get well lily belle

dear diary,
today we might might get snow which is super exciting because finally all the work me and duk duk and chocobot and  lil pink puppy put into making our giant poopnsnowball chucker will finally pay off.  well, at least until the stinky bassets next door tell their mom and then she calls my mom and then the fun's all over.

meanwhile, i heard my blogfriend lily belle might be having back problems and so while we are waiting for the snow to fall, i think i will take a few minutes now to think of her and send her some happy friends-only sunshine.   and let her know that she does not have to return it on account of the cooties n all.

well, it is time for duk duk to relieve my snowwatch post so i must bid you a fond..

toodley-doo!
b. :)

goodbye my friend

I know our existence in this world would not be as rich or meaningful were it not for the crises and events that wound our hearts and give us reason to pause, but such knowledge hardly gives comfort in times such as these when we lose the ones we love.  Today, condolences to all those affected by loss this year, including hugs for a very special friend.

mom, for reading practice, may we read about german shepherds today?  because even though molly's brother max is gone,  and even though he was a very big dog, i think i would really like to remember him.  ♥

hello hello :)

 

Today, just a little skype-y hello from two happy little munchkins, both anxious to be with their respective moms again.

 i am so glad we got to talk again today and oh, mom, can u please bring me home a snackie? and maybe one for lulu to take back when she goes home, so that way i do not have to share...okay, lulu, now it is your turn to say hello to your mom. but make it snappy bcuz i need to say nitey nite to my mom and then we can play princess ponypup with chocobot n lil pink puppy. :)

gift rapt

Although here in mom and dad's world  I seem to be getting at times the rapt attention of a very different and much older boy and girl, it would be nice to be in two places at once, so that I could also spend some happy go lucky time in my home world, and feel the rapt attention offered by the rumbly tummies of  a certain little furry boy and his little guest friend lulu.

hee hee mom, it is not the same without u here at the motel park n bark! maybe next time u leave and my guest lulu checks in, u can also leave a giant pile of snackies and me and lulu can skype train with them!! :)

all barked out

Even though they didn't get a chance to go walkies, two little tired wiener dogs were too sleepy to say hello on skype yesterday night. :)

do u see what i see?

Even though hundreds of miles separate us, I am happy at least that video chatting affords me the opportunity to check in on my big and tiny boyfriends, and hear all about what's going on in their happy little world.

...and then, mom, lulu said i stinked,  and so, i said  -  (whispers)  come closer so u can hear me bcuz she is right under the desk  -  i said, thank you very much! and now u go stink over there with chocobot n lil pink puppy bcuz me n duk duk have to work on our secret christmas list for santa claus  but when we are done,  we will all play poops n ladders!! :)

field trip

Our tiny trio took a field trip this past weekend, visiting the super cool design-your-own fabric and print-on-demand mecca of Spoonflower, where as you might have guessed, we got to see fabrics being printed, treated, and cut for shipment to places far and near.













Tiny chumley of course, was hardly impressed with this  portion of our field trip, but he did enjoy our next stop at his little friend lulu's home, where it was fun to catch up and play...

...and then invade her toybox :)

o that was fun mom! next time we go to lulu's i think we can totally have a toyfriend clu-- um, a toyfriend meeting, dontchoo!! :) :)

baxter and duk duk's scary stories: the tell tale poop (continued)

I was asleep by the time Harley came home, so we caught up the next morning.

"It was my pooper!", he proclaimed with a voice that conveyed both relief and a sense having been probed in an alien manner. "The Xrays showed that I was super full of poop!!  I was consti-pooped!"

"Wait, what? Really??" I asked with a spine tingling blend of envy and surprise.

"Yup!  No acorns, no pancreatitis, no allergic reactions or anything - my pooper was just full of poop!  The vet said I should have remembered to drink more water on the long drive to our new home.  I was shivering and panting because I was in pain, because when you have that much poop in you, well, you know, it hurts.  And yeah I could not tell u either why I was still pooping even though I was constipooped, but there u have it.  Or should I say, there it was, all over the..well, let's not talk about that part.  Apparently an enema does not mean what I thought it meant. "

"Wow, that is so scary, to think that your own poopie could do that to you.  I have always thought of poopie snakes as our friends, but I guess they're friends only if they don't overstay their welcome! Hey now that you're all empty, let's ask mom for a snackie!"

"Yeah I am famished!" 

Well there you have it, a tale so scary and real it had to be told. This Halloween, drink plenty of water, my friends, and avoid a visit from the grim pooper.

baxter and duk duk's scary stories: the tell tale poop

Doo dee doo doo,  doo dee dooo doo..Well hello, it's me, Baxter, and welcome again to baxter and duk duk's scary story zone. Yesterday, we took you inside every dog's nightmare, and found a food bowl filled only with anticipation.  But today, in honor of halloween, our story will take you into the scariest place of all - reality.  Doo dee doo doo, doo dee doo doo...






Night had fallen in the Harley n Hayley household where I was staying for the night.  Cool crisp air crept in through the cracks and crevices of my borrowed home, invaders that formed the first battalion of the army of darkness.  The humans in their household were many that night, and I knew that my friend Harley, his sister, and I would all be jockeying for spots on the sofa, for places on blankies nestled on our humans' laps to warm us through the cold autumn evening.

"Hey, u stink.  Go over there," Hayley told me when I tried to sit with her and her mom.  And so I nestled in with Harley and mom at the opposite end of the sofa while the television filled the room with an eerie blue glow.

Minutes passed. I had just begun to nod off when I was jarred by what I thought was a slight shaking sensation, causing my chub to reverberate like a plucked violin string.  What the heck?, I wondered, but the warmth of my blankie quickly lulled me back into a dream like state.

The sound of heavy panting woke me up next, and the strangeness of my sensations could no longer be denied. I opened my eyes and turned my head over to my friend Harley, who by now had already come out from under our blankie and was starting to settle himself in my mom's arms.  Oh, yeah, longer hair will do that, I thought to myself.  But I still wish I had long long hair.  Hmm, note to self, be sure to put long hair on my year list this year for San...zzzz.  I dozed off again, certain this night was not as peculiar as it was trying to tell me it was.

The sensation of shaking woke me up again.  "Hey, Harley did you feel that-" I started to ask as I turned my head and noticed my friend shivering. Do papillons normally shiver like teeny tiny dogs do or is he just cold, I wondered.  "Get back under the blankie, my friend, you'll be warm again."

But Harley stayed up where he was, shivering, then panting, then shivering again.  Alternating modes unless my mom or his mom looked at him, at which point he would stop.  Then do it all over again when they weren't looking.  Uh-oh.

Mom and his mom took turns examining him. He wasn't gassy, and he had recently pooped and peed normally, his mom said.  And he was eating just fine, well, except for when I was shoveling food from their bowls because his mom would leave it out for them all day and O what joy it is to find a giant bowl of food on the floor with nobody else interested in eat---um, yeah, back to the story.    Mom felt Harley's tummy and had no idea what normal for him felt like, but at least his tummy wasn't tender.   His eyes looked glassy, his mom thought.  But by now he had stopped shivering and panting and he was wandering around on the floor, going this way and that as a dog normally does.

"These past few days, Harley hasn't been his normal self because we've only recently moved here from far away and Harley misses his old home," said his mom had told me when I first met up with him.  "So don't feel too bad if he doesn't want to play with you."  I remembered that conversation when I saw him walking around, and decided to stay on the sofa where it was at least warm.

Mom and Harley's mom kept talking, and I kept listening.  The shivers and the pants came back.  "Are you sure he hasn't vomited? Was his poop solid?  Nothing bloody?"  "It looked just fine" "He didn't get into any weird food, did he? Did he have anything fatty?" "No he's on a high fiber diet.The only thing I can think of is that he was sniffing at the acorns up front. But I didn't see him eat any."

Uh-oh.   My friend Otto ate sumptin he should not have and ended up getting emergency surgery. 

Harley kept panting and shivering at home, but of course didn't do any of that while in the car on the way to the emergency vet, or while waiting in the waiting room, or while even the vet poked and prodded and checked him out.

After listening to Harley's mom's account of Harley's otherwise normal day,  the vet said, "Well it is definitely possible Harley ate an acorn this time of year. But the first thing we need to do is X-ray our little fella here to see what's inside."

Dollar signs hovered over every conversation Mom and Harley's mom had while they waited. Pancreatitis?  Obstructed Bowel?  Foreign object caught somewhere?  Thyroid problems?  Cushings?

The vet came back with the news...

Doo dee doop doop! It's me, Baxter again. Are you as go-hide-nder-the-blankie-scared as I am?? Tomorrow I will tell you the actual results but can you guess what Harley was diagnosed with? Let's review the symptoms & scenario just to be sure...

Alternates between panting and shivering, but not at the vet's office
Tummy not tender
Poop looked normal
Pooped about an hour before the symptoms showed up
Glassy eyes maybe
Eating fine (especially my food because we both think each other's is tastier)
Drinking fine and he was peeing ok
Sniffed at an acorn
Had been buried in blankies
It was a cold night

If u have any other questions I can try to answer them as best I remember, but in any case, please feel free to post your guess at Harley's diagnosis and I will tell you tomorrow the ending to today's scary real story! :)




  

scenes from a pumpkin patch

A wiener dog festival full of happy distractions is hardly the best place to get two little punkins like Baxter and his friend Lulu to cooperate in posing for pictures, but luckily, sometimes all you need is a little kibble to make the perfect recipe for cheese. :)

wiener dog festival 2012

dear diary,
after all the fun i had yesterday, i am pretty certain that the best way to spend a sunday afternoon is at wiener dog festival in the company of friends, especially if they are new friends with moms sitting on the ground whose pockets are full of snackies, or new friends who stink but stink in a way that says, please smell me more, and your new friends actually let you. even if u never did get their names.

yesterday at the festival was also swell because  i got to catch up with old friends, like cricket n pepper, who i did not get to see or smell for very long because,  boo hoo,  they had to leave early and, well, i got there late, and like jewel and quintin, whom i had never really met before but i felt like i met them because i got to model their duds.  quintin and i caught up on everything stink and snackie related...

 
while jewel had a fine time with a nice tummy rub from my dad.

i also met up with my friend lulu, which i can tell you more about tomorrow because with first my uncle skritchy being in town and then with all the fun i had at the festival and all, i sorta forgot about doing my calculus homework til now and apparently i am going to need the toes on all my paws to help with some of the problems teacher assigned us.  so for now i must bid you a fond..

toodleydoo!
b :)

minus two

sharing, sharing, it could be caring, 
except when your friends get overbearing, 
and leave u staring
at an empty bowl.

- baxter, 5.8 years old, sorely disappointed that he did not get to lick the bottom of the apples n sweet potato baby food container all by himself while visiting his friends harley n hayley :)

walkies three do we

dear diary,
it has been raining a lot lately but finally the sun came out yesterday and i am glad to say i got to go walkies with my new friends hayley and harley.  and yes as u can see,  me n harley walked ahead of her bcuz of, u know, the girl stink.  i hope santa does not find out.  or at least he gives me and harley both cootie proof outerwear.

toodley-doo!
b. :)

It's time to play Which one of these things are not like the other?

Hey everybuddy, it's me, Baxter, and it's time to play "Which one of these things are not like the others?"  Are you ready?

doo dee doo doo, doo doo doo, doo dee doo doo doot dee dee dooty doo doo!









Ding ding! Time's up! And ladies and gentlemen, if you guessed my friend Hayley on the very left is not like the rest of us, you win today's poopie snake prize - cuz she is a stinky go-stand-over-there girl and my friend Harley standing here next to me? Well, he and I are boys - stinky ones,  but in the good stink sort of way like I know u already know what I mean.  Although Hayley isn't too stinky for a girl which is a good thing considering Hayley is Harley's sister. :)

Well, that's it for today because it is time to go outside and play with my new friends. I hope u have a wonderful day because I know I will! :)

  

dapper doxie duds: ready, set, vrooom!

Why hello, it's me, Baxter, your roving rover reporter, earning my kibble today in super easy fashion because I'm here to talk to you about the duds my mom made for Rocky and Penny, who happen to be a lot smaller than me and so I can only barely model Penny's dud and that was with a lot of hwoopin to suck in my tummy if you know what I mean and so mom said I could just write my report and still earn my snackies.

So enough about me, about bout those duds? You see, Rocky and Penny are planning to go to the dachshund races and of course they needed super cool sporty duds with a winning edge, right?  You know, the kind with a swooshy champion nascar checkerboard flag print, edged in safety reflective piping and maybe a menacing skull patch with some flames, just to you know, intimidate the competition? Yup, that would be Rocky's dud I'm talking about and here it is!

Now say you're a girl and you still want to be just as intimidating but you still want to be cute when u make it into the winner's circle?  Well, if you are Penny, maybe you would wear a similarly swooshy styled dud as Rocky's, but, with say kawaii cute skeleton kitty patch with a heart on it on the outside and a pretty rose print inside.  Cuz that would be so cool and yet so scary, right? :)

Anyhoo, I hope u liked seeing the duds my mom made for Rocky and Penny and I am trying hard not to be so envious that Rocky n Penny get to go to the dachshund races this year.  Although mom reminded me that I did not exactly know what to do when I had a chance to practice for a different race a few years ago.  Hee hee, if I ever get to go, I guess I really need to practice knowing which way to run. 

This is Baxter your roving rover reporter, wishing Rocky and Penny good luck, hello to Bogey and Remy (whose mom runs the race!) and everybuddy else a super duper Saturday!! :)

baxter and duk duk's motel park n bark complimentary dinner theater: captain arrr-eo and princess poopiet

okay mario, we will be right back! me n our other guest lulu, whom u have already met from last time you stayed at the motel park n bark, just have to put on our costumes and the worldwide premiere of me n duk duk's new play, "the pirate, the princess, the dragon, and plenty of snackies - a play in three courses as told by one very awesome and very hungry pirate", will begin in five minutes! in the meanwhile, please enjoy this bugs bunny cartoon that we will play for u on the ipad and if duk duk can get u a pre-play apooperitif or some fancy cheezy poof n salmon kibble poop d'ouvres, just let him know, okay?? okay, we will be right back. 

oh, and hee hee, do not poop anywhere i would not poop! which u know, really means u can poop practically anywhere here at the motel park n bark, especially when it is wet outside.  although, i see you would be pooping in your own bowl  of water so maybe that is not the best idea if u want to see our play clearly.  so maybe if i were u i would hold it.  or skip the cheezy poof n salmon kibble poop d-ouvres, cuz, they're tasty going in thru the front but mighty wicked on the back end if u know what i mean.   

okay,  c u in a few minutes!!

say what? but lulu,  what do u mean u do not want to be the princess in our premier pirate princess dragon and plenty of snackies play for mario?  i am supposed to be the pirate because i am a boy and i have way more experience.  well, okay, i would have more experience f it wasn't so hot this summer and mom would not let me n duk duk go pirate the seven seas.  and besides, we just told our very important guest that our play will be on in five minutes and this is the world wide premiere and everyone knows princesses are always girls and ... oh pleeeeeze play the princess, wontchoo? just look at all the wonderful things chocobot and lil pink puppy made for the princess to wear!

sigh. okay, u r the guest and the show must go on. let's get dressed and go see mario...

"but soft, what stink thru yonder window wafts? it is my poop, and this hungry pirate has come to take me and my dragon away..."  :)

baxter & duk duk's motel park n bark complimentary walkies tour

...and that's how the poopie pothole got its name.  now ladies and gent- um, lady - if you will follow me, next on the motel park n bark tour is a pass by my friends morton and iris's house, followed by a quick scan of the yards in i-can-always-find-bunnies at houses number 3 and 4, and then,  romp thru rabbit ravine where if we are really lucky, we can find a u know what to u know what, only please remember to only go as far as the forest edge so as to not get into any poison ivy, okay? and we're walking we're walking... :)

lesson for a busy dachshund

dear diary,
even though i enjoy being an only dog, mom says it is good for me to hang around with other pups because i might learn a thing or two and boy was she right.  cuz, well, you see, the night before lulu's visit,  mom asked me n duk duk to tidy up the motel park n bark and put away our toys and stuff.  but since me n duk duk were busy cuz we wanted to finish playing on the wii and ended staying up til two in the morning, well, it kind of never happened.  and for the most part that was okay because well, u know, toyfriends can always be restuffed, butchoo see, i kinda sorta forgot to put something very important away.  and u can tell by my tail that this is the very moment when i realized my mistake.








yup, i forgot to put my antler away.  and u know, it was funny because i never really realized how much i really liked my antler until lulu found it on the floor and started eating it right in front of me.  and let me tell you diary, never did my antler ever look so tasty as it did when she was eating it.

 

and, as if i did not learn enough already yesterday just by watching lulu play with my antler, i learned thatchoo should never get too close to another somebody when they are eating an antler.  even if it is your antler and you forgot to put it away. 

sigh..sometimes i wish my lessons were not so hard to learn but mom says that is how u build character. i say, characters are for cartoons.

toodley-doo,
b. :)

ps - do not feel too badly for me or lulu bcuz after mom helped me hide my antler, we found mister turtle in the backyard and everybuddy forgot about that antler. well until now...mmmm antler...  :) :)

video B: mine, yours, & ours

You know, if little happy dachshunds had thought bubbles during their playtime, sometimes I think their conversations would go a bit like this... :)

dapper doxie duds: oscar's cute cute happy monsters :)

Hello! It's me, Baxter, your roving rover reporter! Well, it's me reporting, not me in the picture,  because the super cool pup you see over there to your left is actually my friend Oscar, who was rescued more than a year ago after being abandoned with his brothers in a box, all starved and unhealthy. But lucky for him (and I think the others), they all got new homes just like I did! And because Oscar's old harness chafed him so, his mom came to my mom to request his very first custom dud. Yippee, right?









Now,Oscar's mom said that if Oscar would be a person, he'd be a toddler, because he always acts like a little kid and can be very skittish and runs from strangers when they come in the house but once he warms up to you, he turns into a giant cuddle bug. And when he gets excited, he grabs a toy and runs circles around the house, and he also spins around in little circles! So yeah you know Oscar needed the right fabric to match his personality, right? Which is why Oscar's new dud is all super fresh super cute monsters in the happy fun colors of mint and teal and gray and orange and yellow!  I think he will look very dapper in it dontchoo? And I really like his enameled squirrel charm, too.

So anyhoo, that is my report for today and Oscar, if you do not mind I will be sending your dud shortly because me n DJs Skillit Hedd n Maus in DaHaus n OttoPiLot are in the middle of writing our next song but I promise I take the time to take it off and mail it out just as soon as we are through in just a little bit, ok? :) :)

This is Baxter your roving rover reporter wishing you a most wonderful Wednesday! :)