the doghouse

This weekend, Tiff and Nate went to Rochester for a marriage conference with their church. I got to stay home, and Virginia came over and took care of me. I had lots of fun getting to hang out with new people!

Today, after Nate put me in the bedroom and left for work, I was bored.. so I decided to look and see what were in the drawers in the bedroom. I found these funny little bottles, and when I chewed on them, lots of little pills came out, and I ate lots of them. Tiff came home for lunch, and called Nate right away.. apparently, that was a bad thing. Nate came home, and fed me some nasty-tasting stuff (he says it’s “Hydrogen Peroxide”) that made me throw up all over the place. After that, I feel much better.. but yuck!

I’ll have to be a good boy and not eat any more pills!

Well, on Tuesday, I graduated from puppy school.. yay! I’ve got a certificate of completion that I need to convince Nate to scan and post for me.

In other news, I’ve been very good at annoying Tiff lately.. yesterday, I noticed she was making lunch on the counter, so I distracted by messing with her papers in the living room, and then went into the kitchen while she was cleaning that up and ate her lunch. It was good! Last night, Nate and Tiff decided to order some deep-dish pizza from Davanni’s, and ate it while they were watching Lost.. I thought it looked good, too, so while Tiff was trying to cut the pizza on her lap, I snarfed the two pieces. Nate was mean and took them away from me, though.. since I already had them, you would’ve thought I could’ve ate them. Ah well..

Tiff and Nate are going out of town for the weekend, so they said that one of their friends was going to come stay at the house to take care of me. I’m going to be my best to be a good puppy, but it’s HARD!

This morning, I woke Nate up extra-early (5:30 or so), and he said it was really cold outside, and took me for a short walk. Then, he went back inside, set an alarm on his phone, and went to sleep on the couch. I decided I didn’t appreciate that very much, and chewed up his glasses and cell phone. He woke up, and let me tell you, he was mad at me! He didn’t punish me very much, though, since he didn’t think I’d know what it was for. HA! In any case, he ended up staying home until 10:30 or so, which I was happy about.

Here’s a picture of the nicely chewed stuff:

Sorry - I’ve been falling behind in keeping this blog up to date. Ah well, I’m sure you all don’t mind.

I had my second-to-last puppy class tonight.. next week, I graduate! The teacher noticed that I was responding much better for Nate than Tiff, so Tiff’s going to try to take more care of me (punishment at home when both Nate and Tiff are there, feeding me, etc), and see if I’ll start listening to her more.

I also got to meet a new friend today - his name is Buck, and he lives up the street a bit. He’s got a nice big backyard that his owner says we can play in.. Nate’s kind of worried that I’ll get into the runoff pond, though — I think it’d be fun to go chase the birds, but he thinks I’d stink.

I’ve been enjoying the rain lately, except for the fact that my walks are way shorter. I like the wet, but it doesn’t seem like my people do!

I have been picking up quite a few ticks lately, so Nate’s going to stop by the vet’s tomorrow and pick up some Frontline Plus for me.. hopefully it will help!

Over the weekend, Nate and Tiff took me to the March of Dimes walk. I got to walk 5 miles, sniff lots of people and puppies, and get soaking wet — it was great! Really, besides that, not much has happened in the last couple days. Nate was at a meeting at work late yesterday, and I messed the house up.. I’m not sure if it was because he was late, or because the worker guys were outside working on our neighbor’s driveways. Tiff wasn’t very happy when she got home to find the mess, but she forgave me. I got to go to puppy class again tonight.. I was the only puppy that could do down, stay on a down, and come from the stay. I’m learning really quick!

I switched from my Iams Smart Puppy food to Science Diet Lamb Meal and Rice.. I like it lots better! I’ll actually eat all four cups I get fed before bedtime now - that’s a good thing, since I’m less likely to wake Nate up at night. He doesn’t like it very much when I do that.

Nate keeps forgetting to give me my monthly heartworm pill.. it’s already two days late. I’m not going to remind him, though - I don’t particularly like it.

I know I haven’t posted any pictures in awhile - I’ll try to get some up soon!