Monday, November 21, 2011
Shh...don't let The Girl know I'm here!
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.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Sad Saturday - Run free and happy, Charlie
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.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
"Don't worry, hot dogs, I'm coming!"
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!)
Thursday, June 11, 2009
I can help myself, Girlie!
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.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Backyard fun!
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...
Saturday, May 23, 2009
The Girl has lost her mind...
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!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
An award (we're totally shocked!) and a new furend!
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!!!!

