Howlaween Fun and Spirits

Part 1: Howlaween Fun

Are any of you guys gonna go trick-or-treating? Can ya guess what my costume is?



















And here is the correct answer. Did you guess correctly?



















Part 2: Spirits

I have a half-sis named Mika. Sometimes I think she is a spirit. Take a look at these pictures of Mika that we took this month. Maybe Mika is a spirit dog. What da ya think?

Mika Spirit and Me: (hmmm I think I look like a ghost in this pic)


















Just to show that it's not a problem with that particular day, here is another picture of Mika Spirit:


















And, just to prove it's not a problem with MY camera, this picture was taken with someone else's camera. See Mika Spirit in the background. Elke (my niece) is in the front.

Woe is My Dog Car

A week ago Monday we had stayed the night at my grandparents' house on Monday evening. Well, GUESS WHAT HAPPENED on Tuesday morning when my parents went outside to my dog car to drive to work! SOMEONE BROKE INTO MY DOG CAR!! Yikes!! Woe is my dog car! My mom noticed the front passenger door was left AJAR, the ashtray (we don't smoke) was sitting on the FLOOR, and the driver's door was UNLOCKED! From my spy window (see my Ghost Dog post below), I was watching my parents inspect my dog car... I felt helpless and couldn't even go outside to check out what had happened. Well, nothing was damaged and nothing was stolen (not even the tennis balls in the back trunk! Now, ya gotta really wonder why they didn't steal my tennis balls.) What kind of thieves were they? What did they want with my dog car? Did they want money, the radio, the car for their dog? They left the money in the ashtray. Maybe they wanted to steal me and were lookin' for me??? Ya think?

I told my parents that we should call up Animal Planet so they could put this on the animal news so all the doggies could be on the alert for dog car thieves! But, they didn't listen to me. Hmpf! So, through this blog, I am letting all you dog bloggers know to beware and be on the alert! I wish I had Ivy and Pamkin gourding my dog car for me.

My dad was glad my dog car wasn't stolen or vandalized. He realizes now how much he luvs my dog car. On the other hand, my mom said if it had been stolen, we could get a new dog car.

Well, I'm just grateful my dog car wuz ok! It is the perfect car for me. The head rest on the car door is just perfect for my height, and the interior fabric is nice and soft and comfy, and the backseat is just the right width and length for my dog body. I LUV MY DOG CAR!

Pet Peek

What da ya guys think of this? It is called a Pet Peek. Here is a blurb I found on it:

"Pet Peek gives your pooch a panoramic portal into the neighbor's yard, relieveing canine curiousities. Privacy is obviously compromised, however, both owners and neighbors, given a good sense of humor, could find it to be a humorous asset as well as a useful tool for covert spy tactics and juicy neighborhood gossip."

Here are my comments and friends' comments:

1. This might work if you had an astronaut or cruise ship themed backyard.
2. If you are the neighbor next door, when it comes time to sell your house, you'd have to disclose that there is a peeping dog next door.
3. Some of us doggies would use it as a foothold to climb the fence.
4. If there is more than one dog in your family, you'd have to fight over who gets to use the Pet Peek, or your human would have to buy and install multiple Pet Peeks.
5. Think of all the nose tatoos and slobber marks the humans would have to clean up for us!! Ha, ha!

Ghost Dog

(click on picture to enlarge)

Oooooo, does this scare you? Do you see the eerie almost translucent Ghost Dog hiding behind the curtain? Ha, ha!! I'm just kidding! It's just ME! Betcha I scared ya, huh!??!

Loooong Car Ride from CA to AZ

I had a loooong 12 hour car ride to Arizona to attend to some business. You would not believe all the signs I saw that had to do with animals. There were ads for the San Diego Zoo, lots of exit signs to roads like Big Bear Rd, Quail Run, or Crazy Horse Rd, and signs for insurance companies with animals on their ads. Practically every other sign had something to do with an animal. Next time you're driving from San Francisco on the I-5 or I-10 going from the L.A. area to Arizona, take a close look. Our 12 hour car ride included lots of pit stops at fast food restaurants to get a quick bite to eat, to stretch our legs, or to let my dad out to pee.

Since the trip was for business, I didn't get many fun pictures to show you, but here are a few I managed to take.

If you look closely at my lunchbox, you will see it has lots of doggies on it!


Yikes!! This was in Blythe, California, basically out in the middle of nowhere. When I saw this sign, I was afraid my parents were dropping me off at the prison. Well, we went right past the prison, thank dogness. As for the hitchhiker sign, it sure scared me. We did see a chihuahua with a guy (ex-convict or escapee?) on the side of the road... I was tempted to help out my fellow dog... but in the end, I drove past them. I hope I did the right thing. Poor doggie out in the middle of the desert.


Double Yikes!! Whoa, Bees? Where? Are these killer bees? I will not be stopping for water, no sir! The middle of nowhere is not a friendly place.


Triple Yikes!! What's animal abandonment? Oh, ok, my mom just explained it to me. Why on earth would anyone abandon their pet? And why would anyone drive all the way TO THE DESERT to abandon their pet?


Judging from those signs we just saw earlier, I don't think Arizona is very welcoming.


I like car rides, but this is just way too long. Oh, I love blankies, I love to get on tiptop of the blankies so I can be Queen of the Blankies, oh so sleepy.....


Dad, what are ya doing behind my back? (this is not a very flattering picture of me, but my mom insisted that I post it)


I finally get my OWN bed!! (by the way, this bed is a small twin size bed. It is NOT a queen bed as the picture angle might indicate. I am not that big!)


Don't I look nice against the colorful bedspread?


I am so tired from running around all day on business.


At first I thought these were horsies. Upon closer look at their faces, I thought they were donkeys. But, donkeys are not supposed to be as big as horsies. Later, I showed someone my horse/donkey pic, and they said the animal might be a Mule or a Hinny which is a cross between a horse and a donkey. Well, ya learn something new everyday, eh?


These gas prices in Arizona are ridiculously low. You'll see further down in the pics what California prices are.



Ah yes, our lovely California gas prices. NOT! Yikes!!! This is not good for my dog car trips.

Oh yeah, in AZ, there were a LOT of mosquitos out DURING THE DAY TIME!!! What's up with that? We only have them in our area at night time. And, I did not see any body of water in AZ anywhere, no way, no sir! Maybe where we stayed in AZ, the next door neighbor had pet mosquitos in the backyard, like Hershey's neighbor has.

Guard Dog Destroys Elvis' Teddy Bear

I have a lot to say this week. There is so much I want to blog about, that I have to hold back, or try to.

The story below came out back in August 2006, but I thought I'd share it with you in case you haven't seen it yet.

Elvis’ teddy bear leaves building the hard way. Guard dog rips head off Presley’s $75,000 toy in stuffed-animal rampage.

Security guard Greg West and his Doberman, Barney. A $75,000 teddy bear formerly owned by Elvis Presley was one of the bears destroyed when the guard dog went on the rampage on Tuesday.

Updated: 5:18 a.m. PT Aug 3, 2006
LONDON - A guard dog has ripped apart a collection of rare teddy bears, including one once owned by Elvis Presley, during a rampage at a children’s museum.

“He just went berserk,” said Daniel Medley, general manager of the Wookey Hole Caves near Wells, England, where hundreds of bears were chewed up Tuesday night by the 6-year-old Doberman pinscher named Barney.

Barney ripped the head off a brown stuffed bear once owned by the young Presley during the attack, leaving fluffy stuffing and bits of bears’ limbs and heads on the museum floor. The bear, named Mabel, was made in 1909 by the German manufacturer Steiff.

The collection, valued at more than $900,000, included a red bear made by Farnell in 1910 and a Bobby Bruin made by Merrythought in 1936.

The bear with Elvis connections was owned by English aristocrat Benjamin Slade, who bought it at an Elvis memorabilia auction in Memphis, Tenn., and had loaned it to the museum.

“I’ve spoken to the bear’s owner and he is not very pleased at all,” Medley said.

A security guard at the museum, Greg West, said he spent several minutes chasing Barney before wrestling the dog to the ground.

AP
Mabel, a teddy bear once owned by Elvis Presley, is shown before its unfortunate encounter with Barney.

© 2006 The Associated Press


What do you guys think? I mean, come on, that's like putting a kid in charge of a candy store! I heard that the insurance company who was insuring it recommended it be guarded by a guard dog! Oh, such a brilliant idea of having a dog watch over stuffed animals. I think anyone of us would have known that was not going to work!!

The Great Pumpkin Weigh Off

In Half Moon Bay, they had the 33rd annual Safeway Championship Weigh Off. The winning pumpkin was 1,223 pounds!!! That is like having 37 little Hana Dogs like me stand on a scale! I don't think Pam and Ken are as heavy as these mammoths, are they Ivy? Whoever owns the big pumpkin should make pumpkin pie to share with us doggies, dontcha think? (I'm beginning to sound like Isabella.)

Here are some pictures I've copied from the SF Chronicle web site

Washington man is 3rd-time winner of pumpkin contest.
Joel Holland from Sumner, Wash., won at the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin festival for the sixth time. His pumpkin has a height of 3 feet 3 inches, circumference of 14 feet 6 inches, with a weight of 1,223 pounds:

12-year-old Amanda Zunino, the surprise runner-up:

Two men stand on a forklift to guide the driver into the weighing area at the annual giant pumpkin growing world championships in Half Moon Bay:

Paul Rys from San Luis Obispo with a pumpkin he thinks is one of the nicest looking:

Farmer John Muller nurtured two Atlantic Giant pumpkins into giant dice: