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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004
10:46 pm	News In case you come straight to my diary, meaning not through my website, I want you to know that I will not be updating my diary here anymore. Mum and I decided to move my diary to the same place as my website, so that's where you'll find my little writings in the future. If you want to continue to read about me, you have to go to Higgins - the Little Biscuitmonster We started doing it this way a couple of weeks ago, and I've actually updated with stuff that's been happening since August! So, hope you will visit my website, and if you do, please sign my guestbook! (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 29th, 2004
6:05 pm	Warm days Finally mum is pleased with the weather, she got sunshine at last. I like the sunshine too, because when the sun is shining you don't get soaked going for walks, but it does get a bit warm when you have a black coat on you all the time. We don't go for long walks when it's really warm, mum says it's better to take it easy, so we start off the day with a long walk before it's become too warm. During the day we go out for a couple of shorter walks, and later when it's cooled down a bit we go for another long walk. Mum is spending a lot of the time on the balcony in the sun, reading, and I don't understand how she can stay in the sun so long! I go out there now and again and lie in the sun, but it gets really hot so I prefer to be in the kitchen where it's a bit cooler. I know it's important to drink a lot when it's warm, and mum makes sure my dish always have fresh and cold water in it. Mum also drinks, but not from my dish, she has something she takes from the fridge, but I'm not allowed to share it with her. Something I did get to share with her today though was watermelon! I really like melons, and I know how to eat it. You can't chew it like a bone, you have to use your little front teeth when you eat melon. Mum has told me you're not supposed to eat the cover of the melon, only eat to the white line. Since it's difficult for me to hold a melon piece with my paws, mum holds it for me, so she tells me when I'm coming to the white part. She says I'm a very good melon eater, almost as good as I am on eating biscuits! Above you can see one of the pictures mum took today when I was sharing some melon with her. It was hard for her to take pictures with one hand, holding the melon with her other hand, so it's not a very good one. But you get the idea. Now I just had my dinner and I know that soon mum is going to take me for a walk, but before that I'm going to get some more rest. Current Mood: good (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 9th, 2004
2:36 pm	Oh no! Not another month already!? Hmm, I'm not good at updating my English journal! It's over a month ago again, and this time I can't blame it all on mum...Anyway, I'll try to give you an update on what I've been up to! Some weeks ago when mum and I went to her parents for a short, quick and unexpected visit I decided to drink some water. Since they didn't know we were coming there was no dish in the usual spot, but that wasn't a problem! Mum's parents have a small pond in the garden, so I went over there for a drink, I mean it was plenty of water and I was thirsty. Then I heard mum say "But what are you doing, you're not supposed to drink from there!" Then her father said "Oh, and I put some stuff in the water today against alga!" I didn't know what that last stuff was, but apparently it's some sort of things that grow in the water and it makes the water blurry or something and humans don't like that. Apparently you're not supposed to drink water with that stuff in it, but mum's dad told her that it was safe for animals, you can even put that stuff in the water when the fish is in there. All that night mum kept an eye on me just to be sure I was OK, and of course I was!! I know one thing though: There wont be any alga growing in my stommach!! Another night some weeks ago mum nearly made a fool of herself, leaving the appartment in her slippers!! We were going out for our last walk of the day, and just as we were leaving I took a look at mum's feet, and she had her slippers on!! How embarassing it would have been if she'd gone out in them! What if I'd met a cute girl?? So I figured I needed to make mum aware of what she was about to do so I sat down inside the door as she went out and I stared at her feet. Mum looked around and wondered why I wasn't coming since I'd been very excited over going for a walk just one minute ago. I kept staring at her feet, but she didn't get the point! Eventually I got up and went over and nudged her foot and then I sat down again and looked at her. Finally she got my message and went inside to put her sandals on instead. Phew! On the picture below you can see me doing something very important: I'm opening a letter that arrived in the mail one day: Mum and I had just come back from our first walk when the mail arrived. It was raining a lot that day so I was soaking wet, that's why I don't look too happy in the picture! Anyway, mum called me and said "You've got mail!" and handed me an envelope. It was sooooo exciting!! My own personal letter! I could smell something nice inside and started to rip it open which wasn't easy since it kept lying flat on the floor so I had to work a bit. Finally I managed to make a hole in it and it was biscuits inside!! Yummy lovely biscuits just for me!! I did my best cleaning the floor from crumbs, otherwise the stupid hoover would eat them, and I think I managed to get them all up! Then I checked out the envelope again to see if there were more biscuits. So, that letter really brightened up my day after getting soaked on the walk. I was very happy about it, and it came from another cocker that's on my link's page and his name is Svante. Another very exciting thing was going on the bus! Usually when mum and I are going somewhere we either walk, take mum's car or someone comes and picks us up. Now for some reason mum decided to do something different, and going by bus was different! It was very interesting actually, the driver was very nice, because he was talking to me and petting me and saying I was a very nice dog. Not when he was driving of course, but before we took off. The bus was standing at a stop for a few minutes so the driver came out of the bus and stretched his legs. When it was time to get on the bus mum boarded ahead of me and I jumped up the stairs, them mum paid - I didn't have to pay! - and we went all the way to the back of the bus. Mum had read somewhere that people bringing pets on the bus should sit in the back. Once we were in the back of the bus, mum lifted me up and I sat on her lap almost the whole journey, and it was so much fun! A bus is much higher than a car, so I could see everything when I was looking out the window! I saw dogs and people out walking and lots of other things too. Something that was a bit strange was all the people getting on and off the bus! I don't understand why people get on and off in different places, that never happens when mum and I take the car. But during this busride the driver stopped several times and people either got on or off the bus. There were no other dogs coming though, which was a bit sad, it would have been fun to meet another busriding dog! I also was a bit confused about the doors in the bus. Where mum and I sat we had a door just in front of us, and now and again it opened! I don't know how that happened, because there was no one there to open it or close it, it just opened! Maybe it's some kind of magic, I don't know. When it was time for mum and me to get off I saw her press a button and it went "Ping" and after a minute the bus stopped, mum got up and told me to come along and as we got to the door it opened without mum even touching it. Veeeeery strange.... Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
Monday, June 7th, 2004
10:12 pm	Looking after mum's dad Tonight mum's parents came over for a visit, and that's always fun! The thing was that mum started to get ready to leave, so I jumped up on the chest in the hall and lied down on her bag so she wouldn't forget to bring me. But, I wasn't allowed to come! It turned out it was only mum and her mother who were going, and they left me here together with mum's father. Mum said I had to keep him company since he wasn't allowed in the shop where mum's sister works. Now I know for a fact that he can go in there as much as he wants, because I've heard he's been there. I think mum was trying not to hurt my feelings, it's probably me who isn't allowed in there. I don't understand why mum has to go to shops where I'm not allowed! So, when mum closed the door, I sat inside it and sang a little, and when mum came home she told me I was silly and that she'd heard me going down the stairs. I didn't sing all the time though, I did keep mum's dad company in the sofa for a while, and only whined now and again when I remembered mum was gone. I kind of forgot to feel sorry for myself... Mum's dad took me out for a little walk, because mum had told him I might need it since when she was going to go out with me earlier before they arrived the rain was pouring down, and I don't like rain. Now it wasn't raining when her dad took me out, but it was wet! So not only did mum leave me behind, I got wet too!! Finally mum and her mother came home, and guess what? All they came home with was bags of clothes! You see mum's sister works in a clothes shop, and they had something called a sale, so for some reason mum and her mother thought it was a good idea to go there. I don't see why, because I know that mum has plenty of clothes in presses and drawers in the bedroom, so she really doesn't need any more stupid clothes! The ones she got looks just as clothes normally do anyway. Another annoying thing, mum and her mother had had icecream! Without bringing any home to me or mum's dad!! Very inconsiderate if you ask me. And I got to hear something mum has forgotten to tell me: In a couple of days I'll be spending the night at mum's parents house because mum is going on something called a "concert". It's Phil Collins who is having this concert, and I know for a fact that mum has several CD's with him so I don't understand why she has to go on a concert?! She didn't even ask me if I wanted to come! It didn't even cross her mind that I might want to go! What if you get biscuits on concerts!! I'll probably never find out since I'm not allowed to come on this concert, and even if they do get biscuits mum probably wont tell me. Life isn't fair!! Current Mood: pissed off (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 5th, 2004
11:48 pm	Not a nice walk at all Mum and I was out for a walk this afternoon, and mum had planned a loooong walk with me. We didn't get very far though. I decided I didn't want to go any further. What happened was that suddenly there were these lout bangs, and I got really scared and refused to walk. I lied down, and then another loud bang came. Mum got really upset, not with me because she knows I'm scared of bangs, like around new year when there are fire works. She got upset about the fact that some people have no respect for animals and other people who are afraid of loud bangs. She said it sounded like a small cannon, and it came from a little island in the river where there were some sort of fair going on. Mum tried to convince me to keep on walking, but she had to turn around and take me home because I was not moving and she wouldn't drag me along. The rest of the evening she tried to take me out a couple of more times but as soon as we'd crossed the street I'd had enough and refused to walk. I only lifted my leg and that was enough for me. I'm not going to risk getting scared again. Current Mood: sad (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 19th, 2004
1:23 am	Windy Going for walks is usually a fun thing to do, because you see new things and smell new smells all the time. Today though wasn't a good day for walks because it was very windy! I don't mind wind if it comes in my face and makes my ears flutter, but when it comes from behind it's very annoying! I keep thinking someone is kicking me so I have to turn around ever so often to see if there is someone behind me. At one point today I got so annoyed I sat down and refused to move! Eventually I did have to move of course, otherwise I'd still be sitting there. Sometimes I wonder if all humans do the things my mum does. Like cleaning windows for example. I mean what's the point? I can't see through them anyway since they are too high up for me, so I don't care if they are messy, and mum complains all the time when she's cleaning them so I don't see why she bothers. She spent all weekend cleaning windows and washing curtains and it's soooo booooooring! I've heard about other humans cleaning windows, but no one who keeps at it for days. Mum says she does it for days since she gets too bored doing all windows at the same day, but what about me? I get bored when she cleanes them, so it would be much better if she did them all at once. That way I'd only be bored for one day. Now I was bored all weekend! (Well, maybe not all weekend, but I don't want to be bored at all!) Oh, and I think I've forgotten to tell you mum is really proud of me. I've learned to totally ignore one barking dog we pass almost every day. When he's out in his yard he comes running when he sees other dogs, and he barks his head off and gets really mad. I used to get mad back and bark back at him, but mum told me I shouldn't do that, so she started talking to me before we came up to his yard and distracting me so I forgot to bark back at him. When I didn't bark back she started to praise me and gave me treats so I figured I was doing something right. So now I never bark back at him, I know when we're coming up to where he lives, so I start walking really proud and look up at mum, and she tells me to be a good boy and I am. We always walk at the opposite side from where he lives, and sometimes I even stop when we're in front of his gate and sniffs at the building on our side and lift my leg up, totally ignoring the barking fool. That makes him a bit confused, but he keeps on barking, but I say nothing at all because I know that if I behave as mum has told me, I'll get treats! I bet the barking dog never gets treats. He even barks and tries to get at all dogs he sees when he's out for walks, and his mum and dad has to hold him back because he's a big and strong dog. We've met them quite a few times, and mum is so proud of me because I ignore him totally at those times too. She only wishes I could ignore all other dogs I see. But some of them I really want to meet, so sometimes I stop and refuse to move and hope the other dog will want to meet me. I know mum gets annoyed when I do it, but I can't help it. I'm really very friendly and want to make friends, but mum says it's not all dogs who wants to meet me, and sometimes the owners of other dogs are mean and don't want their dogs to meet other dogs. But, I keep trying. At least I know mum is proud of me for ignoring that barking dog. Current Mood: content (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 14th, 2004
1:00 am	Oh no! A month has passed again... I don't know what it is but I never seem to update my journal! The main reason is that mum never lets me use the computer! She sits at it all the time, and she's been working on her own very silly website. I have no idea why she started that, I think I'm the only one in the family that should have a website, because I'm the interesting one! Can someone please tell my mum that?! I'm a very good babysitter in case you didn't know. Mum has helped out picking her nephew up from his day care a couple of times, and since that day care place don't allow dogs I sit in mum's car and wait for her and little Martin to come back. Then we usually go for a walk, and it's a bit of a pain actually since Martin sits in some strange thing, a stroller I think it's called, and it gets in my way when we're walking! But mum is pretty good at handling both me and that stroller thing, and she's never run over me, not even once. Little Martin is pretty cool, and he loves me. I can't say the feeling is mutual, but I kind of like him, and if he gets too much I just walk away. Mum has told me that all the way from the daycare to his home where mum had her car parked Martin was saying "Higgins waits for me" thousands of times! And when mum let me out of the car Martin is so happy to see me and he says hello and pets me and waves at me and all. Sometimes mum gives him biscuits or treats and tells him to give them to me, and he's very good at giving me them. Now Martin has his own room and he's very proud of it, and he has a new bed that he showed me and said I could jump up on if I wanted. That was nice! He also has very strange chairs and a table. They are so small! I wish mum had that kind of table and chairs, because if she did it wouldn't be hard for me at all to see what she's eating. Now this picture of me might look a bit strange, but I thought I wanted to show you how my mum lets me walk around! We were out for a walk a couple of days ago, and when I came back I looked like that! All yellow in my face! Mum said it was because I'd been sticking my head in some flowers, and they made me yellow. Now what if I'd met a pretty girl like that?? I'd been laughed at, all because of mum not cleaning me up. Lucky for me we didn't meet any pretty girls on that walk! I'm sorry this isn't a very long update even though more than a month has passed since last time, but I'm a bit tired now, and I can't remember all the fun stuff that's happened. I'm off to bed now! Current Mood: sleepy (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 11th, 2004
6:45 pm	Small update Since I last got to write here a lot of things has happened. I've been to the groomer and now everyone says I'm a beautiful boy!! I don't understand how come they have to point that out though, I mean I'm beautiful all the time;0) At least that's what mum says. Being groomed isn't something I like or enjoy, but it has some good parts afterwards: There aren't so many stupid things getting caught in my coat. Before the grooming I came in after every walk full of dried grass, twigs and strange things and mum was so annoyed! She also said I dragged in lots of sand with my paws, so she had the hoover out all the time. Now it's much better!!! The best thing that's happened is that mum made biscuits only for me!! She started to bake one evening, and it was very nice smells coming from the oven. It turned out it was doggy biscuits!! I looooooooove them and the only bad thing is that mum doesn't give me biscuits when I want them. I know where they are but they are too high up for me to reach so I can't go and take a biscuit whenever I want one so I have to depend on mum giving one or two to me. It happens much too seldom if you ask me!! But I guess I should be happy that mum took the time to bake just for me. The biscuits are really lovely, nice hard and crunchy, just the way I like them!! At the moment it's something called Easter. I'm not sure what that is, but I think it's some sort of holiday. Yesterday mum and I went to her parents and her sister with family were there too. All humans sat down and had a nice dinner - I could smell it - and I got an Easter present!! It was a nice chewingbone so I was happy. I also developed my friendship with little Martin, and I have him pretty well trained giving me his cookies!! The grown ups tell him "Keep your cookie away from Higgins or he'll eat it!" I'm not sure if Martin can't hear what they are saying or if he misunderstands them, and I don't really care. What happens when they say that to him is that he holds out his cookie for me so I can eat it!! He's a great little kid!! Mum and I have had really nice walks lately, at least two long walks every day because the weather has been very nice and mum says it's nice to be outdoors then. I think so too and there are so many interesting smells all over the place!! That's the good part with the snow melting away, because then you can see the ground and find plenty of interesting things. Not only sticks, but other things too, allthough some of the other things I find I'm not allowed to carry around. I have no idea why, it's some silly idea mum has that I can't carry things she finds disgusting! Isn't that strange, I mean I'm the one who wants to carry those things around, I'm not asking her to carry them so I don't see why she's going on the way she does. Hmm, I thought I had so many things to write about but now I can't think of anything more. Besides I heard mum said she was going to make herself some dinner so I better keep an eye on her in case she drops something... Current Mood: bouncy (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004
11:53 pm	Slow walk The other day it was mum's mother's birthday, and we went there for a visit. Mum's nephew was there too, and when we had been there a while mum thought she would take me out for a short walk. For some stupid reason she asked if little Martin wanted to join us, and that was a big mistake if you ask me. That was the slowest walk ever!! Mum and I usually walk fast when we're out, but it turns out little 2-year-old boys doens't walk very fast at all. And guess what?! Little Martin stopped more often than I did!! He had to look at everything, and specially at cars. It didn't matter if the cars were parked or if they passed us, he just had to stop and stare at them. As well as on people going by on bikes. And looking down those drain things in the street which I find totally silly because there's nothing to see!! Mum let Martin hold on to my lead so he would think he walked me, but then mum held on to the lead a bit further down which didn't give me much space to move around on. When I stopped to lift my leg, mum told Martin they had to stand still because "Higgins is peeing"... Like I wanted her to shout out that information all over the street!! Martin then said "ohhhhh" and stood staring at me. Then I stopped to investigate some interesting smells, and mum told Martin they had to stand still again because "Higgins is sniffing something" and Martin said "ahhhhh", and started to sniff in the air. Like he could smell the nice things I did!! After a while he got tired of holding on to the lead and started doing all sorts of strange things like running over to stranger's mail boxes to see if they had any mail!! How embarassing! Really, I thought we'd never get home, so I decided to lie down to tell mum we had to go back because we were getting nowhere. Mum told me I had to get up and there was no way was she turning back, becase we were more than half way home, so I had to get up and walk. The last bit home was horrible! Martin decided he wanted to compete, so mum had to say "ready-steady-go" at least 298 times the last short bit! It was so annoying! One funny thing though, at one point when mum said ".....go" and started running she noticed that Martin didn't pass her as he'd done the previous 200 times. So, mum turned around only to discover Martin had started running the other way!! When we finally got back to the house I was bored silly, and everyone was laughing when we came in and asked if we'd taken the long road through the forest! We'd been gone forever! If mum hadn't taken Martin along we'd been back within 8 minutes, now it took at least 30 minutes!! I hope mum never get the same stupid idea ever again. If she does, I'm not coming on that walk. Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Friday, March 19th, 2004
3:42 pm	A bit embarassing It's nearly a month now since I updated my diary! First mum's computer was feeling ill and had to go to the vet, and we didn't have a computer home for over a week! When mum had to do important stuff we had to go to her parents so she could borrow their computer. Then when we got mum's computer back, she had a lot of work to do putting all her programs back as well as all the important files and documents. Like my photos and such;0) Mum did help me to update my website with new photos at least, and I got to write in my Swedish diary, but somehow both mum and I forgot to update here. Sorry about that! Anyway, mum says it's nearly spring here now. Most of the snow has melted away, which is boring in a way since I love the snow, but I don't like it while it's melting! Then the streets are very wet and mucky, and I'm totally miserable after walks. I don't like being wet... The last few days we had sunshine, and I liked that! Since most of the snow is gone I got the whole ground to sniff, and there are so many interesting smells you can't believe it! Today was a bit boring though because it was raining on our first walk, and I got really wet! Not as wet as last week though when mum gave me a bath, but nearly. Above you can see a picture of me on a walk a week ago or so. I'm sitting down looking for ducks to scare! I think it's so much fun scaring ducks sometimes! I can pass ducks without trying to scare them, but they should never feel safe when they see me. I have to scare them now and again because it's so fun when I hear the swishing sound of the silly ducks taking off;0) One day last week mum's sister and nephew Martin came for a visit, and I'm really starting to like little Martin now. He knows he should be gentle when he pets me, and he likes to feed me! I make sure to sit very close to him when the humans are having coffee and lemonade and if I stare at him long enough Martin gives me his biscuits! The only problem is his mother or my mum usually tells him to stop so I don't t get that many biscuits... Here is a picture of him playing with the toy cars mum keep for him here: I heard that we are going to meet little Martin again on Sunday. We're all going to mum's parents because it's her mother's birthday, so I'll make sure to sit close to Martin or his dad while the humans eat stuff. Both of them are easy to trick into giving me stuff to eat. All I have to do is look at them with my begging eyes... Current Mood: bouncy (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 25th, 2004
1:41 pm	Mum's computer is not well Just thought I'd tell you that mum's computer isn't well. Actually it isn't even at home, I think mum brought it to the vet where it has to stay over. The computer has been gone now for nearly a week, and I think mum will soon start climbing the walls. This far she's cleaned the apartment, watched all videos she had lying around, almost finished reading all the books, and if the computer is gone much longer I don't know what she'll do. She can't do any more cleaning!! Both she and I finds that very boring. I've been lying around watching mum do her cleaning, and when she's been in the sofa watching TV or video, or maybe reading I've been lying there too being really comfy. As usual we've been going for our walks, and I can inform you that once again we have snow. Well, I got to go now, mum says since we're at her parent's house using their computer I'm not allowed to stay on for too long. Hope everything is back to normal soon!! Current Mood: busy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 15th, 2004
9:50 pm	Sick computer Mum's computer is not feeling the best, and it's been feeling poorly for the last couple of weeks actually. I think mum should consider taking the computer to the vet, and maybe get some medicine for it. As is is now, we can't do anything on the computer, since every time it starts, mum never knows how long it will be on for. It turns itself off and does all sorts of weird things. But I really think the vet could fix that! I mean the times mum has dragged me to the vet, I've been allright after some medicine or whatever the vet has suggested! Even the e-mail isn't working the way it should, and mum and I haven't been able to answer some e-mails that has come to us. Very annoying! At least mum got to update my site with some photos last week. Apart from that, life is pretty normal. The snow is coming and going, and at the moment I think it's going because it's very wet outside, and slippery too. It's a good thing I have four paws to stand on! I still don't get as many biscuits as I think I should, but that's not my fault! Yesterday and today mum has spent most of her time reading or watching TV, and I've been keeping her company. It's been very nice, and when she's been lying on the sofa reading, I've placed myself on top of her, with my head resting on one of her shoulders. It's so nice and cuddly! Now and again I've turned around and lying on my back, and mum always laughs when I move around, because I always wag my tail. The only reason I do that is to show her how happy and comfortable I am! It's really annoying when she decides she wants to get up, and I usually stare at her and refuse to move. I don't see why you can't be nice and comfortable for hours and hours... Now I think I'll ask mum to take me out for a little walk, and then I think I'll go to bed. I'm tired now. Current Mood: loved (Comment on this)
Friday, January 30th, 2004
1:09 pm	Page two Guess what? I was in the newspaper today! Yesterday when mum and I was out for a walk in the snow, mum decided not to take our usual walk because it was snowing really heavy. So instead of going the long way around town, we took a shorter route, and as we crossed the street at one place, I saw a man with a camera and it looked as if he'd taken a picture of us. I wasn't sure, and we didn't stop to find out, but today when mum opened the paper, there was the photo in the down left corner on page two in the local paper Eskilstuna-Kuriren! Under the picture it's written stuff about the weather and that they think the weekend will make the dog in the picture happy since it will be mild weather. I don't think that will be fun at all, because if the snow starts melting I'll get wet, and I don't like that at all. Anyway, I'm glad mum gave me a bath the day before yesterday! What if I'd ended up in the newspaper not being clean?! Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Sunday, January 25th, 2004
12:49 am	Finally I get to do this It's really been ages since I got to write here, and it's not my fault! Mum has been so selfish lately, not letting me write here when I want. I'd promised rosie_dog to write about my Christmas, but now it's been a month since Christmas, so it's a bit late. Anyway I had a good one, allthough most of the pressies under the tree turned out to be for mum's nephew Martin. He is a silly boy, because he doesn't know how to open presents. At least he's not very good at it and needed help all the time. If you haven't seen it already, I have photos uploaded in my photoalbum so you can check out my Christmas there. I also have photos there from New Year which mum and I spent on our own. I don't like New Year, because I don't like fireworks. They are scary and I don't like to go for walks when they shoot fireworks, which they did all day long! But I'm a good boy, I can hold it when I have to, so I didn't make a mess or anything. I just got mum worried, because she thought I'd explode! We also celebrated mum's dad's birthday, and all humans had nice stuff to eat. All I got was stuff that little Martin dropped on the floor. Actually he threw some things down to me when no one was looking, so he's a good kid;0) At least mum's dad knows how to open his presents, so he didn't need any help with that. He seemed pleased with his gifts even if there weren't any biscuits. I've also been to another party, and as always when I go to parties I was wearing my red bandanna, mum had brushed me and everyone said I looked so handsome. It was Rusty's mum's birthday, and we all had a little surprise when some of the guests arrived: They had brought a dog!!!! It was a female dog called Blanca, and she's from Spain. She is all white and fluffy because she's a Maltese or something like that. She also turned out to be rather nippy. There I was, just trying to be friendly and get to know her, and she had the nerve growling at me!? Rusty was also trying to be friendly with her, but she growled at him too, but he just didn't give up. I spent most of the evening lying in the sofa beside mum watching Rusty making a fool of himself. Blanca didn't pay him any attention, but he didn't seem to notice. I was told I was the most well behaved dog around, and mum was very proud of me. Specially since I came to her when she called me when I was trying to beg people to give me food. I decided I better behave or she might stop taking me to parties. Mum did try to get photos of us three dogs together, but we weren't exactly working with her. She had plenty of nice photos of the floor, or peoples feet, but that wasn't what she wanted. If you take a look at the above photo, you can see a tiny bit of Rusty in the low left corner, the white fluffy leg is Blanca, and then it's my head. Here you have Rusty trying to impress Blanca by wearing a little girls jumper. He looks totally silly if you ask me, but Rusty thought he looked gorgeous and didn't want to take it off. Blanca is as I said from Spain. I think she used to live on the streets and no one looked after her. Some years ago she was brought to Sweden and now she lives with some nice people who look after her. She still don't like to be in photos though. Mum thought she had Blanca here, but as you can see Blanca was too fast for mum. All of us got to see that Blanca can dance. I'm not sure, but I think it was a dance from Spain, and her partner is the little Natasha who Rusty borrowed the jumper from. Natasha is nearly 2 years old, and quite nice actually, except from when she tried to grab my tail. Mum never didn't see that, but Natasha's dad did, and he told her she should never grab a dog's tail, so she stopped trying. I think she has a nice and sensible dad telling her important things like that. No dog likes getting his tail grabbed and pulled! Now I'm awfully tired and I'm going to bed. I hope mum lets me write here again soon! Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 31st, 2003
6:37 pm	Happy New Year Wishing you all the best for the new year, loads of biscuits and stuff like that! Current Mood: good (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 19th, 2003
1:03 am	Pressies!! The big table in the livingroom is full of wrapped gifts! It's CHRISTMASGIFTS!!!! I know that all gifts are not for me, but at least 11, or was it 1 perhaps, belongs to me, but I will not get anything before Christmas Eve. At least that's what mum tells me. I know that there are a couple of really cool things there, but I can't say what it is since it's a secret. What I can tell you though is that you really should get the same wrappingpaper that mum used! I know for sure it is good quality on that paper with little santas and penguins wearing santa hats because I did some serious testing of it. I figured it was best I tested it so mum could be sure the gifts would stay in the paper until they are supposed to be opened. It was really a good quality paper because you had to put both your front paws on the paper and then pull it before it tore up in little pieces. It wasn't enough just shaking it!! I really recommend you to get that paper, and you can buy it in the shop where my mum bought it. I have no idea of the name of that store, but when you drive out from our garage, you make a little turn, and then it's straight forward for quite a while, then you make another turn, a bit straight forward again, and maybe there are some other turns here and there before you turn in to the big parking. When you get there, make sure you drive to the 7th row and park between the grey and the red car. I'm not sure how to get from the car to the store since I wasn't allowed to come, but I'm sure there is someone there you can ask. Now I'll drag myself in to the bedroom to sleep, because I think mum looks a bit tired. Current Mood: accomplished (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003
12:06 am	Big Day December 2 2000 was a very special day in my young life - I was born in August the same year. At that day some strange people arrived at the kennel I was born in, Lagromi , and one of them turned out to be my new mum Yvonne! At that time, mum wasn't much into photographing, she didn't even bring her camera, but fortunately one of her friends brought one. Unfortunately the photo quality isn't the best, but maybe you can make out some of it! This first picture is me and my sister Harriet. I guess nearly all you can see is some black fluff all over the place, but it's actually us wrestling. I'm not sure, but I think it's me down on the floor... On this picture you can also see our older half brother, Tjabo, he was 9 months old here I think, and a real fun guy to play with! This last photo is also the three of us, it's my older brother chewing something, and I think it's me on the way over to check out what he is doing. You can easily say I've grown a bit since then when I was just about 3 months old, and the strange person who became my new mum turned out to be pretty OK. She is still strange at times, and gives me too few biscuits, but otherwise she's all right! Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
Friday, November 28th, 2003
1:19 am	Why is it raining? The last couple of days there has been so much rain, and I really don't like it! I've tried to convince mum that I want to be in "Guinness Book of Records" for being the dog who stayed in the longest without going out to do my business, and not doing them in the house. My stupid mum wont let me though, but drags me out in the pouring rain getting me all wet and mucky. That is very bad if you ask me. At least she only take me for one really long walk during rainy days, and then I just have to go short walks the rest of the day. I mean it takes me hours and hours to dry, so I try to get to lie in mum's lap wrapped in towels after one of those long walks. She usually lets me for a while, but then she tells me her legs are getting cramped. I think she should forget about her legs and think about me who is all wet and miserable! Mum did something very strange the other day. She took all the food out of the freezer, put it in some strange white bad which she put out on the balcony, and then she let the door to the freezer wide open. I usually don't get to see much of the inside of the freezer, and I have no idea why mum puts food in there, but now she said it was more ice than food in it, so she was "defrosting". Very strange if you ask me. There was a towel on the floor and a little blue plasic bowl, and after a while it started to drop water in to the bowl. Just check this out! As you might know, I love investigating things, so I really checked this defrosting the freezer thing out carefully. Anyway, after a couple of hours I saw mum putting the food back in there, and now she leaves the door closed so I'm happy I got a chance to investigate the freezer. Who knows when I'll get a chance like that again? Another day I decided to have some fun, and what is a better place then mum's bed? I wanted to play some with a toy, but I couldn't decide which toy I wanted to play with, so I was going around in the apartment gathering several of my toys that I took in to the bedroom and put on mum's bed. She was in the livingroom reading and let me mind my own business, so I had a very fun time. It was quite a bit of work getting all the toys up on the bed, I had to jump up and down several times, but it was really worth it in the end. There I was on the big bed, nice and comfy and most of my favourite toys all around me. I was chewing a bit here and a bit there, and that must have made mum curious because she came in with her camera, and once again she caught me in a photo. The bad part about all this was that mum threw all the toys down on the floor when she went to bed later that day. I have no idea why the toys couldn't stay on her bed, that way I think humans have strange ideas about things. Current Mood: sleepy (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 16th, 2003
1:21 am	Great carer The last couple of days mum hasn't been feeling well. She said she had a bad cold, but I don't think so. A couple of weeks ago she took me to the vet and said I'd get a vaccination, and I heard her and the nurse discussing this vaccination thing, and they talked about getting something called kennel cough. So I think that instead of putting the kennel cough in my vaccination, it was given to mum. Not that she has been coughing or anything, at least not a lot, but I didn't even notice getting a vaccination, all I noticed was that I was up on the table, and then down again and the nurse gave me treats. Anyway, back to mum and her cold. It has made her sneeze a lot, and that can be very disturbing if I'm lying on her lap or on her chest. It kind of makes me jump, so I give her serious looks telling her she has to stop sneezing. I've been taking very good care of her though, keeping her company - as I always do - not demanding too many walks because I've noticed mum has been very tired, and all in all I've been a very good boy. I've even made sure that when she has put cream on her nose that it has covered all her nose. She was complaining her nose was very sore, and started putting cream on it, so everytime she's done that, I've checked it out. She thought I was going to lick the cream off, but I was only sniffing her nose very closely and then she started sneezing again because she said I was tickeling her. It's actually been a very cozy time, because mum has spent a lot of time in the sofa reading, and when she's been lying there, I've been lying on her chest and stommach to make sure she kept warm. It was a bit annoying though as I said when she sneezed, or when she reached for her glass of juice or cup of hot drink. A few times I had to move! Mum also said she felt like she had her head in a fish tank, but I know she didn't because I couldn't see a fish tank over her head, so I guess she was delerious or whatever that word is. I must say I've been very helpful to mum, the only thing I couldn't do was getting her drinks and ice cream and so on, but that's her own fault! She wont let me near the fridge or anything, so it's her own fault she had to get her own drinks... Now mum is feeling better again, so things will be getting back to normal I suppose. Current Mood: good (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 11th, 2003
5:24 pm	Going in the car and other stuff Today mum took me out for a car ride, and that's always fun. Well, at least I used to think so until she got me the stupid seatbelt thing! Anyway, mum needed to get something for her car, not sure what it was really, so when she went in to the shop I sat and waited in the car. Then she drove to another store and went inside for something else, and then we went home. When she parked the car, she leaned over towards me in the back seat to let me lose from the seatbelt. If you have one, you know it's like a harness that you wear, and then the human seatbelt goes through a thing that is on your back. As soon as I was free, I went between the front seats and jumped out the door, where I immediately sat down very nicely. Mum was looking at me since I usually don't do it that way, normally I start sniffing around in the garage, but I figured I'd better sit down today. When mum turned to lock the car, she saw something strange in the backseat. It was my harness.....I'd wriggeled myself out of it and she didn't know, so most of the car ride I'd been sitting as if I actually had the belt on properly. What had happened was that mum didn't close it properly up in the appartment when she put the harness on. She says it's because I was messing around while she was getting it on, I say it's because she is clumsy and also I don't want to have the stupid belt on!! Another thing mum says is that this will not make her let me go without the seatbelt in the car, she will check the harness properly before next time. Yesterday we had visitors, it was mum's sister who came here with little Martin. It's always nice having visitors, but Martin has to be watched at all times. When he is eating stuff, I watch him in case he decides to share what he's eating with me, or maybe he will drop something, and when he's walking around I check so he isn't messing around too much with my toys. There are some toys I don't mind if he's playing with, but yesterday he found a couple of my favourite balls and started throwing them around, so I thought I'd better run after the balls and get them to a safe place. I think it's better when he drags everything out of the kitchen presses and leave my stuff alone actually, because that gives me a chance to see what's in there too! Just a little while ago I saw mysterious things through the window. Mum was sitting in the sofa reading, and I was up in the corner and from there I was looking over at the windows, and then I decided it was time for some growling and barking. I saw people outside!! We live on the second floor, so there shouldn't be people outside our window!! Mum said I was silly barking at them, since they couldn't hear me, and besides the people I saw were in the building across the street. I'm not too sure about that though, so I'll keep on watching those windows when we're in the livingroom. Today on one of our walks we went to my favourite store because all my treats were gone, and mum bought some new ones. The bad part is that she hasn't given me any of them even though I've tried to make her give the full bag to me. I mean it's my treats, I'm the only one in this appartment eating them, so why can't I have them?? I think it's silly that I only get treats when mum feels like it, or when I've done something special. I should have treats all the time. Now I'm off to see if I see any more mysterious people outside our livingroom... Current Mood: annoyed (Comment on this)