weenie dog

2010-09-25T15:33:00.000-07:00

August 2010 My mommie was riding around taking pictures of Roaming Ryan and she drove by the civic center and the arena and they were having the Dightman Rodeo and she sotpped and took pictures. I was not afraid. I didn't bark and scare the horses or nothing.

CELTIC THUNDER DOG

2008-09-03T07:41:00.000-07:00

My mommy has turned me into a Celtic Thunder dog. She listens to their music all day long and chats on their forum. I am pretty tired of this as it leaves less time for me. She should pay attention to me, but she goes straight to the computer to see what's happening to her favorite group. I think I will run away from home, but I'll wait until after lunch.

Heidi

HEIDI IN PINK

2008-02-24T18:51:00.000-08:00

This was just taken today. I am very tired because I have had lots of company this week.

HERE I AM

2008-02-24T15:04:00.000-08:00

I'M STILL AROUND

Long Long Time

2008-02-24T14:58:00.001-08:00

Its been a long long time since I have posted. My mommy has been busy with my Grandmother and just doesn't have time.

All worn out

2008-02-24T14:45:00.000-08:00

SQUIRREL GIRL

2007-08-01T10:31:00.000-07:00

I had an adventure yesterday. Just as we got to my G-mother's house, I spied an arrogant little creature tresspassing. My mommy's hands were full, so I managed to fly across the street and into the neighbor's yard.

My mommy was frantically calling me, but I didn't care.

DOG FOOD RECALL

2007-03-28T10:23:00.000-07:00

My mommy was feeding me that really bad dog food with rat poison in it. Well, it could have had. I was lucky. As soon as she found out about it, she took it back to the store and got a different kind. I like the old kind best, but I guess I have to sacrifice. I feel so badly for the poor little cats and dogs that got sick and dead from it. I think all pets should be fed steak and baked potato. Maybe the cats would rather have salmon or something else really good and expensive.

Heidi

LOOKING FOR MY BOYFRIEND TO COME BACK

2007-03-03T21:03:00.000-08:00

TALL, DARK AND CHOCOLATE

2007-03-03T20:29:00.000-08:00

My boyfriend came to see me. He likes me a lot. He is a really big boy.

TRUMP V ROSIE

2007-01-10T17:01:00.000-08:00

ENOUGH ALREADY!!! Start acting like adults. I am a 2 1/2 year old mini dauschund and I have more dignity than you two. I don't care who started it, will the better man end it. End it now!!! Just get under the heat lamp and chill out. That is all that matters. Well, that and eating and running outside to tease Charlie, the chocolate lab that lives next door.

Heidi

A NEW RELATIVE

2006-12-11T13:59:00.000-08:00

I have a new relative. I think it is my nephew. It is a Yorkie. His name is Yeager. I hear he is adorable. Ha!! I am the only adorable thing around here. He weighs about a pound.
I fought a huge chocolate lab the other day and I won because my mommy picked me up so all he could do was smell my feet. The neighbor apologizes for his dog coming over to my house, but I started it. I run over and bark at him and then I run to my mommy.
I will attempt to show a picture of Yeager.

Heidi

MOMMY, PLEASE DON'T HATE ME!

2006-12-05T11:30:00.000-08:00

I can't help myself. I usually follow my mommy around the house and go everywhere I'm allowed. But, with this cold weather I want to sit under the heat lamp. When she passes by, I raise my head and look at her guiltily, but I don't move. I simply have to be under this heat lamp.

MY BAD, PART DEAUX

2006-11-25T10:48:00.000-08:00

I was bad again, and I suffered for it. My mommy brought me to the car wash without any restraints on me. When we got home I sprang out of the car and ran across the street where I had spied a squirrel. My mommy called and called and I just disappeared. She got in the car and slowly drove around the block trying to head me off at the pass. In the meantime, I came back home. When she was on the other side of the neighborhood, she heard me yelp. The huge chocolate lab next door had come to my house and I was back at my door trying to get in. The lab is just a pup and she was stepping on me. When my mommy came back, I turned on the lab and barked at it fiercely to go home, but it didn't. My mommy threw my liver treat to it so she could get me in the house. That was my liver treat she used to try to toll me home. Somebody owes me a liver treat.

THE PARADE, THE PARADE

2006-11-17T09:37:00.000-08:00

My mommy took me to the Christmas parade last night. It was awesome, or so I hear. I went straight into the floorboard and never came up. It had loud noises, too many people and other creatures, and flashing lights. She seemed disappointed I wouldn't watch it. She even told me my Vet was riding a horse in the parade. Now I wish I had looked because I like to go to the vet.
I tried to walk on the streets before the parade, but I was shaking with cold and nerves. I did want to go in a boutique with lots of pretty clothes and accessories, but my mommy wouldn't go in. Some ladies were laughing at me because I kept trying to go in and my mommy had to pick me up.

IT'S ME

2006-11-12T08:17:00.000-08:00

MEMORIAL TO MY GRANDADDY

2006-10-30T08:55:00.001-08:00

My grandaddy passed away early Saturday morning. I was very sad. My grandaddy never got to see me run and play. Sometimes, I went to the nursing home to see him, but I don't know if he saw or heard me. Other people there, residents and staff alike petted me.
I wish I could have known him better. Everyone knew he was a good man. Every time I tried to lick him, my mommy took me away. She said my grandaddy didn't think dogs belonged in the house, much less on someone's bed.
I was put in a kennel while all the rest of the family gathered to pay respect to him. I would have had such fun with everyone there. I can't figure out why I was sent away.
My grandaddy was 96 years old. He and my grandmother were married 69 years. I hope my mommy takes me by to cheer her up today.
My brothers and sister all loved my grandaddy very much, because he and my grandmother were always there for them and took care of them when they and my mommy weren't wanted anymore.

BARKING

2006-10-22T09:52:00.000-07:00

I don't get out much anymore because my mommy is gone all the time. She is taking care of my grandmother. On Saturday, she made some time for me and let me ride in the car because the weather is cooler. I was able to get in some quality barking time. I barked at the man behind us at the gas station. I barked at every pedestrian. I barked at every motor cycle.
It was so good to be able to let everyone know I'm still around.

TOO TOO MUCH

2006-09-19T16:22:00.000-07:00

There is lots going on in my house. Too much to get into one blog. I have had bunches of company lately. One was a little girl who has been here before. We loved playing games together. I have to wait until my mommy has time to do this right.
Well, maybe I can get in one snippet. I went to the vet last week and she raved over me so much, I almost blushed. She said I am really good and really in tip top shape. She also said I have some blue doberman in me. I guess that is okay.

That's all for now, Heidi

DUMPSTER DIVING

2006-08-29T07:41:00.000-07:00

MY MOMMY AND HER GRANDSON WERE EATING CHICKEN AND GAVE ME SOME CARTLIDGE AND SOME SLIVERS OF MEAT. WHEN THEY WERE DONE, MY MOMMY WRAPPED THE PERFECTLY GOOD BONES, SKIN, FAT, ETC AND PUT IT IN THE GARBAGE. I KNOW THEY INTENDED TO EAT THAT AFTER I WENT TO SLEEP. THEY CAN'T TELL ME THE BONES ARE NO GOOD. THEY ARE JUST SNEAKY. SO, QUIET AS A MOUSE, I GOT THOSE TASTEY MORSELS OUT OF THE TRASH, DEMOLISHED 2 DRUMSTICKS AND WAS HALFWAY THROUGH THE LAST DRUMSTICK WHEN I WAS CAUGHT. SHE TRIED TO SHAME ME AND PRETEND THEY MIGHT HURT ME. WHO DOES SHE THINK I AM?

MY BIRTHDAY

2006-08-26T15:50:00.000-07:00

MY MOMMY MISSED MY BIRTHDAY. I DIDN'T EVEN GET A DOG CAKE OR NOTHING. IT'S NOT EVERY DAY A GIRL TURNS 2.
THERE BETTER BE A CELEBRATION IN OCTOBER FOR OUR ANNIVERSARY. THAT IS WHEN I GOT MY "OTHER MOTHER". THE ONE THAT WRITES THIS BLOG FOR ME. I'VE NEVER SEEN MY BIRTH MOM SINCE I LEFT THAT RAINY NIGHT THEY LOADED ME UP IN A CAR AND BROUGHT ME TO HER.

INVASION

2006-08-16T16:03:00.000-07:00

HELP, MY HOUSE IS BEING OVERTAKEN BY LOUD MONSTERS. FIRST THERE WAS THE VACUUM. THAT WAS A REAL TERROR. MADE ME HIDE BEHIND THE RECLINER. THEN, THERE WAS THE SWEEPER. IT WASN'T QUITE AS LOUD, BUT YOU GUESSED IT. THE ONLY SAFE PLACE WAS BEHIND THE RECLINER. NOW TODAY, IT WAS A CARPET STEAM CLEANER. MY MOMMY HAS HINTED IT IS MY FAULT WE HAD TO GET THE THING. I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY. SHE BETTER WATCH OUT. THERE IS NOT ROOM FOR BOTH OF US IN MY SAFE PLACE. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THESE HORRIBLE MONSTERS TAKE OVER.
THERE ARE ALSO MONSTERS IN THE KITCHEN, THE DISHWASHER AND THE VENT-A-HOOD. THEY DO HAVE THE DECENCY TO STAY IN THEIR PLACE. THEY DON'T MOVE AROUND. SOMEBODY TELL MY MOMMY WE ARE IN GRAVE DANGER.

MY MOMMY IS NO PHOTOGRAPHER

2006-08-06T18:40:00.000-07:00

AS EVIDENCED LEFT, MY MOMMY CAN'T TAKE A GOOD PICTURE.

EXCITING MORNING

2006-07-24T11:55:00.000-07:00

I HAD AN EXCITING MORNING. I SNUCK OUT THIS MORNING WHEN MY MOMMY CAME HOME. I RAN TO THE TREES AT THE EDGE OF OUR PROPERTY. THERE WERE BIRDS IN THE TREES. I TRIED TO CLIMB THE TREES TO GET THEM. I RAN AROUND AND AROUND THE TREES BARKING, BUT THEY WOULDNT COME DOWN AND PLAY. MY MOMMY HAD A VERY HARD TIME GETTING ME CAUGHT. SHE FINALLY PLAYED DIRTY, OPENED THE CAR DOOR, SAID GO, AND LIKE A SUCKER, I JUMPED IN. THEN I GOT TO RIDE AROUND THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD. I'M NOT SURE WHO WON THIS CONTEST. I THINK MAYBE IT WAS A DRAW, BUT I DID GET A RIDE.

NEGLECTED

2006-07-23T08:49:00.000-07:00

I NEED TO REPORT A CASE OF SEVERE NEGLECT. MY MOMMY IS NOT PAYING ME ENOUGH ATTENTION. OH SURE, SHE TAKES ME TO THE NURSING HOME MORE THAN USUAL, AND TAKES ME TO MY GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE, BUT SHE ISN'T HOME WITH ME AT NIGHT. I HAVE TO SLEEP AFTER SHE COMES HOME IN THE MORNINGS. SHE KNOWS I SLEEP BETTER ON HER LAP. I HAVE HEARD TALK MY GRANDMOTHER IS HURT AND MY MOMMY HAS TO STAY WITH HER AT NIGHT, BUT I THINK I SHOULD COME FIRST. WHAT DO YOU THINK?????????

MY BAD!!

2006-07-03T16:59:00.000-07:00

YEAH, I WAS VERY VERY BAD. MY MOMMY WAS EATING CHICKEN LIVERS AND GAVE ME JUST A LITTLE TINY BIT. I KNEW THERE WAS MORE. SO LATER, WHEN I THOUGHT SHE WAS GOING TO THE KITCHEN, I RAN AND STOOD BY MY FOOD BOWL. SHE POINTED TO MY BOWL AND SAID "EAT DOG FOOD". AS SHE LEFT THE KITCHEN, I RAN AND HIT HER WITH MY PAWS ON THE BACKS OF HER LEGS. THEN I RAN IN FRONT OF HER AND BARKED AT HER. I HAD TO, I DIDN'T LIKE TO, BUT WHAT ELSE COULD I DO TO TELL HER I NEEDED MORE LIVER. I THINK I AM IN THE DOG HOUSE AGAIN.

GARY P NUNN

2006-06-27T22:45:00.001-07:00

I KNEW SOMETHING WAS UP TONIGHT. I COULD TELL. MOMMY WAS GATHERING THINGS UP AND I WAS SCARED I WOULD BE LEFT ALONE. I WAS RIGHT!! THEY WENT TO SEE A GARY P NUNN. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS, BUT I NEEDED TO SEE IT TOO. I GOT LEFT HOME WITH ALL THE DANGEROUS THINGS IN THE HOUSE LIKE ICE MAKERS, VACUUMS, ETC. MOMMY SAID NEXT TIME I COULD GO BECAUSE THERE WERE OTHER PETS THERE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT A PET IS, BUT I GUESS IT IS A GOOD THING.

HEIDI

WHERE'S THE DOG?

2006-06-16T13:33:00.000-07:00

I HEAR PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT A CUTE LITTLE DOG AROUND ME. THEY COME IN MY HOUSE AND SAY, "WHAT A CUTE LITTLE DOG". WHERE IS THIS DOG? WHY CAN'T I SEE IT? WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? I MIGHT LIKE IT AND PLAY WITH IT IF ONLY I COULD FIND IT.

THE WATCHER

2006-06-12T21:16:00.000-07:00

Yeah, she is a watching little weenie dog. She watches my every move. I think she thinks I am trying to make a move out the door without her. Once again, it is summer and she can't always go along. She would indeed be a "hot dog" if I left her in the car with temperatures up to 98 outside. Think what it would be in the car if I left the windows up. She is also an embarrassment when she is out with her barking, growling and generally ranting and raving at every passerby. Of course that only happens when I am in the car. She is down in the floorboard when I'm out of the car. I can understand people may not grasp that her bark is way, way worse than her bite. She is still gentle as a lamb at the nursing home with young and old alike.

CUJO AKA HEIDI

2006-06-03T20:34:00.000-07:00

TODAY, I GOT TO RIDE FURTHER THAN EVER BEFORE. MY RIDES USUALLY CONSIST OF A MILE OR SO. I GOT TO TRAVEL OVER 50 MILES AT ONE TIME. IT EXHAUSTED ME.
MY MOMMY TOOK HER GRANDSON TO MEET SOME OF HIS BUDDIES. WHEN THEY CAME TO THE CAR, I BARKED IN MY MOST MENANCING MANNER. THE ONE CALLED "TEX" LAUGHED AT ME AND CALLED ME CUJO. I HOPE THAT WAS A COMPLIMENT.

A HOUND'S GOTTA DO

2006-05-24T15:42:00.000-07:00

TODAY I ESCAPED FROM THE CAR FAST AS I COULD AND RAN TO THE TREES NEXT TO MY HOUSE. THERE WAS A SQUIRREL THERE. IT WAS BIG, BLACK, AND DANGEROUS. I CHASED IT AWAY ACROSS THE STREET AND THEN IT PLAYED "NO FAIR". IT WENT UP A TREE.
I CIRCLED THE TREE IN THE BEST HOUND FASHION I KNEW, BUT I DID NOT BARK.
MY MOMMY WAS PLENTY MAD AT ME FOR CROSSING THE STREET WITHOUT LOOKING BOTH WAYS. WHILE SHE LECTURED ME, I STUCK OUT MY TONGUE, ROLLED MY EYES, HAD AN OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE AND JUST WAITED FOR IT TO ALL BE OVER.

BRAVE ME

2006-05-22T21:51:00.000-07:00

I WAS VERY BRAVE TONIGHT. MY MOMMY WAS GOING TO THE STORE VERY, VERY LATE AND AFTER DARK, TOO. SUDDENLY THERE WERE FLASHING LIGHTS RIGHT BEHIND US. MY MOMMY PULLED OVER TO THE RIGHT LANE TO LET THE POLICEMAN BY, BUT HE STAYED RIGHT BEHIND US. IT WAS VERY EXCITING. SHE HAD TO PULL OVER TO THE SHOULDER. SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT SHE HAD DONE WRONG BECAUSE SHE DRIVES LIKE A GRANDMA.
WHEN THE POLICEMAN CAME TO THE WINDOW, I TRIED TO SCARE HIM OFF, BUT HE JUST LAUGHED AND CALLED ME A WEENIE.
MY MOMMY'S LIGHTS WERE OFF BY HER LICENSE PLATES AND HE COULDN'T READ HER TAG. IT'S A GOOD THING HE ONLY GAVE HER A WARNING. I WOULD HATE TO THINK WHAT I MIGHT HAVE DONE TO HIM IF HE GAVE MY MOMMY A TICKET.

SOUTHERN FRIED WEENIE

2006-05-05T17:42:00.000-07:00

I'm a really southern weenie dog. My mommy makes turnip greens and cornbread. It is very, very good. She pours some of the juice (pot "likker") over crumbled cornbread and I would kill anyone that tries to take it away from me.
It tastes so good that I'll even eat the dog food she cleverly hides underneath it.

ROTTWEILLER

2006-04-23T18:37:00.000-07:00

I'M JUST A ROTTWEILLER WANNA BE

A HEIDI SANDWICH

2006-04-22T16:33:00.000-07:00

TONIGHT I WAS "SQUOZE" BETWEEN TWO NURSES AT THE NURSING HOME. THEY WERE FEEDING ME TIDBITS OF HAMBURGER PATTY AND HUGGING ME. JUST SQUIRT A LITTLE MUSTARD AND ONION ON ME AND CALL ME A HOT DOG.
I NEED TO GO TO THE NURSING HOME MORE OFTEN.

2006-04-19T22:04:00.000-07:00

STRANGE LITTLE DOG

2006-04-19T21:43:00.000-07:00

I HAVE A STRANGE LITTLE DOG. WHEN I LEFT THE HOUSE ONE MORNING OVER THE WEEKEND, I LEFT HEIDI WITH MY GRANDSON. I ASKED HIM WHAT SHE DOES WHEN I'M NOT HOME. HE SAID SHE HID BEHIND THE RECLINER ALMOST THE WHOLE TIME I WAS GONE. NOW THIS IS THE SAME LITTLE WEENIE THAT WAS SO SPLAYED OUT ON THE COUCH, SO HE COULD RUB HER TUMMY, THAT I WAS ASHAMED FOR HER.

ECSTASY

2006-04-15T16:02:00.000-07:00

I AM SO TIRED. I HAVE BEEN IN A STATE OF ECSTASY FOR DAYS. I HAVE BEEN AROUND 3 MEN AND THAT IS ALMOST MORE THAN I CAN BEAR. I NEED A NAP.

INTRUDER

2006-04-14T22:07:00.000-07:00

I AM SO SAD!! MY MOMMY BROUGHT A NEW DOG INTO MY HOUSE. HE IS A TOY "ROTTENWEILLER"!! I SHOWED HER. I RIPPED OUT IT'S SILLY LITTLE RED TONGUE AND BIT OFF IT'S NOSE.

THE GREAT ESCAPE

2006-04-08T15:53:00.000-07:00

IT MAY LOOK LIKE I AM TRAPPED, BUT, I CAN GET OUTTA HERE ANYTIME I WANT TO. MOMMY PUTS ME IN HERE WHEN SHE DOESN'T WANT ME TO GO IN THE CAR AND SOMETIMES WHEN SHE GETS BACK, I HAVE ESCAPED. WHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

I JUST WASHED MY EARS

2006-03-30T16:49:00.000-08:00

I JUST WASHED MY EARS AND I CAN'T DO A THING WITH THEM.

JUST ME AGAIN

2006-03-18T12:46:00.000-08:00

NOTHING MUCH HAPPENING AROUND HERE, THOUGH, I HEAR THERE WILL BE EXCITEMENT IN A FEW DAYS. MY MOMMY IS GOING TO HAVE HER PATIO SCREENED IN. I WONDER WHY????????

BACKYARD

2006-03-09T12:49:00.000-08:00

HERE I AM SURVEYING MY VERY OWN BACKYARD. I WISH WE WOULD HURRY UP AND GET SOME GRASS BACK HERE.

HOUNDS DON'T WEAR PINK

2006-03-08T13:43:00.000-08:00

They especially don't wear pink with a handle on it! On top of that, as you can see, I am in jail! Why I ask you? Why oh why? I have been perfect in every way, but still here I am in a cage. Not only that, here are my toys penned up too. Now they are inanimate objects, so what could they do wrong? Help right a wrong and break me out of here now!

THERAPY DOG

2006-03-01T22:00:00.000-08:00

Heidi is asleep, or pretending to be. She had a big time at the nursing home a few evenings ago. She met several residents, nurses and children. There were at least 3 groups of children there. She was happy to be petted by all of them. But, the really touching sight is to see the residents smile and talk to her and pet her. She suffered it all with a great deal of enthusiasm.
Today, she was barking so loud , the man who came to quote a new fence jumped back from the door. From the sound of her, she was a rottweiller just waiting to rip out his throat. Such a difference from her demeanour at the nursing home.
Of course, the whole time she was barking at him, her tail was wagging. You know when it comes to men, she is especially easy.

LITTLE DOG, BIG MOUTH

2006-02-22T21:36:00.000-08:00

The weenie has had isues this week with making me play when I didn't want to. I can't believe a little thing like she is could put my whole ankle, sock and all, into her mouth. And, she wasn't nipping gently either. She clamped down pretty good. Maybe there is a little bit of "pit" in her. She had an exciting Monday. She had company most of the day. Last week, she had an overnight at the vet clinic because I had cataract surgery. I don't believe she ate the whole time she was gone because she was pretty gaunt.

BUSY

2006-02-13T15:33:00.000-08:00

I have been too busy to blog lately. I have a schedule to keep. My mommy got a heat lamp thing and I have to spend a lot of time in front of it. It keeps me toasty warm and through no fault of my own, it makes me very sleepy. Well, it's a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Also, my mommy is usually toasting herself in front of it too and it kills two birds with one stone. I can keep an eye on her at the same time.

FEBRUARY BLUES

2006-02-06T16:55:00.000-08:00

I have barked for 2 days. My mommy says I am really bitchy. (no pun intended)
I have a great new game. I run to the front door and bark and then I run to her and bark and then I run back to the front door and bark again. She falls for it every time. She goes to the door and there is no one there. I laugh and laugh and laugh.
Well, it spices up my day anyway.

AT LAST, THE FARM

2006-02-02T20:49:00.000-08:00

Finally I got to get out of the car at the farm. I was so afraid I wouldn't get out, that I jumped from the back to the front seat and got out when my mommy had the door open. I ran straight for a fence and saw those huge creatures on the other side. They got bigger as I got to them, so I whirled around and ran straight back toward my mommy. My uncle caught me and picked me up and I was saved.
Then, we went into a metal building that had all sorts of interesting smells and junk in it. Wouldn't you know, they put my leash over a door knob so I couldn't explore.
When they were finished in there, my uncle took me to see the hounds. He held me and told those big old dogs to behave. He let me touch their noses with my nose. It was very exciting. I hope I get to go to the farm again very soon.

WRITER'S BLOG

2006-01-29T21:45:00.000-08:00

I think my Mommy had writer's blog for awhile. I tried to encourage her by doing cute and not so cute things for her to write about, but nothing happened. I feel ashamed I wasn't able to help her in her time of need.

MY COAT

2006-01-11T17:16:00.000-08:00

My mommy is cold today, so I have to wear my coat. I look and feel like an armadillo in it. Check out my pictures on 12/30/05. I'd put a picture of it here, but Mommy forgot how to post the pictures. One day she can and the next day she can't. "Must be a software problem." That is an inside family joke. My family was in the computer hardware business before I was born. I'll give her one more chance to try, but I don't promise anything.

HEIDI A.K.A.

2006-01-10T19:18:00.000-08:00

My main, or given name is Heidi, however I have several more names that my mommy calls me: Pickled Puppy, Little S--t, Poopy Mouth, A--Hole, Sweet Precious Baby, Mommy's Little Baby, and on and on and on
Just between you and me, I don't think all these names are nice names. I think some of them are pretty bad. She calls me one name that I think might be allright, but, the way she says it isn't very nice.
She sometimes calls me the B word.

ALONE AGAIN

2006-01-02T23:22:00.000-08:00

My mommy and I are all alone again and I am both relieved and sad. I am relieved because now only Mommy can watch what I do. Also, I can outrun her. But I am sad because my friend has gone back to school.

I WENT TO THE FARM

2006-01-01T18:14:00.000-08:00

FINALLY!!! I went to the farm late today. Big deal!!!!! They didn't even let me out of the car. They didn't even get out of the car. All I saw was a really, really big yard with only one house. I also saw some big black and other colored creatures. They didn't scare me. They couldn't get to me because I WAS IN THE CAR!!!!!
Then I saw my uncle. I barked so he would notice me. He did. I could also hear some dogs barking so I barked and barked, but they never came around. I was excited because I heard my mommy say next time we came out, I could run around and see those other dogs.

MISSED OPPORTUNITY

2005-12-31T12:00:00.000-08:00

Something good almost happened to me today. I heard my Mommy say I was going to the farm. Then those plans got shot down. I wanted to go. What is a farm anyway? People come and go there and I never get to. I know I am missing something important. I think that is where those other dogs live. You know, those dogs I smell on my uncle all the time. Maybe I will get to go tomorrow. My mommy said that is where I can run free. I hope I act right when I go. I don't want to get lost. I can't live off the land. I am a house dog. I wear a pink sweater with a sequin angel on the back. I wear a faux shearling coat. I am a city dog. I am a weenie dog. I am a lap dog.

A Heidi Christmas

2005-12-30T16:40:00.000-08:00

Heidi wanted to show what she got for Christmas

A DOGGONE CHRISTMAS

2005-12-25T17:26:00.000-08:00

I am so tired. My mommy took me to my grandma's house for Christmas. There are more dogs in that neighborhood, so I had to bark a lot. There were children next door, so I had to go and get petted. Then a helicoptor flew overhead and I thought it was a giant dragonfly making too much noise.
Then, the bad part came. My uncle took all the meat off the turkey and took the scraps to his coon hounds. The nerve, there I was right in front of him. I had been on his lap, jumped up on his legs, and everything else I could think of and did he think of me? NO! No! No!
Here are pictures of his dogs. I guess they are pretty, but not as pretty as me.

THE DEER HUNTER

2005-12-22T20:32:00.000-08:00

There has been some crazy stuff going on around here the last few days. My mommy went and got her grandson from Houston and now my attention is divided between the two of them. It makes me so tired I nap a lot. Then he went and shot a deer for no good reason and it makes me a little nervous. In fact, he posted a picture of his kill to friends and relatives, and what showed up but a picture of me looking like a trophy. Scarey!!!!!!!!!

I will try to put his real picture here. Wish me luck. After all I'm only a little "weiner-ette".

Heidi Anxiety

2005-12-21T13:22:00.000-08:00

Several times a day, I walk in front of my mommy. I want to be in front, but at the same time, I don't know where she is going. Sometimes I have to walk in circles trying to anticipate if she is going to the bedroom, the computer room, the kitchen, garage, or to her recliner. It is driving me crazy. What should I do??????

LOCKED OUT

2005-12-11T20:32:00.000-08:00

I'm not kidding! My mommy shut the door in my face. She shut me in the hallway. Then she couldn't get the door back open. I was very brave. I didn't bark or anything until I heard my uncle was there to rescue me. Then I barked my head off. When he started working to unlock the door, I very prudently, curled up in the corner furtherest from the door he was taking apart. When my ordeal was over, I waited until he invited me to leave my prison, then I shot out of there.

TEXAS CHAINSAW INCIDENT

2005-12-03T21:51:00.000-08:00

The yard man had finished doing the yard and it was safe for me to come out from behind Mommy's recliner. I like the yard man and when Mommy pays him, I run out to be petted. Well, who knew this time would be different? I certainly didn't. Mommy was talking to him and he sent one of his men to the truck to bring back something that looked dangerous. Ha! I just thought that looked dangerous. He sent him back once again and this time he brought something else that was long and menacing looking.
My mommy put me in my little pen in the hall entrance. She should have put me in my safe place. But no, she let me be traumatized.
The yard man did something to start this horrenduous noise and started attacking a little bush on the walkway. It began to cut that little bush into a round shape.
I thought I would die. What could this thing do to me?
I tried to jump over the pen, then tried to get out under the pen. I tried everything. Finally Mommy lifted the pen up and I ran behind the recliner. I thought I would have a heart attack. They should have warned me or something. I will never trust either of them again. At least not today.

Heidi's great adventure

2005-11-17T22:48:00.000-08:00

Heidi had one of the great adventures of her life this evening. She got to walk around the town square. She got to see lots of little children who wanted to pet her. She got to smell smells, hear noises, etc. that she had never encountered before. She met a dog who looked as big as a pony. They touched noses. Then she got to sit in the car as the Christmas parade came by. That part she did not like. There were sirens, bells, whistles and lots of lights. There was a marching band. I think the band is what did her in. She dived on the floor board of the back seat and never came out again.
When we got home, she just sat in the middle of the floor looking stunned. Then she ate her supper with gusto and has napped almost continually since.
Mini Weenies have their limits, you know.

I'M SOOOOO COLD

2005-11-16T11:14:00.002-08:00

Something happened yesterday. It got cold. I don't like it. I want it to go away.
Mommy stuck a sweater on me this morning to make me feel better. Can't she see? It's too little. I must have grown since I had it on last spring.
She just needs to sit in one spot and let me curl up in her lap and stay warm. That is what she is for. She is so hard to keep trained. Sometimes I am at my wits end. Just when I get all curled up and snuggly, she wants to get up and do laundry, eat, smoke, get the phone or some other unnecessary thing.
Sometimes, I am just dead for sleep and she goes in the garage, and I have to get out of my nice warm bed and follow her to make sure she behaves. I don't know what she would do if I didn't watch her constantly.
Are there any other animals that own people and have learned to train them? I need tips. I have called for help in the past and so far no response. Am I blogging into thin air? Do you know how hard it is for a mini weenie to blog in the first place?
Hello, hello, hello. Is anybody out there? Can anybody hear me?

Vet Visit

2005-11-12T20:32:00.000-08:00

Yesterday Heidi went to the vet for her monthly heartworm, weigh in and nail clipping. She weighed 10 lbs again. Looks like that might be her weight for awhile. I certainly don't want her to weigh more.
I took her to the nursing home later and she could stand it better this time. She ran around the the room and sniffed everything up. She barked a few times, but didn't get out of hand. One old lady walked by and told her she wasn't going to bother her. What she didn't understand is that Heidi wanted to be bothered. She barks at people so they will notice her.
When the aide brought Daddy's tray in, Heidi tried to follow her out. It surprised me. The aide has 2 dogs at home, so maybe she thought there were some playmates somewhere around. That or the fact she was bringing food to the room, maybe Heidi thought she was going to get some too. I know for a fact, these little things work for food. That is the way to their heart.
Yep, living with this thing is a lot like having a husband.

Worn out Weenie

2005-11-09T20:21:00.000-08:00

Somebody is so tired tonight, she can hardly move. Heidi couldn't make her own blog tonight if she had to.
She had to watch all "her" doors being painted today. She could not relax for a minute. She started "watching" early this morning and couldn't let up till late afternoon. Then, she had to get rid of some aggression by running around the house like a banshee or bat out of hell. She ate and drank and sank down on a pillow and has only moved to change her napping position a few times. I hope she survives the paint job. It is a good thing it ends tomorrow morning after a final walk thru inspection.
Next, I need my fence repaired. At least it isn't as up close and personal as the house painting.

She is no watch dog

2005-11-05T10:43:00.000-08:00

Heidi has had a lot of excitement the last few days. I have contracted to have my house painted and she got to meet a new man. I told him she wouldn't bite as I brought her outside so we could walk around and discuss what had to be done. He assured me he had been bitten by lots of dogs that "don't bite". But we have already established she is EASY where men are concerned so she was true to form.
Yesterday I put her in her pen as I was going to run out of town for several hours while they pressure washed my house. She was out of it when I got home. She probably had to escape and hide in her safe place behind the recliner.
She ran out the back door earlier when they were setting up to wash the house. She flew around the corner and there was a man she hadn't met. She came back around to me at a dead run, I opened the back door and she was a blur getting back in "her" house. So much for the watch dog in her.

MY SHAME

2005-11-01T12:44:00.000-08:00

I must confess, I have a very, very bad habit. I have tried to stop it because it is so destructive, but I can't control myself. Soon I will not have anymore stuffed toy friends left to play with. They are disappearing one by one, and don't think I haven't noticed.
I play and play with my stuffed aminals, but one day I discovered if I ripped out their beady little eyes, I could tear out their brains and leave them deflated, helpless and vacant headed on the floor. Instead there are piles of polyfill to play with, and I tell you, that stuff is no fun. It won't even squeak. Mommy can't throw it, so I can fetch it. Please, somebody, anybody, help me before I kill again.

Ferocious Heidi

2005-10-28T21:40:00.000-07:00

Tonight we decided to dine out again. Heidi's feathers were ruffled even before we got in the car. There was a woman on the porch of the house in front of mine. Heidi decided she was a terrible danger to our life and limb, so she barked, growled and snarled as she struggled on the end of her leash. When I had to pick her up and put her in the back seat, she jumped up in the back window and threatened some more. She never did settle down and when we got to Sonic, they got my order wrong because she was barking into the speaker. Okay, sometimes they get it wrong when there is no distraction. This time I begged her to get in the floorboard and shut up because she was an embarrassment. She finally did settle down and I didn't hear from her anymore. After all that, I decided to just pay for the order even though it was wrong and slink away home.

Dining Out

2005-10-26T21:26:00.000-07:00

About once a week, my mommy and I dine out in a place I'm allowed. You guessed it! We go to Sonic. Nothing is too good for me.
Last week, I psyched out a group of teenage girls. I saw them and barked. Before they could find out where the noise was coming from, I hid in the floorboard, and they were going around telling each other they could hear a little dog barking. Ha! Ha! I fooled them. Then they ordered their 99 cent burgers and forgot about me.
Mommy bought me a pen and she puts me in it for no good reason at all. She put it in the entranceway so when someone comes to the door, she can grab me when I'm distracted and throw me in there. Sure messes up my fun.
I hope she knows that when the roles are reversed, I'm gonna remember what she did to me. I will show her no mercy. I'll do more than nip her toes.

WIMPY WEENIE

2005-10-21T15:33:00.000-07:00

For all her ferocious barking and growling, I am the mother of a wimpy weenie. She would die of mortification if she knew that I knew what she knows. I have figured out, she doesn't want to go with me because she wants my company, she goes because she is scared to stay home. She is in a bad place, because if she goes and has to stay in the car, she hits the floorboard as soon as I get out of the car and stays there until I get back. When I get back to the car and look in, she is gazing up at me like a deer in the headlights. Sometimes, when I get back from the nursing home, she is hidden behind the recliner and won't make a sound until I start calling her. I guess as she gets older, she realizes that she is really, really short and not very big at all.
I bought her a little pen to be in on the back patio and she shakes when I put her in it. Now mind you, she will dart out the door on the darkest night and run all the way around the house, but that seems to be okay with her. Maybe it is because she is so busy getting away from me, she doesn't know fear.
I had hoped, by buying the pen, I could put her litter pan in it and persuade her to go outside, so she wouldn't spread litter all over the bathroom. Ha! Ha!, the joke is on me as usual. She is not about to squat in the great outdoors.

Heidi goes to nursing home

2005-10-16T20:40:00.000-07:00

I took Heidi to the nursing home when she was a baby, shivering in her little basket. Then I took her on a leash a few times, but the nurses would baby talk her and then have to mop up the floor.
So, yesterday, she went for the first time in a long, long time. She balked when she hit the tile floor and I had to carry her. She shivered uncontrollably. In Daddy's room, I put the loop of her leash under a chair leg. She was a big hit and got petted and picked up, etc. When I got up to step in the restroom, I noticed she was having absolute rigors. I picked her up and her whole chest and bottom was ice cold. Oh, how tender she is.
I took her out again this afternoon when my brother was there. I had to carry her again. She ignored my brother, although she has conniption fits when he comes to "her" house. One of the nurses stopped at the door of the room and she barked at her. My brother said she has "issues".
What amazes me is residents in the hall who have no expression on their faces and don't acknowledge when you speak to them, will come right up and touch her and talk to her.
The same thing happens when you take a baby out there. The residents come alive. Sad they don't have something like that to stimulate them every day.

HEIDI

2005-10-12T16:46:00.000-07:00

This entry is serious. Nobody let me have a profile, so I'll make my own! This way my readers will know more about me and what makes me tick.

TURN ONS:

short sprints around the yard with my mommy and others chasing and trying to catch me
my mommy's food
my mommy's beverage
going in the car with my mommy
fetching my toys when Mommy throws them
eating carpet, baseboard, furniture, wiring and cables
peeing right beside my litter box
playing with my monkey
getting my tummy rubbed

TURN OFFS:

dog food
dog water
sleeping in my bed instead of Mommy's
being left home
not being able to play in the street
the word NO

Just another day

2005-10-11T15:18:00.000-07:00

It was just another day for Heidi and me. We went to the vet this afternoon. Time for her heartworm prevention meds. I could give it at home, but she gets her nails trimmed by the vet. The vet took her to the back of the office and opened the door to call her assistant. When Heidi saw the dog cages in the back, she put on her brakes. She loves to go to the vet, but she remembers being abandoned there for 12 days while I went on vacation. I wonder what she thought when I was gone for so long. I know it took a few days before she would warm up to me back home.
Today she weighed 10 lbs on the dot.
Last night Heidi played a relay race with herself. She had one of her toys and she dropped it on the floor, then she streaked around the room and tried to catch it as she flew by. Sometimes she got it and sometimes she didn't. I think it is amazing she could think up her own game that way.

I'M IN TRUBLE

2005-10-04T23:17:00.000-07:00

My mommy bought a camera about the time I was 3 months old. Evil Twin Weenie chewed up all the cables. Mommy took pictures of me before Evil Twin Weenie ruined the camera but they are about used up and I really need some new pictures.
I just had an anniversary. I adopted my mommy on 10-7-04. I put an ad for me in the paper and she fell for it. I was so anxious to get to her, I made my first human mommy bring me to her. I hated to leave my parents and brothers, but hey, I was weaned and it was time to move on.
I knew this other mommy I was adopting needed me very much. I planned to be the best little puppy in the world, but I just couldn't suppress my evil twin. Until I get her under control, I guess I will be in a whole bunch of truble.

SOS! HELP! MAYDAY!!

2005-10-03T17:37:00.000-07:00

I am at my wit's end. This human bean I live with is untrainable. Talk about "old dogs and new tricks", well include old mommies in that too. Obviously, before I came along, she did as she pleased. She persists in closing the door in my face, if she is fast enough, when she goes in the bedroom. I need in that bedroom. It has a big bed to run under, shoes, and all sorts of things to meddle. Excuse me, bad choice of words. Lots of things for me to look into. I have to know everything that is going on under my roof. After all, I am responsible. Sometimes I hear dangerous noises outside and I bark and bark and bark, trying to scare whatever it is away. Most of the time my mommy pays no attention. I keep running to the door and usually she won't go look to see if there is danger.
I know there are programs for trainning puppies, but I haven't found a site for mommies.

Heidi's 12 step program

2005-10-02T22:14:00.000-07:00

Heidi has a problem. I have developed a 12 step program to help her get over her addiction, disgusting behaviour, etc.

1. i will not eat poop

2. I will not eat poop

3. I WILL NOT eat poop

4. I WILL NOT EAT poop

5. I WILL NOT EAT POOP

You see where this is going? Do the math!

THE WORLD IS MY POTTY

2005-09-30T12:24:00.000-07:00

My mommy keeps making a big deal of where I use the potty. I can't please her. The carpet looks like dog poop on its best day with shades of dark brown, medium brown, and beige in random shapes. I'm just doing her a favor and she doesn't appreciate it. For awhile, I pooped on the tile floor and then moved under the dining table where she had to get down on her hands and knees to clean it up. I thought I was helping her by moving it to the living room behind the sofa, but people walk behind the sofa and they have such poor senses, they just step in it and then things hit the fan.
I'm a little tired of being told to go to my potty in the bathroom. I'll go where I please. She is not the boss of me.
Did you check out that red weenie, so called "Ruby the Good Weiner of the South"? Well, let me tell you something about that b---h! She came for a sleep over one time and she barfed all the way from Houston. So soon as she got here, she had to have a bath. I say, "if you don't want a bath, don't barf on yourself". She wouldn't go potty outside, but then who does? I sure don't. Anything could happen to you out there, when you have your guard down. Anyway, not to get off the subject, when it was bedtime, that red, you know what, peed on my mommy's guest bed, quilt, featherbed, sheets and everything. Well, one day, after everything was cleaned up, I got up there and peed too. After all I thought it was the right thing to do. Ruby is older than me and should be my role model. According to the way my mommy acted, this was not acceptable behavior.
I'm in the dog house again.

FROM HEIDI

2005-09-29T21:30:00.000-07:00

I am so tired tonight. We had to get up at about 6:15 this morning. I had company all day and not a moment to relax and sleep. I was once even picked up by my hind legs. I didn't like it and my mommy really freaked. I'm a fragile little dog and while I may come on like a buzz saw to other people, I want to be treated as if I could break.
I gave them all a merry run one day this week when I got out about 3 times. My mommy uses that "cookie" routine on me all the time to get me to come back in. I guess she doesn't think I know she is just putting dry dog food (ugh!) in my freeze dried liver tin and calling it a "cookie".
Sometimes I don't know how she sleeps at night beause of the ways she fools me to keep me inside, or thinking I'm going to the store with her, or other interesting things I want and need to do.
As the youngest child, doesn't she know I'm the one who will probably pick out her nursing home? She is about due too. In dog years she is old! old! old!

Heidi sleeps around

2005-09-28T14:24:00.000-07:00

Yes, she does. I'm not joking. Today she wasn't in her bed when I got up, she was in the living room sleeping in a chair I don't sit in. Last night she was in her bed while I was on the computer. This afternoon she was sleeping in a chair beside the computer when I was online. Now she is sleeping under the computer desk. Earlier in the afternoon, she was sleeping on the couch. She has been very mellow today.

The last of Rita

2005-09-25T17:51:00.000-07:00

I am among the fortunate in that I feel I have felt the last of Rita. True, I have a small tree down in my yard, but that is nothing. My mother's power was off until 6 tonight from 7:30 Saturday morning. I could not get her out of her house to stay with me or my brother, even though we had power. I finally called TXU this afternoon and they said not until Tuesday for that street. I explained I had a sick and elderly mother who refused to leave her home. I can't tell if that helped or not, but I did find out there was an elderly man alone on the same street who was also refusing to leave.

TROPICAL STORM RITA

2005-09-24T12:41:00.000-07:00

Glad that it has been downgraded and hopefully the worst of the damage is over. TV cable out so I can't see shots of damage yet. Don't know if I want to, but you look in spite of yourself.
Shelters full here and running out of food. People encouraged to stay put until it is safe to go home. I know it is hard to wait in a shelter, but you may not have any of the amenities at home we have become all too used to. Gas will be a major problem getting back home, but at least you won't be being chased by Rita this time.

Hurricane Rita

2005-09-22T14:58:00.000-07:00

Heidi and I are worried. Our family didn't make it out of Houston in time. Now there is no gas and it is perilous to travel. I don't think anybody understood what it would do to the roads coming up from the coast. That is just an enormous amount of vehicles all trying to go basically north. Even though there was plenty of warning, what has happened was more than most of us were able to comprehend. I hope we make it through this disaster without the loss of life and property we experienced just weeks ago.
Our hearts were touched by what those poor people went through, experiencing horrific hardships and with their family's and loved ones being wrenched apart and especially not knowing if they are dead or alive. And still, we were not even on the road to recovery from that when so many of those people were uprooted once again.
We should all pray for healing from these natural disasters. And we should also pray that these hardships and losses will bring us closer together and try to rebuild instead of playing the blame game. That will pull us apart when we need to cling closer together because we are more vulnerable to our enemies when we are splintered.

Heidi is fighting Evil Twin

2005-09-20T21:39:00.000-07:00

I think Heidi is fighting Evil Twin and losing. She has been so bad tonight I locked her in her crate for at least an hour. We will see if that makes ET go away or take over.

HURRICANE EVACUEES

2005-09-20T21:15:00.000-07:00

My mommy has relatives in Houston. They said they may have to leave because of Hurricane Rita. They have lots of animals. Okay, I'll tolerate the dogs, but I hear there is also a parrot. I'm not sure what kind of dog that is, but I'm keeping my guard up. There is also a really bad tempered cat that may come. I'm gonna vote for keeping it at the kennel. That is, if I'm allowed a vote. Sometimes I'm left out because I'm so short.

HEIDI SPEAKS

2005-09-19T11:50:00.000-07:00

It says right here on this blog that this is through my eyes and I haven't been allowed a word so far. Just wait till I spill all my beans. I can't help it if I have a little devil in me trying to get out. I try to be good, but if I am tired, hungry or distracted, Evil Twin (ET for short) takes over and makes things happen and I am blamed for them.

Help, this blog is going to the dogs

2005-09-18T12:23:00.000-07:00

That is right. Everywhere I look, another dog shows up. All Min-Pin has to do is click her ruby red slippers together and go back to Houston or end up in Kansas. Who knows.

What is this? A Min-Pin???

2005-09-18T09:30:00.000-07:00

WHO AM I??? WHERE AM I??? and WHY AM I HERE???

Don't look now Min Pin, I don't think you're in Houston anymore!!!

Heidi, the angelic weenie

2005-09-17T19:24:00.000-07:00

Heidi has been fairly good today. She nipped my toes gently a couple of times so I would know to throw her monkey. Other dogs chase balls, she chases and retrieves a big stuffed gorilla larger than she is. I see Ruby looking down on her and trying to say she is better. She is pretty and maybe she doesn't have two personalities, but is that any reason to get so arrogant? After all Heidi is just a baby. Only one year old. Wait till she gets grown up and she will be a perfect little lady. That is if she can suppress - GASP! - "Evil Twin Weenie".

Cool Ruby "The good weiner of the South"

2005-09-17T10:20:00.000-07:00

OH MY DOG! What is that thing down below me?

Don't you believe a word the "Evil Weenie" says

2005-09-17T09:56:00.000-07:00

I am good and pure as the driven snow!!!

My Evil Twin

2005-09-16T18:49:00.000-07:00

Sometimes in the near future I'll tell you some big stories about my evil twin, I call her..... "Evil Weenie"

BRONCO V GOLDILOCKS

2005-09-16T13:04:00.000-07:00

Back in the 70's when we had Bronco, we also had a cat named Goldilocks. She came before Bronco and she definitelty ruled. She was a little calico who was feral when my daughter managed to capture her. I was in the hospital with surgery and friends invited the family to dinner. This cat was a stray in their neighborhood no one could touch, but my daughter didn't understand that, being about 8 years old, so she brought her home and named her.
I had never liked cats at that point, but I soon came under her spell.
When my daughter DeDe brought Bronco home, he could barely stand on his own four legs he was so gangly. He was bedded down in the garage the first night and when my husband came in from work, he growled at him. Imagine, just weaned and already challenging anyone on "his" turf.
It didn't take Goldy long to show him she was boss. She would knock him off his feet for no good reason. It was funny to see him lick her and watch her turn into a ball of indignation. When Bronco really sinned, she would run under him, flip on her back and really teach him a lesson. He loved her through it all.

Heidi is barking in her sleep

2005-09-14T17:24:00.000-07:00

Here Heidi is curled up beside me as I blog. She appears to be asleep, but that doesn't keep her from barking. That is almost as funny as when she barks with a mouth full of squeaky toy.
I feel she will soon take over this blog as she has been trying lately to crawl on my lap as I type. Don't believe anything she says.
I better hurry and tell you about her predecessors who have owned me in the past.

Heidi gained weight

2005-09-13T18:55:00.000-07:00

Took Heidi to vet for heartworm treatment today. She weighed 10 lbs. I was interested to see how she would react to going back to the place of her incarceration so soon. She didn't mind at first, but put on the brakes as the vet took her into the back room. Of course the vet knows how to handle her, so she soon went without acting up.
The vet and her assistant keep telling me what a good dog she is. Ha!!!
They don't see her when she turns into monster dog. In fact, nobody does.
She is a two faced little bitch dog.
As I was paying my bill, they were talking to her and she peed on my foot!

BRONCO V SHINER BOCK

2005-09-12T13:19:00.000-07:00

We had Bronco in the early 70's when the children were home.
We had Shiner Bock when it was just me and my husband.
Bronco was brought home by my daughter, if I recall. There was a litter born to a german shepherd mother and a doberman father in our neighborhood. The shepherd mother was not a large dog, but Bronco was a very large dog. He loved us with all his being. Unfortunately, he didn't love anybody else and we had to be ever alert when anyone else came around. The only exception was a little and very elderly lady who lived next door. He had no problems with her. When someone came by riding a bike or especialy a motorcycle, he tried to "ride" with him. This became such a problem, we had the law come by and talk to us. We were finally able to build a fence and keep him in.
One day, my husband was out barbequeing on the grill and got called to the phone. When he went back out, Bronco had snatched the steak off the grill and my husband chased him all over the yard trying to get it back. He gave a kick that Bronco dodged and almost crippled my husband. After that when we had meat scraps from the grill, I had to sweet talk Bronco into eating them. When I went out to feed Bronco, or care for him in any way, he usually put me on the ground in no time. He really was a big, long dog. He could peer out the window at the top of the front door when someone rang the doorbell and when he threatened them, and he did, he meant it.
Shiner Bock, Bock for short, was taken in by us after my son and daughter-in-law had buyer's regret, I suppose. I think he was about 3 months old when I first saw him hurling all over the driveway. The dog was a car sick dog and I couldn't load him in the car by myself, because he wasn't gonna go, no way. He was so gentle and laid back and only threatened people when they didn't pet him soon enough. When I realized I would have to move back to the city for awhile, I tried to sell Bock. One man already had him loaded into the back of his pickup and then couldn't find his checkbook. He unloaded him and never returned. A few days later, I had an A/C man out for repairs and he also had a pickup and Bock wouldn't go anywhere near it. He just knew I was gonna sell him again. Finally, when I had to leave home for awhile, my brother took him to the farm. One day, a calf was running along and Bock brought it down and my brother had to take off his belt and put it around his neck to pull Bock off the calf. If he had killed that calf, it would have been too wet to plow for sure.

Weenie recovery

2005-09-10T09:06:00.000-07:00

Heidi seems to have regained much of her weight. I guess regaining is just as dramatic as loss on such a small, but long, body. Now I am sorry I gave her the rawhide chews because I read they are not good for doxies. She just hides them right now anyway. She has shown no desire to chew them. The other "bonies" that are recommended don't turn her on at all.
My nephew and I bought her a little black with white monkey yesterday. I made the mistake of putting it in the crate with her. Little black monkey spewed poly fill all over the floor when we got back. Another toy that gave it's life to her jaws and teeth.

Heidi's donut

2005-09-08T16:05:00.000-07:00

Just before I left on my trip, and I was feeling guilty about leaving Heidi at the kennel, I bought her two donut shaped rawhide "bonies". She immediately latched onto one and with marathon chewing, turned it into a crescent. I forgot to pack it in her things to take to the kennel so when she got home she latched onto it again. I thought she would chew it, but she keeps wanting to hide it. She shoves it between boxes, drops it in paper bags, etc. to the point I don't know where it is and neither does she.
I got the second donut out today for her to play with and she is ignoring it. Go figure! I can't figure this weenie out.
I guess she has forgiven me for deserting her because she is now very friendly and will even take a nap on my lap.
My brother said after her traumatic experience of being left at the kennel for 12 days, she might need a doggie psychiatrist. Up till now she thought she was a human bean.

Heidi is home

2005-09-06T12:48:00.000-07:00

Heidi came home from the kennel today. She won't have anything to do with me. She knows I am a traitor. She only weighs 8.6 lbs. What a weight loss for something so small. I will try to tempt her with some goodies in a little while. She cant' seem to settle down yet. She has to explore everything. It will be interesting what she will do when I take her back in a few days to get her heartworm treatment.
The vet's assistant said she cleaned her anal glands when she bathed her. Maybe that is why she is mad at me. How would you like having someone do that to you?

I miss my weenie

2005-09-05T16:40:00.000-07:00

Well, I am back from my trip, but since this is a holiday, I can't get my weenie till tomorrow.
We were in the gulf with Katrina. Fortunately, we were able to go around her.
I am glad Heidi isn't here to stick her wet black nose into my luggage and dirty clothes as I try to sort everything out. I don't know how people go on extended cruises. A week is enough for me at one time.
I am anxious to know how Heidi will respond to me after over a week apart. We will just see tomorrow.

Heidi is gone and I am lost

2005-08-25T13:36:00.000-07:00

I had a bunch of stuff to do, so she went to the kennel today. Now I don't know what to do but miss her irritable little self. It will be over a week before I see her again. Can I stand it?