Happy New Years

Me and Bugs wants to wish everyone a Very Happy New Year for 2007. (Me birthday is 3 months away)

Mommy and Daddy is going to our friends house in the mountains for the usual New Year's Eve party. Thems tooked me last year and thems is taking me and Bugs this year too cause we was invited to go with them. Me is sure there will be lots of stories to tell tomorrow.


HAPPY NEW YEARS

Murphy and Bugs

A Puppy’s Twelve Days of Christmas

A Puppy’s Twelve Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas my puppy gave to me:
The Santa topper from the Christmas tree
On the second day of Christmas my puppy gave to me:
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree
On the third day of Christmas my puppy gave to me:
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree
On the fourth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me:
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree
On the fifth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me:
Five chewed-up stockings
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree
On the sixth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me:
Six yards of soggy ribbon
Five chewed-up stockings
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree
On the seventh day of Christmas my puppy gave to me:
Seven scraps of wrapping paper
Six yards of soggy ribbon
Five chewed-up stockings
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree
On the eight day of Christmas my puppy gave to me:
Eight tiny reindeer fragments
Seven scraps of wrapping paper
Six yards of soggy ribbon
Five chewed-up stockings
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree
On the ninth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me:
My wreath in nine pieces
Eight tiny reindeer fragments
Seven scraps of wrapping paper
Six yards of soggy ribbon
Five chewed-up stockings
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree
On the tenth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me:
Ten Christmas cards I shoulda mailed
My wreath in nine pieces
Eight tiny reindeer fragments
Seven scraps of wrapping paper
Six yards of soggy ribbon
Five chewed-up stockings
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree
On the eleventh day of Christmas my puppy gave to me:
Eleven unwrapped presents
Ten Christmas cards I shoulda mailed
My wreath in nine pieces
Eight tiny reindeer fragments
Seven scraps of wrapping paper
Six yards of soggy ribbon
Five chewed-up stockings
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree
On the twelfth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me:
A dozen puppy kisses
And I forgot all about the other eleven days

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

Mommy saw this on a Boxer forum and wanted to share ...

~'Twas the Night Before Christmas~~

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except a wild-eyed Boxer named Mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, not knowing the fawn and furry Boxer would soon be there.

The Lab and kitty cat were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of secret treasures danced in the Boxer's head. And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, had no idea the Boxer was getting ready to pull all of this crap.

When downstairs I heard such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. Down the stairs I flew like a flash, but the Boxer had already tore open the presents and was having a bash.

He lay there proud of himself as he chewed the fake snow, I looked back down at the damage below. When, what to my tired eyes should appear, but the Boxer had decided to get up and eat our plastic reindeer.

With a hint of innocence, he was so lively and quick, I thought it was a dream and gave myself a prick. More rapid than a bear, his terror had already came, and I shouted and called him a few choice names.

"Now, Mouse! ... I asked him to listen, but off he went! Around the house I chased him until I was totally bent! To the top of the stairs! Around the wall! He dashed away, dashed away ... like he was laughing at us all!

His eyes full of joy-- how they twinkled! How merry! His cheeks puffed out from the mouth full of paper, me so mad I turned red like a cherry! The drool from his mouth dripped down in a steady flow, and his chin white with toy stuffing looked like snow.

The ornament he held tight in his teeth, was just a preview of the damage as he tore down the wreath. Glancing up into the kitchen I saw the eaten Santa doll with the little round belly, he even ate our Christmas grape jelly!

It was just so much to take in, a right jolly night itself, and I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself. With a wink of his eye and a twist of his head, soon let me to know I had a lot more to dread.

He barked not a sound, but went straight to his work, ripped down all the stockings ...with one jerk, and laying his paw aside his nose, giving a nod, up the tree he rose

He tore down the tree, making a sound almost like a whistle, and down it came, breaking our crystal. But I heard him exclaim, ere he ran out of sight ..."WOO, WOO, WOO TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOODNIGHT!"

Merry Christmas Everybody

Christmas Eve

It's Christmas Eve everbody and that means Santa will come to night. We only has to be good a little bit longer. Notice there is NO packages or presents under this tree. Santa please, please, please be sure to leave me and the little Doodlebug some presents under this tree tonight. WE has been very, very good.

Boy did we just have some big fun!!! There is too much snow to go to tha dog park and we couldn't find a parking place anyway so instead Mommy thought it might be nice if hers and Daddy tooked us to the ball field just up the street from our house to play. Hers said that even though we wasn't going very far, we dogs would think we was going some where and be happy. Know what? Hers was right!! Come on Daddy lets go play in tha snow.

We ran all over that ball field, well actually we bunny hopped at first until we could get some tracks laid down to run in. Bugs was doing a really good job of keeping up too. Hims little legs is getting longer and longer all of tha time.

Below is me sled dog impersonation. All me needed was a harness and a sled to pull.

Just look at us run through tha snow. This is hard work for a Boxer pup and a great Dane pup.

We was sure worn out after this play time in tha snow. It's time to nap in a sunbeam and wait for Santa.

Merry Chrismas Everybody

Murphy and Bugs

Blizzard Update

This is a miracle. We woked up from our nap and the snow had stopped and the sun had come out!!! We puppies are going out side to make a snow race track to run around on. Cause me is tha biggest, me has to break tha track in tha snow. And you know that Mommy took more pictures of us playing in tha snow.

Here comes Bugs. Hims is racing around our new snow track.

This snow is really good.

It's Really, Really Deep

You would not believe what we saw when we woke up this morning. MORE SNOW!!!! Yep, that's right, more snow. This is what our back yard looks like. Isn't it just beautiful?? We just loves all this snow.

It's so deep that it was up to me shoulders and covered up Bugs completely. Me has to hop like a bunny to get through this snow. If you look really, really close you can just see that little Doodlebug poking hims head up over tha snow. We is sorry tha picture is so dark but Mommy can't get it no lighter.

There is so much snow that it was sliding off of tha roof in tha front of our house. Mommy was afraid that it would pull the gutters down. Hers went out with tha shobel and knocked it down, but her tooked this picture first. Mommy's are funny like that. Thems just can't do something without having a picture of it.

If Daddy hadn't gone out and shobeled a path for us that little Bug would have been buried by tha snow. You can see in this picture that the snow is over hims little head. Daddy even shobeled us a path to get under tha Lilac bush where tha snow isn't so deep so we would have a place to go potty.

Daddy and Mommy both have been trying to dig thems trucks out of all of this mess. We have been helping by running, actually more like hopping up and down on the snow to help pack it down. Me would really like to go for a walk but Mommy says it would be to hard on her to have to try to walk in all this snow. Me guesses me understands cause it isn't easy for us to get around in either.

Since we is all safe and warm, hers thinks its a good idea to follow Daddy's example and take a nap. So that is what we is going to do. We just need to find tha blanket. Oh wait Daddy has tha other cover and doesn't want to share it with hims boys.


Murphy and Bugs

Blizzard of 2006

Well this is something. There is only 5 days til Christmas and we is having a blizzard!!! This is good cause then Santa can bring tha reindeers and tha sleigh to deliver all tha presents to everybody.

It is snowing so hard that Mommy came home from work berry, berry early today. We are all sitting around watching the snow come down. Daddy had to go out side and shobel off tha back step so we would be able to get outside, which me and that little Bug is doing a lot of, going in and out that is. Hims has finally given up shobeling cause it keeps covering up what hims has cleared. Mommy even tooked some pictures. Thems is sort of dark even though hers had tha flash on and it was only 3:30 PM. Me quesses that's what happens when there is a blizzard.



Bugs keeps going in and out and in and out tha doggie door. Hims is just fascinated with all this snow. The snow right now is up to hims tummy. When this picture was taken it was almost to hims tummy.


Isn't that little Doodlebug cute runing to tha door with hims ears flopping? That 's about all you can see is hims ears.

Me thinks it's time to get on tha love seat and snuggle under me favorite blanket and take a long winters nap. We hopes all our dog friends in Colorado are safe and warm tonight.

Murphy and Bugs

Bugs is graduating

That little doolebug is graduating really fast from being crated during the day while our humans is gone and at night. This whole past week hims has sleeped in tha bedroom with us. Hims has hims own little bed on Daddy's side of tha bed but hims likes to sleep with me on me bed beside Mommy. This is okay cept for last night. Hims beated me up the steps and strechted out on me bed and tooked up all tha room. There was only one place left for me and that was on Daddy's side of tha bed and sleeping on Bugs bed. This wasn't too bad cause it's a brand new bed and all soft and fluffy. Me just needs to move it over to Mommy's side of tha bed.

Tha other way we can tell that little boy is growing up is hims got left out of tha crate for two hours with me to watch over him. Mommy and Daddy went shopping and Mommy thought it would be a good test for him and hims passed it too, thanks to me taking care of him. Mommy said because hims has me to learn from hims will be graduating to being out all of tha times a lot sooner than me did. Me didn't have nobody to help me learn tha rules so me had to earn tha privilege of being out of me crate alone a little at a time. My little bubba is a smart puppy though and hims is learning really fast, thanks to me.

Murphy

Bugs at tha dog park

We took Bugs to tha Chatfield Dog Park this morning for tha berry firstest time. Daddy was a teeny tiny bit worried that hims might not come back and sometimes hims didn't. Hims would get so distracted with all them other dogs and peoples that hims would forget to come when hims was called. Eberybody thoughts him was a really cute little fellow and wanted to know if me was hims Daddy. And one silly person asked if me was hims Mommy. Really peoples just look at me, do me looks like a girl?

Bugs followed me around all over tha place sniffing and sniffing. There is so many smells there at tha park. Come on Bugs, you just follow me. Me knows all the good places to smell things.

His was having a berry good time too until this other dog was sniffing him to much. Bugs didn't like it and cause me is a berry good big bubba, me had to step in and try to protect him. This was not a good thing for Mommy and Daddy cause the other dog wanted to fight back and Daddy had to pull me off of him. Thems scolded me too. All me was doing was being a good big bubba but me guesses this is not what me is suppose to do. Especially when me did it two more times. Mommy wants to ask the vet about this cause me has never been like this before.

Bugs got to meet Lassie. Me knows it was Lassie cause me has seen tha mobies hers has been in. Lassie Come Home is me berry favorite mobie. Of course when Mommy went to take tha picture thems turned thems heads.

After a while Daddy had to put that little Doodlebug back on hims leash cause hims just was way to excited to come when hims was called. Hims walks really good on a leash now.

Me needs to go take a nap now cause having all that fun is hard work. Bugs is already sleeping on tha libing room sofa.

Murphy

An injustice has been commited!!!!

Call the police! Get me a lawyer!!! Me has a civil suit for sure!!!

Me thought MY Daddy understood tha rules and the rules clearly state if hims is going to take any dog for a ride in hims truck, that dog would be me!!!! Apparently hims forgotted tha rules and took that silly little puppy for a ride in hims truck and lefted me all alone at home. "Murphy place", "Murphy stay", "Murphy guard tha house". Grrr, does him think that's tha only thing this Boxer pup is good for? Of course me will guard tha house, that's me job. Hims doesn't have to tell to dome job. Hims did need to take me along with him and Bugs for a truck ride.

When Mommy came home, me was soooo depressed me hardly had the energy to meet her at the door. Actually me wasn't really depressed but hers didn't know that and it was good for a really great dog treat. Me was planning to do tha same thing when Daddy got home to see if me could get another dog treat but me plan backfired. Me was so happy to see Bugsydoodle that me forgot to pretend to be depressed. Oh well, maybe next time.

Murphy

Weekends is tha bestest

Me's said it before but weekends is the bestest cause Mommy and Daddy is here all tha day long and we gets to play together. Now that Bugs is here too me has someone to play with all of the times. Yesterday we tooked Bugs with us to Bear Creek Park for hims firstest really long walk. Mommy and Daddy was really proud of him cause hims was behaving so well. Thems even let us both of tha leash to play in the snow a little. Daddy was a teeny bit worried that hims little bugaboo would not come back to him but Mommy said not to worry that as long as me would come when hers called that his little puppy would too.

When we got home Mommy had bought us both toys. Hers gave Bugs a stuffed hotdog

and me a stuffed hamburger but me wanted the hotdog not tha hamburger.

Me tried to take both of them but Mommy wouldn't let me. The only problem was that what ever toy me had Bugs wanted and if Mommy switched them then hims wanted the other one. Hers finally gave up and said we could figger it out. Me wanted the hotdog, no wait me wants the hamburger, no that's not it. Me wants them both and Bugs can't have none. We finally played keep away with both of them. This is tha bestest game to play with a little puppy cause me can run faster than Bugs and keep all tha toys away from him. Me likes this game a lot.

It's time for our early morning nap. Playing with this little doodlebug is really hard work. Maybe after we nap Mommy and Daddy will take us for another nice long walk.

Murphy

Two Weeks

We've had this little doodlebug for two weeks now and to tell you tha truth sometimes it feels like 2 years. Me loves having a little bubba (that's how thems calls brothers in TX) cause me has someone to play with but other times it's a pain in tha neck. Bugs wants to have all my toys and bones no matter what hims already has to play with. Okay so maybe me wants to have all hime toys and bones too but that's different. Me is the older puppy and should have all of tha toys and bones. It's only fair don't ya think? AND to make matters worse, Mommy won't let me have hims little stuffed toys cause hers says me will tear them up, and me would too. In fact me did get hold of Bugs little red lobster toy and runned outside with it and tore all of the stuffings out and then played keep away from Bugs.

Last night that little Bugs was playing with one of me toys and when me tried to take it away from him Mommy and Daddy gots mad and made me go to time out in me crate. Do you know what that little poopy head puppy did? Hims pranced all around me crate and stucked hims tongue out at me and made faces cause me was in the crate and hims was out. This is not fair! Just because me does that to him during the day while our peoples is gone to work don't mean hims can do it to me when me is in time out!

Most of tha time though it is fun, fun, fun to have that little guy around. We run in and out of that doggie door all of tha day when hims is loose from his crate. And we plays keep the kong for the bugs too. That's one of me favorite games cause hims isn't as fast as me and so hims can't catch me and get tha kong. Me didn't realize how lonely me was until hims came so me guesses it will be okay if hims wants to take me toys sometimes. Me really loves Bugs a lot and is happy hims is here.

Murphy

UH OH

This little bug sure did get himself into trouble this weekend. Hims eated Mommy's laptop cord right in half!! And you know what? Mommy didn't even get mad at him. Hers said it was hers fault cause hers should have been paying attention to what hims was doing when hims was laying there under her feets. Grrrr.......me don't get it. This is a very bad thing to do and me never ever did nothin like that. Then along comes this little doodle bug and in tha first week hims is living with us hims goes and eats Mommy's laptop cord right in two. Daddy was more upset about Bugs doing this than Mommy was. Hims says doing "doggie day care" is hard work and hims don't remember me being this high maintenance. That's cause me was a VERY good little boxer puppy and would never ever do nothing bad like that, especially with it being almost time for Christmas. Me told that little puppy that hims has to be good cause Santa is keeping track of all of these things.

Murphy