Are you ready for some football???

Well here it is Sunday again and it's time for more football. Mommy and hers friend (me godmother) Maggie is going out for High Tea. Now me is not sure what this means but me thinks it means thems gets up really high and has them some tea. Why else would it be called high tea??? That means that me and Daddy will be here to watch some football.

Me is really excited about this game cause me has a real football now!!! Mommy and Daddy gots me a real football for me 7 month day. Thems said it was time me had the real thing. Me was too big for dem stuffed puppy footballs. Me really things Mommy got tired of picking up all of da stuffing off of da floor ifn you wants to know da truth.

See da picture of me here?? This was me when me was a little baby puppy and Mommy had just brought me home from da place where me first lived. And dis is me little baby puppy football.

Now see this picture?? This is me all gown up and with a big dog football. This big dog football is more fun cause it bounces all over da place.

Me also thinks me could play for da Broncos. De is short one player cause Dwayne Carswell was hurted in a car crash and the Broncos is short one player. If Mommy and Daddy gots me a football jersey with hims name on it and me showed up on the football field do you think dem other Broncos would know me was really a boxer??? Me can catch da football and run with it really fast. Dem ole Eagles couldn't catch me at all. Dis is me getting the football on the hike.

Me's got it but which way do me run?? Dems peoples running at me from all directions.

Faster than a speeding bullet, stronger than a locomotive. No wait dats another story. Me's running to da goal post and going to make a touchdown just like Carswell. Nobody can catch me cause me is the fastest football player on the field.

Touchdown!!!!

Now me better go back inside and settle in on da love seat to watch football with Daddy. Maybe hims will have some peanuts hims can share with me.

Murphy the football playing dog.

Kitty Crunchies

Me's been caught eating the Kitty Crunchies. How did thems figure it out?? Me waited until Mommy and Daddy was in bed and asleep to go eat the crunchies. Of course when Daddy would go down into the storage room to feed the kitties he would find the gate open and the crunchies gone. Does that mean that me ate them??? It isn't proof that a boxer puppy was in there muching out. Nope, no way is it proof. Maybe them ole kitties ate it all. Smoke and Lil eats up Miss Pitty's share of the wet food so maybe thems was the culprits. Mommy has to feed Miss Pitty seperate (and I stand up with me little paws on the dryer and lick the bowl clean when hers is done but don't tell anyone).

Me almost had it made. Thems was thinking that such a good little boxer puppy couldn't be stealing the kitty crunchies and then it happened. Mommy was looking for me cause it was time to go to bed and hers couldn't find me. Hers was calling "Murphy, come here Murphy". Me should have come when hers called me but me nose was buried in the bowl of crunchies and thems was soooooooooo good that me just ignored her calling me. That was the BIG MISTAKE!! Mommy looked all over the house and couldn't find me. Her knew me wasn't outside so her went downstairs to Daddy's office. What did her see? The gate to the storage room was open and her turned on the light and there me was..........guilty look on me face, chewing up the kitty crunchies. Me runned out of there really fast and Mommy fastened the gate again. Hers came back upstairs and looked at me and said "BAD MURPHY!!". Them words really hurt cause that means me has done something to disappoint me mommy. Mommy took me into the bedroom with her and Daddy and shut the door so me couldn't go wandering through the house while thems was asleep.

This morning Daddy told Mommy the gate was still closed so me must not have gotten into the storage room and eaten the kitty crunchies. Mommy told him that hers caught me in the act. Now both of thems is disappointed with me. Daddy said hims is smarter than a Murphy puppy and hims was going to come up with a way to keep me from opening the gate. Thems still haven't figured out how me opened the gate and me sure isn't going to tell them.

Murphy the Stealth One.

A soft bed and a bone in every doghouse

My mommy and daddy are involved in an organization that is holding elections for a new board member. Me isn't sure what an organization is or what it does but very exciting listening to thems discuss the 4 different candidates running for the one position. This made me think that maybe me could run for something other than the things mommy and daddy throw for me to fetch.

Now me isn't sure what position me wants to run for yet but me does have a platform. If you're going to be elected for anything you have to have a platform and this is mine....Every dog will have a soft bed to sleep on and a fresh bone everyday. Doesn't that sound like a good platform??? Even though me is only 7 months old, well me will be 7 months old on Tuesday, me is sure that I would be a good candidate for something. By being young me can bring in new ideas on what it is me is running for. Me needs to work on me campaign speech too! Buff Buff.............what can me run for????

Shouldn't I always get to sleep in the spare bedroom?

This is me, Murphy and me has a bone to chew with Mommy. See me thinks that me should always be able to sleep in the spare bedroom with mommy. Here's what happened last night. Me and Mommy stayed up when Daddy went to bed cause him was feeling under da weather and had a cold in his nose. Now this is not the same thing as having a cold nose which is a very good thing. When it was time to go to bed, me being da ever thoughtful and caring boxer puppy that me is went and stood at the door to the spare bedroom. Me was only thinking of Daddy and how much better hims would sleep if me and Mommy wasn't in da room to disturb hims sleep. Mommy didn't go for it and so we went into hers and daddys room to sleep. This was okay for a while and den Mommy decided hers couldn't sleep so we went back downstairs to watch somemore telebision. Later we went back up da stairs and me headed straight for the closed spare bedroom door and waited. And again Mommy said "NO Murphy" We went back into da other bedroom and hers got back into bed with Daddy.

Me was really really worried about Daddy not getting good rest and having a cold in his nose, so me went to Mommy's side of the bed and put me little paw on her arm but hers pushed me away and said "Murphy go lay down on your bed" Me didn't want to!!! Me went back and put both me little paws on her arm and tried again to convince her dat da bestest place for us to be was in the bed in the spare bedroom. Me wasn't doing if for me, honest. Me was only thinking of Daddy. Mommy swatted me nose and made me go lay down. Hers said her knew me just wanted to lay in the big soft bed and it wasn't for Daddy either that me wanted to do this. Woof! Me was to thinking of Daddy and okay me was thinking of how nice it would be to lay on the pillow all snuggled up to Mommy. Maybe tonight.

Murphy the bed hound

Daddy has a cold in his nose

Me Daddy is sick. Him is not feeling well and is really grumpy. Mommy says that's be cause him has a cold in his nose. My nose is cold and me feels just wonderful and wants to play tug of war with Daddy. Me just doesn't understand why x having a cold in Daddy's nose makes him feel grumpy and sick?? Daddy went upstairs to watch the telebision in da bed and Mommy won't let me go up there with him. Me knows that if me could just get up on ta bed with him and lay across his legs or on his head that hims would feel so much better. Me could be Murphy MD (that would be Medic Dog) Mommy thinks that the best thing is to leave Daddy alone to rest and that maybe tomorrow hims will feel better and want to play with this little boxer puppy. Me sure hopes so cause him wasn't much fun tonight. If that's what having a cold in your nose does to me peoples then me is glad to have only a cold nose.

Murphy the Medic Dog

New friends at the dog park

Mommy thought me needed to go to the dog park today. Me always likes to go there but can't figure out what made hers think me needed to go. Hers was sitting in her chair trying to read the newspaper and me wanted to help her. Me don't think her liked how me wanted to help either. See the best way for a boxer to help hims mommy to read the paper is to sit on her lap, shoulder, head or whatever is available to sit on and lick her face. This seems to make the reading the paper more fun. Me guesses mom had to much fun with all me help and decided it was time to go to the dog park.

It's always exciting to go to the dog park. Beside the one time that mean ole Wheaten Terrier jumped on me its always fun. Today me made friends with a Husky named Nook (Mommy thought him was really handsome) and a Dobbie named Mark. Thems was great fun to play with. Nook knew just how to play with a boxer and hims did play growling too. In fact now me knows how to play growl and bark too when me is playing with mommy. Her goes "Murphy who do you think you are barking at??" and pulls my nose. Anyways it was really lots of fun playing with Nook and Mark and then this really pretty girl dog name Zoe came. Hers was really pretty. Hers had wavy blonde hair and her daddy said hers was a Labradoodle. Woof Woof her was pretty. We was all puppies except for Nook and hims knew just how to play with puppies our size and age. We ran and jumped and slammed into each other all over the place. Me learned how to drink water out of sports bottle. Daddy said that now we didn't have to carry so much stuff to the dog park. It sure was fun but boy was me tired. We all finally was laying under the picnic table panting really hard.

When me got back home me slept for a long time but then me heard mommy reading and had to go sit on her shoulder to help her read.

Murphy

Company's here

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, me just loves to meet new peoples!!!! Mommy's bestest friend for where hers used to live a long time ago is here visiting with hers husband Bob. Thems is some really fun people and likes playing with me. This is a really good thing cause me sure likes playing with thems too. Margaret played and played and played with me. Bob would let me go outside with him all the time. Him smoked cigars and me really liked the smell of them things but nobody would let me eat one of them.

Margaret let me have me very first sip of Mead. It was really yummy and me wanted more but hers wouldn't give me anymore.

Margaret seems to think me needs to put on clothes. This is not a good thing cause me didn't want to put on clothes. If hers is cold then hers needs to put on clothes. Don't put them clothes on me! Me has fur to keep me warm!!! Silly person.

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This is embarassing!!! How do I get this silly shirt off!!!

This is Murphy's Laws

Me is 7 months old and almost a grown up boy. This is tha thing, if me peoples can have rules that me has to follow why can't me have rules thems has to follow. It's time to start writing some new rules and regulations for me peoples. So this is going to be da first draft. Me is sure that this will change along the way when me thinks of new things that need to be made into Murphy's Laws for Humans. These rules aren't going to be in da handbook either, just like da Human's Rules for Boxers isn't in da handbook. Now where is them crayons???

• Boxers must have the best seat in the house. This is a most important Law cause me has to be positioned so me can see everything from da TV to the outdoors in case thems burglars coming me can hide if necessary. Buff Buff.
  
  
  

• Boxers have to have lots and lots and lots of toys and toys that squeak are even better. Now Mommy and Daddy are pretty good about making sure there is lots of toys to play with. Thems even bought me new toys on Saturday cause it was my 7th month day. Me loves me new squeaky lion. A whole basket full of toys is really good and a kitty thrown in is even better. Me loves kitties. And this brings us to the next important Law.
• Never leave da toys in da toy box. See if ya leave da toys in da toy box then Mommy wouldn't have nothin to do. Her job is to pickup da toys that me drags out and it's me job to drag them all back out before hers gets them in there. That 's the law.

• Boxers should never be left alone outside for more than 10 minutes. Da reason for this rule is because me gets really lonely when separated from me humans. It's much better to have at least one of them outside with me so they can play with me. Being left alone makes me very unhappy. Does that look a happy boxer face to you? No it is not a happy boxer face at all. Dis is the face of a little boxer left outside by himself while his peeps are inside eating da snacks.

• Having your own pet is really important. See Miss Pitty Pat is me own kitty kat. Hers is way fun to play with but you have to be really careful when you have a kitty for your very own pet. Deems like to hide in your toy box and pretend to be a toy and then when you try to play toss with it you gets into trouble. So if you is going to own a kitty kat be very careful you don't mistake it for a stuffed toy.

• Boxers must have lots of treats. This is very important!! Boxers need lots of treats and the best treats is off the plates of the Mommy and Daddy. Bones are good too but da best treats are cheese and peanuts especially if that's what Mommy and Daddy are eating. So da rule is this, If Mommy and Daddy is eating something then they have share it with Murphy. This also means that if thems has company for dinner that me gets treats from the guest too. ItÂ’s the only polite thing for da guest to do. Deem guests knew it was really important to feed me treats.

• Boxers must lay all over their peoples when they is in the middle of doing something important. This is a very good law. If me doesn't lay on me mommy when her is working on her lap top computer thingy or reading the news paper, then how is me supposed to get smart?
• Dig up the flowers and plants in the garden is really necessary. Since Mommy looks like hers is having so much fun digging holes in the ground to put flowers in, it is important for me to dig them up so hers can have more fun.
• Escorting Mommy to the bathroom is important boxer business. Me always goes with mommy to the bathroom. Me has to guard her in case her can't get out of the little water pool in there or her needs company.

Thems all the laws for now. Keep watching for more laws to be added. Me is sure there will be many more as me gets older.

Murphy

There was white stuff

Me was all excited when me got up dis morning. Something was going on outside. It was really quiet and it smelled different. There was some white stuff falling outside. Mommy took me outside like she always does and there it was. It was coming down from da sky and it was soft on me little boxer nose. It wasn't like da water that comes from da sky. That stings me little boxer nose when it lands on it. Me isn't really sure if me likes this white stuff or not cause it was all gone by da time Mommy got home from da work place this afternoon. Hers had said we would go out and play in da white stuff when hers got home but there was no white stuff left. Mommy says not to worry cause it will be back. This is what comes from da sky in da winter time hers says. Me can't wait to see it again and get to play in it.

Murphy

There is water falling from the sky!!!!

What is this stuff falling from the sky?? This morning it was cloudy and cool but it wasn't wet outside and it was fun to run around in. Now it’s really cold and really wet and me really doesn’t like it at all. What happened to yesterday’s weather?? Yesterday we was at the Dog Park and having big fun. Today wet stuff falling from the sky. And get this, Mommy says it’s going to snow. Now what is snow?? Her’s says it’s white and wet and it falls from the sky too but it’s not wet like rain. Hers also said me will like going out and playing in it and making doggie snow angels. Well that may be but for now me don't like it much. Me don't even want to go outside to do me business. This is very strange, Mommy and Daddy don't go outside to do there business, thems goes inside and uses the procelian watering bowl. Even the cats have a private place to go. Not me, me has to go outside where everyone can see. Humm this may have to go into the rules me is working on for Mommy and Daddy. Murphy needs to have hims own place to do hims business.......oh wait me guesses the back yard is me space. Okay then, no standing there and watching to be sure me has done it.

Mommy and Daddy went to the football game today. Now me isn't sure what a football game is, but me does have a football. Anyways me got left at home while thems was gone. Me thought that me would have to spend all afternoon and into da evening in me crate. Guess what, them came home early cuz of the wet stuff falling out of the sky. Mommy said hers couldn't stand being cold and wet. Hers says either cold or wet but not both and not when the wind is blowing. Me was happy to have them come home early so we could watch the ball game together. Me and Mommy sat on the couch and eated popcorn together and then me and Daddy ate peanuts together. This football stuff is fun even if I don't know what it is. It means me gets to get special football treats.

Me is going to have to go look out the door and see if this stuff called snow is coming down yet. Mommy says when it starts snowing hers is going to go outside and sit in the big hot bathtub.

Murphy

Here is more rules

Daddy says that me has to learn the rules for playing with him. Now me is thinking there sure is a whole bunch of rules for being a boxer house dog first class. Don't get me wrong, me loves being a house dog first class. It's just learning the rules sure is hard, Specially when me thinks me is doing it right already.

So this is the rules for playing with Daddy:

• No jumping at Daddy's face. This is a very important rule. Me already accidently cut Daddy's eye by jumping up at his face. Me is trying really hard to learn this one but it's hard when Daddy is playing with me and has his face right in front of me. The thing is me gets so excited when playing that me forgets.
• When playing fetch, me has to let go of the toy when it is brought back to Daddy. This is not always easy cause a game that might have started out as fetch could suddenly turn into a game of tug of war. Being a puppy, me sometimes likes to change the game all of a sudden. If we is already playing tug of war it's okay not to let go of the toy.

• No putting puppy feet in Daddy's crotch. Hims says it's okay to sniff his crotch if me has to but no putting me little feet in it. Me is scratching me little boxer head over this rule. First of all, me doesn't know what a crotch is or even where it is so how could me know not to put me feet there. This is something me has to figger out so me can learn the rule. It seems like a really important rule cause him's always saying "Murphy, get your feet out of my crotch!!!"

• No licking! This is really hard cause that is how puppies show they love you. It just comes naturally.

• No biting Daddy's toes. Daddy says this tickles and even though boxers have the softest lips in the whole wide world, it still tickles. It's okay to lay on or near Daddy's toes when you is chewing a toy cause that keeps them toes warm.

Deems all the rules me knows for now. If there is more then me will have to add them to the list so me can remember them. Me is also going to check the Boxer Union Guide Book to see if them is in there. Me thinks them rules is like the rules for sleeping with Mommy and are kept in a secret place that only Mommy and Daddys knows.

Murphy

It's dangerous out there

My peoples took me to the dog park again yesterday. It was lots of fun for me cept when the this ole Soft Coated Wheaton Terrier decided to be mean. This is what happened.

Me got sniffeded by some of the dogs. It was embarassing. Them dogs wanted to stick their noses all over me and of course Mommy just had to use the camera thing and take pictures to show everybody. Lucky for me, her camera filled up after two pictures and hers couldn't take no more. Of course with no pictures there is no proof about the mean dog.



After all the sniffing was over we runned all over the place, sniffing and jumping and playing. There was even a place to get water and the mommy's and daddy's would go turn on the water and we would all drink and get our heads wet. Then me meet Max. Him was a nice dog but him scared me at first. Me sat down on me little butt so hims couldn't sniff it. Him said that was rude cause how was hims to know if we had met before and if we liked each other if hims didn't sniff me butt. My goodness, couldn't hims have just sniffed me face and knowed the same thing???? Max decided hims liked me and we played together for a long time.



Then it happened!!!! These peoples came into the dog park with two hairy dogs. Mommy and Daddy was admiring them cause they thought thems was pretty. Yeah thems was pretty okay, pretty mean. Especially the one his Mommy called Mugsly. We was doing the sniffing thing to see if we had all met before and like each other. Me knows for sure me had not met these dogs cause me would have remembered and not let them sniff me. Anyway, the mean ole Mugsly jumped on me and started growling and snapping at me. Me got under the picnic table to hide but hims came under there too. His peoples wanted to see if we could work it out and me was willing but Mugsly didn't want to. Hims jumped on me again and was saying really mean stuff that me didn't understand. His mommy asked if me was nuetered (?) and hers said no. Mugsly's mommy said hims was and he reacted like that around dogs that weren't. Now me doesn't know what nuetered means but if it makes a dog act like that me doesn't want to be it!!!! My mommy said maybe he was jealous cause me had mine and hims didn't. What didn't hims have that me had?? Maybe that was the mean stuff hims was saying that me didn't understand.

Off to check the Boxer Union Guide Book to find out what him's was talking about.

Murphy

The rules to sleeping with Mommy

Mommy says there is rules to sleeping in the bed with hers and if me is going to continue to sleep with hers then me has to learn them.
Mommmy says the rules are this:

1. If Mommy is sleeping in hers and Daddy's bedroom then no Murphy on the bed. This doesn't seem fair to me. Miss Pitty Pat gets to sleep on the bed with them so why not me?? Me asked Miss Pitty Pat since hers always sleeps in the bed with Mommy, but her just laughed at me and said me had to figger this one out by meself. Me thinks hers doesn't like sharing the bed with me and Mommy.
2. If Mommy goes into the spare bedroom to sleep cause Daddy is snoring then me has to wait for her to get into the bed first. She says this is only fair since her needs some room too. Her says that if me gets in first then there is no room left for her.
3. No laying on top of Mommy's feets and legs. Her says that having a 70# boxer puppy laying across her feets and legs makes them go to sleep and hers can't feel them. Me is scratching me little boxer head over this one. Isn't this the whole idea of sleeping in the bed? Me thoughts you would want to have everything go to sleep including the feets and legs. Her says that it is not a good idea to have the feets and legs go to sleep cause hers can't feel them and if hers had to get up in the middle of the night, hers might fall down.
4. No passing gas in the bed. Mommy says that its not very pleasant to wake up to the smell of rotten eggs cause me farted in the bed. Now this is not something me can help. Me doesn't like waking up to the smell either. In fact me has gotten up and moved from laying on Mommys feets and legs to move to the top of the bed to lay on her head. Which brings me to rule #5.
5. No laying on top of Mommy's head. Her says she likes to be able to breathe while her is sleeping and if me lays on her head then hers can't do it. Her says breathing is important and her really likes to breath except when me is breaking rule number
6. No chewing on bones or other things in the bed. Mommy says that hearing me gnaw on bones or hard rubber toys doesn't make it easy for her to sleep.
7. No licking myself. This also makes it hard to sleep
8. No licking Mommy while her is sleeping. See rule 7 for the reason
9. If me wakes Mommy up to go outside then me has to come back in when me is finished. No playing!!! This makes mommy very crabby. Hers says that playing fetch in the middle of the night is not a good thing. This rule applies if me is sleeping in the bed with her or in the bedroom with her and Daddy. Her says the same goes for rule number 6 and 7 too.
10. No snoring. That's the reason hers got out of her bed with daddy and went to the spare bedroom to sleep and if me is snoring to then hers won't get no sleep.

Me has looked everywhere for the rules but can't find them. What is rules anyway?? Them's not in the Boxer Union Guide Book, cause me looked. Nothing about how to sleep in a bed with your person. Besides her has lots of rules for sleeping. Me will try to follow the rules cause me doesn't want to get kicked out of the bed when Mommy is in the spare bedroom but no wonder peoples are always sleepy. Thems should just do what dogs do, lick themselves a few times, curl up in a ball and go to sleep.

Murphy