Happy Birthday Bugs

Two double cheeseburgers for Bugs

This is a little late but as me Mommy says, better late than never. We was even late having Bugs birthday dinner but hims didn't know tha difference and hims was glad to get tha treat from McDonalds. Now me is curious about this, for me birthday me got two cheeseburgers and a cup of banilla custard. For Bugs birthday hims got two "double" cheeseburgers and a cup of banilla custard. Does this seem fair? Okay so me got to have two "double" cheeseburgers and a cup of banilla custard to but that's not tha point. Tha point is that when Daddy went to get tha birthday treats for McDonalds, hims comes home with two "double" cheeseburgers and a cup of banilla custard per dog but when Mommy comes home with tha birthday treast its only two cheeseburgers and a cup of banilla custard per dog. This does not seem fair to me and since me birthday is next, me is going to work on getting three double cheeseburgers, after all me will be 3 years old.

Bug's didn't like mommy taking hims picture while hims was eating hims birthday dinner

And a cup of banilla ice cream

That's some good stuff

But that's not tha worst of it, nope not at all. That darn ole Bugs wasn't satisfied with hims two "double" cheeseburgers and a cup of banilla custard, nope that silly puppy had to go steal the food off tha counter that was going to be dinner for our peoples. That wasn't tha worst of it, nope we both wounded up in "time out" cause of hims being greedy. That don't seem fair, seeing as how me is tha good son.

Me told you we'd get into trouble

UH OH!!

Me thinks Bugs has really done it this time and just two days before hims birthday too. This is not a good way to get McDonald cheeseburgers and ice cream if ya ask this Boxer.

Our peoples wented out for dinner and of course thems lefted us at home to guard things, at least that's what thems says. Personally me thinks thems just don't want to share thems dinner in a fancy place with us boys. Anyway, Bugs decided hims wanted to try hims paw at cooking dinner for us (we hadn't had no supper at tha time) so hims borrowed one of them cookbooks Mommy lefted on tha coffee table to see if hims could find a good recipe for us. Me was impressed cause me didn't know hims could read, much less be a gourmet puppy chef. Hims chose the Cajun Cookbook to use for our dinners.

It was a little hard for Bugs to read in tha den cause all of them lights was off and it was cloudy outside so there wasn't much more light in tha kitchen either so hims promptly tooked tha cookbook through tha dog door and out into tha back yard to read it. Hims gots a little rough with tha cover of tha book and tore of tha front and tha back by accident trying to turn tha pages. Then it started to rain really hard and it got tha book wet on top of everything else. Me told that little puppy that hims should get that book back inside before him got into really big trouble. The more hims tried to pick up tha book the worse it got. Then we heards tha garage door open and Bugs forgot all about bringing tha book inside cause hims wanted to go greet our peoples and see if thems had brought us any left overs. Thems didn't but thems did give us dinner right away.

Mommy looked tha back door and saw something laying on tha ground in tha rain and wented outside to see what it was and hers was not happy let me tell you! Not only had Bugs destoryed or at least partially destoryed a book, hims had destroyed a book that hers had borrowed from tha liberry. Hers has scolded that puppy and told hims dogs couldn't read or cook and now if hers can't repair tha book hers is going to have to pay for it.

Me sure is glad me isn't in that puppy's paws right now and it being so close to hims birthday, not to mention that Christmas is only 4 1/2 months away. Me will have to have a serious big brother to little brother talk to hims.

Murphy, the really really good son

Did ya miss us???

This is us waiting for Mommy and Daddy to finish loading the house on wheels so we could leave for bacation

Me and Bugs has been on bacation with Mommy and Daddy. We went camping in tha house on wheels for 4 days with friends of our peoples. This is tha same peoples me went camping with last year but it was Bugs first time in a group camping trip. Hims was a really good puppy too cept when hims picked a fight with yours truly over hims food bowl. Mommy and Daddy wasn't to happy with us cause we was fighting right in tha middle of everybody. Thems seperated us and putted us on our seperate runs. Me was not happy about this either. That darn Bugs is always picking fights and pushing me to me limit and getting me into trouble.

We had lots of fun chasing these big ole black squirrels up tha trees and trying to catch little chipmunks. Them ole black squirrels was as big as cats and made chattering noises as thems runned up the trees. Me thinks thems was saying really ugly things to us.

One scary thing did happen while we was camping. It rained every night from Saturday thru Tuesday but that wasn't tha scary thing, cause me and Bugs is use to rain. Tha scary thing was tha really bad wind storm that suddenly came up early on Monday morning. When me says early me means about 4:oo am in tha morning. We was all sleeping in tha house on wheels and all of a sudden this sound like a really big train came roaring thru tha trees. Now me don't know what a train sounds like, but since that's what Mommy said it sounded like me can only go with what she says. Anyway, tha wind was blowing so hard that the tarps (which is scary enough when it's just a little windy) that was supposed to shelter from tha storm was flapping up and down really, really, really high!! It woke Mommy and Daddy up cause thems heard a really loud snap and then one of thems scary ole tarps was flapping on top of tha camper. Me and Bugs was really worried cause we didn't know if that ole tarp was going to eat tha house on wheels or not and if it did what would happen to us? When we finally gots up to go outside when it was day light we was happy to see that the only thing that was broked was thems nasty ole tarps.

On Tuesday our peoples tooked us to a doggy bed and breakfast to stay for the rest of tha week cause thems was going to a retreat and pets wasn't allowed. Me and Bugs had never been to a Doggy B & B before but this was a really swanky place for dogs. There was no runs or crates for us dogs, no sir!! We had our own loft room with a couch and a recliner chair and toys to play with and everything two dogs could possibly want. We got to have special cooked hamburger & rice and there was other dogs to play with. The peoples at tha B&B said me and Bugs was very well behaved and knew all our commands. Well of course we does, our peoples has been training s all of tha time. And the very bestest part was that Mommy and Daddy could pick us up on thems way home from the retreat instead of waiting to get us on Monday from the Vets kennel.

As much fun as we had for them 5 days, me and Bugs was sure glad when Mommy came to pick us up!! We gots home and climbeded into our favorite chairs and wented to sleep.

Murphy, who is really glad to be back from bacation.


PS Bug's 1 year birthday is on Friday so everbody send him birthday wishes. Mommy will get hims cheeseburgers from McDonalds which means me will get cheeseburgers too.

Daddy's Heinz 57 Party

Mommy gave Daddy a party earlier this month cause it was him's Heinz 57. Me waited to tell eberybody about it til Mommy downloaded the pictures.

Mommy invited them friends to a Champagne Brunch to help Daddy celebrate hims birthday. Auntie Margret came from TX to visit too!!Me and Bugs got to go BUT we had to stay in tha kennel cause the last time thems had a party out doors we broked almost all of tha wine glasses and came close to knocking Uncle Phil down. Even though we was in tha kennel we gots to see everybody and Aunt Maggie (Mommy's friend from work)broughted us doggy treats.

After tha party was over we gots to come out and eat some of tha left overs. Me and Bugs loves to eat bananas. And Daddy and Auntie Margaret teased us with these things that thems blew in our faces.

We wasn't real sure what that thing was coming from Auntie Margaret's mouth and me wanted to bite it.

Then Daddy did it to us too!! Now you would think your Daddy wouldn't try to tease you with this noise maker thingy but hims did. Bugs really, really, really wanted that ole noise maker too, but Daddy wouldn't give it to him. Now that just isn't fair. Here we was locked up in that kennel during tha whole party and now we can't even have tha toy.

Finally!!! Auntie Margaret let Bugs try to blow in it but hims lips couldn't do it. That little puppy can throw hims head back and howl with tha best of thems. He always is going "AWWWWWOOOO" but hims couldn't make them lips blow that noise maker.

We gots new names too, Auntie Margaret called Bugs "Lover Lips" cause hims was all of tha times trying to kiss her and her called me "Cuddle Butt". Now me isn't to sure about being called Cuddle Butt, somebody might think me has a big butt....

Your Pals

Cuddle Butt and Lover Lips

Dog Days of Summer

Me and Bugs knows what it means when we hears the term "the dog days of summer"!!
Mommy and Daddy tooked us camping again last weekend to the Boyd Lake State Park in tha house on wheels. It was soooooooooo hot me and Bugs wanted to spend the whole camping trip in tha house on wheels cause there was air conditioning. Being "House Dogs First Class" we is not used to being in that kind of heat.

Mommy and Daddy didn't like it either. Thems decided tha bestest thing to do was stay inside the air conditioning during tha hottest part of tha day. Of course with all of us in that house on wheels tha air conditioning got used up quickly but it was better than being outside in all of that heat that's for sure.

The good thing was that Bugs learned how much fun it was to play in tha lake. We had little tiny waves coming into tha shore to bite at and Bugs was pretending hims was a Kangaroo and hopping way up in the air as hims was playing in tha water. We even went out as far as our chests. Mommy was a little worried we would go to far and her would have to try to rescue us.

Mommy was concerned for a little black dog who was at tha campground. Hims owners lefted him in a little hard sided crate all day while thems was gone somewheres. Hers wanted to give him some water but hims wasn't very friendly and growled and barked at her. Me thinks hims was just scared and thirsty and didn't know our Mommy wanted to help him. Mommy worried and worried and would go check on him to make sure hims was okay and try to make friends with him but hims wasn't having none of it. Mommy was afraid her might get bit trying to help him so all hers could do was keep an eye on him and make sure hims wasn't in distress. Hims peoples finally came home about 10:00 at night. Me sure is glad me and Bugs has such wonderful humans to take care of us.

We did learn something from this whole camping trip, it's way to hot to camping in July in the lower country of Colorado. We're going to wait to go back there late in tha fall, it'll be lots cooler, less people and more fun.

Oh yeah, and Mommy brought home a nice wicker dog basket for me and Bugs. Daddy didn't think me would fit in tha dog basket but me has plenty of room. Bugs doesn't seem to like it to much which is fine with me cause hims thinks everything is for him and hims doesn't share really well either.

Murphy

Pooped Puppies

We is some pooped puppies tonight!! Me and Bugs gots to go camping again this weekend with our peoples. And we gots to go to tha good place where we don't have to be tied up all of tha times. Do you know what hard work it is to camp at almost 9'000 feet? Well let me tell you something, running up and down tha mountain sniffing eberything takes a lot out of us puppies.

Mommy and Daddy said we was tha bestest dogs too, cause thems was other people camped near us and thems had a little Weimaraner puppy about Bugs age and we stayed right with our peoples in our camp site. That little puppy's people keeped it tied up and didn't pay it no attention either. That poor little fellow wimpered and cried and barked all of tha time. Me and Bugs on the other paw, didn't bark at all. We did growl a little at some imagined bears and moutain lions but thems was only imagined. We had tha bestest time chasing this black squirrel up a tree and Bugs tried to catch this robin. Silly puppy, hims doesn't know ya can't catch no bird!! Mommy said Bugs must think hims is a bird dog like me thinks me is a rabbit dog. We was so good we eben let Mommy and Daddy sleep until 7:00 in the morning yesterday, today we got them up at 6:00.

The bestest part about camping and not being tied up is you gets to have your own camp chair and you gets to go in and out of the house on wheels anytime you wants too. In fact Mommy has two extra camp chairs hers is going to designate special for me and Bugs not that we won't want to sit in thems chairs but it's a really nice touch on Mommy and Daddy's part. Now me will tell you that Mommy did have a run set up for me and one for Bugs just in case we got to rowdy or wanted to wander off but we didn't cause we is the bestest puppies anyone could ever want.

We had a bisitor too. A little humming bird camed to our camp to eat from the feeded Mommy hung out. Thems little birds is fast and Bugs couldn't catch thems. Mommy was lucky enough to catch it on tha camera. If ya look really hard you can make out the little humming bird. Do ya see it?

AND Mommy and Daddy thwarted (don't ya like tha new big word me learned this weekend) us escaping out of tha house on wheels when thems stops to get gas. Mommy got this brillant idea of getting a dog barrier like you would use in a SUV and adapted it for the house on wheels. At first thems had the bottom bar to high and me and Bugs would just slip right under it but thems fixed that before we ever lefted our house. Thems adjusted them bars so we couldn't get under them and we couldn't go over them. All we could do is stick our head through tha bar to get pets on tha head. Mommy thougt we looked like we was in jail.

We is going camping again in two weeks but this time to Boyd State Park and that means we is going to have to be tied up tha whole time.

Murpy, who is pooped

A very sad week

This has been a very sad week for my poor Mommy. Hers has been so unhappy cause her wonderful horse Fancy died on tha first day of Summer. Nobody knows why Fancy died either except that hers was 25 years old. Tha last time Mommy saw her a couple days earlier Fancy was fine and running around with Mommy's other horse and Fancy's daughter Jasmine. Mommy had Fancy for 23 of them 25 years and broughted hers and Jasmine (who is 20) to Colorado when hers moved here from Virginia. That was before hers got me and Bugs. Me and Bugs has been doing our berry best to let her know we loves her. The bad part for Mommy is to lose Fancy after losing her very bestest kitty Miss Pitty Pat in July of last year.

This is a picture of Mommy's horses. The one on tha left is her girl Fancy and the one on the right is her girl Jasmine. In fact just like Mommy refers to me and Bugs as the boys, well hers always referred to them as tha girls and when her did everyone knew just exactly who hers was talking about.

Me got to meet them a couple times but Bugs never did. Tha first time Mommy took me to meet her girls me was just a little puppy and me thought thems was tha biggest dogs me had ever seen. And thems big dogs would let Mommy get up thems back and ride her around. Me was a little worried that this was what Mommy was going to do to me when me grew up, but me is glad to report that peoples don't ride dogs thems rides horses and thems creatures was horses.

Mommy said that her was sure Miss Pitty Pat, Bozo Kitty, Sasha, Buffy, Ginger Pony and Sugar Pony (thems all was Fancy's friends and Mommy's pets that crossed before her) was waiting at tha Rainbow Bridge when Fancy got there so she would have someone to play with and keep her company. Mommy said hers knows Fancy would be especially happy to see Sugar Pony cause thems was pasture mates when Mommy got Fancy. Thems came as a packaged deal. Knowing this makes Mommy happy and feel a little better about not having Fancy with her anymore.

Murphy

Can you believe this?

Me and Bugs wented to see our Vet, Dr. Caldwell last week for me yearly checkup. Bugs only had to get hims Bordatello squirt in hims nose and me had to have that and a rabies shot. This is a good thing cause thems found a coyote in Colorado who attacked an old lady on hers porch and bit her and hims had rabies. Mommy says this NOT a good thing to have cause thems will put you down for having it. Anyways the vet visit was okay and Dr. Caldwell said me was really healthy and me teeth was really white but there was one small problem. Me is FAT!!! Me weighs 106 #'s and hers said that even though me daddy weighed in at 125# she didn't want me to be over 95#. Now you all has seen tha pictures of me, do you thinks me is fat??? Mommy says me is a stocky boy and all muscles but that me butt is pretty wide. Hurmphuf, me is not fat nor does me have a wide load in tha back. Dr. Caldwell says me has to go on a diet. This means me has to have carrots and peas added to me breakfast and dinner to make up the rest of me dinner. Me does NOT like carrots or peas. Mommy cooks them in chicken broth to make thems taste better and trick me into eating them. Patuee!!! Me does not like thems at all but me has to eat them.

The good news is Aunty Margert camed to visit from TX over the weekend. Tha last times her came to visit us was when me was a puppy two years ago. Bugs hogged all of hers attention cause hims had never met her before. Mommy says hers might come back in July for Daddy's Heinz 57 birthday party.

Murphy, who hates vegetables

A house on wheels

Mommy and Daddy bought a house on wheels a week ago and me and Bugs didn’t know why thems would do something like that. Why would somebody want to have a house on wheels? Was we going to leave our regular house and live in this new house on wheels? We sure hoped not cause we like our house. Thems tooked us into this new house to let us sniff it but we still couldn’t figger it out and then this weekend we found out why. We went on a family adventure in this new house on wheels. Seems this house on wheels is a replacement for our camper.

Mommy loaded us into this new contraption and hers and Daddy and us puppies headed off on a wonderful bacation. Me and Bugs loved riding in this house cause there was great big windows and we could really hang our heads out tha windows, that is until Mommy caught Bugs hanging half way out. Hers had Daddy stop so hers could close them big windows so we wouldn’t accidentally fall out on tha road.

That was okay cause we had this great big couch to lay on (that’s right we had a couch to ride on) and we could put our heads on the back of tha drivers seats and look over Daddy’s shoulder or lick his ear as needed. On top of that we could walk back and forth from tha front to tha back of tha house. It was wonderful.

Me did start to get a little worried when me noticed we was heading in tha same direction as when we went camping last month. What if we was going to go camping and at that place where we had to stay tied up tha whole time, but nope we drove right by it. Me and Bugs was sure happy about that. (This is what me had told Bugs camping was like tha first time we went) Then we started going up a mountain road and stopped at this beautiful place where we had gone when we was camping tha last time. Me and Bugs was so happy to see this house on wheels turn up tha road that Mommy and Daddy wanted to camp and then Daddy parked tha house on wheels and we jumped out over top of Mommy to get out we was so excited.

The whole weekend was wonderful!!! The only time we was tied up was while thems was setting up camp or taking down camp, the rest of the time me and Bugs was loose to do anything we wanted. We walked all over tha place and sniffed everything and we never ever ran away. And best of all Mommy or Daddy and sometimes both of them would take us for walks in the woods. Mommy said tha sunrise veiw was just beautiful of Pikes Peak.

We had tha bestest time. We would go into tha house on wheels and everybody would take naps and thems even left tha door open so we could go in or out but we stayed right with thems.

The only time we lefted was when some ole stray dogs wondered into our camp and me and Bugs ran right out and chased them away.

Mommy said we was so good except….when thems stopped to get gas on tha way home. Me and Bugs thought it was time for us to get out too so we jumped right into tha front seat and out the door behind Mommy before Daddy could stop us and then……..we runned all over tha parking lot evading everyone trying to catch us. Mommy and Daddy was mad at us cause thems was worried we’d get hit by a car. Thems finally got us back into tha house on wheels and decided that from now on leashes would stay on us so thems could keep us from jumping out.

Except for that little goof up and we is allowed one goof up we was so good that we might get to go camping again in two weeks.

Get me a lawyer!!!

This is tha last straw! Tha bad son, Bugs has really gone and done it and me is suffering the consequences right along with hims. Cause that ole Bugs can't stay out of trouble Mommy and Daddy has had to resort to desperate measures. What happened you asked?

Well if you remembers, Bugs pulled the stuffing out of two of tha cushions on the couch. Mommy was able to repair thems BUT it resulted in Bugs having to spend the day in my crate (cause it's bigger than hims) when our peoples wasn't here. Mommy and Daddy talked about getting baby gates to block off part of tha house so we could only get in tha kitchen and tha den, but thems hadn't done anything about it. Well for tha longest time it was only something thems talked about but then Saturday morning while Mommy was sleeping the straw that broked the peoples back happened!

Mommy was sleeping in tha spare bedroom and lefted the door open so we could be with her. Bugs got bored waiting for Mommy to wake up and picked up one of hers pretty bed pillows to play with. Me told hims not to do it. Me told him it would get us in trouble. Me tried to make him stop, but hims grabbed tha pillow and tooked off. Me tried to get it back from him but when me grabbed it to take it away from him, Bugs pulled hard and tha pillow split open. There was pillow stuffin everywhere. When Mommy woked up hers saw tha stuffing and was not happy. Hers yelled at us!!! Me tried to tell her it wasn't me fault but hers was mad and me don't blame her.

So..... Daddy and Mommy went to Wally World to get baby gates. Thems figgerd that cause thems would be gone 20 mins tops it would be okay to leave Bugs out of tha crate. NOT A GOOD IDEA!!! Bugs was just sitting there looking around cause hims had gotten bored again and saw one of them couch cushions and thought hims would play with it. Don't do it, me told Bugs but hims said hims was bored and needed something to do. Me did the best me could to stop him but when that darn ole Bugs sets hims mind on doing something this little boxer can't stop hims. Trying to take it from hims only makes it worse cause hims thinks we is playing tug o war then. Anyway when our peoples got home there was a mess and Daddy said some really bad words!!!

Now when ever thems leaves us we is locked out of the main part of tha house. The only place we can go is tha kitchen and tha den. Daddy even shuts the door to tha basement and hims office. We is in prison!!! Me is innocent and me is being made to stay in prison with that darn ole puppy!! Get me a lawyer this is unfair treatment. Me is not aiding and abetting this little rascal, me is trying to stop tha crimes!!! It's not fair that me is being punished too. Me wants me phone call!!

Murphy in the orange jumpsuit

Gottcha Day 2

Today we is celebrating me 2 year gottcha day!!! It was two years ago today that Mommy drove out to Elizabeth Colorado and picked me up and brought me home. On the way home that day this little 30 # puppy learned how to sit. It was me very first command/trick.

Mommy said me picked her when hers came to find her forever puppy. This may be so, but if Mommy hadn't been smart enough to realize me was picking her for me very own human, me may have gone to a home where thems didn't understand this little boxer dog. Me knows Daddy had reservations cause me was such a big puppy but hims is very glad to have me too.

So it's not only me gottcha day but it's also me peoples gottcha day too. Cause me got them!!!!

Happy Gottcha Day Mommy and Daddy

Your little boxer puppy,

Murphy

Da bacation is over!

Boy oh boy, did we have some bacation. Me isn't sure me can tell you all about it in a single blog. It may take a couple days so much stuff happened. Me will try to tell the story with some pictures.

Me and Bugs was worried we was going to get left behind, what with all tha commotion of loading up tha truck and making sure all our stuff was packed. Mommy even had a suitcase for me and Bugs to share. It was full up with dog toys, food, etc. Cause we was scared we was going to get left behind we jumped into tha truck to wait for everybody to get ready to go.

This was that little Doodlebugs first camping trip and hims didn't know what to expect. Me had told hims all about tha last time me went camping but me couldn't prepare him for what was going to happen. As you can see Bugs was ready for hims first big adventure.

We rode in tha truck for tha longest time and then Mommy and Daddy went to this campground called tha Lone Duck and parked tha camper and began to set up our home. Me and Bugs decided that tha camper was just a really large dog kennel that we all shared together. What we didn't know was this campground had some really awful rules. Me and Bugs had to stay on a leash or tied up all of tha times while we was on tha property. Does this look like tha face of a happy Boxer?? Me didn't think so either.

And look at me poor little bubba. Hims had never been tied up before and this was not at all what me had told hims it would be like. The only good part about all of this was we gots lots and lots of attention from our peoples cause thems had to take us with them everywheres they went. We even got to spend time sitting around tha campfire.

We did get to go some places off of tha leash and that was fun!!! We climbed up a great big mountain and met some dogs on tha trail and then meeted a whole bunch of peoples when we was coming back down tha mountain and thems was going up tha mountain. All that mountain climbing is hard work when you isn't a mountain goat and one thing for sure, me and Bugs isn't no mountain goat. Me was one tired dog after all that climbing. In fact looking at these pictures makes me tired. Me will have to tell you the rest of the adventure tomorrow. Me had a berry embarassing thing happen and Bugs thought it was really funny.

Tha good news is we is going camping again next month and we won't have to be tied up all of the times.

Murphy

AHWOOOOOOO We is on bacation!!!!

That's right, we is on bacation (well me and Bugs is always on bacation) and our peoples is taking us camping!!! Me has been telling Bugs how much fun camping is. Mommy has been getting everything together for to take. Hers has packed me and Bugs suitcase full of toys and food. Now while Daddy works this morning her is going to get tha truck packed and then when hims gets home it's off to Manitou Springs. Mommy says there is all sorts of things for us to do and all kinds of hiking trails. We is even going to tha Garden of tha Gods. Me will have lots of pictures to post when we gets back and lots of stories to tell.

Murphy

It was snowing in tha living room

Boy did we get in trouble today and it was all Bugs fault!!!

Daddy camed home from doing a call today and thought hims had wondered into tha middle of a snow storm right smack daub in the living room. And it did look like that too, only it wasn't snow that was all over tha living room, it was stuffing from one of tha cushions off of tha couch in tha living room. And me is here to tell you it wasn't me fault! Me is tha really good son and me would never do nothing like that, at least not by me self. It was that bad ole son Bugs who started it. . . . really it was. Me tried to tell him this wasn't a good idea and me tried to get it away from him. Me was going to put it back on tha couch were it belonged but hims lured me into a rousing game of tug-o-war. And then it happened!!! we was pulling and pulling and tha zipper broked and stuffings went flying all over tha place. We is very lucky that only tha zipper broke cause Mommy can get it fixed, but Daddy wasn't very happy cause hims was tha one that had to clean it up.

Muprhy

Lair of the Bear

We gots to go on a big adventure this morning. Our peoples took us to the great new place called the Lair of the Bear, but we didn't see no bears. Mommy says hers thinks it's funny how me and Bugs knows when hers is even thinking about taking us for a ride. We just read her thoughts is all and we is going to be dang sure we isn't lefted behind even if it means "dogging" her ever step and racing from the front door to the door going into tha garage to be sure we isn't lefted behind.

This is a picture of Bugs with hims head out tha truck window waiting to go on our adventure. Isn't him turning into a very handsome dog?

Me thinks Mommy and Daddy was a little put out by our behaviour but thems has to understand there was all kinds of wonderous new smells to be smell all over tha place and we was so excited we couldn't help but pull. Daddy gets a little impatient with Bugs when hims pulls on tha leash. Hims forgets how bad me was at that age and how hard me used to pull. Bugs will learn how to behave. Mommy just talks to me really easy and me does me best to obey even though it's hard.

This is us w/Daddy on a deck built out over tha river. Mommy tied me up to the railing so hers could take our pictures cause hers thought it was really pretty there.

Anyway, we gots to this really neat park and walked along a path by a river and then crossed tha bridge over tha river. Once we gots on tha other side, Mommy and Daddy let us off of tha leashes and me and Bugs raced up and down the mountain trails. There was wonderful, wonderful smells in tha air and on tha ground. We had the bestest time. In fact Daddy says that maybe later in tha summer we can get up really early and pack a picnic breafast and go there for Sunday morning breakfast. Me and Bugs thinks this would be a wonderful idea.

Murpy and the Bugs-a-Doodle

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