First day home

Yep, that is me,  my first day in my new house at 8 weeks of age.  I remember the day I first met mommy, she and my then daddy, came to the breeder's home and looked at all my brother's and sister's.  I was being held by the breeder's son and mommy had not seen me until she was about to leave and noticed me in the little boy's lap.

She went over to him and asked if she could hold me, he reluctantly gave me up.  Mommy held me in her arms and then she turned me over and cradled me with my face facing hers, I was asleep but I could hear her say, "He is so precious and he is letting me hold him with his tummy exposed, he is not fighting me" and then I yawned and opened my eyes and we looked at each other and I gave her a kiss on her chin, ( a little dog lick) and then I nestled my head into her chest and went back to sleep.

Mommy was a hooked and so was I.  She said I picked her but she picked me.  My first day home was so special, mommy made me feel safe and warm and happy.  She fed me and took so many pictures of me, even while I was eating, she could not get enough of me, nor me her.

I was not allowed to sleep in bed with her as I needed to be crate trained.  I was a good dog, I even graduated at the top of my class in puppy training!! Mommy was so proud of me, she worked with me all day while daddy was working and then she would go to work and when she came home she worked me some more.  All of that work paid off as I was top dog in class!!

Mommy says I am the most adorable dog she has ever seen, God created me just for her and she sees heaven when she sees me.   She loves me very much and I love her very much, we are inseparable.  Now if you were to ask me who I loved more, Mommy or Jake, well I would have to say Mommy, there is no love like a mother's love and she loves me with all her heart and more and I am thankful for her and even more so than she is of me.  

My reunion with Jake, the love of my life and best friend!!

Oh how my heart jumped for joy when I saw Jake today!!!!!!!!  We had not seen each other since he moved away with his family a little over a year ago.  Mommy kept the surprise quiet as she loaded me into the car, I thought Jake was coming to my house to play and I was worried when mommy loaded me into the car as I thought I would miss Jake's visit.  Only sneaky mommy was taking me to meet Jake at the park and when we pulled up next to the car holding my beloved friend I just went crazy!  

As soon as mommy opened the door I took off towards Jake and he and I ran and ran and ran and played non stop for 30 minutes.  I had so much fun that I even ignored the pond that was filled to the brim as it rained the day before and I am a lab and we like to swim so that speaks volumes of my love for Jake.  He and I did our thing, humped off and on, Jake licked my ears, I slobbered on him, we ran around and ran the whole 2 acres of land with nothing between us but the wind.  Jake is 5 years younger than me and I am a senior  citizen but I ran like I was a teenager.  So much so that right now I can not make up the steps to sleep with my mommy as I am so sore.  But bless my mommy she gave me pain pills and rubbed and rubbed me gently and soothed my sore aching muscles.  I am currently nice and cozy on the couch typing this before I turn in for the night.

Mommy said Jake is coming over to the house to visit me again this week, at least two more times, that is good because I do not think I can handle another run off leash play session where we run wild and free at top speed.  I think the confines of our back yard is just right.  After we played we shared a bowl of water but as soon as I heard Jake's parents say that they had to go, I threw myself at Jake and in turn stepped on and tipped the water bowl, splashing all the remaining water out and I snuggled up close to Jake as I just could not bare to see him leave me, not again.  But mommy knowing how much I love Jake re-assured me the separation was only a brief time apart and then we would see each other again.  I really, really do love Jake.

In more ways that one..............

I was gypped at the bank today!

OHHHH I could not believe what happened to me at the bank today!

Mommy took me with her to do her errands and she stopped by the bank and usually the Teller gives me a treat but not this time.

I was so upset and let mommy know this as I gave her my most saddest, broken hearted look I could muster.  

I was kind of hoping she would stop at a store and buy me something to make me happy but she did not do this, instead she took my picture and laughed saying, "Oh poor baby, mommy will give you tummy rubs later to make up for the mean Teller who forgot to give you a treat"

I have news for mommy since she thinks it is so funny, I am hogging the bed again tonight and hopefully wake up to find mommy sleeping scrunched up against the wall again!

I like my treats , and I prefer them over belly rubs, but maybe I wont hog the bed tonight, maybe, just maybe I will sit by the kitchen pantry door again and see if I can get a few more than just two treats, I am sure mommy will do this, let me try it now....................................................NOPE!!! did not work, mommy just walked by me and never even offered a treat or asked me to do a trick first, maybe because she is busy cleaning, oh well, I guess I will just hog the bed again.

If I could only get her to bring treats with her in the car so when the Teller forgets mommy can just give me one, there is no describing how bad one feels when they expect a treat and anxiously wait all the while drooling until you form a puddle at your paws and then get nothing, it is a cruel game, but mommy did give me belly rubs tonight, but still, I would much prefer the treat, a treat is  a dog's best friend.  

Liking my new ball

Oh my mommy did me good tonight, she got me this cool ball that has little rubber strings that pull and pull and pull, at first I was afraid of the ball then I got the hang of it and so far I have not popped it.  I love this thing, the cat almost got into trouble tonight, mom left her paint supplies on the table and had just finished painting two pieces when she walked away and made sure all chairs were pushed in close to the table so the cat could not hop up like she did a week ago and got into mom's paints and made a mess.

Mom was with me in the living room and out of the corner of her eye she saw that damn sneaky cat on the table and I never saw my mommy run so fast!!!

She scooped her up and gently placed her on the floor, I was a little disappointed she did not get a tongue lashing, probably because mommy's paintings had not been ruined this time.

The cat I am sure was just looking for attention because mommy was playing with me and my new ball and the cat was just jealous.

She will get over it I am sure.  I have yet to call her, my sister by her name, I will when she stops messing with me, for now she is just the cat.

I would not mind using her as a chew toy here and there but she has claws and that is probably a good thing.  Otherwise I would carry her around and spit her out.

It may seem like I do not like my sister but I do, I love her, it is just well, since daddy left mommy has been all mine and I like it that way and my sister is trying to get in on the action and I do not want to share, I am needy and well, I am just needy.

I know mom loves us both, and calls us her kids, but well I just want to be the favorite, I am the baby of the family and well, am I not supposed to be spoiled????? 

I do not have cancer!!!!

Whew!!! Boy am I relieved! Mommy found another lump on me last night and was worried, I was too, that this time I did have cancer.  She was very calm though, did not cry, just said "if this is the big C word we will deal with it, life is not guaranteed to be painless or free from loss or suffering, but there is love and comfort and I will give you all I can Outlaw"  She was so happy today when the vet said it was a cyst, actually she called it an old man cyst.

Apparently us older gent's get these as we get older, who knew???

Now you would think that the cat would ease up on her wanting to torment me but alas that is not about to happen.

She keeps chasing me but she sneaks up on me now when I am walking in the dark and it scares the last remaining bits of sanity from me.  She even made me wear the bunny ears again and took a pic of me, she said, "Sit, stay, do as I say and you wont get hurt!"  I did as she said.

Why are cats so sneaky, I outweigh her by 60 pounds but she acts like she is the lion and I am the prey.  Oh how I would love to sneak up on her and scare her to her wits end.  I bet she could actually hang from the ceiling by her claws if I scared her just right.

She is actually 14 years old but full of spunk that is for sure.

Anyway, I am happy, mommy is happy and the cat who gives a @##@@ what she thinks, if mommy knew how I felt about the cat she would take away my blogging privilege's for sure, so i do not want to discuss Lucifer's spawn any longer as when I do I get carried away.

But boy how i love how she snuggles up to mommy and acts so innocent and full of love and sweetness when mommy is around.

One day the truth will come out and when it does I will have a front row seat for the best show on earth!!!  Haaa, well, you know, maybe too the reason that cat is acting up is because I do let her know by rubbing it in actually that I get to go with mommy on car rides and she doesn't.

Like they say, "there are two sides to every story" now who is the real sneaky one ;-)))

Where is she??!!

I am so damn tired of having to live my life in constant fear!  I am always and forever looking over my shoulder and wondering if today is the day she is going to strike!

I am of course referring to my sibling, the cat, her name is Mandy but I am going to refer to her from now on as the cat, aka the cat from hell, lucifer's spawn, the evil one, etc.

She was the first addition in my mother's life, she arrived 2 years before my daddy and mommy met, then after 2 years of being with mommy and daddy both I came along and she retreated to the far corners of the house.  she was always kind of jealous of me, and she let me know very quickly that she was the Alpha leader in the family, she did this by swiping my nose twice with her razor sharp claws and it took only two times for me to learn my lesson and to stay the distance.

All was well, and she left me alone but then when daddy left, she came around more often, she and I both clung to mom and I think we were just afraid that mommy would leave us too so we never let her out of our sights.  I did not try and get in the way of the cat showing mom love because the funny thing is the cat was kind of anti social when daddy was around but once he left the cat was very attentive and full of love and even brushed up against me from time to time, and I liked it.

she was showing me love for once, and we got along and we played chase sometimes, but then she began to change, it was as if she lured me into a false sense of comfort and love.  

I noticed a few months back that if I had my head on mom's lap, the cat would pounce on her lap and demand attention, if my head was being rubbed the cat would pounce over and put her head in mom's hands and want rubbed, if mom was giving me a treat or a sample of what she was eating , the cat came over for some too.

I was getting pretty sick of this as mom and I have always been one, now the cat wants in on all the action.  but lately, lately she has been evil.  If I take a nap while mom is away, I wake up to find the cat staring at me and it scares me to the point I feel I am about to loose control of my bowels and I think that is what she wants,  mom would be so mad at me if I had an accident in the house and this cat I feel is trying to make this happen via fear.

If I walk into the kitchen the cat comes out of no where and chases me and then swipes at me with her Freddy Kruger like fingernails and that alone makes me want to run through the walls to the safe outside to get away from her, she scares me and for some reason mom thinks she just wants to play and be friends.

Of course she would think this because the cat comes up to me in front of mommy all the time and purrs while rubbing up against my leg, or head.  I stand there in fear and afraid to move for what she will do next, but as long as mommy is watching the cat does nothing but show me love only thing is I know what she is really like when I am left alone with her, and she scares me.

I am looking over my shoulder in fear all the time, afraid she is going to turn into some possessed being and chase me throughout the house until i have a heart attack.

if there was only a way to catch her in the act, I mean, mommy catch her in the act.  Mommy needs to know what the cat is up to.  I may have to create a trap, hmmmm, I will work on that now, and let you know in my next post how things have turned out.  Cats, hmmmph, they say they are sneaky and I personally know from experience and first hand accounts just how sneaky they can truly be!!!!

I am in love!!!

OK, so I am in love, no big secret, everyone knows who it is, JAKE, THE JAKE MAN!! Love of my life, he is coming to visit me in April, next month!!!  He used to live next door to me and he moved in when he was a puppy and we clicked right off the bat.  Sure he tried to become Alpha dog right from the start but I quickly make him my bitch, he and I knew who the Alpha dog was and is.  He and I would hump till crazy in the back yard, drove our mother's crazy, they had to constantly yell at us and pull us apart.  

Well, what did they expect, we were in love and my mom took a picture of us together when I learned Jake was moving and all the love I had for him was captured in that picture, which I will post with this blog entry.

He even sent me a little risky photo of himself all dressed up in my favorite color, red.

He is a minx that one, I am so eager to see him again and to play with him and run with him and wag tails with him and yep, we will hump again as that is what we did most of the time anyway!! Hmmm, I will put one of those pics up as well for you to see.  We just did, took turns, showing our love for each other, of course mom and his mom said Jake was just trying and then I was trying to establish Alpha dog but truth be told, the truth of our love was captured in the photo you see next to the entry, we are and have always been in love.  I sooooo, can not wait to see the love of my life in April, just a few more weeks and he will be here, YEEHAAAAA!!!