tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20837590990942000062024-03-05T18:28:17.868+11:00pup-aliciousThe adventures of a puppy princessUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger180125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083759099094200006.post-65586297737769367832013-01-04T20:21:00.000+11:002013-01-04T20:21:00.300+11:00Hot, hot, hot!Hi everyone<div>
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It's been really hot today - 41 degrees! (that's 106 fahrenheit, for those of you in the middle of winter!)</div>
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We went for a very quick early-morning walk, when it was only 30 (86) degrees, then our human decided to take us to the beach in the afternoon at low tide (that's when there's lots of lovely sand to run on, and lots of little channels of water to splash in).</div>
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She took us in the car - even though the beach is only a 5 min walk away (well, 15 mins if Trixie decides to sniff everything on the way). She decided that, because Trixie is still a puppy, and she's a bit hairy at the moment, and coz her hair is a heat-attracting black, we'd be better off being a bit air-conditioned on the way there. (It takes about 5 mins to drive there, because the car won't fit in the walkway over the railway track that we use when we're on foot.)</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Once we got there, there was no wind! Then there was lots and lots of wind, and it was all hot, hot, hot! And our human decided that if it was so hot that we shouldn't walk 10 mins to the beach, then probably we shouldn't have come at all. So she said we'd only stay a little while.</span></div>
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We didn't care, once we got into the water, it was deliciously cool, and we did lots of wading and swimming.</div>
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Trixie is a superb swimmer, even though she only learned how to do it yesterday. Our human calls her Tresther Williams.</div>
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Look how lovely and clear the water is!</div>
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We frolicked.</div>
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This is officially a dog beach - the human-only-no-dogs beach is a kilometre or so away.</div>
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Some humans come here without dogs (but with chairs).</div>
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Some humans come with giant bags full of treats and generously leave them on the beach for certain pups (called Sasha) who might come along and shove their schnozzes in to see what they can find, and who then might scamper off down the beach so their humans can't catch them before they eat the treats they <strike>stole</strike> availed themselves of.</div>
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Other humans leave their shoes and shirts on the beach for certain other pups (also called Sasha) to mark their territory on.</div>
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For some reason, right after that, our human decided it was time for us to go home.</div>
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That's ok - we know we're going back tomorrow (and it'll be a lot cooler, too, so we can stay for longer)!</div>
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That's right - the bathmat keeps escaping! - did you see how it was getting into the back yard through the dog door?</div>
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Sometimes it goes into the lounge room and tries to steal our toys!<br />
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So we've been doing some bathmat wrangling!</div>
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Here's Trixie catching it just before it sneaks out the back.</div>
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This time it made it as far as the yard.<br />
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Here's the time we caught it in the lounge room... just as it was about to make off with squeaky chicken...<br />
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Trixie soon showed it what's what! Hey, you sneaky bathmat, that's <i>our</i> squeaky chicken! (even if it doesn't really squeak any more - still ours!)</div>
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Our human's staying home with us tonight, to make sure Trixie learns to not freak out about the fireworks. But we went to the beach today for the first time in <i>ages</i> so we're both very, very tired, and have only been half-heartedly wuffling at the firecrackers going off in the street, and mainly just sleeping through them.<br />
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It's been <i>ages</i> since we've been to the beach, because we had to wait for Trixie to get her stitches out. It all started when our human said she was giving Trixie a spade for Xmas, which we thought was a bit weird, because Trixie's already very talented at digging with her own giant little paws.<br />
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And then our human didn't actually give her a spade. But that could be because Trixie went to the vet and came home with an owie and stitches on her tummy, and then we both had to keep quiet for <i>forever!</i><br />
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But Trixie got her stitches out today and she's all better, and now we're <i>exhausted</i> after a long, long run on the beach.<br />
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And our human says now we don't have to worry about Trixie becoming mature on our road-trip at the end of January. Though, to be honest, we don't think there's much chance of <i>anyone</i> being mature on that trip - we're going with our friends Penny and Reyna - four Schnauzers in the back seat! But that's not until next year, and we'll have plenty of time to tell you about that when it happens.<br />
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Right now we want to tell you about our New Year's resolutions.<br />
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Firstly, because we need more balance in our lives, Trixie will spend more time doing doga...<br />
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... and Sasha will spend more time contemplating the universe...<br />
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<br />Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10961913659946698294noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083759099094200006.post-72860086417568193372012-12-19T20:48:00.000+11:002012-12-19T20:48:34.706+11:00Wordless Wednesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10961913659946698294noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083759099094200006.post-59837971178018356342012-11-19T23:07:00.000+11:002012-11-19T23:07:06.889+11:00SnorflingHi everyone<br />
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Sorry we haven't blogged for a while - our human says she's been too busy to help us because puppies are a lot of trouble, what with having to take them outside all the time, and them being all bitey all the time and making it very difficult to walk around the house.<br />
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We're not sure who she's talking about, because Trixie is no trouble at all!<br />
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Our human promises to help us with more blogging now that Trixie's pretty much house-trained and we all have a bit more free time.<br />
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<br />Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10961913659946698294noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083759099094200006.post-83141041491536956852012-10-10T07:00:00.000+11:002012-10-10T07:00:16.880+11:00Wordless Wednesday<br />
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<br />Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10961913659946698294noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083759099094200006.post-2260911867617592942012-10-08T22:05:00.001+11:002012-10-08T22:05:40.981+11:00The Digging-est Puppy<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hi everyone, Trixie here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I found out that my human's favourite book when she was a pup was called <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Digging-Est-Dog-Beginner-Books/dp/0394800478" target="_blank">The Digging-est Dog</a></i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I thought all that digging sounded like fun, so I've been practising my technique.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Me showing my new friends Reyna and Penny how to do it<br />(I'll tell you about them another time)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also want to say Happy Barkday to my gorgeous big sister Sasha, who turns four today, and who plays with me and looks after me, and almost never has to teach me manners!</span><br />
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<br />Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10961913659946698294noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083759099094200006.post-56478946307223209532012-10-07T21:20:00.000+11:002012-10-07T21:26:09.874+11:00Princess Trixibelle<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'd like you all to meet my new little sister Trixie, the waggingest puppy in the world!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She's 10 weeks old now, and as well as being my little sister, she's actually my first cousin - my mother and her father were littermates!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She's a black schnauzer, but she has a white blaze on her chest, and on her back left foot is a little white twinkletoe!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our human called her Trixie because she thought I was a very tricksey puppy, and so she expected my little sister be tricksey, too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We told the breeder that Trixie's nickname is Trixibelle, so the breeder registered her as Princess Trixibelle - she's a princess, just like me! (I don't have a formal title, for me it's more of a lifestyle choice.)</span><br />
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So my human gave the gardening human some paper money to remove the lovely garden. It looked like this when he finished.<br />
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Then this weekend, my human spent several hours in the pouring rain picking up all the rocks, and raking the dirt and sowing grass seed. So now it looks like this.<br />
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You can see all the bricks and bits of birdbath that had been hiding under the cottage garden. Plus there's a big stone right in the middle, that was too heavy for my human to pick up or even roll. We decided to keep it there as a feature.<br />
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My human doesn't have any pictures of me helping, because it was very wet and she was soaked and covered in mud and frankly a bit grumpy and not at all appreciative of my efforts to enlarge the holes left over from where the stones were. She suggested that maybe Schnauzer Princesses shouldn't overtax themselves, and perhaps I should repair to the shelter of the house, there to rest my weary bones.<br />
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She was right, of course, because I am a delicate little Princess, but I decided to screw my courage to the sniffing-place*, and help from the inside.<br />
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Here's how I helped on the back room couch.<br />
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Then I helped on the chair.<br />
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And in the laundry.<br />
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If you look closely, you can see how muddy my beard and paws got, with all that helping. But it's ok, they got nice and clean after I spent some time on the lounge couch.<br />
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By the time she had finished, my human was so cold and wet and tired and sore, she could barely move. But she managed to make some herb & parmesan dumplings to go on the beef & guinness stew she fortunately had the foresight to put into the slow cooker before she started on the garden. So by the time she had warmed up in the shower, it was all ready for her to eat.<br />
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This is what the stew looked like a few minutes after she put the dumplings in. They took about 45 mins to cook coz it was in the slow cooker.<br />
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And I helped by eating some of the beef!<br />
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Now my human gets to use her new sprinkler to water the grass seeds every second day, and stand there with the hose on the other days (we still have water restrictions, even with all the rain). I help by standing inside the door and barking at her because she won't let me out in case I dig. As if I would!<br />
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She put couch ("pooch cooch") in the main part of the garden, and kikuya around the edges where it's not so sunny. Those types of grass manage well in the kind of heat and sometimes lack of rain that we get, so by next summer they should be well-established.<br />
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I can't wait until it grows enough for me to spend some time in the back yard!<br />
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* I hope you don't mind my literary quotation from <i>Macpup</i> by Hairy Schnauzerspeare.<br />
<br />Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10961913659946698294noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083759099094200006.post-81124121921324338952012-03-02T06:00:00.000+11:002012-03-02T06:00:01.925+11:00Fishy Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">
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Wordless Wedne... what...? again...? Wordless whatever, then.</div>
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Wordless Thursday, then.</div>
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Sorry I've been quiet for so long, but it's totally not my fault! Oh, if only you understood what I have to put up with - my human must be the world's laziest ever!<br />
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It's always, "Oh, I'm sorry Sasha, but I don't have time to help you with your blog tonight, it just took me over an hour to ride home from work and then I took you to the beach for an hour and a half and I still haven't had my dinner yet, and you know how I turn into a pumpkin if I don't get to bed before midnight!"<br />
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And I'm all "Pfft! Like I care about your dinner, I've had mine, turn into a pumpkin if you want, human, just help me with my blog!"<br />
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So anyway, here are some things I didn't get to tell you about over the past month or so, which I may get a chance to tell you more about later, if I can get my human to be less lazy...<br />
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<b>Dog beach - 30°C, 9pm sunset</b><br />
Those glowy bits are the sunset under heavy cloud<br />
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<b>Xmas</b><br />
Thank you <a href="http://schnauzerandschnauzer.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">JD & Max</a> for the advent treat dispenser!<br />
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<b>Front porch frog</b><br />
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<b>Beach</b><br />
We went to the beach once or twice<br />
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<b>Tiger snake in the back yard!</b><br />
A tiger snake tried to get through the neighbours' kitchen door, then it went into our yard<br />
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... the day before the dog door man came to give me free access to the yard. The man put a dog door in the laundry door and another one in the laundry security screen. He had to take the security door away to do it, and my human gave him a lot of paper money...</div>
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... and now I'm not allowed to use the dog door unless my human is home, and then I'm only allowed in the front and along the side after she's checked it for snakes, and I'm not allowed in the back at all...</div>
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... until all the lovely shrubbery and ground cover has been removed, so snakes will be less likely to hide there, and we will be able to quickly see if there are any there. I won't be too sad to have a lawn, I like lying in the yummy grass, and my human can make more paved area to put a table and some chairs in.<br />
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My human freaked out a little bit, because she grew up in New Zealand, where there are no snakes at all, and she has no idea what to do - she looked on the internet and found this...<br />
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Because we have the coastal reserve near us, and because the weather's been really good this year, there's a lot of life happening there, and it's a good place for tiger snakes to live - and sometimes they go for a bit of a wander. Our neighbours have said they've never seen one here before, but I guess we'll just have to get used to the possibility.<br />
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<b>My friend Penny moved house</b><br />
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Feeding at the beach<br />
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<b>Fish</b><br />
My friends Penny and Kiwi's humans gave my human some fish for her barkday<br />
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The black and gold is called one Racey, because it always races to the surface when they get fed. The goldy one is called Blondie, because while Racey is gobbling, Blondie swims around wondering what's going on. My human's not sure why the fishes wanted to be named after 80s bands.<br />
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I haven't tried to eat them at all, which surprises my human, because I tucked into her tuna & pasta dinner the other night when she left the room for a second.<br />
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I usually <i>never</i> try to steal her dinner, because I'm a well-mannered little puppy - even when we have people over and there's lots of food on the coffee table, I will wait at least a couple of hours before trying to steal the cheese, and that's only because none of the selfish humans have offered me any.<br />
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But I've developed a taste for fish - my human has salmon fillets* every week, and I always get a teensy piece after she's finished. And that's why I was forced to gobble down as much of that gorgeous tuna dinner as I possibly could before she came back into the room, because - face it - that greedy human was never going to give me a fair share.<br />
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* My human has salmon every week because she gets it delivered by <a href="http://www.aussiefarmers.com.au/" target="_blank">Aussie Farmers Direct</a> - she likes their service and the quality of their food, and thinks their milk tastes really good (it has no permeates). She says I should mention it because she's quick enough to complain when she doesn't like things, so she should be fair and say when she does like things. I always let her know when they deliver the milk and fish, usually around 3.30am, because it's important to keep her apprised of such activities.<br />
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<b>Front yard guard duty</b><br />
I take my responsibilities very seriously<br />
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If anybody dares walk past the front gate, I rush down and tell them off. At least, I used to, until...<br />
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<b>My nemesis</b><br />
It squirts water at me if I bark inappropriately<br />
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... which turns out to be more often than I'd like. The first thing I learned from it was to bark and then run behind the tree, so the water can't get to me as much. I don't bark at the fence nearly as much now.<br />
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Ok, we've gone to the beach most days<br />
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... especially in the evenings when it's hot and the tide is low - lots of sand to run over, lots of channels to paddle through - and I've even learned to swim!<br />
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So now my lazy human is grumbling about turning into a pumpkin, and she wants to go to bed. And of course she'll hog the middle and keep the pillows to herself, and I'll have to make do the best I can with just half the bed to myself and only the blankets that she tucks around me, and I'll have to snuggle my bum up to her face to keep warm.<br />
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Honestly, are humans really worth the effort?<br />
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I thought it was about time for an update, and I've finally got my paws on the computer, so here we go!<br />
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First of all, I need to report that I have struggled through my recent travails, never complaining, and recovered from my bum pimple surgery (I had it done at the same time as I was getting my teeth cleaned).<br />
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I had three bum pimples removed, but fortunately my enormous, red, pulsating face tumour was already shrinking by the time I got to the vet, so we decided to let it finish shrinking itself. The vet found a third bum pimple to make up for it.<br />
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Right now it's the Spring Racing Carnival, where all the horsies get dressed up and run round and round a racetrack and all the humans get dressed up and get drunk and fall over. (My human went to the Melbourne Cup when she was living in Sydney and did a road trip with some friends - they ended up partying in the carpark and not actually going into the races - which is actually another race tradition!)<br />
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Before we moved to my new house kennel we lived close to the racecourse, and my vet is still right by it, so we had to schedule the stitches-taking-out appointment in between race days, or we wouldn't have been able to get near it for all the traffic.<br />
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Obviously this is not true, and if my human had the slightest bit of creative talent she would recognise that I am clearly modelling the latest in puppy princess fashions. And that I look fabulous. As always.<br />
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<br />Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10961913659946698294noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083759099094200006.post-74224467941916136522011-09-10T21:05:00.000+10:002011-09-10T21:09:28.979+10:00The puppy princess and the pea(rson)Once upon a time, there was a beautiful puppy princess called Sasha, and she led a very difficult life.<br />
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Every morning her human would make her get up early and go for a long walk along the beach, and when they got back she would be forced to play chasing around the house games and then suffer through cuddles.<br />
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Her human would cruelly abandon her for the day, leaving her with only a choice of several couches, a bed, and a rug with a view of the back yard to sleep on. In the evening her human would return, and there would be another walk, then dinner followed by awful relaxing on the couch. Sometimes the puppy princess would be forced to sleep on the second couch under the heating vent, where it would all be warm and schnoozily.<br />
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Worst of all, at bed time the princess would have to wait patiently, sleeping on the couch, for her human to come and pick her up and carry her to the bed. Her human would put her on the end of the bed, and then the puppy princess would have to wait even longer for her human to get into bed and settle herself before the puppy princess could finally slumber away the travails of the day.<br />
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One freezing cold wintry spring night, Princess Sasha realised she could take no more of this torture and decided to take control of the situation.<br />
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First of all, she walked up to the head of the bed, and started digging beside the human's pillow. Then she walked over the pillow (and her human's head) to the other side, and did a bit of digging there. The puppy princess walked over the pillow again, and stood over the human's head, so the human could tickle her tummy from underneath. She did the digging thing on both sides again, and then stood over her human's head again, in the approved tummy-tickles-from-below position. And she stayed there. After a while her human moved her head off the pillow.<br />
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The puppy princess sat on the pillow for a minute, and then she lay down on it with her bottom on her human's shoulder. Her human was a bit cold, so she pulled the blanket over the puppy princess's bottom. Then Princess Sasha slid a bit further down, and her human put a bit more blanket over her.<br />
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Finally, the puppy princess had control of the bed! She had her head on the good pillow, and she was covered in blankets, and her human had to sleep on the edge of the bed with her head on the hugging pillow. And they slept like that all night.<br />
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The puppy princess's human thought the puppy princess would go back to the foot of the bed after a while, because the puppy princess had never liked being covered in blankets before, but she never did!<br />
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<br />Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10961913659946698294noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083759099094200006.post-9587292471610955642011-08-28T16:01:00.000+10:002011-08-28T21:58:36.712+10:00My new house kennel!Hello everyone!<br />
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Sorry it's been such a long time since I've blogged, my human has been fussing over all kinds of kennel-moving activities, and kept on saying she didn't have time to let me use the computer. Pathetic!<br />
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Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, we went and had a holiday for a whole week with my cousins Bertie and Oliver. Well, *I* did, my human was there every night but kept on deserting me during the day with some stupid excuses about moving house kennels and packing, and doing lots of complaining about it. Whatever.<br />
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Then on the Friday night she came home and did a lot of complaining about being exhausted and not everything being unpacked, and on Saturday we left Bertie and Oliver's house, and went to my new house kennel!<br />
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It's right by the beach - and not just any beach, but a proper doggy beach! (even though they do let humans on it, which doesn't seem fair - dogs're not allowed on human beaches...)<br />
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See, they are actually encouraging people to bring their dogs to the beach!<br />
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This morning we walked part of the way around Cherry Lake.<br />
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Then we came back home, and I spent some time in my garden...<br />
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... inspecting the flowers...<br />
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... leading my human up the garden path...<br />
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My human's still getting used to the new ways to go to work - even though we're further away than we were before, catching the train takes the same amount of time as catching the tram used to, because it doesn't stop as much. My human's going to try riding her bike to work next week. She thinks she'll have to leave really early, because it's a 20km ride instead of a 5km ride. She's hoping she'll get all fit and healthy if she rides to work every day, but me - I just think there'll be a lot of complaining!<br />
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In the meantime, I shall sit at the bottom of the garden like a hairy little Schnauzer fairy!<br />
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<br />Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10961913659946698294noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083759099094200006.post-63212864415170143572011-07-17T14:30:00.000+10:002011-07-17T14:30:44.903+10:00Frosty FridayWell, ok it was actually Saturday. But it's the first time this year we've had frost that lasted after the sun came out. It was under 3 degrees celsius (or, um, I think that's about 37 degrees fahrenheit. Celsius sounds a lot colder than fahrenheit).<br />
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I'd also like to mention that I only get to walk in the daylight on weekends. During the week it's still dark when we get back from our morning walk, and it's dark before my human gets home in the evenings.<br />
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But on weekends we get to sleep in a bit, and we get daylight for our morning walk and then we go out again at lunchtime.<br />
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The days are slowly getting longer again, soon it will be spring!<br />
<br />Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10961913659946698294noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083759099094200006.post-26965218237245268002011-06-25T21:55:00.007+10:002011-06-26T07:16:59.161+10:00Movin' on up, movin' on out!Hello everyone!<br />
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I've been trying to whip my human into shape, and I've managed to get some time on the computer.<br />
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We're going to have a few changes around here soon, and I don't just mean me changing from gorgeous...<br />
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... to <i>utterly</i> gorgeous...<br />
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My human keeps making lists and checking them twice. And she's been opening cupboards and putting lots of stuff into giant rubbish bags.<br />
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And she keeps saying mysterious things like "when we move to the new house kennel, you'll have your own back yard that you can go into whenever you want" and "we can walk on the beach all the time".<br />
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I'm not too sure how I will like living in a new kennel, because apart from the kennel I was born in (my breeder had a whole bedroom put aside for puppies, and a puppy run in the yard and everything), I've never lived anywhere but my apartment kennel with my human. I did like staying in my Grand(hu)ma's giant house kennel when we did our <a href="http://www.pupalicious.com/2010/05/trails-tripulations-grand-adventure.html">road trip</a> to Queensland last year, and I like visiting my doggy friends who live in house kennels.<br />
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Obviously I'd like a larger kennel - my human wouldn't get under my paws all the time. And a kennel with a yard would be good too, I could spend my days schnoozling in the sun and digging things up.<br />
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My human says we will be moving in a couple of months, and in the meantime she is going to go through the cupboards and throw a lot of stuff out. I don't understand why she didn't throw all that stuff out instead of putting it in the cupboard in the first place...<br />
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Humans are weird.<br />
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The good news is that we had the Winter Solstice the other day, so now our days are getting longer again - since then, each day has been a few seconds longer than the day before. My human hopes this means that soon we will be able to have at least one walk a day that's not in the pitch black! (She has to bring a torch on our walks - in the mornings so the cyclists in the park can see us and not run us over, and in the evenings so she can see what I'm doing!)<br />
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Hopefully I will be able to get more time on the computer, now that my human is busy throwing things out. And now the days are getting longer, my human might be able to take more pictures of me!Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10961913659946698294noreply@blogger.com5