HI PIPPI,

I SURE DID HAVE A GREAT GOTCHA DAY AND MY BROTHERS AS WELL AND BOY WE BEEN CELEBRATING ALL WEEK AND THEN NEW EVE FIREWORKS FOR US AS WELL.I WILL HAVE MOM TAKE PHOTOS OF ME IN MY NEW DRESS AND SHOES AS WELL.ITS OKAY I SO UNDERSTAND CAUSE I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM WITH MY HELP AS WELL.WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THEM BUT TO LOVE THEM RIGHT.MINOT AND Y-NOT WERE DANCING AND CHASING EACH OTHER THEY CANT BELIEVE ITS BEEN THREE YEARS WITH MOMMA AND GRANDPA.

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Doh! A day late. Happy Gotcha Day Comemere! For some reason Mom had it in her mind that it was today. Sounds like you celebrated in style, and we can't wait to see you in your new shoes and dress. We all had on pink shirts for our walk today, but no shoes. Mom keeps saying she is going to make Cheeky wear shoes. I'm kind of hoping not, because I figure if she makes Cheeky then Pixie and I are not far behind. Hehe.

I also realized we missed Y-Not and Minot's gotcha days, too. Good help is so hard to get. I hope they had a great day as well. Plenty to celebrate at your house this month. Woo-hoo!

We've had a pretty good day here today and are ending 2011 on a good note. We had a nice sun bath on the sun porch just after lunch. Was nice and toasty out there. Then we all put on pink shirts and went for a long walk. Pixie and Cheeky used a coupler so Mom would only have to manage two leashes. Any way you do it, we just don't totally have the hang of walking three at one time yet. Hehe. I told Mom what she should do is walk us two at a time. First Cheeky and I can go with her. Then Pixie and I can go with her. I have enough energy to go for two walks. Not sure if Mom does though. BOL!

I've been working just a little on those weave poles every day. I'm still not to sure about this, but Mom said it seemed easier today. I'd be happy to let Mom weave in and out and I'll walk along beside them. What do you think?

I think we get one more day of nice weather and then it's supposed to get colder. Hope not too cold for more long walks.

Sassy, we can't wait to hear all your news! Don't tease us for too long. Hehe. Otherwise we will have to make wild guesses. Hmm. That could be fun. Tee hee hee.

Happy New Year everyone! Have fun and stay safe tonight.

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hi sassy,oh thank you boy i had a great gotcha day momma got me a new dress and shoes they are pink and i just got to get use to wearing the shoes.

cheeky oh thank you,well i wanted to do those i am hoping i can do it i know one will differently great to do cause i am making them smile and giggle too.well momma going to try to hold me and talking to me to calm me down cause i usually get upset when they get treats and want to growl at them.i always think the treats are all mine and nobody elses

Thanks Vix and Tink. AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you too Miss Vixie. One of these years we'll have toget together and have a big party for our birthdays. Hope you had the best day ever.

Happy Gotcha Day Comemere. Hope your day was special and you got more treats.

Got lots to tell you but will have to come back later. We are at Aunt Bobbi's right now and mom needs to be polite and visit and she doesn't really like this laptop she's using.

Be back later with all the news.

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Comemere I like your New Year's resolution! That sounds like a great one. Mom says she is going to try and take us on long walks more often, and by doing that hopefully loose a little weight in the process. We'll see.

I have to ask, Comemere, how does your mom help teach you to share? I would really like Pip to learn that, too. Sometimes Mom will hold Pip and give Pixie and I a turn, but that just seems to make Pip mad. Most of the time she tries to give all three of us the same thing, but we need help here. Any ideas would be great!

pippi,i sure did have a good christmas and wow you are like me on not wanting to share things.my calls me a snob and rude.so iam learning to be nicer and share my things with my sibilings.

well i have a new years resolution is to keep bringing smiles to my friends at the v.a. and to not gain to much weight like my doggy sister ruby did this year.

mommas resolution is to stay on her diet and keep those pounds off she has already lost and loose more weight.

Comemere sounds like you all had a nice Christmas. That ham bone sounds really good to me. I am terrible about sharing when it comes to bones or rawhides. Mom says I'm a bully then. Hmm, Mom said I've been a down right stinker in general the last couple of days. I think I may see a LONG walk in my future. I've got energy I need to get rid of. Hehe. LOTS of energy. She reminded me that even though Christmas is over Santa is still watching. I then pointed out that he didn't seem to be watching that closely this year. BOL!

Is anyone thinking about any New Year's resolutions for 2012? Mom sometimes comes up with some and we start the year off well and with good intentions, then seem to taper off somewhere along the way. We'll have to think hard and see if we can come up with some that maybe we can do all year long!

pippi,

my first christmas with momma was so cool i got alot of toys and a doggy pillow that has a dog head on it it was part of a doggy stocking momma got from walmart.of course i handed out them to my sibilings and we all had fun playing with our toys and momma and grandpa went out for christmas dinner at ihop and grandpa had a ham dinner with a ham bone in the middle and he brought it home and let me have the bone and yumyum it was delicious and i still have it and iam hiding it from my brother zeus he is a crazy boy when it comes to bones like that.i got clothes and so did ruby she got a dress and dotty got a toy.she doesnt like to dress up like me and ruby.a friend got me and the pups a 2 lb bag of puparoni and got a 12 oz.carry out bag of treats which is a favorite treat.

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A little ice cream to help celebrate the birthdays this month ...

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Happy Birthday Bug!

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Happy Birthday Vixie Bug! How old are you this year?

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Happy Birthday Vixie Bug!

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas. Was a nice one here spent with local family. We even got a little turkey to eat. Yum! As you could see from the video I posted before I do like to get into boxes. So we were all excited here opening our packages. Santa was good to us and we've been enjoying some new treats and toys. One of the things I got was some guide wires to use with agility weave poles. Mom and I have only had the opportunity to try weave poles a couple of times before and I was very confused and frankly thought she was nuts. I'm still somewhat of that opinion, but have to admit the guide wires make it a little easier. Going to be a lot of work I think to really get the hang of that. Mom and I worked on it in the yard a little this afternoon. For the life of me I can't figure out why anyone would want to weave around poles when they could be running around them or all over the yard. I just don't get it. Hehe. Sounds like something for Pixie. She is good at weaving all around us when we are walking. BOL!

Speaking of walking, we went to a park we hadn't been to in a while and walked today. Mom said we sure must have looked like circus clowns trying to get started. I'll just say weave poles and leave it at that. Hehe. Anyway, once we got untangled and really moving we had a pretty good walk. I found some mud to get into. Gotta love the mud. Hehe. Pixie and I did bark at some other dogs. the difference between us though is when we finally get close I stop barking and want to play. I'm just barking to say come over here and play! Pixie on the other hand keeps barking. She can make a lot of noise for a little dog.

I think we have said it, but in case we haven't, everyone has adjusted to the ramp for getting on the bed. Mom has left it as the temporary one we set up since all seems to be going fine with it. Even Patches is using it now, and I've learned to slow down a little so it won't bounce. So all is good there and Mom is relieved. She likes it when we can get up and down by ourselves, otherwise she worries about us when she is not home.

What has everyone else been up to?

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Sorry we're late, Sassy......Glad you had a great day!!

Thank you all for that great Birthday Party stuff. I did have a great day. Got lots of Frosty Paws and a few other treats. My cousins and Uncle Bill and Aunt Mary are here too so we had a good time. My littlest cousin is very noisy. She keeps barking at Denali. Poor Denali. My cousin is a little Chihuahua like Cheeky and every time Denali walks in the living room she starts barking, REALLY LOUD. Denali looks at mom with those, "I didn't so anything" look. We keep telling her it's OK, she's a good girl. We think maybe my cousin is a little afraid of her 'cause she's so big and that's why she barks. We think it will be fine once she gets used to her.

Pippi, you are so cute. Can't wait to find out what's in that package???

Hey, George, glad to see you. Thanks for the Birthday wishes.

Gotta go entertain my cousins. Hope you guys have the bestest Christmas and get lots of treats and toys.

Thanks again for all the cake and wishes.

Kisses, Kisses.

Happy Birthday, Sassy. Thought I'd get the party started with some cake.

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Now where is the rest of the food. Hehe.

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Happy Birthday to Sassy

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And Merry Christmas to all our friends!

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Hope Santa is good to everyone.

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to Sassy!! Hope you are having a great birthday today. Wish were there to help spoil you rotten.

We also wanted to wish everyone a

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aww pippi,i would have loved to visit your momma in the hospital and my momma so agree when she was in for a week and missed my kitty sister she would have prefered her coming then her family to.that was sweet of momma friend gave her that kitty to have while she was in like that so she would miss your kitty sibilings.we love going and i have been sitting on my friends lap which momma is happy about and we joke around.i feel like i have one big family there.yesterday momma and me took two bags of hershey kisses for my friends there and the staff as well.

thank you sassy,i just love going and hanging with them and meeting new friends like dolly and i also met marie she was nicer to me now that she knows us.

Nothing new, but Mom is losing it. She really thought she had typed up the response we had dictated for her. But since she is holding all the Christmas gifts up where we can't get to them I think we will forgive her. BOL!

Sassy I've said it before but I'll say it again... your yard sounds beautiful! Personally my mom thinks she would go check it out in the winter first. She's more afraid of slithery things in warmer weather.

Mom and I got geared up to go take a walk this morning. We were hoping to get one in before the rain. No such luck. By the time we were walking out the door it was already raining. We ran around in the yard in the rain some. Neighbors must have thought we were nuts. While we were out there the sky just opened up and poured on us! Mom considered still trying to get in a little walk since we were already wet and I don't mind the rain. We opted not to, and good thing, too. Not long after we had been in there was some thunder and lightening. Woudldn't have wanted to be out in that.

Denali, was your dad surprised when you didn't bark at the deer? Mom wonders what I would do. In the past she would have said she was sure I would bark, but after meeting the horse and donkey through the fence on a walk earlier this year and being curious but quiet she's not sure any more. Would be interesting to find out.

Feet, face and fanny grooms?!! OMD that sounds worse than our nail trimming. I really don't think I want someone grooming my fanny. I've already got a short nub of a tail. Wouldn't want it any shorter by accident. Hehe.

Sassy, we have decorated our house for your birthday, too. Hehe. Well, for you and Santa Paws. Pixie, Cheeky and I each have a package, but Mom has put them up higher. I wouldn't leave them alone under the tree (or anywhere else I could get to them). Here is a short clip of me with my package... http://www.dogster.com/video/817616/i_need_to_get_into_this_package. Mom had set it down while she went to the bathroom and came back to find me. Oops. Busted. Mom has threatened to tell Santa Paws I have been naughty the last few days and send my package back. Don't think she would really do that. Hope not anyway. Too bad we didn't get that walk in to let off some steam.

We may not have walked but we did work on the therapy ball a little. Mom figured that would get rid of some energy. She mentioned something about wishing I had and would use a treadmill. Hehe. May have to pull the hurdles out today as well. I have just been raring to go!!

Hey you guys...I went for a walk with my dad yesterday morning and we started to walk up this one little street by us, it's not really a street just a long driveway with a few houses back up in the woods. Anyway we started to walk up there just to look around and we had to stop...there were 4 deer just wondering across the street. Dad thought it as really cool, we were not too close but close enough to see them pretty good. I, personally, didn't really see what all the excitement was about. I looked at them and then looked and sniffed at everything else around me. Maybe if we had been a little closer I would have been more curious but dad didn't want to test that theory. So they are pretty like me, have 4 legs and just walk around,just like me. They are only a little bigger, I don't know....but I'm sure you'll hear more about them.

Hmmmm, rawhide candy canes do sound interesting. Mom doesn't give us much rawhide, I guess she's not to fond of it. I would like ice cream or peanut butter candy canes, but then they would never make it to the tree soooooooo guess Santa Paws would just have to leave them in my crate,hmmmm. Sure hope mom is paying attention. And we want to see that video of Pip and the tree, teehee.

We are on 3 acres of property but most of it is treed and very steep so we can't go on that part but mom and dad can see the deer going across there. They must have better footing than we do, ahhhh and their mom and dad probably let them play there too, hmpf. There is a creek too. I sure hope we get to go down there in the summer at least once. Mom says maybe she'll have to see what other creatures linger there before we venture that way.

Pogo-Pip is that like Angelina Pixie, teehee. Glad you guys are getting more used to that ramp, it's gotta be easier on you than those "steps" you had.

Mom got hold of all of us on Thursday and we all got feet, face and fanny grooms and then got sprayed and buffed with between bath spritz. So now we look very nice and smell good too. Not my favorite thing to do but it was OK. I'm always a good girl 'cause I know I'm getting an animal cookie when she's done.

Mom's going to try to get pics of the deer but they move so fast sometimes, she's not sure she can.

Poor Patches, I think she is just tired and all those trips up and down the stairs, wow. Mom thinks Goliath might be losing his hearing some too, Dad is voting for the "ignoring" thing. Please give Patches hugs from us.

Gee sorry you guys had tummy things today. Hope it was just a "thing" and now it's gone. I think I heard that ice cream makes your tummy feel better. Better make sure your mom knows that.

Comemere,I agree with Pip, you're probably much better company than those people humans. Glad you had fun with Dolly.

Mom has decorated the whole house for my Birthday, it's so cool, kinda looks like Christmas around here!!!

Hiya Tink. Looks like we are behind, too. Hehe. We had rain just about all day long Friday. We had a slight chance of snow flurries that night, but we never saw any. I could do with a little snow, and Mom says we all sleep better when it's cold out. I do have to say I am surprised your mom wants snow, Tink. That is bad. Hehe. Yikes on those accidents, Comemere. I sure hope no one was hurt.

Rawhide candy canes?! Yum. Hmm. Maybe I had better behave so Santa Paws will leave some on our tree, too. Of course when I said that Mom just laughed and said she hoped not until she got the ornaments off and the video camera set up. Tee hee hee. There are no presents under our tree either. There were at one point, but I just couldn't wait and kept trying to open them so Mom has put them up higher. Hmph.

Sassy, I am getting better with the ramp, but I still tend to skip the bottom part. Hehe. Who needs that bit? After all, one of my nick names is Pogo-Pip, and Mom is sure I am part billy goat. BOL! The good thing is though that I am getting more and more comfortable with it. Pixie is doing great with it. If we get in her way at the top she does have to go back down and get another running start, but she's got this down now. Even Patches is using it.

Speaking of Patches we are thinking more and more that her hearing is going. Either that or she is ignoring Mom more and more, wwhich is quite possible. Hehe. She is remaining a little more settled down, maybe playing once or twice a day. She follows Mom all over the house and Friday when Mom and Paw Paw were working on some things both Mom and Patches climbed the stairs 30 times or more I think. They were both worn out by the end of the day.

Sassy we can't wait to see the pics. Hope your parents get some pics of the deer, too. Sounds like you much have a really lovely yard. We see birds and squirrels, an occaisional stray cat, and every now and then a possum. We haven't seen any possum for a while and Mom says that is fine. We're surprised we don't see raccoons. We have lots of trees in the neighborhood and a park close by. May be they are out there and we just haven't seen them. We do see them a lot at Grandma's house though. For a while seemed like they were also seeing fox at their house, but haven't seen those for a bit now. Mom and Grandma think they saw a coyote over there one afternoon, too.

Comemere, Mom said if she was in the hospital she might rather see you than some of her family at times. BOL! Last time she was in the hospital for some surgery someone gave her a stuffed kitty so she wouldn't miss Patches and Sweetpea the two days she had to be there. That was before she got us pups. Anyway, Mom said that was the best thing anyone could have given her, but a visit from a real fur kid would be even better. I'm so glad that you and your mom go and visit with everyone!

We've had a quiet day here today. Cheeky's tummy was making all kinds of noise this morning and she ate breakfast kind of slowly. Then this afternoon I got sick, but we all ate an early dinner and gobbled it down. So don't think anyone has anything serious going on. In fact, I would be up for some treats right now I think. Mom's not going for that, but I'm sure I could chance it. Hehe.