Dave won't share

Dave loves watching football and so do I, but he likes playing a football game on his lap computer too. It's when you pretend you run a football team, which sounds like fun but Dave won't let me play. I told on him for not sharing (it's good to share) but Louise says dogs don't usually play computer games as they can't type with paws. I'm smarter than your average dog and my little paws are clean so I might ask Dave again. I wonder if football managers play games where they pretend to be a bus driver.

My turn?

I ain't afraid of no Hoover.

It's been very very cold all weekend. I've woken up very chilling every morning and crept into Dave and Louise's bed, and I'm starting to see I've been slacking off in my campaign to swap beds with them. At the end of the day they have each other to keep warm with and my need is greater. I've taken to showing my enjoyment of their bed a bit more obviously and i'm sure they'll take the hint soon.
Aside from that a pretty quiet weekend. Dave was driving his bus so me and Louise went for some walks and i napped while she wrote on her laptop. It was all peaceful except when Louise hoovered. Hoovering is when you check the floor still works, so it's probably a sensible idea except it's so noisy! I like to stay out of the way, not because i'm scared of the noise but because I don't want to disturb Louise. Ollie, the cat that lives next door, is very frightened of hoovers but then he's a cat. As a big tough Cheshire dog i am much braver. All the same i am planning on getting Louise to write to a man called Mr Dyson. He practically invented the hoovering machines according to an advert I saw on TV so i'm sure he can make it quieter so cats aren't scared. (I'm not scared, I'm just trying to help)

The bed will be mine!

Very very very cold

It was saying on the TV that we were going to have a blizzard, which Louise said is loads and loads of snow and wind.  I wasn't looking forward to that at all but when I looked out the window this morning it doesn't seem as bad as I thought.  Louise is working at home because she says if the blizzard comes she wouldn't be able to get home to Disley, which would be sad as she normally feeds me.

Looking for the blizzard

I still get to go to John's house today and he's going to take me out walking, but this morning it was very warm in bed and I could tell it was very cold outside because the floor was white so I wasn't too eager to go out like I normally am.  Tomorrow is the weekend, which are the days that me and Louise get to stay in bed longer if we want without getting in trouble with someone call Boss.  I hope we can stay in bed and then cuddle watching TV, but Louise says she wants to hoover, which is where she checks the floor works with a noisy machine.   I don't like the hoover, it's loud and the string that attaches it to the wall trips me up.  Dave has to drive the bus this weekend so he can join in the cuddles when he gets home.  I like weekends the best because if it's too cold to walk, I can stay on the sofa.

Too cold for a walk

Pride and Prejudice with a Frisbee

I had a busy weekend this week.  As I had been so good for Louise (well, mostly) we all went to the big park, it's actually one of the most famousest parks in Cheshire, because a TV show was filmed there.  I watched some of it once with Louise but it was just about a lot of funny dressed women dancing and trying to get married.  I got bored and went for a snooze halfway through.  Anyway, it's called Lyme Park and there is loads and loads of space to run, I'm very proud of how fast I run.  I took my Frisbee too, I've no prejudice against my other toys but my Frisbee is definitely my favourite.  I like to fetch it myself but I heard Dave say he wanted to do more exercise the other day, so sometimes I ran to it and didn't get it so he could play fetch too (which is the most fun kind of exercise there is).  I think it's good to share toys.

Looking for my frisbee

Pride in my running skills

I was very tired when I got home so I had nice long nap, Louise had a bath, and Dave played on the opening up computer that Louise looks at Facebook on.  I noticed Scrappy had some good pictures of the other day, I'm thinking Aaron loves Scrappy a lot to take so many photos!

TV - It's a dog eat dog world

It’s been really cold in Cheshire at the moment, and foggy, so I’m quite pleased to get home and cozy up in front of the TV.  I have favourite programmes: I like ‘House’ because he’s a doctor who makes Louise laugh and carries a big stick that looks great for playing fetch, and I like ‘A League Of Their Own’ because they all look like they're having fun and sometimes they play with a ball.  I especially like it when there’s football on, that’s mine and Dave’s favourite game even though we argue because I help Louise by supporting Tottenham when he supports Manchester United!  What I really don’t like is Eastenders, and it’s on nearly every night!

Everyone seems grumpy all the time, and shouts, and worst of all there’s no dogs at all.  What sort of place has no dogs? A sad place that’s where.  Dave likes it, so I make him feel really bad when he’s watching it.  I sigh, I look sad, and sometimes he changes it.  My New Year’s resolution (that’s a promise to yourself you try and keep but sometimes don’t) is to learn how to use the remote control.  

I hate Eastenders

Apple Flavoured Beer - Not for Dogs

My friend Dan has put a photo of me on a computer program called Facebook, which is something that people go on all the time to tell everyone what they are doing. I don’t go on it much because I have so much fun I don’t want to make people jealous, but Louise goes on a lot and I’m worried she won’t be happy about the picture because it looks like I’m drinking the apple flavoured beer she likes! I think they put a can in front of me at the beer pong party for fun, but I’m only 5 and so I can’t drink some drinks with something called alcohol in, and beer definitely has alcohol in because when Dave drinks it he laughs a lot.  

I’m sure Louise will understand when I explain it properly, and Dan is quite funny, he has a lizard living in his house! (Lizards are like smaller, bald, green dogs that don’t move much)  My friend Scrappy will probably like the photo, he’s always on Facebook with Aaron and he’s always boasting about all the photos of him on the line (not sure which line he means).

I’m looking forward to the weekend; because I've been good we’re going to the big park in Disley with my Frisbee after a long lay in (my campaign to take their bed is going well).  Dave isn’t driving the bus so we’re all spending the weekend together, I like weekends like that the best.

Cats vs Dogs

I'm a relatively chilled out kind of a chap, but this is one cat that gets on my whiskers.  Dave and Louise say I have to be polite to him, but whenever they're not looking I pull faces and bark quietly at him.  His name's Ollie and look at him looking down his nose at me! I think he's a bit jealous of me because he has to walk himself while Louise, Dave or one of my other friends comes out to play with me.  Also, Ollie doesn't have a Frisbee like me.  I'd lend him mine like I do my other friends if he was nicer.

My best friends are Sox who I play with whenever Dave and Louise have to work, Scrappy, who is Aaron's dog and Rupert, who is Barbara's little puppy that she dressed up at Christmas. We are definitely the best dogs in Cheshire.

Ollie, the cat from next door (he's mean)

Frisbees and Pretend Trees

It's been quite a busy day and Louise is very cross and i'm not sure why. She's been busy tidying away a pretend tree and shiny rope called tinsel so maybe she's tired from that but she really wore herself out on our walk.
We went to the park in Disley and played with my new Frisbee and I got a bit puffed out so decided to call it a day. Louise was looking around like she was enjoying the fresh air so I thought i'd leave her to it and took my Frisbee home and waited for her on the doorstep. She was AGES and when she got home she was really mad at me for going home on my own. She said she thought i'd been hurt on the road or fallen in the canal and that I must never ever run off on my own again.
I waited by the door for Dave to explain so I wasn't in trouble with him too, but he was mainly pleased i'd remembered the Frisbee. I think he likes it even more than i do! (which would be hard, i love that Frisbee a lot). He said that I must be good for Louise tomorrow and that if i'm well behaved he'll take me to the big park next week in the car. He said Louise was cross because she had worried about me. I felt a bit bad then. I'll be extra nice tonight by making sure there isn't too much extra gammon for her to have to wrap up and letting her talk to me when the football's on. (my team; Tottenham, isn't playing, so I don't mind.)

Here comes the weekend!

Louise has told me that there are quite a few people reading about me now, some in America, which is quite a long way away from Disley!  Maybe they like seeing how lovely and green Cheshire is, because when I watch TV from America it is nearly always in big big cities that are new or in a desert called Wild West (you never see many dogs).  In Cheshire there are lots of hills, fields and canals to run around.  On my last walk with Scrappy we went to a park and ran and ran with a Frisbee and Aaron made a video of us.  I won which was great although I nearly got the Frisbee stuck on my head.

Me in Cheshire, not at all like America

This weekend Dave has to drive a bus a lot, which is how he buys my dog food, so I will mostly be playing with Louise.  She likes to take me to the canal.  I like it there too but the ducks tease me by going quack quack quack when they know I can't speak duck.  I bark back but the water is very cold so I don't like to chase them.  It's not because I'm frightened of the water, although it is a bit scary when my little legs don't reach the bottom.  I hope that we will get to see Helen and Stephen. They have a boy called Samuel and a baby girl called Lois.  I like Samuel because he likes to play and Lois is too little to play but she does drop a lot of crisps (and I like crisps!)  I'm looking forward to the weekend almost as much as Louise said she is, although it's not as much fun without Dave.

Busy New Years (and now I feel ruff)

I learnt more about New Years, it's where they change a number in the date, which I thought they did every day but they all seemed very excited about it. I got to go to Aaron's house for a sleep over. My friend Scrappy was there and two new dogs. One dog was very naughty and wee-ed on the sofa but Aaron said I was good and we went on a long long walk. Today Dave and Louise are tired because they got home very late and i'm tired from the walk so we're all sitting on the sofa watching funny TV (well i'm snoozing really because I don't always understand the jokes)