Pupdate from the Crate: Pod-cats and More Pillow Fights!

Happy Dog Day people!! I am  just about to pass out from swimming with my people-sister Leslie and I wanted to say Hidey Ho before I go into a coma.

I don't really swim unless Leslie drags me into the pool and then I try to walk on water to get out as fast as I can.  But actually I'm doing a lot better since she came two days in a row now and I let her grab me and I don't even bite her!

I've been taking medicine for my skin infection and I'm Super Ardie using my super taster powers to find the pills mom puts in my food.  I'm extra good at getting all the peanut butter off the pill and then I spit it out, all clean and shiny!  Sometimes I don't, but mostly I do.  Mom likes this game!  She gives me all kinds of you my stuff.  Dad just pushes it down my throat and makes both me and mom grumpy.

So, while I was at Aunt Margie's for a while, I had the best day ever!  Then I went home. Then, Aunt Margie saw that me and my invisible friend had a pillow fight in the bedroom sometime when after she made up the bed.  Those are the best ever times for pillow fights and under the cover rumpus!

I keep having pillow fights!  They are awesome!  Mom says I can't do it, but my invisible friend comes along and gets INSIDE the pillows and it makes me crazy!  I just can't stop myself.  My invisible friend got in trouble for making me tear apart mom's fancy pillow and she has grounded the invisible friend from certain rooms in the house.  Lately, he is only getting inked the couch cushions but that's getting old.

Mom has been talking to me a lot lately.  She got something called pod-cats and I thought we were having kittens over but she said NO! ARDIE!  It's something that talks and teaches her stuff.  I tried to listen but it is something about our brains and why we do the stuff we do and what makes glow sticks work, and what happens when there is a hangover and are aliens real.  Phew!  That pod-cats talks all day long and I'm sick of him so I close my ears and wait for mom to give me the  highlights, which she will sometime when we are stuck in traffic in the car and one little thing is stuck in her head and she just won't leave it alone.  I want to watch the wolf TV again, and I jump on the black TV changer a lot but I can't get it to work, so I go off to play with my friend in the pillows.

One day, mom let me sleep in bed with her while dad was on a business trip, but she got exhausted.  She said she had to keep waking up to see if I was still there, still breathing.  What a funny thing.  She says I sleep to quiet and still so that she worries in her sleep.  Yeah, almost drove me nuts too.

So, happy dog day!  I'm outta here before the next talking starts on her IPad.

Xox Ardie the Amazing Pill Ejector!

Pupdate from the Crate: Pillow Fights and Psychotic Nerves

Hi everyone!  My poor mom has been very still most days, trying to fix her psychotic nerve in her back.  She calls it something different, but it makes ME psychotic when no one can play with me.  So, I have a new imaginary friend, who might or might not be Emma cause she would incite me to do these new things but I'm not sure, so I now have a blast having pillow fights everywhere!

Look at us go!  See how I toss all the couch pillows on the floor?  Sometimes my invisible friend hides inside the couch cracks or inside the bed covers or under the cushions and taunts me to find her until I go psychotic and toss pillows everywhere!

I go baking nuts trying to find that invisible little angel-dog who really really is IN THERE and only I can see it and hear it.  Sometimes, they jump right inside the pillows and I shake them to try to get them out but I'm getting an idea that isn't cool.

Mom gets grumpy when I do it, and stops me.  Yesterday, she was gone all night and Dad let me tear apart Leslie's bed, the couch and the bonus.....all the trash in the back bathroom!  It was all paper stuff, paper towels, tissues and boy was that fun!  I had the best night ever!

It looks like mom's psychotic nerve was better last night cause she followed me everywhere after she cleaned up stuff from my invisible friend dog and me playing.

Then, it was raining, and I was feeling weird about being outside so mom took me to the pool area before bed and don't you just know it mad pe me feel good enough to poop so I did.  BUT....right at the start some alien in the woods made a moo-moo sound and it scared me so bad I pooped all the way across the cement patio pool deck cause every time I could poop, it mooed again and it scared the wits out of me.  Mom s waiting for the rain to stop today before she goes out to clean up.  I don't think it was her best night ever, yesterday.

Hope you stay dry and can poop without getting scared today.

Xox Ardie (and his invisible friend who came by long enough this morning to help get some pictures of the pillow fights)

Pupdate from the Crate: The Shredder Strikes Again

Hellooooo Everyone!  Mom has a boo boo in her back and hips and leg and can't move very well.  She is going to something called a Chiropractor to help her stop from yelping and gasping and bending over like something is about to explode.

So while she is sitting a lot, I'm keeping busy!  Mom says this is all you need to know about today.  She could not take pictures of my bedroom shredding cause she had to sit back down. This is just my work in our living room and in our family room!  Man!  I amaze myself!  Dad's special whiskey box was extra fun!  Wish I could read - it had some special words on it I think, and some foamy stuff that made pops when I ripped it!  

I did that while Mom was on the phone a few times today.  I just know how to keep busy, don't cha think?  :)  

 Poor mom.  I need a play date to get my energy out so she can rest but even getting me in the car is a trick for her.  Time for me to rest up for my next adventure so I can still have the BEST DAY EVER!

Love, Ardie the Super Shredder

Pupdate from the Crate: The Best Wolf Show Ever!

Hi everyone! I did something wonderful last night!  I watched a wolf on our TV!  I watched the whole movie but it was so late that I took naps during the commercials. I LOVED that show!  I watched it with my whole body.  My ears and tail and eyes were all working as I watched the wolf grow up from a puppy to a mommy wolf and sometimes she was in trouble and I had to sit straight up if she got into a fight and help her with my energy. 

Mom and dad watched me more than they watched the wolf movie.  Maybe they never saw a dog watch TV, I don't know, but I LOVE that show!  I sat right straight up when the wolf was pouncing on a squirrel and was screaming in my head get 'em! get 'em or you'll starve to death! And she got a squirrel and could live to have puppies.  I don't know what happened because I watched it for almost an hour and my mom said it was bedtime and I had to go to sleep.

One time, I was watching so hard, I drooled all over the floor!  I was on the sofa, with my front paws hanging off so I could sit up or lay down super fast and the next thing I know, I'm like a zombie sitting perched up staring at the TV with my mouth open and spit just drooling out.  I heard mom and dad laughing and it snapped me out of it.  I think maybe I got the hots for the she-wolf but I just was in a zone so I really don't know.

Mom says she's going to let me watch another animal show soon and maybe I can then get a TV in my crate.  Uh.  Maybe, you never know.

I've been busy digging a trench around my horse pad in my pen.  It is a big black rubber pad used for horses that mom put in the dog yard so that Bailey and Emma didn't always lay in dirt and so that it got warm fast in the winter time.  They LOVED outdoors so much they got fussy inside and their dog yard is sweet!  But, I think their might be something under there so I'm digging around it.  Then, my feet went off track and started to dig under my dog yard fence, which isn't OK with mom and she is looking for something to put there so I don't escape.  I also dug up and chewed off a giant root from the tree and it plays with me!  We play tug and zoom!  That tree really holds on tight and when I get all wound up from tugging, I get the zoomies so fast that sometimes I fall down and spin and knock into things.  I'm so fast, I'm not even used to my own powers!

Inside, when I need to chew, I love this toy and now that I've figured it out, I can get the rings right out faster than anything!  It used to take me 10 minutes to figure it out, but now I can do it in 2!  When I'm done, I run right back to mom and toss it at her!  Yep!  I drop it like a hot potato and give her the look - fill 'er up mom!  and sometimes she does but sometimes she puts it away.

I am getting smarter and smarter and mom is working to find ways to keep me busy.  She says she is more tired now than when I was a puppy puppy and now that I'm 8 months old I'm almost a teen ager and she is trying to teach me quiet activities like reading and puzzles, and stuff where she can sit on a chair and point and I do the rest.  Well, I'm not liking those games real well.

So the other days, I did these things:  I took a shower with mom but I didn't know it was going to happen cause she was in my cool tile place without me and when I went in there with her, stuff was tapping me on the head that I could not see, the floor was all wet and it was steamy.  It was interesting, but I like my cool tile place better when mom isn't in it with me. 

Then, I ate roast beef and it was the BEST EVER and I even got it myself while mom was cleaning the dishes and kitchen.  If I hadn't been making such slurpy noises in the family room with my hunk of beef, I bet she'd have never missed it cause there was so much on the leftover plate. . . .

And do you know what?  We got this thing that makes the air and ceiling smell like food!  Yep, when it is on, I smell the best smells coming from the ceiling!  I walk all over looking for the food, but I can't find it!  Somehow, this new cooker thing puts smells way way up in the air like nothing else and then suddenly, they are gone!  but that is where the roast beef came from and I think I like it!

So everyday I'm busy with new amazing adventures, doing my training things like twirl, crawl, stay, and doing something new called "shedding all over" which I never knew about and makes Oreck come out a lot and I can't help it cause I just stand up and a big ball of fur just flies off of me in a cloud and sticks to everything but mom is adjusting - sort of- cause I give her my ears back-eyes wide open lovey dovey look and she calms down!

Today is an Oreck and Sawyer day and my day to hide on the patio.  Sawyer is walking now and can hold stuff while he walks and can even throw things while he walks.  What a scary little thing!  I saw two of them in the park the other day and one was super cool trapped in a wheely-cage and I like that one, but the one who was NOT in a cage came right for me trying to touch me and I can't have that!  They are too wobbly on their own little legs and so squeally and they open their mouths so I know they are going to bite me.  I know I only like them when they are in their cages. 

So, I'm going to have the BEST DAY EVER and stay away from Sawyer and Oreck today.  I love my mom and she loves you so I do too - so long as you are not a Sawyer-baby-puppy.

xox  Ardie