August 30, 2005 A Gardner's Tail

Me is becoming a Master Gardner. See me and Daddy is watering the lawn. Me helped mommy yesterday to plant some stuff hers called "ornamental grass" To me it looked just like regular grass that daddy needed to mow. Mommy dug holes in the ground and put little clumps of the grass stuff in them and then put the dirt back in around the clumps. Now you know if Mommy had asked me to help, hers could have gotten them holes dug out lots faster cause me can dig nice holes. Me has several very nice holes dug around the yard.After mommy had planted all the clumps into the ground, hers went and got the water hose to put some water on them. This is very exciting for a little boxer pup. Me loves to bite at the water coming out of the end of the hose thingy and have mommy spray me with water. This is big fun. Me runs all over the place, diving in to snap at the water coming out of the hose. Sometimes me will stand there and drink the water coming out. After awhile hers put the hose back and turned the water off and we went inside to rest. Gardening is really hard work and it made me really tired.

Today me decided that me needed to help mommy somemore with the gardening. See hers had such a good time sticking them clumps of grass into the holes her dug that me thought how could me make her happy and then it came to me. WOOF!!!! Why me could go pull all up all the clumpy grass and put them all around the yard. Then when mommy came home from the place her goes to every day hers could stick them back into the holes and we could play with the water hose again. Me was sure this would just make her so happy.Mommy came home and saw the gardening me had done. Was her happy with me? No her was not!!!! Her said me was a bad dog and went around collecting all the clumps and putting them back in the ground and filling in the holes again with the dirt. Me doesn't understand why her would be mad. This was the exact same thing her did yesterday and her liked it.

Today her doesn't like it. Humans can sure be confusing sometimes. Her did get the water hose out and squirt me with it so we did have some fun. But everytime me got even close to the grass clumps her would say really mean "NO Murphy" Her must not think me is a good gardener. Maybe me should wait a few days and try again. Maybe it was too soon to put them clumpy grassy things back in the holes.Murphy the Gardener

August 28th, 2005 Off Leash Dog Parks

Pant, pant, pant, pant. Whooweee what a day this has been. Me loves the weekends but this Sunday was a very good one for a weekend. Why you aske me? Well........We all got up this morning and mommy and daddy had their coffee and me had my bowl of puppy crunchies and we was all just laying around relaxing and me was wondering what we would do today.Daddy came up with an extremely brillant idea. Him suggested that he and mommy take Murphy (that's me) to a dog park so he could run loose. Mommy gathered up all me going out for a while supplies: me leash, me pooper cleaner upper, and a little bowl for water. We all went into mommy's truck and away we went. We drove and drove and drove and drove. Daddy couldn't find the road to get to the dog park. Just when we was ready to give up and go home we saw the road and found the dog park. This was a very good thing cause me really wanted to run loose.

Mommy was walking me on the leash and wasn't real happy with me cause her said me was being a little brat and either dragging her or stopping to sniff everything. Me guesses hers doesn't understand how exciting it can be for a dog to smell all them new smells and not be able to stop and investigate them all or to run ahead to the next one to sniff it for a while. We walked for a long time and then we saw the dog park but mommy and daddy weren't sure how to get there cause there was a big water thing between us. Mommy should have let me off the leash. Me could have showed them the way. Me would have gone down the bank, through the water thing and up the other side of the bank and BARK there we would have been. Me guesses "Off Leash" doesn't mean to let Murphy off the leash to show the way cause mommy and daddy turned around and went back the same way we had just come.Finally we gots to the Off Leash area and mommy let me off me leash. Her was really worried about doing it too. Her was afraid the me would get so excited with all the scents, sights and sounds around me.

Well me was excited, oh my was me excited. Everywhere was intersting smells and sounds and best of all there was other dogs!!! Each time me met a new dog, we would sniff each other and wag our tails and jump and run around. Everytime I would come back when mommy called me too. Hers would say "You're a good boy Murphy, such a good boy". We played for awhile and then we went back to the car and home. Me was soooooo tired. Me settled down in the back of the car to nap.Me can't wait to go again

Murphy

aug 20, 2005 Working Around the House

aug 20, 2005 Working Around the House

Woof, me is one tired little boxer puppy. Do you know how much work is involved in supervising both Mommy and Daddy while one cleans house and the other does yard work? Me had no idea that supervising both of them at the same time would be such a hard job.We started the morning off with a nice walk to loosen up and then it was home again and straight into the weekend chores. Now me was a bit surprised that there was such a thing as weekend chores. From the time Mommy brought me home it has been all about us playing on the weekends. Well it was up until Mommy and Daddy went on vacation without me, but we won't bring that up again. Grrrrrrr

When we got back from our walk Mommy came inside our big dog house and started doing something called housekeeping. This meant she brought out this big ole machine called a vacumn cleaner and a little thing called a dust buster. Now when these things come out, me has to go into superviser puppy mode. Them is real noisy and gobbles up all the stuff that is on the floor. Me was a tiny bit worried at first cause all me little toys was laying all over the place and that big ole vacumn might gobble them up. Mommy went around and picked everything up and put back in me toy basket and then Mommy started up the vacumn and me started to dart in at it and snap at it to make sure it was working properly. Then me barked a couple times for good measure.

Meantime Daddy was in the yard with this big ole machine called a lawn mower. Me found out that a lawn mover is a machine of distruction!!! It is pushed across the tall grass and makes it short. This is a good thing really, cause me didn't like going outside first thing in the morning to go potty and get me bottome wet. Before Daddy can mow the lawn Mommy has to go out and clean up after me then Daddy can mow. Me has to run after the lawn mower and snap at it to be sure it is behaving properly. Then after Daddy did the lawn mowing he got the funny looking stick thing called a weed eater out. Me was a little nervous about it. Anything machine that has eater in it's name is cause for concern don't you think. Even Mommy was a little nervous about it cause hers told Daddy not to let me get me little nose near it cause it would eat it right off me face. WOOF!!! That would be awful!!! No nose to sniff the ground with when we went on walks. Me decided to stay away from that thing. Do you have any idea how hard it is to have to go between the big dog house and the back yard snapping at machines to be sure they are doing what they are supposed to do? Well me can tell you that when it was all over me had to come inside the dog house and take a nice long nap. Me hasn't worked so hard in me little life. In fact me needs to go get on the love seat and nap some more. You never know when me might have to go supervise some other activity of Mommy and Daddy's

Murphy

August 15, 2005 Vacation Time and Where was Murphy

See the new pictures that me managed to get in me diary??? Do you see me in any of them pictures??? No and you won't either. There is a picture of our friend Donna but do you see me anywhere??? Nope. And look there is a picture of Rick and Mommy and Daddy. Do you see me in that picture either??Nope and you won't either. Do you know why??Mommy and Daddy went on a camping vacation and guess who they DIDN'T take with them???!!!! Yep me!!! Now how in the world can you even begin to go camping and not take your little boxer dog with you. What kind of vacation is that??? And what do you suppose they did with me??? They put me in the kennel for 9 whole days. 9 whole days is a terrible long time when you is a little boxer puppy. Me hadn't been away from Mommy or Daddy since thems brought me home almost 3 months ago. Me was really scared and worried cause me was in a strange place all alone. Oh sure, Mommy brought some toys along for me and Daddy even brought that dumb ole cat Lil too. Her's got put in another place at the kennel and me couldn't even see her. It might not have been so lonely if me could have been with Lil. The dog in the kennel, his name was Spike, next to me kept telling me really scary stories of how people would bring their little dogs to the kennel and then just leave them. The nice little terrier, her name was Sadie, on the other side of me said that Spike was just being mean cause he knew it would scare me. But me couldn't be sure they was going to come back for me. Everyone was nice to me and me got to go outside and play with other dogs but it sure was lonely at night. Me had to sleep all be me little self. Me swore that when Mommy came back (and me sure hoped she wouldn't forget to come back for me) that me was just going to ignore her cause me was pretty upset with her and Daddy. Well you guessed it, hers came to pick me up this evening and me really tried to pretend like me didn't know her. The nice girl brought me up and me walked right passed Mommy and pretended like me didn't know her. But then me heard her voice calling "Murphy, Murphy puppy" in that tone her uses when her is trying to get my attention and me just started to wiggle all over. In fact me jumped up so high to kiss her face me jumped up passed her face. Mommy took me outside and me dragged her all the way to the car and when she opened the door me jumped right in and took up me place right beside her in the car. Me was leaning really hard against her to make sure hers didn't get away from me and every once in a while me'd lick her face. When we got home me had to run all over the place and sniff everything to make sure me was really home. Me even went and sit in me crate for a few minutes. It sure was good to be home. Of course there was some problems. Me had been gone so long that Miss Pitty Pat had forgotten who me was and puffed up all her fur and hissed at me. Hers was scared of me cause me has grown some. After a little while hers did remember me and was rubbing around me legs. Boy is this little boxer pup glad to be home!! Mommy did say the next time hers and Daddy goes camping they will take me along.

Murphy

July 31, 2004 Me's not alone!!!!

Me is so excited my little butt is wiggling all over da place. This morning Mommy and Daddy took me for a walk around a big water place. There were so many new smells me almost rubbed me little nose right off my face. We was walking along and Mommy say another Boxer. Can you beleive it, there on the path behind us was another Boxer. Me knew there were more of us out ther. After all Mommy says she's had two other Boxers besides me but me had never seen one before so me wasn't for sure. This Boxer was a big boy and Mommy said him was very handsome and that when me grew up me would look a lot like him.His Mommy said his name was Zeus and that him was 2 years old. When me stood beside him me was almost as tall as Zeus and had much bigger feet. We touched noses and sniffed butts and circled around each other. Then me sat down on mine so hims couldn't sniff any more. That's how dogs greet each other ya know. Hims wanted to play but me was a tiny big scared cause him was a big Boxer. Me can't wait to be grown up and look as handsome as Zeus. Mommy says me is already very handsome for a 5 month old puppy and when me grows up me will be extra handsome. Me sure hopes me gets to meet more Boxers sometime.

Murphy