MOMMY'S MONDAY

After watching Big Honey Dog doing some dancing, I decided to set my sites on teaching Max to dance with me. So after a beautiful sunny Sunday, I went to bed last night, excitedly ready to start some dance training on our walk today. But sadly, this is what we woke up to:
TODAY --Sigh....

Views looking outside:

Views looking inside:

Well, guess we will have to start in 3 days or so, as the forcast is a pretty big storm. It has been raining non-stop for a couple hours. No migration for the pups today.

Can you teach a dog to wipe it's paws when coming in from the mud?

Maybe that would be fancier than dancing!
Mindy Lu

BED WAR

Daddy knows how par tick you lar I am about my bed being a certain way, yet he insisted on teasing me. He picked up my bed and kept it away from me. See how happy he is to torture me?

I know he is the pack leader, but this was going too far! I told him in no uncertain terms to "PUT MY BED DOWN NOW!" He still kept it from me. So I had to get physical.

I told mommy to get the flashy so we would have proof of what is going on in this pack. The Pack Leader is abusing his pack. What do you think?

BARK!! Sasha the princess!

ELF YOURSELF!

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PLAYMATES

Mommy didnt think we would ever become playmates. It took awhile, but I finally figured out Dumb Max wasnt going anywhere. In fact, I just heard mommy say he is o fish lee ours. Not sure what that means, but I am sure it means he isnt going to be leaving us. So might as well accept it and welcome him.

After getting my bed just right again, he went and laid down on it. I didnt think that was very cool, so went and told him too move.

Instead of moving, he gave me some sweet words and a snuggle. Hmmm, interesting. Almost convinced me, but then again... NOT! MOVE IT BUDDY!

After he got up, I escorted him to his own bed- NOW STAY THERE BUDDY!

But then he came back and started giving me some more sweet words and snuggles. WHATS UP WITH THIS?

Oh, I am onto his game now... All this sweetness, tricked Daddy into taking HIM on the walk this morning, instead of me! Now that was really one sneaky dumb boy.

Before all you doggies feel sorry for me... I got to run with mommy and that was more fun!

BARK- Sasha the Princess!

MOMMY'S MONDAY

Even after 3 years of seeing this, it still cracks me up to watch her plant her behind on the sofa. Since the doggies are not allowed on the couch, unless we invite them to lay with us (rarely), a loud beeping pad is kept in place to discourage The Princess from taking over.
So the rare moment that she is allowed, she takes full advantage of it. On this day, the dining room table had been moved into the Living Room for the big Thanksgiving dinner, and she didnt have much room to lay, so she decided to join us, by taking a seat at the couch, and laying her head on the table.

I am sure all you big doggie owners can relate to this.

Mindy Lu-- The Princess and Dude's mom!

SHE's AT IT AGAIN!

I dont know what the girls problem is? This time she grabbed her own bed and dragged it to the middle of the room.

As we all watched, she continued to drag it around, paw it, bite it, and drag it around some more.

Dad jumped in and tried to take it from her, and she wrestled with him until even he got bored.

So we all just watched and waited to see the outcome.

And I think the outcome was pretty darned fulfilling!

PAW!!! Max the DUDE!!

SUPERVISING DADDY

Daddy stopped digging in the ground and started digging in the wall. We are not sure what he is looking for, but just in case he finds another bone, we are close at hand to help him dispose of it. Mommy has also asked us to keep a close eye on "how much" he digs. If he goes too far, then we are to bark for her to come running.

He has been making a lot of noise, so we havent been able to take our morning, mid-morning, afternoon, mid-afternoon, early evening and evening naps. aaarrruuuuu... we are so sleepy. Mommy is happy we are sleeping hard throughout the night.

BARK- Sasha the Foreman Princess and her Leadman MAX!

GUILT TREATS- YUM!!

Just before daddy took us to Ms T's, they brought out the yummy butter. But instead of putting it in our toys, they put it right in our mouth. When mommy made me sit and then smile, I wasnt sure what she was doing. She put her hand in my mouth, and I was a good girl and sat very still. When she pulled her hand back, I tasted yummies high in my mouth. It lasted a long time. In fact I think we could still taste it when mommy and daddy got home from their away time.



Note from mommy--- I put PB up in their jowls. It was quite fun to watch them try to get to it.

THEY DID WHAT???

While mommy and daddy were away, they visited a place for animals. I snuck a looky on mommy's flashy things and hhhhhoooowwwwllll... I found they cheated on us!! After checking her pockets for our treats, Mommy told me they went to a place that helped BIG animals, bigger than us, after they were tired from working. It was called WILD THINGS. We couldnt picture animals bigger than us, so mommy showed me proof.Now these things look pretty big. Mommy said they were cats! What? A cat bigger than Me? Impossible!Then she showed me a picture of my cousin. Or at least he looked like he could be my cousin. But mommy shocked me when again, she told me he was a CAT! A CAT? Yes, mommy said A CAT! BARK!Mommy said she took this picture for me. She said it reminded her of me on my back smiling at her. I didnt know kitties smiled like this too.

She said this "thing" was laughing. But she wasnt sure if it was a kitty or doggie. I just know it looks like a good dancer. Look at those moves!

But what really made me BARK was this picture of daddy giving treats to these HUGE things with noses longer than mine! What is that mommy? She said they were Ellie Fonts. They suck things in their nose, then put into their mouth. WHAT? Why dont they hold it with their paw's like we doggies do. Mommy said their paws were too big. Bigger than our Paws? I cant beleive that. But then she showed me proof again:

I cant beleive Daddy was feeding those big doggies treats! Mommy asked them to wave hello to Max and me in front of her flashy-- and they did!

BARK!!! Sasha the Princess!

Mommy's Monday

They missed us!!

During our annual Thanksgiving weekend get-away, the kids stayed with Ms. T.

Usually Sasha is a bit apathetic when we pick her up, but this year she was impressively excited to see us and to get home. Are these happy faces or what?

Then she did the happy dance for us! Go Sasha, Go Sasha! Max just did circles.

We missed our babies too!

WHAT'S ALL THE NOISE?

BARK! Last night there was a lot of barking and noise outside. Daddy came home and looked like he had been slurped all over. Dumb Max kept getting excited and running around barking. That excited me, so I had to alert mommy to what was going on.

Mommy opened the back door and invited us to come out and see what all the noise was about. We still werent sure what it was, but it was pretty scary! We decided to stay inside and keep mommy and daddy safe, and maybe it would go away.

BARK! Sasha the Princess!

CANT LIVE WITH 'EM...

I was in a nice relaxed sleep, and up pops the Princess. She stands over me, and barks and stares. Finally she jumps at me and barks again. What the heck, I get up and move to get her out of my face. Then she takes my bed... and moves it into the middle of the livingroom in front of mom and dad!
She bites it, tugs on it, rolls it around a bit...

Then does the circle thing, stomping on it...

Then starts to get comfortable...

Then triumphantly claims it! Whats up with that? I don't get it. The Princess strikes again!

I got justice, shortly after this, Dad made her move, put the bed back and invited me to lay back down on it! PAW to the dad!!!

PAW-- MAX THE DUDE!

MOMMY MONDAY

We have to sadly announce that my parents dog, Sassy went to Rainbow Ridge last week. She got cancer and it finally got to the painful point to do the right thing.
Sassy was brought home for my neice, who was living with my parents at the time. She quickly became the family dog, as as my neice grew up and out, Sassy endured herself to my parents. Being a very good dog, as my parents retired, she went on many motorhome trips with them. She got along with all other doggies and all people. During my single days, having only a cat, Sassy gladly filled in the "dog" portion of my life, comeing to visit and go to the beach with me. She loved to romp on the shore and chase seeweed. After we got our big dogs, I liked to call her "little dog" when we visited.

We will see you on the other side of Rainbow Ridge, Sassy! Max and Spike are over there to show you around.

RIDING WITH GRAMMA!

I think I like Gramma being around all the time. Today when she was over, she asked mommy if we like to go for rides. So this got me a ride to her place and back.

I sat between her and mommy and watched all the way there.
I kept a close watch to make sure we were all safe!

BARK- Sasha the Princess!

WHAT IS UP WITH THIS?

Shortly after mommy got unployed, she started barking. Her barking got worse, everyone up at night. So we have been doing a lot of this lately:

But today was the worse of all... Some girls came knocking on the door. As we were trying to alert mommy about it, she grabbed us by the collar and took us to our safe places. Neither of us are very happy about this!

I tried to give mommy the most pathetic look when she brought the flashy in.

Even dumb Max got the same idea!

We are not sure what is going on out there, but we could hear the loud sucking machine making nose, and lots of chatting. There was an odd smell, that we are not used to. Mommy calls it the "cleaning" stuff smell. I heard mommy tell the girls that people are coming next week for a big feast. Sure hope we dont have to stay in here too long and we can join the feast!

BARK!! Sasha the Princess

CIRQUE DU DANE

DUDE!!! Look how flexable I am! Can YOU touch your nose to YOUR Paws?

PAW! Max the DUDE!

THEY ARE IN THE GROUND

Mommy went out back without us again today. She dug real little holes into the ground, and stuck some little white things into them. I watched closely from the window, in case she was hiding a bone. But they looked too small to be bones. Then she stuck little sticks out of the ground and covered all the white things. I heard her tell Daddy that we will have some "garlik boobs" next spring. Not sure what those are, but sounds funny. Wonder if they taste good.

Mommy sure has been digging lots lately. I think she is starting to become part doggie like daddy. Finally, she let me and Max come out and sniff around, while she was behind the fence putting more stuff in the ground. Then she went out with her flashy and took pictures. Wonder what is up?

BARK!! Sasha the Princess

SUPERVISING DADDY

Daddy was out back digging again. This time he was digging just little holes. When mommy left to spend the day with Gramma, she told me to supervise daddy to make sure he didnt dig the hole bigger. So I kept close sooper-dog-vision on him. Seems he was pulling little green things out of the ground, so I started pointing out the ones he missed.

Um, Daddy, I think you missed one right here...

Mommy spent the whole day with gramma and was too tired to take us for a migration when she got home. Then the next day, they left us alone for too long. I was so bored, I encouraged dumb Max to pull the bag off the counter, so we each had a bag to play with.But we were very careful not to damage what was inside the bags. We had a lot of fun, until Mommy walked in the door. I think having Gramma around was a good thing, or mommy would have been a lot meaner. She just laughed with Grams and grabbed the flashy thing. Gramma just kept asking "What did you doggies do?" over and over. So when mommy bent down to pick up our play things, I gave her a big wet slurpy up and down her face, which made her and Gramma laugh even more. I love when mommy laughs, it makes my tail swing.

Mommy made sure that her and daddy took us on our migration tonite. Now we have full bellies and tired bodies. Night Night-- Sasha the Princess!