Pupdate from the Crate: My Trainer Kissed Me on THE LIPS!

Happy Friday everyone!  Yesterday I had the best day ever!  It all started with having cottage cheese for breakfast, a WHOLE BOWL!  Yeah, and I got it myself!  To tell the truth, it was actually mom's breakfast, but the phone rang and she had to do some business stuff and go to dad's office for some numbers.  Well, she was gone so long I thought she wasn't ever coming back and I said to myself that she will find some other food wherever she has gone off to and so I should eat this before it spoils and stinks up the house so I did.

But it turns out she really wasn't gone all that far or all that long (it seemed like less than 30 seconds but my puppy brain thought it was 2 days) and when she came back to the family room she saw me finishing it all up.  I was a good dog because I took the bowl to my place on the carpet and didn't mess up her work stuff, and....get this....I even cleaned up every little bit I got one carpet!  BOOM!  😋😋😋. How's that for amazing?

Then I went to my first training class and I met a new lady who is teaching mom how to use a clicker on me.  So, I finally found out where that came from!  But it was super cool there!  It was a giant room and I could go look all around and then I saw it....a GIANT dog was on the wall staring at me so I barked and barked and barked to say 'GIANT DOG!! GIANT DOG!!! stop it!  I am going to have my mom use her clicker on you and she will click your giant face away from me RIGHT NOW!'  But it turns out it was just a picture of a dog and everything was ok.

The trainer lady was pretty!  I tried to jump on her and get her to love me up but she didn't even look at me.  How is that possible?  While I was trying to figure out how she could resist me, a hotdog piece fell on the floor in front of my nose!  Yum-eeee!  Then another.  Then I realized they were coming from the lady and I started to look at her and watch her.  We did a ton of fun stuff and my big thing was that I'm now learning "down" with the command and clicker.  CLICKERS ROCK!  Every time I hear it I get the best treat ever!

Then all of a sudden, it happened.  That first unexpected kiss!  The trainer was a little embarrassed, because she told mom that she NEVER kisses a dog other than her own, and NEVER EVER on the first date!  I was just standing there, looking deeply into her eyes and sending her love messages from my brain (the hot dogs were making me all stupid...good thing I didn't have to drive home) and SHE leaned out and smooched me right on the kisser!  Hot diggity dog!  I got all spinning and flippy and tried to jump on her but the clicker was calling me and I just sat waited for the best treat ever to come to me.  I'm thinking I need to get my own clicker.....

So, here is a picture of me playing with my toy bin.  I love my toy bin because it is stuck to a wire rim with Velcro!  And you know what happens when you pull Velcro apart, right?  It makes the most coolest best noise in the world and it also buzzes my mouth a little too!  You see how I hook my teeth under the flap?  Well....I love pulling that apart a ton of times every day.

Oh yeah, and about my best treats ever, well, I'm kinda worried about if they are safe in the fridge or not.  Mom makes them special for me.  She cuts turkey hot dogs into tiny bits then microwaves them until they get hard and kinda rubbery.  Then she chops up cheese into tiny bits and mixes it up in there and put it in baggies and then in the fridge.  Well, what worries me is dad.  I saw him grab a bag and start off with it toward his TV spot and then he looked at mom and said "WHAT???Are these for the dog or something?"  Maybe mom should make him his own and put his name on his Baggie.

Have the best weekend ever and let me know if anyone ever ate their puppy treats by mistake.  Mom says she never did, but once she put butt cream on her toothbrush because it was in a tube that looked like toothpaste and she was tired....

Xox Ardie the Best Kisser Ever!