Thank you friends.......

Thank you dog friends for all your advice. Meeshka, I think you are right .... My Mom probably has tried a lot of things really quick and not been consistent long enough. She says she will re-think that. (Can I still get in HULA?)

Yes, I am fixed. I was fixed when I was 5 or 6 months old and I NEVER mark my territory (unlike another doglet I know.) It's embarrasing but I tinkle like a girl, so no that is not it. And Mom does lure me into the crate. In fact one night she fixed everything the night before and put it in the crate. In the morning, I couldn't wait to get to it .. I just wanted to get the treat OUT of the crate though and take it under the dining room table. She also does the boring greeting thing when she gets home. She lets me out of the crate and lets me out in my yard and goes back inside. I, on the other hand, am over the moon excited to see her and so it is prety hard for her to remain uninterested in me. She gave up on the metal crate because she was afraid I was hurting my teeth. But thank you for your advice. My Mom is kinda a wimp and so am I so maybe she needs to re-think it all.



I know this is not a Kong, but the Kong peepol won't let you copy their pictures. This is King Kong. I have a large black Kong. That is the size the Kong people recommend for me. It seems kind of big for me but Mom figured the hole was bigger so she got it. I managed to chew a red one up, so Mom got me the black one for extreme chewers. I want to know what your peepol "stuff" your with?? My Mom puts one of those little cookies that Kong makes, the kind that sticks out the hole. I chew off the top of the cookie and then I don't care about the broken off part on the inside of the Kong because (I guess) I can't get it. Sometimes she puts a table spoon of peanut butter inside the opening and I like it but it doesn't thrill me. She never FILLS IT with anything. Do you big dogs have such long tongues that you can get to the bottom of those things???? What do you put in it? Do you think mine is too big for me?

My favorite treat is a hollow bone filled with lamb and rice jerky treats. I lick and lick and lick the jerky treats on each end. Mom fixes me one every day when she goes to work. But it still doesn't keep me occupied all day.

On another note, I have gotten so many cards, I can't count them all. I am going to send them to Hershey because we are sharing. Hershey, just wiat till you see them all !! I got a really special present from Hana today and I have a crush on her now. Can I have a crush on two girls ...... Ivy and Hana? Thank you Hana. I love it!!!!!

Tomorrow I will tell you about the amazing scary thing that came to my neighbor hood today! I took pictures!

WARNING - DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME

It is with great embarrassment (on my part and my Mother's) that I share with you the picture of my horrible incident with the feathers. Who knew a blanket could make this much of a mess. What was my Mom thinking!?!?!?!

Today was a much better day. Mom left me in the kitchen with only a blanket, my bone, and a rope toy that I was encouraged to chew on (she smeared my favorite treat on it.) She worried a little that I might decide to chew on the kitchen furniture, but I didn't. I didn't tinkle on the blanket either. Yea!

I am emailing Meeshka the picture hoping to get into HULA-hoop. Hershey got in. If this picture doesn't get me in ... well, I don't know what will.

Thank you to all my dog friends that encouraged my Mom. Thank you especially to Hana for suggesting a play date. That is one Mom had not thought of. I don't think Mom would ever get rid of me. Christmas is coming and my Mom will have two weeks to spend with me. Company will be here and Hershey will even be here. I will just go nuts in January when they all go.

How much is that doggie in the window ...

I am in the dog house tonight! In fact I have gone to bed early with my Dad and I am not keeping my Mom company tonight.

I got a spanking this afternoon from my Mom and she has given me the cold shoulder all night. I did not blog last night because I was so embarrassed .... and today ... well it wasn't much better. Like I said ... I got a spanking today, even though my Mom told me she shouldn't have spanked me. She said she is pretty sure I didn't know what I was getting a spanking for.

I know many of you have been following my prison saga. First let me say that my Mom has tried piddle pads (I don't pee on them and I tear them up.) but not litter. She tried spraying apple bitter on the cage ... more about that in a minute. She has tried putting me in the kennel .... I mean prison for short pleasant stays when she is home and she fed me dinner in it tonight. She has done everything she knows to do and read web sites and talked to Dr Cindy.

Dr Cindy looked at my teeth and said they were fine. She said I did have a place where I bit my mouth ... it was swollen. She does not want to put me on medicine because she says we still have to train me. Mom asked if she was doing everything right ..... training me .... and Dr Cindy says yes. (Mom wonders though if she wasn't just being nice though.) So, Sunday night Dr Cindy said to Mom to put me in the metal prison kennel on Monday but to give me a blanket.

So Mom sprayed apple bitter on the cage and gave me my favorite blanket yesterday. Do you know that if you chew a hole in your favorite soft fluffy blanket that feathers get all over you and all over the kitchen and in the air and everywhere and you have to lay in them until Mom gets home? How was I suppose to know it would do that? Plus, if you chew on your kennel and it tastes like Apple Bitter, you have to get a lot of huge drinks when your Mom gets home to get the awful taste out of your mouth. Yesterday was a no good horrible bad day. I don't know who felt worse .... me .. or Mom.

So today Mom put away the metal kennel prison and put my soft sided kennel, which I will sleep in and go lay in sometimes on my own ... ride in the car in on trips ... the one I like ... she put it in the kitchen but did not zip me up in it. The door was velcroed up so I could go in and out. She put nice blankets in it and left me lots of toys. She turned on the TV to Animal Planet. I had water and a bone with my favorite recipe. The only thing I did not have was a manicure and a massage. Then she went to work.

When she came home, I had chewed up a place on the kennel and tinkled on every blanket. I had even pulled the cover off the kennel, the one she made to make it dark and private, and tinkled on that. I got a spanking, I think because Mom is so frustrated. She knew she shouldn't be spanking me but she was so mad and so frustrated she did. She even called Hershey's Mom and said she might have to get rid of me ... snif snif.

She said that because she is frustrated (but so and I) and she has a lot of stuff to do for Christmas and parties to go to and things to make and a stressful job and groceries to get and she even had to vote today. She said to Hershey's Mom that maybe she doesn't have time for me and maybe I need a home where the people are home all time time like at Isabella's house. She also said maybe I need a brother or a sister. She may look for one. But she thinks if she does not have time for one dog, how is she going to have time for two dogs.

Wonderful story ....

Go listen to this msn video. It is about a dog that saved her peepol's lives.

http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=B02745CF-33A1-4C38-97F6-18D05A7F6E69&t=s3&f=06/64&p=top_topnews&fg&GT1=8816

Does any dog have any advice?

Ok, my mother is really worried now and she does not know what to do. She will ask Dr Cindy tomorrow. But maybe you dogs have some advice.

My Mom bought a black metal cage (bed) for me to go in when they go to work or places like that. I don't know where they go, they just go and sometimes they use the word work. She bought it for me because I was tinkling on my blankets, that she nicely left in in the kitchen where she penned me up when she went to work. I do not get soft blankets in the black kennel. I get a hard bone with my special recipe and a soft toy or a kong ... whatever she is in the mood for I guess.

I have been really good and have not tinkled in the kennel (there's no soft blankets in there to tinkle on Mom - duh!) but she has noticed small wet spots around the edges of the pan and on one corner of the towel or blanket she sets the cage on is wet (so it won't scratch the floor.) At first she thought maybe I was lifting my leg to pee out the corner but it does not smell like pee, Today she got a good look at the kennel and has determined I am CHEWING on the bars of the kennel, mostly in that one corner. The wet spots are my slobber.

So tonight she held me down and looked at my teeth and she saw little black specs on my teeth and what looks like a sore on my lip by my nose. My front teeth look worn down too.

Now my Mom is all worried and I think I have almost convinced her to take me with her wherever she goes.... just like the little teeny 8 week baby Maltese she saw at church today in a special bag. I could not fit in a little bag but I could sit in her lap and she could carry me I am sure. Maybe she could buy me a doggie stroller!! Or a front pack!!!!

Ugh! What is my Mom going to do. They call it seperation anxiety. Maybe Hershey will let me come live with him. His Mom is about to be home all the time taking care of a baby. I could keep Hershey company.

The bad prison kennel (bed)

Dear Hershey ....

Hey Hershey!

Look at all the cool Christmas Cards we have gotten already. Today we got cards from Joey and Tanner, Tin Tin in Australia, and Mackie & Ollie. Wow (or Woo) this is FUN!! I am getting way more Christmas Cards than Mom.

I want to share the cards with you since they are coming to my house. I can't wait unitil you come for Christmas to show them to you so I am sending them to you in the mail.

Have fun in Virginia and tell Nixon I said Hi. Oh, and don't let the wind or the neighbors distract you from doing what your gotta do.

Your very best friend,

Copper