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Saturday, October 10, 2009

The Dogs Guide to Human Words!


Here is what we will tell you about today. Words. Humans have good words and bad words. We, Stella and Lena, have decided that it is time to bury all bad human words. I Stella will start to dig the hole right now. Here is what will go deep into the hole.
First, the words "BAD DOG". These are the very, very worst of all human words. We do not want to hear them ever again. Ha! Into the very bottom of the hole.

Next in is the word "NO." We dogs hates this word. "No" goes in right on top of "bad dog."

Okay, get ready now for these next words, "Back", "Inside", and "Down". These are not as bad as the first two but still, who needs them? Not us.



Oh noes, we almost forgot. The third baddest of human words - "time for a bath." Mom said this to both of us last week. It was really awful what happened next. Why does she do these kind of bad things to us? She says she loves us but she makes cold water squirt all over us. Bad mom! There. See how it feels!

Now for the good words. We plan to train mom to say these lots and lots of times. I Lena will tell you about some of my bestest human words.

Good Dog. This is what mom says when she is happy with us and gives us smiles and hugs and yummsy things to eat. We have to do what her words tell us to get her to say this "good dog" to us.

Cookies - Almost the best. Sometimes mom just yells "Cookies" because she loves us and we run and wriggle and she gives us cookies. Sometimes we have to show her all of our special tricks before she will gives them to us.

Bonesos - Not sure which is better actually, bonesos or cookies.

More words we like and want to hear more of. Lots more of. Here they are . . . Walk. Go. Get in the truck. Up. Lets Go. Hugs. Squeekie. Zoomies .

There, you see there are many human words that are the best and can be said just as easy as the words that we have decided must go and are now going to be buried once and for all.


Sunday, August 30, 2009

The Last Day of Summer Vacation

We have to speak, we do. If we wait for mom to write the words for our blog, we will be putting on ice skates in that hot place down there, far under the ground.


Today is a very, very sad day. Tomorrow we start the time when mom gets up early and kicks us out of our softies on the bed. She will make us go outside in the cold and damp grass while she showers and dresses in fancy clothes that she says we can't shed on. Then she leaves us. Everyday. For a long time.

Mom is not happy either. She says that summer vacation is over. We don't know what a vacation is but when mom is with us all day, we sure have fun. Here are lots of pictures of us, having fun for weeks and weeks and weeks. Mom says this is what summer vacations are for. Fun. We say they are for the dogs. We likes them the best.



Here I, Stella, am doing walkies in my easy leader. See how it matches my special colors.


Sometimes mom hitches us together and we go for walkies.


Ha ha, here I Lena gots to go camping with mom without Stella. It would have been
perfect but somehow that stupid Red Horse got to come along and I had to stay at the
tent when mom and Red Horse got to ride on lots and lots of trails.


Oh ha ha ha. And here's I Stella playing the game called "pay backs" on Lena.


We like to steal the horses' water cuz they always steals mom's attention from us.


But horses do one good thing - they make the very best stinkies
to roll in, lots and lots of stinkies.


We love to run chases.


Really loves it.


Zoomies are even better than walkies.


I Lena am a versatile dog and do many jobs. Here I am watching the ocean.


Here is the water trying to trick me by tasting of too much salt.


I didn't like that so I am pawing the tricksy water.


Heh, heh, and here I am again teaching Stella the not-so-scary pit bull who is the alpha dog . . . er, hope mom isn't watching cuz she will say SHE is the alpha dog.


This is my "aren't I a good, cute dog" face I saves just for mom. I am waiting for her to say "OK" so I can runs across the street into the place where Red Horse lives. I am happy becuz I am going to get to roll in my bestest most favorite smells, horse stinkies. Did I tell you I don't just roll in them? Horse stinkies are yummy to crunch on.

We know there haven't been too many blog stories about us lately, but we want everyone to know it is cuz of all our fun. At least we have lots of fun times to dream about while we wait for mom to come home from work. We have to go through the wet times and the cold times and the windy times before next summer fun times returns for us.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Returning

Enough is enough! Look around, this is a perfectly good blog, right? And when was the last post? June. JUNE! We have to take the problem in paw and save our blog. Forget the mother who neglects our special site. Going to the Dogs is being taken over by the dogs - us, Lena and Stella.

So what has happened since that last pathetic post featuring me in the slammer? Well, mom bailed me out but none too fast was she. Let me sit an extra day, something about not being able to make it cuz she was gone doing something with that stupid red horse of hers. Grrrrrr.

But I was so, so, so, so, so, so, happy to see her and get out of there back to my own home and my own specials.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Our Story Thus Far . . .

. . . Ah Lena. Lena! Here is catching up in just a few sentences. Horse Camp was wonderful and Lena was a very good dog. A couple of weeks later, she deeply buried her good dog status when she jumped the fence and RAN AWAY!

Lena never leaves me. Never. Her place in life is about six inches behind me. If I leave her at home, I need to be sure she is inside. And that the door is tightly shut and locked. Why? Cuz if she is outside she flies over the fence and goes, goes, goes, until someone stops her. Usually someone will call cuz I have my phone number around her neck. They will say what a cute, sweet dog she is. I will thank them and go retrieve my determined run-a-way girl. Not this last time. She ended up in the Humboldt County Animal Shelter. I was just so relieved to know she was safe. She was SO happy to see me when I went to pay her bail and reclaim her.

What has she been up to since her homecoming. Doing what she loves most . . . herding her mom and finding the best of the stinkiest to roll in.


Sunday, June 28, 2009

Lena: Oh Oh!





Thursday, May 28, 2009

Lena is Going Horse Camping!


Be back on Sunday!!!



Lena doesn't know it yet, but she is going horse camping for the weekend at Cuneo Creek Trail Camp. She is so comfortable and sensible around horses, I think she'll have a blast even though she can't go out on the trail.



Stella will stress too much around so many horses so she will get to hang with my son's dogs Ben and Willow. She'll have her own fun weekend playing with her extended family.




Monday, May 25, 2009

Remember the Animals who Served





Today please remember the many animals who gave their lives,
 conscripted to serve humans in war:

Statistics of the heavy, heavy toll of war born by those 

Horses - Eight million killed in WWI alone, carrying men, arms and supplies into battle
Pigeons - 200,000 used as messengers in WWII. Of 17,000 parachuted into enemy territory, fewer than one in eight returned.
Dogs - used to hunt mines and search for the wounded. Still routinely used today
Mules - used as transport in the Burmese jungle, with their vocal chords slashed to keep them quiet
Camels, oxen and elephants - used for similar purposes elsewhere
Dolphins and sea lions - used today to find underwater mines and protect ships
Glow worms - used in WWI as an aid for map reading

Monday, May 4, 2009

Lena's Revenge, Part II

. . . one good roll, not enough.  How to replace the lovely stench washed away by the evil bath Lena and Stella were forced to endure by their heartless mom?  Lena will find a way.


Sunday, April 19, 2009

Lena's Revenge!


One of our local feed stores, "The Farm Store" sponsors many fun events supporting local animal rescues.   Yesterday Stella, Lena and I went to their "Save a Life" Rescue Fair and had a fun and horrific (from their perspective) time.  Attendence was awesome and there were SO MANY dogs.  One very popular booth was the BATH Booth, a fundraiser for Heart of the Redwoods Horse Rescue.  Baths!  Lena and Stella both needed baths and so, much to their dismay, we made donations for two.  



When happy, Lena's face radiates her pleasure.  When peeved beyond belief, Lena's face shows her determined . . . lust for revenge!!!  Hear her thoughts, "Mom will pay dearly for this!"



That was yesterday.  It did not take long for Lena and Stella to get their chance to pay mom back and remove all traces of the nasty bath.  Today in the general pasture Lena found exactly what she needed to enact her revenge.  She  found this . . . 



And then she and Stella did this . . . 


And this . . . 

Happy dogs!!  All is once again right with their world.  They've got the good stuff back where it belongs, all over their bodies.  Hmmmm.



I know two dogs who have a sorry surprise coming tonight at bedtime when they find their stinky selves aren't welcome in their usual spot at the foot of my bed.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Dogs On Thursday



A love of the trail, any trail.



Any time, any place - Lena is always ready for the trail.  Wind, rain, mud, snow, ice, nothing fazes her.  She thinks the finest word in the human vocabulary is "Go."  Even better than "Cookie." 


Visit Dogs on Thursday and meet more fun-loving dogs (like there was another kind?).  Wish them happy 100th memeday while you are there.

Wordless Wednesday: Go?