Illegal Activity

I told you last time that I would tell you about all my new friends.  But you have to promise not to tell anyone else. 

You see, when we go to play in the park, we are all illegal.  That's because we don't wear leashes attached to our owners when we play in the park.  We're not supposed to be in the park unless we're on a leash which is not more than 6 feet long and attached to our owner's hand.  I don't know about you, but it's awful hard to have a good time running when you have to drag your human behind you.  So our humans let us off leash and let us have fun.  

If a dog or a human we don't know comes by, we all sit by our humans and wait till they either go by us or join us.  I like when they join us.  Sometimes, I try to get out of Mom's control so I can go ask them to join us myself.  It only seems polite.  But Mom doesn't let me do that, so I don't.

Once a park officer came by on her golf cart.  She was patrolling the park areas making sure everything was OK.  She saw all of us without our leashes and guess what she did? 
Nope, she didn't arrest us all.  That's what you were thinking, wasn't it?  Nope, she pulled out lots and lots of treats and gave us all a big one.  I really like this park officer.  I hope she comes around again.

Anyway, I want you to meet my friends.  These are the Fabulous Five.  On the far left is Harley.   He's a tiny bundle of energy.  He didn't like me at first.  He said he didn't like big dogs.  But I showed him that big dogs can be fun to play with and so he decided he really did like big dogs.  Well maybe just big black dogs like him.  Cuz then he didn't like Shak at first either.  Shak is the big white dog.  So Harley decided that he just didn't like big white dogs.  Till he and Shak and I got together and then he decided he liked big black & white dogs.  I think Shak and I cured him of his fear of big dogs.

You already met little Remi, the one next to Harley.  She and Harley really started the group.  They toss and tumble around and around.  It's fun to watch them.  I wonder what they will do when Remi gets big like me.  Harley might get squished if they roll around like they do now.

At the very right is Tessa.  Tessa is a cute little French Bulldog.  And though she's small and has these short little legs, she can run really, really fast.  She likes to get in on the frisbee fun right along with the rest of us.

So that's four of them and I make the Fabulous Five.  And boy do we like to play.

This is Shak and me with my frisbee.  See the other frisbee near us?  That's Remi's.  His Mom bought that for him.  

But they all seem to like my ratty old one that has a hole in it.  Tess can even put her head in the hole while the rest of us grab ends and pull.  I don't care how many of my friends get on my frisbee.  I don't care if we tear it to smithereens.  I just like to have fun with my friends.

I sure hope they let us keep playing together.  I don't like to be illegal.  It makes me a little scared that one day I won't be able to play with my friends anymore.  And don't tell Mom about this.  She might not like that I told everybody that we were illegal.  

Hope you never have to be illegal to do something fun!

Love, G

My New Little Friend

I have a new friend.  I have a new friend.  Oh, joy, I have a new friend.  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE new friends.  Did I tell you?  I have a new friend.

Her name is Remi.  And she is SOOOOO cute.  She looks like a tiny German Shepherd.  Which is what I am (well I'm not tiny, but I am a shepherd.  Only I'm black. Oh, right.  This is NOT about me.)  Where was I?  Oh, yes, Remi is just perfect. And she's really, really, smart.  Just like me.

See, here we are while I was teaching Remi about my Frisbee.  Isn't she adorable?  And look how she pays attention to everything I tell her.  She caught on so quick.  Pretty soon we were playing my favoritest game - Frisbee Tug a War!

I showed her how to take it in her teeth.  I told her to hold on really, really hard.  That's cuz I am really, really strong and I could pull it right out of her mouth.

Pretty soon we were all over the grass tugging on the frisbee.  She really got the hang of it.  In fact, she got so good, she took my Frisbee away from me!

I guess I must be a really, really good teacher!  

It was so much fun.  And stay tuned, 'cuz next time I get to tell you about all the other new friends that Remi introduced me to.  Life is good.

Hope you have lots of new friends, too.

Love, G

  

Last Day of School

The kids are going on summer vacation soon, so we had our last day with them.  I was especially anxious to see them.

I thought they'd never get here and I had presents to give them.  But they finally came and before I could give them MY presents, they all sat down and made me decorated bandanas!


Vance made me this one.  He really likes the Art stuff:

I like that he said I make him Happy.  Andrew did one to tell me he was happy, too.  But the H kinda ran.

Susan just loves the glitter glue.  Whenever she makes something we have to let it dry in the back of the car for hours before we can use it.  But that's OK, 'cuz it was pretty.

Even Ms. B, did one for me.  That made me feel really special.

 I thanked them all with kisses and hugs and gave each of them one of my picture books.  They seem to like that.  Finally, Mom and I went home and I got to try on all my new bandanas.  (Actually, there are only two bandanas.  They each decorated half of a square so I got four bandanas from two squares.  They're clever like that!  

I love my kids.

Hope you have some great bandanas to wear!

Love, G

THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!

Whoever said we live in a desert is nuts!  We have lots and lots of rain.  Only it's not just rain.  Last week I was minding my own business, dozing on the bed (as I am apt to do), when out of the blue, there was a humongous thunder clap.  (Why they call it a clap, I don't know.  Thunder doesn't sound like a clap, it sounds like someone is trying to kill me.)  

I hid:

Well what would you expect when the outside looked like we were going to capsize right in the house.

I ran to Mom and she tried to keep me calm.  But she was too busy taking pictures to worry much about me.  

(Actually, she made me hide under the blanket.  That was 'cuz she thought it looked good for the blog.  I went along with her, like I always do with her pictures.  But I found a spot away from the noise and the water while she was running around taking pictures.)

I stayed there till Dad came home from his golf game.  (Tee Hee, it wasn't much of a golf game!)

Hope you stay dry and safe!

Love, G

It's Spring and I Think I'm In Love

The cactus are starting to bloom and pretty soon it's going to be another gorgeous spring in the desert.  I asked Mom to show you this picture:

It's just beginning as you can see, but it won't be long and the whole desert will be filled with pretty flowers on the cactus.

So you can understand why when I went to the dog park Tuesday morning I found my soul mate.  Love springs eternal in the spring and I was smitten.  Her name is Leila and she looks just like me.  See if you can tell which of us is which.

I'll give you a hint.  I'm the one looking UP into her beautiful eyes.  Not only is she beautiful (did I mention she looks just like me?), but she loves to play frizbee, too.  We ran and played keep away and tug a war until she finally had to leave.  

I'm begging Mom to take me back there so I can see her again.  Meanwhile, I'm pining away until I do.

Please help me find my true love again!

Yours, G

Therapy Dog Needs Therapist

What is it with me?  Or is it them?  Mom and Dad went to play golf yesterday and left me guarding the house.  I did a pretty good job, I thought.  Even though Mom left the food cabinet door wide open:

I didn't let anybody in.  Not the coyotes, not the javelinas, not even the squirrel that showed up the other day.  Did I tell you about that?  

We hardly have any squirrels around here.  In fact I would have said we have no squirrels.  Not like my friends in St. Louis where there are tons of squirrels and I chase 'em and they run up trees, so I don't chase 'em anymore.  It's too frustrating.  But I never saw a squirrel in Scottsdale.  (Like that alliteration?  S-quirrel in S-cottsdale?  S-cottsdale S-quirrel? Sorry.)  Not until two days ago, when one ran across our back wall, just like he belonged there.

Which he didn't, 'cuz that's BobCat's wall!  Am I digressing again?  I think so.  Anyway, I didn't let any of the critters get any food out of the wide open cabinet.

But then I was looking over Dad's papers on the coffee table and I saw a bill for his insurance.  I know how he hates to pay bills, so I took it with me to the bedroom and proceeded to shred it on the bed. 

 If I shred it, he can't pay it, right?  So I thought I was doing him a BIG FAVOR.

But NO.  They came home and I got in trouble for tearing up the Insurance bill.  Even Mom yelled at me.  It wasn't fun.  They were mad. So I got mad.  Then I got even.  I refused to sleep on the bed last night.  See who's happy now!

I don't know.  Is it me?  Do I need Dogological help?

Love and pouts,

G

You need to click on Rainbow Bridge

I told Mom no one would understand that just because a word is blue, that you're supposed to click on it to take you to another place.  But if you click on the blue "Rainbow Bridge" in the blog post, it will take  you to Rainbow Bridge and you won't be as sad anymore.


I need to tell you about a friend of mine.  Her name is Maddie.  I don't have a picture of her, but she looks like this:

Maddie looks like a puppy, but she was really old.  When I first met her in 2014 she was 12 years old.  She liked me right away.   She called me her boyfriend.  She liked Mom a lot too, and sometimes I just had to go break it up 'cuz she would be nuzzling MY mom and ignoring me. 

Lots of times, when we walked around people would say that I looked like Maddie.  We both have black noses, but I didn't think we looked much alike.

These past few months, Maddie was getting smaller and smaller.  She still liked to come talk to me when we would see her, but she was having a really hard time walking.  I could tell she had lost a lot of weight. 

Then yesterday, we saw Maddie's mom without Maddie.  She said that Maddie had given up the ghost and she was really sad.  I could tell mom was really sad too.  We were all sad.  I'll miss Maddie.  I hope I see her when we all go to the Rainbow Bridge.  Mom told me about the Rainbow Bridge.  She says that's where my brothers are and that one day, we will all go to the Rainbow Bridge and play together.  I think that sounds nice.  I hope Maddie is having a good time there.

But, I'm still sad.

I'll be looking for you, Maddie.   

Love, Your G

PS.  If you click on the blue "Rainbow Bridge", it will take you there and make you feel better.  G