Wellington - Wellie

20/12/2024

TEN YEARS!!!! It's my GOTCHA day!!! Celebrate!!!

Except...what does that even mean? Dad & Mom are happy about it, but it seems like just another day to me. This is just how normal it seems. Last night, when Mom was getting ready to lie down, she put a big glass of water on the table by her, or tried to - she totally missed the table and I had a sudden avalanche of water all over me right when I was nodding off for the night. Not going to lie - it was a bit unpleasant. Thanks, Mom. Sheesh. She told me she was sorry a million times, and put something soft and dry on my bed, but I made sure she knew I was miffed. MIFFED, I tell you.

Still, it's been a good run here. I don't have another ten years, but hopefully I've got a few. They're not ready to let go of me yet, or so they say, although Mom still calls me a turd sometimes. I'll bet that means she loves me a lot! Whatever it means, and whatever the celebration seems to indicate, life here is good - I'm showing my age more, but when it's time for food, Mom says I have a proper spring in my step. Duh. It's food. Delightful.

Thank you all for supporting me, Mom, Dad, my big brother, and all the intruders who have made my life so annoying. It means more than you know. Please consider fostering or adopting so scraggly guys like me (like the first photo, which was when Dad met me at the noisy cage place) can find their forever home. On to year eleven!!

10/12/2024

Mom says it doesn't look right outside - no white stuff. I say - it's fantastic. These old bones like the sunny weather, even though it's pretty cold. It hurts when they try to get me fixed up, so they're letting me get really quite shagalicious. I wish I could tell them why it does. Still, even though the big girl is still here, we're doing all right. Apparently we're almost to my ten-year Gotcha Day, whatever that means, and Mom is very happy about that. We'll make a bit of a deal about it here, even though I don't get it.

16/11/2024

Mom says it's not completely easy to take care of the pack these days. She says I can't hear much of anything at all anymore, and my front leg keeps giving out on me, so I biff it and hurt my chin over and over. We're trying to figure out what to do about that. I also can't help going in the house anymore - she's not a fan, of course, but she understands. She's working on that too. The big girl is still here, but hopefully someone will fall for her soon so she's gone. I wouldn't mind that a bit. My brother hurt his leg yesterday and is pretty gimpy - he'll probably be o.k., but even he cried and whimpered for a bit. It broke my parents' hearts. Still, we're hanging in there - there's a lot of cheery lights on at our place, a weird tree is inside the house, which I really don't get, and Mom is excited about the holidays, whatever that means. But, if she's happy, I'm happy. Life is good, even when I don't understand what's going on.

22/10/2024

She bothers me when I'm trying to sleep sometimes. I don't really mind, but I mind the black thing pointed at me. Not a fan. Still, she says I look rakish, which I'm taking to mean handsome, so I'll go with it. She continues to have a serious preoccupation with the black thing and all of us dogs. Humans need to point things a lot - it's unsettling, if I'm honest. But, she's trying to do better. Mostly. Sometimes.

08/10/2024

Seriously! The big dogs around here. .this is them.

I never do this, of course.

08/10/2024

I told you he's weird. Who does this??

30/09/2024

They have a strange preoccupation with alarmingly large vegetables these days.

13/08/2024

Mom's guilty of this, but my brother does actually help her out. He comes looking for me. I don't mind it. :)

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06/08/2024

Had a quick trip to the scary cage place. I wasn't feeling great, but you can't tell, right? That's because my favorite person there was helping me. I didn't care that the guy was checking me carefully and moving stuff around - she smiles at me, and is gentle with me, and I know I can handle anything. Mom and Dad think she's just the best. I hope every scary cage place has someone like her.

02/08/2024

Humans have a strange predilection for cleaning and moving things around. What I've noticed is that they would much prefer to be looking at strange markings in flat things they get from a building not far from here, doing what Mom calls a puzzle (not even going to attempt to sort that one out), seeing cool places, and going camping. They talk about selling everything, including the place we live in, and hitting the road - this seems sketchy and worrisome, although they seem quite happy at the thought of it. I guess that means I would hit the road too, however they define it, but I like it here, even when they bring intruders home. Mom says she is totally over her chores, so I say...don't do the chores! Seems simple, but humans often make things quite complicated for themselves. I can't suss out why that is, but it always seems to be the case.

So, on we go as usual, until maybe we don't. Who knows. The big girl is still here, but she's cool, and Mom says I'm still a champ about it all. She's very proud of me, which makes it all quite worthwhile. It's hot and sunny today, so we're all hibernating inside. Life is good.

27/07/2024

This big girl has discovered the joys of air conditioning, ceiling fans, fuzzy beds, and butt scratches. She's pretty o.k. in my book, and she's nice to me. Mom says we're a happy pack.

17/07/2024

You humans are missing out. Three legs beat two every time.

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17/07/2024

Big shout out to my newest top fan! 💎 Jodie Mason Larsen

16/07/2024

Mom says I'm still slaying it. I don't know how long she'll be here, but, actually, it's going pretty well. I don't have anything I need to correct with her - in fact, I occasionally walk under her, if necessary. Mom is boggled by that. I'm just cool that way.

12/07/2024

So, they've gone and done it again. She said they weren't going to. This one is huge. Bigger than she looks in pictures, apparently. Mom says she's super overweight and that it isn't her fault. She's nice enough, even though she's scared and confused. Mom says I'm being a champ, so bask in my greatness and know that I Am Doggo. Hopefully she's not here long, though - the champ stuff wears thin after a while, you know?

28/06/2024

Much more my style, especially when it gets feeling like a furnace outside...

25/06/2024

Mom's bananas, you know. Just totally off her rocker.

She works outside sometimes, and we keep her company. We even help sometimes, and she says we're really good at it! But, she sits down and pulls stuff out of the ground, and also pulls little sharp things out of the dirt - she worries that they'll hurt small feet on the littles that come to visit. Talk about a tedious job! We don't help with that, that's for sure.

She also helps Dad sometimes. They get stuff off trees they want to eat, but there's not a lot left over after the birds get to it. They get frustrated - no matter what they try, nothing works. In fact, when we were out there for a while this evening, a cranky bird yelled at her while she was near that tree. She said, "Hey, bozo, it's MY tree, you know!", but he didn't pay any attention. They put a fake thing to scare them away, which scared my brother and me too, but that didn't work either.

Still, we love being outside, and I love watching out for her while she's working. She tells me I'm a rockin' guard dog. But of course! We'll be outside a lot, and I'll keep looking out for her, you can bet on that. But, I still don't get the whole idea of pulling stuff out of the ground. Why do humans feel compelled to "clean" everything up, including the outside??

07/06/2024

Busy times. We've gone to a nice place two times, which is basically one time too many for me, and we're actually going to go one more time, although not for very long. It really is cool, and I sort of have a good time, but home is best, as always. It's already really hot where we live, so Dad and Mom say they need to escape to the hills as often as they can. I do know it feels a lot better there, and there are lots of cool things to smell. There's also these annoying rodents who have learned to stay just out of reach - it drives me bonkers, and it's the same for my brother. Some day we'll get them. SOME day, rodents - I will fake you out, like I do Mom, and you'll get yours! Heh.