I'm pooped

Hey everydoggie. I hope you all had a Happy Ho Ho. I had a great time. On Christmas Eve I went to grammas house. There we hung out and I gots to play with everyone. The next morning was Christmas and we gots up early and had breakfast and then started opening pressies. There was so many pressies we had to take a break and have lunch. By lunch time I was sleepy but all the humans excitement over the pressies kept me awake. Finally, everything was opened and it was relaxing time. I fell alseep on the couch while everyone watched tv.

By the way...gramma loved her new puppy.

Tagged again

Well I just got Christmas tagged. I gots to tell you 3 things I want for Christmas and 3 I don't want.

All I want for Christmas
1.) Bully Sticks.
2.) A babble ball
3.) A new Referee

3 Things I don't want for Christmas
1.) To go in the crate.
2.) To go outside in the rain
3.) To go in the crate.

Charity

Hey hey everydoggie. Momma says now that it's the Holiday season we should take time and think about those that are less fortunate then us. So here I am to spread word to my Dawgs about two good causes.

Rocky's Rescue
Momma's friend Donna, from Boxer Crazy, started Rocky's Rescue. Donna saves poor doggies (and kitties) from bad breeders and abusive homes. We at Boxer Crazy designed a Boxer Calander (which has a pic of yours truely) for Rocky's Rescue. The calander is $25 and includes tax and shipping. Contact Hanna Banana for more details.

Pepino
Pepino is another of my boxer buddies. He is only about 8 months old and has been diagnosed with Hip Displasia, HOD, and Cranial Cruciate Ligament Disease. Mac's Momma and Thor's Grammie created a whole line of Boxer Christmas products. You can check out the Boxer Charity Store for more information.

Persons of the Year

Hey everydoggie. Ciaro has voted me one of the Persons of the Year. Check out Ciaro's Place and see my Time Cover shot.

Daddy got a pro-motor-shun

Daddy is happy. He got a pro-motor-shun. I dont know what that means but momma is happy too. She said a pro-motor-shun means more bully stick money for me. So I guess that is good.

Daddy also said that means there will be no more drive by farts from his old boss. I don't know why that is a problem. Drive by fartin is fun.

Puppy Mills & Backyard Breeders

Hey everydoggie. It seems now that Christmas time is here there are a lot of advertisements for puppies. Well momma and I wanted to give you some information about Puppy Mills and Backyard Breeders.

Puppy Mills
A puppy mill is a large scale operation where doggies are repeatedly bred to product puppies for pet stores. Click here for The Humane Society's definition of Puppy Mill. The conditions that these doggies is horrible. Here are some images of puppy mills. Below are more links to puppy mills

http://www.stoppuppymills.org/
http://www.prisonersofgreed.org/
http://www.nopuppymills.com/
http://www.canismajor.com/dog/puppymil.html

Backyard Breeders (BYB)
Backyard breeders are dog owners that have pets that they have decided to breed. They do not test for health defects such as Cardiomyopathy or Hip Displasia. They also do not show or have their dogs evaluated by an independant expert to determine if the doggie is a good specimen of the breed. Click here to learn what Wikipedia calls a BYB. Below are links about BYBs.

http://www.almosthomerescue.org/whatisbyb/whatisbyb.htm
http://www.heroswaggintrain.com/bybreed_pm_book.htm
http://www.answers.com/topic/backyard-breeder

As you can see...Puppy Mills and BYBs are bad. If you are thinking of getting a doggie please consider a rescue dog or getting a puppy from a Responsible Breeder. A Responsible breeder should be able to answer all questions listed here. The best way to find a responsible breeder is to contact the local breed club.

Pillows

I love pillows. They are so fun to rest on. My favorite pillow is my daddy. He makes the bestest pillow ever.

Boxer Dictionary

One of momma's friends posted a link to a Boxer Dictionary. I thought I would share it with you so you'd know what momma means when she has Boxer Burn of the mouth

Tagged Again

Lola Tagged me....so nows I got to tell you 6 weird things about me. Here goes:
1.) My feets smell like Fritos. Apparently all boxer feets smells like fritos. Momma calls me Frito Feets sometimes.

2.) Whenever momma and daddy come home from work I run to the bathroom to check for daddy...even though he isnt always in there.

3.) I like to kiss and hug and love on gramma even though she PRETENDS not to like it. Aktually....especially cause she pretends not to like it.

4.) I like to sleep between mommy and daddy....with my head on their pillows.

5.) I sometimes make machine gun farts. hehehe.

6.) I talk back to momma all the time.

So...now I tag 'Seidon & Waylon & Hanna (again..thee heeeheee)

I got Kennel Cough :(

Yesterday I told you that I wasn't feelin well. Anyway we wents to the vet's office and the Dr. said I had Kennel Cough. The vet gave momma a cough suppressant and tried giving her antibiotics. Momma told the vet that I was feelin better than I was this weekend and that if I didn't get any better in the next day or two she'd come and get the antibiotics.

Chunkee Monkee

Hey hey everydoggie. I know that a lot of you dogs loved my chunkee monkee....well I finally found the link to it. Maybe your mommies and daddies will get you one for the holidays.

Silly Momma

Momma just upgraded to the new blogger and realized she had a million comments that she never looked at. She is very sorry that she never helped me respond to your comments. We got it all worked out now and she wont not read through and respond to your comments again.

I don't feels so good

This past weekend I started coughing and sleeping lots cause I don't feel so good. Momma called the vet and they think I may have Kennel Cough. I have an appointment to go see the vet later. I may have to take cough syrup. I hope it tastes good if I got to take the syrup. Talk to you all later when I feels better

Talk about a Big Duck!

Mommy said I need to get some soc-lization...so last night she and daddy took me to the Ligthing of the Big Duck. I thought she was kidding when she said it was a Big Duck....but OH MY DOGNESS it was HUGE. See!

Mommy said it is listed on the National Historic Register and that all road side attractions that look like sumthing are called "Duck Architecture" cause of the Big Duck.

Daddy said that when he was little he 'members going into the duck and buying Long Island Duck for roasting...ummm roast duck.

Anyways....while we was there I got lots of treats and loving by all the kiddos.

Tanks-givin

Hey everydoggie...how was your tanks-givin? Momma and daddy loaded up all my stuff into the car and we went for a drive to Auntie Kerry's. When we got to Auntie Kerry's, gramma and grampa where there already with cousin Chestnut. All the humans sat around and ate food all day while I played and woo-woo'd and demand all the attention that I'm suposed to have.

At night we stayed at Auntie Kerry's. The next day we went home and slept on the couch all day. I was pooped. Anyway...momma got lots of pitchers and will help me post them later.

Happy Birf-day to MEEEE

Today is my birf-day. Momma & daddy got me a chunky monkey for my birf-day pressie. Momma said gramma got me more pressies that I get tonight. I had a great time playing with the chunky monkey.

Happy Anna-nursery!

Today is the 5th anna-nursery of the day momma and daddy started dating. 5 years is a long time...that's like 40 dog years.

Okay...that is enuf about my peep-pol. Tomorrow is my birf-day. I will be 1 human year. I already emailed my sister Lily to wish her happy birf-day. I already started getting pressies. Gramma got me a whole bag of pressies and I got to play with one last night. Momma said that she is gonna take lots of pitchers of my birf-day and will help me download them here.

Couch patato

Now that the day is shorter I am spendin more time on the couch watchin TV with mommy and daddy. All I need is a drink.

Woohoooo

Momma has been ignorin me cause she is doin R-Bon stuff. She says its to get bullystick money for me. She was gone furever last night and came home and went to sleepy. She didn't play with me or cuddle with me or nuttin. It made me sad. But she said that she was taking me to school again tonight. I am so excited. I haven't been to school in a while. I hope Xylo and Pheadra is there. I can't wait. Wooohooo.

Finally

Finally momma downloaded my pitchers. She even made a movie about me. Check it out.

I'm still waiting

Momma finally had time to download my pitcher this weekend but she didn't cause the batteries were dead in the camera. So instad click the hyperlink to see some boxers doing agility. It's pretty cool. Look how high they can jump. I want to learn agility...but momma says only after I am done growing (cause I don't want to hurt my knees) and possibly showing.

Sorry...but it's mommas fault

Hey everydoggie. Sorry I aint posted on my blog in a while, but its momma's fault. She has been doing something called R-bon. I got some pitchers to download and hopefully after momma comes back from her R-bon meetin tonight she will help me download them. Other than that nuttin much has been happenin tho I did win at foozeball the last two weeks (even tho I can't win no bully stick money no mo'). Okay...gotta go...momma said she needs to work again. Will post the pitchers soon.

Depressed

Since losing at foozeball I have been depressed and layin about lots.

Here I fell asleep watchin the Bears nearly loose to the Cardinals.

OH MY DOGNESS!

My favorite website Boxer-Dog is crashing. The administrator has been missing for over 1 year. I was so sad until I got an email from Xena and her mom about Boxer Dog Crazy. I hope all you boxer lover come and join me there.

Crap!

Well for the second week in a row I lost on my foozeball team. I am now offically out of Great Uncle Kenny's foozeball pool. Poop. Stupid Jets. Didn't even put up a fight. It makes me just want to bury my head in shame....or bite someone's bum.

Who brought the cat?

Mommy just got this pitcher in an email. She said it made water shoot from her nose.

Daddy said the pitcher was fake and mommy agrees...cause otherwise it would be mean to the kitty.

Oh Poop.

Well...my team lost. I can't believe my football team lost. Stupid Raven...who do they think they are coming back in the last 2 mintues of the game to win. The Chargers were willing the whole time. I just want to bite McNair in the bum. Now cause of him I only have one loss left for the whole football season. Stupid McNair.

Football

Mommy and daddy and I are all part of a football pool and it starts this weekend. Last night I had to choose my team. Here is mommy is laying out all of the selections (and treats) for me to choose from. Okay...all the selections are out and I have looked them over.
This bowl looks good.It's the Chargers! They are a good team (at least that is what daddy tells me).

Going to Aunt Kerry's

Tomorrow we are going to Aunt Kerry's after mommy and daddy get home from work. They said we are gonna stay at Aunt Kerry's place cause its only a few mintues away from the shows we are going to this weekend. Yippy...more shows! I love going to shows...there are so many other doggies to sniff and lots of humans pay attention to me. I also get lots of treats. I am gonna have mommy take some pix of me at the show for you all.

Finally! Pictures!

I finally got mommy to download the pictures from my weekend at the beach. She said its not her fault it took so long cause daddy stole the camera so he could take pictures of the landscaping work. I don't know what landscaping work is but I am upset cause the cut down all of my favorite pee trees. Mommy said they had to be cut down because they were dead but they could have at least left a bit more stump for me to pee on.

Anyway here are some pix from the beach. This first one is of me diggin a hole. I have never dug a hole before. It was lots of fun.

I think the next time I go to the beach I will dig more holes. All the hole diggin and wave playing left me a bit tired so I napped next to mommy for a while.

MMMMOOOOOMMMM!

Come on mom download my beach pix. Last night instead of bringing out the evil vaccum she should have downloaded my pix. I want my pix...I want 'em NOW. I know she isn't gonna do it tonight cause we have to go to class so she had better download them first thing tomorrow morning. Otherwise I am not gonna be happy and I will bite her bum.

OH BOY!

Well today I was gonna post some pictures from my weekend at the beach but mommy forgot to download the pix...and I can't since I ain't got no thumbs. Silly mommy! I wasn't gonna post nothing but then I found out I was nominated for Dogs with Blogs Photo of the Month . If you click the link you can vote for me....cause I am cute.

Also I was tagged by Ivy . That means I gotta tell you 5 things about me. Hmmm. Okay...here goes.

1.) Everyday when mommy and daddy come home from work I do the kidney bean dance.

2.) I am an active participant in the Boxer 500

3.) When I visit cousin Chestnut I like to pretend I am a Australian sheep dog and herd the sheep (cousin Chestnut).

4.) I like to sit on laps or feets. I don't fit too well in laps anymore but I like to try.

5.) I like to sleep in the bed with mommy and daddy. They don't let me but every morning round 4 am I sneaked up in the bed anyway.

Okay...now I tag: the Greatful Dogs, 'Seidon, TigerSan & BatDog.

Dog Shows

This weekend I was in my first dog show. I won second place. Go me. I had a lot of fun and yesterday I even got to play with my sister a bit. Here are some pictures of me from yesterday.

Here is me and Hal in the regular 9-12 month dog class.

And this is me and Jackie in the 9-12 month old class in the Puppy Sweepstakes.

Always when I am sleeping

Mommy always takes pictures of me when I am trying to sleep. She says its cause its the only time I am sitting still. It's not true at all. Well anyway here I am after a hard day of chasing the frisbee.

Sleepin' cozy with my eyes open.

Then BAM. Hit with the flash.

No I am awake an annoyed.

Mad at my mommy

Can you believe it. Mommy ignored me all morning. I was making cute faces at her and everything and she just ignored me! How did she manage? I don't know. Why was she ignoring me? She was sewing. She said it was for me and my crate but I would rather have had her pay attention to me. This is what she made.

Mommy was really happy. She said it matched the curtains. Whatever that means. I am not that impressed truthfully.

Well now that she is done she had better pay attention to me.

I am growing up so fast

Mommy, daddy and Hal all think I am such a handsome young man now. I couldn't agree more. Here I am in class last night. See how focused I am.

Mommy says I have my moments though when I act like a baby. She caught me the other day eating yogurt out of my puppy kong. You can kinda hear the slurpy noises. She said it sounds and looks like I am drinking from a baby bottle.

Lazy weekend

This weekend was great. Mommy went and ran errands all morning on Saturday and came back with a new collar for me and some super yummy treats called Solid Gold Beef Jerkey. Then mommy and daddy spent all the rest of the day hanging out with me (and Oscar, Felix and Chestnut too). We watched TV all day. I even got to sit on the "new" couch but don't tell gramma.

On Sunday, mommy did laundry and napped with me then later mommy's friends Tara and Kevin came over. The other "guy" (daddy and Kevin) hung out in the basement while I scored points with the ladies by watching girl movies (well...really I napped but don't tell mommy).

New Brothers

Mommy said I am too spoiled. She said I threw a fit yesterday when daddy went to walk cousin Chestnut without saying hi to me first. She took a video as evidence. I don't see me throwing a tantrum do you?

Since I am being a brat (so she says)she and daddy when and got me two brothers. Their names are Oscar and Felix. They are oscar fish.

I am not sure I am gonna like these brothers. They don't like they would be a lot of fun to play with.

Cousin Chestnut

Mommy and daddy are dog sitting cousin Chestnut for the next two weeks. This would be exciting 'cept I'm not allowed to play with her. Mommy said that she is old and tired. Daddy said Aunt Kerry adopted Chestnut from an animal shelter about 12 years ago. That makes her between 14-17 years old! Here is a picture of her.

She doesn't really move around a lot. I heard grampa say something bout arthritis and going blind. Daddy gated her off the living room because he said I was playing to rough with her. I am trying my best to play nice with her but sometimes I forget and want to box her. I will try though.

Mommy is crazy

That's it...mommy is officially crazy. I can't even take a nap without her taking pictures of me. She takes pictures all the time. I am surprised she hasn't take a picture of me trying to make a potty.

Mommy...STOP...I am trying to nap.

Oh well! Mommy entered me into her football pool. I love football. Actually, I love harrassing the referee. As you can tell by some of my previous posts. I can't wait. I hope I win. Mommy and daddy said they would buy me a bunch of bully sticks if I did.

The Grammas

Hi. Sorry I don't have any pictures today but I was too busy to take any. This weekend The "Grammas" came to visit. The grammas consist of mommy's mommy, mommy's mommy's twin sister, mommy's step aunt and mommy's gramma.

They came out from the city on Saturday. They brought mommy lots of stuff and I got lots of attention. They just LOVED me. I behaved because two of the grammas are puny little things (mommy's mom and her twin sister) and I kissed nice and didn't jump up too much. We spent a lot of time in the back yard and the great gramma fell asleep in the hammock. Mommy was afraid she would fall out and hurt herself.

Oh and then daddy's mommy and daddy came over for dinner. It's the first time that daddy's family met mommy's family. It was fun. We (actually they...cause I don't get people food) had dinner outside and then we (they) had dessert inside. While the ladies were having coffee and tea us males decided to watch the Met's game...course cause I hadn't had a nap I fell alseep...apparently so did grampa and daddy.

Some baby pictures.

Mommy was so excited today. She did a little dance in her chair. She got pictures of me, from my third gramma, of when I was about 7-8 weeks old. She has never seen me so little. Here I am after gramma had my ears cropped and with Ziggy too.

Here I am practicing my show dog stand...I didn't know they were taking pictures.When I finally realized they were taking pictures I became embarrassed. The tape on my ears doesn't do anything for me.
Course then they had to get a close up. Lovely.

Going to class

Saturday mornings are usually great. I get up early make mommy and daddy play with me and then I take a nap all day long. Apparently, mommy had the idea to make this past Saturday different. First she wakes me up.

Then she doesn't share her coffee.

Then she takes me for a long drive....and we have to wait for about 5 mintues when we finally ge there.

Then....I have to have class!!!! Class...can you believe it! ON A SATURDAY!!!

My teacher's name is Hal and he is teaching me to be a show dog. I am not sure I want to be a show dog but I do get a lot of treats ...just for standing still and walking around. I LOVE treats.

N-E-Ways...Hal thinks that I will be smart enough to go to a show in Sept...I just need to work on not playing with other doggies until Mommy or Hal says its okay. That parts not too fun but hey...if I get treats I don't mind.

Wheww it's hot here.

It has been so hot and humid here lately that I don't want to do anything. I just want to lay down in the nice cool house and sleep.
Apparently daddy feels the same way. He was trying to get me to play with him and he fell asleep. I decided to make him feel special and use him as a pillow.

Toys

I am an only child....therefore, mommy spoils me something rotten. Here I am practicing for football season with my "Mean Kitty-Referee". You made a bad call ref...just for that I'll bite your bum.

Here is a few pictures of me and my snake. I just got him back yesterday after mommy preformed a double surgery on him. His inners were coming out. Aunt Joyce's fault...I'm serious.

I love my snake. He squeaks on both ends and one end also rattles.

It's been really hot here the past few days so here I am playing while trying to keep cool. I love that thingy daddy puts in the windows that makes a cold breeze.