Of Haircuts and Evil Twins and Things

*Warning* This post contains pictures of totally naked doggies. (And I can't wait to see what the google visitor stats do with that phrase!) For those of you who may be offended by naked dogs, consider yourself warned.

*ahem*

Mom decided that it was time to get our summer cuts. We have another weekend of human zoomies (autocross) in Wendover, and it is supposed to be in the 80s, and we were getting a little woolly, so Mom hauled us off to the groomers. We leave for Wendover tomorrow, and today was the first day since Abby got filleted spayed that she could have a bath, so today was groomer day.

Woo. Hoo.

Somehow, after the groomer, the Mutant Puppy Monster and I have ended up looking like twins. What is up with that?!?

Seriously. When did that happen?

Mom has decided that she can no longer control the evil Puppy Monster keep Abby at a low activity level, and so after the groomer, she let us go back to our regular friendly interaction.

Who's on top? I can't tell who I am in this picture....

Oh yeah. I'm the one on top with the leg in my mouth...

Who is this Mini-Me, and why is she attacking me? What has happened to the little thing Mom and Dad brought home?

This thing above is my sister. Not this thing:

Oh crap.

I've got an evil twin!


But, there is one thing about having an Evil Twin; she will go along with just about anything...


And I've got her trained to look innocent (as best she can, anyway) when needed....

Who, us? What did we do?!?


Heehee!

So yeah, we are pretty much 'naked' for summer. It's nice and comfy, and we are streamlined - which makes for most excellent zoomies!


And that's what it's all about, right?

*kissey face*
-Fiona and Abby my Evil Twin the Mutant Puppy

Ho-Hum

Okay, well first, I should say that the Super Top Secret exciting stuff is probably only Super Exciting to some of us. It's not like we are getting a new little sister (although I wish we could get one who would chew on Abby's tail...)

This one is cute, but she's already taken! Which is probably a good thing, because I think Mom would take her in a heartbeat!

And Mom didn't indulge herself and go buy a new Mustang GT500 (as much as she may have wanted to)...

She's going to wait until she sells her first book, and then she'll go buy one!!! Of course, she has to finish writing said first book, first, but that's just a minor detail...Heehee!

But, the Super Top Secret excitement has to wait for another day.

In the meantime, if you recall, my Mutant Puppy sister got spayed last Monday (a week ago), so we haven't been able to engage in our backyard MMA adventures...

Actually, it was raining up until yesterday, so we engaged in a little surreptitious indoor wrestling. Surreptitious because Abby is supposed to be engaging in 'minimal activity' through this week. Uh-huh. She's a 6 month old Mutant Puppy. They don't make drugs strong enough to keep her down.

She is supposed to be doing this:

And instead, she's looking for ways to get into trouble...

I know she looks all innocent like (and yes, she's milking the 'oh-poor-me' look...), but trust me, she's anything but...

First, I would like to say that I am a Super Tolerant sister.

Seriously. If that isn't tolerance it's me a split-second away from biting her mutant head off I don't know what is.

Do you see what I put up with?!?

And my only retaliation is to post unflattering pictures of her on the internets. Heehee.

However, the last couple of days have been nice, and Mom and Dad are back to taking us on walks on the local 'multi-use' trails. Because while Abby is supposed to limit her activity, she is only supposed to limit activity that involved biting/jumping on/harassing her much wiser and more beautiful older sister. Apparently long walks are OK. And since the vet knows Abby, they are also strongly encouraged. Heh.

First, Dennis, we've been checking out real estate for you, since you are all ready to get your Dad to buy you a house that backs on to the trail. I think this one would suit you perfectly:

It's only about 30,000 square-feet, but it should be large enough for you to race around in, while still providing Trouble with living quarters that will meet her exacting standards. I think the place even has a special Cheese Storage Room. At least that's what I think it said on the description. I will get you the realtor's name/number if you'd like.

Here's the multi-use trail being used buy multitudes...

Brutus, I would like you to notice the blue skies in these photos. I know you aren't familiar with such things, so I thought you should be able to at least see pictures of non-rainy skies!

Anyway, at least the 4.5 mile walks each day help take the edge of Mutant Puppy's ridiculous amount of energy.

Is it me, or does my Mutant Puppy Sister have an unnaturally large tongue?

*kissey face*
-Fiona and Abby the Mutant Puppy

Just a short update

Hi everyone!!! We had a Very Exciting Afternoon yesterday, but it was Super Top Secret, and Mom has Sworn Me to Secrecy, so I can't say anything yet. But I'll just say that it was Really Exciting!!!

But since I can't say anything about the Super Top Secret thing that happened yesterday, and it is raining like no one's business (we know who to blame, BTW, but I think that is also Super Top Secret!), we don't have anything interesting to say. Except that I should go back to building my ark...

I've already got my life jacket handy.


Abby apparently did NOT read the instructions that the vet gave her, and as such has completely ignored the part where she is supposed to engage in 'minimal activity' for two weeks. As if!!! She has been such a Monster that the vet actually gave Mom some pills to give Abby that are supposed to sedate her. So far, I'd say the pills only kind of work. In fact, I've told Mom that she might want to see if she can improve our driveway with something like this:

If you can't read it well, it says 'Cave Canem' - which is Latin for Beware of Dog. Even the people in ancient Pompeii must have known about Abby the Mutant Puppy Monster... We TOTALLY need one of these mosaics at the bottom of our driveway!

And speaking of the Evil Puppy Monster? She is approximately 50lbs now (so when the two of us are wrestling, you've got over 100lb of dog flying around the room - quite impressive, I think...). But somehow, the Evil Puppy Monster is able to flatten herself out in such a manner that she is able to get under the bed.

Getting out, however, is sometimes a bit more of an issue. When she's lazy, she'll just stay under the bed and bark until Mom pulls her out by her leggies. Personally, I think Abby should just stay under the bed permanently. I'm just saying....

So until something interesting happens around here, I'm just going to dream about running around and playing with my toy.

*kissey face*
-Fiona and Abby the Mutant Puppy Monster

MY Day (sort of)

So, my little (hey, she's younger than me, she'll always be my little sister) mutant sister had her 6 month birthday just a couple of days ago. And apparently 6 months is a pretty key point in a mutant puppy's life. (Well, okay, in most puppies lives, mutant or not.) Mom took her off to get sprayed today. Oh. Wait. That's "spayed". I guess that's why she didn't come back with airbrushed pink racing stripes like I was rooting for.

Anyhoo. Abby was off at the vet all day, so I had Mom and Dad all to myself. Which mean that when we went on our walk, I got all the attention, and Mom was able to take some pictures because she wasn't trying to wrangle the Mutant Puppy.

Park City has a giant network of "multi-use" trails (some are paved, some aren't, and they are used by cyclists, joggers, dog walkers, etc., etc.), and since our local hiking trails haven't dried out yet (it's been nice during the day, but it's been raining at night), we've been walking on these trails.

We start the trail where it borders the Swaner Preserve. It's a wetland area with lots of birds and beasties. And a nice place to walk.

There are houses that border the preserve, and the trail system.

We've had really warm weather as of late, so the stream that runs through the area has been running high with snow melt. The trail was actually washed out in spots, and we could see the stream running big throughout the walk.

At the turn-around point of our walk, there is a park. And in this park is a pond, that is apparently quite popular with doggies who enjoy that sort of thing.

Me? Despite being a child of "water dogs" I'm not super keen on the whole swimming thing. So far.

But Mom and Dad decided to see if they could entice me into the water with a little tennis ball action. It was hot out, so I thought I'd give it a try...


Okay, so I didn't exactly dive right in. But hey, it was a start, right? And maybe I'll get braver - especially as the weather gets warmer!

And then it was time to head for home.

But we stopped to play a little ball before we got back to the car...


A little water, a little ball chasing, a long walk. And Abby came home this afternoon all safe and sound, but Very Sleepy. (And sadly, with no pink racing stripes...) So it was a great day!

And on a totally unrelated note, here are some flowers from around the house:


And now, I'm going to go take care of my little mutant sister.

*kissey face*
-Fiona (and Abby the Mutant Puppy)

Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

After failing to get Flat Brutus in to Park City to see the sights (in all fairness, Mom has had a pretty hectic week, so FB spent a lot of time just chilling with us) we said our goodbyes, and Mom got Flat Brutus packed up to his next destination, Mayzie's house. With luck, Flat Brutus should be there by Monday or Tuesday. Bye, Flat Brutus!!! We had fun! And if anyone else has flat selves they would like to send traveling, we'd love to host more flat doggies!

Until more flat doggies show up (hint, hint), I have gone back to teaching Abby the Mutant Puppy who's boss. I've received a lot of advice about how it is all about attitude, and when it comes to showing Mutant Puppy who's in charge, I've got attitude to spare!

Wouldn't you be scared by that if you were some upstart mutant puppy? I thought so!

Yep. I'm So The Boss around here!

Smackdown in the making! Heh!

Here Abby thinks she's all cool because she's got the toy:
But I only let her get away with that for so long...

She didn't even see me coming!

Neener, neener, I'm faster than you, Mutant Puppy!

Still faster...

Ummm. Still faster. *heehee*
Let's see.... Hmmm. Still faster than the Mutant.

Note how the little Mutant tries to bite my butt in an attempt to make up for her lack of speed?

To keep the Little Mutant's "self-esteem" up (i.e. so she doesn't totally catch on to the concept that I'm just way faster and wiley-er than she is) I'll let her get the toy. Occasionally.


But when it comes down to it, I'm not the one who is all goofy-looking with her tongue hanging out of the side of her mouth!

Heehee.

*kissey face*
-Fiona and Abby the Mutant Puppy