July.30.2007

Its been a while since my last post! I got to stay with Paul and Kevin (and Bart and Pickles and Chuckie and Lucy and Kathy) this weekend. It was fun for the first five minutes...Dont get me wrong I loved seeing Paul and Kevin, but could have done without four other dogs. I like being the only dog, I get spoiled. Plus I really missed my Katie! and I was kind of enjoying hanging out with her mom. I almost forgot to tell you the best part of this weekend, I got a car, thats right I get to stick my head out of a moving window again!!! And I am soooooo excited. I try to get in it everytime we walk by but Katie wont let me.
I am still doing pretty good on our walks, we haven't been able to go to the park yet, but maybe tomorrow we will. Whenever Katie gets home its too dark. I hope we will get to soon though! I miss the park!

Well I am off to bed, still resting from the last weekend full of playing!

Good Night!

July.25.2007

Today was a good day. I woke Katie up again this morning to go for my walk! I was walking really slow and far behind Katie during our morning walk, I had the sense that she may be gone for a while so I decided to make that one last longer. I'm brilliant. When she finally got home tonight we got to go on our second walk. I passed a jogger tonight and completely ignored him, Katie was very proud and I got lots of praise! I enjoyed that. I also got to play with a little beagle for while, until I got bored and kept walking. The rest of the walk was really good and now I am going to sleep because I am exhausted!

Hopefully I will do just as good tomorrow because Grandma (Katie's mom!) is coming!!!!! and Katie is leaving to go watch another dog, which I am not too happy about but will get over very quickly!

Wish me luck for tomorrow!!

Good Night!

July.24.2007

Yesterday was a good day for me. We went for our normal morning and afternoon walk, but then when Katie came home we went a different way around the neighborhood. I was very excited about that!
I have started to wake Katie up in the morning before her alarm goes off because I am so excited about our walks. I sit at her face and make whining noises until she finally gets up. I think its cute and I know she loves it!
This mornings walk was really good, I went through the entire walk with no problems. However tonights walk was not so good. We walked almost all the way to the park but not quite. I was trying to attack every jogger we went by, I am not sure why because I was in an awesome mood. But I did. Katie tried everything to distract me but nothing helped. Some day I hope that my hatred towards joggers will go away, because people never get to see the happy and loveable me, just the snarly me who wants to bite thier ankles!
Wish me luck tomorrow!

Good Night!

July.22.2007

Again it was just an okay day. I got a great surprise today when Paul picked me up and I got to go to the store where Katie was working! I got to see Keli too! However I also had to get my nails done and a bath. Both of which I hate. But it was managable. We then returned home where I got to hang out with Bart for a little while.

When Katie came home, we said good bye to Paul and headed towards the beach! I was walking really well even walking past bikers and joggers with no problems at all! We didnt get to go to the beach today because of my bath earlier in the evening, but I was okay with that. It was when we were on our way home that my problems started. As I said I was walking really well, until one jogger went bye and I tried to get her, I even barked at her! I dont know why but she was the only one I got upset with!

We walked straight back home and now I am sleeping for the rest of the night. I had a long and stressfull afternoon and I have to start working on my anger towards joggers, escpecially those that are incredibly close to me!

GOOD NIGHT!

July.21.2007

Today was an okay day. It started out okay, I jumped into the tub again this morning and went to sleep while Katie was getting ready for work and didnt really move when she went to leave. I'm really not caring anymore when she leaves because I know she is coming back!

When she did come home we got to go to the beach!! I got run and run with a whole bunch of dogs and I did soo good. We played in there for at least a half an hour and I was getting wet and sandy. It was a blast! We then continued our walk along the harbor. I decided today to roll around in the grass twice, which was good because it got all the sand off of me!

On our walk back I decided I really didnt like bikes again and went after all of them, no matter what Katie did. I havent done this in a while and I am not sure what set me off but hopefully it was a one time thing because I was doing very good before today!

Well I am exhausted and am going to sleep for a long time, but wish me luck tomorrow!!

GOOD NIGTH!

July.20.2007

Today was another good day. Although it started off a little weird. Katie this morning discovered that I like to sleep in the bathtub when she is gone. She found this out while she was in the bathroom brushing her teeth, I decided not to wait until she left because I was so exhausted, and snuck behind her. I slowly climbed into the tub layed down and went to sleep. She was taking pictures of me and laughing (I dont know why) and I was extremely annoyed at that because I was trying to get some sleep. However she soon left and I returned to the tub where I slept all day.

When she came home we got to go for a nice looonnggg walk down to the park. I was very good on this walk, and I even did ok with the bikes and joggers that passed. I did get to say "hi" to some dogs that we passed, however the majority didnt want to say "hi" back. It was still a great walk though. It wore me out! Thats all the excitement for today!

This is one of the many pictures Katie took of me in the tub...aren't I adorable?

GOOD NIGHT

July.18.2007

TODAY WAS QUITE THE ADVENTURE!
It started out as a normal morning, Katie took me for my walks and then went to school. But while she was gone later in the evening the storm hit and the rain was coming down in BUCKETS!!!! I was very excited when Katie came home because I needed to go potty really bad! However when we walked outside not only was it dark but it was still pouring AND the sidewalks were like large swiming pools! I wasnt very happy but Katie still made me go for a walk. I was shaking the water off the entire time we were walking! Then I realized how much fun the large puddles were and Katie and I started to play in them...I HAD A BLAST and got SOAKING WET!!!
Now is where the wierd part comes in, while we were on our way back there was a man standing in the middle of the sidewalk and he was covered in BLOOD!!! EWWWW. Anyways he was talking to himself about here they come, the sirens is what we assumed. And then stopped Katie even though we were both trying EXTREMELY hard to run by him really fast. Anyways, he stoppped us and was telling Katie that it wasnt his fault and that it was an accident, and that he didnt want them to take away his son. WHAT?!?!?! This is when we both got a little nervouse, but Katie being the kind person she is aksed what was wrong. The man said that his son had fallen and stabbed something into his leg and now it was open and gushing blood...again EWW. He then asked Katie and I to go up and make sure his son was okay while he waited for the ambulance, headlines flashed through my head about a girl and her dog being stabbed while checking on a deranged mans bleeding son! This is when we quietly turned around and started to walk as fast as we could back to the SAFE apartment. Needless to say I learned a lot today,1) I do not like going potty in the rain, 2)water makes me shake, and 3)never ever stop to talk to men with blood on them standing in the middle of the sidewalk in a torrential downpour.
Gotta Love Chicago.
Katie is SOOOO lucky to have me around to keep her safe!

I would like to add another little story that I heard Katie telling last night on the phone and it made me realize why dogs are so much smarter then people. So last night Katie went to "Treasure Island" to buy me carrot sticks, and some other stuff, but mainly just carrot sticks. Anyways as she was checking out a couple of police cars pulled up the the front door and she began to get a little curious. She then noticed a man back by the carts who a couple of the employees were talking to, the man was talking about something very serious. Then just as she was about to help pack up her last bag, Katie overheard the cashiers talking about what had happened, they said something about the man had cargo pants on and in the pockets he had stuffed as much Imported Cheese as he could fit. Thats right IMPORTED CHEESE. This is the part in the story where Katie loses it everytime she repeats and everytime she even thinks about the imported cheese shoved in this man's pants. I just thought I should share this because apparently people find this very funny, and it kind of fits with today's events!
Again, Gotta Love Chicago

GOOD NIGHT. (I hope)

July.17.2007

Today was a little but of an off day. I was doing really good like usual, and I was even ignoring a lot of the dogs that we walked by, mostly because I didnt notice them. However I decided that I didnt like a man that was walking by us and as he passed went to bite him in the ankles. Luckily Katie noticed this before I was able to actual grab him and before he even noticed. I dont why I wanted to do it, but being good this long just wasnt working for me. And I needed something fun to write here! Life was getting to boring with me being such a good girl!

Hopefully the little issue of biting ankles will be the next thing that goes, because thats not a good thing for me to be doing!

Keep wishing me luck because I am soo ADORABLE when I am a good girl!

GOOD NIGHT!

July.16.2007 2nd Edition

I just wanted to add onto today's post because Katie just ran into a man hanging found posters for a beautiful girl and helped him out. And wanted to post her picture just in the off chance someone reading this may know someone who has lost their baby. She was found on Roscoe St, just off Broadway in Lakeview without tags and needs to find her home! Thank You for your help and let us know!

July.16.2007

Another good day! I am soo happy I am doing so much better because I get a lot of attention, treats, and praise when I am this good! My only complaint now is that I miss playing with dogs. Everytime I see one walking by the parents of the other dog usually hold them back because my excitement comes across as aggresive. Katie tries to say that but people just dont understand. I really need to learn how to show my excitement in a better, less aggresive way. Thats our next project. Other then that I am doing good. Today on our second walk of the day I spent a good five minutes chasing a bug around in the little garden outside of the building. It was very fun, however I am just not coordinated enough to do that so I looked very goofy, and people were stopping to watch me, boy am I cute!

I have to say I think I am missing the store a lot right now because of the lack of dogs that I have to play with here. Hopefully soon people will understand that I am such a good girl and let me say "HI!". Because thats all I really want to do.

This is a picture of me wanting the peanut butter that Katie was eating, unfortunately even with this adorable face I still got none........

GOOD NIGHT!

July.15.2007

Another great one! I did really good on my morning walk, no problems with dogs or joggers! I was at home again today while Katie went to work and did really well! Then when she came home I got to see Bart and Paul. I was more excited about Paul then I was Bart but still it was very exciting. We played for a little bit and then they left.

We then went on our second walk of the day and again I did extremely well! I passed three bikers and two joggers without even a flinch! However when we were on our way back to the apartment we passed a Husky and for some reason I started to have a fit, and was trying to bark at him but Katie told me to "leave it" and I decided to walk away, still a little concerned. We made it the rest of the way home with no problems, and now I am going to go to bed and not wake up for a long time.

Like I have said before, being good is extemely difficult, but well worth it!!

This picture is of what Katie calls my "Dinosaur Pose!" ENJOY!

Good Night!

July.14.2007

Another Great day! We went for our usual morning walk before Katie went to work, and I slept all day. For some reason I have started to sleep in the bathroom, I dont know why but its my new favorite place. It takes me a little longer to meet Katie at the door when she comes home now, because I am sound asleep in there. Who knows.

Today when she came home we went for our normal walk around the neighborhood and then returned home. Only this time we got to go for another one!!! I was so excited. This time I got to use my "Heeler" leash which meant this walk was going to be special. And boy was it ever!!! We got to jog today!!! I was soo good too! Except for when we saw a dog then the jogging didnt work so well. Hopefully we will try that again. I did still get to be let off at the gate which meant we ran to the door. I love doing that!!! All in all it was another good day. This looks like it is going to last for a while!! Wish me luck with this jogging thing. I love to run!

Good Night!

July.13.2007

Today was good. We got to go to the park again when Katie got home and I was doing really good until I saw someone jogging with their dog. I don't understand why I hate that so much but I do. It drives me crazy!!! And it makes the rest of the walk go wrong too! Hopefully we can work on that, because the bike and jogging issue is getting a little better everyday. Hopefully I can get it down to at least one issue at a time, make life a little easier, but all in all I am doing better.

At least I am doing ok when she leaves me at home all day. No more ripping up the door frame, and now I know she is coming back so I dont try to go with her. Although I still give her my sad face as she is leaving, but someday hopefully that will end too!

Well I am going to sleep, I had a long walk and am now exhausted!

GOOD NIGHT!

July.12.2007

I am still doing really good! This morning we went to the park for the first time in about two weeks and I was excellent. I walked by the dog park without even asecond glance at the dogs barking at me. A big step up from the last time we were there. I am still working on bikers and joggers. We have now started to stop and sit when one is coming our way, however its the people who sneak up behind me that are still the problem. Even with that I am doing ten million times better then when I first came here.


I am also getting used to Katie being gone, and although it took me a while I have realized that she is always going to come home after she leaves. Which means I no longer stick my nose in the door as she is walking out and I have started to not even get up when she leaves anymore. This is a major step and hopefully this is only the begining.


I do want to say how much I miss being in the store and how much I miss playing with all my friends from the store. However I am doing very good here, and I know that I am loved by a lot of people, which is helping me get better and to be more friendly towards people and their pets!

GOOD NIGHT!

July.11.2007

Today was another GREAT day! It was the second day for Katie being in school and I did sooo good. We did our normal morning walk, and then the second one in the afternoon. But for this walk we went a different route! It was soo much fun!

THEN, just before she came home tonight the apartment lost power, AGAIN! So when she came home we went for a walk and I could tell she was very upset so I was being extra protective and extra snuggly when we came home. I am so helpful. We then got to go down to the basement again. Which is my favorite place in the world!!! I almost jump down the stairs trying to get down there. However this time I tried to leave there just as fast!! The lights were out and it was very very dark and scary. AND Katie made me go into the room first! Not nice and I was not very happy with that decision, which is why I tried to leave so fast. But it was still a blast, I do love going down there!!

Now I am fast asleep and probably will be for the rest of the night, hopefully tomorrow will be another GREAT day!!!

Here's a great photo of me all tangled up with myself!!!

GOOD NIGHT

July.10.2007

I am doing soo much better then when I first moved here! I haven't been to the beach in a while because of the heat, I get tired really fast but I am doing really good on our neighborhood walks. I have started ignoring (almost) all the joggers and bikers that pass us, which was my main problem before. I am also doing extremely well with dogs, I stop say "Hi!" and keep walking.

I am doing surprisingly well at home by myself. I pretty much sleep all day long, which is one of my favorite things to do!!! And when I am not sleeping I am chewing on my bully sticks! Hopefully this is the new me and this happy, care-free attitude will last for a while, because everyone loves me more when I am like this, especially the people who think I am sooo pretty on my walks!

Here's a picture of me all snuggly!!

GOOD NIGHT!

July.9.2007

Yesterday I did soooo good. It was my first day home alone all day because Katie went back to school. We went for a nice longer then usual walk in the morning and then returned home where I was given my bully stick while she left. She came back a couple hours later and we got to go for another walk, which I was very excited about. However it was pretty hot outside so I didnt want to go far. We then went back and had some lunch. This is when she left AGAIN, which I was a little sad about, but I lived. I slept all day and watched some T.V. (because she left it on for me). I was very excited when she came home because there was a storm going through that I was very concerned about, but we went for our third walk anyway. And I did so well, I even ignored a jogger that went by us!! It was very exciting! I then went home and passed out under the covers for the rest of the night. Being a good girl is extemely hard work!!!!
We are both soo glad that I am doing so well!
Hopefully this will last for a while!
Have a good day!

July.8.2007

Today was such an AMAZING day for me!!!!!! On our walk this morning it was pretty hot outside so I didnt want to go far. But when Katie came home we went on another walk and I was such a good girl! Before leaving for some reason I decided to bring along my bully stick, I have never done this before but oh well. I carried it with me the entire walk too!

When we were on our way back a group of people started to talk to me and tell me how pretty I was. I let them. Then they came out of the car to pet me and say what a good girl I was. I highly enjoyed this and did very good. When we were leaving a Schnauzer walked by who was very angry and I completely ignored him, because I am such a good girl!

Then when we got inside the gate to the apartment building I met Raw. And completely ignored him and his eagerness to smell me. Dad was holding him back and I just ignored him and walked into the building. I then ran up the four flights of stairs unleashed without stopping at every door!!

I hope more days can be this good, because I get lots of attention when I am such a good girl!!!

Wish me luck tomorrow when Katie goes back to school all day!

The picture attatched is of me carrying my bully stick down the street.

HAVE A GOOD NIGHT!!

July.7.2007

HI! Today was just an okay day. This morning on our walk I was still freaked out about the joggers. I dont know why because I was great other then that. While Katie was gone I did not do any more damage to the door frame, thank goodness. We got to go for another walk when she came home and again it was a jogger who made me crazy. I wasn't bad but still not my best behavior. I am doing really well with other dogs though so thats one good thing. I am going to sleep now for the rest of the night and maybe go to the park tomorrow before Katie goes to work! Hopefully tomorrow will be good!

GOOD NIGHT!!

July.6.2007

I am updating today's blog because I did something for the first time today that I hope I NEVER do again, and so does Katie. When she came home and after we went for our walk she left again to do laundry. While she was gone I decided maybe I should chew up the board framing the front door, at the time it was a BLAST but I realized later that maybe that isnt such a good idea. Hopefully that was a one time incident that will never happen again. Anyways just thought I would share, oh yeah and there is a pic accompanying this of my beautiful work. ENJOY.

KATIE LOVES ME RIGHT NOW!

GOOD NIGHT!

July.6.2007

Yesterday was an....interesting..day. It started with the electrician coming to fix everything in the apartment. I was fine with him until he went to run down to his van and thats when I decided to bite him in the ankle...needless to say he wasn't happy and I was locked in the bathroom while he was here. I HATED it and whined at the door the entire time, but no one seemed to care.

Then when Katie came home from work I got to see Paul again!!! And he brought Bart and Pickles, which I was a little confused about but excited that I got to play with dogs again!! We hung out for a couple hours and played and got all the excitement out of my system!!

After they left, I slept and slept and slept some more. I was sooo exhausted!! But it was exciting. Hopefully today will be just as good!!

The picture above is my happy face!!!!!

HAVE A GOOD DAY!!!

July.4.2007

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

I hate fireworks. They scare me half to death. Last night I slept under the bed because they were soooo loud.

Today was a good day though. I got to go for a total of FOUR walks!! And spent the entire day with Katie at home! I also got to see Paul which I was incredibly excited about, and I got to ride in the car too!! After he droppped us back off at home I sat in front of the door waiting for him to come back until Katie finally took me for another walk. We went down to the lake but there were way too many people so we didn't stay long. Even though I did fine with the people.

Later tonight we lost power, again, and we had to go to the basement again. There were beatles the size of cats and I tried my hardest to stay away. Then Katie forced me to go into the basement first and I did not want to, but it was ok, only after we left though!

I am now going to brace myself for another night of loud noises and bright flashes, I hope it won't last long.

The picture above is of me looking my best!! Aren't I beautiful!

GOOD NIGHT!

July.3.2007

Today was another good day. I am doing extremely better this week then I have since I moved here. We went for our normal walks today and I had absolutely no problems.
I am now however very concerned with the extremely loud noises coming from outside. I hope they stop soon because that are making me very nervous. I dont know why but I dont like em.
Hopefully I will be able to sleep at least a little bit tonight, even with these loud bangs.

GOOD NIGHT!
I hope.

July.2.2007

I had a good day today. I got to go to the store and hang out FOREVER. I was extemely bored and confused what was going on, but I liked being out of the house!!

When we got home we went for another nice long walk by the lake, and I was SOOO good. The only problems I had were because the other dogs weren't nice. I WAS though!!!! Not much else to say about the day except for that I am exhausted and am now going to sleep forever. It was long day in the store for me!

This picture is of my cute back feet!!!!!!!!

GOOD NIGHT.

July.1.2007

I WAS EXCELLENT TODAY!!!!!!! And I mean it, I even wrote it in capitals. Fisrt off this morning we walked around the neighborhood again. I saw a total of three dogs, one of them being a puppy, and I did fine. I wanted to play with the puppy so we did for a while, and then I got bored and left. After my excellent walk we went home and Katie left for work.

I did fine all day by myself, just slept.

And when Katie got home we tried going to the park again!! I was soooooooooo good. So we walked all the way to the lake and down the path along the lake and back. I passed tons of dogs and joggers and bikers and ignored every single one of them!! Our walk ended up being an hour and a half long because I was doing so so well!!! When we got home I got to go take the garbage out with Katie which is my favorite activity.

I am now going to go to sleep and sleep for the next week. I am soo exhausted. Hopefully tomorrow will be as good as today was!! I am improving and loving it!

GOOD NIGHT!