Howling Howlaween

On this day every year, human puppies dress up in disguises and knock on the doors of all the kennels in their neighborhood and beg for treats. Mummy doesn’t like us to beg and if we do, it pretty much guarantees that we get nothing but for some reason when humans disguise themselves she goes soft. Since this works so well some enterprising dogs do the same thing and you’d be amazed at the lengths a few will to go to.

Bowmore

Go Giants

This weekend humans were playing a big game of fetch on the moving picture frame on the wall which they all got really excited about.  I didn’t get a chance to see what the fuss was over as one of the sofas in our kennel was being particularly unruly so I was a little preoccupied holding it down.

The game was won by some humans called the San Francisco Giants.  Now, I consider myself to be fairly well travelled in Northern California and I have never met a Giant so they must have been hiding them well as trying to hide a super sized human must be pretty hard.  The thing I don’t understand is why the humans got so excited when they won.  Isn’t it obvious?  Normal sized humans couldn’t possibly be a match for a team of Giants.

Bowmore

Exercising Humans

You may not realize this, but humans need much more exercise than you might think.  We always take ours with us on our daily sniff and make sure that we pull hard on our leashes to give them a good workout but to really keep them in shape they need a little more than this.

In our kennel we have a special room dedicated to the exercise of humans.  Mummy’s very good at spending time in there every day but we still hang out with her to check she does all her exercises correctly.  Talisker likes to pace her by joining in while she does push ups which may look easy but are really quite exhausting.

Bowmore

Humans and brown squishy stuff

Yesterday, a kennel that makes falling over juice held a gathering for dogs and I was really looking forward to getting together with some of my friends.  Our humans can be easily bribed with falling over juice and I had hoped its availability might persuade them to give us a ride there in their motorized dog carrier.  I didn’t account for how pathetic they can be when water is falling out of the sky.  Bowmore says they can’t help it because they don’t have waterproof fur like us but I thought it a little mean to go to a different falling over juice kennel and make us wait in the motorized dog carrier while they had fun with THEIR friends.

Just when I thought the day couldn’t get any worse, our humans brought some of them back to our kennel.  I made the assumption they felt guilty and were bringing these dudes over to throw balls for me, but no, apparently they were there to torture me.  I tried everything, dropping the ball at their feet and staring at them, bouncing it around the room with no walls and chasing it hoping they would get the idea and I even dropped it several times on the plate they had food on with no success.  Would you believe the reason they gave for making my day miserable was that they don’t like my paws leaving the brown squishy stuff on the sofas that appears in the grass when water is falling out of the sky.  What purpose do sofas have other than to give me something to clean my paws on?

Talisker

Water Frisbee

Being fish retrievers, swimming is in our blood.  Our friends, Austin and Pumbaa have a hole in the ground with water and since it was a little hot this weekend we decided to go and join them.  In my younger days this was one of my favorite sports and our humans have been kind enough to give me a floating coat so I can still play Water Frisbee with the guys.

Pumbaa is an expert diver and I had hoped he would give Tali a few tips but he was in a bad mood and didn’t want to play so Austin and I did our best to point him in the right direction.  He caught on pretty quickly.  Sometimes it takes old dogs to teach a new dog new tricks.  The humans really weren’t much help.  They tried, but in the end we just let them stand around and drink falling over juice which is more within their range of skills.

Bowmore

In Deep *!?#

It’s important to keep an eye on what teenagers are doing on the writing box.  Daddy is in the land where humans used to wear hats with horns, and Talisker has always been very good at winding Daddy around his paws so I think he thought this writing box message that I caught might divert the inevitable.

Subject: In trouble again

Date: 10/2/2010 10:53 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time
From: talisker@dogggy.com
To: daddy@daddy.net

I'm in deep *!?# again.  Daddy, please come home and rescue me.  I got caught short while mummy was out this afternoon and I found what looked like a drainage hole in the living room so I peed in it.  How was I to know that’s where the cold air comes from?  Mummy is being very quiet and said something about Labrador burgers instead of growling which I know to be REALLY bad.  She spent all evening with her hands in the hole and says she has to get special stuff tomorrow to finish it.  I really don't understand what the fuss is about.  It smells pretty good to me, but you know what she can be like.

Tali

Of course, I witnessed the whole thing and he really is in deep *!?# and even Daddy can’t save him.

Bowmore