Graduated
May 11th 2008 6:09 pm

I graduated from puppy kindergarten yesterday. I’ve learned a lot and still need to practice. Mom want to work on what I learned in kindergarten for a few months, then enroll me in some more classes. Gray Dog has some advanced obedience classes she is interested in for me (she thinks I could make a good therapy dog if I can get past a few issues that I have). And Gray Dog offers some water sports classes. Those sound like my type of classes….. WATER!!

Back to work
May 13th 2008 9:46 am

I went back to work today. The boss is on vacation so mom is figuring it’s a good time to play rotating/visiting pups. Her co-workers just love us, so today is my day to visit. I think I’m going to get to go to the dog park again. That’s a big YEAH! Otherwise, I would just prefer to spend my day out in the yard, chasing squirrels.

UPDATE 3:25pm — Yup it was a dog park day. Ran into some old friends and made a few new ones. Took a little dip in the big pond, played some chase…. overall it was a grand time!

UPDATE II — Just got back to work and found out that a co-worker brought her dog in after lunch. A new buddy to play with!! YAHOO!! Her name is Charleah and she’s a real cute little Aussie mix.

I got a pool!!
May 19th 2008 11:18 am

I got a pool, my very own pool!!! Yip Yip Yippie! I love the water and now I don’t have to wait until I go to the dog park to play!! And I know that this is MY POOL ‘cause all my sisters and brother hate the water. I’m sooo very excited. Mom brought it home for me on Saturday and finally got around to putting water in it this morning. It didn’t take me too long to figure out what the pool was for. I hopped in and started splashing immediately. Then….. I figured out that it was super cool to lay down in the water. I tried rolling over, but found out that wasn’t such a good idea — water in my nose & ears. I might try it again sometime, there has got to be a way to do it. Mom put a small pool video on my page for me. (http://www.dogster.com/dogs/744997) It isn’t the best ‘cause her camera had dead batteries in it. Silly mom… doesn’t she realize that she needs charged batteries ready at all times?

Oowwee Zowee
May 28th 2008 12:02 pm

I had an owee zowee toenail. Note: I said “had”. Seems like I played a little too hard over the holiday weekend and ended up ripping part of my toenail off. Actually it was more than half of a toenail and it didn’t come all the way off. But I didn’t let a little pain stand in my way…. I kept right on playing & playing hard too! Anyway, the more mom looked at that toe, the more she was convinced that it really had to be hurting me. (and it did a little, but licking it made it feel better) So off to the vet we went this morning. BTW – I’m up to 51.5 pound now, officially a “large” dog!! Turns out the doc had to sedate me so they could fix my toe and mom had to pick me up an hour later. I wasn’t very pleased to be left alone at the vet’s office. So when my drugs were wearing off, I hide from the vet techs. Mom was wondering what was taking them so long to bring me up… Heeeheeeheee! They didn’t know how sneaky I can be!! But anyway, my toe feels much better now, even if I’m still a tad drowsy.

I’m hoping that I can go to the dog park today. That would make a day at mom’s work much better. At least today there is another dog here at work. Her name is Maggie & she belongs to the company’s owner. She’s an older girl & pretty cool, I really like her. She surprised everyone by playing a little with me. Maggie doesn’t usually play anymore.

Big Day on the Lake
May 30th 2008 9:09 am

Yesterday was my big lake debut! Man did I enjoy it!! The lake is just like a dog park only bigger & better. So much water and lots of stuff to smell. Plus they had rides!! A regular doggie amusement park! I even made a new friend. I also had my very first boat ride. That was sooo cool!! We went out to an island so I could roam around without being on a leash and we took my new pup friend along too. She loved the boat ride too! I hope she finds a home soon. See my friend is a petite little husky mix with really pretty bi-color eyes (one dark brown and one icy blue) and it appears that someone has just dumped her out at the lake. My mom decide she looked like a “Sasha”, that what she decided to call the pup. Mom guesses that Sasha is in the 6 month to a year range. Poor Sasha was hungry so I shared some of my dog biscuits and hog dogs with her. Mom’s friend (Kenyon’s mom) talked to some of her lake neighbors and convinced them to keep an eye on Sasha and feed her some. I’m hoping that KM can talk her husband into adopting Sasha. She’s such a sweet pup! Mom even said if she didn’t already have 4 dogs, she would consider bringing Sasha home with us. That would send big sis Abby right over the edge. She still isn’t thrilled about me being around, imagine her dismay if mom brought in another dog!!! BOL!!

Maybe???
May 31st 2008 5:06 pm

Mom visited her parents today and my human aunt was there too. Mom was telling her sister about the little lake dog (my buddy “Sasha”). Keep your paws crossed!!! Sasha might just have a home if she’s still around in a couple weeks. My aunt is interested in Sasha, but she has to go out of town for a week or so. She works for a local police department and works at the regional K9 training trial events. One of these events will be this upcoming week, so my aunt won’t be able to take a look at Sasha. I think Sasha would be pawsitively pawfect for my human aunt. See, she lost her oldest dog to cancer close to a year ago. In the mean time, her youngest dog has been all alone. All of us here thinks that it would be an ideal situation for everyone. So everyone – please keep your paws crossed that this works out!!!