Award! and a Meme!

Wroooooooo! I have so much to write about, but The Girl says that we're going to start with the award that my very good furend Daisy gave me:

We love you too, Daisy!!!



Daisy also tagged us for a meme! (Have I mentioned that I wuff Daisy???) So did Dozer and the Canine Mafioso! (Did you know that the Mafioso have a new blog? Their old one died, so click on their name to see their new home!)



My 8 favorite foods:

1. My bedtime chewies (DentaStix and Omega-3)
2. Apples
3. Cheese (except for cheese slices, which I only get when I go to the groomer's to get my nails cut)
   
4. Yogurt
5. Meat, meat, meat!
6. Anything that the Min Pins are getting
7. Beef bones
8. Rice
   

8 Things I did today:

1. Woke The Girl up at 4:58 a.m., because we were awake then yesterday, too.
2. Let The Girl go back to sleep.
3. Stared at The Girl to make her crazy.
4. Wrooooooooed at The Girl because she just doesn't listen.
5. Had some apple.
6. Ignored everyone and hung out downstairs in my bedroom.
7. Sniffed Lexi's head and butt.
8. Was told that I Cannot Have A Cat.
   

8 Favorite Stores:

1. Hmmm. I don't get to go into many stores. I've been in Petcetera a few times, but The Girl says that I mark too much when I'm in a pet store so I haven't been there lately.
   
2. I do get to sometimes guard the car while The Girl goes into stores. I don't really like to be left behind, though. Unless I get a good treat.
   
3. I like to examine the bags that come from stores, to see if they contain contraband. Or something really good. (This isn't really about my favourite stores, but I'm going with it.)
   
4. The Girl says that all of our eatables come from a grocery store. So I think that must be a pretty good store, filled with all those eatables!
5. I can't think of anything else that has to do with stores, so I'll stop here.
   

8 Restaurants:

1. I have never been to a restaurant. They don't let doggies into the ones where we live. But I have been through fast food drive thrus, and sometimes they will give me a cookie!
   

8 Things I look Forward To:

1. Eating
   
2. Cuddling with The Girl
3. Visiting Nanny and Papa
4. Going to the dog park (hint, hint, Girlie!)
5. Going for a walk (another hint! Do I really need to wrooooooooooo???)
6. Sneak attacks to kiss the Roomie's face
7. The Girl coming home after she abandons me
8. Chasing the laser light
   

8 Things I Like To Do With Family:

1. Cuddle
2. Eat
3. Play chase
4. Play tug with stuffies, then de-stuff them!
5. Charm them and make them love me!
6. Get belly rubs
7. Have my Spot scratched (on my back right above my tail)
8. Wrooooo.
   

8 Things on My Wish List:

1. As many apples as I can eat.
2. A new squirrel stuffy.
3. A cat of my very own.
4. To never be abandoned again.
5. Thumbs, so I don't have to depend on undependable people to help me blog.
6. Finding a furend that will play chase with me all the time.
7. Homes for all the furries in the world.
8. A cat of my very own. Or two. Or more.
   

8 Buddies I’m Tagging with the meme:

1. I haven't been able to keep up with all my bloggy furends in the last few days, so I don't know who's done this yet. So I'll tag evfurrybody who wants to do it!

The Girl says she needs a break, what a lazy thing! We'll be back soon to tell you all about ABANDONMENT and Nanny and Papa's!

Today is brought to you by the letter "T"

I read Lady Kaos' post about the Letter Game, so I asked her for a letter so I could play. She gave me "T".


So here are 10 Things I Love that start with T:


1. The Girl. I love her best of all!






2. Treats. No "T" list would be complete without treats! My favourite treats are bully sticks, cheese, and everything else! The Girl is too lazy to get up and gather a bunch of my treats together to take a picture, so here are some images I found on the web.



Image from http://www.bestbullysticks.com/, a random site. No endorsement intended or implied.



Image from http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/




3. Time for bed! This means that I get my Omega-3 dentastick, which I LOVE. It is not a treat, I get it every night at bedtime.











4. Toys. Especially squeeky squirrels. And puppets. The Girl gets me hand puppets from the thrift store, and I love to be allowed to bite her hand! I destroyed my last squirrel a couple of days ago, and my hand puppet dinosaur has disappeared (The Girl: Because he destroyed that, too!). But this is my new favourite toy, the Pink Ducky! Also pictured are my pink flamingo, and Sheepy. Both are long gone, though.












5. Turkey. Very tasty! We didn't have turkey for Thanksgiving this year, but I sure do like it! Technically a treat, but worth mentioning on it's own.



Image from: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/Turkey/Techniques.html




6. Tomatoes. Not a treat; I am entitled to a portion of every tomato The Girl cuts.



Image from: http://en.wikivisual.com/index.php/Tomato




7. The Mailman. He gives me cookies.



Not our actual Mailman. Image from http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/




8. Tug. I love to play tug with my toys. When I came to The Girl, I didn't know how to play with toys at all, and I didn't have a clue about tugging. But it didn't take me long to learn!


















9. Tails. I love to wag my tail! The Girl says it's a very good thing that I'm so waggy, because my face is usually hound-doggy sad. She tried to get some pictures of me wagging my tail, but as soon as she focused the camera on my hind end, I stopped wagging.











10. Trees. They hold birds and squirrels! And they are also good to pee on! I wanted The Girl to take a picture of my favourite tree in the backyard, but it's raining, and she refuses to go out. If you can imagine! So here is just some tree.


Image from http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/



That was so fun! If you'd like to play, let me know and I'll give you a letter!

A good week so far! (except when the world ended)

Woofs, everypuppy and kitty! (I think I might have some feline readers, so I'd better start including them!) Dannan here to tell you about the fabulous things I've been doing!

But first, thanks to everybody who's been over to Mona and the Mommy's. I know that support from our great DWB community means a lot when sad things are happening.

Today has been a busy day! I got to go with The Girl while she ran errands, which I hardly ever get to do! We went to the place where she voted (they wouldn't let me in, so I couldn't write in for Turbo and Khyra). So I waited in the car and had a bully stick. Yummmm.

Then we went to the doggy store, where I got a new red leash and lots of really delish cookies. I didn't get to eat them all at once, though.

(In case you're wondering why there aren't any photos of this trip, it's because The Girl forgot the camera. And her cell phone was dead, so not even any cell phone pictures!)

Then, BEST OF ALL, we went to the new dog park in our town. There used to be two, and now there are THREE! We've never been to one of them, because The Girl can't find it. We drove all around it, but we couldn't figure out how to get there. Sigh, Girlie!) But we went to the new one, and I wish we had pictures! It is really nice, with lots of grass and really nice fencing and lots of things to pee on. It's a bit on the smallish side, but The Girl says it's so beautiful that it makes up for being small.

I met two Irish terror-iers, but they weren't scary at all! They were both girls and both bigger than me. Usually, that means that I have to start out on the offensive so that the bigger doggy knows that I don't take nothin' from nobody. But I was a Very Good Dawg (as my friend Dozer would say), and we got along really well. And there was a boy doggy, a Shepherd mix The Girl says, and he was a little intrusive with the smelling. But I was a Very Good Dawg with him, too.

I had a great time, running around and smelling and peeing! It was pawsome!

Then, a Bull Mastiff puppy came, and things went downhill. I ignored her for as long as she didn't notice me, but then she saw me and galumphed on over. She was all HIHOWAREYOUILIKEYOUDOYOULIKEMEDOYOUWANNAPLAY, and I told her no, quite appropriately.

And then she was, AREYOUSUREIREALLYLIKEYOUIDLIKETOBEFRIENDS, and I told her in no uncertain terms that I don't like your puppy attitude, so back OFF. She wasn't listening very well.

Then I did something that I maybe shouldn't have done. The puppy was a little piece away from me, and I just wanted to make sure that she knew that I was done with the patientness and she should stay away. So I lunged at her with hell hound noises, and The Girl said, "That's it! You do that, we leave." And she hustled me out right then.

The other people were very understanding and made excuses for me. They told The Girl that the puppy doesn't know her manners yet and needs to be told. And The Girl told them that she knows that is true of puppies, but when I go after them, then I need to be told. I didn't think that was very fair of her, but we went to the car.

I was pretty happy, though. I got to smell and run and pee, and meet new doggies, and tell a puppy off. It was all good.

We started for home, stopping so The Girl could pick up her pills. I got my bully stick back to keep me from getting bored.

AND THEN THE WORLD ENDED.

We stopped at the groomers. They are bad people there, always cutting my toenails and ... ahem, expressing my anal glands.

Sorry to include that unsavory detail.

So The Girl RUINED my fantastic day out. We came home after that, and I've been sulking.

But I also have to tell you about yesterday's adventure! And there are pictures!

The Girl took me for a walk yesterday afternoon! (We don't walk as much as we should, because sometimes it's hard for The Girl. So it's a happy occasion.)

I had to wear my torture device:

I am known to pull and to lunge if there is a dog or cat or squirrel along the way. The Girl says that I am better behaved when I wear the torture device. Of course I am, I'm being tortured! Does any other doggy have to wear one of these? Or is it as I suspect, and The Girl is just the meanest girl in the world??

It was wet outside when we walked, and it even was spitting a little, but I was a brave dog and didn't melt when the EVIL rain touched me.

This is what I mostly like to do on my walks:

I also like to walk on other people's lawns. The Girl only lets me walk on the part nearest the road, though. I would sure like to explore more, but she won't let me. (See? Mean.)

More sniffing and smelling. The best part of a walk!

The Girl said this was a picture she had to take, cuz apparently there's something interesting about a dog and a fire hydrant. Whatever, I got to smell it.





The other thing I like to do on walks is to pee. On everything and anything.





Lots of people who don't know a tripod have a hard time believing that I can pee like a boy doggy. But I can! The situation has to be right, and at home in my own yard I usually just squat, but I CAN do it! I made The Girl take two pictures, just to show it's not a fluke.





Then we were back at the driveway. I hate the driveway. It always means that the walk is over.

We had a really good time on our walk, and The Girl says we'll do it again real soon. I sure hope so!

Tagged!

Two of our good fur-ends, Mango and Lady Kaos, tagged us for the 7x7 meme. We love memes! So here we go!


7 Things I Plan To Do Before I Die
1. Have a cat (even I don't know what I mean by that! give me a cat and we'll find out!)
2. Figure out how to open the fridge.
3. Catch a bird (again, I don't know what I'll do with it once I catch it...)
4. Catch a squirrel (see above)
5. Eat an entire roast chicken by myself
6. Have the whole dog park to myself every time I go
7. Install a paw print reader for the laptop, so The Girl can only use it with my permission

7 Things I Do Now
1. Watch Cat TV
2. Run around my backyard
3. Chase birds
4. Cuddle with The Girl and take good care of her
5. Scam as many handouts as I can
6. Pee on command
7. Pee like a boy doggie with my hind leg up in the air (in the proper circumstances, where I can balance myself)

7 Things I Can't Do
1. Have a cat
2. Eat anything I want
3. Shake a paw
4. Catch the incredibly bad throws made by The Girl
5. Dance. Will someone please tell The Girl that???
6. Dig very well (although I can dig a bit; it just takes time to get a hole going!)
7. Let myself in and out of the house (apparently, Shea had HER VERY OWN dog door! Where's mine?)

7 Things That Attract Me to The Opposite Sex
1. Shorter than me (hey, I live with Min Pins, give a guy a break!)
2. Loves to play chase
3. Loves to play bitey face
4. Loves The Girl, but not too much
5. Polite dog manners when we meet
6. Shares foodables and toys with me
7. Loves to cuddle

7 Things I say Most Often
1. Can I have some of that?
2. Can I go outside?
3. Will you come outside with me?
4. Oh, Girlie, you just never get it!
5. Can I have a cat?
6. Let me in!
7. Rub my belly?

7 Celebrities That I Admire
1. Sophie Brador
2. The inventor of my omega-3 denta-sticks
3. Any chef on tv, cuz of their unlimited access to foodables
4. The doggies in foodable commercials
5. My Nanny and my Papa (what do you mean, they're not celebrities???)
6. The Mythbusters guys cuz those guys are way cool!! (I think so, too, Kaos!)
7. The Girl, who is the biggest celebrity in my life!

7 Who Gets to do this now
1. Sunny and Scooter of the Texas Sun Dogs
2. Bolo
3. Mona and the Mommy
4. Mackenzie
5. Bobby over at Kind Hearts
6. Dozer
7. and last but by no means least, Daisy!