WATER EVERYWHERE

I have been taking showers. Yup. Showers.

I have a special shampoo that's only for puppies with itchy skin. That's me. My man takes me into the shower with him and lathers me up. He has a hose that is very gentle and the water is very warm. I like it. After he lathers me up he rinses me off and I am squeaky clean. (I was never dirty in the first place). When my man does the lathering and rinsing my lady hands me treats. I like that. A lot.

A nice lady came to the house the other night and sat with my people and they talked and talked and talked. Then the nice lady had me walk next to her and gave me treats. She did it over and over and I walked next to her over and over and got treats over and over.

Then I sat on the floor with my man and she took out clippers!!! Clippers!!! YIKES. I wasn't liking the look of this. I squirmed but no luck. He was really holding on tight. She clipped my toenails. It really wasn't so bad. She didn't hurt me and I got a treat.

Humans are funny. They give me treats for EVERYTHING.

This is  my lady. I can't go on the furniture (grin, I do sometimes) so she sat with me on my blanket and let me go to sleep on her. She is warm and her hands are very gentle when they stroke me. I like her.

I am becoming very brave about going outside all alone. We have squirrels back there. The squirrels run around my yard. So now I chase them. My humans leave the door open and don't force me to go out. I put one foot on the snow, give a sniff, then off I go. I run after those squirrels but they always disappear. I can't find them. I search the yard but nope. They are gone.

So Much To Tell You

I have been in my new home for three weeks now. It feels like I have been here for such a long time. I have been busy, busy, busy. Here is what I have accomplished in my three weeks:

1.  I visited the vet. Boy were they nice. They took my picture. They took me into a room with my people and looked me over. Seems I am doing pretty darned good.

2.  I chewed up a stick that a man uses for drumming. Guess my people will  have to buy him a new one.

One of these sticks is not like the other. Fuzzy Soft stuff was easy to rip.

3.  I chewed up two pens. Didn't get ink on me or on anything else.

4.  I ripped my duck to shreds. No pictures. I guess the thing didn't last long enough. But, and here's the truth. It had a squeaker in it and I just had to get it out.

5.  I like chasing squirrels. They come into my backyard and I try to chase them out. Regarding the squirrel chasing. It's not that much fun  because it's very, very cold here and I don't much like going out. One day I flew out the door at break neck speed to chase a squirrel. Turned out to be a big leaf blowing around. I felt pretty silly so I grabbed a twig and ran with it and brought it into the house. It too disappeared.

6.  I had visitors. A couple of people came over and sat at the dinner table with my people. They bought me a toy to play with. An elephant. He used to have a long nose. It's gone now.

Oops. Where did his nose go. Hee hee

Those are the other pieces I removed from the elephant. I haven't seen him since my lady put him in the disappearing black bin in the kitchen.

The deadly black bin.

Things that go into that black bin never come out. I don't know where it goes but I sure miss my duck pieces and my elephant pieces.

I have this all to myself.

This is my own personal play area. Too bad it's also my own personal bathroom 'cause it's been so cold, I have learned how to go out there by myself without coaxing. All I do is put my nose out the door and slowly put my front feet on the snow. Then I dash like blazes to my spot and do it. Even though it's cold out there sometimes I can't help it. I do zoomies. I found a great stick the other day and ran around with it. That too went into the magical disappearing bin.

Don't I look cozy and angelic?

Here I am sleeping on my bed in front of the fireplace. In the back you can see my man. He pretends to read. But, we know he's sleeping too. Oh that book. The one in his hand. Chewed it up, I did, when he wasn't looking.

I bet that ends up in the magic black bin.

There is a strange thing about my people. They don't like me on top of the chairs and sofas. But, how nice is he. He sat on my dog bed with me and we both had, yes you guessed it, another nap.

Not on the furniture? I forgot for a second.

Here I am looking out of the window at the street. I was watching cars go by when, suddenly, one came into the driveway. I was pretty excited I can tell you. But not as excited as when I saw who got out of the car. It was my BFF Gigi. GIGI CAME BACK TO PLAY WITH ME.

Our ladies talk while Gigi and I play and run and tumble and just enjoy the snow. They keep using words like "tired" "sleep well tonight" "burn off energy". They should run in the snow too.
All in all I have been very busy. But it's not all fun and games here. I do learn time with the words 'sit', 'down', 'stay'.  Then I get treats and pats and strokes. I like that a lot.

So, until next time. This is me, Scarlett, saying watch out for more of my adventures.