Sorry I haven't been around

I would like to apologize for mom's neglect....I won't even try to dignify it with an explaination. But I hope that now that she's settled in with her laptop and with us getting a garden that I will have more adventures in hunting and gathering. I hope to bark at you all real soon! MWHA!!

Vaccinating Dogs: 10 Steps to Eliminating Unnecessary Shots

Vaccinating Dogs: 10 Steps to Eliminating Unnecessary Shots

Order of the house

Here's is my daily routine and I was wondering where to find the time for "Bad boy stuff":

5am: Wake up with daddy and chase him to da livingroom nipping his heals.

5:30am: find someone awake to take the me out for a morning pees/poops, normally lil walker is up and takes me before dad can get to his shoes and socks!

5:50am: Go back to sleep with mom and guard her from any attempts at waking her before 10 on vacation days (this is to insure that everypaw in da house stays alive and as soon as mom gets up there had better be a coffee waiting, Or else!)

Once momma is up and walking around it's time for chores!! I got to dig up the sunflower pots. So mom and dad have something else to do on the balcony. BOL Check the water on the tomatos, if they need water I dig them up to.....Just for fun though. Make sure the strawberries are ripening good (if not they need to be dug up). Then we're off into the wintergarden. That is mom's favorite place in the house. It houses all of her indoor plants and trees. And if I do say so myself.......she's gone a little nutty for plants.....I think it's because she can't have a yard like when she was in the US. So she has more than made up for that one.....I am just glad I got here just in time or the house would look like a jungle!! BOL With me here she has slowed down on the plants and picked up buying more treats and stuff for the puppy. So all in all a good thing.

Then there's the laundry.....my favorite thing to oversee. I am the supervisor and when it's not getting done to my satifaction I nip some heels to get them back into shape! Well once in the bathroom doing laundry you might as well get on cleaning up the bathroom and the toilette while your at it.....I will nap behind the door for a while.....this supervising stuff is hard work. But a pup has to do what a pup has to do.

Then its luncb time!!!! Mom has found things I will eat and I will eat the kibble.....just don't tell mom. Mom and dad tricked me....I thought I was getting treats.....they put kibbles in there and I ate like a fool! GAH now I guess my secrets out and there is noting a paw can do about it.. I will eat some kibble if my wet food wasn't enough so mom is happy...But as of yet mom hasn't made me eat the kibbles. She makes me up some yummy pork stuffs and puts just a little of my soft food in it. Then after lunch I go out for a lizard count. Where we live is like a safe haven for lizards. Well with me on patrol they better not step out of line or they will end up my snack.

Then after we get back from that it's doggy nap time cuase I am tuckered out. So I sleep as long as mommy can keep her wigggly butt down. But just as soon as I get really comfy....she's up and running around the house again. Either back to the balcony to check on the beans and cut where needed. Or cut the dead blooms off the marigolds. Check to see if any of them green maters are red maters yet. Or it's off to clean up the plants in the wintergarden. By that time the laundry needs hung and so mom is tearing through the house getting the wash hanger thingy out.


And this is all before 5pm! Then at 5pm the dinner time rush is on. Someone is cooking in the kitchen....Not always mom or dad. So there is a lot of running around between the cook and all the helpers. So a paw can't get any sleep during that time. Cause as soon as dinner is done there is dishes to be done. Then I finally get to relax as mom and dad have turned the TV on and are veggin' in front of it.. then I get some good sleep in just to chase mom around the neighborhood to eat some trash...And hopefully again at 1am when I need to "go" BOL That't what she gets for taking my wonderful hedgee aroma away....*sigh*

Well seeing as I am in the dog house and mom wants her computer back. She not looking happy at me right now......gotta go suck up a little.

Loves and Kisses Rock



Psss if yous see a time where a paw can get into some trouble could you give me a paws up?

Rocco's thoughts, a fight, and Food!

My thought for today is: Why do we pups have to go outside to do our business when the hoomans get to poop and pee in a nice comfy warm house?

So I know that mom and everyone else in da house pee's and poops in da house. So why can't we? You see if we could just go in the house it would really give us more time to sniff the new p-mails and avoid the spam. We could chase rats, tree and other. Lizards and wabbits would be in trouble and my hedgee buddies would be in some deep do-do! And if we would do ours business in da house the floor would be WAY cleaner than ours is. I mean come on my mom cleans the floor with waters only once or twice a week! And by that time it needs it!! So why oh why do we dogs do this.....I know moms and dads don't approve but hey.....whats a pup supposed to think. Pocket has the right idea. Pee/poop in the house sniff all the p-mails that Foley misses cause she's peeing outside.

Now for the second agenda of the day.....my fight with the other dog. Mom, Dad and I were out for our afternoon walk and I RAN mom to my spot sniffing all the hedgee and rat trails. (tree and other) I was on to my wabbit cage when it happened! Another dog!!! Normally mom and dad would just distract me and drag me the other way......But not this time!! This IDIOT lady (and mom doesn't really use that word lightly) ask mom if I was a boy. When mom replyed, "yes he is" She let him off his lead and told mom to do the same! Well mom ofcourse said, "No because I have only had him three weeks and I don't know what he will do off lead." IDIOT replyed with, "AWE he'll come back, or isn't that your dog." To which my mom replyed again, "He is MY dog but I just haven't had him that long and you should keep your dog on his lead." Well it was OK until this little FAT f*c* tryed to show me who was ALPHA....Well that didn't sit well with me cause I am the ALPHA dog at my house and no one trys to dominate ME! So I turned and snipped he ran to get a better vantage point and mom pulled me back but here he came again not listening to his master to go "OFF" She was chasing him with his lead and then dad did the only thing he knew to do which is scoop me up by my harness and hold me in the air! Well from this vantage point I was now ready to fight with daddy under me nothing could fail!! The woman blamed mom for not letting me off my lead and was probably right but I haven't been fixed yet and there are lots of females in "love" around here and even if the street wasn't that close there are train tracks right behind us and the trains go REALLY fast. Mom checked me over on dad's shoulder and didn't see any blood, but if she had that other dog would have been scooping his owner off the pavement mom says.

Now to the last part of this blog.....FOOD As most of you knows mom had a beautiful pack of pup that would take anything (cept poop) from a plate. That's not me.....I will not even take anything from a plate.....unless it's an unguarded steak and then I knock it to the floor and it's fare game, if I do say so myself. The pack would woof anything down and not even taste it until they burped and then they thought it was good. I am a "geniesser" or a connoisseur of food.....If it doesn't meet my standards I will not eat it! Well mom and dad have been frantically searching for food that spikes my interest. Well today thems got moneys and went to the store. Dad had bought himself some pizza brötchen....or pizza bread rolls and since I came they have been on the Rock diet. But it hasn't really been working out for them cause I have to sniff and then taste and then IF it meets my standards I will eat it. Well dad couldn't finish his pizza brötchen and handed it off to me to see if I would eat it....I played with it....smelled it.....even took a little taste to see if I liked it.....I must have cause I ate it ever so carefylly. And enjoyed every little bit of it.....even the crumbs. So now they know....if they ever buy them pizza things again and can't finish them I will eat that. I must say it was YUMMY!!

Well that's all for this installment, this pup has to rest up for our walk laters.

Love and kisses The Rock

Rocco's day of fun and other stuff

Finally found or at least reset my passwords for my google account.....I will be blogging here about Rocco's aka Rock's adventures and his escapades. Hope everyone will follow him on his life's journey!

I hope nopaw minds if I use the packs blogger to blog on my adventures.

Well today the internet guy came to see whats up with moms internet. So when he got here mom locked lil walker and me up in the toilette to play ball. WTB?? I know I can't meet and greet and keep my bladder in check but DANG! No need to go overboard. Anyhows when him left mom let the two of us out of the toilette and I ran straight to the living room where mom and dad decided to move everything around. Something about the wireless router, and the gigaset for the phones being to close to the modems. So dad and mom moved the futon away from the area they were working and I plopped my cute self down and started chewing on my bath time bone pictured here and dad flopped a few cables that were being taken out of that area right in front of me. So I thought I would just give those cables a nibble.....not knowing that daddy wanted them particular cables back. How's a pup supposed to know that you want said cable back?? GEEZ so dad seen me about to take another nibble when he said, "I should whoop your butt for chewing that." Mom made a valid point though.....no puts cable down in front of puppy and he won't chew it!! BOL YAY mom! So mom picked up all the cables on the couch/futon and put thems on table where I knows not to chew unless I knows for sures it's mine! Well after chewing on my bone and a few cables I decided to run in circles around the house. (rawhides, and bones that dad or mom put on the table while sweeping) See in the living room there is a door that goes into kitchen and from there it goes to hallway and back around to the living room. A very fun run if you asks me. (Mom needs to upload another videos so yous all can see.) But when I run that route I run up the futon across the big 'puter and through the winter garden. teehee! After I get a little more confortable with my surroundings mom hopes to catch me on videos, doing what JRT's do best....RUN!!

During the day dad takes me for my walkies and we go down what mom and dad have dubbed lizard alley....OMP there's is LOTS of lizards to chase! Then we go by my favorite trees, thems has sqwurrels and birdies!! Then we go by bug/butterfly alley and I chase bugs and butterflies! After all that chasing and running a pup needs to rest right?? NOT I am becoming a bundle of energy!! Could it be the food? NAH! Well mom wants the laptop back as she is whining in the corner, so I guess I will let her have it for a while and take a nap. I do need my energy for later on my walk.

Bark at y'all later!

Rock

Who ordered the miracle?

When mom moved into this house we're in now she said she had a black kitty just like Rez. His name was Sabbat. And he looked like Rez. And was Rez's name sake. It's a really long story so I'll try to put it in a nut shell. Mom moved into this park and the park manager had kittens. Since they couldn't have dogs there they got Frick and Frac. Well the managers were going to keep RezRez but their boss (the owner of the trailer park) said no more cats. They gave RezRez to some people who didn't take care of him and let him run around the park like a stray....didn't give him food or water or love. They named him Black Jack. Well RezRez/Black Jack would come to mom's trailer to get food and water and loves. The people that gave RezRez to the mean people were heartbroken and told mom that if Black Jack wanted to be with them she should just open the door and not let him back out and rename him....Well mom couldn't go with his original RezRez and hated Black Jack so they thought about it and said Sabbat fit him pretty well but at home (when no one was visiting) they would call him Rez. Well mom did that and let him stay with her...Frick and Frac jumped out the screen door and sadly got ran over shortly before mom moved in here. The family was devastated. But Sabbat (RezRez, Black Jack) was still there and he moved here with mom and dad......Duke, Bruiser, Rose, Pepper remember him....I don't cause he got out on one of his little nightly walks and never came back. So again mom still had Rez and loved him up until she found him resting peacefully in the field. She buried him under the rose bushes so he could be remembered and can have a special spot in the garden.

Well last night the teenager went out side to throw something away and heard a "MEOW-MEOW" He looks over his shoulder and see's what looks like Rez laying on the hood of the truck! So he starts calling RezRez. Well here came the cat and jumped into his arms.....He came in with the black cat and said, "I guess that wasn't Rez after all!" Mom started to cry because she found him and this kitty didn't have a collar and Rez did until she took it off to bury him. She got the collar out and the boy started to cry. But there was something odd about this kitty.....He was sucking on Chris' ear......That was a Sabbat trait! She jumps up and grabs for the kitty and Chris said that he came to RezRez. Mom looked at him and said, "Sabbat's name was RezRez before he came to us.....remember?" He said, "OH YEAH!!" So mom puts the kitty up on her shoulder and the purring was really loud (also a Sabbat trait) and started sucking on mom's ear......So she got the giggles and put him down to watch how he walks because Sabbat had a broken front hip socket that cost mom a lot of money to fix, (from the other people that had him) and the kitty walked with a little gimp on that side. But mom had seen Sabbat after he left and he was going to this other little old woman's house and figured he was happy there and wasn't going to run over to her house and tell her the cat was hers and she wanted him back. She's not like that.....this was an old woman and really loved Sabbat. Mom started crying because Sabbat was really skinny so she ran him back to the food dish and fed him. She took Sabbat back to the family this morning and said, "This is your mom's cat, I feed him and since it was late last night I didn't bring him back until today." They then informed mom that the old lady was dead and they didn't want the stupid cat as it hated them, and if mom was to leave it with them it was just going to the pound anyway! Very RUDE people. Well mom was shocked that these people came from such a sweet loving lady......Mom said, "If you don't mind and obviously you don't care.....I'll take the cat. If that's OK?!?" They slammed the door in her face and mom took that as a, "YES!"

SO back to the title of this blog.......

Who ordered the miracle?
Well whoever you are......thank you!

Nukems and pack!

A very good day from Fay-fay

Today was a pawsome day. It was a very nice hot day......A lazy day in front of the A/C. Lil girl went to her friends house to stay and when they came driving up we got to play with a Maltese named China!! She was so much fun to chase and play tag with. But boy oh boy......don't let size get ya...She is a fast little one! Not faster than me but I let her think she is......She's a Porsche I am a Ferrari! At least that's what mom says. It was just about dusk and mom and dad decided it was time for us to go for WALKIES!!! Whoo Hoo!! Everpawdy looks forward to this part of the day....Mom and dad get 5 long walkies! And 2 short walkies. So they stay fit and we don't do a Marley. BOL

Well while Duke and I where walking I got to thinking.....The girls need some training. But where do I start.... Mom is already training them how to sit, stay, come, down, heel and play ball. A very important thing around here. You got to know how to fetch......Don't know why but the humans at my house think fetching is a good trait to have......FOR A BIRD DOG! But for your guard dog you do not need to know how to fetch.....Just bring the bad guy to your mom or dad and letting him live. Not silly games like fetch.

Why does that word strike me as the same thing as bringing the intruder to mom or dad?? (note to self: look up the word 'fetch')

Anywho......back to the girls' training. I was pondering this the whole walk.....What trait do I have that mom really likes.....Is it my big mean bark? NAW she keeps telling me to knock it off. Is it my guard dog attitude? Maybe .... but Karma and ShamWow are already picking up on the whole guard dog thing. And they actually let people that mom and dad like up on the porch. Is it my snuggle time? No they get the same amount of snuggle time with mom and dad. Is it that I like to sneak a shoe every now and then? Well they always beat me to the shoe's and mom doesn't seem to happy about that one. So I'll let her deal with that one.....BOL

Ahh....I know what to start them out on.....A trait that mom just adores that I do that only one other dog in her life has done.....Teach the girls to bring the toys to the toy box....THAT'S IT!! And it's going to be the easiest to teach. I mean it took mom only one day and I had it down. So tonight I seen the girls come in from outside and they had a puppet in their mouth.....But instead of bringing it to the crate they were playing with it.....Well after they got done playing with it they just dropped it and started off on their own....Well I picked up the toy and took it to the toy box and put in. Well here the girls come take the same toy out and drop it. SO I picked it up again.......And then started to argue with the girls that this toy needs to be put up when your done playing with it......Well maybe it'll take a couple of days to train them this trait.

But then as mom was walking past the girls and ShamWow was chewing on a shoe. So she started looking for the girls chew toy....their Nyla Bone keys. She couldn't find them anywhere in the house. So out to the yard mom went to look for the elusive keys. She took the flashlight and set out. She looked in the front of the yard and the very back. She fell and we must have heard her go down cause the girls and I were there in a flash! We made sure she was ok and got her up.....But those keys weren't there. Well as she was getting ready to give up she finds them right next to the concrete pad. Something about they're always in the last place you look. (isn't that because you found them? Or maybe people keep looking after they find what they are looking for. I dunno but it seems silly to keep looking for it after you found it.) So she came in took the shoe away from Shams again and gave her the keys she almost broke her neck for. Shams looks up, takes the keys and chews them for a bit and then goes to lay down. I guess that walk took it out of her.... So now I am dictating to mom from her side that hurts and keeping her down on the couch for some much needed rest......I'll bark at you later!

Love Fay-fay