Juice Boxes and Chip Crumbs

Sorry pups, for the delay in posting...life's been kinda boring the last few days! What's with the title you ask? Well, as you know, I live beside an elementary school. I get to go run off-leash in the back field during my morning and sometimes night-time walks. But since school has started again, my human's been limiting my off-leash fun there!

Why you ask? Juice boxes and chip crumbs! It seems the children use the field during lunch and recess, and instead of taking their trash to the bins, many decide to just leave it where they've finished it, in the field! So when I go running through the field, I find these goodies, and my human spends lots of time trying to catch or coerce me back to her so she can throw them away.

Why would she want to do that? Have you ever played with a juice box?? It's soooooo much fun! You can squeeze it, toss it, rip it AND you get a sweet tasting of leftover juice in the box!! YUM! (Human's can be such pawty poopers!)

There also seems to be an excessive amount of plastic baggies with various chip and cracker crumbs from snack time. Again, I enjoy the crumbs...why not go with the flow? Hrrmmmphf! Humans are funny sometimes. But I do enjoy the game of chase I put on when she's trying to get the baggie from me! Arrooooo! So much fun!

Dock Dud...

Sooooo, my first experience with jumping off a dock didn't go that well. My human did expect that I wouldn't jump, and well, her expectation was met.

I went up there about 4 times, and I will say I got closer each time...but the pool is just sooooo big!! It looked really deep too!!

So we sat in the bleachers and watched the other dogs jump. MAN–were they amamzing!! I saw Forrest Gumpy (the Parson Russell Terrier) jump 17 feet!!! Apparently he was having an "off" day! BOL! He was just my size, so he gave my human some hope for me!

An awesome Border Collie named Diesel jumped 22 feet!!!

I walked to the ramp and sipped at the water.

Well, tomorrow is a new day, we didn't compete in our wave today just did some practice time, so we're going back tomorrow to try again. I'm probably going to get to go to the beach for some water practice today! That's definitely an upside!

TGIF! Beaches, Playdates and a little Search and Rescue!

WOW! What an eventful Friday!

My human had the day off today, so we had LOTS of fun! First, this afternoon we walked down to the lake front for a little romp on the beach! I had soooo much fun! We were practicing getting me into the water and really chasing my West Paw floatie in preparation for my DockDogs debut tomorrow.

Then we came home, napped a bit, and Denali's human called. Can I go out to Greenwood to play??!! YES! So we hit the trails for a hike and another dip in the creek. I meet all kinds of cool dogs today. Then, on the way back, it started getting dark. Fast. I wasn't scared, it's my job to protect the ladies! But when we were almost out of the trails we came across another family with two big dogs. One was a German Sheppard, and when he came sniffing at Starr (a Chihuahua) she got a bit freaked out and took off to hide in the bushes.

Only, we couldn't see where she went. And she wouldn't come out.

Her human was really scared. So we split up and were looking for her, calling her name, she wouldn't come out. I stayed in the woods with my human to try to sniff her out, and Starr's human went to the parking area with Denali hoping Starr would find her way to the car.

My human and I heard a noise in the woods. Something was crying. We stood very quiet, trying to figure out it's direction. The we called to her; "Starr! Starr!". We heard the crying again. My human called Starr's human on the phone. "I think we found her..something is crying in the woods."

Something. But not Starr. Starr had made her way back to the parking area and her human found her there!!!! OMD! WHAT IS CRYING IN THE WOODS????

My human FREAKED out and we took off running out of the trails and into the clearing. It was like a scene out of a scary movie! Only we escaped our "fate worse than death!". Phew.

TGIF! But thank god I'm home sweet home!

DockDogs is coming!!!

I'm very excited pups! Well, to be honest...I'm scared as squirrel in a room full on Mannie's! BOL!

This weekend is Pet Palooza at the local Pickering Flea Market and my human is signing me up to compete in a DockDogs event!! WHOA!

She's been on the message boards, getting great advice on jumping smaller dogs (like moi!) and she's hoping I'm up to task on Saturday.

How do I feel??? I'm man enough to say I'm a little nervous! I mean, it's a BIG pool. Full of water. Water. Did I mention I'm not too keen on swimming?

Yeah, that's what my life jacket is for my human tells me.

Oy! Well, wish me luck, say a little prayer and I'll be sure to tell you all about it on Saturday.

Here's a shot of my buddy, Forrest Gumpy. He's a Parson Russell Terrier. He jumps 19 feet!!!! WOW!! I hope to learn some stuff from him on Saturday!

On the upside–Pet Palooza will have LOTS of shopping for my human to spend money on yours truly! Hope she gets some good deals on new juicy treats!!! Yeeeaaah!

I'm going to be an Agility dog!!

My human FINALLY signed me up for some beginner agility lessons!!! It doesn't start until November, but I'm soooo excited!! She's already been practicing some stuff with me at home, and at the park. I even have my own mini tunnel at home! (But I'm kinda scared to go in it..no matter how yummy the treat!).

I'll definitely be blogging weekly after class!

Pop Dog of the Week: Jackson

On a lighter note...sorry I've been behind with these pups, I am getting your emails..thanks, keep them coming!

Check out the sidebar: this week's POP DOG is Jackson!

He is a cute Wire Fox Terrier living in England! Visit his blog and check out some of his adventures!

Feeling Neglected

That's right pups. I'm feeling neglected. My human pawrents don't have regular 9-5 jobs. Sometimes it's a good thing. They can be home during the day with me. But this weekend, it was a bad thing. See, my human dad works in a gym running a martial arts program. My human mom is a designer/artist. So this weekend both were busy with "work".

The worst part is human mom was at home doing this "work"! So to me, I thought we'd have lots of time to play and snuggle. But she kept "shooing" me out of her art room so she could paint – ok, so trying to lay across her feet while she's trying to move around isn't such a good thing...

Some nerve! So even though I've got lots of toys, they weren't good enough. I moped around looking pathetic...trying to get some sympathy. It didn't work. Maybe if I ignore them they'll remember how bad it feels!

What do you pups do when you're feeling this way??

Salty Dogs are here!

I'm so happy to tell you about my friend Molly's new book! Well, it's her human's new book, but Molly's in it!!

It's called Salty Dogs, and it's a cute little book about dogs at the beach!

Her human is a pawesome photographer, and has her own daily blog of great beach shots of dogs.

Check your local bookstore or get your copy online at Amazon! Happy reading!

They're taunting me...

Those DARN seagulls!!! We're on our walk (I'm leashed...) and they sit in the parking lots...laughing...ooooohhhh I want to get them sooo bad!! Grrrr human mom is not letting me off the leash...she KNOWS I want to get them. Stupid birds.

Meet my Brother Rocco...

Well...brother from another mother! BOL!

Here we are from the Mannie Meet-up...thick as thieves! I love you man!