Caught Red Pawed.

Memorial weekend happened to be one of the best weekends of my life. I got full run of the country and ate my fair share of bark off of the sticks in the yard. Watch this video of Mommy sneaking up on me while I'm disobediently eating bark. It's yummy and I don't know why she won't let me eat it.

But, it Looked So Good!

I don't know what got into her, but my Mom decided to make homemade dog food and then eat it for herself. She called it a Tuna Sandwich.

She kept telling me it had tuna and mayonnaise and pickle relish in it, but quite frankly, I don't care. All I cared about was that it smelled like my food and I wanted to eat it.

One day, my parents were in the kitchen cooking and Mommy opened the refrigerator door and turned around to talk to Daddy. When she turned back around, my head was inside the fridge and I was sniffing out this Tuna Sandwich stuff.


I was so engrossed in finding this food that I didn't realize Mommy was watching me! I looked up at her and my heart skipped a beat and I ran from the fridge.

They wanted photos and so they tried to get me to go search for this food, but I wouldn't. I was afraid I'd get in trouble. After all, never once have I ever gotten in the fridge ever before!

See, I don't like it when they put me in situations that I know are wrong. Aren't they the ones who are supposed to teach me not to do stuff like this?

They even took the lid off so I could smell it better and even eat it if I so desired.

So, I snuck up there by myself and took a sniff. Then, I jumped back, "I can't do this! I'm not allowed to. After all, this is probably a trap!"

So I walked away. After thinking about this, I realized that I should have just given in to the temptation and stole Mommy's dog food. I know it sure would have been yummy.


I never did eat the tuna salad for sandwiches. While I made it as basic as it can be made, it just didn't look very good and it did smell incredibly like Oscar's dog food though much stronger-which made it all the more unappetizing. Oscar, on the other hand, went crazy while I was making this. He probably got to eat a small amount of the tuna salad, but I honestly don't remember. After this incident, it was thrown away. ~Oscar's Mom.

Mmm...Sweet Apples

Lately Mommy's been on a bit of a health food kick...well, I won't say lately because recently she's been caught eating spoonfuls of chocolate chip cookie dough or batter for cobbler. This is fine with me as long as she shares which, usually she'll let me eat off the spoon.

So anyway, for awhile our fridge was full of fruits and vegetables. Yuck, vegetables. But, she's got these apples that look and smell very tasty. Little did I know how good they really were!

I like them because they're sweet and juicy! Yes, I said I like them. That's right-she lets me eat them!
She won't let me eat the whole thing, which really bothers me, because I can just see me rolling it around the floor and biting out huge chunks. Mommy thinks I'll make a big mess, because as it is I'm already a sloppy apple eater.



She usually lets me eat the last few bites, but I really wish she wasn't so stingy and would let me eat more. I also know that when she throws away the apple there are many more bites left. Like the core...she really doesn't have to throw that away. Oh and, I'm sure those black things, what are they? Seeds? I'm sure they're very tasty! I think I will have to steal some and plant my own apple tree. I won't be sharing my apples with anyone. Well, maybe the pretty pug that lives across the street from me. I bet she's never had an apple.



Eating apples requires my full attention. Mmmmm....tasty....

Now, I just need to convince Mommy to buy more apples because recently I haven't seen any in the fridge (yes, I've been in the fridge, but that's another post for another day). Then, my goal is to convince her to give me a whole apple. What? They're healthy, it'd be better than giving me milkbones or treats for my kong several times a day....which she still doesn't do. Hmmm....looks like I'll have to work on that too..

A Pug in a Box

Every once in a while my parents buy stuff that arrives in huge boxes which they use to torment me.

First, they chase me with the box and because I'm scared of it-I run! Then, when that gets boring for them, I get put in the box.
This box was taller than me so it would have required a bit of effort on my part to jump out. Not to mention that they told me to "stay" and since I like to be obedient I stayed.

But, I'm thinking that I shouldn't have. I should have just jumped out of the box!

You know, I don't know what I do to deserve this....

My Giant Bone

A few weeks ago, my Daddy bought me a big, giant, rawhide bone! It was so big I almost couldn't put my mouth around it.

I love rawhide bones, but I had no idea they made them this big. Apparently, they make them even bigger.

At first I didn't know what to do with it! It seemed too big to eat so I just stared at it and licked it.

I might have whined a few times too.
I eventually got to the point where I could carry it in my mouth. Normally I my nylabones or rawhide bones at the end, but this time, I carried the bone like a real dog.
My favorite place to chew bones is on the couch on top of Mommy's blanket. I know, that seems kind of gross but, she would rather have bone residue on her washable blanket than her couch.
Rawhide is hard to clean off of a microsuede couch.
Mommy came over to take my picture and I thought she was going to steal my bone. Once I learned how to carry it and chew on it, I became very possessive over my new toy!

Believe it or not, I ate the entire bone. It's all gone. OK. Well, I almost ate the entire bone, I would have if Mommy stopped shoving her fingers in my mouth to pull out the almost swallowed 4'' chunks of rawhide. My parents keep throwing away the ends or the last little bits' and pieces because they are too afraid I'm going to choke on it.


Anyway, we were laying on the couch and Mommy tried to pet me. I thought she was going to try to take away my rawhide bone. Well, I growled at her. I got away with it while she took this video, but the second time I tried to growl at her like this I got in trouble and I got my rawhide bone taken away from me!

Blizzard 2008

Oh the cold wet snow...I can't make up my mind if I hate it or love it. I don't like being cold and I don't like being wet but there is something invigorating about being out in the snow.

A few weekend ago, it snowed 20" leaving me and my parents snowed in and trapped in our apartment for two days.

Obviously, it didn't keep me from going out to play in though. Mommy wanted to play in the snow and so she would force me outside under false pretenses.

After I take care of my business, Mommy walks the opposite direction from our warm apartment into a huge snow drift pile. Then, she calls me to come to her. Yeah riight..

But next thing I know, I'm charging forward into snow that is so deep it could bury me.

I decided I had-had enough of running around in the snow so I turned around and followed my path back to the apartment. I didn't feel like forging a new trail.

Mommy called me back out to see if I would come to her, but instead I stood on our patio and barked at her telling her it was time to come inside.

She finally acquiesced and our adventures out in the cold ended with some snuggling on the couch while watching a movie. It is worth being outside in the cold and then freezing so that when you go inside where it is warm it makes you feel all warm and cuddly.

I tried to convince Mommy to make me hot chocolate but she said "no!"

A Puppy's Little Heart

I'm sure we've all heard stories from someone claiming their dog had a "heart" in its coat, but upon looking closely at the dog's coat it became obvious that this "heart" was an odd-shaped circle.

In one case, this heart shape was not a stretch of imagination.

Meet Heart-Kun, a 10 month old Chihuahua born in Odate, Japan with a large, clearly-defined brown heart-shaped marking against his white coat. The puppy's breeder, Emiko Sakurada-who has bred nearly 1,000 dogs over the past several years-claims she has not seen a marking like this on any other dog.



Bred with the intention to be sold, Heart-Kun born May 18, 2007, has brought "good fortune to me and everyone else whose path cross with Heart-Kun," said Sakurada who plans to keep this big-hearted puppy.



A video about Heart-Kun will be posted shortly once I get YouTube and blogger to interact.