Alpha in trainin'

Well the time has come in this family for another alpha to step up. Of course that alpha is me. Secretly I've always been alpha, just waitin' for Dasher to say the word.

Dasher's goin' deaf. So as a result, I'm now alpha in trainin' it seems. Of course I'd be next in line over Winston. Don't matter that he bigger than me, size don't play in to this at all.

I mean really, could y'all see Winston as alpha? O help us all! Shoot he afraid of his own shadow. Y'all, He barks and growls at people down the street. Shoot they ain't even in our driveway and he havin' a fit. No. No he can't be alpha sorry. Just tonight for example, He all in the entry way, and he jumps up cuz he so called saw somethin'. Got me up, got Dasher up, O I was upset. Get out of here Winston you so can't do this. Shoot least I don't growl at the garbage man. I may bark at the neighbors, but they in our driveway! Dasher can't hear to know who out there, I gotta let him know.

Besides, who more scary anyways? Me? Or sweet faced Winston. Exactly. If Dasher needin' someone to take over and protect this house, I'll gladly step up.

Well I'm off to beg more treats off Dasher mom and dad. A higher up position in this household demands more treats I mean it. No ice cubes either! Shoot give me some real food! Y'all behave.

Reba the dog.

 

Another trip

Hey everyone,

It's taken me a while to recap the last trip we were on. Partly cuz I been tired from it. Shoot these humans wear me out!

Well first of all it was a new experience, Dasher dad dropped us off early in the morning and my mom and my April got on this thing they call a train. I thought it was cool! Shoot I had all kinds of room, Well that is until Winston decided to take up most of the space. Thanks Winston. Don't mind Reba, I'll just curl up my arthritic back and stay in my tight ball for 4 hours that's ok. Shoot!

O I forgot to tell you all about my vet visit. In a nut shell, I've got a little arthritis in my back, I'm sadly skinny and mom loves it, and everything else is workin' fine. Accept I found it funny when the vet looked at the Xray of my stomach and saw that it was empty! Yeh! Yeh it's empty! I don't get fed nearly enough! And they wanted a sample of my 2's. No ma! I ain't goin' for you. All the food you give me goes to sustain my pathetically skinny body. I don't do 2's anymore I mean it. I'm 51 pounds! Shoot just waistin' away! Don't believe my mom when she says I'm at a perfect wait. And once again the vet just calls out this fact to all present. O yes Reba's at 51 pounds! Shoot what in the world! You don't announce a girls wait right out loud like that! They could have just whispered it for real!

Ok so that was my vet visit. Back to the train. We finally arived at an unknown destination and we got out and waited there between two trains for the longest time. Shoot where are we I mean it! Can I please have breakfast now shoot! This little cart pulls up and we climb on. It was like those carts we get to ride in airports. So off we go, when out of no where, someone plops on the cart pretty much on my head! Hello! There's a dog here don't sit on my head please shoot! There go Reba again! So suddenly we get off the cart, not even near the terminal and mom and my April follow this girl who had almost squished my head. Shoot where she going? We finally get inside, and I all the sudden recognize the girl. It's my Kayren! Cool! So now I'm all excited but the place is far too crouded for me to give her a propper greeting. We went in this hot crouded room to wait for our luggage. Excuse me, one of them bags is verry important. It's carrying our food you forget that or lose that you die. Winston precious dude! He finally figures out it's my Kayren as we wait for the bags, but Kayren's goin' back and forth lookin' for the bags so Winston's just standin' there sayin' over and over, Reba! It's Karen! It's Karen Reba. Yes Winston, I'm tryin' to make sure my food gets over here. Finally mom feeds me and then I felt a little better, then My Kayren came over with the bags, including the bag my food was in! Shoot finally! So off we went, and I followed perfectly. Course I did. My Kayren had the food I'd follow that to the end of the earth. We walked for a while, finally were able to relieve, then the humans got some food and gave us some water. By this time, shoot I was ready for another nap! But o no, we go board yet another train. Finally we get to my Kayren's house and I thought, at last I can rest and be a dog. But no, a few hours later, off we go again to one of those places where people ride rides way up in the air. Humans are weird. No ma I ain't workin' here. Ma I've been workin' for you since 5 this mornin' I was done at 3 I told you this. Well, the rest of the day was a blur for me. I was wantin' a Reba down day, several of them after that.

That day though was the busiest we had on the trip. The rest of the time we had fun at my Kayren's place, she had apples and gave them out very generously! Cool!

The humans went to that place where they role balls down to nock over big pins, whatever. Boring. But Winston had a fit there. I never did figure out if he was upset he couldn't go after the balls, or upset his mom left him under the table or what. I went to sleep. He was just upset the whole time.

We went to the lake and of course, the humans drug me out in the water to swim. Shoot I don't like to swim all that much I mean it! I literally just stand there and wait patiently for the humans to get done so we can leave. Come on! Let's go! Especially now, I was covered in mosquettos! Finally the humans saw reason and we left.

Only other insident, I can't really say much about because even now, I still am not entirely sure what happened. I just know, we were driving, we hit something, and the humans went from happy and fun to scared and stressed. They were that way the rest of the time. Winston said he saw someone hurt, I don't know if we hurt them, it was all so confusing. All I knew was, I need to stay calm for mom. So I laid perfectly still at mom's feet till she told me what to do. That was right too cuz she was proud of me. We left my Kayren's car there, and then the next day, My Kayren had a different car. Well cool thing about that was, I had way more room in it. Sweet! I was likin' that!

We came back on the train again, and this time I spralled out and took up all the room. How's it feel Winston. Shoot! The return trip was much more crazy as far as people goes. Probably because it was in the afternoon and not before the sun even thought of gettin' up. I never seen so many cars! They were just stoppin' in the middle of the walk ways, so we couldn't even cross the streets well. And Winston was freekin' out cuz of all the horn blowing. I don't know why so many were honkin' their horns, but shoot it was annoyin'!

We been home for a few days now, and Now Dasher mom and dad went somewhere. I'm kind of glad we didn't go. Shoot I been goin' all over the place it seems. Time for a Reba down week. Sure I've had fun, but come on now!

Well, I'm signin' out for now, Look for me on facebook as always, and I'll post here again soon. Y'all behave.

Reba the dog.

 

Vacation

Hi everyone,

Well we went back up north for a visit. Shoot this the greatest place on earth I mean it! Cats to tease, food to beg for, crumbs to find, shoot y'all, I got in my Kitty grandma's car one day, there was pop corn all over the floor. Man I got 5 or six pieces before mom discovered what I was doin'. Sweet! And cat food, y'all this is funny. My mom got smart this time and kept pickin' up the bowl of cat food. What she didn't know for several days, there was two bowls of cat food. Score for Reba. Well, for a few days anyway. As you can imagine, my ears aren't likin' this trip as always, but I don't care! I had the time of my life.

One day we went to the lake and went swimmin'. Now I ain't a big fan of water, but mom took me out in the water with her. A long way out too. Shoot it wore me out! I did have fun though. More fun than I would have had tied up on the beech waitin' for mom to come back. She left me with grandma and went out to swim for a while, I was cool till I saw her go under! Hello! Let me go what my ma doin' out there she can't see a thing I know she can't. She came back though and I attacked her with kisses.

One day we went on this long car ride and when we stopped, we was at one of them festival things. I'm used to those, used to go to those with my Emily all the time. So I'm lookin' out the window right, and all the sudden, I ain't lyin' y'all this dude walks by, must have been 8 feet tall. I mean it! Humans are so weird! When we were walkin' around, I saw him again and I pulled mom off in the direction he went. I mean how he so tall anyways! I had to check him out. O whoops, guess I better follow my Kitty instead. Man y'all the dogs I saw that day. Last time I was up here, I went on and on about how this must be the cat state. Shoot nothin' but cats cats cats up here. But I saw tons of dogs this day. Mom made me behave though. I did good for the most part. Mom and I havin' troubles workin' together some lately. We just ain't jellin' like we used to. The day ended with the humans watchin' those fire balls in the sky. I don't mind them either, I was too busy beggin' pop corn off the people sittin' next to grandma. It worked too till Grandma discovered what we were doin'. Shoot!

Speakin' of cats, one mornin' mom, my Kitty, grandma and I were out visitin' people. Well grandma went to the door, the rest of us stood back closer to the road. Then, I saw it. This cat came slinkin' around the side of the house. I wanted it bad! But I stayed still. I was in harness after all. Well, the cat starts taunting me, like all cats do when they realize a dog is on a leash and can't get them. So I'm tryin' to ignore this cat, but all the sudden, it went too far. Gotta teach the whiskered devil a lesson. Without thinkin' I lunged, just to scare it. I knew I wouldn't get far with mom at the end of my leash. I might get popped, but least I'd of scared the cat a bit and shut it up. Instead though, I lunged and kept going. I ran and ran straight for that cat. Shoot I ain't never seen a cat look so scared. I laughed myself silly. Till mom got me back. Awe man! Shoot! She wasn't happy with me for the longest time. Breakin' away from mom was not a good idea.

One day mom and I spent almost the entire day visitin' people in a place like what we go to on some Sundays. When I get to see my Pat! They're the elderly humans. I got to be petted and admired all day. Not normally one to like that kind of thing, but comin' from them, I kind of like it.

One night mom and the others went to this house and there were tons of little yipper dogs. I mean y'all they just kept comin'! I saw at least two when we arrived in the driveway and I almost jumped out of the car from the back seat through mom's front car door to see them. Then when I got out, in harness. Shoot! I saw another one. When we went to sit down, a fourth made it's appearance from the house. Dude! How many dogs be in this house! Some nice kids came to pet and play with me, and they gave me carrots. Shoot I'm their friend for life I mean it! No I don't wanna play with that ball, give me another carrot!

So some other things we did were go on a boat ride, go out to eat, mom and I got lost in a little woods tryin' to find some trail, and of course, lots of hang out time in the basement and car rides with the crazy humans. Why should mom have all the fun up here. This place awesome!

And the most shockin' thing of all up here, on the last night, I got to sleep on Grandma's bed, So I wake up in the middle of the night, guess who I see layin' right next to me. Dose. That crabby, old, mean cat who hates both me and my ma, but mostly my ma for bringin' me with her every time she come. Shoot dose shut up! I am my mom's eyes so get used to it I mean it. I don't care if it is your house either. Well I just laughed and laughed when I saw her sleepin' next to me. Shoot she don't hate me like she say she do I mean it. Cats I tell ya.

Since bein' back home I've assumed my rightful place as top dog around here. Bullied Winston in to giving me his frosty paw and if my April wasn't there to make me give it back I'd of succeeded. Shoot my April! Give me two of those things then. I'm starvin' here! Then I had to go check on my stash of apples I horded from the treat tree disaster. I'm still upset about that too I mean it! But other than that, no place like home and I'm glad to be back with the boys. For now, signin' out, and look for me on facebook again since I can now freely post again. Be good.

Reba the dog.