05/05/2026
Well frens it was a real busy weekend for me. As u may know if u are from "Tha Burgh" (that is Pittsburgh where we live), it was Merrython weekend! This is a big weekend and I had so many aunties and uncles and unties running and cheering, and so I wanted to do a Paw-Tissy-Pate. So I did call up my boyfriend Stelly and I said, "let's to do the Dog Merrython!!"
We thought, what a great idea. Get our fitness in and hang out bc we haven't seent each other in MONTHS. Get to see Auntie also and probly we can find some Floor Frenchys from the food tent after.
So we were real excite. Auntie however did have to bring some new cousins we didn't know yet. That's okay, me and Stelly like everyone! They said they like everyone too so I thought it would be all good.
Well. Stelly and me seent Auntie down the road and our wiggles began. I went rite up to one of the new cousins and was like HI MY NAME IS LAYLA GRACE WE SHARE AN AUNTIE and the next thing I knew, my whole noggin was in the cousins mouth. Oops.
Mommy pulled me back and said "Layla member what we talked bout that not all dogs want to be our frens!" And I DO member that now but I had forgetted it at that moment.
So anyway then all was good. New cousin was like "my bad, did not know u were our new cousin." We did our walkies down to the start of the race. And you know how I always say, when fun thing happen, I never get to be there, always it is Layla Geraldine?
Well heckin heck it did happen again.
It's like as soon as she see grass SHE APPEAR. and so when we went to go check in for the race, she was there and upside down on the immediate. It was real muddy and damp and so in fact Mommy had to drag me backwards upside down to the tent because Geraldine did refuse to walk there bc she wanted to be rollin.
But I did settle down for the start of the race and me and Stelly started out so fast. And then we dilly-dallyed. Oops. There was just a lot to sniff!!
Once we got on the road we did focus better. And in fact the new cousins decided we were their friends and we all got along real well!
They made the race even longer this year I guess bc last year we were so fast and strong they knew we could do more?
So we were out there for a long time being Fit and Strong and Ath-leet-ick. At the end they put a heckin HILL and Mommy who loves to run hills had to coach us and sing the song from Rocky to us so we would be fast.
Everything was so good! We found like one hundred Floor Frenchys to snack on which we needed bc dogs do not get b-nannys at the finish like people.
I was feel so great, have a Best time with my boyfriend and then we were walk to the car and that is when tra-juh-dee did strike.
You see. We were all Friend And Good with the new cousins. And when we went to say goodbye I was like, I will give a gentle kiss like the rich people do in movies.
But that was when I realized: I had Hecked Around. It was not a gentle kiss. Well, *I* did the gentle kiss. But the new cousin did A Poky Bite And A Lorge Growl.
Oh.
Heckin.
No.
I was real brave and I did not say anything to Mommy and did just pretend all was good. But as we walked away and went to visit my Auntie MareMare up the road, it became clear: I had been heckin BITED ON MAH EAR.
Mommy said it is a "hockey in-juh-ree" bc it was bleed real good but I was brave and could have come out on the ice for the third period.
Daddy was so worry bout me, he was pace the floor wait for us to arrive home so he could do my ear an inspekt.
Well. I got like.... Two smol holes. One on one side, one on the other. I was very brave to have it cleant up and meddycin applied to it. And then for two day I have been pout and ask for extra snuggles bc of my Heck Around And Find Out pains.
Today Mommy had to take me to the vet bc my ear was gettin a little crusty. It was very scary but five of my vet team got on the floor to snuggle me while the pro-see-jur was happen so that did help. I had to see a new vet today and I was a little nervous bc he was a boy and I didn't know that boys could be vets bc I have only ever had girl vets. But he was really smart and good and nice so I liked him a lot!! (Even if he did steal a little bit of my ear! I think it was For Science so it is ok. He told Momma that I was the most brave and good girl and everyone wanted to pat me bc I am so perfect.) My vet office is the nicest sweetest people even if I am a DWAMA QUEEN every time I see them.
Now I am all patcht up with meddycin oink-mint to help me heal. And in ten days I will send a foto of my ear so my vet team can be like "WOW what a sell-eh-bruh-tee we have never seen a ear like THIS before."
So I do not think that maybe I should see the new cousins again. Maybe I should just stick to The Boys and my boyfriend Stelly and my cousin Sadie and my seester Lily and perhaps a foster brudder I would like to get someday. I would not like to have any more bits of my ear lost so I must try to be better about gentle goodbyes.
In the meantime I am pretend to be sad 42% of the time to get Extra Attenshuns and one of the meddys I am on require Take With Food so I am getting one whole cookie with that extra.
I am sowwy I have told such a long story but this is the True Life of Miss Layla Grace and Also Layla Geraldine Who Somehow Had All The Fun And Then I Got In The Trubbel