Pupdate from the Crate: what a weekend

Hi everyone!  This has been a busy weekend around our house and I'm busy too!  I am learning new things, like how fast bunnies really are, and how slow moms and dads are.  It was my first bunny chase ever!  So it all started out with me going into the pool area where dad was showing mom how clean he made the cement with his power washer. It was my first time to see the pool without the cover and I found out that there is water in it!  So, I went on the first step down that was dry and I started to take one more step down and my foot got wet which made me INSANE so I flew out of the pool and launched into the best case of the zoomies ever!

And then while I was speeding around, my SUPER ARDIE eyes saw the far end pool gate open and before you could say SUPER ARDIE!! I jetted right out that gate, far far from my people and I landed right next to a bunny!  Well, there was some screaming and yelling going on back at the pool and I think it was GO SUPER ARDIE GO! But maybe it wasn't.  So anyway, that little bunny was so wound up he took off like crazy so I chased him down the drive and into the deep deep woods of the neighbors yard!  It was the best bunny chase ever except I might have made mom and dad have heart attacks.

And mom says she RAN down the drive calling me, and dad said it was more like a fast walk, and mom swore she ran but dad said nope, they didn't run.  Maybe their jets are broken, but anyway I got stuck in the weeds and tall brush and came squirting out right by mom and she captured me before I could find the bunny.  So much for that excitement.

But yesterday I got to go visit my cousin dog Murray at his house and I'm almost as big as him now!  Mom took pictures to show you.  I'm the white skinny one and Murry is the fatter black dog and he has no tail!  Mom says he's a wiggle butt!  I challenged him to a race around the shed and he never saw it coming!  I revved up my SUPER ARDIE jets and got low to the ground and blasted off.  I was screaming "eat my dust wiggle butt boy!" and he almost caught me the first three or four times around the shed, but he never ever did!  Sometimes mom saw me come blasting out the front, but no Murray chasing me!  She was really worried he was having a heart attack behind the shed, but he was just going slow.  I guess he's just too chubby to keep up....

And then there is this rash I have been licking on my....well....on my....pee pee....and I have some sores there that mom has been trying to fix.  I think something bit me, or maybe I got onto a plant but I got these little itchy blisters RIGHT THERE and they make me insane and my mouth HAS TO LICK.  So mom makes it a ton better by using some E-sencial oils on me with some special cream and I feel so much better.  At first it was stinky to me, but now I like it.  When I smell the oil cream coming, with mom on the other end, I just lay down and flop over so she can get me lubed up good.  She was telling dad about it and I think he likes the way mom takes care of me!  He said "well, heck honey, I'd roll over and let you do that to me all day long too!"  He must not have a rash on his...uh you-know-what because mom used her disgusted voice and and gave him THE look.

Today was another sad day and prayer day for us because mom said another beautiful dog went to heaven.  She has been telling me to say prayers a lot this last month or so.  Something big must be happening up in heaven for all these special dogs to be leaving here and going there, that is all I can think.  Mom said some were sick but some some were not and no matter which way, it is really the hardest think about dogs, is that they leave faster than most people do.  So I want the people to feel better and I stayed quiet during our memorial time and even though I wanted to bust out through the kitchen window screen after my bug friends, I didn't.  (Sometimes I try that when I play with them!)

This week we had a painter here, the pool guys, and the Mosquito Joe guys, and baby fawn left after two weeks of giving mom a stomach ache worrying, and the guy was not even named Joe who does the mosquito stuff, more like Mark or something, and the pool won't be ready till dad can fix it, but at least he didn't catch on fire when the power washer got so smokey we could not see him, so it all turned out to be a good weekend.

I'm tired.  Xox Ardie the Amazing Rabbit Chaser