A 100 Pound Lap Dog!

Meet Hampton. His human works upstairs from my mom. Hampton regularly comes down to my mom's office to see if she or Judy have any left-overs for him. (You can see 1/2 of Judy in the 1st picture.) Judy calls him "Bucket Head" because the first thing he does when he blasts into the office is bury his head in the garbage pails hunting for anything edible. He's NOT picky, he will eat just about anything, except vegetables. Hampton also doesn't realize how HUGE he is. If you sit on the floor, as Leah found out, he will plop down right on your lap. What a total mush! I played with Hampton a couple of times when I went to work with my mom. He's a pretty cool dawg. Ziggy likes him too.

Cowboy, Patsy & Elvis

I don't know how it is in your neighborhood but in my neighborhood there has been a stray cat problem developing over the past few years. Every year one stray cat in particular has a litter or two of kittens. For two years my family caught as many as they could and took them to the local shelter hoping they would find homes (it is a no-kill shelter). My mom went to visit that shelter last fall and noticed that they are over-run with cats needing homes. The batch of kittens born last summer were getting big and we hadn't been able to catch them, so my mom and Leah started spending as much time as they could with them every day, feeding them and talking to them. Gradually, over several months, they got to the point where they could pet them. Mom contacted ARF of the Hamptons and got approval to have the 3 kittens fixed along with the mother and one kitten from the previous year that escaped capture back then. One by one with the help of her sister, my mom took the kittens (now nearly full grown) to our local vet to be spayed or neutered. Here is a picture of Cowboy. You can see in the picture that his left ear has been clipped. That is how you can tell a stray cat has been fixed. This way, if someone else catches him they will know he has already been neutered. Cowboy's sister, Patsy, was spayed and she has her ear clipped too. The 3rd kitten, Elvis, (I don't have a picture of him) was also neutered. Unfortunately, mom was never able to catch the mother and the son from the previous year. The mother had two more kittens this summer and now my mom is trying to befriend them. The mother is so smart that the have-a-heart trap won't work and she is very wild. My mom has been trying for FOUR years to make friends with her but no luck. Don't worry though, my mom NEVER gives up when it comes to helping animals!

Right Back At Ya!

Thank you Jackson & Patrick for this very thoughtful award. My mom and I feel the same about your blog! We would like to paw this award on to Lorenza because we love, love, love reading her blog every day. My mom also enjoys seeing all of Lorenza's beautiful outfits! Thanks for being our friends Jackson, Patrick, Lorenza and all our other great dawg, cat and hampster buddies out there!

Who Would You Be?

My mom said if I wasn't a chihuahua I'd be a:

raccoon, or a

badger, or a

lemur, or a

panda.

But luckily, I am me!

Pedro?

My mom drove her truck out onto the beach on Saturday for a BBQ with her friends. Ziggy and I didn't get to go because she went there straight from work. When she got there she was introduced to a Puggle named Pedro! Can you believe that, a Puggle named PEDRO??? Mom took a bunch of pictures of him. He's pretty good lookin. My mom asked how his mom decided to name him Pedro and she said she had been watching alot of Spanish language television when she got him. Hmmm, ok.

After my mom was at the beach for about a half hour it started pouring so she and Judy opened the back of the Tahoe and sat and watched the rain and the ocean. In the mean time everybody else packed up and left! The weird thing is, they left Judy! All her stuff was in one of the trucks and they just left her. My mom couldn't believe it. About 10 minutes later Judy got a phone call asking where she was. Aaaaaaah, you guys LEFT HER ON THE BEACH IN THE RAIN! Mom said it was actually pretty funny and she gave Judy a ride home. They ended up going out to dinner with Judy's husband and Lissa. My mom had a delicious Black & Blue Mojito. I don't know what a Mojito is but it sounds like something someone named Pedro might like? I'll have to ask her to make me one.

Here are a couple pictures of some other people at the beach trying to keep the party rollin' in the rain. When the umbrella didn't cut it they really kept the party rollin', literally, by putting it in the truck!

Busy, Busy, Busy

It has been a hectic few days in my dawg house. Thursday was Leah's Senior Prom, Friday her father arrived from Montana, Saturday was her 18th birthday and Sunday was her Graduation and graduation party. There were so many people in my yard for the party I was a little freaked out. My mom had to hold me most of the time because I'm so darn cute and people just assume they can pet me and touch me and pick me up. Aaaaa, NO you can't! I don't like strangers and I certainly don't want strangers to touch me or pick me up. I give them warning growls but some of them were pretty dense and thought I was only kidding. My dad's cousin wanted to see if it would hurt if I bit him, so I did. He laughed but my mom and I didn't think it was funny. By the end of the party I was so tired that I kind of gave up and just followed my mom around everywhere. I even let a few people talk to me but I did have to chase one little boy up onto a cooler and give one little girl a fierce growl, but I didn't bite either one of them. So Leah is officially done with high school and is getting ready to leave the nest and go off to college in August. Here are some pictures of her big days.

Ready for prom - looking very Hollywood!

Happy 18th Birthday! Now Leah can rock the vote!

Getting that all-important piece of paper! Woo Hoo!!!

The most AWESOME graduation cake I've ever seen! My mom said it tasted as good as it looked. She didn't share with me though - NOT FAIR!!

I Got Nothin and Scary Teeth

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Not feeling very creative today and nothing really interesting has happened in my dawg house, so I've decided to post scary teeth pictures of Ziggy and me. If you have scary teeth pictures you'd like to share with me let me know and I will either post them or put a link up to your blog.

NOTE: CHECK BACK FOR ADDED PICTURES!

Here are some scary teeth pictures from my friends:

Jackson showing his pearly whites!

Rambo, making sure Molly knows who's boss in his house!

Tuffy lookin tough!

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the scariest of them all? Why you of course Mr. Jonesy! Please don't hurt me!

Behr - Part bat, part great dane puppy, ALL scary!!!

Mango proving cats are as scary or scarier than dawgs!!

Good Bye Old Friend

Stinky died today after a long battle with FIV. Though he could be scary at times, he was a good, loyal cat who could always be found guarding the front yard. He came to our home in 1998 after hitchhiking a ride from Rite Aid in Town wih my mom. Today the vet read my mom the comments she made on his first visit, "Looking to adopt him out." They both had a little laugh at that one because once an animal comes to our house my mom is hard pressed to let it go. We think Stinky was around 12 years old. It is a sad day in our dawg house but we know Stinky suffers no more.

Designer Dawgs

It looks like alot of different kinds of dawgs are jumping on the chihuahua bandwagon. Look at how good lookin these dawgs are with some chihuahua in them! Mom looked online for pictures and says there are lots more combinations out there than the ones we've listed here. My mom's favorite is the Chug. All I know is when you add chihuahua to the mix you can't go wrong!

It's a Boy!

My mom's niece, whose wedding she went to last month in Texas, is officially a mom! Can you believe it? I bet you never would have thought when looking at those pictures that she would be a mom in less than a month! Well here is a picture of her bouncing baby boy. Baby Scooter, a handsome little doxie, weighs in at 4 pounds, 3 of which are his ears! Hmmm, I think he might have inherited those ears from Papa Sid!

Congratulations on your new addition Crissy and Daniel!

P'd not Peed

Jackson and Patrick's mom showed this picture to my mom and she suggested I was actually being helpful when I P'd (get it?) on my mom's computer. See, I am a good dawg after all! Thanks for pointing that out Sarah!

Note from Pedro's Mom: I might have bought that argument if either of you actually peed where the "P" is on the keyboard, but you didn't. Nice try though.

Cousin It?

What is IT? A new member of our family? Say it isn't so! We have enough family members already. I mean really, we don't have to adopt every stray animal out there. Has this one had it's shots? Is it gonna bite me?

That is one weird looking animal. Where's it's head? Where's it's tail? Hey, wait a minute! It smells like Ziggy. Hold on, IT IS ZIGGY!

Ha! Ziggy got Furminated and the fur pile is bigger than me! Guess he's gonna get another shave this weekend. Mom says she'll get closer this time. Hehehe, bald pictures of Ziggy coming soon to a computer near you....

Fetch!

I've always liked playing with balls but I used to just hit them around myself and chase them. It's hard for me to pick up balls like this tennis ball because they're too big for me. Jessie and Leah taught me how to play fetch last weekend with the balls that Pearl gave me. These balls are just my size so I am able to pick them up and bring them back. Who knew that's what "fetch" is? I really like that game.

The Beach!

Mom took Ziggy and me to the beach this past weekend! I love, love, love the beach. There are sooooo many interesting smells and the sand feels so soft on my paws.
Ziggy gets really excited when we go to the beach and starts foaming at the mouth. Disgusting! I checked it out to make sure he wasn't poisoned or to be sure he didn't have rabies but it was just his smelly spit all foamed up. Honestly Ziggy, that's not very classy! Wipe your face!
Mom walked down to the water because Ziggy was wading in a little. The ocean was so calm that I thought I'd stroll down there with her. Wouldn't you know it, a wave came up and got me all wet! The ocean is so salty. When we went home mom put me in the pool twice to rinse off. Doesn't she know that even though I CAN swim quite good, I don't like to!
Before leaving the beach I made sure to mark all the sand castles I could find. Kids think the beach is theirs and I wanted to make sure they knew that it belongs to ME! After all, I am the King of Everything I See!

Oops, I Did It Again!

I can't seem to help myself. When my mom leaves her computer on the kitchen counter, for some reason I just HAVE to jump up there from the couch and mark it. Something inside of me tells me to do it, I don't know why. I know JB, I should NEVER admit to it! Believe me, I don't. She just seems to know it's me. How does she know? Do you think she has spy cameras on me all the time? I think it's a conspiracy, a set up, entrapment!!! I think I need a lawyer.

What a Nice Thing to Say!

Thank you Sissy, Tinky and Jonesy for this very meaningful award! My mom and I have been having alot of fun reading your blog and we hope all of our friends that haven't been there yet will go and visit with you soon. We would like to Paw this Forward to Poppy the Little Blond Chihuahua because we think she is an inspiration. She has fought back after back surgery and re-learned how to walk again and even got to go camping last weekend. We'd also like to give this award to JB's sister Misty because like my cat-sister Libby, she is also missing a body part (her kidney) and has overcome that adversity and is a happy, healthy, beautiful kitty. Honestly though, all my blog buddies make my day every day, so to me you ALL deserve this award. Have a PAWSOME weekend!!!!!