The Life of Murphey (and Reilly too!)

Taking a Break

2009-05-05T06:39:00.000-07:00

Well, as you can see we haven't been blogging lately. We are all fine, the lady feels MUCH better, but we just haven't had anything to say. Busy, Busy, Busy for the upcoming summer. Boring, Boring, Boring around here.....

So we're going to take a break for a little while. We promise to come back, and we just know we'll be back in action before summer ends.

Murph

ARGHHHHHHHH!

2009-04-04T08:54:00.001-07:00

No, the lady wasn't on Spring Break since March 13th! When she got home she got sick. Really sick, first Strep Throat, then the flu, two ear infections, and to top it all off the medicine upset her tummy. I am not allowed to tell you what it did to her tummy, but in us pups they call it the poopies (heh, wadda ya mean I wasn't supposed to say that?!) Everybody laughed cause she got sick with things kids usually get, ear infections and strep throat, she does act like a kid most days, so I guess she deserves to get kid illness.

So she is finally feeling better and I made her, MADE HER, get on to our blog and then she shouted ARGHHHHHHH! We have over 400 hundred posts to read, that deserves another ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! So we will be reading and soon actually posting. As you can imagine we have not been doing much with the lady so sick.

SPRING BREAK!!!!!

2009-03-14T06:55:00.000-07:00

The lady is off to Washington DC with Joey, our 13 year old friend from Galveston. They are going to see the sites of our Nation's Capitol! We're staying with Judy....

Be back in a week!

Keeping Me Away From His Food

2009-03-08T12:33:00.000-07:00

Some chubby puppy really likes the new low fat food. He is so afraid I will try to eat it that he shoves his bowl under that Hoosier and then protects it with his pitty paws.

Then he licks every speck of food out of that bowl.

He is one crazy pup.

Then there was mud....

2009-03-02T12:29:00.000-08:00

The ice melted and we were left with this......MUD.
Hey, can I come inside now?

What do you mean I have muddy paws, I do not!

Fine, I will just lay here and pout until you let me in.....

Hey, get that camera away from my paws!

Okay, maybe they were a little muddy.......

Way behind

2009-02-26T11:55:00.000-08:00

Well, the lady is watching everything I do, my poop, my eating, my sleeping, my walking, she seems to be worried that I am still not feeling better. I keep telling her I am fine woman, leave me alone, and could you stop shoving those pills down my throat? No, darn it....

My blood work shows better, so that is some good news.

Now these pictures are really late, but Reilly got to encounter an ice day. He was begging not to have to go out.

Then he ventured further onto the deck.

Then finally he went and peed. It took forever!

Mr. Fancy Pants doesn't like getting his pitty pat paws cold. Next time we'll show you what it looked like when the ice melted.

Feeling Better and Back Home Again!

2009-02-22T11:50:00.000-08:00

The lady finally busted me outta that darn vet hospital. Was I ever glad to get home. I ran right to my favorite sleeping place and took a nice long nap, without a stupid IV in my leg. I do feel better, no more bad poop, and I am eating again. I even like my special low fat diet, yum, that food is so good I snaarf it up so fast.

Reilly said he missed me, even though he got to go to Mischa's house every day to play.

Well, gotta go, Mom's got my treat ready for me, it's a snap pea, man I love those snap peas...

Hey, good terr-vibes to Bogart's dad Klaus, to Poppy for her throat and Snickers, we want the seizure monster to GO AWAY!

Pancreatitis

2009-02-16T11:39:00.000-08:00

I've hijacked Murphey's blog to explain where we have been and why we haven't been blogging. Murphey had been acting lethargic, not eating too well, and he even attacked Reilly a few weeks ago. All this seemed unusual but the vet couldn't find anything wrong. Then he started really not eating, and when the vomiting and diarrhea started we rushed back to the vet and found out he had Pancreatitis. That required a few nights stay at the vet hospital and now he (and Reilly) are going to be on a low fat diet. The hope is that this is just a one time acute attack, but diet and monitoring will become a regular part of life around here. I just want my little guy to feel better soon.

Oh, and Reilly hates the food, but since I have a hard time keeping them out of each others bowls, the same food for both. Strangely enough, Mini Schnauzers that are over weight (Reilly) are more prone to pancreatitis so the diet is a good idea for him too.

We promise to catch up and start blogging again soon, but for right now I am too busy taking care of my sick pup.

Kathleen

Get it, GET IT!

2009-01-16T11:18:00.000-08:00

Some nights when we are getting ready for sleepy time, something under the covers moves, and when it does it causes us to ATTACK!

Reilly goes crazy, as you will see from this video.

I mean the dude is a barking, scratching fool! I'm smart enough to do this:

I look under the covers to see what it is and it always turns out to be the same thing, the lady's legs!

Doesn't stop Reilly from trying to get 'em.

Car Rides

2009-01-12T12:49:00.000-08:00

I love getting to go with the lady places, I really do. The only thing I don't like is long car rides. I don't like them because I get car sick. We were almost to Auntie's house and the lady moved us up to the front seat. Look how unhappy I am, and look how happy that fat head is behind me! He doesn't care that I feel like crap, in fact I think he was laughing at me. I would have given him a big old bite, but I felt too sick to do it.

Don't worry, the lady turned off the passenger side airbag and she had us in our doggie seat belts. Here I am really looking sick while Reilly is making fun of me.

Most of the ride Reilly does this, sleeps and snores.

See his big belly? The vet says fatty has to lose two pounds and you can really see it here.

For our last Christmas post, here is the photo the lady sent out with her cards, and maybe this is why we got a stick!

How Good We Were

2009-01-07T12:33:00.000-08:00

We went to Auntie and Uncle's house for Christmas. We had a really good time and the lady made us promise to be good. And we were, really, we were! Except for when we jumped on company, then we got put in the bedroom. But other than that we were good, well, except for when we barked at the neighbor kids and tried to play bitey face with them. Or when I stole a whole ball of cheese and hid it in a chair to snack on later....one of the peeps found it when they sat down on it and felt a big old sticky mess. The peeps were happy I hadn't eaten the whole thing, something about trouble pooping I might have had if I had eaten it?! I say not my fault, don't leave it where I can get it. But that was it for the bad stuff, really. Umm, escept Reilly did pee on the carpet once, he insisted the carpet felt like grass, and he is sticking by his excuse.

We were perfect other than those things!

Yeah, just don't count the time that Reilly puked in the living room. The peeps shouted for the lady to come clean it up and when she got there Reilly hunched over and then pooped too! For his final offering he the peed in a big puddle right next to the puke and poop. That must have been Reilly's version of a Christmas gift, I don't think they appreciated it. We didn't take pictures, although I think it would have been a worthy Stain Award entry. We had just been out for a walk too, he was saving it up, and we found out he shouldn't eat people food.

But really, after that we were as good as two badly behaved dogs can be!

So we spent a lot of time here in the bedroom:

And I could hide on the rug on the bed cause I matched it perfectly.

You can see me better when my eyes are open.

But here was my favorite place, Auntie's lap.

New Year'e Eve Celebration

2009-01-02T12:23:00.000-08:00

We interupt our regullaryly scheduled review of the Christmas Vacation (and Reilly's poop and puke fest) to say HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here was our favorite New Year's Party visitor, GRACE!!!!

(oh, her dad is kind of cool too, but I love Grace).

Don't panic, it was sparkling apple cider, we don't give champagne to small children!

Perhaps the real reason I love Grace so much is that I get whatever she doesn't want to eat AND she had a cool stuffed reindeer that I kept trying to sneak away from her. I never did succeed, she kept that stuffie gripped tight in her hand.

Happy New Year!

Not Only a Stick...

2008-12-30T08:06:00.000-08:00

Okay, so we didn't get only a stick for Christmas, that was just my lady's stupid way to tease us. We did get Christmas sweatshirts. They were red with a Christmas tree on the back. Look very closely at me in this sweatshirt. You will never see me in it again, NEVER!

Here is a close up of my face, I am NOT HAPPY! I froze like a statue and just stood there. Even when they held a treat up I refused to move.

Here is Reilly, he also looks unhappy, but later he decided he love that darn sweatshirt and he wore it for days.

This is what we wanted to take home with us from our Auntie Janet's house, her rug in the kitchen. We both loved sitting on it in front of the stove. It keep our little behinds warm and it was so much better than the cold tile. I told Reilly to pee or poop on it so we could take it home, but when he finally did poop inside it wasn't on the rug! More on that excitement in a later post.

After I kicked the chubby, red sweat shirted pup off the rug, I sat on it for a while. Notice that I am now no longer wearing the dreaded sweatshirt?!

More later.

Merry Christmas, is that our New Toy?!

2008-12-26T09:31:00.000-08:00

Hope Everyone had a Merry Christmas!

So the lady read that there was a new toy inducted into the Toy Museum Hall of Fame and we were so excited becasue she said she was going to get us one for Christmas. What was the toy you ask? A Stick, that's right, a stick. WTF, what kind of bleeping gift is that? Here is the article: And here we are with our stick...not even two sticks, but we have to share?! Double WTF.

Then the fight was on for the worst Christmas gift ever, um, I mean the awesome stick.

Um, yeah, how much fun does that look like?!

Not much. Stupid Stick.

We got cheated, I don't care what they say at the Toy Museum Hall of Fame.

MFing Opossum!

2008-12-18T09:48:00.000-08:00

Last night I did my favorite thing in the world, and the lady's least favorite thing. I went out our dog door to take care of some peeing business and I saw a freaking opossum, and it was on MY FENCE! So I started barking and Reilly came out and joined me in the 2 am in the morning bark fest. Barking wasn't enough so I started doing this:

Yup, jumping up to try to get that stupid possum, his tail, his foot, anything! Jump, Bark, Jump Bark, Jump, Bark, and the lady telling us to stop barking. Is she crazy, doesn't she see that ugly a&* opossum on OUR FENCE!

Reilly can't jump, but he sure was trying to climb that fence. Then some more barks.

And more jumps. Man, I almost got that thing's tail before the lady grabbed us and made us come inside. I was so proud of myself, look at me smile.

One day I am going to catch that darn thing and teach it a lesson or two.

Yummy Bread

2008-12-15T09:46:00.000-08:00

Mitch and Maggie posted a recipe for cheese bread and the lady just to make it. It sure smelled good while it was cooking.

And look how awesome it looks! See, the lady cut some and took a bite, she even showed the piece with small bites out of it. Nope, those aren't our bites, we didn't get any.

Reilly and I are kinda bummed out, but the lady sure is happy, she's been eating that bread like crazy. Thanks Maggie and Mitch's Mom!

Yeah, Boring.

2008-12-10T14:28:00.000-08:00

The lady has been busy going to parties, working and leaving us home. Some Holiday Season, bleh.
We did have company and I let them know that their job was to let me lay on them and for them to rub me till I fell asleep.

Look, it worked, those people are sure easy to train.

Yup, I fell asleep. I do like company.

If you wonder why there aren't so many pictures or Reilly on my blog, this is why, most of them look like this:

He sees the camera and he runs up and tries to lick it!

Laundry Day, We Love It!

2008-11-25T09:51:00.000-08:00

Here is why we love laundry day....we like to sneak something special out the pile:

SOCKS!!!!!!!

Super stretchy SOCKKKKKKSSSSSS!

Happy Thanksgiving!

My Favorite Pillow

2008-11-21T09:30:00.000-08:00

This is me on my favorite pillow. The pillow actually belongs on the lady's bed, not on the couch. But I personally prefer to lay on the pillow while it is on the couch. So whenever the lady puts the pillow on the couch, I wait till she goes to work, then I grab the pillow, drag it out to the living room and back up onto the couch. After all that hard work I need a nap.

Making Cheese

2008-11-17T09:23:00.000-08:00

The lady left us this weekend to go learn how to make cheese. We didn't mind because we figure she would bring us some. Here she is making string cheese!?

Um, is that a giant cheese ball? Can we have some?

What do lemons have to do with cheese? Apparently you need lemon juice to make ricotta.

Yummy, a mozzarella cheese roll filled with chopped green olives. Can't wait to taste it.

The smiling cheese making students. They look so happy without their hairnets on!

But I am mad, we didn't get to try any cheese. I think I will go pee on the couch. And to those that ask, yeah, we get to climb on the coffee table, we've trained our lady well, it's our table, not her's!

The Lady is Lazy

2008-11-07T10:22:00.000-08:00

The lady claims that she has been busy, I personally think she is just lazy. She hasn't even been taking pictures. But finally, FINALLY she got out the camera because it was Halloween (yeah, we're late). So here we are waiting on the kids to show up.

Reilly was bored, and he couldn't stop yawning.

Finally Reilly ran to the door cause he thought he heard somebody. I waited to see if it was worth jumping off the table for.

And it was, it was neighbor Grace. Hello there Gracie, have some candy!

And here is a very barky Reilly telling Grace not to leave with our candy. He didn't realize that we were supposed to give it away.

And I would like to tell all of you that we wore no costumes because we swore we would tear them up if the lady even tried to make us wear one.

Missing the Doodles

2008-10-18T13:40:00.000-07:00

Well, Slater and Coco went home and we were kinda depressed and lonely, so the lady had Mischa come visit to try to cheer us up.

While the two nutjobs wrassled, I refereed from the table.

Check it out, Reilly has to wear satelite head gear to stop him from licking on his infected foot. At least it is clear so he can see through it and as you can see ---

It doesn't slow him down any. And the lady has found out how close Reilly gets to her when she walks, every time her leg swings back it hits the edge of his satellite collar. She actually has a bruise from where it keeps hitting her, hee hee!

Bob's Big Boy

2008-10-15T11:11:00.001-07:00

For those that asked, Bob's Big Boy was a restaurant on the West Coast and all of them had a statue in front like the one in the picture. And yup, that is a big old fake hamburger. We've been told that here in Dallas they had the same statue but it was called Kip's Big Boy, but the lady says she can't find any proof of that!

What or Who is That?!

2008-10-13T13:38:00.000-07:00

We interrupt our regularly scheduled post to ask, Who or What is that with the lady? She says it is Bob's Big Boy and we say HUH?!

Protective and Lazy

2008-10-10T13:34:00.000-07:00

Really, do I even need words to describe the scene?

Slater protecting his food bowl and eatting, all while laying down. Yup, Lazy!

The Butterfly Whisperers

2008-10-07T10:17:00.000-07:00

Charming the butterfly's right onto their fingers. Wow! Then it was Sophie's turn.
The ladies attempt at a pretty photo.

I think they enjoyed the cool Butterfly exhibit in downtown Dallas.

What they did without us!

2008-10-03T09:49:00.000-07:00

They went to the Zoo, and they left us home, and it looks like they had fun too. That is so wrong. Joey shook hands with a monkey.

Looking at the chimpanzees.

Drinking a beer (a ROOT beer).

Sophie and the Root Beer, which she refused to drink.

Look at that monkey right behind Sophie, COOL!
The newest alligator wrestler, SOPHIE!

What is this a display of, um, looks like, could it be...

Joey and Sophie, the next display at the zoo!

And a fun time was had by all.

Can you beleive it?

2008-09-30T09:44:00.000-07:00

Look at how big those dogs are, and then look at how little that dog door is....and yet, they both managed to squeeze through that door and get into the house, AMAZING!

Hanging in the backyard, where Reilly stayed safely on Sophie's lap. He would bark and then run away and jump on Sophie's lap.

I decided to try it out on Joey's lap, hmm, comfy.

Oh, a little back rub and perhaps a nap.

This is the life!

Sophie and Joey

2008-09-27T09:32:00.000-07:00

Joey, the tree climbing biped.

Sophie, and of course, ME!

Hey, no fair I wanna play!

Hey, what is this game we are playing? And how can I operate the controls with no thumb?

Here's what we were playing, it was COOL!

Then it was nap time.

Or at least lay down and quit barking time, for all of us!

Which one is Which

2008-09-25T09:15:00.000-07:00

Despite the pain and sorrow, I have decided to let Murph keep posting about the visit we had last week with Sophie, Joey and their doodle dogs (labradoodles). Although Sophie and Joey are back in Houston, the doodles are still with us, hanging out and having a barking good time.

So! Meet Coco, isn't she pretty?!

Don't confuse her with her brother, Slater! He has the bad perm, or curly hair look.

Slater and Coco together, can you see it? Curly and not curly.

Me telling Coco that I think she is beautifullllllll!

Notice you don't see Reilly? He kept trying to write checks he couldn't cash, ya know, barking and snapping at Slater and Coco, when they could eat him in one quick bite, Crazy dog...

Heavy Heart

2008-09-23T12:56:00.000-07:00

I hate to hijack Murph's blog, but I will for this one post. My friends who were staying with me after Hurricane Ike had another son, a wonderful, crazy, loving son who was battling leukemia. Today I found out that he lost his battle and passed away. My heart is breaking for the family and words can't express how I feel. Someone I know once wrote :

"There just aren't any words. There's just love. And prayers. And more love."

And love there is. Johnny Romano, I love you and may you now be at peace.

We're Kinda Back

2008-09-23T09:08:00.001-07:00

It has been a busy week and a half. We had lots of company, four bipeds and two dog pals. Here is a photo of Slater and Coco (and Sophie too!) Look how big those pups are, WOW!

For me to even pretend to be as tall as them I had to stand on the couch arm. And Reilly, the big chicken, more on that later, stood on the table.

I enjoy playing with other dogs, but man, Coco and Slater are so big and I ain't no dummy, so I decided to play it safe at first. I went right to the old hidey hole.

Nope, not gonna come out and play, not today!

I finally did get out and play, and we had fun, those big dogs can RUNNNNNNN! More later.

We're Okay

2008-09-14T08:42:00.000-07:00

Nothing really happened here with Ike, it moved west of us. But we do know some of our friends in Galveston and Houston aren't doing as well. We might not be blogging too much in the near future, it looks like we are gonna have some company for a while.

We'll keep ya updated.

We Don't Like IKE

2008-09-12T13:55:00.000-07:00

To any of our friends out there that might be in the path of Ike, our thoughts and prayers are with you. Here in Dallas we might get some rain and high winds, but nothing like what might be going on down south in Houston and Galveston.

Boring

2008-09-12T12:20:00.000-07:00

All I have done this week is sleep, and in all sorts of different positions.

Trying to hide my head from the stupid flashy light.

Not working!

Now I am comfortable.

The lady said I was snoring, I don't believe her.

What?! Stupid camera woke me up again.

What's a guy to do? All I want is sleep, sheesh.

Don't Bug Me

2008-09-08T12:05:00.000-07:00

So there was Reilly eating his food and I decided to bug him. Do you see my nose? He's looking at me and doing his best cat imitation, arched up back, lowered head and I swear, SWEAR he was hissing at me. Okay, it was really a growl to let me know to stay away from his food.

This was the first time I ever finished eating first so I just had to bug him!

Hiding

2008-09-03T11:40:00.000-07:00

Wordless Wednesday...

Eating Time

2008-08-30T11:42:00.000-07:00

Reilly is a pig, he eats his food so fast, he just gobbles it up in a second. Me, I like to eat SLOOOOOOWLY. One piece at a time. So this is what ends up happening, Reilly finishes, then he lays by his empty bowl and he gives the lady the saddest "I'm still hungry" look. While I sloooooowly chomp chomp chomp. Sometimes he lays next to his bowl and watches me eat, looking at every bite and hoping that I will leave some for him. I never do! Sad face close up...

Notice it doesn't get him any more food though!

Goodbye T-man

2008-08-29T07:31:00.000-07:00

T-man was one of our first DWB buddies, we will miss him greatly and we hurt for his mom. If you can, please go visit and leave some DWB love for her.

Baboon Butt

2008-08-27T11:21:00.001-07:00

Sorry we have been gone so long...the lady has been very busy at work and she has taken three work trips, which means no blogging! no reading blogs! no fun! But we think we are back in action for a while.

The lady decided that she could save money if she groomed Reilly herself. I personally have magic fur that cleans itself and it never gets too long, so I don't have to be groomed, lucky me. But Reilly has to have his hair washed and cut, or it gets really stinky and really matted. So first the lady washed Reilly, he was not happy with that. He ran around and did the couch rub and head shake, spraying water all over the place, like this:

Then he rubbed all over the couch like this:

Then he finally had enough of me taunting him, so he went crazy and all bitey face on me.

But I still won cause the lady shaved him and gave him a baboon butt, she shaved off ALL his white hair and he is naked down there. Close your eyes if you would be offended by a photo of his baboon butt!

I call him BB for short now!

King of the Jungle

2008-08-14T10:43:00.000-07:00

Or at least King of My Backyard.....

I crack myself up!

And I decided that I was the smart one, but thanks to everyone who decided we were both smart!

Which one of us is smarter?

2008-08-11T10:38:00.000-07:00

We got a new toy and this is what happened right after the lady gave it to us....Reilly cuddled up to get his belly rubbed and ignored the toy.

Me, I got that toy and chewed like crazy.

While Reilly got even more of this:

Now which one of us is smarter? Me getting the toy, or Reilly getting the belly rub, YOU be the judge.

Gardening, Our Version

2008-08-04T12:32:00.000-07:00

It's been really hot here in Dallas, and the lady hasn't had much of a chance to get out and garden, so Reilly and I decided to help her out. Perhaps she would like a hole right here under the tree?! Yup, I think she would, Dig Reilly, DIGGGG! Look at Mr. Fancy Pants, just kind of sticking his foot in the dirt, he wouldn't want to get his feet dirty or anything, sheesh.

While he sniffed, I dug.

See how nice that hole is? Now the lady can plant something here if she wants. Yup, we'll help her "garden" anytime.

(No thanks boys!)

What is that thing?

2008-07-28T08:46:00.000-07:00

We found this weird dead bug in our driveway, it looked like a bee, but it was HUGE! It was almost an inch and a half long. We still don't know what it is....
Even after we sniffed it. Oh well.

Imitating the 4-B's

2008-07-20T08:40:00.000-07:00

Thanks everyone, Reilly's foot is much better. He took all his pills, his toe stopped swelling and he is back to being a big old pain in the bu%^. But I do like having him around.

Anyway, if you don't know who the 4-B's are, check 'em out! The lady loves the photo of them all hanging on the couch, so we tried to recreate it for her. Here's Reilly's pose.

Here's mine!

Here we both are! Unfortunately there aren't enough of us and we aren't quite big enough to look exactly like the 4-B's, but we gave it our best shot! We either need a few more dogs, or a smaller couch, not sure which would be better.

Yup, you can call us couch potatoes!

Mr. Reilly's Foot

2008-07-20T08:33:00.000-07:00

We have been so busy that we haven't had time to post. Mr. Reilly's toe is doing much better, check it our! Here is what it looked like right after it happened. Yuck.

But look at him, even though it's doing better, he's still sucking up and trying to get sympathy.
And the lady falls for his sad face every time!

I Wanna Be Sedated

2008-07-11T10:08:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Reilly had to get sedated to get his toenail removed. He had to stay at the vet all day and I was left home by myself all day. I was really lonely so I peed on the couch, I know I shouldn't do it, but I can't help myself sometimes. But when Reilly got home I was so happy I completely ignored the bandage on his foot and gave him some kisses. He was happy to see me too!

Look at him showing off his bandage. Waving it around and demanding attention.

Later he decided he was tired so he went to hang out on the bed.

He didn't like it when I came to lay down next to him, he got all wigged out and ran away from me.

Finally he let me check out his bandage up close, at the same time he was showing off his poor me look to the lady. It worked too, he got some treats, but then so did I!

Tomorrow the bandage comes off, so one last look!

I let Reilly know that I will be nice to him today, but tomorrow it's back to beat up on Reilly time!

Hey, the vet told the lady that Reilly was under weight! UNDER WEIGHT?! He already weighs ten pound more than me, I think he's fat, FAT, FATTTTT! I mean really, he was supposed to only weigh 12 to 13 pounds and he's 25 pounds. He gets any bigger and he'll be doing more than knocking me over with his big old body. I think I am going to go eat some more food too, just to see if I can get any bigger. HMPH.

Ouch

2008-07-10T09:58:00.000-07:00

The last two days Reilly hasn't wanted to go walking, weird! Then last night the lady noticed that Reilly and I were licking his foot, and licking his foot, and licking his foot. Yup, I was helping, the lady thought it was gross. Then she looked at his foot and noticed one of his toes was all swollen and red and yucky. So off to the vet Reilly went, and it turns out he broke his nail off right at the quick, and it had gotten infected and was really, really painful. So right now he is getting his toenail cut off and when he comes home he is going to have a big old band aid on his foot. I'll try to get the lady to take some photos of it.

He Wants a Walk!

2008-07-08T12:07:00.000-07:00

Reilly is a talker, he talks all the time, about everything. Here he is telling the lady HE WANTS TO GO WALKING RIGHT NOW!

Hey, it's still bed time.

2008-07-01T12:07:00.001-07:00

This morning the lady got up EARLY! We weren't ready to get up yet.....She jumped up, threw her clothes on the bed and began rushing around really quick. We refused to get up, we just lay there, cause it was still sleeping time!

Oh, GO AWAY! AND STOP FLASHING THAT LIGHT IN MY FACE!

Much better, all comfy with my head on the pillow, sleepingggggggg...................

Just because the lady had to get up early doesn't mean we had to.

Our gift, Mr. Pink BALL!

2008-06-25T11:24:00.000-07:00

Can you believe the lady for got her camera for her trip?! She's waiting to get copies of pictures that the rest of the family took in Paris. She says she had fun and that she ate a lot of good food, it was probably better that the dog food I got at Judy's! But she did bring us a cool gift, a pink ball, Whoo Hoo, and I got it first. Look at me with the ball, mine, all mine!

Here I am holding it so Reilly can see it, but he can't get it, HA Ha HAAAAA!

The he came and sat by me, so I made sure he knew the ball was MINE! Get your own pink ball sucker! Look at him smiling like he doesn't care, oh but he does, he does care.

Then he went on the attack and grabbed that ball right out from under my neck.

Look at him taunting me with the ball now, man that guy makes me mad!

You can barely see the pink ball hidden in his big fat mouth.

Then he taunted me with the ball, oh he makes me mad.

(You never would know that they got three balls, but of course they both wanted the same one!)

Big Windstorm and a sad find

2008-06-25T09:16:00.000-07:00

Gotta warn you now, don't look if you love birds.

We had a birds nest in our big pecan tree in the back yard, but then we had a really REALLY windy day and the nest was gone. Then we found this poor guy, he just had feathers on his wings, and he was still fuzzy everywhere else, and he was dead. He must have blown right out of his next. We just looked at him, but didn't do anything else, we felt sorry for the poor little thing....We never did find the nest, who knows how far it blew away.

Stupid wind!

So Glad SHe's HOMEEEEE!

2008-06-20T09:07:00.000-07:00

Everybody does it different, I mean come on, I am glad to have the lady home, really glad, but this is how I show it......

I refuse to look at her, I want her to know that I am NOT HAPPY that she left us. Nope, not gonna look at you lady.

Here is how Reilly let's her know he missed her:

He gets right in her face, what a suck up!

Then he cuddles up on her lap and just keeps staring at her right in the old eyes (he gave her a few love licks too!)

Once again, me, letting her know I am very displeased that she left, even if I am happy she came home. And WHERE THE HE&* is my gift? She claims she hasn't unpacked it yet, we'll see, if I like it enough I might let her pet me....

We're Outta Here Til June 17th!

2008-06-06T07:32:00.000-07:00

The lady leaves for almost two weeks and we won't get to blog....look how sad that makes us. We refuse to look happy even though we get to stay with Judy and her two pups! We'll catch up when we get back.

Murph and Reilly, over and out for a while.

Home Again and Look What We Found

2008-06-02T13:09:00.000-07:00

The lady FINALLY came home and busted us outta Camp. We were so happy to see her! Johnny is doing better, he still has a hard road ahead, but he's no longer in ICU, so YEAH! Once we got home we had to check out the backyard and make sure no squirrels or possums had made a home in out there. We didn't find any, but we did find SOMETHING UNDER THE DECK!!!!!! We barked at it to tell it to come out right now!

And it did, man, what is that thing?

Reilly had to get a good look too, he even sniffed it.

I thought if I got closer to it I could figure out what is was and if it wanted to play...but it didn't!

Turns out big, old, fat frogs don't like to play, so we left it alone.

We're happy to be home and will have to catch up on everyone's blogs.

(Hey, I haven't told the boys yet, but I'm going on a real vacation this weekend, off to Paris for 10 days....they get to go to Judy's this time. We'll be reading like crazy before I go!)

Big sorry and Prayers Needed

2008-05-29T10:40:00.000-07:00

Hey, it's Kathleen here. Sorry we and the boys haven't blogged lately but one of my best friends sons had a relapse of leukemia. So the boys are at doggie day camp and I'm down in Galveston helping out. Their son Johnny has had a rough ride and we'll take any good thoughts and prayers. If you want to check out his blog check him out here on Blogger: J-Grom's blog.

We promise to be back and check up on everybody and let you know how it's going.

That Was FUN!

2008-05-12T13:15:00.000-07:00

On Saturday the lady was cleaning the house, a BIG cleaning. She took the covers off the couches and washed them, mopped, vacuumed, dusted and really scrubbed. Then the neighbor came and knocked on our door, so the lady went outside to look at her new plants. What was really cool was that she left a really fun, big, fluffy PLAY TOY out! Reilly and I had a blast, we ripped, and tugged, and tore that toy up, pulled off stuffy type white stuff, chewed up that yellow squishy stuff, WE HAD A BLAST! Look how happy and proud we are of our work!

For some reason the lady didn't look so happy with us, she was muttering something about us destroying the couch bottom pillow?! What, destroyed? Nope, we gave it some stuffie love.

Here's Reilly trying to keep me from interfering with his play time. He preferred to dig in that white stuff.

Then the lady took away our fun toy and all that was there was left overs...

It was fun while it lasted!

Thank You!

2008-05-09T10:27:00.000-07:00

Thank you for all agreeing that the mud did not come from us! The lady just needs to get over it.

Anyway, I promised to show you Reilly's new walking collar, it's called a Gentle Leader. See, it goes around his nose and if he pulls on the leash (which he loves to do) it pulls on his nose and stops him. The lady LOVES it, it keeps him from pulling her arm out of her socket, Reilly HATES it, he tries dragging his nose on the ground to get it off. I think the lady is going to win this contest.

Here's a closer shot of it going around his neck, then around his nose and you attach the leash to the blue hook hanging below his red collar.

I'm just glad I don't have to have one, I promised not to pull the lady's arm too hard, so I don't have to wear one, Na Na Na Reilly!

Why Us?!

2008-05-05T09:09:00.000-07:00

Everytime there is mud in the house, we pups get in trouble! WHY BLAME US?!

The lady takes pictures like this because she thinks it proves it was us, I say I don't know what that is on my feet and in my beard, but it ain't mud.

Nope, still not mud.
And that, that is just some dirty water that got on my fur, and those big brown pawprint shaped spots on the kitchen floor and rug, not from me!
Look, I see no mud. (Kathleen here: nope, he rubbed it all off on my pants when he jumped on me!)

Bee Stings Suck!

2008-05-01T08:32:00.000-07:00

After our walk I was waiting at the door to be let in and this DA*& thing stung me, OUCH!

Can you see it? It was a bee and it really hurt. I started licking and nipping at my foot and then I ran inside and kept running around with my one paw held up. When the lady sat down I jumped up on her and begged her to make it STOP hurting. She tried, she really did, she looked for the stinger (I think I pulled it out when I was licking and biting), then she washed it in a baking soda and water paste, she gave me a benedryl to help prevent an allergic reaction, and then she tried to put an ice pack on it.....tried, but I wouldn't let her.

She had to call work and say "I have to stay home and watch and make sure Murph doesn't have an allergic reaction to the be sting." (Is that like the dog ate my homework?)

She stayed home all morning and all I did was this:

That Benedryl makes me sleep every time. But when I woke up my leg didn't hurt any more and I was just fine.

Let me tell you, bee stings really suck!

Ummm, We're Back?!

2008-04-29T09:03:00.000-07:00

Did you miss me? We have been LAZZZZZY, no blogging, no reading, just a lot of laying around being couch potato dogs (and lady). Our allergies have been way bad, I've been sneezing and reverse coughing and doing that thing, you know, the one where we pups go, chhhhhwackkkkk

and we sound like we're hacking up a hairball (or twenty?) Yeah, we've both been doing that one. I like to wait till the lady is almost asleep and I do it right be her head and she jumps up like I barfed on her, gets her every time!

Other than that, nada, nothing, zilcho. Oh, except Reilly got a new harness to walk in, we'll fill you in later cause he HATES it...Hee hee.

Big Storm and No Power

2008-04-15T16:01:00.001-07:00

Wow, we had a really big storm here, the sirens that warn you that there might be a tornado went off and we had to get out of bed and go hide in the closet! It was scary. The wind was blowing so loud, and all we could remember was that a tornado is supposed to sound like a freight train, so we wondered, does that wind sound like a freight train, or is it just LOUD! We were lucky and it was just loud....but it did blow out our power. And the power stayed off for days. The lady was really worried about the food in the food chiller going bad, so we did our part and ate as much of it as we could. But we couldn't blog cause we had no computer, or phone, or TV, and the lady had no hair dryer. She even had to do her makeup by candlelight, HA HA.

We did go outside a lot though. Here I am protecting my chair. STAY AWAY.

I did get suckered into a game of tug of war and I found out that Reilly can really win that game, he weighs ten more pounds than me and he uses it to his advantage. I'd like to send him back, he was only supposed to be 14 pounds and he is 24 pounds and much taller than me...but the lady won't let me.

We played kill the toy, you know, did the death shake thing, both at the same time, you can tell by our blurry heads. If that woulda been a squirrel we'd a killed it!

Then the R man took off with it and I had to chase him. We were playing with a toy I've had since I was a puppy, give it here Reilly man.

Look at him, he's looking at the camera while we wrestle for it, he does not take this very seriously. Oh well...

And of course we had to finish off with a round of chase that ended up with us jumping off the deck, we love the deck.
We'll be catching up now that our power is back!

Thunder! And Lightning! Oh MY!

2008-04-04T10:50:00.000-07:00

Last night we had a thunderstorm that was so loud! Usually I just sleep right through storms, my attitude is "whatever". But last night, Whoa Nelly, there we were, all three of us snoozing away when there was a loud CRASH, BOOM, and a shake of the windows. Then lights were flashing, and rain started falling and the trees made this terrible loud whooshing sound. When the first crash sounded Reilly jumped straight up in the air and jumped right on the lady's head. (If she wasn't woken up by the storm, the 24 pounds of dog landing on her head sure did!). I tried to act cool, but I tapped the ladies arm really hard to let her know to let me under the covers NOW! I figured the covers would protect me from the awful storm.

Wish we had a picture of the lady trying to sleep with 24 pounds of dog curled up on her head and me snuggled in as close as I could get to her belly under the covers. Whooo Mama, I hope we never get a storm like that again. It hit the tree across the street from us, that is why it was so loud. And that tree? it is dead, dead, dead, killed by the storm.

Big BU#*

2008-04-01T08:50:00.001-07:00

Every morning Reilly does this:

He pokes his head out the dog door and then stands there trying to decide if he should go out or not. His big old bu*# blocks the door so I can't get out! It makes me crazy, I bark and bark and bark and try to get him to move, but it never works. I end up having to poke him to get him to go outside.

He Doesn't Care!

2008-03-28T06:36:00.000-07:00

Yup, you all guessed it, Reilly was getting his clipper haircut and he decided he was done and he wiggled and the clippers went "zip" and off came a big old hunk of hair right in the middle of his tummy, all the way down to his skin. The silly guy doesn't even care how funny his side looks, he's all smiley and stuff, what a goof.
I told the lady it would have looked really cool if he could have a design shaved into his fur, but she said No Way. Oh well.

Hey, we just found out we got nominated for Photo of the Month with Dogs With Blogs, COOL! It was Reilly's superman shot, how awesome. There are some really neat shots to vote from, we feel lucky to be included with everybody.

Even though I was excited, a guy has to do his job and here I am doing mine. What is my job you might ask? Making sure no darn squirrels or birds come into my yard!

And i know that looks like green, green grass, but it's really green, green weeds, sigh......

Bad Haircut on Wordless Wednesday

2008-03-26T10:37:00.000-07:00

She's HOMEEEE!

2008-03-20T09:21:00.000-07:00

The lady came home from training and I gotta say, she doesn't seem any better trained than when she left! I gave her the give me a treat command and she ignored it...then I gave her the rub my belly command and she ignored that too! What did they teach her there? She tells me it was work related, whatever?!

Hey, check out how I like to sit on the couch!

Yup, I sit there and can stare at whatever the lady is doing. It looks like I am climbing up, or down, or about to fall off, but I'm not!

Check out what it looks like from behind:

While I'm hanging out, Reilly man just sits next to the couch and looks like this:

It's his sad face look, but don't let that fool you, he practices!

We have to get busy and catch up on everyone's posts.

P.S. I was very good while the lady was away, I only peed in Judy's house three times....

Snow and Ice Cream

2008-03-09T09:28:00.000-07:00

Look at this, WE GOT SNOW! (Stop laughing snowbound pups) For us, this is SNOWWWWW. The best part is that it snowed late at night and the lady didn't shut the dog door. So I went out and rolled in it, then came back in, jumped in the bed and tapped the lady twice on her shoulder. That tells her to lift up the covers so I can crawl in next to her, and when she did, SURPRISE! She got shocked with a cold, wet dog snuggling up to her. You could have heard her shout of surprise a mile away. HA HA!

you can even see my paw prints tracking through the snow. Then later that night the lady brought us a special treat, one we had never had before:

ICE CREAM! ON A CONE! It must be for Joeypaloozza!

Ummm, Yummy, my tongue loved that cold yummy goodness.

Some even got on my nose and I had to lick it off, we really like ice cream and we didn't even mind sharing. But then I found out the truth, it wasn't for Joey Paloozza, it was a treat to get us all happy so we wouldn't get mad when the lady said she would be gone ALL WEEK! She has to go to some training class. TRAINING?! For what, we have her good and trained, she knows when to feed us, she lets me into the bed when I tap her twice, she rubs our belly's when we collapse next to her with our paws up in the air! What are they gonna teach her, how to fetch? Sit on command? Maybe they will teach her how to give us treats whenever we want. I guess I should be happy it's not me going to training.... Anyway, no posts for the week. We'll miss all you pups!

Texas Two Step

2008-03-07T14:55:00.000-08:00

The lady got home really, really late Tuesday night, it was almost 11 pm. Why?! I wanted to know as I jumped up and down in front of her (I never actually touch her, so I wasn't jumping ON her). She explained she had to do the Texas Two Step and go caucus for the Democratic Presidential nominee. Here she is with neighbor Judy and our buddy Baby Grace!

I wondered why I couldn't go if Baby Grace could...hmm I sense a conspiracy. And for those of you that want to know what the Texas Two Step is, this is all I can explain, cause it is strange. The Democrats go and vote for who they want to be the Democratic Presidential Candidate, and from that vote a set number of delegates are awarded to each candidate. Then they go back that night and caucus, meaning a bunch of people sit in a room, write down who they want and then they send people to the county caucus, then the state caucus and then more delegates are awarded to each Democratic candidate. (Okay, like i said, I don't get it, but the lady kept saying she got to legally vote twice!) Whatever, all I know is she wasn't home.

Busy Lady

2008-03-05T14:30:00.000-08:00

The lady has been super busy and she has ignored my blog. I was so mad I peed on the couch, got it really good too, one big old spot where she lays her head when she reads, TAKE THAT!

She was busy going to work functions, to some silly political caucus, and having dinner without US! Finally she realized we were more important than anything and she stayed home. So on to the good stuff, we got some really neat things at the Mutt Strut. We got TWO cookies!

You only see one here because Reilly and I have already eaten one, yum for the tum. Can't wait to eat this one. Then there is that cool red ball. That red ball LIGHTS UP!

It lights up and hangs on our leashes! Why does it light up? So people can see us when we walk at night.

Look at us, ready for our night time walk.

The lights are so cool cause this is what you see in the dark when we are walking at night:

You might not be able to see us, but you can see our red lights that tell people, DOGS WALKING HERE! So SLOW DOWN! We love our lights, but we think the lady needs to wear one too., but she says they don't make them for people.

Strut Your Mutt Part Two

2008-02-27T10:41:00.000-08:00

Sorry, no photos of the man dressed up like a dog. Silly man.

Anyway, at the walk Reilly found someone he thought might be his brother.

Look at him yowling at the lady, "Doesn't he look like me?!"

Not that we could get a good shot of Hershey, they wouldn't stop wrestling!

Stop Wrestling, the strut is about to begin!

Ladies and Gentlemen, STRUT YOUR MUTTTTTT!

While we were strutting the paparazzi came up and wanted to take my picture and interview my lady, they said I was one good looking dog. (of course I am.) Then they found out that I didn't come from the SPCA so they decided not to interview us. Hey, I came from the city pound, doesn't that count? So it was an SPCA event, I coulda pretended I was from the SPCA. Oh well, an interview would have interfered with my strutting.

Hey, is that Toby, Little Dude? Nope, I guess not....

Me bumping Reilly so I can get to the Big Beautiful Lady Pup, "come here pretty girl!"

And finally a shot to show how many people were there, this is only a small portion of the people and pups walking. It was a great day.

Strut Your Mutt!

2008-02-25T07:58:00.000-08:00

This weekend the lady got to strut her mutts, WHOO HOOO! It was a fund raiser for the SPCA

and she took Reilly and I. Our friend Judy and her mutt Mischa came too. When we first got their we were barking our fool heads off in the car, dogs, Dogs, DOGSSSSS!

Then we got out of the car and suddenly I didn't know what to do, Bark, Run, Jump or just stare at all the dogs....

So I kinda stood there and checked out the scene.

Reilly and I watched these two balls of fluff that were FREAKING OUT! Look at them wrassling each other, we tried to join in but they wouldn't let us.

Here's Mischa with her pretty patriotic bandanna checking out the little chihuahua. Mischa was obsessed with the little pup, I think she was envious of her pretty pink nail polish.

Check it out, doggie nail polish!

Then there was me, you know me and big beautiful lady dogs....I love 'em, the bigger the better.

Here I am letting one beautiful brown lady check me out. I asked her to meet me later for the walk, we'll see if she shows up.

Check out all those people and pups just waiting for the strut. It was awesome. And they gave away free stuff, man we made off with some really great things that I will tell you about later.

Now time to get ready for the walk. We were so excited we couldn't look at the camera, there was all this barking and craziness, and it was the funniest thing, this guy was dressed up in a dog suit and he pissed off all the dogs off around him. They were all barking and jumping and trying to bite him. So never dress up as a dog at a dog event!

Did You Say TREAT?!

2008-02-20T10:43:00.000-08:00

Wordless Wednesday....

Teaching Reilly to Play Fetch

2008-02-15T10:45:00.000-08:00

So here I am teaching Reilly to play fetch. As it turns out, he's kind of a natural, in fact he plays fetch till the lady's arm hurts and she has to yell "No MORE!"

Look at him though, great fetch form, running right towards the lady, ears back, feet up, ball in mouth, with an intent stare right into her eyes that says, "Here I come!"

A little later it was ears both ears up making it look like he could fly like Dumbo. Fly Reilly, FLYYYY!

"Look Ma, No FEET!"

Airborne Reilly.

One more time for Happy Happy Reilly!

Please, one more, ONE MORE!
Maybe I shouldn't have taught him.....

The Rejected Photos

2008-02-14T11:08:00.000-08:00

For every good, or at least okay, photo, there are at least 15 like the ones shown here....

I think that is my tail in the lower left corner, I think!

Reilly and his headless horseman impression.

Again!

and our personal favorites, nice dogless shots of the yard!

That is why we love digital cameras!

Happy Valentine's Day

2008-02-14T10:41:00.000-08:00

To all you lovely lady pups and lady peeps,

Happy Valentine's Day!

Love, Murphey

Helping the lady clean

2008-02-11T08:07:00.000-08:00

Sundays are clean the house day here. Reilly and I like to be REAAAAALLLLLLY helpful.

First Reilly gets on the couch and tries to help put the clean sheet on, yeah, really, he's helping!

What?! He's not in the way, he's just helping, getting that sheet just right on the couch.

(K here: yeah, what he was doing was playing and biting the sheet like it was a game, that kind of help I can do without!)
Here's me helping dust the floor, in one spot, one dog shaped spot.... We are so helpful.

Haircut!

2008-02-08T12:53:00.000-08:00

I laughed my tail off, Reilly had to go to the groomers and I didn't! He got a girly red bow and everything. Look how sad he looks, all that brushing, nail trimming and bathing really bummed him out. I even sat behind him and made fun of his sad face look! But man, I shouldn't ahve made fun of him.

Cause here is what I found out about him getting a hair cut.....

He can run faster now without all that hair causing wind resistance and he can actually SEE where he is going! Crap, now he can almost catch me when we play chase.

And look, the chicks LOVE his new looks, he gets lots of huggin' and kissin' from the Nana Berta.

Look at what he did to me after the lovin'...

He stuck his TONGUE out at me!

So maybe going to the groomers ain't all bad, but I refused to let him know it bothered me, so I got up on the couch and did my famous impression of the Sphinx in Egypt. Hmph.

Audrey, The Grand Old Dog

2008-02-04T09:34:00.000-08:00

Mischa lives with Audrey. Audrey is 14 years old and she is quite the lady. Look at that beautiful fur coat she wears, brown, black and red. The lady loves to pet her, she says Auds has soft, fluffy fur, not wirey like mine.

I like Audrey, she used to let me jump at her face and play LANDSHARK when I was but a wee pup. (The wee is for you Marvin!)
When she comes to visit I even let her sleep in my bed!

Although she doesn't quite fit and her head hangs over the edge, but she doesn't seem to mind. She is one grand old lady dog!

I've Been Cranky

2008-02-01T09:29:00.000-08:00

We had company, and I was kind of cranky, so I refused to play. But Reilly, man, he was a wild man.

Tug of war with poor Mr. Purple Dino! Mischa might be big, but Reilly is one determined terrier, and he WON!

After a big wrestling match, he got her down for the count, then very smartly ran away!
Those two can play for hours.....

Me, I'm busy hanging with the lady and barking at them whenever they come near.

This one is for you Joe!

2008-01-27T08:56:00.000-08:00

Here it is, me eating under the Hoosier. Why it is called a Hoosier, I don't know! When the lady bought it there was a sign on it that said "Hoosier." So that's what she calls it.

See, only my head and neck stick out.

Here's what the lady sees when she is standing up, my head and the bowl of food.
No one knows why I do it, and I'm not barking as to why.

Hey, the lady goes to Mexico this week, so we'll be back to blogging later, Nana Berta will be taking care of us, we can't wait to make her crazy, um, I mean have some fun!

(okay, actually she is back already...the lady wrote the post, then forgot to post it! She was on vacation in her mind I guess!)

Reilly and the Mess

2008-01-21T09:20:00.000-08:00

Okay, the lady is gonna try to get a photo of me eating under the Hoosier. She gets mad cause whenever she tries to take one I go back underneath and refuse to eat. Hey, we pups deserve to not have the paparazzi taking photos while we eat! A guy deserves some privacy. But if I let her take one, we'll post it!

On to the MESSSSSS! Yeah, the house had been filled with dead grass strands, all over. In the kitchen, the living room, on the couch, and even in the bed, YUCK! The lady gripes us out and brushes us every time we come in. I hate that, and I say, BRUSH REILLY! Look, he's the one bringing in the crap, NOT ME. and here is my proof:

Look at him covered in CRAP! And he brings it in, NOT ME. Look, do you see any on me?!:

Nope, you don't, so I rest my case, I am not the one bringing in the crap, so STOP BRUSHING ME!

Seven Weird Things

2008-01-16T11:26:00.000-08:00

We've been tagged by Keeley to share 7 weird things about Me and Reilly.

Here are the rules:Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.

Share seven random and/or weird facts about yourself. Tag seven random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs. Let each dog know they have been tagged by leaving a notification on their blog.

So I am gonna spilt these up, four about me and three about Reilly!

1. I have the lady trained! At night, if I get cold I tap the lady twice on her shoulder and she lifts up the sheets and blankets and I get under them, crawl down to her feet and curl up and sleep.

2. I have magic fur, no matter how dirty my fur gets, fifteen minutes later it looks clean! Dirt and stuff just falls right off!

3. I'm funny about where I eat breakfast or dinner. I crawl under the Hoosier (a cabinet) in the kitchen and the bowl has to be placed just outside the Hoosier. Then I stick only my head out to eat out of the bowl, my body stays under the Hoosier. If the bowl is too far away, I just stare at it until the lady moves it closer.

4. I don't bark when people come to the door, I wait until they come in the house, then I go crazy and bark like a maniac!

Now about Reilly!

1. Reilly wants to be in the bathroom whenever anyone is in there. When we have company and they get up at night to go to the bathroom, Reilly will wake up, run and try to sneak in the bathroom with them. All I can say is, company beware!

2. Reilly STINKS! I mean it, he stinks like fritos, all the time! No matter what he gets bathed with, five minutes later he stinks again.

3. Reilly is afraid of squeaky toys, if one squeaks he runs away. Murph figured this out really quick, so he chases Reilly all over the house with a squeaker toy. (When we have one that hasn't been destroyed!)

Now I know we are supposed to tag people, but we gotta go figure out who hasn't been tagged yet, so we will let them know in comments!

Mr. Fancy Pants

2008-01-14T11:49:00.000-08:00

Sometimes the lady calls Reilly Mr. Fancy Pants. See, I am the rough and tumble, running, rolling in the dirt, jumping in the leaves, digging muddy holes kinda guy. Reilly, not so much...If he gets a leaf stuck in his fur, he freaks out, he'll walk a step, then try to get the leaf out, then he sits and refuses to go any further until it gets removed from his fur.

On our walks if he wants to do his business and there is a leaf anywhere nearby, he stops and moves to a different spot. Muddy feet? He hates 'em. Puddles? Rain? Leaves? Dirt? Nope, not for Reilly. But the habit that really makes the lady and I laugh is this one:

He almost ALWAYS eats with one leg up in the air. He musta read somewhere that fancy pants people stick their little finger out when they drink tea, and since he doesn't have a little finger to stick out, he sticks out his leg!

Mr. Fancy Pants!

And he likes his food bowl on a towel, I guess he thinks it's a placemat or something, what a goose.

And even though he drives me crazy, for some lap time with the lady, I'll share.

While the Peeps Were Partying....

2008-01-10T11:57:00.000-08:00

While the Peeps were having a party, we got stuck in JAIL!

Look at us, stuck behind that jail door and all we got was bread and water. Hmmph.

Reilly let 'em have it, he stood up and let out his famous schnauzer/yorkie mix YOWL!
ATTICA ATTICA!
And let me tell you, his yowl hurts my ears it is so high pitched and LOUD, take that people!

But it didn't help, they just shut the door, even after Reilly tried his sad face look.

Fine, we decided to go into our crates and sleep, look at us, sleeping together and NOT FIGHTING! Take a picture, TAKE A PICTURE to prove we can get along (oh yeah, the lady did...)

But I did curl up as far away from the little guy as I could, and I hid my face behind the cushion, if I can't see him I can pretend that he isn't there. I hate jail.

I want you to know that Reilly practices that poor me face when the lady isn't around!

We Hate Wednesdays

2008-01-08T06:42:00.000-08:00

Every Wednesday night the lady leaves us home by ourselves. Then she brings home something like THIS:

Yup, she made all the flowers, did the cake, and decorated it at her Wednesday night class...

Here's why we get mad, first we get left alone and don't get to go to the class....then we don't get to eat any of the cake, Wednesdays suck around here.......

The New Year Begins

2008-01-03T09:10:00.000-08:00

The lady said we partied like it was 1999, whatever that means!? All I know is that we were worn out after the late night festivities, champagne (not for us), queso and chips (again, not for us!), cookies (not FOR US!) and gunshots (definitely not us, but some other stupid person in the neighborhood!!!!!)

So this is how our New Year began, with a NAP! Mischa was visiting so she joined us on the couch.

That was one worn out little dude, although I guess I shouldn't call him little since the pup is bigger than me now, which is just WRONG, hmmmph. But I can still beat the crap outta him! (you just go on thinking that Murph)

Me in my favorite sleeping position on the couch, yeah, perfect.

Hope your New Year's Day was as good as ours.

Auntie and Uncle's House

2008-01-03T08:31:00.000-08:00

So we went to Austin, Texas for Christmas. We stayed at Auntie and Uncle's house. The lady made us promise to be good, and we did try, really we did. When we were bad we had to go stay in our bedroom, mainly cause we wanted to bark at people when the came to visit. Oh, um we did try to jump on poeple sometimes too....then there was that time that Reilly decided to pee in the living room, he though the carpet felt like grass.... then one night Reilly decided he didn't feel too good so he puked three times and then pooped in the family room, man that was stinky! (the lady was happy it was tile, so much easier to clean up)...well, once I stole a whole ball of cheese off the table when no one was looking and everyone was really worried that I ate the whole thing, but it turns out I had just hid it for later in the sunroom chair, where someone found it before I could eat it....other than that we were really good, really, we were......

Here we are in our room, where we spent a lot of time on time outs, can you see me?

Maybe now that my eyes are open and I am saying NO MORE PICTURES you can see me! See Reilly in his sweater?

We had fun, we hope we get invited back after all of our "goodness".

We're back!

2008-01-02T06:56:00.001-08:00

Well, we apparently took a little blogging break, not planned, it just kinda happened! I hope all you DWB'ers had a great New Years, we sure did.

But first, CHRISTMAS!

Are these all for us?!!!!!

Hurry Nana Berta, get our gifts out for us, we're ready to start opening up our gifts!

Oh yeah, ripping open those gifties! Get your own gift R man, this one is mine!

BALLLSSSSSSS!

A Mitten toy, awesome for tearing up.

And of course some yummies, we chewed for hours.

The lady said she liked em, something about keeping us quiet while everyone else opened their gifts, hmmmm.

By the way, I DID NOT rip that paper stepping on the gifts! (um, yeah he did...)

My Gift to the Lady (and a late Merry Christmas!)

2007-12-26T13:03:00.000-08:00

Merry day after Christmas to all you dog bloggers!

WE GOT TO GO AWAY WITH THE LADY FOR CHRISTMAS! WHOOOO HOOOOO!~
I was so worried, I saw the suitcase and I thought that Reilly and I were gonna get left behind, again, but we didn't. We got to go to Tanta Janet's for Christmas. It was a blast, I'll fill ya in later on my cool time. The only bummer was that I got car sick, I puked up my guts, it was terrible! We were stuck in traffuic, it took one and a half hours to go ten miles. The lady had to show the police man my puke so we could get off the road, they had blocked all the exits!

Anyway, Here's what I got the lady for Christmas, a cool shirt from Pappy's Dog Blog Store!

See, I'm a mutt and darn proud of it and I decided that the lady needed a shirt to brag about my super-duper muttness. So I made her get out her magic money card, I pointed to the shirt and I made her order it. See, got her a gift, how cool am I?!

Her Name Was Claire

2007-12-21T07:15:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to update, after a fun day of playing and chasing the lovely lady Claire pup, her owners saw the sign and came and got her! We were happy to see her with her peeps, but sad to see her go.

And it was totally pawsome how we found each other, it turns out Claire had wandered a long ways, more than a mile from where she got lost (her family was visiting someone and she got out...poor thing had no idea where she was). They had papered their area with signs, and we had papered ours with signs, but it wasn't the same area! The lady drove around but didn't quite go far enough south. So there we were just about to take Claire to the vet to see if she had a chip when the phone rang. It was a very nice lady saying, "Hey, I was driving down by Park and I saw a sign that said someone lost a little brown spotted, female dog, then I drove further and saw your sign that you had found a dog that sounds exactly like the one that was lost!" So we got the phone number of the lost dog and Yup it was the same dog.

So here's to all the good folks in the world that help us find our families when we get lost.

FOUND!

2007-12-20T06:44:00.000-08:00

Found: One sweet, pretty, little girl dog.....She followed us on our walk, and the lady's soft heart couldn't leave her out by herself. She has a collar, NO TAG!, she's housebroken and just a love bug. We hope that her owners call soon, they must be missing her.

We weren't too sure at first how we felt about her, but after the meet and greet and obligatory butt sniff, we all got along.

Please send good thoughts that her owners see the signs we put up and call soon!

We're tired.....

2007-12-19T12:49:00.000-08:00

We are all worn out from the holidays...too much eating, not enough sleeping, too many parties and sometimes we just say, can we go to sleep now?

We give our saddest, most tired look to the lady, PLEASE come to bed so we can sleep!

Then she gets a grin when she says YES, time for bed!

A Little Roaching

2007-12-12T13:02:00.000-08:00

After the walk I was cold and wet, so R-man and I jumped up on the couch to roach, GRRRR, my couch, GET OFF! We didn't even let the lady take off our leashes.

I really mean it, GET OFF!

That's better, my couch, MINE!

Yeah, get this side too....

A little bit of this side again, getting the tail dried off too!

Now, this face might not look like it, but I LOVE Drying off on the couch and I make really cool growling noises while it is happening. The lady calls it getting my freak on, whatever.

And listen, dogs and dogettes, you all are so good at letting us know you got our cards, THANKS. Once the lady has time she will get with it and drop you a line when we get/or got ours. I'm too lazy to actually do any work, I leave it all up to her!

Getting the Cards Done

2007-12-05T07:44:00.000-08:00

The lady got all weird last weekend and told us we couldn't go out until the cards got done. No walkies, no treats, nada. She hasn't even opened any that we have received, she feels guilty about opening them when we haven't sent ours out.

"So get to it" I told her! So she did, printing, glueing, writing, folding, addressing, it was crazy, papers, cards, envelopes were everywhere. I helped by sneaking onto the table when she went to the bathroom and throwing her nice neat piles onto the floor. She didn't look to happy with that. I wonder why?!

So I told Reilly to get ready, cause the one way we could help was to lick the envelopes. Now look, you can see what naturals we would be at that.

I mean, look at that tongue!

That is one big tongue. He should be a natural at this envelope licking.

I decided it was important to get my tongue ready for the work,
So I stretched it, by doing some some curls, first to the center,

then to the side!

But ya know what I found out, that glue tastes terrible!

BLEEECH!!!
So I made the lady lick the envelopes.

Company....

2007-12-04T13:05:00.000-08:00

COMPANNNNYYYYYYYY!

Look at that shot of Reilly man, all four legs are in the air and you can see his shadow, COOL!

He is off and running to get Maggie and the Wubba......

Or perhaps not, he kinda got scared and ran away.....

Then Maggie passed him up and he took up the chase again, Go Reilly, GOOOOOO!

Then he really lucked out and got the Wubba, so Maggie had to chase him!

Actually, don't look too close cause he might be running, but Maggie ain't chasin'!

You might wonder what I was doing while all this was going on?

I was taking advantage of the little guy not jumping in on my time with the lady, so I was busy giving her

KISSES!

Bedtime or not....

2007-11-27T12:47:00.001-08:00

After all that playing and general tearing it up dog action, like getting the house nice and muddy, we decided to relax in the leaves.

Except Reilly still wanted to play but he couldn't get Mischa or me to take him up on the offer. Look how disappointed he looks cause no one will play with him.

Since we were tired it seemed like a good time to bed and get some rest. But once we made it to bed, which the lady HAD NOT made that day (sheesh she is lazy), a dog fight seemed like more fun,

DOG FIGHTTTTT!

Look below, it's a blur of dog fight action, I can't tell where Mischa ends and Reilly begins, it was crazy. We took the little guy down!

So much for that unmade bed, we totally messed it up some more. Next time I'm thinking pillow fight!

Our Thanksgiving

2007-11-27T12:36:00.000-08:00

I was so excited about Thanksgiving. Last year I got turkey and stuffing and lots of love and attention. It was totally PAWSOME! So this year I got all duded up, brushed my fur, stretched my belly and woke up to this terrible sight:

Reilly "greeting" some company. Hey, Reilly man, get off our company! (plus she's a little tall for you, but go ahead, dream big.) Our friend Mischa came by to stay with us, COOLS!

Once she got rid of Reilly we went outside where she tried to, well, umm, yeah, you can see what she tried to do to me. Hey, do it to Reilly, not ME! So I showed her who was boss!
GRRRRR, If I could only get to her face! (if only the lady could take better pictures!)

That's better, at least in this one Mischa isn't headless.

Then it was time for the two on one attack. I guess they went after me cause I'm so handsome.

YIKES, TWO ON ONE AGAIN! Holy cripes those guys are mean, but I'm giving it back, look closely at my face:

Then a little chase

But I noticed something, no turkey smell, no pie, no people, WHAT THE HE&%? Then the lady left and I realized that I wasn't going to Thanksgiving dinner, so we did this in retaliation

A little rain, a few trips outside, some rubbing on the couch,

And back and forth in the kitchen leaving a lovely mess for the lady. Too bad you can't see the mud we splattered on the cabinets and walls when we wrassled, or the mud we left on the walls from looking out the window. It was a lovely muddy mess.

I think we taught her a lesson, never, EVER, leave us home on Thanksgiving, our revenge is down and dirty.

Our Third Favorite Activity

2007-11-21T08:21:00.000-08:00

So we loves to wrassle, that would be fav activity number one! We love to run, that would be number two, but third, we love to do this:

Patrol the neighborhood from our front window. I'm barking at something I see out there, a cat, a neighbor, a squirrel, a leaf falling, something. I just like to look and bark.

You might wonder what we are standing on...

Can you see it?
A dirty old stool, covered in mud and stuff from our feet! Reilly patrols one side of the block and I patrol the other. Visitors come over and try to sit on our stool and the lady won't let them, OUR STOOL! OURS!

Once we fell off the stool at the same time, the lady thought it was funny, and we didn't. So far it has only happened once!

Sometimes we see something and we both have to look the same way. I must warn you, the next photo might be disturbing for you bird lovers out there...

Do you see the shadow over my head? That is the dust left behind from where a bird flew INTO THE WINDOW! You can see his body and his wings. Holy crap it was loud and caused us to bark like maniacs! The lady ran outside, but couldn't find the bird, so we hope it was okay.

we'll have our Thanksgiving update later, the camera is giving the lady fits and won't download.

Mine - And Happy American Thanksgiving

2007-11-20T10:59:00.000-08:00

I might not be playing with it, but you can't have it.

I protect what's MINE!

And Happy Thanksgiving to one and all, hope you get some tasty turkey.