More About David

So mom feels like I don't talk about David enough on here, which.. DUH its MY blog not his! So why SHOULD i talk about him on here? Butt anyways.. umm.. so D-Dog is what mom calls a teenager, which means he does all sorts of bad things, and mom doesn't worry about it (much) because she knows he'll grow out of it (hopefully).

me on patrol

I'm all for him doing bad stuffs, cause that means he definitely won't be coming back once he finally leaves. Which could be a really long time from now, cause the school place he's from, is having mom (and people like her) keep the puppies until they are a bazillion months old. Which in human terms is like 16-18 months.

Mom is kinda sad cause that means she has to put up with his antics for longer, as well as not get a baby-puppy sooner.

Sounds good to me.

The not getting a baby part, not the antics.

K so i haves to be honest.. i don't mind David as much as I did the other puppies, especially ones named Trump and Rob. (Those two were soooooo annoying!) I mean yeah he still likes to angonize me into chasing him .. all.the.time. And wants to bark in my face to get me to play, but he knows when to shut and up sleep.

So I'll take the little things ya know?

How old is he? Mom says he's been 8 months tomorrow, he's about 25 inches tall and probably around 60lbs. Butt i don't that fur sure. The last time mom tried to pick him and up and weigh him on the scale, ... well lets just say that didn't go real well. at. all.

D-dog ain't the brightest star in the sky, I gots to say.

He wasted a lots of time barking at clump of dust mom and threw down a hole in a yard.
(k so I barked at it some too just not as much!!!) He likes to bark a lot. Almost more than me and Bubbles! Mom says that the biggest challenge of having a collie as a guide dog puppy! Teaching them not to bark any where and at anything!!

And He can't even figure out how to use his back legs much! Mom still has to lift him in, if he wants to get in the back of the car! BOL!!

Enough about David. Mom tricked me the other day!!
Here I was thinking she had made me my own personally doggie, soak in the water, pool.. just for me and all the sudden she starts SPRAYING me down with water?! WHA?!
She washed all my nice smell off that I got!
Blegh.

The Weekend

Hi Guys!

Super quiet weekend over at our house, Friday my Grandpa (Mom's dad) was diggin up the ground, cause there was water leakin all over the place. So I decided to help him investigate the problem. Its in the job description! Buut I got all covered in muds, so mom decided it was time for a bath. You know how much I luuv baths. I even got back in when Mom decided it was bubbles turn!!

Saturday, it rained all.day.long. So me and Bubbles (and mom) slept for a long time, and mom made some new foods, than gave it to me an Bubbles when she didn't like it! (I don't even know why she didn't like it, it was super yummy!)

Sunday I went on a car ride with mom, but that was it. Super duper Boring.

How was you guys weekend?

2012 Goals

Another year is almost behind us, and what a year it was! We faced circumstances that we'd never faced before, but we made it through! If you couldn't tell by the major lack of posts, this year was all about the Guide Dog Puppies; Rob was such a handful, that the majority of my focus was on him and his news verses being split between the three dogs.

Having been puppy-less over the last couple of months has made me realize, just how important it is that "MY" dogs have good foundational skills, and the importance of taking the time to interact with them everyday.

One of my goals during 2012 is to work on some of the "problem" areas I have identified in my dachshund's. I have decided to limit myself to at least twelve goals, one goal a month, to give me the best possible chance of actually succeeding. Procrastination is my middle name. Yes. Most of the goals are for Texas, at 12 (or 10 I still can't figure out which) Bubbles is pretty much set in her ways, or... more so "I'm" set in her ways. We've worked recently on her "wait" command, but that's about it, she knows "Sit", Her Name, and Comes. She's not destructive, is potty trained, and sleeps all day. What more could I ask for?

Goals for 2012 

1. Work on Texas's Dog-to-Dog re-activity (the above picture shouldn't happen again). Put a barrier between Texas and other dog and "its on".  
2. Work on the Relaxation Protocol all the way to the end. 
3. Texas: Be able to be crated quietly around distractions. 
4. Be able to have people to my home more often. (This doesn't happen well now, as Texas though comfortable being kenneled, screams bloody murder if he can hear other people in the house besides me.
5. Work on basic agility with Texas. 
6. Read Control Unleashed & When Pigs Fly 
7. Find toys Texas will play with consistently 
8. Handle Texas from Head to Toe daily (You'd be surprised, but apparently handling your dog OCCASIONALLY over three years, leads to them becoming adverse to it. O_o) 
9. Be able to put a sweater on him without him shutting down. (We actually started working on that this week) 
10. Door Manners 
11. Only use dog bowls for water.

Seriously Mom? What a lotta work!

So I didn't make it to 12, which is probably a good thing, as some of those things are going to be a doozy to work through. However, I"m hoping by putting it on my public blog, I'll feel some pressure to work on them more. :)

What about you guys, do you have any goals for you and your dogs this year?

Texas Security Log

July 21, 2011

• Mom brought home ANOTHER dog today! But just for the weekend. SHe's real quiet and don't even do nothin! #
• Chased a bird up onto a telephone wire today! 
• Did you know my other brother Pompei is going to be a guide dog? Yep! He is all matched up with his new partner and they will graduate on July 24th according to mom. 
• Mom can't even go see him cause, she already committed to watching Muffin.  :(( Plus it was like $345 whole dollars for a plane ticket! #poormom
• Oh look! Someone left the garbage out! I wonder what yummies are in here?! 

A Review - By Texas

Helllooo bloggy pawpuls!

Today, I, Texas The Doxie, will present to yous all a review of a piece of junk, not even worth your money probably a good purchase, maybe, kinda, dog toy.

This toy has a strange name, so its not even worth mentioning no this here bloggy. So um...lets get to the action shall wee? So mom went to the Petstore WITHOUT ME wiht Rob yesterday and the little bugger got to PICK OUT HIS OWN TOYS!?

Am I bitter 'bout that you ask?

No. I am not.

I just STEAL ALL THE TOYS AWAY AND THEN SNAP AT HIM WHEN HE COMES CLOSE!
Then mom puts them up and of course its all Rob's fault that we was board and stuff. 

Um... where was I?

Oh yeas.

So this thing is a KONG Wobbler, KNOCK OFF. I know, that is prolly a big deteerant but that didn't even stop mom. (she's a cheap scape) so you can get this little "beutee" at your local PetsMart for only $7.97!!

Yeah.

Cheep.

So antiways... mom gets this monstroscity home and tries to open it. Me, being the smartest, most handsomest doggie alive, realized immediately that this produced food..so was all fur mom letting me play wit it. So i ran and around barkign at her ..but her never even put it down for a long time!

She kept tryin' to un twist the thingymajiggy and it wouldn't even come loose! Not even for a whole night!

So mom just stuck some foods in teh little wholes, and let me and Bubbles play with it.

LEmme tell yous how smart I am.

I got that thing done in like. 5 seconds flat!! BLAM!

Don't believe me??

I gots some video PROOF!!!!!



Anyway mom says its not a great toy cause the plastic is cheeps, and if Rob gotta ahold of it he would tear it up in like two seconds, cause he thinks you has to bite it to get the food out, not hit it with your feets.

He's a dumb bunny.

So if you want a toy like dis, spend the money and get a really KONG WOBBLER!

That's all.

Texas Log: FLOOD!!

So yesterday it rained and rained and rained and it rained soooo much yesterday, that my front yard turned into a big swimming pool! Way cool huh? I'll bet none of y'alls yards did that before huh? Mom stuck on her water boots and went and walked around in it, so I followed her. I had ta swim at one point cause it was so deep!  Mom gave me a bath afterwards, but it was worth it!

Neighbors yard part 2

Neighbors yard

Checkin out the water, who says don't can't smell through water!?

Whoa! It got deep!

ME swimming away! Don't worry I came back! ;)

The End.

Did you know, since I came in 2008 I has helped mom raise and train about ....um.....9 service dogs/puppies in training? Pompei stayed the longest than all the others ones, so I think they should defiantly put my name down as a "co-raiser" of him. 

Me teachin him da fine arts of runnin at top speed

Me showin him da pool was not so scary...

He made fun of my scarf! What can I say!?

He wouldn't have even been as great if hadn't showed him the ropes. The house is super duper quiet now that he's not around, and I hates ta even say this butt...........


I think I might  miss him.


Me and Bubbles rode in the car with Mom and Pompei, on Saturday so we could go meet the people who was driving him up to New York. Mom was driving super fast, cause she got her times mixed up and didn't realize she had an hour more of traveling than the people meeting her, so she had the pedal to the metal. 


And she also made me ride on the car seat, which was completely not right, cause I can't even get as warm as I could sitting in her lap, but she was not even changing her mind, so I crowded on the seat with Bubbles. 

Let me tell you. That girl hogs up a whole locka space. And she didn't even move over so I could lay nicely. So I went back and slept in the back seat with Pompei. 


Then all of the sudden we was there, and mom was getting Pompei out of the car and walking him over to another lady in a van. I had ta scream for a little bit cause SHE FORGOT I WAS IN THE CAR!?! ...


....but she didn't even come back 'til the lady put Pompei in the car. Then she came and let me and Bubbles go potty, as the vans were leavin, we could see Pompei's head pop into the window, cause I think he was wonderin' why we wasn't comin with him....


That made mom all kinds of sad, so she then she thought I'd make a good cuddle toy.. 


NOT!


Then she did that crying thing, and had to use up the box of tissues the lady gave her. Sigh. Humans. 


After that she got herself some food, and didn't even share ANY with me. Not even a CRUMB. I thought that was highly unfair, and sat in the back of the car and barked at people while they walked by. 


Then FINALLY we drove away back to our home place. 


Anddd its been really borin around here. I tried ta get Bubbles to play wit me and she only plays for like 5 seconds and then she goes to lay down. 


Mom says I got four weeks until I get another play mate....


I don't know if I can wait dat long....


Anyone wanta play?

Texas Log: Snow and Stuff

Today's Date: December 13, 2010

Weather: Snow

Mood: Grumpy

-My day started out really early, cause my mom's roommate person was doin a lot of work around 4:00AM this morning and woke all of us up. Mom was grumpy and told me to be quiet, and Mr.Pee Pee Pants Pompei decided he had ta get up an use da bathroom. Dat didn't make mom happy,cause it snowed a lot durin the night!! 

And then when we got up dis morning, mom put on a lotta clothes and stuff, then she brought my yucky sweater thingy. I hate that thingy,buttt it does help me not feel really, really,really,really, cold, just really, really, cold. 

Anyti ways den she let us outside boy all the white stuff was back! I does NOT like da white stuff....but if I run really fast den I can't feel it much. So I ranned really fast around and then was ready to go back inside.
Pompeii on da other hand. like it a little too much and gots in trouble cause he didn't want to come back when Mom said so, and he ran, away from her, and waited, and ran again. Cept mom was smarter than him, and didn't even chase him, like he wanted her too, and just stood dare, until he got tired and wander close enough to her. Den she marched his furry butt right in da house. 
ooooooOO!

Pompei runnin around a'fore mom called him

Pompei is tryin ta find da toy dat he dropped

In other news...

Funny story, my mom's grandpa....always calls Bubbles the wrong thing, he calls her a Pickles! Which is kinda true cause she can be real sour and grumpy sometimes. So my mom's auntie said dat she needs to "combine" does two names "Bubbles" and "Pickles" an call Bubbles PUDDLES!! 

Isn't dat funny!?

I think it is cause there is no way in a million, kazillion, bajillion years dat Bubbles could live up to dat name. 

BOL!

Also some other news is dat mom is finally out of dat school place for a couple of weeks she says, and she can finally spend some time wit me!!!!! dat makes me happy, cause I was havin to show her I wasn't happy 'bout bein at home a lone for long, long, long,long,long, long times by peein on the new stuff she broughts in the house. Boooy does dat make her mad! Oh well, serves her right for leavin me! :-P

Oh and mom told me and bubbles dat Pompei is not leavin our house until FEBRUARY!!!!!!! 

I don't get it, why don't the come and get their dog already! I need some peace an quiet around here! 

Dumb Moms

Me, laying on da bed while mom pets me, and almosts drops her phone on me. 

Hello bloggy peoples. You wanna know what my mom did today!? Well I tells you wether you wanna know or knots. SHE DELETED A BUNCH OF BLOGS I WAS READIN!!?!?  Wasn't even payin attention ta what she was doin and 'stead of clickin "MARK ALL AS READ" on her google reader thingy she clicked "UNSUBSCRIBE FROM ALL in SMALL DOG BLOGS folder". (I has to separate them so I don't read pompei's boring SD stuff)  I couldn't even believe it! Now all i has in my google reader is...Service dog blogs (eh) and BIG dog blogs. grrr. So now I gots to go back and finds all does blog dogs! GRR. 
Dis is NOT a happy Monday.

Pompei's Blog

Puppiesintraining.blogspot.com
In case you was wondering why there wasn't much posted about Pompei on dis blog, its cause he has his on blog all by himself. Well and all da other puppies my mom has brought home. 
Dat way i can have dis blog all by myself. um... also Mom will be changin day URL thingy too real soo...probably sometin like: twodachshundsandco.blogspot.com 
And probably on Saturday. 
So if you can't even find us dats what happened. 
Anyway mom has been VERY mean to me lately, cause her bed got throwed out and she has to get a new one, so she and me and Bubbles has been sleepin on the couch. But BOY let me tell you dat makes her VERY.VERY. GRumPY! 
She doesn't even like me to sleep under da covers no more. Somtin about me Hoggin them!? 
WHAT?! 
Read My Lips. 
Or Teeths.
Do Dogs have lips?
Whatever.
Loooook intoo my eeeyeeeee.
I.Never.Hog.Covers.

Ever.

Beds Everywhere!

....You mean you don't take whatever spot is comfortable when ever you can? This one looked real comfy...and it was!

November 2

Dear Blog Friends.
Here is da thing.
If you only updated your bloggy 1 time a week instead of a 1,435,234,354 times a week.
Den maybe my mom could get to alla your blogs all time, so dat I can leave my mark there.
Butt if you continues to dos this (see number above) updating, den I will has to stop followin your bloggy.
Sorries.

Me and my new friend named Lisa

.......
Mom says dat is not even true so I shouldn't write dat down.
WELL!?!?!?!?!
whatever.
So what's been going on here in my life you asks? I makes a new friend a couple of weeks ago, at first she kinda scared me, cause I didn't know who she was and if she even wanted to hurt me..cause you never now. But then I realized she was kinda cool, and she lets me sit on her lap..if I don't lick her face. But dats real hard ya know cause I mean the humans always have sometin yummy on there faces. But I tries to be good. 

Um....the other day aNOTHER  birdy flew in my house and me and Pompei chased all over the place! He won cause it flew in my crate, and he rammed his big honkin self in there and CHOMPED down on it real fast. I don't think that's fair cause I saw it first!!!!!! 
The big dummy even ate it all gone! 
Its a good thing he's leaving in 29 days. 
I can finally has my house all to my self again.
I candothisIcandothis......ZZZzzzzzzzzzz..........

PS. If I go votes like a lotta ya'lls be telling me to dos, will i gets more dog treats?

Texas Log: Mom sounds Weird

Weather: Sunshiny

Mood: Sleepy/Not Sleepy

Today whenned I woke up to da sounds of a strange human. i didn't even recognize who it was dat was callin me cause I had never heard that sound before. Den I realized it was mom!!!!!! She had a froggy stuck in her throat!!! Thankfurlly she can still play ball wit me!!

Texas Logs: New Toy

Texas Log Date: October 18, 2010

Weather: Sunshine

Mood:Excited

Today a new toy is supposed to come in da mail for me. I sure hope mom gets home fast so I cans get it! Ooo the doorbell! Why can't i even open da door this is un far.. ArrroooOOoOoO! Wooof woof woooof! Rrruffffff ruf rraff rraff!

hmmph. Still gots TWO HOURS till mom get off the work place. Will upate later.

-10 4 Good Buddy.

 

Head of Household Security 

Foodies

So yeah. Thanks  all to those who called PETA and ASPCA about mom starvin me the other day. She has "seen da light" and gots us some more foodies so we won't be too starvin. An i thinks they talked to her bouts gettin me some more treats and stuffs buttt i was too busy eating my FIRST meal since last night  three months ago to care. It was heaven i tells you. If you have never been starves den you don't even know. *sniff* Makes me a *very manly dude* get all weepy. 

Anyways she gots me um.... "Pure Vita Naturals" which is not the stuffs we normally likes ta eat, butt the petstore place (not the big petstore the little one) didn't even have our "Wellness" stuff so mom hads to buy this. Its still tastes good butt mom doesn't like dat it has so much grains stuff.

Pompei has ta eat the "natural balance" stuff cause da other Purina One made him itch and itch an itch and itch some way more. Soo dat didn't make mom happy, so she went to those people was like "you BETTA let me........ "Can we please switch Pompei to the good stuff?" And dey say "Yes" so den mom ran out and got some food.

Oops dats of course, after the Peta peoples came and told her too course. :))

Um.....oh looks it time for my mid-morning-naps!

BAYL!!

PS. (Mom will be writtin my story about how I losted my eye cause aPARENTly she didn't even tell you guys how dat happen. Um...its not pretty but I hopes dat you really gets sometin powerful from my story of survival and reesilliance in a tough, tough, tough situatoin. Dat is what I was meant to do I thinks *sniffs* )

PPS (mom didn't even get me nuttin for her own birthday. She said I could either get a collar or new breaks. WELL I CAN"T HELP YOU BUSTED YOUR CAR LADY!!!?? she went wit da breaks if you didn't guess it)

Wish List for Mom's Birthday

OMD I just looked at da bloggy and saw dat  mom has been posting pics of me an Bubbles NAKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How embareressing. I mean fur real lady do you not give us any dignities at all?
SO anyway I knowed her birthdays is coming up and I thought to myself:
"Texas, you should get your mom to get you a new collar for her birthday,SPEICALLY since she missed yours!"
No I am NOT being selfsish at all cause um... she LIKES to buy  us stuff.
FOR REAL.

SO I had to get on the etsy place site, cause they haves a lot of cools stuff and BOY oh BOY was there LOTS to choose from.
Since I'm a very dapper dachshund, *if I do say sos my self.*
I'm thinking somtin red, or green, or black. Sometin that screams
"I"M IN CHARGE HERE"
Oh yeah and I looked for a star as well.

The Ring a Ding from Lucky Fiona
Hmm..its red, its black, its looks like a good "guy" collar...hmmmmm *scratches self*
NEXT!

Road Rules from Coley's Collars

I like dat it says rules for road, cause rules and in charge dogs goes together..

Texas Hold Em' from Coley's Collars 

Annnd I only like dis one cause it says Texas in it. heehee

FUR BUBBLES:

The Whootie from Addison Logan's Shop

Girly stufss.

Welcome To Miami by Addisson Logan

More girly stufss

The Duchess by Bow Wow Couture

and MORE girly stufss. 

Ok so dats 3 collars fur me, and three collars for Bubbles, and Pompei already got a fancy collar, so he don't need one....soo...*does math in head*
$90!!!!!
WOOF!
Now letsss seeee..
I needs to get a tag, in case I has to hitch hike or sometin, you know like when mom starves me again.
OMD IS DIS NOT PEFECT OR WHAT!??!!?!?

Urban Puppy

Mom says sometin about needin on wit more room for "information" but who needs dat, I mean its not like I'm going to let a strange touch me any who!? 

BOL! Mom says Touche'

The Happy Chihuahua

ANd Bubbles can have dis one, cause she goes up to anyone alla time. 

Dumb girls.

Now...i gots to find mom's credit card thingy...............

SNAPS.

Mom caught me and says the only dog things she's buying dis month is a.....DOG HAIR BROOM!?!?

HOW BORING IS DAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I thinks I'm giong to be hitchhiking sooner dan I thoughts. 

Wait...what? You didn't even know I was naked?? 

*runs and hides*