My Last Nosework Class (For A While)

After we missed the class when the house was trying to flood, we went back last week and it was my LAST class!  Haha, did you believe that?  No, of course it wasn't my actual last class, because I have to live with Marty and she is insane.  But it really was my last Nosework class for a while.





We did a practice Odor Recognition Test and I found the box with the funny tree smell!  (Okay, I found it eventually, after Miss Jessica cracked the lid open.  We haven't been practicing very much.)

After that we went outside and looked for meatballs.  You would not believe where meatballs hide!  They hide on air conditioning units.  They hide on WALLS.  They even hide on CARS!  (Finding meatballs stuck to cars is WAY better than having to actually get in the car.)


I am really going to miss seeing Miss Jessica every week (she has known me since I first went to live with Marty and Lyle), but we are going to practice more at home and maybe we will do another Nosework class in the summer.

Weekend At The Farm Without The Crazies

Marty and Lyle abandoned me.  I was left at the farm with just my grandhuman and my great grandhuman.  I have been told that if anything happens and Marty and Lyle can't take care of me, that I am going to live with my Aunt Becky, but that is not what happened.

My grandhuman is not good at fetch, but since she does keep biscuits in her pockets at all times, I am willing to make small allowances.  I tried to teach her, but she had to call Marty and get directions.

And she let me dig a hole to store my ball instead of taking it away and going inside like Marty does.

I got to play with Ziggy THREE DIFFERENT times.  I hadn't seen Ziggy in a very long time, so I was super excited to catch up.  And, my grand human and my great grandhuman went to dinner at his house one night without me, so I got to guard THE WHOLE FARM.  I did not let any meatballs come in!

My grandhuman threw my ball down a hole and lost it.  Then I threw my other ball down the same hole.  Lyle says he can dig them out, but I am not so sure.  More updates on this topic as they develop.

Marty and Lyle finally came home.  They smelled like my other grandhumans and Kyle.  I was a little sorry that I didn't get to go see everyone, but I was SO HAPPY that I didn't have to ride in the car for all that time.

Even though I didn't get to stay with my Aunt Becky, and even though my grandhuman is bad at fetch, she did take good care of me and I had a good time not having to practice for school and getting A LOT of biscuits.  Mr. Tripoli must be a good human trainer.

It WORKED!

Marty and Lyle got up to go to work after school and, as usual, I stayed upstairs in bed.  Usually, they come up and make me come outside to play fetch before I have to get in the car, BUT THIS TIME THEY DIDN'T!

After a while I went downstairs to see what was going on and they were GONE!  My grandhuman was asleep on the couch, so I jumped on her and woke her up and made her take me out. 

This may be the best thing that has ever happened to me.

My Grandhuman Came To School

I was just minding my own business and plotting world domination when the door opened and my grandhuman came in!  Marty and Lyle were not even home!  I waited to see if she had Mr. Tripoli with her, but she did not.

Marty and Lyle got home a little later and we all got in the car and went to school.  My grandhuman didn't sit with us because Marty said she would be too distracting.  We practiced walking around and I had to walk right past my grandhuman and she DID NOT give me a biscuit.

THEN, she practiced greetings with Little Foot, and she gave Little Foot treats!

I WAS SO MAD!

I was SO mad that when we got to the farm after school, I got on the couch with her, and put my head on her computer, and made her give me extra biscuits.

Truant!

Marty let me skip Nosework because she loves me the roads were bad.  It's a good thing she did, because our garage almost turned into a swimming pool!  Something in the wall broke and water started shooting EVERYWHERE! 

I wanted them to leave it (Marty keeps saying she WANTS me to swim!) but they didn't.  They had a new friend come over and he ripped down the wall and fixed it and then fixed the wall.  Now you can't even see where it was.

Maybe next year.

Blind Elephant

I caught my pink elephant looking at me funny, so I TORE HIS EYES OFF!  He won't be doing that again!  Marty says that Mr. Pink Elephant was a "heirloom dog toy".  I say, whatever.  If whatever other dogs knew Mr. Pink Elephant and didn't rip his eyes off, they were probably big wimps, and definitely NOT Chessies.

Cheese Dispensers

I have a new human puppy for a friend.  My friend Brooke that came over to play with me when I was a lot smaller came by and brought her littermate.  I showed them fetch, but they didn't figure out how to do it, so I had to keep getting things for them.

They are VERY exciting and when they bark, it sounds like tiny, very loud puppies.

Here is the best thing about them.  THEY HAVE UNLIMITED ACCESS TO CHEESE!