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! :)

happy quiet playtime

Tiny chumley clearly needed something to do while I worked on a certain someone's special little dapper doxie dud, and so out came his antler and one very deflated mister squirrel toyfriend, both of which called to the little kielbasa's inner wolf when combined into one crunchyriffic challenge.

ooo, mom, did u hear that? sorry i cannot help u any more -  if i work at this long enough, i might just get to the bone crunchy center after all! 

arooooooo! :)

bax tzu's art of more

okay, mom, my tummy says the complimentary period of our fun fun frisbee fetch session is now over.  please deposit ten snackies if you would like to continue playing :) :)

home alone

Tiny chumley never really likes being left home alone, especially when it's too hot out to take him with us on errands. His little ears press back on his head in protest while he wanders off to find a quiet hiding spot, hoping that we will have a hard time finding him even though the best of his hiding spaces are two times too small for his extra long little body.  And when we find him and pick him up to say goodbye, it is obvious that the lucky charms and twinkly stars and rainbow clovers that normally occupy his happy cartoon thought bubble have been replaced by big black scribble balls.

no mom, i am very sorry, cannot look you in the eyes or give you a kiss at this time.   please try again later.  beeeeep - this is a recording.











Thankfully, just as was the case yesterday, by the time we return home all is forgiven, and life is exactly as it should be.
  

yippee! welcome home mom n dad! i barked at three squirrels and two walkers by and the phone rang but i did not pick it up like you made me promise to on account of that time i signed us up for the mega multichannel entertainment cable tv package even though duk duk and me thought it was a great deal and you should really consider it and ooh, do i smell flea market?? didjoo say hello to mister randy for me? and wooty - u brought me some floorcorn!! thank u mom n dad! next time u have to go out, please take me, okay?  :) :)

the hungry games: wet food vs watermelon best 2 of 3results

Why hello friends, it's me, Baxter your roving reporter reporting to you today on the results of my very difficult test, wet food versus watermelon.  And ta-da - can you believe there was the upset of the century in round one because - did u guess it? - watermelon beat wet food!!  I could not believe it either, which is why my tummy wanted to do best 2 out of 3.  And how yep, wet food finally won the day no matter what side it was on.  Although the watermelon appetizer was very nice, I must say.


 

Anyhoo,  I hope you enjoyed finding out the results from today's hungry game and hope that u might try it too.  Who knows, maybe you might just pick a watermelon appetizer too!


This is Baxter your roving rover reporter wishing you a super Saturday!! :)

the hungry games: wet food vs watermelon

Well hello everybuddy, it's me, Baxter, your roving rover reporter reporting to you today cuz my mom spent practically all day shopping for dud fabrics yesterday and so she left it up to me to write today's post.  So I thought, what an excellent time to break out the hardest but yummiest hungry games test yet, canned wet food vs watermelon! I know, it's a super toughie, right?  Like Michael Phelps vs Ryan Lochte tough.  Or even, Scooby Doo vs Benji tough.

Oh, and, to make it more statistically relevant, and way more tummy fulfilling, we are going to do this test not once, not twice, but three whole times!

So place your bets my friends and let me know what u think will happen with each and every test - will I choose the pinky sweet delightful goodness of watermelon like I did when I tested with cherry tomato? Or will I choose palate pleasing poultry goodness?  Or will I even choose the same thing every time?  Oooh the possibilities are endless!

This is Baxter your roving rover reporter wishing you good luck and may the guessing force be with you! :)

brought 2 u by baxter n duk duk: a dj scratch munky & skillit hedd video production featuring maus in dahaus and ottopiLot

What's a little dog and his toyfriends to do when it's cloudy and thundery outside and their plans for the day are spoiled?  Why, adopt electro-house dj personas and write a song about it and make their own music video of course. :)

just chuck it

aw come on mom, just chuck it! ahhhhghhhhhhhhhhhgghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

the hungry games: cherry tomato vs watermelon results

and the answer is....watermelon! :) :)

 

hee hee, thank you for playing with me! now i must go hide bcuz i hear i am overdue for getting my nails done. :)

the hungry games: cherry tomato vs watermelon

Well hello everybuddy, it's me, Baxter, your roving rover reporter, reporting to you today from the Hungry Games where we're just about to start test number 5.  Now, during the commerical break you may have missed a quickie but to some very astonishing upset in the impromptu test, mini vs megasaurus rawhide.  Would I go for the small piece of rawhide first on my right and have it all to myself, or would my very opportunistic tummy choose megasaurus rawhide on my left and only have a few minutes with it?  The results might amaze you...

Now, we're on to today's test, watermelon vs cherry tomato and it's a toughie.  Will my tummy tell me to first go for the cute slices of delicious cherry tomato on my right/your left or the yummy cubes of watermelon on my left/your right? They smell very yummy and are very tempting and I can tell you already the waiting is making me want to bark bark bark! But I will try not to and just put my ears back a little and make my eyes do just like so...

  

Okay my friends, it is time to write in your guess and tomorrow I will tell you the results! This is Baxter your roving rover reporter wishing you a very happy hungry games! :)

little duk sunday

come, play with me-ee-eeeee, and my beau-ti-full, my beau-ti-full duk-keeeeeee!  :)

 

tartar barter

okay mom, u can check my teeth for tartar but today can we please go to the swimming store so me and duk duk can get our matching swim caps and nose clips?  we only have a week to train before the synchronized swimming event starts and i really want to medal in duets. :)

the other white meat

Tiny chumley was thoroughly enjoying his late afternoon nap yesterday, roasting nicely and blissfully unaware of the descending sun's efforts to make him comically look like a trussed up little piggy, ten times more sausagey and humpy than he really is.

whatchoo laughing at mom? did i miss sumptin? hey, do u smell bacon? i smell bacon. mmmm, bacon. :)

felted recollections

Although I am not exactly sure how the presence of little doxie can help add visual explanation to the felted pincushions I soon will be putting on Etsy,  a certain little somepuppy most definitely thought his presence in my pictures was required, and he trundled up to crash my photo shoot accordingly.

mom, you're taking pictures of stuff for etsy? why didntchoo call me?? you know i'm always up for a... hey, i know you made them for the bucktown show, but aren't these the same kinds of things that you -

Um, okay my little friend, howzabout we get you that snackie you earned and you can sit beside me while I finish taking pictures?

okay and yippee! :)

ps - i'll be loading Etsy today and tomorrow so stay tuned if you'd like one! :)

sharko!

 hee hee, sharko polo jumps out of the water and sinks his shiny white teeth into his prize!!

uhm..mahm, canshooh pleesh let go now?

life is..

Tiny Sausage Avenger took a break from barking at everything surrounding the perimeter of his backyard yesterday evening.  The little neighbor misses Sarah and Julia, moms to Mario Snoopy Obi Wan Kenobi, dropped by to say hello and play a what seemed to be sweet game of name repetition and free flowing snackies, with an occasional tap toe and paw shake thrown in for good measure. 

There were totally non-bonuses about being outside in that mosquitoey moist heat, watching Baxter's waistline grow snackie by snackie larger and larger, and yet I hope, as I am sure the little kielbasa and his tummy does, that his little friends will visit again.  Life is a bowl of snackies, and we all should take a bite. :)

dapper doxie dud: secret robo dog!

 

so mom my idea was we would do something like this.  wait- let me clear -  a-a-a-hem - okay.

(en voce meccanica artificiale)
 

meep meep boop beep beep! 

this is robo-baxter from the planet poopiter. 

please take me to your snackie jar now or i will use my super duper foofie rays to..

 












what? no mom i would not actually foofie up jasper's super swell new everyday playdud made from space blue 420 denier pack cloth with robot charm and secret super cute robot fabric inside bcuz u would make stunt dud and that way when it comes to the next scene where robo-baxter and mechatron fight over who has ultimate control of the snackie jar that determines the fate of all the snackie jars of planet earth, we will not have to worry about, u know, getting jasper's new dud all messed up from the molten lava and nuclear fallout snow that we will have made from the gallons of  honey and ketchup and mashed potatoes and stuff that we would need to buy. and then...oh what?  he wants his dud before the summer is over?  sigh. well, okay, we can model it your way...this time.

hee hee hee, i hope u likey likey your new robo-dud, my friend jasper!! and please say hello to your visitor harley for me :) :)

i bark, u bark, we all bark for gelato!

dear diary,
hooray! both our guests here at the motel park n bark decided to stay for an extra night so to celebrate, yesterday mom n dad too me n lulu to get k9 krunchy peanut butter gelato while mario hung out at home with duk duk and chocobot and lil pink puppy to play twenty thousand foofies under the sea.  and i have to say, even though i had to share my snoozer with a girl, i think i totally got the better end of the deal bcuz not only did i get peanut butter gelato, but i actually got to eat the whole thing! and me and lulu each got our own cups so there was no chance for, u know, that lady n the tramp spaghetti kissing stuff to happen (although our cups did touch once or twice but if u tell duk duk that i will so pound u, diary, so please, let's just keep that between u and me, okay?)

anyhoo, today i am not sure what we will be doing to entertain our guests but hopefully it will involve snackies and foofies and yes, at least a poopie snake or five or twelve or infinity so!

toodley-doo!
b. :)