shaved. It was a horrible experience, and I demanded payment in the form of cookies:

You can see how anxious I am to make sure I get the cookie. All my attention is completely focused on it!
    The second thing is that my Aunt Jen arrived from France! I was very excited to see her!

My Aunt Joan was a bit worried that Aunt Jen would steal me and take me to France, but I wouldn't want to take that long plane ride. Then my Grandpa came over and of course Mom had to take another photo. In this photo though, Grandpa and I have the exact same expression on our faces! You can't tell, but I have my front legs crossed too!

And then of course there was the massive amount of snow that I have been able to play in lately. Everyone seems to  hate it, but I love bouncing around in it!

But the best part of the week is that Dad came home! I had missed him so much! It is not much fun being at home with only Mom all the time! I didn't want to let him know how happy I was that he was back, cause he should not have gone away to begin with! And he's lucky that I did not eat his valentine's day card or present!

Then Dad and I played a game!

So now you are all caught up in the exciting events of my life. Sadly I have not discovered a pizza tree in my backyard like my bff Rigby did, but I did find some sourdough bread that Aunt Jen had thrown outside for the birds!

Today's torture...

Brought to you by Mom of course! Today we went for a ride, but it wasn't to a good place. Apparently Mom decided it was bottom shaving time! Only they shaved part of my belly too, so now it is a tad cold  when I play outside. I made her give me 2 cookies afterwards!

Snow time!

Finally! I mean it is nice to nap on the couch with Mom-she does make a good pillow, but I have been waiting all day to play! First I lay by the door in the hopes of exiting! Mom wouldn't let me. But finally we went outside for a walk and when we came back to the backyard, she let me play!

My last snuggle in the bed

This morning Mom let me hang out in the bed cause Dad is going away so I need to snuggle with him. Of course there had to be some humiliation in it for me. She took a picture of me with bedhead. That is because I dug my way down to the foot of the bed and then came back up to the pillows. All those blankets that I was under messed up my hair!

Dad says that I shouldn't worry because Mom will probably let me sleep in the bed the whole time!

Locked out by Dad

I always thought that I was Dad's favorite and that he loved me. But last night, he did something very mean to me. We were downstairs, watching tv and snuggling. He likes to use me as a blanket to keep him warm as  I (no pun intended) am a hot dog. It was finally time to go to bed, he took me out for a walk. I was excited to walk! It was brisk out with all kinds of good smells. It was not my fault that he did not put on a coat and was cold. I was fine and enjoying the outside. He dragged me inside and took off my collar and leash. Then he told me to go up to my crate. I decided to wait for him as sometimes he likes to chase me up the stairs saying "I'm gonna getcha!".  But Dad was cranky and pushed my bottom to make me go upstairs. Obedient dog that I am, I ran upstairs and went into the bedroom. I was sniffing around under the bed before getting into my crate and eating my cookie when the horrible event happened. Dad came upstairs and locked my crate-but-I WAS NOT in it! Dad locked me out of my crate! I could see my cookie inside the crate waiting for me! I whimpered softly and tried to open the crate with my paw. That didn't work. Finally Dad got up and turned on the light. He came over and looked at me sitting sadly staring at my cookie. He opened the door and let me in, and then locked the crate. Mom told him how mean he was to lock me outside of my crate.
        This morning when we got up, Mom and I went for a long walk. I explored all the snow mountains outside and climbed to the top of Mount Mecki to survey everything. Then I found a huge cave and stuck my head down into it. It was very deep and Mom was afraid that I would tumble to the center of the earth, but I have good balance. Then I had to skirt around the cavern and almost tumbled in when my back paw found only air to step on, but I recovered and hoped Mom hadn't noticed. When we got home, she let me run around in the backyard but lured me inside with another of Aunt Carol's bacon/peanut butter treats.

Tricked

This has been a fantastic winter! I love the snow and nearly every day I have been able to go outside and play in the snow. This morning was no different! I waited excitedly for Mom to put on my collar and leash so that I could go out and stick my head into snowbanks! I pulled Mom down the steps when she opened the door. Then I realized that snow was not falling, it was rain! And I hate rain! I did my business and then pulled Mom back inside the house. Then I waited to see if she would offer me another piece of the bacon/peanut butter stuff that my Aunt Carol got for me! But no, I was only offered kibble.