Since we're getting the ol' blog ginned up again, it's important that you meet someone who came into our lives back in November.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you "Lego" (no surprise who chose his name):
This post is not for the weak.
There will be no pictures. You are welcome.
Because the horrid images are seared into my brain, as well as my kid's.
We last left our villains dog wonders on the hunt for fresh meat. Squirrel meat.
The hunt was over last weekend when they captured victim #1, an unsuspecting young squirrel who was obviously not paying attention while coming down the tree.
With the details spared........suffice it to say we had our first and hopefully last squirrel funeral in the GRITS backyard.
After the private ceremony, the Princess declared, "I think all those other squirrels up in that tree probably learned a very important lesson today!"
Not so much......fast forward to this morning as we rushed around getting ready for church.
I gazed out the kitchen window only to find Sophie with "something" in the yard. As I stepped out on the patio, I realized she had victim #2 between her jaws.
Again, I will spare you the details, but when I hollered for LegoMan to come help me.....I almost had to resuscitate him! He will probably never come when I call him again. Ever.
I suspect the Princess was wrong......there were NO lessons learned from the squirrel viewing deck in that tree. And I'm sure today's burial will probably not be the last. There will be plenty more squirrels unknowingly making that final trip down the tree trunk. For it is natures way.
WARNING TO ALL SQUIRRELS, these deceivingly, sweet, smiling faces may be the last ones you see:
The last time we made an appearance in Blogville, we were recovering from our surgery that made us more neutral, non-puppy bearing beasts animals.
We are happy to announce we've made a full recovery and are at the top of our puppy game!
The smaller humans have completely welcomed us into their fun-size pack:
Before it got to be as hot as blue blazes we spent some time working on our tans:
However, one our favorite summer memories will be playing in the little green pond:
The Alpha Dog has put us to work.....something about earning our keep. We help fold clothes for food:
Speaking of food, we've had a brief taste of fresh meat.....so brief, it got away from both of our mouths!
Meet THE enemy:
Oh, we know he or she looks cute, but that doesn't stop us from trying to get one more taste of this little delicacy.
The humans have tried dragging us inside during the HOT summer, but once we see our little "friend" scurry down that tree, we absolutely MUST go back outside! We MUST!
Recently our people have been disappearing all day again. That's ok because we love playing in our big yard. We have a lot of shade and we are still working on that hole to China, wherever that is.
The other day we even had a special guest pop in on us:
Meet our cute little neighbor "Bear". We guess he wanted to say hi, but when we ran over to greet him, he disappeared back into his yard.
He probably thinks the grass is greener in our yard!
We think so!
Until next time.......
Allie:
Sophie:
If curiosity killed the cat.....then what does it do to Labradors???
The Alpha-Dog was out with this container pouring water on her plants....guess what, it's not just for plants! It's an upside down water bowl and we LOVED it!
Sophie: The little girl left this on the couch. After several attempts at making it mine, the humans let me wear it around for a bit. It looks prettier than it feels.
We do not like the cone of shame!
The Alpha-Dog has left the building for a few days which allowed us to hijack the blog again and let you know what we've been up to.
2 months later, and I think we are officially settled in and loving our new family. We stay outside for most of the day and when the humans come home they play with us, feed us dinner, and take us on a walk around our neighborhood. We sure do love that walk outside our compound yard.
We are not normally allowed in any other room of the house except the great room; however, the humans sometimes forget to put up the gate that keeps us out of the rest of the house. We love to make a mad dash down the hall and find our way into their sleeping dens. Alas, we are usually quickly captured and returned to our proper area. Drats!
Allie got the thrill of her life when the boy let her stay in his room for a while. Lucky dog.
Sometimes we get a little bored outside. What's a dog to do? How about this:
I am Sophie, Queen of the Woooooorld! I bet the humans won't leave the chairs out from the table again. Of course, I won't get up there again. Do you know how HIGH it is up there??? I was scared to death and needed assistance getting down.
We love the patio furniture....it's a great place for a nap and also for hiding under when we are playing Hide-N-Seek. You won't believe just how comfortable those chair cushions are! They rank right up there with a Tempur-pedic bed. We could lounge on them all day:
That is, if the Alpha-Dog ever puts them back on the chairs.
Hello Greek GRITS fans, it's Sophie and Allie.....AGAIN!
Rumor has it, we were a big hit with our very first post, so the Alpha-Dog has decided we can make an appearance around here every once and a while. We were so excited we came up with a name for our posts......"The Labrador Diaries".
The Alpha-Dog wanted to go with "The Destructo Duo" but we voted her down.....8 paws to none!
The weather has gotten warmer and we've been spending a lot of time outside in our big back yard. Our humans have provided us with so many things to play with.....Nylabones, tennis balls, and even a couple of stuffed animals.
Pshhaaww, who wants to play with that junk?! Not us.
We added a little flair to the grill cover:
The neighbor dog told us we could dig a hole to China to help keep ourselves busy and out of trouble while our humans are not home. We aren't sure he was right, be we've had fun trying:
A couple of weeks ago, we need a little roughage and ate the flowers off this fancy stick we found stuck in the ground. Today we decided the fancy stick had to go:
The little brown headed girl was not very happy with us. She brought the fancy stick to us and started screaming, "NO, NO, NO....bad dogs!" which sounded an awful lot like Charlie Brown's teacher talking?!
We sometimes get to play with a little blue disc, but hello, there are two of us and one is clearly not enough:
However, our favorite object to play with, by far was this:
We're not really sure what it's called but the Alpha-Dog left it on the patio after sweeping off all the dirt we got on there. Our motto is, "finders, keepers" and, buddy, we kept it all right. The pole thing was a bit too hard, but the straw bristles at the bottom just flew off everywhere when we chewed on them. We bet the Alpha-Dog won't leave another one of those out based on her incoherent babbling when she found us with this.
We love it here as you can see!
Until next time....we are Sophie and Allie!
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