Hi, y'all!

 Bet you've been wondering what happened to me?  It's a long story.  Started back when Mom and Dad left me in California while they took a  two week cruise in the Mediterranean.  (Dad couldn't stand the thought of me in the Phoenix heat in the middle of August, so  I spent two weeks with friends of my Aunt Joyce in California where the weather was wonderful. 

 Dad had a really good idea, there!)

I  got in some pretty good walks, and lots and lots of Muffin Tin Games.  Aunt Joyce's friends really liked my Muffin Tin Game, and since it means lots of treats for me -- well I like it pretty well too.

Mom and Dad FINALLY came and picked me up from Auntie Joyce's and we all went to a VRBO in Dana Point.  Talk about beautiful weather.  And  we got to walk on the boardwalk about 200 feet above the sea.  

Unfortunately, they weren't as dog friendly as I would have liked.

We did however get to eat in some really nice spots.

But despite all that great exercise, I wasn't eating like I usually do.  Mom tried lots of kinds of dog food -- Purina Canned meats in gravy; Purina canned ground meats; Instinct Freeze Dried food; Fresh Pet and finally, she actually bought me Farmer's Dog.  I ate all of them for a day or two, and then I said forget it.  They didn't taste so good anymore.  By the time we got home, I was 10 pounds lighter.

So guess where we went?  You got it!  The vet.  They did a scan to see what was happening in my stomach.  And they did blood tests.  They decided I did not have Valley Fever and maybe I wasn't digesting my proteins.  So they put me on another kind of dog food.  We did samples, and I liked the Purina Hydrolyzed Protein best.  So I gobbled it down the first couple of days.  Then I didn't.   And mom gives me something called Entice to make me hungry.  I don't much like it, but I have to admit, I'll eat anything and everything after I take the Entice. 

Meanwhile, we left California a couple of days early on September 11, because it was getting cold in California, and the weather looked like it was getting cooler in Arizona.  Unfortunately (or fortunately, as you will soon see), we got another heat wave in Arizona.  So Mom found us a VRBO in Prescott for a few days and we headed up there where the weather was 15 degrees cooler.  It was lovely.  We stayed in a historic cottage, built in 1909 with a fun little garden that I could wander around in.  

There were actually three cottages attached to each other, but we were the only ones there.  I really liked it.  I think my Auntie's would like it too!

Now we're back in Scottsdale.  It's beginning to get cooler finally.  My friends have all started to come back.  One day, I scared two javelinas in the underbrush and one ran in one direction and the other ran the other way.  That meant we had to choose which way to go and either way we chose was going to run into one of the javelinas.  So we continued on until, there he was.  Sitting in the brush just staring at us as if to say, "Please just keep going and pretend you don't see me!" 

 And we did.

Then -- when we got back home and I was just ready to go out the back, but I barked to call Mom.  There on the back wall Bob Katt.  

He got up and winked at me, and then crawled across the wall till he disappeared.  Not very quickly, I don't think he is afraid of us much.  Not like the javelinas.

And yesterday, when Mom and I took a walk in the morning, I stopped real quick again.  In front of us was Bob Katt just staring at us right on the walk.  He wasn't going to let us by and he wasn't going to move.  He looked just like the cats I saw in Prescott who just looked at me and didn't move away.  So Mom and I turned around and went the other way.  I don't think my friend would hurt me, but he might hurt Mom, so it's just as well.  Though I would really like to play with him.

So that's what's been happening here.  I'll try to be better about keeping up.  Hope you all have a good Halloween.  I'm dressing up in a Pumpkin Bandana and then I'm going to go trick or treating at Mr. Grant's and Mrs. Geri's.  I KNOW they will have treats for me, and I will do my Paw trick for them. 

See you in November!

Hee, hee, love, G.

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