Red letter day

This has been a very important day for a not so little boxer pup. This morning Mommy took me fo a walk and guess what?? Me was walking with Mommy off tha leash. We walked for about 30 minutes and hers had the leash attached to me collar by both ends and laid across me back as a handle incase her needed to reach down for it. Well hers only reached for it once and that was when we passed a really old Chow that me showed a slight interest in. Other than that we walked the whole way without Mommy holding the leash at all. This is a wonderful thing.

Even bettern is this. Mommy and Daddy decided to go on an afternoon road trip to a Holy Cross Abbey Winery and then to the Royal Gorge. Do you know what thems did, them lefted me out of the crate the whole time thems was gone and that was for almost 7 hours. Me was a really good Boxer too. Me didn't mess in the house or tear up anything. Me did just what Mommy and Daddy said and that was to guard the house. Me thinks them is going to start leaving me out while thems is a work. Isn't this exciting??? And the best part of all, to reward me for being so good, Mommy gave me the rest of a pork roast as an hors de voure before dinner and then some of thems flank steak for dinner. It's good to be a dog.

Murphy

Getting Me Nails Clipped

Well this was certainly an interesting day. Mommy decided that today would be a really good day to get me toe nails clipped. Hers said the last time them was clipped was when me got fixed in March. Me don't remember it cause apparently me was still asleep. Well me was WIDE AWAKE today. We wented to PetCo and this really nice lady (who likes boxers a lot) tried to clip me nails. Daddy had to wrestle me to the floor to try to hold me still while the nice lady clipped me nails. Me has decided this is not a very pleasant experience and can't decide why Mommy would put me through this torture. Mommy thinks it would be a good idea to have me toe nails clipped every couple months. Personally, me don't think it's a good idea at all. Just take me for lots of walks and that should work a lot better.

There is fire works being let off outside. It must be cause it's Memorial Day Weekend. Me wasn't sure what that meant or why there is fire works but Mommy explained it to me. Hers says this weekend is to remember those men and women who served in the Armed Forces past and present. Hers said her Daddy was a veteran of World War I and the Korean War and that her has a nephew who was in the Airforce so we is memorializing them. So thank you Granddaddy Carroll and cousin Shannon for keeping us free and safe.

Murphy (who is saluting everyone who is serving our country in the Armed Forces.)

Mommy's Cranky

It's really, really hot today and Mommy is really, really cranky. Her says her must be adapting to Colorado after almost 6 years cause even her thinks it's hot. And me just learned that when Mommy is hot hers gets really cranky and me doesn't like it one little bit. Her gets really short tempered with me and fusses, "Murphy move, Murphy lay down, Murphy get off me". This is not how Mommy normally is either so me hopes it don't stay hot to long. Me doesn't get cranky when me gets hot, me justs goes finds a nice cool spot on the floor and takes a nap until its cool outside.

Daddy had to work late today and when him left to go to this call him left me out of the crate til Mommy got home from work. Me was a really good puppy too. When Mommy got home me was laying on the couch in the living room guarding the house (well me was really sleeping but me won't tell Mommy that). Then Mommy went out to get something to eat and hers lefted me out again. Me is hoping that it won't be long before thems leaves me out all the time and the crate will be just a safe place for me when me gets a little out of control. Maybe Saturday me can prove meself cause Mommy and Daddy is going to a cookout. If them will leave me out to guard the house me will show them what a good boy me is. Come on Mommy and Daddy just give me a chance.

Your Big Boy

Murphy

Thunder storms and other things

This is scary. There is really, really high winds tonight. Mommy says there is a thunder storm warning for our county. Me isn't scared of thunder but this wind is really unsettling for a little boxer puppy. Me even heard Mommy and Daddy discussing going to the basement incase there was tornado. Me guesses them doesn't know that dogs and cats would know if something like that was going to happen. We have a 6th sense when it comes to weather that is not normal. Me thinks that there isn't no tornado coming but me is a little bit nervous anyway. Me isn't used to hearing the wind like this. Usually when tha wind gets really high it's during the night and we is all asleep.

This is a very strange story on the news tonight. Peoples are bringing them pets into the vets because them is hooked on drugs like Cocaine and Meth as well as over the counter drugs. This is awful. How could pets get like this? Why would thems peoples give their pets drugs or leave drugs in places where them pets can get them. This is so sad. Humans should realize how lucky them is to have us animals for friends.

Mommy says the drugs aren't always illegal drugs either, sometimes them gets over the counter drugs. Mommy says her is careful to keep all her over the counter drugs up hign in tha medicine cabinet and hopes everybody else does too. Hers even has the sedatives left over from me was "fixed" up out of the way so thems doesn't get accidently eaten. Me is so glad that Mommy and Daddy are good pet owners.

Murphy

Gottcha Day

Tomorrow is me "Gottcha Day" Mommy brought me home a year ago tomorrow. Hers said hers had picked me out on tha 20th but her actually got me on tha 23rd. Me hopes there is some treats and presents for a puppy's "Gottcha Day"

Murphy

In the dog house

Well actually me is in the dog crate. See me was a bad puppy today or at least that's what Mommy says. You remember that wonderful new dog bed Mommy boughted me for me crate?? Well me ate it today while me was in the crate. Mommy was not happy when hers came home from work and found pieces of the dog bed all over tha place including on me nose and lips. Her told Daddy that was it!! No more dog beds for me and the crate. Hers thinks me destorys the beds in me crate cause me gets bored and hers is right. Me does get bored being in there for 3-4 hours or more during the day with only a bone to chew on so me tears up me bed. In fact Mommy thought it might be interesting to leave me out if Daddy is only going to be gone for 3-4 hours during the late afternoon. This would be a really good test to see if me could be a really good boy. Me sure hopes thems tries this new idea.

Murphy

Happy Mother's Day

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!

Me wants to wish me dog mother (where ever hers is ) and me human mother a very happy Mother's Day!!!

Me must have been a really, really good Boxer this week or else these are early "Gottcha" Presents. Mommy broughted home a new bed for me crate and then hers and Daddy went to PetCo (thems didn't take me) and came home with two new heavy duty toys for me. Thems only let me have one of them though. It's a big hard rubber chicken bone. Me thinks Mommy likes it a lot cause her keeps wandering around the house chanting something about "Chicken bone, chicken bone, wheres that darned ole chicken bone" or "Chicken bone, chicken bone, Murphy fetch that chicken bone" and then hers laughs. This is very strange behavior for Mommy cause hers normally only pickups up me toys and doesn't have anything to say about them. Hers says it has to do with another little dog her human boy had who was named Sudsy. It was a little Boston Terrier and thems would chant that song to it when it played with its chicken bone. Humans can be very, very strange.

Murphy

A break through

Me is so excited and Mommy and Daddy is so proud of me. Do you know why?? This is why, see Daddy took me on a walk tha other day and hims decided to take tha leash off me and trust me to stay beside him while we walk. Me didn't let him down either. Me stayed right beside him just like hims wanted me to do. Mommy took tha day off from work and hers took me for two walks today. The first walk was around tha lake and her would drape tha leash across me back and let me walk beside her without holding tha leash. When hers saw peoples coming hers would reach down and get tha leash. Hers even took me over to see a Prairie Dog Village and me just sat there and looked at them silly things. Tha only time me got in trouble was when........you guessed it..........a rabbit appeared. Them darn ole rabbits!!!!

Then later in tha morning Mommy took me for another little short walk. We went on tha trail and Mommy took the leash completely off me and me stayed right beside her. Hers was so proud of me. Me likes it when thems is proud of me. Daddy says little steps in trusting me to be a good dog and do what me should is what needs to be done. Him says slowly thems will allow more distractions while me is walking off leash.

Me is such a good dog

Murphy

We's getting a new back fence

This is very exciting news. We is getting a new back fence and guess what? Daddy doesn't have to build it. Hims is only helping pay for it. Our neighbor behind us is going to build tha fence and hims wants to start tomorrow. See we have this lattice type fence seperating our backyards and you can see right through it and so there is no privacy. Now normally this isn't a big deal cause thems has a really nice back yard to look at and really nice kitty that comes to the fence to visit with me but sometimes it is a problem. Mommy says it would be nice to go out in tha back yard and not feel obligated to talk to tha neighbors cause thems can see you out there.

There is going to be one little, itty, bitty problem while this fence is getting builded. Me won't be able to run loose in tha back yard. Daddy promised him would take me out on a leash but see me and Mommy goes out back to play ball in tha evening when hers gets home. If the fence is being fixed then me can't run loose to play ball. Maybe Mommy will take some pictures so she can show everybody tha new fence.

Murphy

Yard work and walks

Me learned something this weekend and this is what it was. If me wants to go for a walk me has to stay out of the way when Mommy and Daddy is doing the yard work and house work too. You would think cause me letted them sleep in yesterday morning and this morning thems would want to take me for a walk right away. NOPE this is not how it works on the weekends. See first thems has to get up and have some coffee and read the newspaper. This would be fine if thems would let me have some coffee too but Mommy says me has enough energy and coffee would only make me worse. Then thems had to talk about what needed to be done and this took some more time. Now me may only be a dog but it seems to me that this is something that could have been done while thems was walking me.

After deciding who was going to do what the house work began and when that was finished the yard work. Now here's the thing about yard work, me has to stay in tha house when thems doing it in the front yard. When thems moves to tha back yard me is put in tha outside kennel for safe keeping. Well that's what Mommy says anyway. Hers says it's not a good idea for me to be barking and snapping at the lawn mower or the weed eater. Hers says the weed eater could make me already short nose even shorter if me got to close. Once thems got all this work done, without any help from me, then thems had to sit and rest for awhile. Me did get to finally go for a walk later in tha afternoon.

Oh yeah, Mommy says a really important day is coming soon. This day is May 23 and is the day hers went and got me and broughted me home to be hers and Daddy's dog. Hers says this day is as important as having a birthday. Hers says in a way me has two birthdays, one to mark the day me was actually born and the other to mark the day me became a part of hers and Daddy's family. Me sure hope this means they is going to have a party.

Muprhy

April Showers May Flowers??

This has been one rainy week. Mommy says there is an saying that goes "April Showers bring May flowers" and Daddy says "May flowers bring tha pilgrims" of course hims being funny. Any way me is wondering what all these May showers bring. It has been raining all week and all month. Okay so tha month is only 4 days old but that's beside tha point. We have a sprinkler system to keep the grass and flowers green so what do we need this rain for?? Tha problem with all of this rain is this, Mommy and Daddy can't take me for a walk. Tha last time me got to go for a walk was on Sunday and here it is Thrusday and nothing but rain. This is not fair!! Me has to go for walks or otherwise me has to much energy and it gets me into trouble. Me sure hopes tha sun comes back soon. Oh yeah all this rain has made tha grass grow really tall but it's to wet to mow. It it keeps up me won't be able to find me way from tha back yard to tha back door. All this grass also means Mommy andDaddy needs to do yard work and this will interfer with me play time and walk time.

Me is going to go chew on me bone and think about what to do when it's raining

Murphy who has cabin fever

New Toys

Mommy was feeling sorry for me this evening (or else me had gotten or her last nerve with me wanting to play) and took me on a trip to Petco to get some new toys. The reason hers needed to get me some new toys is this, me had been playing fetch with this nice little tennis ball and suddenly it had disappeared. Mommy had looked and looked and looked all over tha place for that tennis ball and couldn't find it. (Hers didn't know me had eaten it) So hers decided this evening, after looking all over the place again, to take me to Petco and get some new tennis balls.

Mommy was very, very pleased with how good me was while we was in Petco. See the last time hers had taken me there, me was a tiny bit unruly and did things me shouldn't have done like marking the toy aisle. This time though, me was very well behaved (darned ole training). We wented into the store and me was very excited but right away Mommy made me pay attention to her. When we went to the toy aisle hers made me sit and then lay down while hers looked at the toys. Then when we went to the check out counter hers again made me sit and then lay down while hers paid for me toys. Me was really good while the boy at the check out counter petted me. By the way Baywee, if you is reading this you is getting cheated. Mommy doesn't make me pay for me toys like your Mommy does. You needs to hide your piggy bank so hers had to pay for your new toys with her money. Mommy was so very proud of me that hers came home and bragged to Daddy at how good me was.

Then it happened. We played with the balls and had a really big time but Daddy was a tiny bit skeptical about me having them balls cause hims thought me would eat them. Mommy said that me wouldn't do that and the smaller ones was really tought. Well you guessed it..........me ate one of the little yellow tennis balls and that's when me thinks Mommy figgered out that me had probably eaten the one hers had been looking for all week. Me couldn't help it......Mommy knows me is an aggressive chewer and me hasn't eaten or chewed up any of her shoes or tha furniture so hers needs to give her little boxer boy a break. Mommy tooked the other 3 balls and put them up and said me could only have them if hers was playing fetch with me. Grrrrr this is not fair at all. If thems is me toys then me should be able to eat them if me wants to.

Murphy

Yesterday Hail, Today Snow

Mommy says this is Spring Time in the Rockies. Me isn't sure what her means but it sure is cornfusing. Last night there was a Hail Storm.
Me doesn't know if you can make it out or not but that is balls of hail out there on tha street.










This is very cornfusing cause this stuff looks like snow but it makes a lot of noise and snow don't make no noise. Me thinks me needs to go outside and investigate this stuff.









This is some really strange stuff. It's cold like snow but it sure isn't soft like snow. It hurts when it's falling from the sky and lands on me. Me doesn't think me likes hail to much.














This is what me back yard looked like after the hail. Lots of balls of hail. Mommy says its frozen balls of rain. This is very nice but it hurts and me doesn't like it.

Murphy who really doesn't like hail

This has been some weekend!!!!

Mommy gave to me two new stuffed animals. One was a Koloa Bear and tha other was a little Monkey. Me was having a really good time with that ole Koloa Bear until me started to eat its little plastic nose and them Mommy tooked it from me. Hers says hers can't understand why me has to eat them. Hers thinks me should just snuggle up to stuffed animals and play with them really easy. But me isn't that kind of dog. Me likes to play rough with things. Hers said that a Boxer shouldn’t eat plastic cause it wasn’t good for their digestive system.

Then hers gaved to me a cute teeny, tiny Monkey to play with. Now isn’t that monkey just the cutest thing. Look at how me is giving it a boxer hug. There was only one little bitty problem. Me chewed it’s head off on Sunday morning and Mommy had to go pick up its stuffings in the yard before Daddy could mow.

After all these new toys, me came back inside to play with Daddy. Mommy tooked some pictures of me and Daddy playing. This will give you an idea of how me managed to make Daddy’s chair flip over. See this is what happens, Daddy will say “Murphy come here” and me jumps off the floor and lands square on hims chest and that’s what will flip hims chair over we found out.

Me didn't flip Daddy out of hims chair this time. And as you can see, me is still a teeny tiny lap puppy.

Today we did some yard work. Well actually Mommy and Daddy did tha yard work and me watched and laughed at them, just like Baywee says you have to do. Mommy went around and scooped strategically placed poop so Daddy could mow. Me doesn't think that Mommy and Daddy appreciate how much work and thought goes into placing the poop in all the right places. If thems did thems wouldn't always be picking it up. Me did learn one valuable lesson about laughing at your peoples. Thems don’t like to be laughed at and thems put me in tha outside kennel. Thems said it was to keep me safe but me knows it was to get even for laughing at them.

Me will have to write more about this weekend cause Mommy tooked lots of pictures and hers wants to post them all. MOMMYS!!!

Murphy

My Daddy is funny

My Daddy is funny. Hims does the silliest things sometimes and doesn't even mean too. When we plays together at night hims like to have me jump on hims lap. Usually hims says "Come here Murphy" and me jumps way up in the air and lands smack dab in the middle of hims lap. Daddy usually laughs at this. Well tonight me was laughing instead. This is what happened.

Daddy was in hims reclining chair and called me like hims usually does and me did what me usually does and that's jump into hims lap. This time instead of just sitting there and waiting for me (all 90+ lbs) to land on him, he leaned back in hims chair to brace for me landing and guess what happened. Yep, Daddy flipped over backwards in hims chair with me on top of him. Mommy was laughing so hard hers couldn't help him. Me was laughing pretty hard too cause there was Daddy laying on hims back with hims feet in the air and hims wasn't able to get out of hims chair cause it was it's back too. Daddy sure was a funny site let me tell you. Me is just glad hims wasn't hurt cause me likes to jump in hims lap.

Murphy

Wet Dog

Running through the sprinkler system is the bestest fun in the world!!! Tonight Mommy let me go outside in the backyard cause hers thought me had to go do me business. There was only one thing, the sprinkler system was working and that meant there was water spraying everywhere. Me took off running just as fast as me could right through the spraying water, round and round and round the yard. This was lots of fun for a boxer and me didn't even try to bite the sprinkler heads either. Daddy is worried that me will bite them sprinkler heads and break them but me would much rather run through them than bite them.

The only problem with running through spraying water is that me gets all wet and then Mommy thinks me smells like a wet dog. Now isn't that the funniest thing you ever did hear? Of course me would smell like a wet dog and her doesn't like that smell. DUH me is a wet dog. That's what happens when me runs through the spraying water, me gets wet. It wouldn't be much fun if me didn't get wet. Mommy is baffled that me likes the water so much. Hers says me isn't no water dog like a spaniel or a lab and yet there me is playing in the water.

Me wishes Mommy would hurry up and buy me a doggie swimming pool so me can play in it.

Murphy

Happy Easter

Happy Easter Everybody!!

This has been a really lazy weekend. Mommy took off Good Friday (that's what her says the Friday before Easter is called) so hers could have a 3 day weekend. We haven't done much of anything but go for walks and just laze around the house. This is fun cause it meant me got to spend more time with Mommy and everybody knows how much me loves to spend time with Mommy. We went for lots of walks too. Right now we is watching me favoritest movie, Old Yeller. Mommy says the movie makes her cry in the end.

There was one really strange thing that happened this weekend. Friday evening all of a sudden out of the ground came water!!!! These things came right up out of the ground and sprayed water all over tha place. Me was trying to bite the things and drink the water that was being sprayed but Mommy made me come inside. Hers said that me was being silly trying to bite water that was watering the grass and that me had better get use to it cause it was going to be coming out of the ground like that 3 nights a week. Me just can't figger out how them things raises up out of the ground and spews water on tha grass. This is a mystery and one me intends to solve. When me gets the answer me will let everybody know.

Oh yeah and one other thing. Mommy and Daddy left me in the house for 4 hours and me didn't have to stay in the crate. Me was able to roam the house, well except for the upstairs bedrooms and bathrooms. Mommy said me should guard the house while thems was gone and me did too. Me didn't get into any trouble either!! Maybe this means that thems will eventually leave me out of tha crate all of the times. Me sure hopes so cause it gets really boring having to sit in there even if it is nice and big and roomy. Me would rather use it as a den and take naps in there.

Murphy

Me and Mommy went for a nice evening walk just a little while ago and was having a really nice time just strolling along when it happened. Out jumped this little rabbit and me forgotted all me training. If Mommy didn’t have the leash firmly in hand me would have been gone. Me isn’t sure what it is about them little furry rabbits but every time me sees on of them things me suddenly becomes “ta ta BEAGLE BOY” and wants to hunt them little rabbits. Mommy had to zap me a couple times just to get me attention. Me sat down like her asked me to, even laid down but me was still watching where that rabbit runned off too just in case me could make a break for it.

Mommy said all dogs are descendants of wolves from 1000’s of years ago and dogs became tamed by people cause them wanted a faithful companion. Hers says wolves has to hunt for thems dinner and thems hunts rabbits among other things. If this is true (and Mommy never tells me anything wrong) then it must be that when me sees a rabbit me thinks that me is really a wolf and wants to go catch me dinner. It’s instinct her says and me agrees cause me can’t figger out any other reason for wanting to chase them little rabbits. It’s probably a really good thing that Mommy had that leash and me is mostly trained cause me would probably have gotten lost chasing that silly rabbit and then what would me do?


Murphy aka Beagle Boy

Mommy played a trick on me

Last night my silly Mommy played a trick on me. Hers and Daddy had gone out and lefted me in charge of guarding the house. When thems does this, me usually sits on me ottoman in front of the picture window and looks at everything that goes on outside. This way me can see if a burglar in a Daddy or Mommy suit is trying to break in. This works really well too cause there hasn't been no burglar in a Daddy or Mommy suit break in the house. Well, me heard one of them silly ole kitties thumping down the stairs and me decided to take a teeny tiny break from me post watching out the window and what do you suppose happened??

There was a knocking on the picture window glass and there was a face looking in the window. Me stopped investigating the kitty and looked at the window and there just as big as life was a burglar in a Mommy suit!!!!! Well this was a first and me wasn't sure what to do. Should me bark really loudly like a guard dog?? Should me go hide and hope that burglar in a Mommy suit went away??? Me was scared and confused. This had never ever happened before and me didn't know what to do. There wasn't nothing about it in the Boxer Union Book in the Guard Dog Chapter.

The knocking on the window kept up and then.............the front door opened. Me is embarrassed to admit it, but me crouched down and tried to hide. Then me heard that silly Mommy laughing and saw it wasn't a burglar in a Mommy suit at all just Mommy playing a trick on me. Hers thought hers was really funny tricking me like that. Me didn't think it was very funny at all. How would her like it if a burglar in a boxer suit tried to break in and it was just me playing a trick on her??? Me bets her wouldn't like it one little bit either.


Embarrassing

Murphy

Walking after dark

Mommy was late taking me out for a walk tonight cause it looked stormy and was raining a little bit. Me wouldn't have minded going but me thinks Mommy might have been afraid hers would melt in the rain. So to make up for it Mommy took me for a walk after hers watched tonights American Idol.

There is a big difference in walking in the afternoon when there is sunlight and going for a walk after dark. Did you know there was lots of things lurking out there in the dark?? We was walking, walking, walking and there was this big shadow following us. This shadow was of a big mean fierce dog and hims was following us. And there was all of these dogs outside barking at me too. And the smells are different and the sounds are different and me couldn't see as well and it was just plain scary. Mommy thinks this is another good training tool. Grrr, hers and hers training tools. Me has had almost enough of all of this training stuff.

Then to top everything off, after we came home me got into trouble. That darn ole cat of Daddy's jumped off hims lap right in front of me boxer face and me tried to chase it. Daddy didn't like it either but what did hims think me would do??? Any self respecting boxer puppy would have tried to do the same thing. Me is sure of it. BUT.......it made Daddy mad and hims made me go get in me crate for some "time out" and so me could think about what me had done. Well me had already thought about what me had done, why does him thinks me did it??? A cat jumped in front of me face and me doggy instinct kicked in and me chased the cat. Silly ole darn cat, getting me in trouble like that. Grrrrrr

Murphy