Might of been the whiskey

Could have been the gin. Might of been the 3 or 4 six packs, I don't know, but look at the mess I'm in.

Lee dressed in the party colours!

This is the song Zaphod is singing this morning. He was very sick in the night and it could only be cause of the festivities last night. See, our Aunt C is getting married in 1 month. And even though we are not invited to the wedding, we thought we would help Lady throw her a party. So a bunch of girls came over and ate and laughed and played games. Then we had a big sleep over.

While Phody was really sick in the night (perhaps having sympathy for the boys who were up to we don't want to know in the city last night), I, Hailey Bug am just very tired from all the merriment.

I will write more about it later this week. I need to nap now.


PS: I am glad to see that most of you have people who need a little more training!

Lady's Report Card - by Lee, with input from Zaphod

Greetings Blogville.
Today, I have decide to assess my Lady and see how she is doing with her training

A picture from the fall - see we are helping her with strength training

Walking: B+

Lady does a great job at getting us daily walks. While they may have been a little short in the winter, we didn't want to be out there any more then she did so that is ok. Since spring, Lady has increased our walks to about 3-3.5 km. She has taken us to new places. Lady could work on providing more sniffing time and chasing the deer and turkeys we see. She also pulls sometimes, and should be mindful of this in the future.

Responding to my scratching at the door: C+

There are many times Lady jumps quickly and runs to the door to take us out. However there are the times that she wants to finish eating, finish in the bathroom, save a work document etc and she makes us wait. She needs to improve her speed. There is no excuse not to be at the door within 30 seconds of a scratch. Yelling "wait" is not an acceptable response.

Feeding Us on the appropriate schedule: A-

When Lady is in charge of feeding us, we rarely have to wait for our food. We get feed 15 minutes after we get up and at 6:30 pm. Great job!

Providing of treats: B-

While Lady does an excellent job at providing a wide variety of treats, she can be a little stingy in her giving of them. She also often makes us work for them and do tricks. She should provide more for free.

Playing with Us: C-

This is an area our Lady struggles with. She does not give us her undivided attention at all times. She does not play fetch for hours with Phod or give Lee hours of belly rubs. She should dedicate more time each day to practicing this if she wants to see her marks go up.

Loving Us: A+

In spite of her shortcomings at times, there is no denying that our Lady loves us. She lets us on the furniture and sleep in her bed. She gets up 1.5 hours extra early in the morning to make sure we are fed and walked. She has developed patience for us and tolerates our quirks. She has forgiven us for the worst things. While she has some areas to improve, we know that she couldn't love us more. 

Overall Average: B 

Lady shows promise to become a great person for us. With a little more training we are sure she will get at least an A-

If you were going to rate your people/person, how would they do?

Feline Friday - A morning conversation with Nin

Keeping with our conversation theme this week, I have decided to have a morning chat with Nin. Every morning we have the same conversation, it goes something like this.

Nin: Oh cruel, cruel world, where I have never been fed a day in my life.

Lady: Nin you get food 4 times a day, I don't think you are starving.

Nin: I don't remember getting food, so you must be telling me lies. Feed me before I fade away.

Lady: Give me a minute and I will feed you all.

Nin: Hurry I am fading. Lady did you know that in the night I had to sleep and it was dark and I was sleeping and maybe things happened and I don't know because I was sleeping and Baggy was sleep and you were sleeping and the Man was sleeping and the dogs were sleeping and you were in another room and I wasn't in that room and it was dark and there was sleep.

Lady: yep, we sleep at night Nin.

Nin: It is crazy and I am hungry and oh, here is food . . . . . .


From Lee: To our readers who are effected by this winter storm today (we are getting 10-15 cm and freezing rain, and it is really windy), we hope you are all safe.

A Conversation - Lady and Phod

Lady: Well my boy, you have lived with us for just over 8 months and I thought I would check in and see how things are going. How are you liking living here?

Phod: Lady, I love it. I am so happy. I hope you are happy. I only want to
make you happy.

The blur returning from deer mind control.

Lady: I love you very much and you make me very happy. You are my special boy. Unlike your beloved adopted sister,  you have never made me question my decision to adopt you. Although, if you didn't want to drop your ball or rope toy in the bath with me, that would be good with me.

Phod:  Ok.  I just want you to love me and be happy. I want everyone to be happy. I am really sorry that sometimes the deer or turkeys come by and use their mind control and make me run after them. I really don't want to, but their mind control is strong and I have to.

Lady: I don't like when you run off, especially on the road, because I am worried you will get hurt. However, I know you will come back.

Phod: Thank you for not being mad or hating me. I am always scared when I get free that you will hate me or beat me.

Lady: No one who meets you could hate you. Phody, we don't beat dogs here. You don't need to worry about that anymore. What are your thoughts on FlyBall?

Phod: Well first you give me a big pill that makes me have to poop, a lot. Then you put me in the car, which I am trying to learn to love to make you happy, but it makes me stressed. Then I get there and I am not allowed to sniff the other dogs. One has a scary bark, and I am afraid of him, so I get scared. The teacher yells a lot, and pushes me sometimes and I don't like that. I would like it if she was happier.

Lady: I am sorry it is not your favourite thing. You are doing a great job there, even if you get a little scared. I admit, I am not enjoying this class as the teacher has a different philosophy then I have when teaching people. The world is full of different types of people and scary people and we have to learn to work with them.

Phod: I know. But I like happy people best.  Lady I love you very much and I love talking to you, but can we stop talking and play some ball. That would make me very happy!



Note from Lee - it is my blog after all. My Lady has been being very mean and not letting me blog or read blogs because she has been working a lot. She has been using her free time to love us instead of blogging, which is good, but I miss you all. If she would only leave her computer at home during the day then I could do it myself.

Wordless Wednesday - How you doin'?

A conversation with Lady and Lee

Lady: Lee I must tell you, you have been being a very good girl lately. You have been calmer, you haven't destroyed anything, we have even been able to do some off leash training.  I am so proud of you.

Lee: Thank you. I have felt like being good. 

Lady: Is there a reason you feel like being good now?

Lee: Well after seeing Emma in action, I realized that bad could be really annoying. And she was so bad you got rid of her. I don't want you to get rid of me. Even though sometimes I am naughty I love you very much and want to stay here. 

Lady: We didn't get rid of Emma because she was bad, she was just visiting when Uncle Chris was away. She was only staying for a bit.

Lee: That is what you say. How can I trust you?

Lady: Oh Lee!

Lee: I noticed you have been going away a lot more. I don't like when you go away.

Lady: I am away for 4 nights this month Lee. That is not too bad. They aren't all at once.

Lee: I hate when you go away. It makes me so sad. Don't go. I will give you sad eyes.

Lady: Well Lee, I took some work contracts out of town and I need to go. If I don't go, we won't have money for food and treats.

Lee: On second thought, you should go away as much as you want and since you feel so bad leaving me, you should bring back lots of treats.

Mischief Monday

Put the gosh darn camera down and let us sleep! 

Dear Blogville, we would like to call mischief on the Lady last week.

First, she got this idea to play with the settings on her camera and took 87 million pictures of us. It really interfered with our napping.

Then, she decided to feed us poison. Ok, that is a slight exaggeration, but this is what happened. As some of you might remember our Lady discovered that our cousin Emma has some food issues and she shouldn't eat food with grain. So we shared our grain free food with Emma. Our Lady had put us on grain free food for no reason other then she thought it was better for us (and maybe cause she is grain free too). Our Uncle Chris had brought lots and lots of food for Emma. It is a very good food, the food we eat except not grain free. Our Lady didn't want to see it wasted so she feed it to us. While it tasted very good, it made us both constipated. We had a horrible 2 days of this before she wised up and just mixed a tiny amount of grain food in. Now we are back to normal.  We still get grain filled treats, they don't seem to upset our tummies.

So the mischief of the week goes to her!

Has your people ever messed with your food and your gut?