Pimm's Blog

Holly tries to understand

2008-02-01T11:40:00.000-06:00

playing with Holly

2007-12-28T18:01:00.000-06:00

Me and Holly playing. We were were wearing our special Christmas collars. We like wearing them because it usually means there's going to be a party.

Watch near the end as I bonk Holly in the nose pretty hard (she was ok though - she's tough).

Happy Holidays

2007-12-24T14:32:00.000-06:00

(I'll post more later - I'm very busy now that I went to University of Missouri Veterinary Medical school this past fall and got a Certificate!
... I think I'm a Doctor now or else I was a patient, I'm not sure. But I did get a certificate. I'll post the certificate later.)

me (cheap camera version)

2007-04-15T13:14:00.000-05:00

My male human took this picture of me when I was taking him for a walk. He used a cheap ($10!) mini digital camera smaller than a cookie. He let me sniff it but it didn'tsmell like a cookie so I didn't eat it.
He thinks the picture can be thought of as an "art photo" but I don't think so - my butts not showing.

stupid new Blogger

2007-01-30T11:16:00.001-06:00

Stupid new blogger! I hate the new Blogger!

why I don't post much these days

2007-01-28T14:29:00.000-06:00

I haven't been posting much lately. I started this blog a few years ago so that my mommy, who was then working in another town four days and three nights a week, could keep track of what I was doing and smelling and peeing on. I missed her and she missed me (and Holly too). We're very close and this blog helped us keep in touch when she was away. I really posted just to talk to her and now that we, Holly and me and our humans, all live in one location, in the same city, with no one leaving the pack for more than a day this blog isn't as important as it once was and I don't post much anymore.
However, since other dogs and their humans do sometimes read this dogblog, I will try to post more often again.

I think I'll start posting pictures of the neighbors (maybe with their humans) soon.

am I running a hotel ?

2006-10-01T12:03:00.000-05:00

The past two weeks Ivy has been staying with us. She just went home a few days ago and I was begining to think she was going to stay for good! She has stayed with us a couple of times this year but only for a few days at a time.

Miss Ivy

Ivy's person, John, who we stay with once in a while, was just on vacation but I was quite worried. Especially after more than a whole week. Nobody had ever stayed with us that long before except Squeaky, who had lived with us for almost a year out in the country before she went up north to live with some nice little girls who feed her ham. But after a week, just when I thought Ivy should be going home, guess who showed up? Squeaky!

Squeaky

Squeaky stayed for two nights. Four dogs! We out-numbered the humans 2 to 1. Squeaky has met Ivy before and they get along ok. I was a little worried that the three girls would gang up on me but they all respected my authoritie. ("You mean we all ignored you" - Holly)
Ivy loves to play with our squeaky toys even more than we do but Squeaky doesn't like the noise they make so she would take them away from Ivy and lay down with them in the corner. Ivy could only play with the toys that didn't make noise.

Eventually they both left and now it's just Holly and me, but our humans are doing that thing they do just before another dog comes over - "Do you want to see Squeaky?" "Do you want to see Max?" "Do you want to see Max and Maggie?"

Max
Max and Maggie stayed with us too, earlier this summer.

I must be running a hotel.

guest chef

2006-09-07T17:07:00.000-05:00

Several days ago, when our people were gone from the house, a stranger came to the door. Me and Holly barked at him but unlike the mailman, who drops the mail and then runs in terror of my fluffy ferociousness, this guy opens the door and comes in! I thought he might be a burglar so we barked at him some more and then we sniffed him all over, just to check him out and make sure he wasn't too frightened of me (I'm not a mean dog). He recovered enough to pet us some. I didn't know what to do with him after that so I herded him into the kitchen and had him fix dinner for us. Later we took him for a walk and I showed him some of my pee-mail spots and then he went away. Then Holly reminded me that he had been to the house once before a few weeks ago.

Anyway, just before bedtime, our people were still not home and this guy shows up again. We didn't bark at him this time instead we all went out in the backyard and had cookies and peed and sniffed and stuff and then he went home and Holly and I spent the night home alone! Which meant that we could both sleep on the big people bed and really stretch out! I like to sleep on my back in the very middle of the bed.

Next morning, the guy was back again and he served us breakfast, not breakfast in bed but it was good anyway. Later that day our people came back.

My 5 Secrets

2006-08-30T15:34:00.000-05:00

I've been tagged by Freda.

1. I am a 52 pound lap dog. Can I sit on your lap? I promise it won't hurt a bit.

2. I don't know if Holly is my wife or my sister, so I treat her like both, if you know what I mean. I especially like to treat her like my wife when we're getting into a car.

3. I am a mama's boy. Don't try to separate me from her or there will be trouble. My favorite thing in the world is reclining on my back on the pillows in the people bed and whining until she strokes my tummy.

4. I'm obsessed with an air return duct in the dining room. Once I heard loud noises coming up through it from the basement, which validates my need to stare down it several times an hour.

5. I'm very into butt comfort. I'm kind of happy when my people are injured so I can rest my butt on a heating pad in the winter or ice pack in the summer.

partial list

2006-08-09T12:12:00.000-05:00

--------------- Me --- Holly
cherries ........yes ...... no
nectarines ....yes ...... yes
watermelon ..yes ...... yes
banana .........yes ...... no
apricot .........yes ...... no
raspberry .....yes ...... yes
green beans .yes ...... yes
kiwi ..............yes ...... no
apricot .........yes ...... yes
blueberry......yes ...... no
basil ............yes ...... no
(an entire leaf!)
mango .........yes ...... no
plum ............yes ...... no
avocado .......yes ...... yes

some people

2006-07-08T10:42:00.000-05:00

I hope this dog was going to a costume party!

Grrrr...

2006-06-03T17:55:00.000-05:00

I know I haven't posted in a while. I've been trying to recover from a traumatic experience of home invasion. I've made no secret of my feelings about puppies, but for some reason my people still agreed to have this THING in my house for a few days. I think I was rather well behaved in that I only tried to kill him twice! (not really).

His older sister was more respectful. I only had to have one minor conversation about the rules with her.

at the park

2006-05-09T18:52:00.000-05:00

We like going to the park.

at Parky's house

2006-05-03T14:19:00.000-05:00

A few weeks ago Holly and me and our people were at our cousin Parky's house with our grandma. I forgot to write about it. We didn't stay long but I did get to pee on a lot of stuff (of course). Parky is well and we did get to run around loose, off the leash, as a pack, which is something we haven't done much since moving back to the big city.

annual "extraordinary rendition"

2006-04-07T14:45:00.000-05:00

Yesterday Holly and I had to go the the vet! He stuck us with needles and sprayed some stuff up our noses! I didn't like it one bit. I showed him though, I tried to bite him when he sprayed that nose stuff but he was too quick. I think I left some pretty deep gouges in the floor trying to leave. Eventually I was able to convince our male human to get us out of there. When we got home we had our monthly special cookies (best tasting cookies ever) and we now have new tags that look like sheriffs badges.

Miss Ivy

2006-03-30T11:18:00.000-06:00

Our friend Ivy came to stay with us recently. She was here for almost a week! She and Holly played together a lot. She's alright, although I did have to explain to her, rather forcefully, that I get first crack at anything that falls on the kitchen floor. She may be a guest but there is such a thing as carrying hospitality too far.

twins?

2006-03-04T16:12:00.000-06:00

Me and Holly were taking our male human for a walk this morning and we were barked at by a pair of matching Airedales in matching green bandanas. Were they twins? They looked exactly alike and they were dressed exactly alike. There are also matching mini Schnauzers who live around the corner from us, with matching bad attitudes. I don't get this matching stuff. Holly and I don't match. Heck, my right side doesn't even match my left side!

Me & Holly

2006-01-27T17:14:00.000-06:00

"cousin"

2006-01-14T15:47:00.000-06:00

What I have to put up with at the holidays. A "cousin" actually. This is Cole, also known as "The Little Black Ball of Chaos" although the light makes him look pretty grey in this photo. He's a whiny little stinker. He didn't pee in the house like previous years but he still wasn't very well behaved. He just doesn't get along well with others. He growled and barked at us and once again Holly had to show him her teeth to get him to behave. She never said a word, just casually lifted her lips and after that he kept his distance.
I don't get it. Is it because he's a poodle? It can't be because he's a little dog, because my other cousin, Parky, is a little dog and he's fine. Parky and I run around and pee on everthing and have a great time together.

This is a picture of me on the back deck. That's a giant frog behind me but he doesn't move, so he's no fun.

is there ever enough turkey?

2005-12-30T22:32:00.000-06:00

I had a lot of turkey over the holidays but I can't say it was enough. My uncle put turkey in his mouth and got Holly and me to pose for a photo with us "kissing" him at the same time. I won't post that photo, it's too embarasing for him, but turkey will make one do strange things, strange things indeed.

it's not ice cream

2005-12-12T11:52:00.000-06:00

not much to say...

2005-11-18T16:08:00.000-06:00

Haven't been doing much lately, staying in a lot, napping; napping is always good. We walk but not as much now that it's cold. When we walk we seem to run into these same three poodles, one black and two white. They don't seem to like anyone. They snarl at me and Holly even from across the street. They even snarled at our neighbor, Chappy, and Miss Chappy is one of the most easy going dogs you could ever meet. Anyway, we try to avoid them. I say just pee and move on.

Squeaky's house

2005-11-04T09:46:00.000-06:00

Not long after our baths our people started asking us if we wanted to "go see Squeaky?". (Squeaky lived with us years ago before going up north to live with little girls who feed her ham and dress her in pink tutus.) I knew then that a trip up north was in store. They always ask Holly and me, over and over, if we want to go see Squeaky or Parky or our grandmothers or somebody before we go on a trip - that's how you can tell. So, finally, after several days of hearing "Do you want to see Squeaky?" over and over, we got ready to go. I couldn't wait any longer so I went and sat in the car while everyone else packed. I called dibs on the front seat with the round thing but they made me sit in the back anyway.

"Squeaky"

We drove all day and then there was Squeaky and her mom and the girls. We were all happy to see each other.

"It's good to be fluffy."

We played with Squeaky's friend Buddy.

He's kind of a ball hog.

One night I got to answer the door about a dozen times for some kids dressed even weirder than they normally dress and we gave them candy to make them go away.
We stayed a couple of days, we got petted a lot and we got to pee in a lot of new places and then we came home.

bath time

2005-11-01T21:56:00.000-06:00

My people kept asking me if I wanted to take a bath last week so I figured they'd just fill up the tub in the house and I'd get a bath like the ones I'd had before, but not this time. First, this stranger came to the house and talked to my male human. She smelled like she knew a lot of dogs. Then we went for a walk but we didn't get far;

we went in this car thing but we didn't go for a ride or anything.

I wasn't too sure about this...

a bath in a car! people are so strange.

...drying-off was kinda fun but I like towels much better.

Holly got a car-bath too.
Later, to celebrate our surviving the car bath lady, we rolled each other around on the ground in the back yard.

me

2005-10-24T15:51:00.000-05:00

...because I haven't posted any photos in a long time.

sociability

2005-10-20T09:55:00.000-05:00

I have to be sociable, here in the city, because we meet so many other dogs. Lots of dogs 'round here take their humans out for walks in the mornings and evenings. The other night me and Holly met a big fluffy shepherd type dog named Max. We'd seen him around before. Earlier we met some brown dogs; I didn't get their names. We met a long-haired weiner dog who was a little afraid of us so we just stood around listening to our mom talk with his person and eventualy he came out from behind his person's legs to say hi. We also met a pug mix (puggish?) dog named Murphy. And around the corner is Georgie. She's a nice black & white dog about Holly's size. Georgie used to bark at us when we would go by her yard and sometimes we would have to say something back but now we've been by so many times (she lives on the most direct route to the park) that we all just wag our tails when we meet, then we all pee.

We also meet a lot of dogs through the fences in the alleys. These dogs usually bark at us loud and excitedly. You wouldn't believe some of the things they say. Holly and I usually don't say anything back 'cause we know these dogs are just frustrated that they don't get out of their yards much.

I say take your humans for walks whether they want to or not. It's good for them and it shows you are a responsible dog.

Yard Dogs

2005-10-16T17:43:00.000-05:00

Sorry I haven't posted for a while. I'm busy establishing my authority over my new neighborhood and my new yard. I think things are going ok. It's taking a lot of peeing. Some dogs on this block are pretty yappy, and my mom got mad when our immediate neighbors told her that I bark too much during the day. That's not me! They heard dogs nearby barking and confused them with me. I practice more self restraint than that. I save my barking for when it's really needed like once a day when that lady throws envelopes through the slot in our front door.

Here's an experiment. Let me know if you can use this Quick Tiime movie. It's me and Holly in the back yard. It may take a minute or two to load.

boundaries, territory and pooping

2005-09-08T10:11:00.000-05:00

I have different boundaries now because I have less territory to defend and control. It used to be that I was responsible for acres of land, almost as far as I could see. That was tough. That took a lot of barking and sending Holly off to investigate intruders like deer and turkeys and coyotes and bears and tigers and stuff. Now all I have to do is to defend our house and a little bit of land right around the house and I even have help there from our neighbors. Next door to us is Chappy. She's a big ol' black labrador that kinda looks like a big seal. She's very relaxed and doesn't move very fast but that's because she's a big girl and doesn't have to move fast for anyone. She controls the territory next door right up to our fence so I don't have to worry about that side.

I kinda like the downsizing, it's easier but Holly misses being able to chase deer and turkeys. The only "turkeys" around here are a pair of rediculous tiny, tiny little dogs who live on the corner who bark and snarl at us from up on their raised deck like we're supposed to be scared or something. We have squeaky toys bigger than they are.

Speaking of pooping (if I wasn't I should have been, pooping's a good topic), Holly and I were taking our male human for a walk recently and she and I both had to stop and poop at exactly the same time. You would have thought that that was the most amazing thing for the way our humans carried on. "Simultaneous pooping". "Only needed one bag". Boy, are some people easily amused.

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By the way, we're sending some of our treat money to the ASPCA Disaster Relief Fund to help down south.

brown

2005-08-26T08:34:00.000-05:00

I met that big brown guy who drives that big brown truck the other day and he petted me! He was nice! I still had to bark at his truck because it was growling at me out in the street but the brown guy was happy to meet me and Holly, even though Holly was a little leary of him like she is whenever she meets new people.

Hey, what's up with dogs moving to Missouri? Why Missouri? Missouri's ok I guess, it's the place I know best, there's always plenty of stuff to pee on. But I've also peed on Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and Arkansas.

a new place

2005-08-14T16:21:00.000-05:00

I don't think we're on vacation anymore.

We're at this new house now. It's like the house I lived as a puppy in but it's a lot bigger. It's old. And it's in the city. And I think we're going to stay here because those guys who took all of our stuff out of our country house brought it all back and put it in this house.

I didn't like moving. I didn't know why all our stuff was taken away and I din't know if I would get taken away, either. We had to stay in our little "peed-a-terre" for a week, where there isn't even a yard and it was a big deal just to go outside to pee! I developed a stress related "hot-spot" that got really sore and itchy and hurty and I had to take medication that made me really groggy. I'm off most of that stuff now but the hot-spot still hasn't healed. I had to stay at the vet's most of one day and I didn't like that at all. But I'm a bit better now.

Holly lost her appetite for a couple of days due to the stress of moving but she's fine now. I don't get that, losing ones appetite, what's up with that? I don't lose my appetite for anything even under heavy sedation. Nothing stops me from eating.
Our house here is big, it's got three levels but the backyard is small. It is real near the park I sometimes used to go to when I was younger and lived in the city and now I can walk to it at any time instead of having to drive. Now that I'm not so groggy I've been busy peeing all over it to tell other dogs that I'm back but the park is so big that it might take years to pee everywhere. That's ok. It's good to have long-term goals.

Later I'll tell you about some of my new dog neighbors.

back in the city

2005-07-31T11:20:00.000-05:00

We're back in the city now, at our Peed-a-terre (our little apartment). A couple days ago our humans started putting all their stuff in boxes. I thought we might be going on vacation up north to this lake like we do sometimes in late summer but then some guys came and put all of our stuff in a big truck and drove it all away. They were nice - they petted Holly and me - but when they were done there wasn't anything left in the house at all! Luckily, my people put my food container in our car.

Now we've been in the city for two days. We saw our friend Miss Ivy yesterday by chance in the park and today, outside a cafe, we met a big dog named Murphy. Murphy was waiting for coffe. I don't know if we're still going on vacation to the lake or to one of our grandmother's houses or what, but I'm getting to pee alot in a lot of different places and that's good. And my pack is staying together and that's important. But I'm not sure what's going on.

in the city

2005-07-17T10:10:00.000-05:00

Couple days ago Holly and I went into the city and stayed overnight. We stayed in an apartment we had never been in before but it was near the park we usually play and pee in so it was ok. We saw some of our city friends, two little white dogs named Royce and Bentley and we saw some of our human city friends too.
Our people kept talking about stuff like "home inspections" and "closing" and some guy named Ernest Monie. I don't understand about that stuff, I mean you can't pee on it or eat it, right? And why doesn't Ernest come over and pet me? I don't know...
Anyway, we were all together as a pack, which is very important, and I got to poop and pee in new places and then we came home.

It's too hot

2005-06-29T16:36:00.000-05:00

It's too hot to go outside, unless it's a pack thing like walking to the road to get the mail. I'll always go to get the mail. I always have to pee alot around the entrance to our lane because of that little fluff-ball of a dog that lives across the road - got to leave a message, like dog email. I haven't heard her barking lately. I think she stays indoors because of the heat.
On the way back I pooped in the front field.

Groundhog or woodchuck?

2005-06-26T09:16:00.000-05:00

I'm told you can call them either but whatever you call them one of them came right up onto our back porch yesterday. Holly saw him first, he ran when he saw her through the glass; she and our male human saw his big fat groundhog butt as he was going down the stairs. She says he would have come right in the house if the door had been open. I'll bet he wanted to get on my nice comfy bed. I like to roll around on my back on the bed saying "grr raa rraa raar" . Anyway, we chased him away from the house. I barked a lot and Holly ran around like a maniac. Holly thought for a while that he had gone under the porch but we couldn't see him. I think he ran all the way home to tell his friends all about his brush with death at the paws of two of the most ferocious and dangerous dogs in the county.

I had a bath!

2005-06-21T13:58:00.000-05:00

I had a bath today. It was unexpected but I didn't really mind. Once again, it was right after I had gotten myself smelling just the way I like it - stinky! I had just rolled in some stuff that smelled really great. It smelled like skunk and dead deer and pond mud - some of my favorites, but my male human made me take a bath right away. So I'm disappointed. I wish I could take a bath that made me smell stinky.

It's Turtle Season!

2005-05-25T09:18:00.000-05:00

Turtle season has started! I love hunting turtles. Sometimes they pee if you tilt them up just right. I've caught two so far; one yesterday and one this morning. Todays was really big, I could hardly carry him. I brought him up to the house and then my male human and I took him back out to the edge of the woods and released him. We always do "catch and release".
Holly hasn't caught any turtles so far. She's more interested in the racoons that live near by. She hasn't caught any of those, either.

rolling in it

2005-05-16T17:26:00.000-05:00

I rolled in something really fantastic today. It smelled so great (meaning it smelled really horrible for all you non-canines). I don't know what it was but it was really good. It was soo stinky it mesmerized me and I didn't hear my name being called. I'm usually very good about coming when called but this was so smelly I couldn't tear myself away. I think it might have been something that died but I'm not sure what. It was very wet. And very sticky. And stinky as anything. Wonderful stinky! I got the stuff all over my neck and shoulders. My male person had to give me a bath right away. He wasn't happy. He almost threw-up twice.

(but I still smell stinky! yay!)

Holly

2005-05-12T11:09:00.000-05:00

neighbors

2005-05-10T09:51:00.000-05:00

This morning we met our neighbor from across the road for only the second time ever. We had gone all the way down to the road, (with our male human of course, because Holly & I aren't allowed to go near the road by ourselves). The road is almost two football fields away but since football is a game that doesn't involve liver treats I don't know how far that is. Our neighbor spends a lot of time indoors and when she's outside she doesn't go very far from her house so we don't see (or hear) her much. She's a little dog. She's really little. She's smaller than those old cats that used to live with us! How do little dogs get so little? ...anyway, she was standing at the entrance to our lane so we all sniffed each other, wagged our tails and then we all peed to commemorate our visit. It was fun.

me!

2005-05-07T18:01:00.000-05:00

Birdland

2005-04-26T18:03:00.000-05:00

Today that woodpecker I bark at was back. He was pecking at the metal top of the fireplace chimney and the sound travels all through the house. I don't like that. No, not at all. I barked at him but I can't get at him up there and he knows it. I hate him. But I can get at the wild turkeys that sometimes come through our fields. I went at one today; I think he was a tom (that's a "boy" turkey) because he was all alone. Girl turkeys mostly come in groups. Anyway, he ran into the woods as soon as he heard me barking. I usually bark as soon as I see something (or hear something... or think I see something... or think I hear something... whatever.). Holly says if I wouldn't bark I could sneek up alot closer but I like to bark at stuff. Plus, since most of the stuff I bark at runs away as soon as they hear me I don't have to run that far to chase stuff off. Why exert that much energy running when you can just bark?

got sheep?

2005-04-20T18:23:00.000-05:00

or deer?

It seems like we've been gone a long time. I've been so tired of traveling and staying at Miss Ivy's house in the city that I haven't written anything for a while. We've been home since late saturday but while we were gone deer have been pooping in our yard and our fields. Their tracks are all over the place! They've gotten really cheeky without dogs to teach them their place. And on top of all that they're pooping right where I like to poop! Well, that stops right now. Holly and I chased a couple out from behind the studio on Tuesday. Our male human called us off and since we know it makes him happy when we obey we paid attention and came right back. We ran right up to him, did our professional "sit" and he gave us cookies and told us we were good dogs. We really got him trained good.
Today we chased some deer out of the woods behind our house. I barked at them and they ran right away. Holly wanted to chase them further but she got distracted by some furry animal that hid in a brush pile. We tried but we couldn't convince him to come out.

glee club

2005-04-12T18:53:00.000-05:00

I might not be able to spell but I can sing! Holly and I both sing. We're staying with our friend Miss Ivy again while our people are out of town. We don't like it when our people leave us and sometimes we howl because of that. I always sit carefully, put my nose up and howl until I feel better. This time, when our people were just going out the door I started howling and Holly started howling and then Miss Ivy started howling. Then the the two dogs in the house next door started howling with us! And other dogs too, we didn't know where they were. We almost got the whole neighborhood howling along with us! That helped, not having to howl alone. It's nice to have friends. Maybe next time we can howl about something fun, like the full moon or something.

swimming in creeks

2005-04-10T14:41:00.000-05:00

We just came back from the big dog park (Grindstone Nature Area) where dogs get to run really far without leashes! Now, we get to run really far without leashes on our own land but there aren't other dogs on our land and running with and sniffing other dogs is very important. We like being in groups of dogs. We saw a lot of dogs, met four of them close up and went swimming with two! We met a nice big black Lab and some smaller black mixed dog and after we sniffed each other we all went swimming in this big creek.

I know I'm half Australian Shepard but the other half must be some sort of water dog because I really like to go swimming. Holly even went in the creek and she usually doesn't swim as much as me. She said she went in just because she got hot but I saw how she was following that big Labrador boy around. I'm not sure a Labrador is smart enough to understand why she might follow him around. Is there room in their big lunky heads for thoughts other than "fetch", "get the ball" and "get the stick" ? I don't think so. Can a Labrador organize a herd of sheep, sort them in aphabetical order and make them adhere to a strict schedule? I don't think so. I can or at least I know I could, if my people would just get me some sheep. Oh well.

Don't get me wrong. I like Labs. I know some really nice Labs. But I don't go all dreamy eyed and flirty over them like some dogs I know.

(Maybe if some dogs spent less of their time herding bowls of ice cream they would have girl dogs following them around too.
Sheep, yeah sure. The last thing I saw you giving that herding dog "eye" to was a slice of angel food cake.
- Holly)

when I run...

2005-04-06T10:02:00.000-05:00

Sometimes when I run my butt goes faster than my front.

Squeaky's mom

2005-03-31T15:42:00.000-06:00

Holly and I spent the last weekend and part of the week in the big city (St Louis) at our friend Miss Ivy's house. I've known Ivy's dad since I was a puppy no bigger than a fat cat. The reason we were there was that Squeaky's mom was in the hospital up north and our people went up to see her and help her family.

"Squeaky"

Squeaky used to live across the road from us. Well, actually she was always at our house anyway because her person didn't pay any attention to her at all. Can you imagine that? Having a dog and totally ignoring her? I can't understand that. That's just not right. Anyway, Squeaky eventually moved into our house and later she went up north to live with a nice family with two little girls who like to feed her ham. (Holly was very jealous 'cause Holly loves little girls... and ham.) Squeaky's "forever mom" is really nice. Whenever she comes to visit us she sits with me and brushes me - alot!. That's nice. I like being brushed. I think everyone who comes to my house should brush me. But once she asked about my weight and my mom said I was just big boned and Squeaky's mom said "Yeah, sure, big squishy bones". Now I know all about bones and bones aren't squishy so I don't quite understand what she was talking about but I hope she feels better soon.

ps
Thanks to all who barked about barking. I like to bark. I like to bark about barking and I like to bark with other dogs who like to bark. About barking... or whatever.
I like to howl, too, but thats a whole 'nother thing.

barking in the house

2005-03-19T10:35:00.000-06:00

Usually if I bark in the house I'm told to be quiet but this morning I barked and was told "Good Dog". There was a woodpecker bird pecking on the metal top of our chimney real early today and I barked at him and I scared him away. Me and the male half of my people, previously referred to as my valet, were still in bed and we don't like woodpeckers, especially early in the morning. Being told "good dog" almost makes up for him taking away a dead deer carcass Holly and I had found at the edge of our front field. There wasn't much meat, maybe coyotes or turkey vultures had been at it, but there were lots of yummy bones and they were still bloody! There were rib bones and hip bones and the entire spinal cord with all the back bones. It smelled fantastic! It was like a buffet! My people had to get rid of it because Holly and I could get sick from it, but it was wonderful while it lasted.

shaggy

2005-03-13T17:26:00.000-06:00

My Mom says I look shaggy in this photo. I don't understand what shaggy means.

back from our cousin's

2005-03-07T07:49:00.000-06:00

We're tired. We got back from our cousin Parky's house late yesterday. We had driven for hours to get back and we had to drive most of the day, two days earlier, to get there and when we got there we ran around a lot, so we're tired now. Parky has a really big farm but he's not a big dog. I don't know how he gets up in those tractors he uses. Anyway, we went on long hikes and investigated a lot of stuff and peed on almost everything. Parky pees a lot for a little dog. He not only peed where I peed, he also peed where Holly peed. I'm impressed.

a gang of deer

2005-03-03T12:55:00.000-06:00

I just chased a gang of deer away from our house! They were in the woods down the hill back of our house. There were seven or eight or eleventytwo of them and I scared them away with my ferocious barking. I think they wanted to come in our house and nap on my comfy bed or eat the cheese out of our icebox! You got to watch out for deer and I know all about them. They're like smelly little horses with white fluffy bunny tails. I'm a great deer hunter.
- Pimm

(Yeah, sure, Pimm knows all about hunting deer. Let me tell you, running out the back door all of twenty feet all the while barking your head off like a fat, pudgy little Pekinese does not make you a great deer hunter. To hunt deer you have to run quietly through the woods at top speed, without barking, for hundreds and hundreds of yards or at least till you get to the fence that we're not supposed to cross. I came pretty close this time, no thank's to the "Great Hunter".
- Holly)

wrestling

2005-03-01T17:47:00.000-06:00

This is how I like to wrestle with girl dogs: I fall on my back and wiggle around and the girls run around and jump at me.

Also, Holly wanted me to post this photo of her and Ivy because that older photo made it look like Ivy was really bigger than Holly which isn't true.

Something's Up

2005-02-23T10:01:00.000-06:00

Something's up around here. Those men are finally done digging up our yard, but another weird man came and spend a lot of time talking to my people. He took a lot of pictures of my house. When he left he put a sign down at the end of the road. I had to pee on it several times.
I think this is what he did with the pictures.

they're not respecting my authority

2005-02-15T16:07:00.000-06:00

There have been people making a comotion (that's my job!) outside my house all day today. They've used machines louder than the vacuum cleaner! They dug up part of the front walkway without anyone telling them to stop, like when Holly and I do some digging. But worst of all they didn't go away when I barked at them. Usually, people go away after I bark at them like the guy in the brown truck who leaves boxes on our porch or the guy who delivers propane and propane accessories. But these guys stayed all day even though I barked and barked. Holly even barked and she usually doesn't bark too much. I feel dissed.

Well, at least Miss Ivy went back to the city last week. Holly and Ivy like to play when they're outside, they wrestle and I like to watch, but inside Ivy tries to rip apart all of Holly's toys. I mean really dismember them, limb from limb. We had to hide some of her toys so Ivy couldn't destroy them. Holly has been playing with them more than usual since Ivy left.

Miss Ivy is visiting

2005-02-08T13:30:00.000-06:00

Miss Ivy, a big galumpy hound like a blue tick mix, is visiting with us. She lives in the city with our friend John but sometimes she comes out and stays with us. She's kind of goofy and she has a big deep voice. Sometimes Holly gets jealous of her but otherwise we all get along ok. I like having lots of girls around.

I got more burrs in my fur!

2005-02-01T18:23:00.000-06:00

I got a lot of burrs in my fur! I went in the woods after dinner today and I got a lot of burrs in my fur.

Those deer have been around the house again - I can find their poop everywhere.

Lately my people have been worried about me because I wasn't hungry at breakfast time and I never, I mean never, skip meals. But I'm ok. I was just full because I had been eating some left-over frozen mole jerky, or some other small animal stuff, that some hawk or some fox had left, uneaten, in our yard. I couldn't tell anyone because I'm not supposed to eat nasty stuff like that - but it's so good I just can't help myself. It tastes soo wild and uncooked, of course, and it's just so... so... primal. I felt quite the wild dog, quite the nature boy. Afterward I didn't feel too good but I can't imagine why. At least I didn't throw-up. No way am I letting go of any food that I had to work so hard to get. Nope, if I ate it I'm keeping it!

me & Holly in the car

2005-01-26T17:00:00.000-06:00

This is a picture of me and Holly in the car. We like car rides.

We're not allowed to put our heads out the window unless we're driving slow because we could get bugs in our eyes or something so most of the time we play car bingo or we nap. Sometimes I get to sit up front but most of the time I have to sit in the back with Holly. Sometimes I start asking "Are we there yet?" "Are we there yet?" "Are we there yet?" but my people won't ever tell me they just say "Stop whining, Pimm!" but I don't know what that means. I like car rides.

I like my bed

2005-01-24T15:40:00.000-06:00

I like my bed. It's my bed, it's mine and it's soft and warm and it's mine. When I'm in my bed I know I'm where I'm supposed to be. I like being where I'm supposed to be. I know the way things are supposed to be, believe me, I'm part Australian Shepard, I know! Things are supposed to be the way they are supposed to be. We're supposed to keep to a schedule. I know when we're supposed to go to bed, when we're supposed to eat, when I'm supposed to get cookies etc etc... It's a good thing I know how to keep to a schedule 'cause the people around here have no sense of time at all. They have to use clocks. I don't know how to use a clock but I don't need a clock to know when it's dinner time or bed time or cookie time. Good thing I have people around here pretty well trained.

Earlier today Holly and I hunted some small little animal in a brushpile down near the studio. It was too frightened to come out because we're pretty ferocious dogs. I don't know what animal it was, we didn't catch it. I think maybe it was a bear or maybe it was a field mouse, I don't know but either way it was a pretty good hunt. I had to go take a nap after that.

no more cats

2005-01-17T10:38:00.000-06:00

It's been really cold lately. We haven't had any structured activities outdoors because it's so cold. This is a good time for napping and cuddling, which I make everyone here do a lot.

Holly has been a little upset because that cat, Weasel,who lives over in the studio has been sick. He went for a car ride lately and he didn't come back. Holly really liked him. I thought he was ok for a cat, he didn't mind whenever I wanted to sniff him and he never scratched me. He once, last fall, went for a walk with me and Holly just like a dog. Well, now there aren't any cats anymore.

Weasel was ok for a cat.

deer

2005-01-12T13:39:00.000-06:00

Deer keep coming around. Four yesterday and seven the day before. I think they're like the horses and cows around here but Holly gets a little upset when they're near and she wants to chase them. She doesn't chase them far. I don't chase them unless they are real close to the house. They might try to come in the house and get on my bed.

Lately we've been getting little pieces of bratwurst on top of our breakfast and dinner. Bratwurst is one of the most wonderful foods on earth. Some smart dog once said "Bratwurst is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy." I heard that somewhere, I think.

we saw two foxes !

2005-01-09T16:34:00.000-06:00

We saw two foxes. I don't know what foxes are. They look sort of like dogs and sort of like cats but I don't like the way they smell and I don't like them coming around my territory. They were up in the upper field near the woods. Holly saw them first and she got all upset and then I started barking and they ran away. They ran away faster than the UPS man does after I bark at him. Later we went out where the foxes were and we sniffed and peed all over the place.

I wanna go out but it's raining

2005-01-05T16:28:00.000-06:00

It's been raining for a long time and now it's starting to ice up. I don't like that. I don't like it when it rains. I like snow but rain and sleet not only make my toes all wet and cold they make me all wet and cold. At least with snow I can stick my nose down in it and cover myself in it without getting too wet. Snow is fun. I hope we get some snow instead of this sleet and rain. I pooped close to the house because of the rain.

We saw deer today. They were down in the front field at the edge of the woods. We didn't chase them; they were too far away.

We're napping alot until the weather changes.

Holly likes to curl-up in the big chairs. I like to nap on the couch or on the bed.

we're back from Grandmother's house

2004-12-31T15:49:00.000-06:00

We're finally back from my Grandmother's house. We got to eat turkey, the really good stuff too, the gooey and fatty stuff and some skin and some of the chewy gristley stuff. Half of the people there were giving Holly and me turkey. We also got cheese sprinkled on our regular dinners and breakfast too.
There were lots of people there and some of them petted us and talked to us but a few of the people didn't seem to want to pay any attention at all to any of the dogs. What's up with that? They don't like dogs? That's just crazy.

We got to poop and pee in a lot of new places including a place near a lake where there was a lot of goose poop from the gooses in the lake. Even though this place was more like a city than our land in the country we saw a lot of deer. We weren't allowed to chase them though.

That rude little black poodle dog, Cole, showed up later just like last year. He's kind of rude and spoiled and he cries and whines a lot. I don't like him. He would growl and bare his teeth at me but he's too little to take seriously so I would mostly ignore him and that made him even madder. Cole growled and bared his teeth at Holly once and she just casually showed him her teeth, but in a very serious way if you know what I mean, and he backed away real fast. She could have bit him in two and shaken him like a rat but she restrained herself. He's lucky but too dumb to know it. He's such a little jerk. If he would just relax we all could have been a real dog pack together like when we go to visit our other Grandmother and her dog Parky.

Anyway, later we got back in the car, drove all day and stayed overnight in another single room with a great big bed in it. Then the next day we drove all day again and then we were home.

Grandmother's house

2004-12-24T09:33:00.000-06:00

We're at my other grandmother's house. We drove in the car all day and spent the night in a room with a bed and all of us got to sleep in the big bed together but I thought that wasn't the way things are supposed to be. I'm supposed to sleep in my own bed at the foot of the big bed. I don't like it when things aren't as they are supposed to be, so I got down and slept on the carpet in the spot where my bed would have been if it had been there. We drove all day again and then there was my Grandmother and we got cheese on our dinner. We've been here before and I remember some of the smells. My people said I got to pee in four different states in one day but I don't know what that means.
That other dog that is sometimes here, the "little black ball of chaos", isn't here now but they talk about him so he might show up later. He's a poodle but if he stays away from my food bowl we'll get along ok.

it's finally not muddy!

2004-12-15T10:36:00.000-06:00

It's really cold and the mud has either dried-up or frozen so I don't get my toes all muddy and icky now. I don't like to get my toes muddy and icky except when I jump in lakes or run thru puddles. I also don't really like to have my paws cleaned and dried everytime I come in the house so this is good. The only bad thing about it is that I often get a cookie when I sit to have my paws cleaned and now there aren't as many cookies. I still sit when I come inside and wait, because I'm a good dog, but sometimes there just aren't any cookies. I like cookies.

Holly and I chased and jumped on each other all around the upper field this morning and she wasn't able to knock me over even once!

one of my best photos

2004-12-07T19:45:00.000-06:00

This photo was taken of us early in the fall of this year. Don't I look serious and important? I am serious and important. My eyes weren't closed, I was posing!. Holly looks like she's afraid she's done something wrong. She doesn't understand photography. I don't either but but it's better than posting about having our paws (and belly and butts) dried and toweled off 10 times a day by our valet because it's been so muddy lately. It just won't dry out. You know, that cat Weasel that lives in the studio told me about "valets" but I don't know if I should use the word, it might not mean what he said, you never know about cats, he could be putting me on and trying to make me look foolish. That would be just like a cat. Grr. I mean, old Mr Orson was ok but most cats are just evil.

thanksgiving

2004-12-02T18:32:00.000-06:00

...or when we get real turkey! woo hoo!

I haven't been posting too much lately because I've been spending so much time having my paws cleaned. And not just my paws but my legs and my belly and my butt! It's been very wet around here and I get really dirty when it gets wet and my valet has to spend lots of time cleaning me up. Valet is the term Weasel, the cat that lives over in the studio, told me to use. I don't know what it means. But I don't get as dirty as Holly does.

Anyway, we went into St Louis again last week and stayed for two days. We went to a party at my Godmother's house and we saw our friend Bo, who is a real little dog. We once went on vacation to a big lake with Bo. Holly really likes him. I think she really likes little dogs. I met him when I was a puppy. We had real turkey for dinner at this party and there were lots of people who would pet me and tell me I was a good dog. And feed me turkey under the table. That's a good party.

at my grandma's

2004-11-20T09:56:00.000-06:00

There are lots of good places to pee and at the end of this road we got real bacon to eat!

Me & Parky & Holly

2004-11-16T12:24:00.000-06:00

That's Parky on the left. We were cooling off in the shade on my cousin Parky's farm 'cause we had been running around peeing on stuff.

we went to grandma's house

2004-11-11T09:41:00.000-06:00

Last weekend we went to St Louis again and I got to poop in Reservoir Park. We saw a little bulldog named Buster. Buster likes being sniffed by other dogs. Then we went for a really long car ride through the country to my grandma's house where we stayed overnight with her dog Parky. Holly really likes Parky, they ran and chased each other all over the place. Parky is a fat little dog. He once tried to mess with my dinner bowl so I had to rough him up a little. No one messes with MY dinner bowl! After I taught him some respect we were ok; we made a good dog pack running around and peeing everywhere.
Then we went back to St Louis and I pooped in the park some more and the next day we went home.

Dogs have to nap!

2004-11-04T10:45:00.000-06:00

Just because some of you think the photo of me waking up from a nap is funny, here is how Squeaky used to nap back when she lived with us.

She's sound asleep in this picture.

Hey, I'm trying to nap here!

2004-10-30T11:53:00.000-05:00

dogs at the park

2004-10-27T16:59:00.000-05:00

Sunday we went for a car ride and ended up at a park where we were able to run around with out our leashes. We met five dogs there! First was a pair of Labradors, one yellow and one chocolate colored, and then we met a blue tick hound who was just a baby and then another set of labradors just like the first set.
Tonight I get to ride in the truck because it's trash night and we always ride in the truck on trash night, it's just the way things are supposed to be done.

Me on the porch

2004-10-23T10:03:00.000-05:00

napping

2004-10-20T10:35:00.000-05:00

It's been raining some lately so I've been staying inside and napping. I don't like rain. I get wet when I poop and I don't like to get wet except when I jump in lakes and puddles when it's hot.

angry cow

2004-10-15T10:51:00.000-05:00

These cows were yelling at me and Holly but I wasn't scared.

My tongue

2004-10-14T10:47:00.000-05:00

I must have been hot when this picture was taken because I usually keep my tongue in my mouth, unlike Holly who puts her tongue everywhere. When I get hot my tongue comes out. I probably had been running and protecting the house by chasing evil bunnies away.

Holly on the porch

2004-10-13T10:53:00.000-05:00

dog blogs and feeding horses

2004-10-12T15:49:00.000-05:00

Holly and I like dog blogs but not as much as our people do (they're kinda weird about that.) but we do like Cal's Place a lot. He's a collie puppy. He likes that we catch turtles. I could teach him a few things about that. I've caught hundreds. I'm sort of an expert.
Holly thinks he's cute.

We like these dog blogs too:
http://www.blogdogs.com/
http://www.morgancomm.com/bailey/
http://mydogsblog.blogspot.com/
http://littleblueblog.blogspot.com/
http://luckyblossom.blogspot.com/

I almost forgot, we fed our neighbor horse, Tallie, some carrots today. She smells funny but good. She liked the carrots. I had a piece of carrot too but I've had better. I like ice cream more.

We went for a truck ride!

2004-10-10T15:09:00.000-05:00

We went for a truck ride today and drove past a lot of cows. They smelled. I bet they have good poop to roll in. We also saw a dog by the road. Holly wanted to jump out of the truck and meet him. Holly had to sit in the middle but I got to sit by the window on my mommy's lap!

I pooped in the upper field!

2004-10-05T17:38:00.000-05:00

I don't think anyone saw me. Well maybe Tallie, the horse next door, saw me but she wouldn't say anything; I've seen her poop. She gives good poop, good to roll around in. If I ever get tired of getting burrs all up in my fur I'll go back to rolling in her poop.
I got lots of burrs in my fur!

Orson and me

2004-10-02T15:26:00.000-05:00

This was Orson and me when I was younger. Orson liked to groom me. He used to have problems with hairballs untill he stopped trying to groom me.

a week later...

2004-09-29T17:47:00.000-05:00

I've pooped a lot since the last post, too many places to count, in the upper field, in the front field and down behind the studio. There have been deer and racoons around; I can smell them but I haven't seen them. And a skunk too!

That old cat, Mr Orson is gone. He used to groom me when I was really little, maybe he thought I was a cat, maybe he just had a thing for grooming puppies, I don't know. He was ok.

Deer

2004-09-23T15:41:00.000-05:00

Holly and I chased some deer yesterday! There were three of them - one large one and two little ones. They were very fast. Then later we got to ride in the truck to take the trash out. Deer don't get to ride in trucks.

ponies

2004-09-20T15:58:00.000-05:00

They just brush-hogged the field where the old-house ponies used to run. To those of you city dogs who don't know what "brush hog" means it means they cut all the grass and weeds and stuff with a tractor. Maybe this means the old-house ponies will run in those fields again. There were three and a half of them: three big ones and one little one not much bigger than me. Holly liked them a lot. I don't really care too much but they used to dump some good poop to roll in.

woo hoo

2004-09-16T12:24:00.000-05:00

I pooped in the upper field today.
Last night I rode in the truck to take the trash out and it was raining.
I barked last night.

Max and me

2004-09-14T13:32:00.000-05:00

This is me when I was very young with my first girfriend, an older woman named "Max" (short for Maxine). She was neat.

Holly...

2004-09-09T10:32:00.000-05:00

Holly thinks she's a model.

I like turtles

2004-09-05T10:02:00.000-05:00

There's a turtle in that box. It's a "box turtle"! ...get it? a "box turtle"?
ha ha...

...I'm a funny dog.

in the front field

2004-09-04T09:38:00.000-05:00

Yesterday we walked all the way down to the road to get the mail and I got to poop in the front field. I like pooping in the front field.

cuddle hound

2004-09-03T09:47:00.000-05:00

my mommy's back from work so we get to cuddle. I'm a North American Cuddle Hound.

Squeaky and Holly

2004-09-01T17:31:00.000-05:00

This is Squeaky and Holly. Squeaky used to live with us but now she lives in Wisconsin and eats ham. She used to wear high heels and pretend she was in Beauty Pageants.

It's not the size of the turtle that counts...

2004-08-31T11:14:00.000-05:00

...it's the meanness. Holly's turtle may be big but mine was really mean. You really have to look out for the little ones - they're dangerous, not like that big fat lazy turtle that Holly was able to find.

arf arf arf

2004-08-30T15:29:00.000-05:00

I bark alot sometimes.
I went through the woods today and Holly and I found a turtle.
And I pooped in the upper field near where the old-house ponies used to be.