My new neighbors

These days, it seems like there are more animal friends coming to live in my neighborhood. First of all, there's my Bat friend. I don't know what his name is, but I'm going to call him Bruce. We first noticed Bruce the Bat when my Humans were letting me out into the garden for me to shower the plants, and then Bruce and some of his friends kinda dropped from above the door and flew around. Bats scare Momma a lot!

Bruce the Bat

But Bruce seems pretty harmless. He just kinda hangs around all day. Like, really hangs around. He seems to like hanging upside down for some reason. The Beagle from down the road said that he does it because he's really small, and by hanging upside down he's helping his body to grow taller. That's such a cool trick!

I've always wanted to be a big husky like Khyra, the Army of Four or the OP Pack, so I tried that trick too. But I couldn't really hang off anything though because I don't have opposing thumbs. The best I could do was lie on my back. It didn't really help me grow any taller or bigger, but it does get me some comfy belly rubs from my Humans!

Nope... not growing any taller...

The other new neighbors are some feather puppies that have nested somewhere near my Humans' bedroom window. I can't find where they are exactly, but I can hear them chirping and singing every morning. Momma was worried that the Evil Cat might come and eat the feather puppies, but it's okay. The Dog Knight has been patrolling the house to keep those cats away! *wink wink*

I hope I can find those feather puppies soon. I think they'll look as cute as they sound. Speaking of which, both Momma and Pops have just gotten their iPhones and are now addicted to Twitter. The Twitter noise sounds just like the feather puppies!

Pops' scary new plant

Pops got himself a new plant recently... and it's scary! It's a small plant, but it's got all these scary mouths with big teeth! Pops named it Lilith, and he said that it lures smaller things like bugs in and then crushes them with its jaws. If you see the picture below, it managed to catch a cricket! Luckily the cricket escaped though...

Lilith the bug-eating plant

I'm going to stay far away from it. It's smaller than me, but I think it can still bite my paws or something if I'm not too careful. Actually, maybe it can grow bigger and then trap the Evil Cat or those nasty stalker squirrels!

PS Khyra's eldest sister Kyrye just crossed over the Rainbow Bridge recently. She was 15 and a big beautiful Siberian Husky. Do drop by and offer some kind words.

Back to the vet

It's terrible... but my ear started getting all itchy again. I had to see a vet about it a couple of months ago, and then the itchiness went away but it's come back again. And I hate it! I hate that feeling, and it makes me just want to rub my ears into the ground.

Anyway, my Momma was stuck at work so Pops took me to the vet. He's never been to this one, and he didn't know that I've been here with Momma and Grandma before. He probably thought he could trick me into going to the vet. But my memory's awesome and I recognized the place immediately. Heck, my nose could pick up the smell of vet! So I started whining and pleading with him not to take me there, but he did anyway. Hiew hiew hiew...

Inside the vet, I saw this awesome looking husky! It was like Khyra, or the guys from the OP Pack, but much smaller. It was a little puppy husky, and even though it was half my age, it was still twice my size. Geez you huskies are big!

Husky Puppy!

The lady at the vet told us that the puppy belonged to a dog-crazy family, and they bought the puppy for $8000! I don't use money so I'm not sure what that means exactly, but my Pops told me that it's about the same as 18 Xbox 360's. Pops love his Xbox, so that must mean it's A LOT.

There was also this cat there, but I think it was the vet's cat so I was too afraid to chase it around (though I really really really wanted to). If I caught it and bullied it, the vet will probably stick some fat needle in my eye or cut my tail off or something.



I think the cat knew that I wasn't allowed to go near and bully it, so it totally just laughed at me from atop its cage. Even if they're not agents of the Evil Dobermans, cats are still annoying!

After that, it was time to go see the vet, and I was sooooo scared. Whenever Pops put me on the table, I'd just jump and try to climb back into his arms. I hate that table. Bad things happen on that table. It smells of death, medicine, and cats. He stuck little white stick things into my ear, and told my Pops that we needed to clean my ears more because the yeast infection is back. That's sucky.

Anyway, after that my Pops took me home, and I whimpered all the way in the car. Hiew hiew hiew!

PS Sorry for the lousy pictures. My Pops was having a hard time taking photos since I was tugging on the leash and trying to escape.

PPS Oh, and congrats to our favorite sausage dog from Mexico Lorenza. She recently won an award from Brutus' blog, and her prize was a picture drawn of her by Lili Chin. That's so awesome! Click here to see the pic at Lorenza's blog.

Growth Chart: 11 months

Interested in seeing how much I've grown? Well here I am with GG the giraffe again, at 11 months old! Sad to say, I think my growth is slowing down. I'm pretty sure I've grown a bit, but I haven't gotten that much bigger since last month.

At this rate, I'm not sure if I'll be able to grow as big as a husky like Khyra. I hope I'll be able to grow to the same size as the Beagle from down the road though. Can't fight Dobermans head on if I'm still so small!

This is me, after 11 months of growing.

My brother Knuckles on the other hand, is getting pretty big. But he's kinda growing outward and he's getting kinda porky. Aunt Jol feeds him a lot more than my Momma feeds me, I think.

PS My aunt Mainey got her results, and she totally aced her exams this semester! Congratulations, Aunt Mainey!