Eggs!!!

Martha - this is your fault! Vinnie is obsessed with eggs - not the kind you cook and eat. The kind that comes out of a stuffed alligator. The kind that comes with EXTRA eggs. Martha gave Vinnie this cute little green and yellow alligator that has an opening in his belly and you can put his little yellow squeaky eggs inside. He can fit three eggs and came with a spare two. Vinnie could care less about that alligator - it is totally pristine. But the eggs... oh the eggs, now that is another story. They are everywhere: in the house, in the van, in the yard... I found one under the deck yesterday. Vinnie likes to spend time with his eggs. He'll give ya the stink eye if you think about taking them

He contemplates their existence (so was it the chicken or the egg?) He will moisturize them - yuck - they get a little slimey - but at least this one is clean (for now).

He LOVES to retrieve them - you can throw them pretty far.

He will squeak them - NONSTOP Martha!! A few of them don't have the ability to squeak any more :-)

But... he sure does love them.

Thanks Auntie Martha!!

No more fluff!!

No more fluffy puppy (at least for another couple weeks LOL). Thursday night I decided that it was too hot out, summer was here, and it was time for Vinnie to go short and sporty (look at the first picture in the last post - very fluffy!). I think there was more of Vinnie on the floor than on the table when I was done. You can see the silver really coming in above his eyes now. It looks like he has silver eyebrows.

Pigman Report...

Here I am, Vinnie, your roving reporter! Today I am reporting on a local sprint triathlon called the Pigman. Hmmm... I didn't see any pigs. Anyhow, Auntie Tammy was entered in the Pigman. This means she had to do a 0.5k (543 yards) swim, 25k (15.5 mile) bike ride, and a 5k (3.1 mile) run. Whew... I get tired just thinking about it.

So this is where it all begins. Unfortunately, being a "dog", I am not allowed in the beach area. So, we'll just watch from here.

The competitors have to swim out from the beach around the buoys and back under that big blow up finish. I'll bet I could poke a hole in that big blow up finish thingy!!They are very organized here. They are color coded by their caps when they swim. Auntie Tammy had a black cap - we think she should have had PINK!!! See all the pretty pink caps?

These are the buoys that they have to swim around. See the boats? If my mom did this, she would need one of the boats to rescue her.

There's Tammy - She is doing AWESOME!!! She didn't need a boat.

Here she is again just finishing... Sorry - mom's not so good with the point and shoot! That's Tammy's niece, Daphne, in the background cheering her on. Go Tammy!!!!

Hi all - Vinnie here again. This weekend, I went to my very first agility trial. Frank and Betty got to do agility, but I got to do BUBBLES!! At first I wasn't sure what Auntie Rilda was up to.

Then she got out this magical wand and blew bubbles! It is soooooo cool!!

They taste a little soapy, but they are FUN FUN FUN!!!

C'mon Auntie Rilda - do it again!!!!!

YeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaw!!!!!

Caught one!!!!
Mom bought me some Catnip bubbles (cause they didn't have dog ones!) and we're going to take them to the park today!!

Poodle-Hound?

Hi All!! Vinnie here. I think it's time for me to blog. Here I am - one little Poodle - living with three sighthounds. They tell me that sighthounds hunt by sight, rather than scent (like they're all superior or something and a Poodle can't do it!). Okey dokey - so how do I go about hunting by sight? First I need to get secrets from the master... this means some sucking up.

He says I must run FAST... quick like a bunny. And I should practice a LOT. See my SHARP puppy teeth? I will use them to catch the RABBIT!!!

Practice pays off!!! I got the bunny!

I don't know why the old guy is giving me the stink eye... a blue rabbit is just as good as one of the brown ones.

Ok... I know it's not the real thing, but I need to start somewhere.

C'mon dude - pay attention - I need pointers!

Spring Cleaning

(Can you stand it? TWO posts in one day!) It's that time again - the Ames agility trial is next weekend and I decided that Shorty needed an overhaul of the interior. Frank, Betty and Vinnie will be going with me, so Robin's crate needed to come out to make more room. First step - empty and clean out Shorty. This is what he looks like without anything in him - seems like so much room!

Once everything was clean (heck, I even shampooed the carpets up front!), it was time to start adding stuff back in. First you need to decide on a crate configuration. This takes a lot of thought. The dogs need to be in the front of the van behind the driver's seat. Then two more crates for storage. The bottom crate is my closet (or junk drawer). All the stuff that would be rolling around my van in one spot - dog coats, rain suit, slip on shoes, clamps, bungees, fleece coat, etc... The top crate will have other misc stuff in it for the weekend. Then it's time to start putting in the larger items - ex-pen, chair, mesh screens, and blankets. Still seems like a lot of room, but later on this week I'll add: sleeping bag, camp mattresses, pillow, cooler, CB, lantern and anything else I can think of to make my "bedroom" more comfortable.

Play Ball!!

I thought it would be fun to get Vinnie a ball and teach him to push it around with his nose. This ought to be interesting!! I clicked him a couple times for showing interest and then he just took off. If you listen closely, you can hear him growl at the ball. Now we just have to figure out how to get it out of a corner!