The Little Brown Dog's Blog

Shh...don't let The Girl know I'm here!

2011-11-21T14:52:00.000-08:00

Wroo, my furends! Sorry it's been so long since That Mean Girl let me on the computer. It's a wonder that I remember how to type! She's not here right now, having left me alone again, and she left the laptop where I could reach it.

I don't get to post to my bloggy anymore, but The Girl let me onto Facebook. So if you'd like to know how I'm doing, go to Facebook and search for me, Dannan Littlebrowndog. I've had a profile for quite a while now, but Girlie doesn't let me post all that much. (Surprise, surprise!) But lately she's been letting me, so I get to grump about her there. Maybe I can convince her to let me write here sometimes, too - but I figure that Facebook is the first step. Come and "friend" me, furends! You can follow my adventures there ... if I ever get to have any ever again, that is!

WROO.

I'm doing well, it's The Girl's fault

2010-09-13T15:11:00.000-07:00

Wrooo, evfurrybody! I just snuck onto The Girl's laptop to quickly write a message to let evfurryone know I am okay. I got better after my trip to the V-E-T this summer -- I had to spend a couple of nights there with something called an IV. Then I got feeling better bit by bit.

At the same time, The Girl was going through her own medical drama. Wroo. She's had what she calls "health issues", and she thinks that excuses the blatant lack of posting on my bloggy. I am sorry for any of my furiends who might have been wondering how I have been doing... and Girlie is sorry, too. I am totally back to my usual healthy self, and Girlie is doing okay, too. But we haven't been visiting anybody's bloggies at all in MONTHS, and you've seen that she's not letting me write on my own bloggy. I am hoping that The Girl will get back to our normal routine soon. At least she's walking me again!

Thanks for all of the thoughts and doggy vibes that you all were sending before. They helped, for sure!

I'll try to sneak back onto the laptop soon and do another post. Wroo to you all!

Follow up message from The Girl

2010-06-24T09:09:00.000-07:00

Good news! Dannan is home!!! He has a urinary tract infection and antibiotics to take care of it. He was on an IV since Monday, so his pancreas and kidneys seem to be back to normal. He is happy to be home at last, and I am SO happy that he is back with me! Thank you for all of your good thoughts and prayers for us -- I know they made a difference! The Power of the Paw is mighty!!!

Message from The Girl

2010-06-22T10:45:00.000-07:00

Everyone, Dannan and I could use your help and the Power of the Paw. Dannan went in to the V-E-T yesterday after several days of vomiting. He was dehydrated, and both his pancreas and his kidneys were at least a little bit affected. We're still not sure what's going on with him; he's spent the night at the V-E-T and we're waiting to hear back from them. Please send out good thoughts for my boy, pray if that's what you do, and keep us in your thoughts. I will update the blog when I know more. Thank you to all of our furends.

Might not be around for a bit...

2010-06-20T08:16:00.000-07:00

Wroo, furends! I just wanted to let you all know that I might not be posting much for a couple of weeks (after it took SO long to finally get That Girl to let me post again!). The Girl is undergoing some new treatments for her brain sickies, and it might take a lot out of her. I am just hoping that she gets feeling ever so much better!

I'll post when I can! I am busy taking good care of My Girlie, but I'll try to sneak onto the bloggy if I can.

I got a Facebook page!!!

2010-06-16T16:28:00.000-07:00

One all of my very own!!! Come see it here! If you're on facebook, I'd love to be furends!

And here's a picture of me - just because! Wroo!

Bully stick!!!

2010-06-15T12:28:00.000-07:00

Wroo! The other day, The Girl and My Nanny went away for a while. They do that sometimes, and I am always sad when I don't get to go. I miss My Girlie when she's not here, you know.

But then they came home (and I was SO happy to see them!) and GIRLIE BROUGHT ME A BULLY STICK!!!!!!

(I really love bully sticks! I am a super-strong chewer, so The Girl gets me the thickest ones she can find. Then, once a bully stick gets down to about four inches long, someone has to take it away from me, because I will swallow it.)

Chewing bully sticks is my hobby, I've decided. The Girl was saying the other day that someone she volunteers with was asking her what her hobbies are, and I decided that I need a hobby or two myself. Hobby number one, chewing bully sticks!

Sorry about the oogy colours on these pictures. The Girl is trying to figure out how to use her new camera. (Note from The Girl: I suppose I could read the manual, but so far I've just been experimenting.) And she informs me that it is hard to get good pictures of me chewing that don't all look the same!

Wednesday Woe

2010-06-09T17:48:00.000-07:00

That Girl tortured me today! We got up (much later than I would like to get up, as usual), and I told her that it was my day to walk. She dawdled around, drinking tea and reading newspapers and eating breakfast, which she always does before we walk. But then, she went on that stupid laptop! She's not supposed to do that until after we walk. She kept saying, "It's raining, Woogie", but I never buy that excuse. I kept telling her, it's my day, it's my day, it's my day!

(Note from The Girl: He was really being a pain. Insisting that it was time to go for our walk. So we went.)

Furends, it was absolutely POURING down with rain! I have always been of the firm conviction that Little Brown Dogs melt if they get wet. This year, I've experimented with walking when there has been a light drizzle, and I have survived. But today, the rain was TORTUROUS. I was certain I was going to die.

(Note from The Girl: He wasn't going to die, obviously. And he walked just fine for ten minutes or so, and then he decided he wasn't going to move anymore, at all. He didn't want to go forward, and he didn't want to go back. So I did coax him along, I have to admit. There really wasn't any other option, although I do appreciate that he didn't get that.)

There are no pictures of my ordeal, because That Girl said that it was raining too hard to take out her new camera. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT????? It was raining too hard to take out the camera, but it wasn't raining too hard to take out the Little Brown Dog???

There are only pictures of me in the aftermath of this torture.

Look at how wet and ruffly my fur is! The indignity of it all!

I boycotted The Girl until suppertime. I hope she learned her lesson! I even cuddled with my Nanny this afternoon, right in front of That Girl!

(Final Note from The Girl: I did feel very bad that he got so wet. It was raining harder than I thought it was, and when he was willing to walk, I thought it was going to be okay. But he did get soaked. I have apologized many times today!)

Girlie keeps her promise!

2010-06-05T19:41:00.000-07:00

Wroo, That Girl has let me post about our walk on Wednesday! These pictures are the ones that she already put on her facebook page, but she promised me that I could post them here, too. And here I am, posting them! Maybe I am too hard on That Girl sometimes...

Here I am near the beginning of our walk. It has been raining for days and days here, but we got out between showers so I could have my walk. As I mentioned before, I get to walk on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Girlie calls that every second day, but you can clearly see that she's wrong. There are TWO days between Friday and Monday, and I don't get a walk on either day!

(Note from The Girl: In our neighbourhood, there are many, MANY doggies that get to walk on Sundays, and Dannan snarks at most of them. I don't like letting him practice his barking and lunging, so we don't walk on Sundays anymore.)

Hmph. She's trying to justify those dumb rules of hers.

Here I am, doing one of my favefurite things: sniffing (and then peeing on) a rock. I love rocks!!

And here I am in motion. You can see in a lot of these pictures that my ears go flying a lot when I walk.

Here I am looking back at my Nanny, who usually walks with The Girl and I. If The Girl wants to take pictures of me walking, she needs someone to hold my leash - she's not the most coordinated human I've ever seen. But I like it when Nanny comes with us, even if it is to facilitate That Annoying Girl getting in my face with the camera.

On that facebook thing, Girlie said something about this being me as a headless doggie. You can clearly see my head! I love to smell the bottom parts of these shrubs, because lots of other doggies leave pee-mail there. Sometimes, you have to get up-close-and-personal to make sure you don't miss any messages.

Now it is time to hurry up, Nanny!

There is a doggie barking at me from behind a fence here. I am trying really hard to concentrate, and That Annoying Girlie is following me around with that camera thing. (Note from The Girl: It took quite a few shots to get one where he was looking at the camera, and Dannan got quite annoyed with me. You can see in the picture that I finally got, he's licking his lip to send me a calming signal - calm down, Girlie, and stop being a pain in the rear!)

Girlie is being polite when she tells you that. I was actually using an HBO word, not "rear". Sometimes, The Girl is a PITA, for those of you doggies who know what that means! I am telling her that she is annoying me, and to back off!

Here I have seen a birdie!

More action - look at me go so fast that I blurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Wroo!

I see something...

This isn't what I saw. Girlie couldn't figure out what I was so interested in (or else she was too slow - she misses LOTS of shots because she is too slow to catch them). But anywroo, I love posts, too! I'm sure most of you doggies out there also love rocks and shrubs and posts - such good places to find out doggy data!

I like flowers, too.

Sniffing and smelling are the main points to walks, as far as I'm concerned. Check out my ears, too!

More sniffing...

And even more sniffing! (Don't tell my Nanny that you can see most of her in this picture! Girlie promised her that she would crop her out, but she forgot.)

On the move! Look at my ears in the next few pictures!

Don't I look like a happy doggie???

More sniffing for pee-mail...

Look this way....

...and the other way...

Because here we are, back in the driveway. I'm not ready to go home, but Girlie says we're not going any further. I ALWAYS want to walk more!

So that was our walk on Wednesday! Going for walks with My Girlie is one of my favefurite things in the world! I would go for two or three walks a day, if only she would take me!

Facebook Photos

2010-06-03T18:09:00.000-07:00

Wroo, furends! That Girl of mine posted some pictures of me on my walk yesterday - but of course, she didn't post them HERE. Hmph. She posted them on her facebook page, which is totally unfair. She never lets me on my bloggy, but she goes on that stupid facebook all the time. My little brown nose is quite out of joint, I can tell you. If you want to, you can encourage her bad habit by going to see the pictures there. She promises that I can post them here in the next day or two. If she doesn't follow through, I'm going to go on strike!

Girlie's Birthday

2010-06-01T19:02:00.000-07:00

It's That Mean Girlie's birthday today. I pointed out to my Nanny this morning that we never celebrate my birthday, and in fact, I don't even seem to have one! The injustice of it all! Nanny had the nerve to suggest that I could share with The Girl, if you can imagine. Hmph.

And then she said something even worse! That all my birthday would mean is a bag full of bully sticks and a stack of IOUs for walks, and how would that be different from any other day? Well, first of all, most days I only get to have one bully stick at a time, and sometimes there is an unacceptable lapse of time between the end of one and That Girl getting me another. (I like to have one at my disposal at all times, you know, so that I can have a chew whenever the mood strikes me.) AND, That Mean Girl has all sorts of rules about walks, which are SO unfair! "We only walk every second day, Woogie," she tells me. (She is very lazy, you know. And she calls me Woogie.) And then there's the Sunday rule: "On Sundays, there are too many other doggies out there that you snark at, so we don't walk on Sundays, Woogie." So it seems to me that a birthday that brought a bag full of bully sticks and a stack of IOUs for walks would be QUITE different from any other day.

Anywroo, That Mean Girl got a new camera for her birthday. (Don't you think that a bag full of bully sticks and a stack of IOUs for walks would be better than that??) I can't stand her taking pictures of me, and she just doesn't care. She takes them anyway, even though I tell her that I hate it. Look at these pictures, you can see how disgruntled I am.

Maybe now that she has a new camera, she'll let me onto my bloggy more often. I won't hold my breath, though.

As for my gift to her, I offered to take her for an extra walk today, just because it's her birthday ("because you know, Woogie, it's not your day"), but she didn't want to go. I just don't understand her!!

Wordless Wednesday

2010-05-26T18:40:00.000-07:00

(Wroo, sorry about the colour. Girlie is too lazy to open a photo editor to fix it. I'm lucky she's letting my post it at all!)

Wednesday is for Wroo-ing

2010-05-05T16:24:00.000-07:00

Wroo, furends! No pictures on this post, because The Girl is punishing me for eating two cups of mixed nuts that Nanny had hidden in her suitcase. I am a Hound, you know, and I tracked them down in no time flat. I almost had the whole bag eaten when The Mean Girl found me and took them away from me. She never lets me have any fun.

No need to worry, furends, the V-E-T says that I am not poisoned or anything like that. I might have to throw up some or have diarrhea from the high fat content, but I will be okay. I was quite proud of myself, for having scavenged up such good foodables.

The Girl and I want to thank all of our furends for sticking by us for so long. That Girlie hasn't had the best year, and her brain sickies just keep going on and on. And on and on and on. She has had many different medications that she has tried. I am sure that their ineffectiveness is directly related to the fact that she refuses to wrap them in cheese before she takes them. I have told her and told her, but she never listens.

In June, The Girl is going to get some different therapies that she is hoping will help. I think she is scared to hope too much, though. I would really like it if she was better. We could walk evfurry day then, instead of this hokey "every second day but not on Sundays" routine she's got us on. I could walk evfurry day, more than once! But it is good that she takes me three times a week (evfur since Christmas, which is the best she's evfur done). I just don't see why we can't do it evfurry day, it is SO much fun! She lets me pick the route we walk, and I'm allowed to sniff at whatever I want. Well, except for good stuff like bones and nommy trash, she makes me drop those (when she's paying attention, and when she can get to me faster than I can chomp them down). And she doesn't let me always choose where we get to walk. Like, she won't let me go onto people's lawns to investigate. And she won't let me walk as far as I want to. She claims that I get tired and then don't want to walk the rest of the way home, but I think we all know who it is that gets tired.

And she won't let me chase the cats that I see on our walks. Totally unfair. I could have had several cats if only she'd let go of that string that keeps me tied to her. Or if she chased them with me, that would be fun. But Girlie is not much fun, you know.

And the whole "no walking on Sundays" rule... She says that there are too many other doggies who walk on Sundays, and that I "bark and lunge like a crazy dog", so we can't go. Hmph. She's always taking away my fun, I tell you. That Girl Who Always Rains on My Parade, I should start calling her.

But we want you all to know that we think of you lots, and miss you furry much. Girlie says she does her best just to get through the days most of the time. It helps to know you're all out there. Now, I have to go have a nap, because I'm getting a little sleepy with my full tummy and all. Wroo!

Neighbour Doggy, where are you?

2010-05-05T16:05:00.000-07:00

Wordless Wednesday

2010-04-28T16:43:00.001-07:00

Wordless Wednesday (Blogger didn't autopost like it was supposed to...)

2010-04-21T08:34:00.000-07:00

Wordless Wednesday (better late than never???)

2010-03-31T07:22:00.000-07:00

Wordless Wednesday - Past Picture by Special Request

2010-03-03T14:06:00.000-08:00

For Stella. <3

Wordless Wednesday - Random Picture from the Past

2010-02-17T18:48:00.000-08:00

Wordless Wednesday

2010-02-10T12:57:00.000-08:00

Wordless Wednesday

2010-02-03T18:31:00.000-08:00

Wordless Wednesday

2010-01-27T19:43:00.000-08:00

Wordless Wednesday - Tripod Tracks Edition

2010-01-19T18:54:00.000-08:00

Wordless Wednesday

2010-01-13T14:48:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday, Roomie!

2010-01-11T12:43:00.000-08:00

I don't live with The Roomie anymore, and The Girl and I really miss her. And I really miss The Roomie's cats, too. But mostly we miss The Roomie. WROOOOOOOOOOOO to you, Roomie!! (Or should that be WROOmie? BOL!)

Happy WROO year!!

2009-12-31T19:31:00.000-08:00

Holiday pictures

2009-12-22T17:07:00.000-08:00

It's that time of year again, and I have been living in dread that The Girl would once again make me pose for a Holiday Picture. In past years, this has often include something humiliating she wanted me to wear.

For example,

Can you imagine?!

And there was the year where she thought I'd make a cute reindeer:

Girlie, dogs are NOT reindeer! Can't you just see the terror in my eyes! That Girl ought to be ashamed, putting me in a situation where I looked like this! (Note from The Girl: Yikes, it is alarming to see this picture - I agree, this was NOT nice to my Little Brown Dog!)

Then, another year, she decided that instead of making me pose wearing ridiculous human accessories, she would buy some Christmas-y fabrics and pose me on them instead. At least I escaped the indignity of antlers and Santa bibs. And I guess it's something that she's aware of how unsuccessful this experiment was; she has these pictures in a folder called "Failed Xmas Pics".

You should also know that those pictures were part of a series she called "Xmas Torture"! I just know all my furends are outraged! (Blogger is giving Girlie a hard time with the formatting of the pictures and the words, so we're sorry if this post looks a bit strange...)

This year, That Girl said that she had decided not to torment me by forcing me to do undignified things. (I think it's more a question of how lazy she is, but whatever.) She found a website called Imikimi, and she used a picture from this past summer to make a few Holiday Pictures. This is a much more respectful way of doing things, I'm sure you'll agree.

I sure hope that all my furends, whether doggies or kitties or peoples, get to be with the ones they love in the next week or two. (Even though I complain about her a lot, I really do love My Girlie, you know.) Happy Howlidays, evfurryone, and Happy WROO year!!!

Letter to Santa

2009-12-15T11:33:00.000-08:00

Dear Santa,

I want a cat. PLEASE bring me a cat! Just a little one... I have been a good boy this year, just ask my Girlie and my Nanny and my Papa. I would really like a cat of my own, one that I can chase and play with and WROO at. Last year, Nanny told me that she would get me a blind, old, toothless cat, but I've been waiting and waiting, and so far, no cat. I think she forgot. So please help her out, Santa, and bring me one this Christmas. Any cat will do, especially if it's the fluffy black one that I watch out the window every day.

Oh, and maybe you could bring Girlie something to help her get better, so she can do more stuff with me and help me do my bloggy again, and visit all my bloggy furends. That would be good, too. But a cat would be better, so if you can only bring me one present, I'd rather have a cat.

Thank wroo, Santa!
Dannan, The Little Brown Dog

Wordless Wednesday

2009-10-06T20:26:00.000-07:00

Help!!!!

2009-09-22T21:38:00.000-07:00

Help me, my furends! (Assuming I have any furends left! After all, it has been eleventy-seven YEARS since That Mean Girl let me post on my bloggy!)

I need somepuppy to call the SPCA, or the police, or 911, or something. I need to be rescued! That Mean Girl is neglecting me terribly. I'm sure that keeping me away from my bloggy and all my furends is a crime, and they would help me.

I know that all of you have been wondering about us, whether we're okay, or even still alive! Well, we are alive, but obviously all is not well at my house. That Mean Girl is doing all kinds of other things, and she has some pretty messed up priorities, that much is obvious!

I am doing pretty well other than never being allowed on my own bloggy. We had some bad thunder for a few weeks, and I was worried about that. But I'm doing better, especially since it's been a while since we had those awful storms. Cross your paws that we don't have many more!

I am settling in well at my Nanny and my Papa's house, which seems to be where we'll be living for a while. All of our stuff is here, so I guess we're staying. I don't mind, really. The wind is kind of scary sometimes here, more than at The Roomie's house. But my Nanny and my Papa have a nice big backyard, and my Nanny puts out a birdie feeder so they come around. Then I can chase them, which is one of my fave-fur-ite things to do!

My Nanny and my Papa also like to share their foodables with me. This drives That Mean Girl crazy, because she says that I have to "stay lean, because he only has one front leggie". I think she is just jealous, because my Nanny and my Papa don't give her foodables. My Papa always gives me half of his apple. And lots of other things that That Mean Girl doesn't know about, so I won't write about them here.

They also let me bark more than That Mean Girl does. Wroo!

I also really wuff to roll on my Papa's bed! If he doesn't close his bedroom door all the way, I sneak in there and roll. It is really pawsome!

I don't have much time, since I had to sneak on here when That Mean Girl wasn't paying attention. It is furry hard to type with my nose, because all the keys on the laptop thingy are so close together. But I seem to have figured it out okay, so I'll try to sneak on to my bloggy more often.

I guess I better say something about how That Mean Girl is doing. She has been going to the People V-E-T a lot lately, and she takes a lot of different pills. (She doesn't even take them with peanut butter, or CheezeWhiz! She has no idea, really. It is quite sad.) She says they are "trying to find a meds combination that works". I’m sure it would work better if she took them with CheezeWhiz.

She is also doing lots of cheating on me with other doggies. Evfurry Monday night, she goes away and comes back hours later smelling of puppies. Can you imagine??? She says she is teaching the puppies’ people how to train them. A likely story.

She also is doing something with the SPCA shelter doggies and the magic clicky box. I don’t know why she feels the need to go there to use the magic clicky box, since I’m always ready, willing, and able to let her click it at me and give me treats. I really don’t understand her.

She spends a LOT of time on this laptop thingy. She says she is “learning”. Another likely story.

Anyway, enough about That Mean Girl. And I think I hear her coming back, so I’d better go lie on the chair Upside Down so she doesn’t suspect anything.

I miss all of you, my furends. Here’s hoping you’re all still out there somewhere! And hoping that That Mean Girl gets off the laptop thingy evfurry once in a while, so I can sneak on here and post!

WROO!

Sad Saturday - Run free and happy, Charlie

2009-08-01T11:17:00.000-07:00

Sad wroos, furends. We have had to say goodbye to another good furend, Charlie. It is hard to say goodbye to any of our furends, but Charlie was a furry special doggy. He was a founding doggy of Dogs with Blogs, which is the website that brought so many of us doggies around the world together in furendship. And Charlie also was a robodoggy, with a pacemaker that kept his heart working right up until the end.

Our hearts are very heavy today, even though we know that Charlie had the best life a doggy could possibly have, and now he is running free at the Rainbow Bridge and frolicking with his girlfurend, Freda. Girlie is crying, and I am howling to heaven - we are sending our love around the world to Charlie's family, Greg, Brooke and Opy.

If you are a member of Dogs with Blogs (and even if you aren't), please drop by Charlie's bloggy to let Charlie's family know that there is a world full of people, doggies, kitties and other furries that are in mourning for Charlie. Chances are that without Dogs with Blogs, which was created by Charlie and his family, we wouldn't have the wonderful critter bloggies that exist today. And we certainly wouldn't have the loving community that we are part of.

Charlie, we know that when our time comes, you will greet us at the Rainbow Bridge with a wagging tail and loving heart. We will never furget you, Big Dog.

Wordless Wednesday (whoops, Girlie published it early!)

2009-07-14T13:56:00.001-07:00

Happy Canada Day!

2009-07-01T14:38:00.000-07:00

Wroo!

Wordless Wednesday

2009-06-24T13:08:00.001-07:00

Our furend JB needs our help

2009-06-22T12:21:00.000-07:00

Sad wroos, furends. My kitty furend JB and his family need our help! JB's doggy brother Bear has been taken by a mean man to hurt their Mom. Please go to JB's Small World and leave them a message of support. Also, send out your doggy/kitty vibes, say a prayer, cross your paws, howl to heaven, or do whatever it is that you do, so that Bear can be brought home to his family as soon as possible.

"Don't worry, hot dogs, I'm coming!"

2009-06-20T18:17:00.001-07:00

Wroo, furends! I have become a SEARCH AND RESCUE doggy!

The Girl has started to give me little cut up pieces of hot dogs when we're doing "training time". The other day, she took a handful of them and FLUNG them all over the grass in the backyard. I immediately knew what was required of me, and I raced to rescue the poor little hot dog pieces!

It was hard work, but I SAVED each and every little hot dog piece! I think I deserve some kind of MEDAL or something! WROO!

Pee Ess I must apologize for the blurry pictures, as well as the washed out colour of the pictures. But at least The Girl is posting again, so I don't dare criticize her much at the moment. Besides, she is clearly LOSING her mind -- flinging little bits of hot dog all over the place is, I'm sure, a sign of mental deterioration. Good thing she has a SAR doggy like me around to pick up the pieces! (Wroo, sorry for the pun, I couldn't resist!)

Wordless Wednesday

2009-06-17T13:10:00.000-07:00

I can help myself, Girlie!

2009-06-11T10:51:00.000-07:00

Wroo, furends! Well, we missed posting on the weekend because The Girl went to an agility trial WITHOUT ME, cheating with all those other doggies! Then, we missed posting yesterday because The Girl was "tired". I have told her what I think of those excuses!

So, today I decided to write about the yummers new ingredient that I get at dinner time:

SARDINES!!!! I wuff them, they are sooooooooo good! Girlie tells me that it is a sign of how much she loves me that she gives me a sardine evfurry night, because just the smell of them makes her gag. I don't know what she's talking about, they smell delicious to me.

The other day, she came home with a bagfull of foodables. She put most of them away, after I stuck my head into the bag to check for contraband. (I know that many of my furends have similar responsibilities; it is a doggy's job to inspect all bags coming in to the house.) But she left a couple of cans of sardines in the bag, and left the bag where I could reach it.

After time had passed, and being an enterprising doggy, I took both of the cans out of the bag and unwrapped them. Then, because I never get enough food (The Girl keeps me on a starvation diet, and then has the nerve to tell me it's because I only have three leggies... can you imagine!), I thought I would just help myself to a sardine or two. I worked at it a bit, and then I put a tooth through the bottom of the sardine can! I was most impressed with my own strength and resourcefulness. I took a break, as it is quite a lot of work to get into a can without thumbs and one of those opener-thingys.

In the meantime, The Girl discovered all the work I had been doing. She didn't even tell me how clever a dog I was or anything! The sardine cans were taken away from me, and I didn't even get to have a sardine! All that work, and Girlie just THREW THE CAN AWAY!!!! I know, furends, you are as shocked as I was. She told me that she didn't know how long the can had been "punctured", and that to be safe, she would just throw it in the garbage. The sheer wastefulness is not lost upon you, my doggy and kitty furends, I know! Never mind that I had EARNED a sardine!

Needless to say, I was very irritated at The Girl. She didn't seem to notice. Now I'm back to just a sardine at dinner time (or even just PART of a sardine, because The Girl says they are really big and "Dannan, we have to watch your weight because of your leggy", which is just insulting, and probably against the law because it is DISCRIMINATION against a DISABLED doggy). I don't know why I continue to put up with That Girl.

Another thing that keeps me wondering is the quality of pictures lately. These are he kind of pictures she's been taking:

Even if you put all the pictures together, you STILL don't have a full, proper picture of my handsome self! I seriously need to start looking for a new person to be in charge of my foodables and that silver clicky-box thingy.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-06-03T20:31:00.000-07:00

Backyard fun!

2009-05-30T14:04:00.001-07:00

Wroo! I am getting to write on my bloggy again! We haven't been visiting much yet, but at least I get to post again this weekend!

And there are new pictures, too! Girlie took them last weekend - I made her do something I wanted her to do! Wroooooooooooo!

I tried to use the little white clicky box on her, but darned if I can figure out how she makes it work. Poking it with my nose, bashing it with my paw... neither made it make the magic clicky noise. And I can't get into the fridge to get treats for her, anyway. (The Girl notes that if Dannan did somehow manage to figure out how to open the fridge, he would probably eat all the treats himself!) Very funny, Girlie. No "wroo" for you!

Speaking of the whole nose-poking business... I have added a new and exciting feature to that silly "touch" game that The Girl likes to play! It's ever so much more fun this way, let me tell you how I do it! The furst few times, I just poke her quietly. But then, I add noise to the poke. I start small, just little "rrrrrrrrrrrr" kinds of sounds. Then I gradually get louder, "RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR", and as I get louder, I start slamming my nose into her hand. It's much more exciting that way!

Enjoy the pictures! I was having SO much fun in the backyard that day (like I do most days, wroo!), and I didn't even mind that The Girl had that stupid silver box pointed at me!

Looking for birdies in the cherry tree...

More looking for birdies...

Sometimes it helps if you sit...

Still looking...

The Girl has lost her mind...

2009-05-23T14:20:00.000-07:00

Wroo, furends! I finally got some bloggy time!

It has been kind of a boring month. That Girlie isn't taking pictures of me still - any doggy or kitty know how to train a hooman how to do that?!? The pictures in this post below are from earlier this spring -- I finally got The Girl to upload them from the little silver box (the one that flashes) to the bigger silver box (that she spends all her time with instead of with me).

I have been chasing lots of birdies. Nanny and Papa have new neighbours, and they are all amazed at how fast I run. It is nice to get that reaction from them, because all of my peoples just take it for granted that I can run like the wind! (Or like a birdie...) Nanny calls me "the little brown flash", which is a pretty good nickname, I think.

But I know you are wondering why I say that Girlie has lost her mind. So I will get right to that story. Sometimes The Girl brings out a little white box that she holds in her hand. She calls it "training time", and the little white box makes a click sound, then I get a treat. It's a pretty good time.

So lately, she's been getting out the little while clicky thing, and then she wants me to poke her hand with my nose. When I do, she makes it say click, and I get a little piece of hot dog. I have no idea why on earth she would want me to poke her hand with my nose, but The Girl often does things that I don't understand. We've been playing this little poking game quite a bit, and she's even given it a name - Touch. I look at her like she's crazy when we play this game, but as long as the hot dogs keep coming, I'll keep poking at her.

One day, she even wanted me to poke Nanny's hand with my nose. So I did. Lots of times, and I got lots of treats. Then she asked me to poke Papa's hand... that was harder for me, because I am sometimes quite nervous of Papa, especially his hands. But I did poke his hand, twice, and got lots of treats and praise. I really don't know what's going on with Girlie.

Then today, we were outside in the backyard and she wanted me to poke this round green thing that she calls a Beach Ball. I can see no point to this exercise, but today she was giving out little pieces of CHEESE for nose-poking the Beach Ball. So I did it until Girlie said that the cheese was all gone.

Does anybody know why The Girl would get so excited about nose-poking??? I'm not complaining, mind you -- as long as she's giving out treats, I'll keep nose-poking. But the purpose of this activity is beyond me!

So here are a couple of pictures of me outside. You can tell that they are from earlier this spring, because the grass is all dead. Right now, the grass here is all green and nice. Here's me looking in the neighbour's yard for birdies:

This one is just me, hearing something in the backyard:

And here's one of me looking at the small silver boxy thing:

Hopefully, I'll get another change to bloggy soon. Send in your tips for training stubborn and hard-to-train Girlies!

An award (we're totally shocked!) and a new furend!

2009-05-10T16:44:00.000-07:00

Wroo, furends! I told The Girl we had to write something for my bloggy because we got an award! (I can't believe that anydoggy would give us an award when we haven't even been blogging, but that just goes to show that our furends still love us anyway!)

We got this award from Maizy, Wrigley, Probert, Addy and the Brown Dog Mom! Furst, I want to say THANK YOU to them! Second, I want to say that we started to read their bloggy because Maizy, Wrigley and Probert are all brown doggies, just like me! (We kept reading because they are really cool and pawsome!) But, NOW get this: they just added another doggy to their family named Addy. She's not a brown dog like me and them, she's black and white. But she's a three-legger just like me! She's even missing the same front leggy as I am! WROOOOOOOOOO, Addy!

(Note from The Girl: It is really neat to read about Addy's first few weeks in her new home, especially the posts about how blazingly FAST she is and how she gets along brilliantly on three legs! I remember marvelling at Dannan's mobility, and being completely blown away by the way that dogs just get on with it; they don't get caught up in their "disability" -- heck, in their minds, there's nothing wrong with them! They just figure out how to do whatever it is that they want to do, and that's the end of it. It's really been wonderful to be taken back to that time.)

Wroo, Girlie, let's show them the award!

Here's the scoop about this award:
*As a dedication for those who love blogging activity and love to encourage friendships through blogging.
*To seek the reason why we all love blogging.
*Put the award in one post as soon as you receive it.
*Don’t forget to mention the person who gives you the award.
*Answer the Award’s question by writing the reason why you love blogging.
*Tag and distribute the Award to as many people as you like.
*Don’t forget to notify the Award receivers and put their links in your post

Right now, the reason we love blogging is that we've made such amazing furends - people who still love us even though we've been blogger-boogers lately. As Girlie would say, seriously! Evfurry one we've met through this bloggy has been so pawsome! We've made some truly amazing furends, and we get to hear about life as a doggy (or a kitty!) all over the world!

We're not going to pick any doggy or kitty for this award; instead, it's for all of you, furends! Evfurry single one of you who keeps checking in on us and making sure we're okay, each of you make our hearts sing. (And The Girl cry, but that's a diffurent bloggy post!)

The Girl hasn't taken any pictures lately, but here's a little one from before, so you can at least see me in my brown doggedness.

Big, sloppy Brown Dog Kisses for Maizy, Wrigley, Probert, Addy and the hooman formerly known as Brown Dog Mom! WROOOOO!!!!

Long time...

2009-05-01T13:42:00.000-07:00

Wroo, furends. I told The Girl that we had to post something, because some of our good furends are worried about us. So she finally is getting on with it, even though it's taken furever!

We are doing all right. Well, I am doing great, having lots of fun chasing birds and snoopervising the outside activities of Nanny and Papa. The Girl, she goes up and down. Her new med, which was so promising at furst, is not proving to be the answer, and her mood isn't really very stable. She's also been doing lots of things that I don't approve of, like taking part in a Poem A Day Challenge on her own bloggy in April, and taking some therapy course for her brain sickies. AND, she has started co-teaching a puppy class at our local training facility. I DEFINITELY don't approve of that! She stopped working at the SPCA, which she really needed a break from, and she replaced it with other doggies instead of taking that time for me! Can you believe it??? She is so selfish...

(She is telling me to be honest and tell you that I am getting lots more of my own training sessions. I like training time because it always means lots of good eatables and Girlie spending time with me. But she should be spending ALL of her time with me, not spreading it out among the other doggies of the city.)

Anyway, that's the news from us. The Girl says she hasn't known what to post here lately (and no wonder, she can't very well post on MY bloggie that she's doing all this stuff with OTHER doggies!), and she's just not been up to keeping up with all our furends on their bloggies. I hope you are all doing well -- maybe someday soon, that Bad Girlie will take me around so I can find out! Our love to all of you, and please don't worry about us. That Girlie will get her act together someday!

2009-03-27T11:23:00.000-07:00

Wrooo, I just had to post this Loldog:

As soon as I saw it, I thought of Dennis the Vizsla. And how his Dada needs to think hard about whose fault it is when destruction happens!

Me and My Hedgie

2009-03-26T19:37:00.000-07:00

Wroo, evfurry body. Girlie took a picture of me today on her cellphone. She was too lazy to go across the room and get the camera. I guess I can't complain, because at least we're posting something!

I have had Hedgie for years. He is my oldest stuffy, and you will notice that he is still intact. It is not from lack of trying, believe me! I can't seem to get him to explode. Usually I tear off a stuffy's limb, but his little feety-feets are just so tiny that I can't seem to get a good grip. Never fear, I'll post pictures of Hedgie when I finally manage to make him explode!

Girlie is getting over the buggy she had, but now is losing her voice. She's got papers evfurry where, getting ready for the SPCA Annual General Meeting on Sunday. She keeps saying that she is the chair, but that doesn't make any sense to me. I know chairs; I like to steal them from my people when they get up. But you know, The Girl babbles all the time about stuff that doesn't make any sense. All I know is that this meeting thing will be another thing I don't get to go to!

She's been furry busy all month, trying to get ready for this meeting. She says that this is the end to a furry long year, and she can't wait for the meeting to be over. Because of her brain sickies and what the people v-e-ts told her, she has to take a break from working so hard at the SPCA. Even though they told her that she should stop right away after she got out of the hospital, she said that there was some things that she just didn't feel right about leaving for other people to have to do. If only I could get her to feel that way about walkies and super-extended play sessions! But maybe now that she's taking a break, we'll get to do more stuff together. Like trips to the dog park! And BLOGGING! Wroo!

Anyway, The Girl and I thank you all again for being so supportive the last while, and for sticking by us even though we haven't been around much! Wroo!

Old photo alert

2009-03-21T12:13:00.000-07:00

But at least it's a photo. Wroo.

The Girl is making all kinds of interesting noises. She sneezes and coughs, hacks and groans, moans and sniffles. And when I jump on her, she makes an intriguing squeal-ly kind of sound. When she made it the furst time, I had to jump on her again a few times to try to figure out what exactly it was about. I thought that it was a squeal of delight as I bounced and bounced. But I could be wrong, she keeps saying something about how her whole self hurts.

It's a lovely day but chilly. It's perfect for pictures, but The Girl is all burrowed under blankets. And I am not permitted to have the kleenex, if you can imagine that! So I'm outside all by myself, not even anybody to watch me run. Sigh. At least Papa is feeling better. Now, just gotta get Girlie back up to snuff! Thanks for all your good wishes, she'll be on the mend soon, I'm sure!

Sickies again

2009-03-18T10:22:00.001-07:00

Wroo. No pictures AGAIN. The Girl has got some kind of sickies, the kind where she moans about her body aches and feeling icky. My Papa has them, too. Not fun for Little Brown Dogs.

CORRECTION to Sad News

2009-03-15T19:38:00.000-07:00

We have to apologize to both The Painter Pack and to everybody at The Misadventures of Me. It is the Painter Pack's human grandpa who passed away. We hope no one was hurt or offended by this mistake. Our love goes to Mya Boo Boo and everyone at The Painter Pack.

More sad news...

2009-03-15T12:13:00.000-07:00

It just seems like the sad wroos never stop lately.

Our furend River has lost his sweet brother, Hootie. And our furends at The Misadventures of Me have lost their human grandpa. We are sending both families lots of Brown Dog Love and Girlie hugs.

All of this sadness is making The Girl quite useless. We had great plans of visiting evfurry body on their bloggy by the end of today. Well, we're up to about 100 bloggies on the paper list (I know, isn't Girlie just so last century with the paper?), and Dogness knows The Girl is no Lorenza. (Lorenza has about 350 bloggies that she visits regularly!) But we have been around to a dozen or so bloggies, and we'll work on getting to evfurry body else's sometime this week. Girlie has to learn to set more realistic goals, and to overrule me when I insist on things that just aren't going to happen.

(Girlie is furry bad at setting big goals, especially once she starts feeling better. Her motto lately has been, Lessons Will Be Repeated Until They Are Learned. I've been thinking about trying to help her out by using the clicker, but I can't figure out how to click it without thumbs. Any ideas?)

Anyway, we're coming. Slowly. Wroo.

The Girl got an award....

2009-03-15T11:15:00.000-07:00

... and Dannan is letting me post it on his blog! Thanks, buddy. (I won't mention that he is currently outside and has no idea that I'm even doing this post!)

This award is from our friend, Daisy, who gave me this award an embarrassingly long time ago. Many thanks to you, Daisy! This is the prettiest award ever!

No post today

2009-03-14T10:38:00.000-07:00

Wroo, furends. We're not going to do a real post today (even though I keep telling The Girl that posting to say we're not doing a post is in fact a post!). Instead, we're FINALLY going to get back to reading our furends' bloggies! We are both furry sad today because of the sad wroos from Sunny and Scooter and Jamie; they were one of our furst bloggy furends, you know, and they are furry dear to our hearts. So we both need some cheering up.

Besides that, The Girl has been making a comprehensive list of our old and new bloggy furends, so that we can streamline the process of reading. (The Google Reader thingy is just not helping us out; it's got too many bloggies on it! I keep telling The Girl that her non-doggy/kitty bloggies don't really belong, but she stubbornly keeps them there.) The list isn't completely done yet, but our goal fur the weekend is to visit evfurry body's bloggy! So if you don't hear from us by the end of Sunday, pop back and leave a comment, because The Girl has just missed putting you on the list. She gets confused easily, you know.

(This list, btw, is on paper. Perhaps someday in the next year Girlie will actually update our bloggy roll!)

Sad news

2009-03-13T19:19:00.001-07:00

Sad wroos from our furends at the Texas Sun Dogs, evfurry body. Sunny and Scooter, and their Mom Jamie, have lost Jamie's Mom. Jamie's Mom has not been well, and she finally left this world. The Girl is leaking for their loss, and I am howling to heaven for them all.

Fuzzy Ducky Friday

2009-03-13T12:07:00.000-07:00

Wroo, furends! The Girl thanks all of you who counselled me to have patience and understanding for her. I, on the other hand, wish you wouldn't encourage her!

We still don't have that great post for you that I was planning, because The Girl started to take some pictures last night for me, and somehow managed to run the battery down until it was all gone. I have to just sigh and shake my handsome head. But we do have a post today about one of my favourite toys, Pink Ducky. (We don't actually call it "Fuzzy Ducky", but this week The Girl has been into these post titles where the words start with the same letter. So that's what she did.)

Pink Ducky is not a dog toy, so it didn't have a squeeker inside; Girlie found it for me at a thrift store with the kids' toys. But I sure love Pink Ducky!

There is also a video of me playing with Pink Ducky. It has been so long since The Girl took it that we don't remember if it's any good. Hopefully, it was!

And here are some pictures of my handsomeness, accented by Pink Ducky's fluffiness.

And my furend, Biggie Z, asked if I was planning to make Ticked Off Thursdays into a weekly feature. I like that idea, I'm sure I could find something to rant about once a week (often, it's even more than once a week! Wroo!). So we'll see if Girlie lets me!

Ticked off Thursday

2009-03-12T16:58:00.000-07:00

Wroooo, furends. It's Ticked Off Thursday here. Not with those nasty tick things that bite and steal our bloods, but ticked off as in mad.

I had a great post planned for today, instead of all the lazy ones that The Girl has been doing. But she and Nanny went out ALL DAY, and now she says she's too tired! Can you believe it??? AND she says that she's too tired to even find a picture to put up on this post! Clearly, I need to get myself a new secretary! It is too, too much to put up with!

So my furends, I guess you'll just have to imagine me. If you know of anybody who would like to be my new secretary, let me know. Wroo.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-03-11T14:10:00.001-07:00

SLIMED! The "After" Photos

2009-03-10T08:46:00.000-07:00

Wroo, furends! Today is Tuesday, so it's time for the AFTER pictures of the slime! (See the before pictures here.)

So I run around and get a little slime hanging from my mouth. Then, I run around some more, and this is what happens to the slime:

The Girl is apparently a little obsessed with this slime (wait 'til you see all the pictures she took of it). Here's another shot:

And another...

A view from the front:

A close-up:

"STOP TAKING PICTURES OF MY SLIME!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Seriously. I'm going in the house if you are going to keep taking pictures of it."

Wroo.

Missed Shots Monday

2009-03-09T09:27:00.000-07:00

Wroo, evfurry body! Today, The Girl thought it would be funny to show you some of the pictures she took of me that were complete misses. I think that it just shows how much she needs to practice with the Silver Clicky Box*, but...

Anyway, I am a furry FAST dog! Girlie often tries to take a picture of me, but when she clicks that button and the picture shows up, she often finds that the picture looks like this:

Or this:

Or even this:

Sometimes, she aims the Silver Clicky Box ahead of where I am running, so that she can try to get me in the frame. Then, she sometimes gets a picture that looks like this:

Girlie is claiming that this is a Missed Shot like the others, but it is not. You can clearly see that I am not even moving. She can't blame the fact that she chopped off my head on me running too fast. But sometimes the one with the fingers gets the final say, she says. No one is fooled, Girlie.

Ha ha ha! Girlie, you included this one in the Missed Shots, but I'm there! Brown Dog Stealth, engage!

And yet again, The Girl is insisting on putting this photo in with the so-called Missed Shots. Again, you can tell that I am just standing there. No excuse for this one, Girlie!

In this one, I admittedly outran the Silver Clicky Box:

And in this one, too:

This is another one where I am clearly not moving. Just look closely at my hind haunch. All of these ones that chop up my handsomeness, they're not even action shots!

Another photo where half of me is cut off, that can only be blamed on Girlie needing a reality check.

But this one, I can honestly admit that I was in this corner, barking at the birdies, when she started to take the picture. But then I had to chase a birdie that flew away, and the Silver Clicky Box was TOO SLOW!

I told The Girl that this post didn't really count toward a Picture-A-Day of me, since there were no pictures of me in it. She tried to say that those chopped up ones count, but I told her, "Seriously, Girlie!" And she agreed to put in a picture that includes my head, since I'm sure that my furends come by to see my face and not my hind-half.

I am not amused that she chose this picture as the one with my face, even though it pretty much sums up my opinion of this entire post. And notice, this picture is chopped off, too! Wroooo!

*The Silver Clicky Box is not to be confused with the Clicker. The Clicker is much better than the Silver Clicky Box, because the Clicker always means I get a treat. Not so with the Silver Clicky Box!

Silent and Serious Sunday

2009-03-08T10:47:00.000-07:00

Check it out! - Edited, and Edited again!

2009-03-08T07:49:00.000-07:00

I'm just out in the backyard at Nanny and Papa's, hanging around...

When I run, sometimes I get a little bit of what The Girl calls "slime" hanging down from my lips...

She calls it that because after it starts, if I keep running, it usually flips over my muzzle and SLIMES on my face. This is the Before Picture!

Tune in Tuesday for the AFTER!

Pee Ess Our new furends Ruby and Penny (they live in Canada, too - wrooooo!) commented that they were surprised that we still have some snow. We do, but not as much as it looks like in these pictures. The Girl is taking a lazy approach to this Picture-a-Day idea, and using up old photos that she's never gotten around to putting on the bloggy. Seriously, I don't know how I put up with her! Maybe tomorrow we'll post a picture that shows what our snow really looks like. I can always hope....

Edited: That Girlie! She's REALLY trying to be lazy, and to outfox all of my furends! She wanted this post to publish on Monday - she's trying to set up posts ahead of time, if you can believe it! This is NOT the spirit of the Picture-a-Day idea, Girlie! But my bloggy is smarter than that, and showed you all the truth: she's trying to CHEAT!

Anyway, we're going to take pictures tomorrow (which is Sunday) of what the backyard looks like, because we really don't have this much snow left anymore. And we WILL post the Slime - AFTER picture on Tuesday. Girlie is feeling a little embarrassed at being caught out cheating, so she's going to stop for tonight and give me a belly rub instead. RIGHT, Girlie???

Edited AGAIN: The Girl had to come in and fix the link to Ruby and Penny's bloggy, which is HERE. The link above is fixed, too. Sorry to my new furends, Ruby and Penny! The Girl is obviously too tired to be blogging, since she's so sleepy that (a) she accidentally published this post, letting herself be caught at cheating, and (b) clicked the WRONG bloggy on Ruby and Penny's Blogger profile, linking their PAWSOME bloggy to a bloggy we've never even read before! (Though that bloggy is also a Dachshund bloggy, and we might just have to check it out sometime.) Girlie is both red-faced and muttering HBO words, so not only does she owe me that belly rub, but perhaps also a Parmesan Cheese Cookie!

A furry good idea!

2009-03-07T14:24:00.001-08:00

Oh my Dogness, furends, you would not believe the HBO words that have been flying around here! The Girl is having bloggy problems, so bear with us, please.

Our good furends from The Thundering Herd have had a pawsome idea! On our last post, they commented, "We think posting a daily picture of you would be a great part of the healing process!"

(Now, The Girl has some weird infatuation with Rusty, so she's pretty sure this was his idea. I'm not so sure - sorry, Rusty, no offence - but whoever thought of it, it's super!)

We're going to do our best to post a picture of me evfurry day! Some days there might not be much writing, but The Girl and I both agree that trying to do even a really short post is a good way to work on getting back into the swing of things.

Today's picture is a bit dated, since it's from The Girl's cell phone. (She says to please ignore all the fluff and stuff on the couch cushion!) This picture is the wallpaper on Girlie's cell phone, and people always ask her if the picture is upside down. Ha ha, it really is ME that is Upside Down! Wroo!

Pictures from a sunny day

2009-03-06T18:44:00.001-08:00

Wroooooooo, furends! I bet you thought The Girl fell asleep and never woke back up!

We're both doing well. My Girlie is continuing to get better, even though she's still really dizzy all the time. And I'm a little bit bored when she naps, but Nanny and Papa look after me when she sleeps. And that Girlie keeps telling me we'll get walking again soon, but I don't think I believe her. She says the delay is mostly 'cause she can't find my Torture Device. Little does she know, but I took care of that nasty head harness but good.

Just a quick post for today. We've had some really nice days recently, so The Girl's taken pictures. Notice that they haven't made it to my bloggy. Send emails complaining, that might help! Wroooo!

These pictures were taken one day when The Girl had to go to the people V-E-T, but it wasn't quite time to leave yet. In the background of a couple of them, you can see the Magnificently Huge Purse she carries around. (That's what she's taken to calling it, and I blame Mango. I wuff you, buddy, but seriously, The Girl is taking it too far.)

And here is a shot she took of my handsomeness. Please ignore the gunky in my eye! I apparently need a makeup person or something, since she doesn't bother to make me look my finest before she clicks that silver boxy thing.

And a really big thank you to all of you, furends, for continuing to stop by and leave your messages of love and support for us. It really helps my Girlie in her healing process, and it really helps me to know that you all haven't given up on me, what with the stunning lack of bloggy posts. Wrooooooooo to each and evfurry one of you, and lots of Brown Dog Love!

Shelter dogs -- the original "designer dogs"! Make the SPCA your first adoption option!

What wonderful furends we have!

2009-02-26T17:34:00.000-08:00

Wroooooo!!! We're back!

Furst, we have to thank you all... our old furends and some brand new ones. You have all been so supportive and loving! Thank you to evfurry one for all of your wonderful messages! The Girl says that she would have cried over all of the love and understanding that you left for us, except that she is feeling so much better!

The Girl disappeared for a few days. Nanny said she was at someplace called a hospital, getting better. And she's come home, and I can tell that she's on the mend! She says that going to the hospital was the best thing, and that she's moving in the right direction now. She's on a brand new medication (which she doesn't even take with cheese or peanut butter! What a foolish Girlie!). She's really sleeping a whole lot of the time, because of something called a side effect, but she says she's feeling better than she has in months! WROOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since The Girl is sleeping a lot of the time, and is super dizzy the rest of the time, we're not anywhere ready to get back to our usual routine yet. But The Girl's mood is better than it's been in a furry long time, and her ang-zy-a-tee hasn't been bothering her! So we're on the way, evfurry body!

The Girl has asked me to pass along lots of thanks and love and hugs to evfurry one - she says it makes a really big difference to know how many people and doggies and kitties and other furries care! So THANK YOU from Girlie!

We have some really nice pictures on the camera, but The Girl forgot to get it out of the glove compartment of the car. So we'll have to make due tonight with a camera phone picture. I am furry tired of her sleeping all of the time, but it gives me lots of time to relax and cuddle with Nanny. Oh, and to share food with Papa, but don't tell Girlie that!

We're going to slowly make our way around to evfurry body's bloggy. And I told The Girl to clear her Google Reader of the backlog... She's trying really hard to not put pressure on herself, and I agree entirely! We need to spend more time playing! Wroooooooo! We wuff you all!!!!

Today is about The Girl

2009-02-18T16:24:00.000-08:00

Wroo, my furends. I'm going to make my bloggy about The Girl today.

My Girlie has the brain sickies, for those of you who don't know. She's got the depresshun and something called ang-zy-a-tee. For the last few months, she's been really battling with them so that they didn't take over and make her really sick. She's been having lots of doctor and med-a-cay-shun problems, too, which makes the brain sickies even worse.

Well, my Girlie has fought about as hard as she can, and she needs a bit of a rest. My Nanny and my Roomie are taking over and fighting with the doctors to try to get my Girlie better. And I am The Girl's biggest help, cuddling and loving and stuff like that. So we'll all be working to help my Girlie.

If we haven't been by your bloggy in a while, it's because The Girl has been working hard on keeping the brain sickies at bay, which is hard work, and she only has so much energy and concentration. If we don't post for a bit, just know that we're fighting hard and will be back as soon as we can.

Furends, we love you all, and reading your bloggies (even if we don't comment) brings us joy and comfort. So we'll be lurking around for a bit - keep having great adventures and good cuddles with your people! Wrooo!

The Package, Part Two - Dannan vs. the BULLY STICK

2009-02-15T15:43:00.001-08:00

Wroo again, my furends! The Girl actually missed the moment of triumph when I got the bully stick out of the packaging and took it to the couch. Can you believe it???

Yes indeed, my package was full of BULLY STICKS, from Best Bully Sticks! They were kind enough to send me some samples, and let me tell you... they are FANTASTIC!!!! I will be instructing The Girl to order some furry soon!

Again, the pictures are disappointing. I was in constant motion (duh, Girlie, I was CHEWING!), so most of the (215!!!) pictures aren't furry good. But The Girl did get a couple of videos, which we posted furst because that way, you can skip the bad pictures if you like! Watch for the drool!

There are a few all right pictures in amidst all the bad ones. Seriously, she took like 215 pictures! That's almost eleventy-seven, you know!

Check out the swirlify feature The Girl got! She didn't even have to use a photo editor for this one, she did it all by herself!!

Check out the drool!

It might seem as though this was an everlasting bully stick, but unfortunately it wasn't. Five minutes was all it took for me to devour it! Even though it wasn't everlasting, it was FURRY TASTY, and I have to send out a great big THANK WROOOOOOOO to those Best Bully Stick guys!

And if you guys are looking for product development ideas, that whole everlasting bully stick is a PAWSOME idea!!! (Sorry the pictures weren't better!)

The Package, Part One - Dannan vs. The Envelope

2009-02-15T14:40:00.000-08:00

Wrooooooooooo, my furends!!!! The Girl has found a wi-fi spot where we can get signals from the internets! So we are doing Part One of our post about me and my package!

(The Girl is feeling exceptionally lazy, so she just posted a whole bunch of pictures, not really editing them or selecting among them. She says, maybe my furends will like quantity better than quality!)

So, I got this package in the mail last Monday. It was addressed to me and everything! "To Dannan, the Little Brown Dog" it said! I'm not going to tell you yet who was from, just to be a booger! Let's just say that it smelled FANTASTIC!!!

I had to sniff it out...

The Girl turned it over for me, because there was a little hole on the back!

I am moving, and The Girl's camera doesn't like that, so some of the pictures are a little blurry...

You would think that it took me a really long time to do this, judging by how many pictures The Girl took, but it was really quite fast! She just kept taking pictures, one after the other. You know how our people get!

This is only Part One! In Part Two, we will reveal the contents of the package, and show you some pictures of me and what's inside!

Pee Ess Evfurry body should head over to my Scottish furends, the Dughallmor Beagles! They have a surprise for me today... I think it might be a bunny rabbit! They get to chase them all the time (and eat their poop!), and I have never even seen a rabbit! So I think that they've got one to show me today!

darned computers!

2009-02-14T18:31:00.000-08:00

Hi, everyone, it's The Girl here. I am not able to get consistent access to the internet right now. I'm trying to figure it out, but Dannan can tell you that it's not working, because I'm using lots of HBO words. Our photo editor is online (the online - and free! - version of photoshop), so all that editing that I was going to do of the pictures of Dannan opening his package hasn't even happened yet. I've spent the whole afternoon trying to get the internet to work for my laptop, or to get the wireless router to work, and it just hasn't happened yet. Now, it's time to go have some dinner and cuddle my boy. We'll try again tomorrow.

Good grief, Girlie!

2009-02-11T19:31:00.000-08:00

Wroo, furends! I got to open my package today, and The Girl totally lost her mind. She made two videos, and took over 200 pictures. And shockingly, she hasn't sorted through them all for my special post. She's whining about how many pictures there are, all the editing she's trying, and how hard it is to decide which ones to use. Good grief, she's totally insane.

So, my special post (which she PROMISED I could do today!) will have to be tomorrow. Or maybe even Friday, because "there are so many pictures"! Whose fault is that, Girlie???

Tonight, we're going to put up a couple of other pictures she took today.

This was when she was still working on it. Before she gave up. And let me down. Look how handsome I am! How she can deny me....

If only I had thumbs... Or even one thumb. I could do it myself and not have to rely on the unreliable help.

Look how seriously unimpressed I am.

Nanny and Papa call this my "sulky" chair. Well, if I'm sulky, I've got good reason! Laser beams. Girlie, feel my wrath!

Wroo.

Pictures of Me and The Girl

2009-02-10T20:19:00.000-08:00

Wroo, evfurry body! Congrats to all the winners over at MangoMinster, especially to our furends, the Lorenza and River! And thank wroo to all of our furends (and new folks we haven't met yet - please say hi if you followed the link over from the Hounds group!) who voted for us for Reader's Choice!

Tomorrow, I will post about my package that came in the mail. But today, I wanted to put up some pictures of me and The Girl. For one thing, the bloggie has been light on pictures lately. For another, my good pal Dozer commented on the lack of pictures in the last post. And finally, how could I resist making The Girl post pictures of herself, when she always posts so many of me? Wroo, that's just a joke, Girlie. The actual final reason is to make up for the graphic nature of my first couple of Honesties. I should maybe have put a warning up - my apologies!

So, this is the only picture that we had of both The Girl and me, for a long time:

The Girl is a little photo-avoidant. So this was the best she would do, for the longest time.

Then at Christmas time, we took several pictures of us together. I wasn't very happy about it, as you can see:

I actually do kind of like her, even though I don't look like it here. Well, actually, I wuff her. She's my Girlie, after all!

So I asked her to make up this picture to show how we really are:

The Girl loves teddy bears. Even though I am a master stuffy destroyer, I leave all of the teddy bears alone. I know that they aren't mine! So I picked this Kimi out, and I asked her to put our happiest faces in it. Cuz we really are the furry best of furends. Someday, we will get a picture of us together where I don't look tortured, and that she doesn't mind posting. But for now, that's what we've got!

Whoops...

2009-02-09T16:35:00.000-08:00

Daisy and Dozer have both already received the Honest Weblog award and done the meem. So just go over to their bloggies and read their honesties!

Since I don't know who hasn't done this one, I give this award to evfurrybody who wants it! Wroo!!!

Pee Ess Dozer also tagged me for another meem, which I'll do soon!

Honesties! For real! (edited)

2009-02-09T16:12:00.000-08:00

Our wonderful Kuvasz furend Biggie Z presented us with the Honest Weblog Award! Thanks, Biggie! It's an honour!

The rules:"When accepting this auspicious award, you must write a post bragging about it, including the name of the misguided soul who thinks you deserve such acclaim, and link back to said person so everyone knows he or she is real.

Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or improvise by including bloggers who have no idea who you are because you don’t have 7 friends. Show the 7 random victims’ names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them that they were prized with “Honest Weblog.” Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon. List at least ten honest things about yourself. Then, pass it on! "

Well, Biggie is a very honest guy. His bloggy is a great place to go to read about WTFs. No, not Wire Fox Terrors, the other WTFs. People who are clueless about doggies, and his encounters with them. You should go read his posts about them; you’ll completely know what he’s talking about! He and his Momma also do lots of educational stuff, like about raw diets and socialization and training. Check them out!

Edited to add: We tagged Daisy and Dozer at the end of this bloggy post, but it turns out they had both already received the award and passed it on to me! Thank wroo, my furends! You've gotta go see Daisy and Dozer, I wuff them so much! You will, too, I just know it! Daisy is the sweetest doggy I know, and Dozer is furry funny! And like I wrote (will write?) down below, they are totally twins!

So I have to list at least ten honest things about myself. Hmm, that shouldn’t be too hard. Biggie did a whole theme thing about his raw diet, but I think I’ll just go general. I’ll try to come up with new honesties about myself, too.

I love to eat cat poop. And even sometimes Min Pin poop, when their raw food is particularly tasty. (Lexi gets al-er-Gs, so the ingredients sometimes change.)

I have trouble emptying my anal glands. (TMI? Oh well! It’s honest, that’s for sure!) My Trisha at the groomer’s usually empties them for me every second month or so. The Girl is giving me pumpkin now, in hopes of tightening up my - ahem - poop. She’s also heard that raw diets help, but I haven’t quite convinced her yet that she needs to start feeding me raw.

I go on the offensive when I’m face-to-face with doggies that are bigger than I am. Girlie says she doesn’t know if I do this because I live with little Min Pins or because I think I’m at as disadvantage due to my three leggy-edness. Actually, it is because I just want to show evfurrybody that I am not to be taken lightly. I’m a bad-a$$, you know.

I have a huge crush on Stella. (Not news, but how can I leave it out? Kisses to you, Stella!)

I am a good chewer when it comes to food. The Girl gave me some leftover green peas last night, and I chewed each pea!

I am a lot smarter than (some) people give me credit for. When we first got over to Nanny and Papa’s house, they spoiled me with treats all the time. I totally convinced them that I was absolutely STARVING, and for about a week, I was able to con them out of food anytime I wanted. The Girl discovered the dozens of extra foodables I was conning, and she put a stop to it. Mean Girlie!

I am the bag inspector wherever I happen to be. Any bags coming into the house must be inspected by me for contraband. Especially foodable bags. Once, I even stole a marrow bone out of a foodable bag.

The Girl thinks that I am not very sly. When I stole the marrow bone, I gave it up right away when The Girl told me to. I didn’t try to hide with it, like some Min Pins I know (Lexi, I’m looking at you!) And there have been other things I’ve - ahem - appropriated for myself that I’ve taken right to The Girl. Not sly at all, she says. But then again, I’ve trained Girlie that when I get something I’m not supposed to have, she has to give me a tasty treat in exchange for the forbidden object. She just has no idea of the level on which I work!

I sometimes try to creep up on the cats. I think I’m totally stealth. (Girlie here. He is stealth, but only in his own mind! Because of his three-leggedness, it’s not very inconspicuous. He moves like the wind when he runs, but when he’s going slow, it’s not so smooth. Hop, hop, hop!)

I am the world’s best seat stealer. Whenever anybody gets up off of a chair or the couch, I am in their spot like lightning! I especially love to steal the Roomie’s spot! Papa’s spot is also fun to steal. The Girl makes me move if I steal her spot, but Nanny always lets me stay where I am – she’s the one that moves! Wroo!

Those are some (hopefully) new things about me! I am going to tag Daisy and Dozer with this one; they are totally twins, check them out!

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Make sure you get over to the Mango's bloggy! He's hosting Mango-Minster this week, and evfurrybody can put in their own vote for which doggy they want to win! Today's the Hound group, wroo!

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We have an exciting post coming up later in the week! I got some mail today, and once The Girl gets the batteries changed in the camera (don't laugh, it takes furEVER!), we'll take some pictures and a video. And I'll do a little review on what's inside the package!

Great new graphic!

2009-02-07T10:03:00.001-08:00

Wrooooo! Thanks to Greg and Brooke for this pawsome new graphic!

Featured blog for February at DWB!!!

2009-02-06T17:34:00.000-08:00

Wroooooooooo!!!! Congratulations to our furends Gus and Louie and Callie, those Three Happy Heelers! They were chosen by DWB'ers to receive the Awesome Blog award over at Dogs With Blogs, and they're featured on the front page of the site! We wuff their bloggy, especially when they get to go herding! Brown dog wags to you three!

We were the runner-up, and brown dog love to all of you who voted for us! Also to all of our other furends - we know it was a tough choice this month, so many great bloggies were nominated! So The Little Brown Dog's Blog is DWB's Featured Blog for February! I can't express how happy we are, so check me out:

The Girl says excuse the lint on the couch cushion. I say, Girlie, my furends aren't going to be fooled, this is an old picture! My more observant readers may notice that this is my old collar. The Girl has been too busy to take a single picture of me! She has been most disappointing of late, though she thanks all of you who have commented about her work for the SPCA being important and that it's okay that we're MIA lately. The more she gets into it, the more work she finds to do. I'm all for helping other doggies and kitties and hammies and bunnies and all, but what about ME??? She doesn't even take me to the shelter with her, cuz she says that I mark everywhere and need too much supervision. Excuse me, but hasn't she SMELLED that place?!? Wroo!

I wanted to send another big thank wroo to our Relentlessly Huge furend, Mango, who nominated us for the Awesome Blog award over at DWB! We'll soon get our Featured Bloggie graphic, and I'll make The Girl post it right away! Right, Girlie? Right!

Mango is also hosting a really pawsome event over on his bloggy, so go over and find out about Mango-Minster! Better hurry, the deadline to enter is noon on Sunday, February 9th! (There's a link to the rules in his sidebar over on the left-hand side.) You'll find me over in the Hound group, competing for fame and fortune! (Well, fame, anyway!)

We also owe Mango thanks for coming over to our bloggy and commenting so that we found out about Mango-Minster in time! We almost missed out, and that would have been terrible. So far, I've worked Girlie's guilt to get a walkie and some parmesan cheese cookies! I think we might also visit some of our furends this weekend! We're going to read as much as we can, and we'll try to comment at least once so you know we've been by!

Our next post is going to be about an award given to us by another one of our furry good furends, Biggie Z! Thanks to Biggie for letting us know in our comments that we had an award waiting over at his place! It is going to be a lot of fun, so The Girl and I are both looking forward to that post.

It has been furry nice and warm at Nanny and Papa's house the last couple of days. I have been lying on their back step on a fuzzy blankie and surveying my domain, basking in the sun. I'd love to show you some pictures of that, but THERE ARE NO NEW PICTURES! I've guilted Girlie into a lot of good stuff today, but I might be pushing my luck to demand a photo shoot. We'll have to see.

Wroo, evfurrybody!!!!!

Dannan vs. The Little Cardboard Box

2009-01-30T11:51:00.000-08:00

Wrooooooooo! Evfurrybody seemed to like my picture of me as Superman! I got The Girl to take that picture because sweet Stella (swoon!) told me that I run faster than Superman! BOL!!

Today, we are going to show how cheep The Girl can be. She is always on the lookout for cheep ways to keep me occupied. So she found a little cardboard box, put some of my kibble in it, taped it up, and put holes in the box where the kibble could come out when I moved the box. She's never done it before, but she should have known that it wouldn't take me long to ann-ny-a-late the box!

She took a couple of videos, too.

Here is the box after I was done with it!

Silly Girlie! She's seen me rip up cardboard before, I don't know why she thought it would keep me occupied for furry long!

She says that next time, she's going to duct tape all over the box, and see how quick I am then. Ha ha, Girlie, I'll take that challenge!

(Note from The Girl: It is a very challenging time at our local SPCA right now; we are in the middle of trying to hire a new Branch Manager, and our former BM is working two jobs (her new one and at the SPCA) trying to keep the local shelter running as smoothly as possible. Also, it's time to start planning our Annual General Meeting, and a lot of that is up to me. So we are (once again!) dreadfully far behind with our friends' blogs. It might last a while, so I wanted to tell you how sorry we are for not keeping up with your adventures. We'll catch up eventually, but right now, the SPCA is on the top of our priority list. We miss you all, and can't wait to see what you've been up to!)

Wordless Wednesday

2009-01-28T12:26:00.001-08:00

Girlie, that's cheating!

2009-01-27T17:55:00.000-08:00

Wroooooooooo, evfurrybody! That Girlie is finally feeling better. She says to thank you all for your good wishes, she thinks they helped!

But do you know what? She finally feels better, and all she's been doing is a bunch of stuff for the SPCA! Not stuff with me! So we're cheating today and posting videos we took last week. I told The Girl that we needed to make a new video for my furends, but she just waved me off and moved papers around. I don't know what she's trying to do with them, but it doesn't look to me like it's working.

So we've got two videos for you. You were all so kind about The Girl's movie-making skills, but really she needs practice. I keep telling her that, but all the compliments are making it hard to get through to her. So knock it off, already. (Dannan! That's rude, and mean!) But you say it to me all the time when I'm barking. (...uhhh...) Yep, I knew you had nothing to say to that.

Anyway. Enjoy the videos, even though they're OLD and happened a LONG time ago. And because I'm shameless, I'm going to ask you to make sure you go vote for my bloggie at DWB's Bone Zone. (The Girl is mortified at my shameless campaigning. No wonder she's never won anything! Wroo!) If you don't have the secret pawsword for the Bone Zone, just send an email to Opy asking to be let in. And don't furget to vote in the other competitions, too!

We haven't been to anybody's bloggy for wayyyyyy toooooooooo loooooooonnnnnnngggggggg. We'll be catching up this week, I hope. That SPCA paper-moving stuff better not take all week!

Another boring day

2009-01-24T17:49:00.000-08:00

Wroo. I have to be very, very quiet... The Girl has a my-grane. I don't really know what that is, but what it means is that we don't get to do anything fun. Everything is dark and quiet and dull. And the temperature has dipped again, so it was almost too cold to even do business, never mind just be outside for fun. I am bored, bored, bored, bored, bored. Maybe tomorrow will be more interesting.

An award from Daisy!

2009-01-21T15:01:00.000-08:00

Wroooooooooo, evfurrybody! The Girl keeps reminding me not to let my head get all big and bumpy with all the wonderful things that are happening to me!

Our good furend Daisy gave us this award:

(Notice Dennis the Vizsla posing in disguise!)

Daisy said she gave us this award because it is so cold and snowy here, and if we have this award, it will feel more like summer when we can drink lemonade! It just so happens that The Girl's favfurite drink is lemonade! So we thank you, Daisy! You've brightened up our grey winter day!

(We are trying to keep on top of awards. The Girl and I agreed that we have to try to post about them right away, so that we don't end up so far behind on them as we've been.)

I'm just hanging out today, being bored.

A HUGE Honour!

2009-01-20T19:12:00.000-08:00

Wroooo, evfurrybody! I am chuckling at the title to this post, because the HUGE honour comes from Mango, the Relentlessly Huge! BOL!

Anywroo, our furry good furend Mango nominated us for the Awesome Blog Award at DWB!!!! We are so honoured to be nominated, I can't even tell you! Our hearts are full, and The Girl's eyes are a little teary... We just love our furends SO MUCH, and it's a really, really big deal to us to be nominated for an award at DWB. We really can't say how much this means to us!

Thank you furry much, Mango! (And Mango Momma and Dexter, too! And don't forget Hector Wheelie!) We are so touched that you put our bloggy forward for this great honour!

SOOOOOO happy!

Very funny, Girlie.

2009-01-19T13:40:00.000-08:00

WROOOOOOO!!!!! Thanks, evfurrybody, for all your good comments about the videos! We're new at it, and the comments encouraged The Girl to make some new videos today. I'll show you those later.

First, I have to tell you that The Girl is telling me that I'm getting a swollen head. I don't really know what that means, but she says she has a photo to prove it.

Oh ha, ha, furry funny, Girlie. Don't let those opposable thumbs go to your head!

In the middle there, when I squat - the camera is shaking even more than usual because The Girl is laughing at me peeing. I don't waste a leg-lift when I'm in my own yard! (or Nanny and Papa's yard, as the case may be)

Notice how in this one I have to break my own path along the fence? I look a bit like a dolphin, don't you think? The Girl flat out refused to make me paths all around the yard, so I've had to work on them myself. I have to patrol the perimeter of Nanny and Papa's yard, it's my job! I know you doggies out there understand!

Finally, this is a great video, because in it, I get ham. And I know that I am tremendously adorable in it, so you'll enjoy it, too. The Girl cannot throw to save her life, but notice the great catch I made right at the start? Then the ham pieces in her hand fell into the sleeve of her hoodie. I don't know how The Girl makes it through the day. I didn't even have to do tricks to get the ham, she just wanted to showcase my absolute cuteness. Wroooo!

What's up with that, Blogger????

2009-01-18T18:02:00.000-08:00

Wroo, my furends. My most recent post (well, the one that was posted just before this one) didn't show up at the right place. It's a few posts back, so somefurries might miss it. It's about awards and my film debut, so I am a little ticked off that it got hidden a few posts back. If you missed it, click on the link and check it out.

Blogger is a strange thing.

More sadness and another farewell

2009-01-15T10:55:00.000-08:00

More sad wroos, my furends. Our new furend Addie has had to say goodbye to her sweet sister, Zoe. As with PooPoo earlier this week, Zoe's passing was without warning. Our hearts go out to Addie and Lucie and their pawrents.

So much sadness for us left behind. But as Bobby reminded me in his comment about PooPoo, it is we who remain that are sad. Our furends at the Bridge are whole and healthy, able to be at peace and to run and play. They are happy there, just waiting to be reunited with us. Thanks, Bobby, for that comment; it really comforts us, my furend.

Brown dog kisses and Girlie hugs to all of us left behind.

FAMOUS!

2009-01-15T09:53:00.000-08:00

Wrooooooo! The Girl and I are interviewed today over at PetDoc.com! Check us out, we're famous!!!

Another furend goes to the Bridge

2009-01-14T16:57:00.001-08:00

Sad wroos, evfurryone. We are, as usual, behind in reading our furends' bloggies, and we just read JB's Small World. JB's kitty sister, PooPoo, unexpectedly went to the Bridge yesterday morning. I think that most of our furends have already been by to tell JB and Misty and Bear and their Mom how sad they are. But we just had to write a post about their loss. PooPoo has joined their big sister, Taffy, at the Bridge and is now at peace. Run free and play long, precious girl.

Awards! and My Film Debut!

2009-01-14T13:17:00.000-08:00

Wrooo, I got this cool award from Stella (swoon!) and from Snoop, Gabbi, Alfie & Rosie (the ultra-super Dughallmor Beagles)!! Here are the rules:

These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

We are SO happy that our furends think of us this way - it means so much to us! Thanks, Stella and Beagles!

Now The Girl is going to take over the post for some less happy talk about awards.

Girlie here. I told Dannan that it was only fair for me to do this part of the post, because it is totally my fault that it needs to be done.

Before Christmas, like November and December and possibly part of October, many of our furends gave us awards. I didn't post any of them. I felt overwhelmed by all the things I had to do, and I kept procrastinating. Then there were so many of them, that I just cowered under the bed and procrastinated some more. I may have thanked some of you, but I might not have thanked anybody.

And I've been putting off making this post, too. I feel tremendously awful that I let this happen - that I didn't thank most (or any) of you for honouring us with awards, that I didn't post about them, that I didn't let Dannan pass them along.

So today, I am biting the bullet and saying to each of you that I am very sorry. We did appreciate that you thought so much of us to give us an award, and we are honoured. We have the best friends that a dog and a Girl can have.

And I am facing the fact that I'm not going to go back and find all the posts with the awards one of these days. It's not going to happen, and I need to be honest about it (with you all and with myself). So I ask you all to forgive me, and not to blame Dannan. He doesn't have thumbs, as you all know. It's all on me.

In an offering to all of you, I'm going to post my first attempts at taking video of Dannan. The videos are of pretty poor quality, but for my first ones, I'm willing to take them. Please enjoy seeing The Little Brown Dog, live and in canine, on location at Nanny and Papa's house!

When he's jumping at the fence, he's jumping at the birds in the neighbour's tree.

And we are giving the award we got at the beginning of this post to anybody who has given us an award which we haven't acknowledged, and you're still are our friends anyway. Thank you, we love you.

Girlie out.

Out in the snow!

2009-01-13T16:33:00.000-08:00

In no particular order...

OMDog!

2009-01-09T18:11:00.000-08:00

Wrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! Stella and her Mom have put my Elvis picture up on their desktop!

I really like Stella but I don't know anything about asking girls out and stuff. Do you doggies and kitties think she likes me back? Ask Sunny, I'm terrible at flirting! Help me, what do I do????

Friday Report

2009-01-09T13:29:00.000-08:00

Wrooooooo! It's Dannan, The Little Brown Dog, reporting to you from Nanny and Papa's house!

Yes, The Girl and I have been staying here all week. I ask you, how can an intrepid reporter like me make a report without pictures? Well, when the cameraGirl forgets to bring the camera, there's not much to do but make words. Silly Girlie.

Anyway, it's been warmer this week, hovering around zero. I've been able to stay outside a lot longer, and it's been good. I finally discovered where Nanny hides her birdies (in the tree in the neighbour's yard), so I've had good fun wrooooing at them!

The Girl and I also took a walk. I had to wear the hoodie, and THEN SHE PUT BOOTIES ON MY FEET. The indignity! It was sooooooo embarrassing!

Thankfully, the first bootie dropped of halfway down the driveway, and the second got lost in the deep snow by the telephone pole at the corner of Nanny and Papa's front yard. The last bootie stayed on the whole time, but it was much more comfortable than having to wear all three!

Nanny's judgement was that the booties were too small. (She made them long ago for Shea.) Ha ha! I have foiled the booties!!!

(Note from The Girl: Dannan doesn't know it, but Nanny is making him new booties, which will be just his size.)

In other news, Papa is the BEST! He gives me lots of treats! We ate an apple today, and I got one-third of it! The Girl is trying to make Papa be more sensible, but I know that he's a good guy. He'll find a way to share. He's good like that.

(Another note from The Girl: Papa has been told that the only food he can share with
Dannan is apple. And I regularly repeat that Dannan cannot gain weight because of his three-leggedness. Like, every evening at dinner. And sometimes at noon. And I watch them both like hawks.)

Sorry there are no pictures, evfurrybody. We have to go home sometime this weekend because it's the Roomie's birthday, so we'll pick it up then. And take some pictures with it. Wroo.

Lots of stuff to tell you!

2009-01-05T16:01:00.000-08:00

Wrooooooooo, furends! OMDOG, I had SO much FUN last night! The Girl isn't sure exactly what happened, and I'm not telling. The things that are known are: The Girl was downstairs and the Roomie was either in the bathroom or her bedroom. I was left unsupervised in the living room, with the Min Pins and the CATS!

All of a sudden, there was a great clatter, and I was wroooooo-ing my cat serenade. The Pins were barking, and the Roomie ran into the living room. She found me (and Cleo) in the corner; I had Cleo pinned down behind a dining room chair and the big indoor house tree. The Pins were going crazy and I was having the MOST FUN EVER!

The Roomie had a very hard time grabbing my collar, because I was using EVASIVE MANOUVERS. I tromped on her toe for good measure, buying myself more time for FUN!

The Roomie had just captured me and was dragging me to the stairs. The Girl came up the stairs and ordered me down into our bedroom. She followed me, and locked me in. She said I was in EXILE. (At least she was in there with me.) The Pins kept barking, and every time I heard a sound from upstairs, I had to wroooooooooo or make my grumpy sound. And jump up against the door to try to get out. I don't understand why sometimes I can push the door with my nose and it opens, and other times it just seems to be shut even more.

After about an hour, I was still totally vigilant, totally ready to leap to the door at the slightest sound. The Girl made me stay in the room ALONE while she went upstairs to make sure evfurrybody up there was okay.

Lo and behold, the Roomie was on the floor, trying to coax Hailey out from under the couch. Sometime during the seconds when I was totally unsupervised, she got off the scratching post, too, only she went for the bunker under the couch. The Girl and the Roomie suspect that one or the other of the cats (or both) forgot I was in the room and started down off the scratching post. I noticed and it was GAME ON!

Anyway, eventually Hailey came out from under the couch. The Pins has been locked in the Roomie's bedroom while the Roomie worked on Hailey, and they got let out. I, on the other hand, remained in EXILE.

The only injury during the incident was to the Roomie's toe. Sorry, Roomie!

I had the BEST TIME! OMDOG, it was so fun! Unfortunately, neither the Roomie nor The Girl had the presence of mind to take pictures, so you'll just have to imagine the glory of it all. To help you, here are some pictures to remind you what Hailey and Cleo look like.

This is what they usually look like, perched up on the ceiling-high scratching post. The orange and white cat is Cleo, and the grey and orange one is Hailey.

This is how the cats look when they are heading on off the post. This is a picture of Hailey from a long time ago.

Anywroo, it was a MOST exciting evening!!!

In other news, I have received many compliments on the picture that used to be my header, the one where I have an Elvis sneer. Stella even asked me to ask The Girl to put it back up! Well, she didn't do that yet, but she played around and created a new picture, especially for you, Stella!!!

BOL, isn't it great?!

Today, it was warmer outside (only -3), so I was allowed to stay outside for a little bit. I heard our teenaged neighbours, and I raced to the back of the yard, barking my little brown head off! Their black Lab and I ran the fences and barked at each other (it's been so long since we've even seen each other!), and I bounded through the snow like some kind of deer, The Girl says. Of course, she didn't get pictures of that, either. Sigh.

The Girl is going to make me a compromise, she says. The longer she procrastinates about us visiting evfurrybody's bloggies, the more and more entries there are, and the behinder and behinder we get. So, after a very FEEBLE attempt on the weekend to catch up, she has decided that we will start reading evfurrybody's most recent posts, and then if "we" have time, we might catch up on the ones we missed.

I, for one, don't know how this is a compromise! There was no negotiation whatsoever. I think this is more of an executive decision by the one with hands than a compromise. But until I figure out a way to work the pooter on my own, I guess I have to accept it. Wroo. See you all soon, I'll be the doggy who has no idea what's going on with my furends.

Catching up in tiny bits...

2009-01-03T19:16:00.000-08:00

Wroooo, evfurrybody. The Girl and I are slowly beginning to catch up on bloggies. She has resisted my urging to GET ON WITH IT, and we only started tonight. We'll work on it tomorrow, WON'T WE, GIRLIE???

One of her time wasting strategies was the discovery of Imikimi. Today, she made this picture for our header:

It doesn't work, so she put a different picture up there. Talk about your time wasting!

It's still furry cold here. It's been too cold to be outside for eleventy-seven days. I rush out and do my business, then come back in. And if I think I might just try staying out there, because I am really not happy about the whole no-outside thing, The Girl makes me come in after a few minutes, because I start to shiver.

(Note from The Girl: If he would allow it, he could wear his hoodie and booties, and stay outside as long as he wants. At least when it's not -20. But no, he CAN'T STAND either of them, and doesn't get their point. Sigh.)

Never mind, Girlie. I just wish it were warmer outside! I should have asked Santa Paws to bring Spring.

Goodbye, 2008!

2008-12-31T14:55:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to all of my furends!!!

BOL! Do you like this picture of cats watching Dannan TV? The Girl made it at photofunia.com!

My furends from the Zoo Crew and my furend Joe Stains asked me why I HATE my hoodie, when I am so handsome in it? Well, just on general principle, I suppose! I hate wearing clothes of any sort. I think it all stems from when I had my operation and the V-E-T stole my leggy... afterward, instead of a Cone Head, I got to wear t-shirts. They covered up my stitches so I couldn't lick or chew at them, and I had to wear them for a very long time. The Girl went nuts and bought a whole bunch of baby shirts from the thrift store, and she dressed me up in them. I was tolerant at furst, but once I was healed I thought I was done with the clothing. Ever since, I've hated having to wear jackets and coats, or anything like them!

The Girl says to apologize for us still being behind on all our bloggy furends. If you can imagine, she's been working on HER bloggy. I know, the nerve, right? Her bloggy is nowhere near as interesting as mine, and she's definitely not in the same league when it comes to handsomeness. She doesn't even put up pictures! (Except of me, and why would you go to her bloggy to see the occasional picture of me, when you could come to MY bloggy where it's ALL about me?)

We are just having a quiet evening at home tonight. The Girl will probably insist on packing us off to bed at 9:00 or something. Tomorrow, we're going over to Nanny and Papa's house for the traditional New Year's dinner. I am hoping for some good eatables. The Girl says not to hold my breath, but Papa always finds a way!

We hope everyone is warm and safe tonight! Tell your peoples that, too! Wrooooo!

Pimpin' my new hoodie (which I HATE)

2008-12-29T14:38:00.001-08:00

In other news, The Girl is lazy! We'll get caught up this week!

Christmas Day!

2008-12-25T14:27:00.001-08:00

Wroooooooooooooo and Merry Christmas! Dannan here, blogging from Nanny and Papa's house! We've been here since Tuesday, and we'll go home sometime this weekend, I think.

I got a new toy, Mr. Santa Head. Check out the action shots that The Girl took!

Then, while I was having fun with Mr. Santa Head, The Girl opened a gift with a pretty scarf in it. She asked me if I wanted to pose in the scarf; we settled on this compromise:

Wroo, a pretty handsome picture, if I do say so myself!

Then, of course, I had to go Upside Down.

They have snow here, too, just like we do at home! (The Girl notes that we only live fifteen minutes away.) The Girl shoveled out a little area for me to do my business. I also bounded through the snow in quite a few places, because she was too lazy to shovel paths for me. It's been a bit warmer today (only -4 or so Celsius), so I've been able to do a little running.

Dannan, faster than a speeding bullet! BOL, at least faster than a Girlie can take a picture!

Upside down, getting Nanny scratches! (Blurry, sorry!)

At Nanny and Papa's house, I can see out the front picture window and watch all the goings-on on the street. (As I've said before, I can't see out of our windows at home, because they are Min Pin proofed so they won't go bonkers when someone goes by.)

I got a whole bunch of presents, too!

This is from my Auntie S.

A package of Busy Bones from Santa...

Some parmesan cheese cookies from The Girl...

Skunk, from Nanny... he has a squeeker, and he also has crinkly bits in his arms and leggies!

A new coat, from The Girl. I don't know why she gave me a new coat, I hate my OLD coat! (The Girl: The old coat has velcro fasteners, and he's scared of the sound of them ripping apart. I haven't gotten around to replacing the velcro with snaps, so he got a new coat that pulls over. It's actually a hoodie! He looks like quite the rock star in it... I'll get a picture next time I put it on him.)

This is Mr. Santa Head, also from Nanny. He is missing the pompom on his hat (which The Girl cut off anyway), because I already pulled it off. He's a pretty fun guy.

I pose with all the Christmas loot...

The Girl begged and pleaded, and pleaded and begged, so I gave her a good shot...

The Girl also says that she got me a new laser pointer but forgot to give it to me. I say, show me the toy, Girlie! Then I'll believe it!

More fun with Mr. Santa Head... I am too fast for film!

The Girl says we are going to try to get a picture of the two of us together later on tonight. We don't have any pictures like that, so it would be nice if she had to pose for a change!

Oh, and I was going to mention that our Christmas card image is not the product of magic by The Girl. She didn't make my head go into the ornaments; it's a website called Photofunia. Please! The Girl can hardly use Photoshop to crop, never mind this kind of skillful art! Wroo! It's a fun site, so check it out when you have time.

Anywroo, I hope all of my furends are having a wonderful day, whether they celebrate Christmas or not. Hope you're all getting lots of cuddles and treats, and that your people (or Santa Paws!) got you some fun new toys! Furends, we love you all and are thinking of you today!

FINALLY!

2008-12-22T15:20:00.001-08:00

Wrooo, furends! The Girl has finally sent out our holiday email card! She deserves a cookie... and I deserve seventy-three for being so patient! Girlie, let's go make cookies!!!

Oh, right... I was going to say a bit more. We'll make cookies in a minute.

We've not been blogging much the past few days, and we might not be back to it until the weekend. (Then again, with the Girl, who knows? Not me, that's for sure!) We want all of our furends to know how thankful we are to know you and to share in your lives. And we want evfurrybody to have a warm and wonderful holiday season!

Now, some of our very good bloggy furends were not on the DWB holiday card list this year. We'd really like to send you an email with the card attached, so if you'd like to, please send us your email address to dannanthelittlebrowndog@gmail.com and we will!

We're also posting the e-card here. Stay warm and safe, and cuddle with the ones you love! Wroooooooooo!!!!

We are wishing you the happiest holidays, full of lots of love, cuddles, and TREATS!

Brown dog kisses and Girlie hugs,

Dannan and The Girl (a.k.a. Lindsay)

Call the authorities!

2008-12-21T16:57:00.001-08:00

Wroo, I need some help, furends. It's too cold to go outside. I have so much pent-up energy, and nobody seems to appreciate me harassing the cats. And The Girl has been out socializing, shopping, and probably cheating on me (though I couldn't smell anything when she got home, I am still suspicious). I haven't been blogging or visiting furends' bloggies. I need the SPCA or someone to stage an intervention, or rescue me from the boredom of it all!

2008-12-17T16:58:00.000-08:00

Wroooo! Now I'm going to post about something a little less serious!

On December 12th, my new furend Addie tagged me for a meme! (See Addie, I told you The Girl would get to it eventually!)

The idea is, go to your Photo Archives or where ever you store your images; select the sixth file, open it & post the sixth picture contained there, with the story behind it. And, finally tag six friends to do like wise!

So, this is the picture there:

Ha ha ha! It's an unedited picture of me eating yogurt! When it's the right way up, it looks like this:

But The Girl never does anything simply, so she has another place where she keeps pictures. There are only four photos in the sixth folder, and this is the last one:

Wroo, I like both of those pictures! In the last one, I am all curled up and being sad because The Girl is not dancing attention on me. Hey, Girlie, why did you type that?! I'm sad because you are a Very Mean Girlie!

I think that a lot of my furends have done this meme before, so I won't name anybody to tag. But if you want to do it, TAG, you're it! Wrooooooo!!!

Two doggies that need our help!

2008-12-17T16:18:00.000-08:00

Wroooo! Happy Wednesday! I'm not doing a Wordless Wednesday post today, because I want to write about two doggies that need some help.

The furst one is the doggy from my post yesterday, Daisy. Eduardo the Snuggle Puggle told me about her, and her situation is so similar to mine that I feel like we're kindred spirits. She's the doggy that was injured and not taken care of. Now she has had one operation, and she needs another one. The cost of Daisy's medical care is estimated to be between $5,000 and $7,000, and her foster mom has set up a fund to collect any donations that anybody can make. Go to Eduardo's post for the information on how to donate. (Eduardo made this really cool button, and I wanted to post again so I could share it with you!)

The other doggy I want to mention is named Sasha. She is being fostered by Tatum Tot Spice and her family for Utah Collie Rescue, and they are worried that the rescue group doesn't have enough money to pay for Sasha's medical care. Look at this beautiful girl!

You can see that Sasha has a problem with her nose. It actually extends to her mouth, nose and ears, and she is going to have a biopsy done on December 23rd to see what is causing the problem. There are apparently three possibilities, and if you'd like to read about them, please go to Tatum's Mum's bloggy. (At least I'm pretty sure that Cynthia is Tatum's Mum!)

Sasha also has kennel cough (which is being treated right now) and an infection in her mouth. She's got terribly bad teeth, too. There's a lot going on with this girl, and we want to help her cuz she's a really sweet girl! You can go to Tatum's bloggy to find out about donating.

It is really a hard thing for rescues and shelters when they are caring for doggies (and kitties, and all kinds of other animals!) who need medical attention. The Girl has volunteered at our local SPCA for years, and she has seen so many wonderful animals come in who would make the BEST addition to a family (good temperament, sweet and happy disposition). The only problem is that they have some medical need.

The BCSPCA decided to do something just for these animals. They created the Biscuit Fund, the sole purpose of which is to provide emergency medical treatment for homeless and wild animals. I've posted about the Biscuit Fund before here, and my own story is here. Yes, it was the Biscuit Fund that provided the funds for my operation! I even have a button somewhere on my sidebar, BOL.

Not evfurry rescue and shelter organization is lucky enough to have a Biscuit Fund set aside that is specifically for medical care. So they have to raise the money on a case by case basis. I know that this is a hard time of year, especially THIS year, but if you are able to give anything, evfurry dollar counts. Maybe you have to buy a pressie for somebody who loves doggies, and you can make a donation in their name!

The Girl and I have no money to donate (darn disability!), but we're helping Eduardo and Tatum to get the word out. You can help that way too, if you want to mention these two wonderful doggies on your bloggy.

Thank you, my furends, for reading about Daisy and Sasha. I know you all care about them, cuz I know you! Pass the word around the bloggy-world, you never know who will be able to help!

Update on Bruno

2008-12-16T15:57:00.000-08:00

WROOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The tumor was benign and cleanly removed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

snowy sick day

2008-12-16T12:50:00.000-08:00

Wroooo! I get to post again today! I am a PAWSOME nursemaid!

Yesterday, The Girl got her FURST holiday card! I have received so many that I can't even count how many, and she just got ONE! Wrooooo! Over the holidays, we're going to visit and thank everydoggy and kitty that sent us a card by snail mail or email. So if you haven't heard from us, THANK WROO for now, we're coming to visit over Christmas!

There was something else that I wanted to remember to mention in my next post, but The Girl said, Oh, don't worry, I'll remember that. I wanted her to make a list, to write it down. But nooooooooo, she'd remember. Guess how successful that's been?!

Check out my new header picture. Well, it's been up there for a few days now. I've got my Elvis lip happening. The Girl is always trying to capture the various ways I hold my lip; so far, this is about it. We all know how good she is at taking pictures, wrooooo!

Speaking of The Girl's picture-taking skills, we went outside today to get the mail, and I was soooooooo excited to be out there! The Girl came back in, got all bundled up, grabbed the camera, and we went back outside! It is -19 degrees Celsius, which is about -2 degrees Fahrenheit. That's cold for here.

Anyway, The Girl couldn't find her fingerless gloves, so she wore normal ones. That's what she's blaming the picture quality on today.

I decided that I could sit for a while. The Girl thinks I'm crazy. Ha ha ha! Pot, this is kettle! BOL!

Another FAIL at catching me running! Woooo hooooooooooo!

Sitting again for a minute.

If The Girl had taken this picture a few seconds earlier, you would have seen me LYING DOWN in the snow! I was just on my way up when the shutter snapped.

More evidence of The Girl's future as a photographer, BOL!

Okay, I'm cold now. Are you coming to let me in???

Wrooooo, those were some fun pictures!

The Girl wants to thank evfurrybody for their good wishes that she feels better soon. We were only outside for a few minutes, and since we came back in, she's been hacking and hacking away. Whatever, Girlie. You were hacking before we ever went outside! And Nanny says that fresh air makes us healthy!

We are very behind in our awards, and I am very sorry for this. So is The Girl, even though she could help me post about it right now, but she says she needs to get some hot lemon to drink. Hmmmppphhhh. We can all see where your priorities are, Girlie.

Hope evfurrybody is having a good week, and especially that those who are in the eastern areas where there's been no power, no water, etc. - we hope that things are back to normal RIGHT NOW. (Did that work??? Hope so.)

Next post, I am going to talk about a doggy that Eduardo posted about. In the meantime, head over to his bloggy to find out more. Basically, he posted about Daisy, who is a doggy who was injured and wasn't taken proper care of. That's just like me! That's why I had to lose my left front leggy; I got hurt and no one got me medical attention. Daisy needs some operations, and she needs some help. I'll post a real post about Daisy next time.

The Girl is rapidly starting to not make sense, so havea good day, my furends!

2008-12-15T13:00:00.000-08:00

Wroo. This is how exciting my life is right now. The Girl says, how can I have the flu when I got the flu shot? I don't really have an answer for her, I don't know what she expects me to say! I'm staying close and giving her lots of cuddles, just like I always do when she's sick.

It's also boring because even though we've got all this pawsome snow, it's way too cold to be outside for furry long. It is -17 Celsius, which The Girl figured out is 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit. It's way too cold for a short haired doggy like me. If I had fur like a Sibe or a Mal, then I could be out there all day long!

Thank you to evfurryone who went to River's bloggy and to the Canine Mafiosos bloggy to leave good thoughts. I know that they both are furry thankful to know that so many furries and peoples are thinking about them.

The Mafioso's Mom made a really good point, too. Bruno had a lump on his leggy, and his Dad found it while wrestling with him. Tell your peoples to make sure that they run their hands all over you evfurry day, just to make sure that you're okay. The Girl also examines my feets, looks at my toofers, checks out my eyes and ears and belly area. It's a good idea, cuz then they can find bad things right away. Also, they know what "normal" is for us furries, and can notice if there is a change.

There's not much else to report. It's pretty boring at my house today. I sure hope you've got something more exciting happening! Wrooooooooo!!!!

Sasha

2008-12-12T19:19:00.000-08:00

Sad wroooos today. We just read over at River's place that his packmate Sasha has gone to the Bridge. She had an inoperable tumor, and it was finally just too much for her little body. Her Mom was away, but Sasha held on to give her time to get back and spend a few days together. We are very sad for River's Mom, and River and the rest of the pack.

Be at peace, Sasha, and run free.