No Tricks, Lots of Treats

Mom finally gave us our Howloween treats and toys this afternoon. She bought them over two weeks ago. I thought she was going to hide them furever!

Sniffing the little bags of special treats that mom got from a local baker. They are the best doggy cookies we ever tasted.

I got the black cat. Banjo got the orange dog. We have to share the witchy pumpkin cause it's a tug toy.

We went over and got Radar this morning so he could have some fun too. Mom sent a little bag of treats home with him so he'd have something to eat tonight when all the ghouls and goblins are out spooking efurrybody.

After we played with the toys and ate a few treats, mom put our sweaters on us so we could go on a walkie. I am wearing my colorful sweater mom got me last fall off e-bay. Banjo is wearing his new sweater that mom bought at Wal-mart this morning. And Radar is wearing the sweater mom bought for Banjo on her last shopping trip to Petco. Don't we all look terrific?

And here we are,
stopping and looking in all directions,
before crossing the street.

So what did you doggies get for Howloween?

Trick Or Treat

SMELL MY FEET

GIVE ME SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT!

Spectacular Tongue-tacular Contest

Our new furiend Anna the GSD decided to have a fun contest after hearing this song...

Does your tongue hang low?

Does it wobble to and fro?

Can you tie it in a knot?

Can you tie it in a bow?

Can you throw it o'er your shoulderlike a continental soldier?

Does your tongue hang low?

I wanted to enter one of the pictures of me eating ice cream last summer, but couldn't pick just one. So I'm gonna post my three favorites and let Anna choose just one for her contest.

If you want to enter the Spectacular Tongue-tacular Contest you better hurry cause no more entries will be taken after midnight, October 30th.

Wordless Wednesday

Toon Tuesday

Hello furiends,

I hope you like
these Howloween
funnies I found for
you.














Raising Duncan








Scooby Doo

SUNday Walkie

Yep, even though that mean old sun played peek-a-boo with us, mom took us on a long walk after lunch yesterday. We went all the way from our house, at the south end of town, to the lake at the north end of town and back home again.

Me and little brother waiting for mom to get our leash and open the gate.

We went by and got Radar so he could come along too.

This cute Rat Terrier wanted to walk with us, but we don't know his hoomans, so he had to stay home.

Can you guess what I'm looking at? It's the same thing Banjo is looking at but his is running across the street.

If you guessed a squirrel (or tree rat, as we like to call them), you were right. And this one was as bold as can be! Be sure to bigify the picture so you can see him better. That brave rat just stood there staring at me and there wasn't a flippin' thing I could do cause mom had a tight hold on the darn leash!! I tell ya, those dang tree rats were running around everywhere. Mom said they were busy gathering nuts to store away for the winter. I think they were just out teasing us cause they knew we couldn't run after them!

This picture was taken at a mini park. Mom put us up on one of the monuments, which was about shoulder high for her and told us not to be stoopid and jump down.

Yeah sure whatever mom.
But what if a tree rat comes running past?

Oh mom, I hate to end your fun. But if you don't want one of us to break a leg or maybe a neck even, you better get us down now cause one of those loony tree rats is headed this way.

~

The walk home was uneventful, 'cept for one slow tree rat we met. He was lying squished in the street. I guess he won't be needing his stash of nuts this winter. BOL

I tried to get mom to take his picture but she wouldn't.

Man May Work From Sun to Sun,

But Woman's Work Is Never Done!

Me and little brother played in the house all morning while mom did the laundry and cleaned the house. Since it has been rainy here all week I expected her to take us for a walk when the sun came out after lunch. But instead she sent us out in the backyard to play while she worked on our old house again. She said she needed to get this chore done before the siding man came in a few weeks. Okay, I understand the house needs attention too, but gee whiz mom, do you have to spend the whole day working?

So me and Banjo played with our toys and chased each other around the yard for awhile. We then went and watched mom through the gate. She had to crawl under our house through this tiny window. We BOL when her fat hiney almost made her get stuck! You know, like that bear after the honey. But she finally squeezed through the hole and disappeared. We could hear her under there banging on something and mumbling some HBO words, then she came crawling out from under the house, covered in dirt and cobwebs.

She then spent the next two hours squirting this stinky stuff in the foundation cracks, then smoothing it out. It was so boring, me and Banjo finally gave up watching and went and took a nap on the futon swing.

Here's a "before" picture of the cracks.

By the time mom got cleaned up enough to handle the camera again it was almost to dark for an "after" picture but she managed to get this one.

The foundation still needs to be painted chocolate brown. Mom says it will look much better then. Maybe I'll let her post one picture to show you what it looks like when the work is all done.


* Will the work ever be "all done" though? *

Mom said these cracks were made cause the blocks moved when the rain washed away the dirt underneath. But now we have new gutters to make the rain water go away from the house so the blocks shouldn't move again. She was going to hire a handyman to do the repairs but she decided to do it herself and save $100.


I hope the sun is shining tomorrow so we can go on a long walk!

Our funny Chihuahua furiend, Coco, gave us this award the other day. Thank you so very much!! We only wish that was a real cupcake!

Go check out Coco's blog. You will be ever so glad you did!

Oh Yuck! Your Breath Smells Like Poo!!

Mom wants me to share something with you that she read about today in the newspaper. It was the news that 58% of pet owners were "somewhat likely" to perform CPR on their pet. I guess she found it surprising that only slightly more than half of the people said they would risk getting germs from their furry friends. And apparently dog owners love their dogs more than cat owners love their cats cause the numbers there were, dogs- 63% and cats-53%.

Mom thinks if she took a poll of my furiends and their hoomans the numbers would be much higher. I asked her to add a poll to my blog to find out. So if you would take a few seconds to vote, (the poll is over on the right) we will see if she is right.

I know us doggies would do whatever we could to save our hoomans lives. So I would hope you hoomans could return the favor. Don't let stinky breath keep you from doing CPR on us.Thank you very much!

Here is a chart showing you how to perform CPR on a dog or cat. You can bigify the picture so you can read the instructions better. You never know when this might come in handy so take a minute to look it over. You can even save it and print it out to keep "just in case". There are lots of videos on the internet demonstrating the proper way to perform CPR if you need to see it done. Just search for "pet cpr video".

Pay attention! You might save a life!

Once you know how to give your pet CPR it wouldn't hurt to go out and buy a Pet First Aid kit or get the stuff to make your own. We're not saying you should try and treat injuries or illnesses yourself, but in an emergency, these items might give your pets enough time to reach the animal clinic alive.

Don't forget to vote in the poll. I know we can do better than 58%!

365 Days & 251 Posts Later

It is my 1st Blogiversary!!

I asked mom this morning how were we going to celebrate my first blogiversary and she just looked at me like a dummy then said she hoped I would have some suggestions. I stared back at her thinking this hooman is suppose to have all the bright ideas and she is leaving this up to me! I don't have a clue mom, you said we couldn't have a contest cause we don't have the money right now for prizes, so I don't know what else we could do. Then I got kinda upset with her cause all the other doggies have contests or really cool pictures and stuff celebrating their blogiversaries and all I'm gonna get is a regular post. Geesh!

Mom could see I was not happy with her. I had that look I get when I want to bite her on the ankle. So she said, here, you can have these.

You LOVE treats and these look good don't they?

Heck yeah those doggy donuts look yummy!! Where are they for real? Are they in the kitchen? No?? Why are you showing me pictures of treats? I can't eat pictures!

Here. I got you this cute hat to wear too. Look, it has little doggy paws on it.


No way mom!!

I'm not wearing another stupid hat so you can take pictures and then laugh at how silly I look!

Well how bout you open your pressies then? I think you'll like what's inside.

Okay this is more like it! Pressies for me on my 1st blogiversary! Yippee!!

OMD! Look at all these toys! Wow-wee this is terrific. I can't believe you bought me all these toys. I thought you said we had no money for toys? How'd you get all these toys to fit in those little boxes anyway? Geez mom!! Do you think I'm stoopid? I know what's real and what isn't.

This is the worst blogiversary pawtay ever!!

Calm down Bijou. Your furiends are watching. Do you want to ruin the party for them? Now go sit down and I'll serve the doggy donuts and then you all can play with the new toys.


Mom have you lost your mind? That is not our house! I don't even know who those doggies are!! Why can't you just help me make a post like the other doggies did for their blogiversaries?


Bijou, just be glad you have your own blog and be thankful for all the furiends you have made this past year. You know there are lots of doggies who don't have a home or enough food to eat and here you are whining about not getting more toys, treats and having contests and pictures taken. You really don't need all those things to celebrate your blogiversary now do ya?

You need to remember the reason we began this blog. It was to document our search for your playmates. Remember, I made that flyer and stuck it up around town. Unfortunately even though we got a few calls, you didn't find any playmates. But what you did find is all your furiends here in the blogosphere.


Okay mom, I see what you mean. The past year has been totally pawesome. I have enjoyed making so many wonderful furiends. And visiting all their blogs has been way more fun than I ever imagined.

Furiends,

I know the next 365 days will be so much fun cause even though at times it has been hard for us to think of something to post about, all we have to do is go read your blogs and we find inspiration there. I love sharing the old pictures with you on Wordless Wednesday and Banjo pouts if he doesn't get to post his funnies for you on Toon Tuesday. And I hope to continue with the Diggity Dawg Game once mom has stopped spending all the money on our old house.

So I didn't get to celebrate my blogiversary in a big way.
Well that's okay cause I have lots of terrific furiends and that's what's important!