New Dog Door

Me and Bugs got an early Valentines Present today. We gots a new doggy door!!! This is really good cause this doggie door is built into tha sliding glass door This makes Mommy and Daddy really happy too cause thems can now get out of tha door where before thems had to suck in thems tummys (maybe a little diet wouldn't hurt) to get out of tha space left from tha doggy door insert. This one's better cause tha door is built right into thems door and when thems wants to go outside all thems has to do is open tha door and step right outside. AND the door is airtight so tha kitchen stays warmer and this is good. As soon as Mommy takes a picture of tha new door me will post it.

Now on to another subject. Mommy says that Bugs is a little poop. Hims steals anything that isn't hidden and takes it outside. Hims doesn't hurt it unless we gets to playing tug a war or keep away. Hims just likes to take things of Mommy and Daddy's cause it makes him feel secure and safe. Hims spent time on tha street by himself as a little stray puppy before Mommy and Daddy went to TX and rescued him. Hims don't talk about it but me has a feeling hims had a rough time and because of this hims likes to have things that smells like hims people with him. Of course me don't thing Mommy's highlighters smell like her and Bugs has stolen and eaten 3 of them. Maybe hims thinks them hightlighters is bananas. Me's never tasted a bananas yet but them is yellow and tha hightlighters Bugs steals is yellow so him must thing thems is bananas.

Gotta go. Daddy just got home and hims has fast food and maybe him and Mommy will share.

Murphy

Treats

Can you believe it?? It's not snowing today. We, me and the Bugsadoodle, even got to go for a walk around tha lake. Mommy used this as a training opportunity for that little Bugs. See even though hims has been with us for two months now, the weather has not been good enough to work on hims training and walking on tha leash etiquette. So today hims got a lot of learning on how to walk like a good puppy on tha leash. It was really hard for Bugs to. There was a lot of distractions for that little puppy. Peoples was walking thems dogs and the little ones wanted to bark and growl at us. At first Bugs barked back but after awhile hims got the idea that it wasn't polite to bark at other dogs. Of cours me, the Murphster, was a very, very good dog and set a really good example for Bugs.

But now let me get the the really important stuff. Today Mommy and Daddy went shopping and bought us dogs some new dog treats. Thems bought us some beef jerky nuggets and boy is thems good stuff. Mommy said it was just as cheap to buy the jerky for us as it was to buy that ole ground meal treats. Me has to tell you, if you give me and Bugs a choice, we'd take the jerky any day. Of course we would never, ever turn down the ground meal dog treats either. No sense looking a gift treat in the mouth.

Anyway, there is a problem. See jerky is human food that Mommy thought to substitute for us dogs and since it's human food Daddy wants to eat it too. Hims thinks it would be a good snack for a Daddy..............NOT! This is for us puppies and we never, ever share our food with humans. That's their job, to share tha food with us. Me and Bugs is a teeny bit worried that Daddy might like our treats too much and eat them all and where would that leave us? Treatless is where.

Murphy and Bugs

7 weeks of snow

Mommy said if it's tha weekend then it must be snowing and hers is right. This is tha 7th weekend in a row there's been snow falling when we gets up in tha morning. Eberybody has tha cabin fever but mostly it's us dogs cause Mommy and Daddy gets out to go to work during tha week. And poor Bugs is suffering tha worst cause hims has to stay caged up cause of hims getting fixed on Thursday.

Me still don't know what was wrong with him that had to be fixed, him seemed perfectly fine to me. Me did notice that getting fixed has something to do with losing tha family jewels cause when Bugs came home hims was gone too!!! Me hates to tell that little Doodlebug but when them takes the family jewels to fix them ya don't get them back. Mine has been out to be fixed for almost a year now and me hasn't heard a word on when them are going to be returned in good working order. Family jewels must be awfully hard to fix when thems gets broken.

Guess me will go take a nap, there's not much else to do around here today.


Murphy and Bugs

Clogs and Chicken

What does clogs and chicken have in common with each other?? Thems both got two innocent puppys into trouble that's what they have in common.

Last night Mommy had laid out some chicken on hers cutting board to thaw and thems did thaw too........so much so that me could smell them. Mommy thought thems was safe cause hers had the cutting board on the sink and away from the edge of the counter where dog noses couldn't snuffle them off. Arf, arf, arf...........thats what her thought. While her and Daddy was eating horsey da vers (and not sharing with me and Bugs) me went back into the kitchen just to sniff around and sure enough me snuffled one of them chickens right off the cutting board and into me mouth. This was an accident but once it was in me mouth whas was me supposed to do but eat it. Me almost got away with it too cept Mommy can count and noticed that once there was 4 pieces of chicken and now there was 3. Lucky for me there was no evidence that actually pointed a paw at me. All Mommy could do was guess it was me.

This morning Bugs stole BOTH of Mommy's brown clogs right from underneath her desk (where her was sitting) and dragged them outside into tha snow (it's snowing again for the 5th time in a month) and hers had to go outside in her bathrobe and retrieve them. Hers was not happy either although me can't figger out why. Her said thems was really ugly clogs, so you think hers wouldn't mind that little Bugbite taking them for toys. All of our other toys are buried under heaps and heaps of snow. We gotta have something to play with. Me thinks Daddy thought it was funny cause Bugs doesn't steal and of hims things, just Mommys. Bugs even ate a pair of her glasses. That Bugs sure does know how to have a good time. Arf, arf, arf.

Murphy

Cabin Fever

Me and the Doodle Bug has had cabin fever really, really, really bad over tha last month!!! Every weekend since Christmas it's snowed and Mommy says there's supposed to be more snow this weekend. Us dogs is going stir crazy cause of it too. Mommy finally said enough and put our harnesses/leashes on us, put us and Daddy in tha car and headed to Bear Creek Park. This is not typically an off leash park but today, cause there is so much snow, we gots to run around all over tha place off of our leashes. Me and Bugs really needed this too!!! We runned and sniffed and runned and sniffed and it was fun! Maybe tomorrow if it don't snow a lot we can go again. We miss going for our walks.

Murphy

PS Bugs will have been living with us for two months on Friday. On Thursday hims is getting fixed. Me doesn't know what's broke on him, but me peoples is getting him fixed anyway.

We is in trouble!!

It wasn't even 7:00 am this morning and already the little Bugbite was in trouble and hims got me in trouble too!!! Mommy was still in bed asleep (human mistake #1) and Daddy was in hims office reading e-mail (human mistake #2) and we, that would be me and Bugs, was left to our own devices. Before Bugs came to live with us when Mommy wanted to sleep in on the weekends me would just sleep on me little bed right beside her. All that's changed now cause of a Bugsydoodle puppy. Hims likes to get up a lot earlier and that wakes me up. That's exactly what happened this morning too! Just like that we was up and playing and it happened.

Mommy's new shirt was laying on the end of her bed along with her flannel pants. Just laying there minding it's own business, not doing nothing and then Bugs got this brillant Great Dane puppy idea. Hims thought it would be fun to play tug-o-war with that new shirt. Me, being a Boxer who is older and wiser than Bugs, knew this was a very bad idea. This is not something me would have done by meself and me told Bugs it wasn't a good idea too. Bugs just laughed at me and said "Murphy do ya want to play? Huh, huh, huh, huh?" and hims grabbed that shirt off the end of the bed in hims sharp little teeth and runned with it down the stairs.

Well what was me suppose to do? Me had to chase him and try to get back Mommy's new shirt. After all me is a really good Boxer. Bugs ran through the dog door with that shirt flapping out of hims mouth and out into the snow hims went. Me was hot on hims tail and caught him too. Well actually me got hold of the shirt that was trailing behind him and that's when it happened. We started to play tug-o-war with that shirt. Bugs was laughing and having such fun me forgot me was suppose to be rescuing tha shirt and started having fun too.

We ran all over tha back yard with that shirt and pulled back and forth on it and then...........rip, rip. Uh oh we's done it now!! Me thought that maybe if we just sort of left it laying in tha snow and went back inside that maybe, just maybe, Mommy would think hers left it outside. Well she might have ya know. Peoples do silly things sometimes and this could have been one of them times. We runned back inside and straight into tha bedroom and Mommy was still sleeping. This was good. Me took up me position beside the bed with me head right next to her face and sniffed to be sure her was still sleeping. Bugs had to jump up on tha bed and sniff to and this is what woke her up.

Mommy got up and started looking for her clothes that had been on the end of tha bed. Hers found her flannel pants but no shirt. And do you know what she did? Hers put on her flannel pants and robe and went right down tha stairs and to tha back door and looked out and saw her new shirt laying in tha snow. And then hers went and got her shoes on and went outside and picked up her shirt and saw the holes in it. Me don't think we fooled her into thinking hers left it outside cause her started fussing right away at me and Bugs. Her had to throw tha shirt away and her is not at all happy with us either. Me thinks we might be grounded for tha weekend too.


Murphy

Can you believe it?

When is it going to be Spring??? This is really getting very, very old. What you ask is getting very, very old? Well let this little boxer dog tellyou, it's SNOW!!! Can you believe this is the 3rd weekend in a row we've had major snow. We've had so much snow that there's no place to shovel all of it. Our front yard looks like it has mountains in it. Don't get me wrong, me and Bugs just loves playing in tha snow. We have all kinds of wonderful snow tracks through out tha back yard we can race around on and we just loves racing around on them. In fact we stole Mommy's bra last weekend and was racing around tha back yard with it. Mommy didn't think it was too funny but we did!! And the best part was her trying to catch us on our snow tracks. Hers couldn't chase us cause them tracks is too slick and hers can't keep her feet under her like we can.

Nope the reason we is tired of all this snow is this, we can't go to tha dog park cause there's way too much snow on tha ground and it makes it to hard on Mommy and Daddy trying to wade through all of it. We have tons and tons of snow on tha ground and Mommy and Daddy can't bunny hop through it like me and Bugs do.

Mr Sunshine hurry up and come back to melt all this snow. Me and me little Bugs wants to go play in tha park.

Murphy and Bugs