Busted !

Whoops !
Guess who bounced back into the house and caught me on the super comfy spot? 

First she did the click click click, then she yelled at me!

The Festival of Falling Balls

A lot of things have been happening lately.  First of all ...   The tree they brought inside has all these exciting and festive decorations.  It is fun to walk by the tree and wag my tail and then the festive balls fall to the ground and making a fun crashing sound.  This happens many times a day. 

Me and My Collection of Festive Crashing Balls

Everyone has been VERY VERY busy and running all around and the House Is A BIG mess all the time.

AND ALSO:

Something is very very wrong with the chickens.  They are missing.  I go to spy on them and they are not there.  It is a big mystery.  The only thing I know is that there is a  very very strong smell of another animal around the cage and it reminds me of an animal that I met one night before I met The Boy and The Girl when I was young and on my own wandering.  This animal looked friendly but was not...mostly I remember that he had eyes that looked like trouble.

Here is what the animal looked like that smells like the animal who visited the chickens:

Not a Friend of Chickens

So here's what I think.  I think the scary eyed animal was spying on the chickens and maybe enjoyed them for dinner one night.  I miss the chickens.


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IT'S SANTA ! I KNOW HIM !

I met Santa.  I couldn’t believe it.  The REAL Santa.  Here’s What Happened.

It seemed like it was going to be just a regular day, but then we loaded up in the car right after a pretty good walk.  This is not usual. 

After a short ride where I DID NOT get to put my head out the window, we came to a place and got out.  This place had SOOOO many trees.  There were many people and there were many trees.  But here is the bad thing.  The Serious One and The Bouncy One would not let me do my business on any of the trees !  I do not know why but the kept choking me every time I tried to lift my leg.  

The trees on which I could not lift my leg

 But as we walking through the trees and looking at them, they stopped and The Serious One lay down on the ground under a tree and before you knew it, the tree fell over !  Then he put it in a cart and we walked back to where the car was.  I was confused.  He could knock over the trees and take them away but I could not lift my leg on them. 

 Then they took me for a little walk and they brought me into a building.  This does not happen very often....usually THEY go in the buildings and I stay in the car.  But I got to go into this building and it was very very very fancy.  And right when you went in to the building there was SANTA !  I know this because everyone kept calling him SANTA.  He had on a very festive outfit and was very very happy to meet me.  Then we did the click click clicks with Santa while the little people watched.

Me with Santa... He was Sooo Excited to get his picture With Me

We popped back in the car and took the tree back home.  Then for some reason they brought the tree into the house.  I guess they did this for my convenience so that I don't have to lift my leg outside in the cold !

Is This Really Necessary Doctor? Part Two

I don't even know where to begin... but here's what's been happening.

The lights are off outside ALL the time when I go for walks.  It is good that I am going on good walks in the morning, usually with The Bouncy One, it is cold and dark but at least we are going.  Then when they leave and I look out the window and the lights come on outside there is no one home and no one takes me for walks for a very long time.  Then, the lights go out, they come home and we go for a walk in the dark again.  This is not a good thing. and is my first complaint.

Here is my next complaint.  The Serious One has started to give me very very very strange treats.  I remember The Girl use to give me treats all the time when she would take me out for walks and I would do my business.  But these treats are different.  First of all, he puts the treat on a stick.  Then he moves it around my mouth mushing it on my teeth.  It is like a big Treat Fight.  I'm trying to eat it and he is trying to push it on my teeth.  I am very confused about this treat but it tastes pretty good.

Here is when I think I'm getting a treat

Here's where he smushes it in my teeth

Tastes Like Chicken !

One more complaint and then I am done.  A few days ago some people came to the house.  They brought a lady into the house on a chair that rolled across the floor.  Then they all started eating and didn't stop for a very very very long time.  They did not take me out for a ball toss.  They seemed to be more interested in the lady with the rolling chair than me because there was much fussing about her and NO fussing about me.

Some of the Eating People Admiring Me (Briefly)

Then it got dark again.

This is the end of my complaints.

Animal House

So I went to college .... Here's what happened.

Loaded Up in the car at the crack of dawn without a good walk.  Many hours in the car and we get to the house with the creek ..... Yay!

I do my usual in house investigation and find a dead mouse in a trap. He found the peanut butter but it didn't end well.

Went up the slippery stairs to see what was the funny smell. No dead animals but the walls had new colors.

The One Who is Seriously Concerned About My Health seems to be serious about my ball toss training these days. We went out many times to the creek and I appear to be getting better because there were many happy sounds and "good Sylvester's" and The Bouncy One wasn't laughing at me.

The next day we loaded up in the car again and I couldn't believe that we would be leaving so soon, but we ended up at this place after not too long in the car. There were many buildings and we went into one and guess who was there??   The Overly Affectionate One!   And what a fantastic place she lived in! First of all, the were many Beautiful People who were also my admirers. Most of the beautiful were girls, but one was a boy with a hairy face. He was lying on the couch with one of the Beautiful Girls when I got there, but jumped up very fast when we walked in and shook The Serious One's hand.

Here's what I liked about the place. There were things to smell that were, oh, so delightful.....Piles of girly clothes, buckets of cans, turned over empty bottles.... The Beautiful Girls hugging other Beautiful Girls as they came in was fun to watch. And I loved loved loved the decorations...not boring but festive like there was always a party there.

We didn't get to stay too long but I could tell that I would fit into this place very well. There's even a ball tossing game that they play on a table when they are really thirsty! I'd be good at that!

The Overly Affectionate One, Me,  and Two of the Beautiful People (Hairy and Regular)

Training Camp

The Bouncy One has discovered a new place to take me on good walks. Today, she brought The Serious One with her. I like this new place. It is very wide open and there is never any one else there: no other peoples and no other dogs. So we have it to ourselves and I do not have to be on a rope which I LOVE LOVE LOVE.

The Serious One was very serious about making me do the ball catch so that he could click click click. The problem is, I am a little bit rusty on the whole ball toss thing since my problem with my leg. But I am getting a lot of play time now and my leg doesn't hurt at all. Here I am:

They Love Me, They Really Really Love Me

Found this letter in my special file about "ME" before The Boy and The Girl got me.  I remember those kids on that farm!!  That would have been a good  home, but there were A LOT of rules so it didn't work out... but they really really loved me.  (after the letter is the letter in better writing).

Here's what it says in better writing.

SYLVESTER

We fostered Sylvester for 1 week.
He is an awesome dog.  Best in the world.
But Sylvester still had some bads.
First of all, Sylvester would wander around.
Second of all, he would roll in cow poop so other animals would think he is a cow.  And finally he would chase the sheep.
But the good things of him were, First he would not beg for food.
Second he would go to bed when you went even though he already would be sleeping.  Third of all he always cuddled up with you.  Also he would never bark (only at the cow, horses, sheep, chicks).
We gave him a nickname named Teddy because he was like a big teddy bear.  Sylvester likes these things mostly:  People and bellyrubs.
He was one of the best dogs ever.
We hope you have a great new home I know you will.
WE LOVE YOU SYLVESTER.

Okay....Nobody Panic......

Okay, Nobody Panic, but here's what happened:

It appears that the Place with the Good Dog Smells is The Serious Ones’ place of business.  I noticed at this place, everyone calls him “Doctor” and treats him with great respect which is not at all what happens at the house!  So since they like him, I think I get the special treatment too. 

This time when I went to the Place with the Good Dog Smells it was not as much fun as usual.  In fact, I don’t really remember much at all.  One minute I think I am going to go out back for a walk in the walking place where the smells of other dogs are oh, so divine, but instead I am poked and fell asleep.

When I woke up I was soooo groggy.  I couldn’t even stand up but my head was spinning and my eyes half closed !  It felt kinda good.  The one thing I noticed was that I had a really fresh taste in my mouth and my teeth were very slippery.  The other thing I noticed was that there was part of my fur missing from my back and some prickly things in my skin and that my special bump was gone.  It smarted a little around my bump area but otherwise I was enjoying the spinning of my head. 

It wasn’t much fun that day at the Place with the Good Dog Smells and when I got home I still couldn’t walk and I just wanted to gaze upon The Bouncy One and lean on her.  She laughed at me and we had a nice cuddle.

Here are the pictures of what happened to me.

They Could Do ANYTHING to me in this situation

My clean white slippery teeth

That's where my special bump was

home sweet home and very sleepy

and the very good news: my special bump was benign!

Ohhh La La - It's Halloween

OMG, It's Halloween and I had SOOOOO much fun!
Here's what happened.

When I woke up in the morning, I had no idea that it was the most spectacularly fun day of the year.  It just seemed a regular day, with the people home and me doing the usual: eating, sleeping, walking in the back yard, spying on the chickens, sleeping, spying on the cats, sleeping.

But then, The Bouncy One opens up this big box and pulls out all sorts of things and starts messing with me quite a bit.  I didn't mind, because I love love love ANY kind of attention.

Well the next thing I know, I am in quite a fancy outfit and everyone is laughing so hard.  I am not uncomfortable in this outfit even though there is something on my head.

Well the next thing you know we go in the front yard, which I am never,  never, never allowed to do because of the fast cars that go by.  The Serious One has made something very warm to sit by and so I enjoy looking at the hot dancing colors in the giant food dish.  They take pictures and here are my two favorite ones:

Frenchy !

Watching the Shenanigans in the Neighborhood

There are loads of people walking around, especially the short noisy ones. They are also dressed up in fancy outfits like me.  And they appear to be begging.   They walk along the sidewalk and then they come up to the house and yell and then The Bouncy One gives them something out of a big bowl.  Although I sniff at this bowl she does not offer me any which is not nice because she is giving it to EVERYONE else who has on fancy outfits.

Anyway, this went on for HOURS and I did not stay out the whole time, but when I was out there I had MANY admirers and laughters-at-me's.  I love Halloween!

The big dish of hot dancing colors and me!

Who Do You Think You Are?

As I mentioned in the “About Me” section (About Me)  I don’t really know so much about where I came from, but the other day I was taking a deep nap which I love love love to do, and when I woke up, I realized I had been dreaming about my Mom!  I remembered Her!  ... and the more I thought about it, I remembered a whole bunch more. 

So Here's What I Remember:

My Mom was super pretty and she was really really nice to me and my brother and sisters.  But truthfully, Mom was kind of the town slut.  She wandered around A LOT...which is what I like to do too.  Here is a picture of what my mom looked like:

Mom, Pretty, but Kind of a Slut

I can’t say for sure who my dad was, but Mom always had a thing for the bad boys.  There was this one guy who she was always wandering off to "visit" on the other side of the tracks after we were born.  And once in a while he would come over to where we lived and check us out.  I am pretty sure he was my dad, because I totally look like him and I totally want to be like him, 'cause he is really really cool.  Here is a picture of what my Dad looked like:

My Dad, The Ladies Man

The other thing I remember was that my Mom was super stubborn, AND I AM SUPER Stubborn too! When Mom's people use to want to take  her somewhere and she didn't want to go,  Mom use to always just stop in her tracks and refuse to budge and I DO THAT TOO !! 

I remember this one time, when my favorite brother -George Foreman Klondike and I were playing outside and The Guy Who I Think Was My Dad came by.   Mom was hanging out with the Black Lab next door, and well Dad about went nuts...he's a very sensitive guy but really had a lot of energy too... he ran in circles around Mom trying to get her attention away from the Black Lab.... but it was then I realized that Dad was a MIXED BREED and Mom really had her eye on the PURE BREED dude from next door.  My Dad was devastated.  We never saw Dad again.

Anyway that's what I remembered.

Oh and another thing happened that I forgot about.  Last time I was at the Place With The Good Dog Smells with The Serious One, somebody poked me in the leg and then took some stuff out of my leg.  I don't know what that was about, but then yesterday, The Bouncy One and The Serious One were VERY EXCITED when they were reading this piece of paper:

Lost her Bounce

So something's up with The Bouncy One...she's not all that bouncy these days.  So here's what's been happening.

I am now in The House With The Creek with The UnBouncy One and The Overly Affectionate One.  They have been here many days with me and no good walks, no ball tosses, no going anywhere.  All day long they are just in the house lying around or making food that they don't even share with me or gone.

Then yesterday, I was tied up (as usual) in the back yard and The UnBouncy One came outside and started digging up plants.  So I decided that if it wasn't a walking or ball tossing day, that it must be a hole digging day.  So I dug a TREMENDOUS hole under the very pretty tree where I like to lie down after ball tosses which I never get anymore.

Not Me, But I Wanna Meet this Dog!  My Hole Looked Just Like This

When The UnBouncy One saw my hole, she became very Bouncy all of a sudden and ran toward me yelling at me and pulled me into the house.  I think that she was very jealous because my hole was so much bigger than her holes.

Finger Lickin' Good

I'm really mad at The Bouncy One.  So here's what happened:

There are chickens in the backyard.  They live in a box in a cage in a cage (which looks like the work of The One Who Must Be Seriously Concerned About Their Health Too).   This makes it very hard for me to make friends with them or see if they taste good.  

At first when I came here and went into the backyard to visit the chickens, they would be SO excited - they would flap their wings and jump all around.  They would make all these screeching noises as if to say hello.  I think they loved it when I came to visit.

The Chickens Being Excited to See Me

Now, when I go to see the chickens, they are not even a little bit excited to see me.  They just scamper into the Box in the Cage in the Cage.

One of The Chickens Not Being Excited To See Me

So anyway, the other day, I was tied up to the back porch minding my own business when who should wander by but THE CHICKENS !!  They were out of their box in the cage in the cage and coming my way!  I ran to try and greet them (or possibly see if they taste good) and when I did, I knocked over something that made a Big sound.  Because I was tied to the orange rope I could not reach the chickens.  The Bouncy One was right there when it happened and was very very angry with me because of the loud sound.

The Thing that Made the Loud Sound When it Fell Down

Then she goes over and gets the chickens and puts them back in the Box in the Cage in the Cage and I didn't even get to say hello to them (or possibly see if they taste good).

So now I am mad at The Bouncy One for yelling at me.

My  "If I Could Talk, I Wouldn't Be Talking To You" Look

Dam It !

The Beavers are gone.  So here’s what happened: 

1.  Long car ride.  They won’t let me sit up front.

Me, Not Sitting Up Front

2.  Stay in Pet Friendly Hotel.  Got yelled at for doing my business too close to the Pet Friendly Hotel door.

Me, At the La Quinta

 

3.  Got to the House With the Creek and I was Really Really Really excited to go see the Beavers (which I use to call Giant Rats but now know are actually beavers).   When I got to the creek I was confused because it was just a plain old creek - boring not exciting like last time.  I looked and looked and looked for the Beavers but they were no where to be seen.  Then we looked at where the Giant Pile of sticks use to be and that was all broken up.  

Giant Pile of Sticks with a Giant Leak

 

4.  Went for a short walk to a nice place with water falling out of the sky.  The Serious One makes me wear this uncomfortable thing on my hurt leg which is confusing because it makes it bother me more to wear this uncomfortable thing but my leg hurts less when I walk.

Me and the Noisy Water

The Uncomfortable Thing On My Leg

5.  Forgot about the Giant Rats Beavers when I saw some really tall dogs with super sharp ears out the window.

Me, Looking Out the Window

 

Tall Dog with Sharp Ears

Is This Really Necessary Doctor??

Okay, Sigh, Here's What Happened.

I love Sleeping.  I love Napping.  I like to take a long nap in the evening before I go to sleep for the night.  But lately, when I wake up from a nap or sleep, I can't get up on my leg.  It REALLY hurts and then I have to do a funny kind of walk that makes it so it doesn't hurt so much.

Now, I can't really say for sure how I came to hurt my leg, but I can say that The One That is Seriously Concerned About My Health will not do anything with me nowadays, like a ball toss or a good walk with running.  The Bouncy One will sneak in a ball toss when The Serious One is not around, but it's the kind of ball toss where she throws it right at my head and I don't get to jump. She is not a very good thrower, so sometimes she hits me in the face.

So yesterday, The Serious One loads me up and takes me to the Building with the Good Dog Smells.  Of course, first thing, I am put in a cage:

Me, In Cage

                                                                       

Then I am taken out of the cage and I think I am going on a good walk, but NO… they give me a pinch in my behind and the next thing I know I am really relaxed on this cart:

Me on Cart, with some admirers

                                                 

Me on Cart, getting sleepy

                                                          

I fell asleep for awhile while they moved me around and did stuff to me:

I don’t remember this part

                                                       

......Or this part

                                                                        

When I opened my eyes, I saw The One Who Is Seriously Concerned About My Health looking at a picture of what looks like the stuff I use to find in the woods back in Montana and chew on.

Looks like chew toys to me!

                                                    
 

Anyway,  I was eventually put back in a cage and then he took me home later.  I have no idea what this day was all about, but my leg is feeling better. 

Leave it to Beaver

Okay, so here's what happened.  I did go to The House With The Creek,  but because of The Bouncy One, we got there more quickly with not so many stops for sniffing along the side of the roads.

Here's what I like to do when I'm at The House With The Creek..... I like to stick like a tick to the people.  I never leave any one's side.  When I am in this house there are NO CATS and I get to roam around where ever I want.   Also, if I hang around a lot, I might remind them how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE to go to the creek.

My paw still hurts, so there have not been too many good walks or ball tosses, but there were a lot of walks to the creek,  especially with The Serious One.  The Bouncy One was always always always pulling the plants out of the ground instead of paying attention to me.   I think it's not fair that she pulls plants out of the ground but then yells at me when I dig nice holes in the same place.

Anyway,  on our first walk to the creek we saw something super exciting.  The Serious One was as excited as I was, which is something you don't see a lot.

The super exciting thing we saw was a GIANT RAT swimming in the creek.   I was so excited I forgot all about doing my business and instead really wanted to go swimming with the Giant Rat and his buddy who showed up.  But the Serious One wouldn't let me go in the creek, which was really really deep.  I don't remember it being this deep before.

I was on the side of the creek, when all of a sudden another one of the Giant Rats jumped off the side and into the creek.  I tried to swim after it, but it was very very fast and swam into a big pile of trees in the creek and escaped. 

The Place Where the Giant Rat Escaped

The Serious One took me down the creek a bit and we saw another exciting thing.   There was Super  BIG pile of sticks all the way across the creek which was not there the last time I visited the creek.  This was very confusing.  On the one side of the pile of sticks the creek was deep and exciting.  On the other side of the sticks, it was boring.  But, I was so happy that it was deep and exciting on OUR side of the sticks.

The Serious One is very serious about going to the creek now.  We go many times a day to look for the Giant Rats with the Giant Tails.

Exciting Side, Right; Boring Side, Left

We also had some visitors.  The Overly Affectionate One came one night with a bunch of Beyootiful People.  They loved me.  Here is a picture and you can see how they adored me.  There were no walks or no ball tosses from them, but they smelled good.

The Beyootiful  People Who Also Smell Good

On the Road Again

I remember once I made a bad decision and ate a little something off the side of the road. When I have to load up in the car and see that my bed is in there, I know that my stomach is going to be feeling the same way it did back then. But, car rides are exciting cause it means I'm going somewhere. Due to amount of gear I'm crushed against, I'm betting it's to The House With The Creek.


















Car Sick In Connecticut

Playing Hurt

Sigh.

I’m injured again.

First of All, I went to The Building With The Good Dog Smells one day. It was kind of fun, but here’s my problem. When I am in the cage there, there are walls that are not see-thru on the sides and so I can’t see stuff, like the other dogs and the people who take me for walks. BUT, if I crawl to the see-thru wall with the door and put my legs under and stick my face under – I can see stuff. That’s how I got this situation on my nose:






















The Situation On My Nose

Then, The Bouncy One was playing some really good ball with me and I hurt my foot again. I try not to limp when they are looking, because I notice that if I limp, they won’t play ball with me or take me on good walks. But The Serious One is REALLY observant and he caught me. So here I sit with nothing to do but spy on the cats and get the occasional bad walk.

Sigh.

Gone With The Wind

OMG OMG OMG, it’s been super exciting times…. I have so many stories. Here's what happened.

When I was loaded up that day in the car, it turns out The Serious One took me to The House with The Creek, which I also call The House Without the Cats, which took a really long time to get to because we made many stops along the way. But I LOVE LOVE LOVE The House with The Creek. The Serious One and I had a great time because he is very relaxed like me. We spent a lot of time at the Creek but we also spent a lot of time with visitors who would walk around the house and talk talk talk.

One time he took me to a place with my leash on where there were lots and lots of people, but not a lot of dogs. This made me EXTREMELY popular. Everyone would come up to me and pet me, especially the short ones that have high voices. The Seriouos One even got me new balls which make a squeeky sound.














Me, Chasing Really Big Sticks

When we came back to The House with the Cats, it was very lonely for many days. Then one day, The Serious One loaded me in to the car and took me for a ride. When we stopped, I could not believe who opened the door ... THE GIRL!!! ....she had walked right by The Serious One and opened the door and gave me super intense hugs. The Serious One had on a sad face until she hugged him. And then guess who I saw??? THE BOY !!! More hugs and then they sat in the back seat with me and and we drove back to The House With The Cats.

Here's what I don't understand. They really looked like they were super happy to see me but then the VERY next day, The Bouncy One and The Overly Affectionate One show up and we are all back in the car with The Boy and The Girl for a long ride. Then they jump out of the car, hug hug hug and I haven't seen them since. Thank God I have my new balls.




The Girl and The Boy When They Got Out of The Car

Somethings Up

Okay, so here's what's happening. I woke up this morning and I thought of The Girl. I can't explain it but I just got a tingling feeling about her. Or maybe it was just that piece of old cheese I ate off the floor... I dunno.

BUT there is something a brewing around here. It started yesterday when I was very very excited to watch what was happening with the CATS. The Serious One was seriously running around the house trying to catch them. And then when he did, he put them in these little CAGES! I have never seen them in cages so I was super happy to know that I was not the only one who was CAGED. They did NOT like it at all and made a bunch of racket and then he took them away.

Then The Overly Affectionate One, who apparently lives here now, and The Bouncy One, mostly spent a lot of time running around the house and completely ignoring me except when The Overly Affectionate One would bombard me with hugs, kisses and baby talk and then skedaddle.

Then I really knew something was up when this morning, after my usual push out the window, The Bouncy One decides that its time for me to eat, and it was REALLY early. After all this time she still tries to make me do thinks I do not want to do. Such as eat breakfast in the morning. I prefer to eat a little later in the day, but every so often she tries to make me eat by saying things like "Eat your breakfast now Sylvester". Yeah right. Have you seen my breakfast? It's just like my dinner.


Me, Not Eating My Breakfast

Then I saw The Serious One put my bed in the big car and loaded me up. OH Boy, looks like another road trip. Wonder where I'm going now???

My 15 Minutes of Fame

In case you may have missed it in your online edition of the Stowe Reporter, I was featured in the August 5th edition:





If you can't quite read the text it says:

July 29, dog reported lost on Pucker St.

THAT'S ME !!!!!