The puppy princess and the pea(rson)

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful puppy princess called Sasha, and she led a very difficult life.

Every morning her human would make her get up early and go for a long walk along the beach, and when they got back she would be forced to play chasing around the house games and then suffer through cuddles.

Her human would cruelly abandon her for the day, leaving her with only a choice of several couches, a bed, and a rug with a view of the back yard to sleep on. In the evening her human would return, and there would be another walk, then dinner followed by awful relaxing on the couch. Sometimes the puppy princess would be forced to sleep on the second couch under the heating vent, where it would all be warm and schnoozily.

Worst of all, at bed time the princess would have to wait patiently, sleeping on the couch, for her human to come and pick her up and carry her to the bed. Her human would put her on the end of the bed, and then the puppy princess would have to wait even longer for her human to get into bed and settle herself before the puppy princess could finally slumber away the travails of the day.

One freezing cold wintry spring night, Princess Sasha realised she could take no more of this torture and decided to take control of the situation.

First of all, she walked up to the head of the bed, and started digging beside the human's pillow. Then she walked over the pillow (and her human's head) to the other side, and did a bit of digging there. The puppy princess walked over the pillow again, and stood over the human's head, so the human could tickle her tummy from underneath. She did the digging thing on both sides again, and then stood over her human's head again, in the approved tummy-tickles-from-below position. And she stayed there. After a while her human moved her head off the pillow.

The puppy princess sat on the pillow for a minute, and then she lay down on it with her bottom on her human's shoulder. Her human was a bit cold, so she pulled the blanket over the puppy princess's bottom. Then Princess Sasha slid a bit further down, and her human put a bit more blanket over her.

Finally, the puppy princess had control of the bed! She had her head on the good pillow, and she was covered in blankets, and her human had to sleep on the edge of the bed with her head on the hugging pillow. And they slept like that all night.

The puppy princess's human thought the puppy princess would go back to the foot of the bed after a while, because the puppy princess had never liked being covered in blankets before, but she never did!

This is *my* bed now human - go find somewhere else to sleep!

My new house kennel!

Hello everyone!

Sorry it's been such a long time since I've blogged, my human has been fussing over all kinds of kennel-moving activities, and kept on saying she didn't have time to let me use the computer. Pathetic!

Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, we went and had a holiday for a whole week with my cousins Bertie and Oliver. Well, *I* did, my human was there every night but kept on deserting me during the day with some stupid excuses about moving house kennels and packing, and doing lots of complaining about it. Whatever.

Then on the Friday night she came home and did a lot of complaining about being exhausted and not everything being unpacked, and on Saturday we left Bertie and Oliver's house, and went to my new house kennel!

It's right by the beach - and not just any beach, but a proper doggy beach! (even though they do let humans on it, which doesn't seem fair - dogs're not allowed on human beaches...)

See, they are actually encouraging people to bring their dogs to the beach!

We get to see the dawn on our morning walks...

And there's lots to explore...

This morning we walked part of the way around Cherry Lake.

Then we came back home, and I spent some time in my garden...

... relaxing...

... inspecting the flowers...

... leading my human up the garden path...

My human's still getting used to the new ways to go to work - even though we're further away than we were before, catching the train takes the same amount of time as catching the tram used to, because it doesn't stop as much. My human's going to try riding her bike to work next week. She thinks she'll have to leave really early, because it's a 20km ride instead of a 5km ride. She's hoping she'll get all fit and healthy if she rides to work every day, but me - I just think there'll be a lot of complaining!

In the meantime, I shall sit at the bottom of the garden like a hairy little Schnauzer fairy!

Frosty Friday

Well, ok it was actually Saturday. But it's the first time this year we've had frost that lasted after the sun came out. It was under 3 degrees celsius (or, um, I think that's about 37 degrees fahrenheit. Celsius sounds a lot colder than fahrenheit).

I'd also like to mention that I only get to walk in the daylight on weekends. During the week it's still dark when we get back from our morning walk, and it's dark before my human gets home in the evenings.

But on weekends we get to sleep in a bit, and we get daylight for our morning walk and then we go out again at lunchtime.

The days are slowly getting longer again, soon it will be spring!