Rescue Puppy

Mommy's friend Kathy, who lives in Florida, has rescued this beautiful little 4 month old black pug. Hers already had one little pug she calls Sasha and now hers has gone and gotten Sasha a little sister. Isn't her so pretty. Unfortunately me doesn't know what her name is yet. Mommy says it should be Coco but her friend said that the poor little thing would think is't name was CocoNo. It sound to me as if this little girl might be tha bad daughter just like Bugs is tha bad son.

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?