The Wren

Rolydog and I have been donating our fur lately.  One morning early as the humans sat on the nodogsonthecouch and we slept under the table, a Bewicks wren came hopping by the water bowl, just outside the door, and stopped at the dogbed to pick up scraps of dog hair, soft and silky.  Then he swooped off to the cherry tree and away.  Just think, somewhere a tiny bird is going to be warmer this Spring because we were here!
Finn, on patrol

Rolydog and the Ching!

I think i remembered to tell you they keep the ching! things on the handopeners of the glassdoor. I know how to touch it with my nose and go out, but this is a story about Rolydog.
Silly Rolydog sometimes rings the ching! with his nose, but sometimes he just looks at the handopener, and doesn't touch the ching! with his nose.  The other day he just looked at the handopener, but when Curlmom and Curldad reminded him to "ringthebell" he turned around to look at them, and rang it with his tail! they were happy and let him out.  He told me later he's never been so confused.

Finn and the Spinnylegs

So I think i mentioned that i don't lunge at the humans with spinny legs anymore.  At first they scared me, coming up so fast from behind us on our walks.  i'm very alert to surprises, and a human who is half metal and has those dogbowlshaped legs is, you'll have to agree, surprising.  then i started to figure it out: curlmom and curldad  turn into spinnyleg humans too, tho of course when i see them the spinny just being carried down the hall and out the door.  They wear really notdogwalk shoes then, so disappointing, because they come home all tired and happy, and Rolydog and i think "we could have gotten you that tired and happy, if you'd taken us out for that long!"
Where was i? oh, i remember now.  Anyway, one day curlmom and curldad set curlmom's spinny up on metal things, and she put on those notdogwalk shoes, and suddenly turned into a spinnyleg human.  I went over to investigate, watching her feet - but not getting too close - as she spun. Now i understand that spinnyleg humans are just humans plus a spinny thing, and i just look at them and feel sorry for the dog that they left at home.
Finn, on patrol

Rolydog - smarter than we thought

So we'd had a long day, yesterday, and I was napping on the big dogbed, by the glassdoor.  It used to be Roly's bed, but nowit belongs to whoever gets there first.  It's the softest bed in the house.  It's almost big enough for two, but not quite. Anyway, I was resting right in the middle of the dogbed.  Roly walked over and rang the bell to go out, with his "something's exciting is happening in the yard" urgency.  I'm always up for an adventure, so I followed him out.  But the moment I went through the door, he turned around and came back in, and plunked  down on the dogbed!  The rascal!
Anyway, I found enough room to share part of the dogbed with him, and we napped happily together
Finn, almost always on patrol

Finn says hello

The other day Rolydog and i took curldad for his walk down to the grasskids place at the end of the block. the kids weren't there - they never are when we go down, but i can hear them during the day, and i can smell their many kidsmells when we walk. i haven't met many kids around here but they seem nice, i did meet the tinykid across the street.  i was very polite and just looked at him, Rolydog licked his face.
Where was i? Oh, now i remember. So we were down at the grasskids place and Curldad did the usual thing of letting Rolydog go and adding his leash to mine, so i have more room to move.  Rolydog goes over to visit other dogs sometimes, and this time the other dogs followed him back to us! There was a small brown and white dog with big ears, and a black wide dog like Kingdog. they came right over all friendly, and i was all friendly back.  it was fun!
i always bark at dogs when they walk by on the other side of the street, but that's just because i'm hoping they will come over to say hello, like those dogs did.
Finn, on patrol