So Many People

You know where we stopped on the way down here?  SONIC!  You know what I got?  NOTHING!  Marty says it's because of the weird poop that keeps showing up places, but I think it's because my humans are horrible.

When we got to the house there were already a lot of humans here, and a bunch more kept showing up.  They mostly seem okay.  There are two human puppies here, and one of them is only about my size.  She really wants to play with me, and she even tried to get me to teach her how to walk on a leash.  She didn't have any chicken though, so I didn't want to play training.  

I went running down the stairs and some more poop showed up!  This is starting to get weird.  Marty cleaned it up very well, but she's not very happy about it and she says we have to get more spray.

One of the really cool humans brought me a new toy.  It's a ball AND a tug toy!  I really like it, and I even let Mr. Tripoli play with it a little so we could tug.  I am showing everyone how well I have trained Marty to give me treats.  They all seem to think the best trick is "high five"!

I got a special treat out on the deck.  Frozen water!  I like it a lot.  It feels good in my mouth, but it disappears if I ignore it for too long.

A Quick Visit to My Great Grandhuman

We got up on Saturday morning and packed up SO MUCH food to bring down to the beach.  My grandhumans yelled at each other a lot, but Marty said it was okay, they do that before every trip and I shouldn't get upset about it.

We went to see my great grand human again, but only for a few minutes.  She keeps a whole bag of dog biscuits in her room for me, which I think is a VERY good idea.  She said the next time I come to visit I might be too big to get up on her bed to visit, so Marty says we will practice "paws up" so I can still get my treats.

The Trip Down

We're at the beach now, and pretty much everything since my last post has had to do with getting here.

I got to sleep in bed on Wednesday night at the farm because Marty is a bad human and didn't bring my bed up.  It's pretty cold on the floor up there, so she decided it would be okay for me to get in bed.  I slept with my head on the pillow like a human.  I think they should just let me sleep in the bed all the time, but Marty says we are getting a bed to keep at the farm instead.

Thursday night Marty and Lyle abandoned me and Joyce had to come over and check on me.  Now that I know that they always come back, this stresses me out less than it used to.

Friday we drove to Virginia Beach to stay at Mr. Tripoli's house before we came down to the beach.  I was pretty stressed out and my stomach was a little upset.  I'm not really sure what happened, but all of a sudden there was poop in the car.  I sorta thought Marty would be really mad, but she wasn't.  She just stopped the car and cleaned things up while Lyle and I walked around for a while.

This is me watching her clean up.  I really didn't think we should have had to get back in the car after that, but she made us.

When we finally got to Mr. Tripoli's, she put everything in the washer right away including my dinosaur (maybe he's the one that pooped).  We went right to sleep, and somehow while we were sleeping, somehow, poop got on the floor!  It smelled so bad that it woke Marty up.  It was pretty gross in there, so I made her put me outside while she cleaned it up.  She even opened the window!

I'm not really sure what's happening with the poop, but it needs to stop soon!

Agility Practice

Marty and Lyle didn't give me enough exercise today, so I'm amusing myself.  Marty says this is "not really okay", but I say, SHOW ME THE TREATS!

Bumper!

Today I got to retrieve a BUMPER.  This may be the very best thing that's every happened to me.   Marty says bumpers are not for playing they're for working.  But if that's work, then I say bring it on.  I might even be willing to go swimming to be allowed to get a bumper.

I was supposed to start a new class tonight about how to sniff things out, but Miss Jessica got hurt so class got canceled.  I still had my first Real Life Skills class, but that was just more practice of things we already did in Good Manners.  We had new dogs in class and a substitute teacher and I had a hard time paying attention.  Marty says we need to practice more with better distractions.

Mini Chessie

I had another vet visit last night.  Dr. Richards got caught up with emergencies, so we saw Dr. Henderson.  I was kinda nervous about seeing a new doctor, but Marty knew her and said it was okay. I got my regular puppy shot AND my rabies shot.  I was much braver about the shots this time and now I have TWO tags on my collar.  I don't have worms any more, but I am going to do three more days of worm stuff just to be extra sure they don't come back.  My ear gunk is all cleaned up now too.

Bad news though, I have fleas again!  Even though I am on some stuff that's supposed to keep them away from me!  I get to start taking that more often to see if the fleas will stay away.  Marty still thinks it's because we live in a bad neighborhood.  We're all hoping the itchiness is just because of the fleas and not some other dermatitis thing and maybe it will go away now.

I cried when Dr. Henderson messed with my foot, but since I cried when she touched me pretty much everywhere, she thinks my foot is fine.  Marty made us walk all the way to the vet, and Dr. Henderson said if there were anything wrong with my foot, then I would have been limping.  So there.

I showed everyone my tricks and Dr. Henderson said I am very smart.  Dr. Richards came out when we were leaving to get some snuggle time with me and I showed her my tricks too.  I'm awesome.

So, I weighed 27.1 pounds yesterday.  Dogs should be about half their adult weight at 16 weeks, and that would mean I am only going to weigh 54.2 pounds when I am a (not so) big dog.  That's really small for a Chessie, and Marty has started making rude comments about it.  Considering her littermates all say she got the runt gene, I think she should be quiet.

Saying Goodbye to Navidson

Dan picked up Navidson yesterday afternoon, but not before we finally got a chance to check out each other's crates!  Also, Navidson left a WHOLE BOWL of food, and I got to eat it!

Navidson growled at Dan when he came to take him home, which I thought was a little funny, but Dan and Marty did not.  I had a really good time with him here, but it's kinda nice to have Marty and Lyle to myself again.