Tug of War

This is how we spended the afternoon yesterday after our escape and capture. We played Tug-o-War.

This is my stick and me wants it back!! NO Murphy, this is my stick. Now give it to me.

ME said give it to me!!!! Grrrrr

Come on Bugs, me found tha stick first!!!!

Fine take the ole stick. Me didn't want it anyway.

(It might look like Bugs won tha game, but what really happened was me let hims win cause me is the big bubba and that's what we is supposed to do.)

The Great Escape

We almost made it across tha border this morning. Me and Bugs made a dash for it but was nabbed in tha end. Here's what happened.

This morning very early.....to early for me (we hadn't even had breakfast yet), tha neighbor from next door camed and told Daddy it was hims turn to use the aerator/hole making thingy. Mommy put the dog stopper in tha dog door so we couldn't get outside and daddy went out side and starts digging little holes all over tha front yard. Then hims opened up the gate to tha back yard and put them same little holes all over tha back yard. Me and tha Buggsy-Doodle was really cornfused. How comes hims gets to put holes all over tha place in tha yards and when me and Bugs digs just a couple holes we gets scolded???? This don't seem fair at all to us. Mommy said that what Daddy was doing was good for tha yard but what we does just destroys tha yard. Now that just don't make good boxer sense at all.

Anyway, Daddy finished and took the hole making machine out of tha back yard but hims forgot to close tha gate. Then Mommy tooked the dog stopper out of tha dog door and out me and Bugs went to investigate all them holes. And you know tha first thing we discovered was the gate open and we plotted our escape. Actually we first thought we'd go for a ride in tha car but none of tha doors was opened so Bugs thought it would be great fun to go on a walk about (always blame it on the little bad puppy) so off we trotted. We almost made it too!!!

Mommy discovered we was gone when hers went out back to give us a treat and we didn't come running when hers called. Hers when running out tha front door in time to see us about to cross the street to go to tha park. Her says fortunately the next door neighbor saw us too and called us about tha time her came out that front door. Being tha really good dog me is, me turned around and came trotting home when hers called. Bugs thought it would be nice to stop and visit with tha neighbor who ratted us out and hims little girl Rachel.

We almost made it to tha park, almost. Maybe another time we can try again. It was a lot of fun and a great adventure that's for sure.

Bad son

Well that bad little bubba of mine has done it again. Hims stole half of one of our peoples hamburger steaks right off tha cutting board when Mommy lefted tha room for only a really short second. Me told that silly puppy this wasn't a good idean and that Mommy would notice right away, but hims said that if hims only ate half of tha patty hers wouldn't notice. WRONG!!!!!

Me ran upstairs where mommy was and snuggled right up next to her leg to let her know me was tha REALLY good son. Of course mommy didn't know why me was doing this and thought me was just missing her, that is until hers walked into tha kitchen and saw tha evidence on tha counter and Bugs hiding under tha table in tha dining room. Mommy was not happy to have half of her dinners eaten by a dog and daddy put that bad ole puppy into hims crate for a time out.

The only good thing that came out of this whole thing was me got the other half of tha hamburger steak. Ya can't tell me crime don't pay for tha good dog.

Murphy, who is always innocent.

Lap dog

This is me being Daddy's little lap dog. Isn't me cute?



Mommy says me makes Daddy look little. What do you think?

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everybody!!! Me and tha Bugsadoodle hopes eveybody got lots of easter eggs from tha Easter Bunny. Mommy says we didn't get none cause candy isn't good for dogs so hers is going to make us a nice turkey dinner w/all tha trimings. That is if hers stops being mad at us for getting her up so early on a Sunday Morning.

Murphy and Bugs

April Fools

Today is April Fool's Day. This don't mean to much to me and Bugs cause if somebody plays a trick on us it won't make any difference. We is always making fools of ourselves. But that's not what me wanted to write about. Me wanted to tell you what that bad little puppy Bugs did this week.

Even though it's Spring, it snowed Thursday morning. Thank goodness all tha snow from all tha other times had melted so it wasn't a whole bunch of snow on tha ground. There was enough snow on that patio table by tha back door to give away Bugs mischief. Mommy walked outside to take a look around an what do you think hers saw on that table in tha snow??? Doggy paw prints!!!! And thems wasn't just tha type that looked like maybe a dog had stood up and put hims paws on tha table, no sir these paw prints was from a dog jumping up on tha table and walking around on it. And it wasn't me, cause me is tha good son. Nope it was that bad ole Bugs. And this wasn't tha first time hims had been up on that table either, it was just tha first time hims lefted evidence. Hims likes to get up there and see how tall hims would be if hims was a full Great Dane instead of a half Great Dane (Mommy says hims a mini Great Dane). Now that thems knows that bad ole puppy can get up on tha outside table Mommy says hers is going to have to be careful not to put food on it.

Murphy

New Family Member

We gots another new doggie cousin. Hims name is Mickey but hims Mommy, Aunt Jeanne is going to call him Mic.Hims looks a little grumpy but then hims had a two hour plane trip from OH to FL in a little dog crate. Hims lefted hims foster family to come to hims forever home with Aunt Jeanne. Me is sure hims will love her and tha Spikester.

Hims looks like hims giving hims new Mommy tha evil eye don't ya think. See how that eyeball is looking at Aunt Jeanne funny. Me thinks hims is a bit over whelmed.

Welcome to tha Carroll Family little Mic.

Your Colorado cousins

Murphy and Bugs

My peoples is wonderful

Me and tha Bugs-a-doodle have tha bestest peoples in tha whole wide world or at least in CO. Today our daddy builted us a bench seat to put in hims truck in place of tha jump seat that was back there. That old seat was dangerous for us dogs cause we didn't have no place for us to put our doggie butts if and when we decided to sit down. Daddy made it out of ply board and Mommy covered it with carpet so it was softer on our doggie butts and we couldn't get no splinters in our paws. We don't know what splinters is but we don't want thems.

Then to make things even better, our peoples tooked me and Bugs on a test ride. It worked fine except we both wanted to be in tha same spot and there's no windas for us to hang our doggie heads out of. Now if Mommy and Daddy would pull thems seats forwards till thems knees was at thems chins, me and Bugs could hang our heads out of tha windas.

We loves tha new "dog seat" in Daddy's truck!!!

Murphy and Bugs

Bugs really is a rogue

Well it's official, in case we wasn't sure before we is sure now that little bubba of mine is a rouge. Me is tha good son and Bugs is the rogue, at least that's what Mommy says. It's a good thing me is tha good son to cause Bugs sure did get himself into big trouble last night. Yep that little puppy is feeling better and back at tha top of hims game.

Mommy had taken out a package of steak and set it way back on tha counter by tha stove so me and Bugs wouldn't get it. Mostly if tha meat is still packaged me won't bother it but not Bugs, so Mommy has to put it far back on tha counter. Well Mommy lefted tha kitchen and went upstairs to take care of some chore when hers heard a "splat". Hers though it was me and tha Bugs running out tha new dog door and so hers finished doing her chore before hers came back down tha stairs.

When Mommy came back down stairs her saw me, Murphy tha good son, sitting on hims stool in front of tha picture window, with an expression on me face that said "Me's tha good son, me didn't do nothing but sit here and look out tha winda". Bugs came running into tha livin room and sat down on tha floor beside me with a look on hims face that said " me is a good son too Mommy, me is a good son too". Of course Mommy didn't believe it and said "Bugs what did you do?" Hers knew hims did something cause hims also looked really, really guilty.

Mommy walked into tha kithen and that Doodlebug was hot on her heels. When Mommy asked again what hims had done, hims tried not to act guilty but hims looked over to where tha meat was laying on tha floor and then back at Mommy. Let me tell you, Mommy was not very happy!!! Hers said in her "alpha" voice "BUGS WHAT DID YOU DO?" Well that little puppy runned as fast as hims could right down them stairs to tha den and into hims crate and laid down with hims head on them little Great Dane paws.

Bugs was lucky too, cause hims had only just begun trying to open that package of steak and trying to eat it when Mommy camed down them steps. If hers had stayed upstairs longer Bugs would have eaten that steak and Mommy and Daddy wouldn't have had no dinners at all. Mommy told Bugs that if thems hadn't just spent all that money on hims vet bill, she would be sending him back to Texas. Me has finally figger out this is an idle threat on Mommy and Daddy's part but Bugs was a little worried about it. Hims tries to be good, really hims does, but hims is just a puppy and sometimes hims can't help himself.

Murph tha good son

IT'S A MIRACLE!!!!!

Bugs is going to live!! Me was so worried that something really bad was going to happen to me little buggy. But tha good news is, hims is on tha mend. Our vet is wonderful and has made him all better. Hims neck is not all swollen any more, it's only scabby cause it's healing.

Tha bad thing is we can't play together for another week cause thems wants hims neck to heal completely. This means that one of us has to be in our crate all of tha times, but Mommy and Daddy cheated a little tonight. Thems let us go outside and play together a little bit tonight. Thems just made sure that me didn't go lick Bugs' neck. Me sure has missed playing with Bugs!!! Another week is going to be to long. Tha good thing is, Mommy and Daddy is taking me for lots and lots of car rides to make up for me not being able to play with Bugs.

Murphy

Poor Little Bugs a Doodle

My bubba is not feeling good at all. In fact hims had to go to tha vet tonight and have tha vet put hims under so thems could exam hims neck. See this is what happened.

Yesterday me noticed Bugs had a "hot" spot on hims neck and me kept licking it and licking it trying to make it all better. Instead me made it worse but me didn't mean to. Getting that spot all wet only made tha bateria grow faster and faster. Mommy said hers noticed Bugs wasn't feeling good cause we wasn't rough housing and all me wanted to do was lick hims neck. Mommy is really smart, her knew me shouldn't be doing that even if me was trying to help so her made me leave hims alone.

Then this morning all Bugs wanted to do was lay in hims crate. Mommy thought maybe hims had what me had a couple weeks ago but it was even worse than that. Daddy came home and noticed Bugs neck was all wet and weepy and me hadn't even been near him. Daddy called Mommy and thems made an appointment to take hims to tha vet. Mommy got home and noticed that poor little Bugs neck was all swollen up really, really big on tha right side.

When the vet's assistant and tha vet looked at Bugs thems thought hims had been in a fight and gotten bit. Ya know who thems was thinking had been fighting with him don't ya...........yep me. I swear though, even though me and me little Bubba will fight sometimes over da bones me would never ever bite him. Anyway that vet kepted him there and had to put him under so thems could shave all tha hair off hims neck cause it was really painful. After thems shaved Bugs they found hims hadn't been biten by me, but had a really bad skin infection and it was draining and swollen. Now poor Bugs has to takes a bunch of medicine, not wear hims collar and tha very worsted thing of all, we can't play together at all until hims is healed. This is just terrible cause me loves playing with that little doodle bug and hims loves to play with me. In fact our doctor said we probaly can't play together for a couple weeks. Which means that when Bugs is out of hims crate me will have to be in mine and vice versa. And me don't know how we is going to go for walks cause hims can't wear no collar till it's all healed either. The good thing is, evberybody knows me didn't bite Bugs.

Murphy, who is really not liking be seperated from hims Bubba

The Look Alike Contest

Oh my, this is even worse than tha Mardi Paws Parade. Aunt Jeanne entered her and the Spikester in a look alike contest!!!!! Now hims really looks like a curmudgeon. Me just don't understand humans sometimes. Why do our humans do these things to us? Don't we always provide love and devotion to our humans? Spike looks really put out if you asked me, but them me supposes nobody did. This poor little dog don't look nothing likes hims Mommy.

Mommy thinks these pictures is cute and says hers is going to see if they have something like this here in Denver so hers and Daddy can enter us in contests. Grrrrrr thems better not cause me and Bugs don't want to be in no contest. Besides what catagory would you enter us in? Mommy does say that Bugs and Daddy looks alike but me and hers don't? Maybe tha warrior catagory cause Daddy says Mommy is a "warrior woman" and me could be her trusty warrior dog companion.

Murphy and Bugs, who don't want to be in no contest.

Mardi Paws Parade

Woof, woof, woof, this is berry funny and me just had to share with all me doggie pals. First off Mommy's family is really silly. Thems dresses up thems puppies and puts thems in parades. Mommy said this year there was Mardi Paws Parade near where her sister Myrna lives in New Orleans. Myrna and hers other sister Jeanne entered thems puppies in it. Here is thems pictures.

This is my cousin Spike aka Tha Spikester. Hims is Aunt Jeanne's boy. Aunt Myrna calls hims a curmudgeon causes hims always has a frown on hims face. This is a boy and hims should be frowning if this is how hims mommy dresses hims. Thems is feathers and beads silly mommy and this is "manly" kind of dog. Hims looks very embarassed but my Mommy thinks hims looks cute as a button.

This is me cousin Dixie. Hers mommy is Aunt Myrna. Hers also looks a little bit embarassed and put out cause hers is in a tutu. At least this is a girl dog costume and hers looks very pretty in it.

This is Uncle Doug's little dog Max. Hims is dressed up as a witch. Me thought that only girls could be witches but Mommy said no, that boys could be witches too if thems wanted too.

Even though thems is berry, berry cute in thems costumes, me and Bugs is sure glad Mommy and Daddy don't make us dress up in costumes. That's probably cause we is lots bigger than our cousins and it would be a lot harder to make us dress up.

Murphy

Happy Murphday to me!!!

Mommy and Daddy have renamed birthday to Murphday just for me! Me loves having me very own day it makes me feel really special. Of course me peoples says it's Murphday all of tha times cause me is special.

See how nice Mommy arranged me Murphday dinner? Hers got me and Bugs two plain cheeseburgers and a vanilla sundae from McDonalds. Me don't think Bugs should have had two of them burgers cause hims isn't even a year old yet. A half of burger would have been better. Next year when me is three do you think hers will give me three cheeseburgers?? (always thinking ahead). Notice that me Murphday dinner is on human plates.

And this is me sitting really nicely like tha good boy me is. Mommy and Daddy makes me sit and wait until me is invited to come have dinner. Thems says it's good table maners and makes me a much nicer dog to be around. Bugs is still learn hims table manners.

And look at me eat that sundae. To bad Mommy didn't bring home a Wednesday too since thats what day it is. Hers must have gotten mixed up with tha days of tha week and thought it was Sundae. That stuff was really really good too.

Me hasn't gotten no presents yet but Mommy will take me to PetSmart on tha weekend and let me pick out a toy.

Me hopes all me friends peoples got them special foods to help me celebrate.

Murphy, tha Murphday Boy

Terrible Twos

Ya say it's your birfday, it's me birfday to. Woof woof woof!!!! It's me birfday and me is now two years old. Okay so it's a few hours til it's offically me birfday but me is celebrating starting now!!
Mommy just did a test (http://www.dogage.com/) on how old me is in people years and the answer is 11.3 years old, so me isn't quite a teenager yet. Darn, no drivers license yet.

Mommy says that actually me is heading into tha "terrible twos". Her says that in human babies this is when that baby starts testing them wings. Thems goes around saying "no" all of tha times and getting into stuff. Me has been testing tha waters and mommy and daddy's authority for tha last year and it's been rough. Me sure hope tha "terrible twos" don't make it worse. Me likes being tha good son and Bugs being tha incorrigible son. Ya know now that me thinks about it, everytime me has growled at Daddy it's been me way of saying "no" me don't want to do that. Wonder if being in me terrible twos" will make a difference in how hims reacts if me forgets and growls at him. Me don't mean no harm, it's just me way of saying NO.

Now getting back to me birfday.........Mommy is bringing home cheeseburgers and custard from MickeyD's for me dinner tomorrow night. Only problem is me has to share this wonderful treat with Bugs and it isn't even hims birfday. Me hope hims don't get no present too!!! That wouldn't be fair at all. If Mommy can get tha camera thingy in time to take pictures we'll post them here. Me sure hopes there is a candle in tha custard for me to blow out!!!

Murphy tha birfday boy

PS, Cassie's mom, Sasha's mom, Bailey and Frogknot's mom, Spike's Mom, Tyson's mom and Drew's mom, since we can't all be together to have a birfday party, let your puppies have cheeseburgers and custard to help celebrate me birfday.

A couple of things

First off, me is feeling very much better. Thank you Cassie for your concern and your Mommy's prayers. Me doesn't know what was wrong but me sure did feel bad. It's a good thing that my little bubba Bugs was smart enough to post on me blog so all me friends would know where me was.

2nd, Guess what came in tha mail for me?? A birfday card and it was addressed to me and eberything. Mommy scanned it to her computer so me could show all me friends. Isn't a beautiful card??? Of course that isn't a picture of me but it's still a very beautiful card. Humm the dog on tha card looks suspiciously like one of them little corgis that lives two doors down from us. Me wonders if hims works at the pet insurance place.

It's not me birfday yet. Me has to wait until Thursday to get presents, cheeseburgers and custard from McDonalds. Mommy says to be fair hers will get Bugs some cheeseburgers and custard from McDonalds too. Me will be 2 years old and not a puppy anymore. Mommy says me will be a grown up fellow even though me will probably always act like a puppy. Me is just wiggling all over with anticipation. Wonder what me will get for me birfday.

Murphy who is feeling very much better

Murphy don't feel so good

This is Bugsadoodle filling in for Murphy. This here puppy is worried about his big bubba ya'll. Murphy don't feel so good, hims has even thrown up a couple times today. Mommy thinks hims might have a cold or maybe tha flu and hers is very concerned. Mommy tooked tha day off and it's a good thing cause hers was able to keep an eye on him. Murphy has moped around and laid around all tha live long day. Hims didn't eat no breakfast or dinner either. The only thing that got my bubba excited was going for a car ride with all of us to get dinner, then hims was hanging hims head out tha winda with hims ears flapping in tha breeze. Now poor Murphy is snuggled up to Mommy sleeping now. Hers won't even let me play with Murphy either so that means me has to lay around and sleep too.......boring!!!

Bugs, who wants his big bubba back to play with

Happy Valentines Day Ya'll

Me and Bugs just want to tell everybody (as Bugs a Doodle would say)

Happy Valentine's Day Ya'll

We is excited cause Mommy and Daddy is going to spend Valentine's Day night with us, their valentine puppies. Mommy is going to fix a special dinners for us all (we get the T-bones from tha steaks) and Daddy has already brought home flowers for Mommy, her very favorite kind too.........tulips.

The other good thing about Valentines Day is it's only 15 days until me 2nd birfday. ARF ARF ARF!!! Me can have McDonalds Cheeseburgers and Ice Cream!!!

Happy Valentine's Day

Your Valentines Murphy and Bugs

Bugs at tha keyboard

Hi Ya'll, this here is the Bugsadoodle pawing at tha keyboard. Murphy is snoozing and snoring on the sofa so me thought it would be fun to post on hims blog. First off me wants to say that little ole me is NOT tha rogue my bubba Murphy is trying to make me out to be. Murphy just wants everybody to think hims is the good puppy and me is tha bad puppy. Hims even tells me that our peoples is going to take me back to Texas cause me is so bad. Of course me knows better cause me knows Mommy and Daddy loves me cause me is sooooo cute. Besides Mommy calls me hers "little man" so hers wouldn't dream of taking me back to Texas.

And me doesn't steal things either. Me just likes to have things that belongs to Mommy and Daddy with me all of tha times. That's why me carries out the Mommy's clogs, her glasses, her little elephant trinket and a wine glass as well as Daddy's retard sleeper, hims belt, shoe and socks. Besides thems looks pretty sitting around tha yard. The only problem is that Mommy keeps going outside and bring all tha stuff back inside and putting it back where it belongs. Of course then me has to go find new things to exterior decorate with. Me is hoping some day that Southern Doghouse Living will want to come do a whole big spread on how well me can exterior decorate.

So this here is me story and me is sticking to it.

Bugs

He's done it now

Oh boy, oh boy, has that little bubba of mine done it now. Mommy came home from work and noticed that the bedroom door was opened and knew that there was going to be trouble. Hers looked out that new door and there in the backyard was an array of Daddy's things. Daddy was not happy at all either. Bugs had carried outside one of Daddy's tennis shoes, hims new leather belt, one of hims slippers (one that Mommy calls hims retard slipper) and two socks.

See this is what happens. Bugs likes to collect things. You could say hims is a collector dog. And hims likes to decorate tha yard too so you could also say hims is an exterior decorator as well. Bugs will just be walking through tha house and all of a sudden there it is, the most wonderfulest treasure ever, Mommy's clog, or a highlighter (hims likes to eat them), a stocking cap, a pillow, Daddy's show and that little fellow just can't help himself. Hims just has to snatch the prize and take it out into tha back yard to decorate.

Personally me thinks hims does a wonderful job of placing these prizes around tha yard. It's not every little dog that can take a tennis shoe or a clog and put it in just tha right place to make it art deco. Its really hard to take that retard slipper of Daddy's and make something artistic out of it but Bugysdoodle did it. Me was very, very impressed. And now that me thinks about it, it could be the highlighters are used for artistic expression as well cause there is some really pretty yellow, blue and pink spots in tha snow. Then after all that hard work along comes Mommy and picks it all up and brings it all back inside. It's a good thing Bugs don't take it personally and is willing to try again another day.

Murphy who has a realy artys Bubba

Where's my house?

Well this is a fine how do you do!!! Yesterday Mommy and Daddy got this hair brained idea to rearrange tha den. Thems locked me and Bugs outside and thems went to work changing things around. First thems moved our love seat, then thems moved our chair and to make matters even worse thems moved our houses. Me and the Doodlebug finally gots to come back inside to find nothing where we is used to having it.

Me went directly to where me house had been and in it's place is a table and a bunch of plants on tha floor in front of tha table. What's up with that?? The TV is where the love seat was and our chair is now by tha fireplace but the ottoman is gone. Now we don't minds having our chair next to tha fireplace cause now we can enjoy the warmth of tha fire but no ottoman?? Now only one of us can sleep in that chair at a time. And where is my house?

It seems that Daddy thought it would be a really good idea for hims to move me house over next to Bugs house. See Daddy put me house next to the wall in tha place where Bugs house had been cause it was bigger. Then hims put Bugs house next to my house. Him's thought it would be easier for us to go to our crates when we was being bad. Easier for who is what I want to know??? Me and Bugs is confused. Me keeps going to the corner where me house has been for almost two year and find plants. Bugs goes into the house that's now on the spot hims house was and gets told to come out cause it's not hims house.

All the time Mommy and Daddy are patting themselves on tha back saying "this is really nice" and "tha room works so much better this way". Works for who is what we wants to know? And nice for who?? Not me and Bugs, we liked things the way the was. We don't like it and don't think its nice at all.

A very confuse Murphy and Bugs

Happy Groundhog Day

Tomorrow is Groundhog Day and maybe tha weather will change for tha better. See Groundhog Day is where tha groundhog comes out of hims hole and looks to see hims shadow. If hims sees it then we gets 6 more weeks of bad weather and if hims doesn’t then Spring is right around tha corner. Me’s not real sure what a groundhog is but that’s one pretty smart groundhog if ya asks me. Hims even has a name, it's Punxsutawney Phil. Me sure hopes hims don’t see no shadow cause me is tired of all this snow.

If Candlemas be fair and bright,

Winter has another flight.

If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,

Winter will not come again.

This is 7 weeks in a row that we have had snow. We may never ever see the back yard again cause there is so much snow back there. Mommy said that ever since we gots tha Doodlebug it’s snowed. Bugs came to live with us Thanksgiving Weekend and it snowed tha very next weekend December 3rd. That snow had almost all gone away when we got’s the Christmas Blizzard and it’s been snowing every week since.

I think Mommy has this idea that it’s Bugs fault all this snow is coming but me don’t see how hims can be responsible for this white stuff. Daddy said maybe thems ought to send him back to TX where hims came from. Maybe then the snow would stop. Me sure hopes thems is kidding (me is pretty sure thems is) cause it would be a really lonely place around here with out my little poopyhead puppy bubba. Naw......thems loves hims too so that little boy isn't going no place.

Murphy who is ready for spring.

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

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