Aug 17, 2008

Hello again!

Sorry for the absence, fellow furkids. Like I said, Mom had to take a break cause she misses Copper who was old and passed on to Doggie Heaven (where I hear there is a 5:1 squirrel to canine ratio. Heaven indeed!).

Mom is pretty busy too. Skool is starting again so Mom is gone a lot more. Tom and I will be left alone ALL DAY on Tuesdays and Thursdays. What a terrible thing. There has been some mentioning of something called "Doggie Daycare" which sounds incredible so we'll see if that works out.

I have been sensing that things are changing and so I have been extra naughty. Last night I pretended I was a pirate and dug for buried treasure (bugs) in Mom's Black-Eyed Susan planters on my deck. She was pretty angry about that one. She was yelling at me and sweeping up all the dirt I flung everywhere in her PJs. She looked like a crazy lady! Then I had to get a B-A-T-H because I had dirt all in my fur on my fuzzy face and front legs. I thought I looked very handsome with my dirty face but she disagreed.

Tom taught me to do this cool thing were if you hear ANY suspicious noises outside, you yell-bark really loudly so all the humans know that a bad guy may be intruding our territory. It drives Mom & Dad nuts! So if a car door slams outside, then Tom & I start barking really loudly and Mom & Dad get mad and start yelling so our house is one loud place!

Should we bark?

Mom got fed up and finally followed the advice of some other terrier moms and filled an old tea tin will some old vitamins. Now she shakes it at us when ever we start yell-barking at intruders. Let's just say we HATE that noisy can so much that we have been allowing ALL intruders to slam their car doors as much as they please without any barking repercussions from us! We are now a much quieter house.


Guard dogs on break. We are good boys.

4 comments:

Biggie-Z said...

Welcome back Huck and Tom! That's great that the shaker* works for you. For me, more noise is just more noise. I'm like, oh goody, you're barking too! It must be something really great to bark at!

*(That's what the EH! noise is supposed to be for me, except when I am guarding I just don't listen to it.)

Deetz said...

Being a guard dog is exhausting! Digging for buried treasures? Did you find anything in the planter? I love digging for treasures
Deetzy
Its good to have you back.

Emily said...

Bigs: (Is OK if we call you Bigs?) For whatever reason that shaker thing makes us quit our yapping pronto! But for other quick corrections (like sock/shoe/undie swiping, Mom says a sharp "AH!" and snaps her finger one time, loudly. Usually thats enough to snap us back into good boy mode. Funny thing is the shaker is so scary to us that all Mom has to do is pick it up and we go back to being good again! ha! Mom and Dad keep talking about how crazy it will be someday when ALL the dogs get together!! THREE SHIH-POOs (Benj, Bud, & Tom)???? That's going to be a lot of barking!
Anyway, it's good your Mom is so smart and knows how to distract you from your barking.

Deetzy: what kinds of things have you dug up? Are you allowed to dig on all your land?

Biggie-Z said...

Huck and Tom - you can call me Bigs anytime - my Momma and P-Daddy call me that but they spell it Bigz. :) he he