I'm back!

Wow it's been half a year since I last posted! Pops and I have been pretty preoccupied with other things (at least, that's what he says... I think he's just lazy), so we haven't had the chance to post much. But then the other day I noticed that Salinger was asking about me, so I just hiewed and hiewed until Pops decided to help me blog again!

This is actually a pretty embarrassing picture,
but Momma likes the Lion King

Here's a quick summary of what's happened in the last 6 months:

1. I get to chill on my Humans' bed all the time now, and not just after my baths.
2. I haven't gotten any new toys at all, because Momma thinks I have too many as it is.
3. Turdley Uncle Qian is as turdley as ever. He didn't give me any of his human food.
4. The Mommy Cat gave birth to ANOTHER set of kittens! Now a family of five cats - Mommy, Medium (from the previous litter), and three kittens (White Leg, Pink Nose, and Black) - have moved into our front yard.
5. I barked at the Mommy Cat, and she tried to kill me!
6. Momma and Pops managed to trap Mommy and Medium cats, and brought them to the vet to sterilize them. I don't know what that means, but it sounds scary.
7. My ears still get stinky and icky all the time.
8. Knuckles and I still get into fights a lot. 
9. I missed reading about your adventures a lot!

So yeah, I'll try to keep writing more often! There's going to be another break because my Humans are going on a short holiday, but I will try to sneak a post out or two!

The cats are breeding!

Last Saturday, I went out with my Humans to visit Aunt Jol, grandmother and Knuckles. Then while I was away, guess what happened?!?

A cat snuck into our garden and squeezed out a baby kitten thing! A cat spawned in my garden!!!

This would never have happened if I was at home protecting my family from evil cats. Oh no... I failed my Humans! How could I?

It's a ginger... which means it 

might be related to the Evil Cat!

Anyway, we weren't around so we didn't know what happened, but grandma and grandpa were around so they saw it. Apparently the baby kitty had a dangly thing that was caught under a garden chair, and so the momma cat couldn't carry it away. Grandma and grandpa had to look after the baby kitty for a while, by feeding it some milk, wrapping it in a blanket, and then of course, freeing it from being stuck to the chair.

The momma cat came back later and took the baby kitty away, no doubt to train it to be sneaky and conspire against dogs and humans. We should've dealt with the problem before the baby kitty could grow into a bigger problem, but my grandparents are just suckers for tiny fluffy things.

I guess I can't go away and visit people without things happening!!! Hiew hiew hiew!

Weekend Grooming

Hi guys!

Sorry I haven't written in a long while, but my Pops has been hogging the computer for his work, and tends to do that EVERY night. I think Humans really need to get a regular routine going, or else they'll forget important things like letting their dogs blog.

Anyway, on Saturday Uncle Dave visited from Australia (more about that in another post) and then on Sunday, we sent him off to the airport, early in the morning. That meant a really early start to the day for me.

We then picked up Aunt Jol and Knuckles, and we got taken to the groomer! The groomer was late though, so we had to wait in the car for him to open the store. While doing so, Knuckles and I pleaded to be spared from grooming.



That didn't work of course, and we got groomed.

Between the early start, running around with Knuckles, and the stress from grooming, I had a really really good nap on the way back home that day.

Sleeping in my car...

Furniture pets

Recently, some of our relatives moved into a new apartment.

Knuckles and I were among the first visitors, and we were also their very first shelf ornaments!

What else could you want on your shelves?

Honestly, I think we make furniture look good.

Cos we're fluffy... like trees!

On a sidenote, I noticed that Momma always jokes about finding a new Pops for me, but never jokes about getting a new dog. I think that means it's official: Momma loves me more than she loves Pops. Cos he's replaceable, but I'm not!

Height matters!

You know something? I really hate it when Knuckles is above me. I mean, I'm the big brother, so I should be higher up than him, right? The Beagle from down the road told me that height matters because the higher you are, the higher up the high-rarky you are. Neither of us are sure what that means, but I think it means he shouldn't climb up over me.

Which is why I get really angry when he jumps onto the couch, or when someone carries him! He can't get away with that, right? I'm the big brother!!!

Here are a couple of videos of how angry I get when Knuckles is up high.

Meet the toys: Bunny

I got a new toy! Well, actually it's not supposed to be mine, but it is now anyway. Lemme tell you the full story...

The other day, Momma received a package. It had some food for me, a Christmas present for Knuckles, and when Momma was rummaging around in the bag, a plushie fell out! I immediately went and snatched it, and went off to play with my new toy.

My new Bunny!

But apparently, it was not my new toy... Momma said it was cousin Tails' Christmas present. She gave the "off!" command, so I had no choice but to let it go.

When Momma took it away, I started hiew hiewing the way the Beagle from down the road taught me... and it worked! Momma felt so bad, she let me keep the new toy!

And that's the story of how I got Bunny. He squeaks. I like squeaky stuff!

Random Picture Moment

Have you guys ever seen my pawrents? Not my Momma and Pops, I mean. Those two are my Humans. My pawrents are the dogs that ordered Knuckles and I from the stork. Momma just showed me a picture of them, so I wanted to share it with you guys.

These are my pawrents

Can you see the resemblance?

Foursquare, Silkese-style

Today, I got to go over to grandmother's place to hang out with Knuckles. As usual, I really didn't like it when my Humans played and cuddled Knuckles, and I would dash over and start chasing Knuckles around. Pops thought it was very naughty of me, and decided to put me on "time out" by leashing me to the door.

I was a naughty boy

I was there for very long though, and soon I was out and about playing with Knuckles again. Foursquare is pretty popular with Momma and Aunt Jol (Pops retired from it a few months ago), and basically it's a game where you "check-in" at different places, and the person with the most check-ins at a place would become the mayor. I'm not sure what a mayor is, but I'm guessing it's like an alpha dog.

Knuckles and I don't have iPhones of our own, so we would check-in by leaving a Golden Offering. I became mayor of the dining room chair, and the balcony. Knuckles got the kitchen, the gate, and some other places I shouldn't mention in case grandmother is reading this.

It was definitely pretty fun. Oh yeah, check out Knuckle's new tag. It says "I <3 Food". It's pretty "duh" if you ask me, considering he steals so much human food. But it definitely suits him!

He kinda looks like he has buck teeth here.

Anyway, it was such a long day, I think I'm gonna curl up and sleep.

Weekend update

Wow, it's Thursday and I'm doing the weekend update. That shows you just how lousy I've been with updates! It's all Pops' fault, really.

Anyway, we went to visit Knuckles and Aunt Jol on the weekend, and then the humans all went to the park to see some Animal Day thing there. There were lots of dogs to meet, and things to sniff. But you know what's wrong with it? KNUCKLES AND I DIDN'T GO!

How could you leave this face at home?

Our humans wanted to go cycling, and they didn't trust us to sit nicely in a basket while they cycled. They had a poor excuse, like "it's for our own safety." Hiew hiew hiew!

But later that night was fun. Grandpa's side of the family came over for dinner, and I had lots of fun with uncles and aunts, and human puppies!

It's not like I was going to bite her!
I'm a Silkese, not a pitbull!

One of the human puppies was really scared of me, because I barked once at her. I must've let some of my Dog Knight aggressiveness out by accident when I got spooked by the crowd.

But the other human puppy was pretty cool. He kept crawling around the floor, pretending to be a dog like me. How funny is that? A human puppy pretending to be a dog puppy! Although he kept calling me "wo wo" though. What's "wo wo"? Is that human-speak for "hiew hiew"?

My name is not "Wo Wo"!

Random Video Moment

Hmmm... nothing much has been happening lately. So I figure I'll just put up this video of Knuckle and I begging for waffles when I was at grandmother's place over the weekend.

Sleeping in my car

Yesterday I got to visit Knuckles! On the way there, I was in the backseat with Aunt Jol and Aunt Cheryl, and well... it was a long car ride to Aunt Jol's place. I can't really remember much of the car ride though... the last thing I remember was yawning.

The night is so pretty and so young

Random Video Moment

Here's a random video of me chasing Knuckles around at Aunt Jol's place. That silly Knuckles always hides under the little table, where I can't reach him!



Also, I'd like to congratulate Salinger and Pugsley because they're getting married in a rainbow union soon! Check out the invitation and the extremely cute photo of the two pugs!

Sunday Morning with Momma

NOTE: The following post was written on Sunday morning, but some silly Internet issues meant I can only put it up now. Try to pretend it's Sunday morning when you read this, ya?

What a nice morning! I woke up, and after Pops took me to the garden for a morning pee, I got to come back and get onto the bed with Momma and get some cuddles!

Snuggling with Momma

I love snuggling with Momma in the mornings. I bet you guys do too! And now, I'm on my way over to Grandmother's place to play with Knuckles and Aunt Jol. Hope you guys have a good day too!

Yaaaawn!

Random Picture Moment

Here's a couple of quick pics:

Momma painted her nails the same color as my fur!

Knuckles in one of his rare passive moments

Random Picture Moment

Here's a pic of Knuckles, Aunt Jol and me!

Hey I'm being squashed!

I got an award from a new friend

Recently, I made a new friend called Boomer. Boomer gave me an award called the versatile award!

Basically I have to thank the dog that gave it to us (thanks Boomer!), and then I have to share seven things about myself. So here goes:

1. I can summon humans by leaving Golden Offerings in their bedrooms. 
2. I have a natural talent that allows me to fart in my sleep.
3. My farts are either stealthy or super-sonic - either way you never hear them.
4. One last thing about my farts: I can fart with all the colors of the wind!
5. I hate baths almost as much as I hate cats.
6. I have a brother named Knuckles and a cousin named Tails.
7. I love apples!

I'm supposed to give this out to 15 other dog-bloggers, but seeing as this is an award I've not actually seen in many of your blogs, I think you should all take this award so I can learn more about you guys!

Weekends with Knuckles

The last couple of weekends, I've been lucky enough to go to Grandmother's place to play with Knuckles. As brothers, we like to mess around a lot. The roughing and tussling is one thing, but Grandmother seems to get really upset when we play the marking game. It's a great game. It's like Hide and Seek, really. Knuckles leaves a Golden Offering in a hidden location, then I try to find it and then pee over it with my own Golden Offering. To make it more challenging, I have to find it before our humans clean it up.

But like I said, the humans don't really like it. So we usually just rough each other up instead.



Pops messed up the video and now it's sideways. Silly humans...

But yeah, it looks rough, but we get tired pretty quickly and then it's back to being friendly brothers again.

Quick recap of the past week

I can't believe it's been over a week since I last blogged! My nasty Pops has been so busy with things that he's refused to help me blog. I've angrily left Golden Offerings under his desk a few times to show my disgust with him, but it just makes him angrier. Hiew hiew!

Well, at least I'm able to get on now and fill you guys in on what's been going on. Last week, my Humans played a trick on me and took me to the vet! Apparently it wasn't enough that they stuck me in the Cone of Shame, but they had to bring me to the vet as well.

Oh no! Not the vet!

On the bright side, there wasn't really all too much discomfort at the vet. They stuck some fluffy sticks in my ears to check, but there was also a metal pokey stick into the skin on my back. That kinda stung a bit. You know, like when your poopy is a bit stubborn.

I also saw a card on the wall, and it looked a lot like my friend Tanuki Maxx! Hey Maxx, is this you?

Is that Tanuki Maxx?

On August 9, it was National Day in Singapore, which pretty much means it's our country's bark day. We celebrated the weekend holiday by going over to great grandma's place. Knuckles and Tails were there too, and we played together a lot. I celebrated by wearing my red collar and leash (white and red are Singapore's national colors). Though as the Beagle from down the road pointed out, it's really quite ironic to be celebrating a day of independence with a collar and leash. I'll have to talk to my Humans about that next year.

Then there was this time when Momma and Pops were alone at home, and my grandparents were out of the house. So Momma and Pops tried to play kissy-face and wrestle on the couch. But you know what? It's MY couch. So I chased them away and reclaimed my couch! Pops called me a "clock broker" or something. I have no idea what he means though.

This is MY couch!

Oh, and while Pops might be a total slacker when it comes to my blog, he's at least helped me start a Twitter account! So now you guys on Twitter can follow all my silliness at twitter.com/sonicthedoggy

Hope to see you on Twitter soon!

I can paw!

About a week or two ago, Aunt Jol taught Knuckles how to "paw" and every time he did it, he got a snack! So I figured that it would be a great way to get extra snacks too, so Momma and I sat down one morning and together we both learned a new trick. I'd paw, and she'd feed me. It's what's best for both of us.



In the meantime, Pops slept.

Random Picture Moment - Starring Knuckles!

Knuckles resented being referred to as a mouthless, non-smiley dog, so he got Aunt Jol to send us another pic of his new fur-cut. Here he is, smiling as brightly as he can! And wow, his normally-huge radar ears have shrunk and all the fuzz has gone straight into his nose!

Knuckles the smiling dog!