Showing our feline side (on Mother's day)

I always hear humans saying they are showing their feminine side ... or showing their masculine side. 

Not really sure what that means -- but for mothers day -- even though we are canines -- we decided to show a little feline side to Mommy today.

We love to read Pat at Critter Alley's blog with her cat Bogey and dog Indy.  Anyway, Mommy kept looking in the store forever to find a book that has one of Pat's stories written in it.  It's a Chicken Soup for the Soul book and it has a picture of a CAT on the front cover of it.  http://critteralley.blogspot.com/2012/08/its-here.html

Mommy finally saw the book in the store -- I told Mommy to get the book (cat picture and all).  It was our Mother's Day present to her. 

Mommy read the story to us, and we loved it because both Indy and Bogey were in it!

Us with our presents to Mommy for Mother's Day. A card and a book.

 

 

Benji said the book tastes good too.  He kinda sampled the top corner of the book.

 

 

This is the card we (Mommy's sister) got for Mommy. We even signed it.

 

 

Hope everyone had a wonderful day. 

 

 

 

Lassie & Benji

 

 

 

P.S.  Mommy got a Godmother's day card from her eldest niece and nephew and it made her day extra special too.

 

P.P.S. For Grandma's present, Mommy went outside first thing this morning (in her pajamas) and cut off a piece of the blooming azalea bush and put it in a vase for Grandma.  Grandma loved it and the cards and Mother's Day wishes she got from everyone today.  We even sang Happy Yap Yap Day to Grandma this morning too.  We are pawsome like that you know.

 

 

 

 

 

Week in Review = Eye, Sleeping, Squirrel

1) Eye

 If we could give Mommy a letter grade (like teachers give in school), we would give Mommy a "C" this week.  She didn't get to help me read blogs that much at all this week.  She said her eye hurt cause a piece of dirt flew in it when she was planting a small rose bush. 

Excuses Excuses!

Anyway, Mommy's eye is feeling better.  (If they say there is a water shortage in NJ -- it's because Mommy used so much water to try to flush that dirt out of her eye.)


2) Sleeping

 

 

Look at how us dogs were sleeping in the living room.  That's Benji with his head on top of mine!  (Brotherly love.)



3) Squirrel


Speaking of Brotherly Love --Mommy doesn't work in the best of neighborhoods in Philadelphia (The City of Brotherly Love).  Mommy was sitting at her desk and she has 2 windows.  She had one of the windows cracked open a bit to get some air in.  Anyway, she was typing away at her computer when there was a loud bang on the window right beside her.  Mommy's heart almost jumped out of her chest.  She thought -- was that a gun shot!

She turned to look at the window and was shocked to see...

Yes, that's a squirrel hanging on the screen of her window in the office. 

(Mommy works on the 1st floor of the building, so it must have jumped from the ground up to the window.)

The squirrel walked around the window screen in a circle.  And as you can see, it was trying to get into Mommy's office via the other window that was cracked open.

All Mommy can say is -- Thank goodness there is a screen on those windows!

Mommy was yelling at the squirrel to "go away" and he did eventually.  (There is actually a video of Mommy yelling at the squirrel butt she is too embarrassed to post it.)

Too bad pets aren't allowed at work, I bet I would have barked that squirrel out of there in no time.


Have a great weekend.

Lassie and Benji

P.S. Here's a joke (kinda) -- What do dogs and trees have in common? -- they both got bark. 

A new Hot Dog in the Kitchen

There's a new dog in our kitchen!  Not just any dog -- a hot dog Dog!  He's not a real dog. I think I need to explain....

 

Mommy said there was a new dog in the kitchen.  We came running.  I (Lassie) even did play bows to the new dog.

 

Turns out the dog isn't a real dog.  It's a Hot Dog Slicer.  It slices a hot dog into little bite size pieces.  Mommy saw him at Walmart near the bread, and couldn't resist.  She calls him "Weiner Dog."

 

First thing Weiner Dog did was take a bath in the kitchen sink.  See how wet he is. 

 

Weiner Dog shook all the water off himself after the bath...and got the package of Hot Dog Weiners all wet.  Butt that was ok.

 

 

 Mommy put the cooked hot dog into position.  Next she had to put Weiner Dog on top of the Hot Dog and push down.

Success! Weiner Dog did his job -- and he sliced the Hot Dog into bite size pieces.

 Mommy put the hot dog pieces on a plate.  (Note she tore the paper plate in half because she is too cheap to give us each our own plate.)

 This is me (Lassie) at the taste test.

 

Benji at the taste test.

 

 

 

Weiner Dog likes to eat Ketchup in his bowl. 

 

We think Weiner Dog did a pawsome job slicing the hot dog into bite sized pieces. 

 

Lassie and Benji

P.S.  Mommy says cleaning up the Weiner Dog after we used him was a little time consuming, some of the tiny hot dog pieces got stuck in the grooves.  So, had to use a pointed object to un-wedge some pieces of hot dogs.   Butt overall -- we all love Weiner Dog.  Welcome to the family.