The Wild Westie

Puppy Kisses

2013-05-19T17:30:00.001-07:00

Even though I'm a whole 7 years old, I still give puppy kisses! When I was a little peanut I had a nanny!! Yes indeed...a nanny!! Her name is Nanny Ev and she came over everyday to let me out of my house and played with me in the yard...and oh how I still go nut-so when she comes over!! I jump around and wiggle like a maniac...puppy kisses, puppy kisses she says!!! Don't worry Monsterface doesn't get in the way...she's all mine when she walks through the door. Here she is, do you see her behind my great white teeths!!! That's her!! My Nanny Ev!

NOOOOOOO

2013-05-05T13:21:00.003-07:00

Aren't Sundays suppose to be about rest and big spaghetti dinners with meatballs for me and cheese?! Isn't it about just hanging out and getting hugs and playing with toys and sitting in the grass outside. Someone told me that Sunday is a day for, well, just catching up on things and doing a whole lotta nothing!!!! UMMMM can someone please tell her this!?! Not only am I not resting, but WE both just got sneak attack baths!!! Yep!! I thought she was picking me up cause she said cheese and I'll go anywhere for cheese and the next think I know, I'm standing up to my ankles in water. AND get this...it wasn't even warm!!!! She scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed some more!!! OOHH HOW I HATE BATHS!!!!! Monsterface thought she was safe but guess what, after she finished with me, she took her in there and put her in water too.

So as I sit here trying to get the water out of my ears...I vote for no more baths!!!! I hate shampoo, I hate water and I hate conditioner!!!

Best place in the house

2013-04-21T16:30:00.008-07:00

What a lazy Sunday...they went for brunch and I got to snooze...they came home and I got to run around (a little) and lay in the sun. Now it's quiet time and I got the best place in the house...curled up right on his belly! He didn't think I'd stay long but truth be hold, I'm so comfy and he's got his arm around me and well, I'm just gonna stick her for a bit. Hope your weekend was great!!!

My feets down below!!

2013-04-18T16:58:00.002-07:00

Here I am everyone!!! I'm sorry I've been hiding...yes, Sweet William, hiding my feets. They are still red and pretty soon they are going to think I'm an Irish Setter and not a fabulous Westie!!! I think my feets are getting better...she washes them enough, I'm surprised I even have any hairs left! My face is still red though and boy do I hate when she washes my face...as if I'm a little kid!!

Ok, for those of you who know me, I'm a little dramatic...and for those of you who don't...well, I'm a little dramatic. But really, I've just been trying to take in all this nice weather. It's so nice to be in my yard running around, chasing those wood bees and watching my green grass grow (especially where I'm watering it). With that said, I think I need to water my daisy garden...not a peep out of them yet. Anyone know what I should be looking for cause all I see are sticks and brown.

So here's to the warm weather! Hip-Hip-Horrayyyy!!!

Treats

2013-04-03T18:37:00.000-07:00

Everyone I'm having a treat problem in my house!! Someone has snuck in and switched out all my good treats with dry...ummm how do I say this...BORING TREATS!!!! Yep, no more begg'in strips, no more cookies, no more bread if they have a little left over! All I get are dried turkey nugget things that look like something out of the tailend of Monsterface, some dried up lamb lungs, crusty nugget things that look like dirt pebbles and well fish treats that smell like the Fulton Fish Market. Actually of all, those are my favorite.

So heres the deal. My feets and face have turned red and well she suspects that, among other things, I get too much wheat in my belly. She says I'm allergic, I say it just doesn't care for me too much. My friends at Westie Julep have been helping me out...they know what it's like to keep a Westie sparkly and white....AND while I'm happy that they are helping, I'm not happy about getting my feets washed alot and stinky power put on them. BUT thanks from the bottom of my red feet!!! Just a matter of time before I'm back to being crisp white again. Anyway, if you have any treats that you can sneak my way, send them to me in an unmarked box so she doesn't know what they are. I'll gobble them up before she gets home.

My Aim

2013-03-26T16:40:00.001-07:00

Ok...so I'm a little upset about this post but need my friends to ~~take my side~~ hear about this. She's been taking the Monster outside without me to teach her how to come when she's called (she's really not very good at it if I had to tell the truth)...in the process of taking her outside, she makes her sit at the door and wait until she gets the command to go out...well she touched her side and it was all wet. Without hesitation she smelled her hand and yelled, "it's pee, it smells like pee!! Did Hoke pee on her?? Did you see if Hoke peed on her?!" He of course just stood there and said, "I don't know"...as if he would ever ~~rat me out~~ say a negative thing about me. How could she actually think I'm capable of such a thing...I mean come on, does she really think that I may have possibly missed my target and peeped on MonsterFace. Now I know some of you are saying that maybe MonsterFace WAS my target but I'm not so sure about it. I'm thinking this is what happened...she was peeping, I came over to investigate and because she is so slow maybe she didn't hurry up fast enough and maybe, just maybe I tried to mark my territory and accidentally may have gotten too close. BUT as I believe IF it did indeed happen, it's Monster's fault because she hogs the bathroom like girls do.

So that's my story and I'm sticking to it....and just to add the icing on the cake, MonsterFace had to have an emergency bath!! Nannie-Nannie-boo-boo!!!!!

My LUCK

2013-03-17T17:03:00.001-07:00

The Green Gobblin got me again!!!! Yes that little leprechaun got me again!!! Check it out, while they dined on Corned Beef and Cabbage and yummy potatoes all of which I got none of, that little monster put beads on me and made me take a picture. I will say though after looking at this picture, I will say that I believe green just may be my color!!

Hope you all had a super lucky day!

Smart

2013-03-10T16:11:00.000-07:00

I'm sure you all know what game this is...well he likes to play and play and play...sometimes he has 5 games going at once and is getting pretty good!! BUT I'll let you in on a little secret. She helps him...oh yes she does! She sits next to him and tells him what word to put down to get the most points. I probably shouldn't be spilling the beans but I'm doing it anyway! And incase you are wondering, NO I do not like to play. I have better things to do with my time like chase crows and bark at the wind!

Birthday...again

2013-02-24T17:14:00.002-08:00

Now that there are 2 of us, there are 2 Barkdays to celebrate...and well, since hers is in January, I have to celebrate mine second....so here it is!!!

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! UMMMM birthday was yesterday and she clearly forgot about me. I kid, I kid...she didn't forget about me...they were just running around like crazy people so didn't get to tell all of you!

I'm 7 now, I can hardly believe it. I still have alot of fiest in me and in fact, I spent the day barking my head off...and when I say barking, boy do I mean barking! He also took us for a 3 mile walk, of which Monsterface pulled the entire time.

So here's to a bunch more birthdays for me!!!

Tricked

2013-02-20T16:42:00.001-08:00

Yep...I knew it, I just knew it. From the minute they brought that monster into my house I just knew she wasn't a dog like me. Now there was some question as to whether she was a groundhog or a squirrel or maybe even a baby raccoon...but I found out the truth. OH YES I DID!!!! Low and behold, Monsterface is a rabbit!!! A snow rabbit at that. When they got her, the breeder said, "now Cairns don't like extreme weather. They don't like hot and they certainly don't like cold." Well, let it be known that they couldn't have been anymore wrong about this one.

Please see my video evidence proving my theory!!!

DOGS!!!

2013-02-11T17:58:00.001-08:00

We are here barking at the TV...what are we barking at you ask?!?! All the dogs on TV...it's Westminster and oh my the fluffing and primping and crimping and poofing that's going on!!! OHHHH I just realized, they forgot to bring me there to show them my awesome-ness!!! Didn't they do that to me last year too?!

The Monster has turned 1

2013-01-29T16:03:00.002-08:00

Yep...you read it right!! Monsterface is 1 year old today!! Can you believe how fast the time went...She's been making my life ~~miserable~~ fun for 10 whole months. I kid, I kid! I'm not miserable with her around...I've just had to learn a few things, like sharing, and dive-bombing, and not biting her, and running around the yard like a crazy lunatic dog!!!!

Anyway! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHANE-Y, MonsterFACE, devil dog, baby girl, sweet baby, peanut head...HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!

It Stuck...to our FURS!!!!!

2013-01-26T06:52:00.003-08:00

So I just got my furs did and well it snowed. How am I suppose to really enjoy the snow when I just got my ~~botch job of a~~ hair cut fixed by the professionals? Well I'll tell you how! I rolled around and wiggled my way though that snow, and ran around like a crazy dog was chasing me (that would be Monster). Oh yeah I just love the snow!!! AND this is really Monsters first snow...I mean it's snowed but not where she could really dig into it! He's putting on his coat right now, could it mean another time out for no reason?!?!?! Gotta Run! SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!

Disaster

2013-01-17T17:28:00.001-08:00

Well hello there Ladies and Jelly-spoons...let me start this post off by saying that she's taking me back to my REAL groomer this weekend!!! OK now for the juicy details of the disaster. So when Monsterface got her first haircut all we heard was that she was going to learn how to cut our furs cause she didn't like the cut the little monster got...little did I know that I was included in her non-sense...I mean afterall, she loves the haircuts that I get.

So here are the details of the disasters so far...
1. I have a dent in my back fur...she pushed to0 hard in a couple of spots and well I have a few "speed bumps" we will call them
2. My ears are lopsided
3. I have longer hair on one side of my face (the fact that I wouldn't cooperate has nothing to do with it)
4. She's afraid to cut my nails so right now I could get into a cat fight and probably win
5. My kilt is well, shall we say, a little all over the place

6. We are pretty sure that Monster got her ear clipped...there seems to have a little notch in it now.
7. Monsters feet hairs are so long that you can't even see her toes!!

Someone has got to stop her...while I believe I may be safe, I fear that Monster is going to continue to be her science project!!!

WTB!!!

2013-01-06T13:10:00.001-08:00

Take a look at the picture I found while I was ~~thumbing~~ pawing through my Mom's phone. She doesn't know that I found this but do you notice anything missing from the picture!?!?! Yeah...you got it right!! They left me home when they went to my Auntie's house and they snuck MonsterFace out with them. That's her right there next to my cousins!! How on earth is this fair!?! Ok, so I don't get along with the one in the middle (I tried to bite his face) but they could have at least told me instead of keeping it a big old secret! Happy New Year they say....BARK BARK is what I say to that!

p.s. Mom got clippers for Christmas and thinks she's now my groomer....more on that and the clip-stakes she'd made later!!! Lets just say this...I'm lucky that I didn't have to go for an emergency hair cut!

News, Eggnog and How Could She?!

2012-12-26T10:31:00.004-08:00

Well Santa's was here and gone and I'm happy to report that he did indeed ignore Monsterface's antics!!! She got so much stuff, she doesn't know what to do first. She got squeeky snakes and treats galore...and she's sharing with me so I'm pretty happy about that. Only one fight over a footed green ball which he promptly had to take away and put into hiding! I know what that means though, he puts it away and then when she's in her house I get it all to myself.

Speaking of all to myself...you guys remember that little impostor that popped up here a few Christmas's ago!!?? Well she came back! Yep...popped right up on the halfwall! Little did she know that Monsterface was here now! Boy did that scare the stuffing right out of her. She too had to be put away for ~~her safety~~ safe keeping.

On the topic of safety...someone should tell my mother that she is not allowed to drink wine when deciding our Christmas Eve theme...this year she picked Mustaches...and well, as you can see, she not only had too much wine but also too much eggnog!! I mean really, look at her and her Aunty and Uncle...do they know that all of blogville will be looking at them and feeling sorry for me that I had to endure an entire evening of "oh I love your mustache" and "oh Hoke-y, where's your mustache"....I mean come on already!! She even de-faced my treat jar!! My only hope is that next year she decides to have a "who can be the quietest the longest Christmas"!!!

You be the judge

2012-12-17T16:46:00.000-08:00

Ok so remember how I told you that Shane was the naughty one and I was the good one on Santa's list...well I have proof. Picture proof!!!

Here I am laying under the tree, as I do each and every year. They put my bed in the back and I lay here and nap. On Christmas eve I lay in the back and I wait for Santa...I believe that this qualifies for Nice.

Now for Monsterface...NAUGHTY. So the man in the big brown truck comes alot this time of year and you all know how I feel about cardboard boxes ~~(no one was here so you will never know I barked the fur off my face at the truck)~~...well now they put the boxes on the ground for me to sniff so that I get use to them. Well wouldn't ya know...Miss Sassy Pants stole a box and ran all around the yard with it!!!! Yep...and he had to chase her to get it back!! So ladies and gentledogs...I do believe that her antics surely puts her on the Naughty list.

Ya see I do have it in me to be the Nice one afterall!

Oh Santa!!!

2012-12-12T17:49:00.001-08:00

We are trying to get out from under the paper in our house!!! We haven't forgotten about anyone, but without thumbs we are having some trouble with the tape...be back soon!!! Oh by the way, I'm the nice one this year and Monsterface is on the naughty list!!! More later!!

Undetectable

2012-12-05T15:00:00.001-08:00

Some of you may think I'm a Westie...a rather charming one at that...but make no mistake about it! I'm no ordinary Westie...I'm a fighter jet, a force to be reckoned with, a secret sneaky super dog!!! What am I carrying on about you ask. Well just today as I was out patrolling my yard I saw this gigantic intruder flying right towards my space...so what did I do!!! I crouched down, got real low to the ground and ran, undetected by this monster bird and barked and growled and chased him away. He didn't even see me coming!!! I made myself undetectable and scared that bird away. Who needs a ScareCrow when you can have ScareHoke!!!!!

Fall Fun

2012-11-25T12:11:00.003-08:00

Monsterface is so much better...infact she's back to just being her normal crazy self!!

Here we are just trying to have a nice fall photo shoot and there she goes trying to attack the leaves!!! ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK.

Ya never know when those leaves are going to sneak up on you!

Rough Night

2012-11-19T16:51:00.002-08:00

Hi everyone...it's me Shane. I'm not a monsterface today cause I just don't feel so good. Last night I woke her up cause I was scratching around in my crate...I had bad poops and the throw-ups. She had to clean out my house twice and throw away 2 beds. After that she had to take me to the Doggy Hospital to get me checked out. They gave me liquids under my skin that made me look like a giant stuffed animal and something so I would stop throwing up.

Not sure what I got into but whatever it was, it did not like me at all. Ya know how when they go to the hospital they get ice cream and stuff...well now I get chicken...chicken for breakfast and dinner and few snacks in between cause I have to eat tiny meals.

They made a big fuss about me too as the doctors, saying how cute I was and oh how they wanted to kiss me but I said "stand back...I have throw up face and you don't want to get too close". Truth be told, I really needed a tic-tac.

So now I'm resting and they are waiting for me to poop, I just don't think I have enough food in my belly yet but I'm gonna go out right now and see what happens.

OH and for those of you who think Hoke doesn't really love me. I think he does...he's been hanging close to me and leaving me alone really...wait, I wonder if he thinks I need a tic-tac too!?

Sleep

2012-11-15T17:33:00.001-08:00

You guys know that picture where the little dog is on this big bed and the big dog is on the little bed....well I am here to tell you that the picture is absolutely the way it has to be. Ya see, the smaller the dog, the bigger the bed has to be.

I let them share the giant bed upstairs with me but just last night I had to give him a big old donkey kick...ya know the one when you kick with both back feets?! I don't think I would suggest it but what's a sleepy dog to do...I needed more room.

Anyway, he ended up on the very edge of the bed and she ended up with me right up against her.

It would be so much easier if they'd just sleep on the floor.

Birthday

2012-11-07T17:32:00.003-08:00

Yep!!! It's his Birthday but we got the pressies!!! Check it out...she asked him what he wanted for dinner and instead of staying a nice steak at a fancy restaurant, he said Spaghetti and meatballs!!! Then she said, "well ok if that's what you want....AND Hoke and Monster can each have one too"!!

We got a whole meatball and spaghettis all our own in our own bowl!!! First time ever. Oh lucky day, lucky day!!!

The Storm, Unfair and Home

2012-11-04T11:30:00.001-08:00

Hi Everyone!! We are all safe!!! Hope everyone out there is safe and hanging in there.

Sorry we have been missing in action but once again, the two of them have been traveling the universe and of all times!!! Didn't they know some witch named Sandy was on her way to visit...did they really think it was a good idea to ditch us and leave!? Well apparently they did...but don't feel bad about it, they left us with our friends at the Spa and they got to come home to a nice stinky fridge cause we lost power!

I love it at the spa, so nice and quiet and relaxing...they play with me there and feed me treats...BUT this time guess who had to crash my party! You guessed it...Miss MonsterFace herself. Yep, slept in the kennel right next to mine...barking and carrying on like a little baby! OH and so much for having the girls to myself at play time...they let MonsterFace out with me! Can you imagine my surprise when he put me in his truck for the trip there only to have him go back into the house and get her too! WTB I ask...!!

AND as if that wasn't bad enough, I had to get a bath and a haircut. Little did I know until I got back home that she got a bath too but NO HAIRCUT!!! How absolutely unfair is this whole situation!

Luckily our power is back on and the heat is working well and all is settling down. I'm going to go and rest myself because I forgot my barker there and need to see if I can find a new one.

Dear Finn

2012-10-16T17:11:00.005-07:00

Look Look Look at what I got from my friend Finn!!! We won a contest and what a jackpot I hit. Thanks Finn!! You sure do know who to shop. You picked out the most perfect stuffs for me!

I let MonsterFace have the penguin...well not really but she took it and ran around the house with it and I just figured I'd let her have it so she'd leave the rest of the stuff alone. Pretty smart I think.

So heres to my friend Finn!!! I thank you so very much from the bottom of my paws!!