Knitting with Bogart

OK, so mom wasn't all that pleased with this...

But I was just following what the cats told me to do (reminder to self: don't always listen to the cats, they don't always have my best interests at heart and will convince me to do things that they find amusing).

I can't remember which kitty started it (probably Kafka, but I can't be sure), but mom really likes to knit. She's making socks for all of her friends for Christmas. So she was in the middle of making a sock and made a little miscalculation when putting it away for it was still within easy reach of furry paws.

So the kitties started running around with this half-finished sock in their paws and I saw an opportunity to jump in and have some fun too. Got myself nice and entangled in the yarn that the kitties had conveniently gotten tangled on many surfaces.

Oops!!!! Sorry mom....

Love,
Bogart

I got chipped!

Today I went to the vet for my next round of shots (gosh but it seems like I need a lot of shots) and got to see my mom's favorite vet Dr. Jimerson at the Gateway Animal Hospital. First dad walked with me in the park so I got kind of dirty and smelly... which was fun!!!

He really liked me - thought I was so cute - and told me that he hadn't seen an Airedale in a very long time! Of course the told me this while he was petting me so I didn't mind a bit.

I actually started snoozing while he was talking with my dad about me, and I didn't even feel it when he gave me my shot.

Then they decided to get me a microchip - it's an incredibly cool thing, it didn't hurt at all when they put it in my shoulder - so now if I ever get lost the people that find me will be able to get me back to mom and dad!

And I get a great new tag to wear on my collar. Which by the way is starting to get a little small now because I'm getting sooooo tall.

Love,
Bogart

Bogie and Pearl

Today I got to play with another puppy! I'm always so excited to see other puppies, and this one was just about my age!

She's a boxer, the daughter of Bo & Roxy (the other boxers that I met - scroll down to see them) and she's sooooooooo cute! She came in and we played a little bit, lots of sniffing of butts and ears, then she found an old pig ear that I forgot about and ate the whole thing! I was more into playing myself, and so I was just watching her a lot.

How incredibly cute is she??? I love staring at her face with all of those wrinkles... and her skin feels like a kiwi!

Otherwise my day was pretty boring - lots of sleeping - so it was nice to have a little excitement!

Love,
Bogart

Bogie Loves Behemoth

Remember that I was telling you that I have to share my house with 4 cats? Well, I want to introduce you to my very favorite new feline buddy - Behemoth.

Behemoth isn't very big, in fact he is smaller than I was when I first showed up here in Los Angeles. He was a street cat who managed to sucker mom into taking him in, getting him dewormed and cleaned up, and he still has really crooked kitty teeth. Almost as shark-like as my puppy teeth.
I really like Behemoth because he is the only cat that seems to want to play with me, and who doesn't mind too much when I get all excited and run right at his face. He'll just playfully swat me in the nose with his paw (no claws out like Kafka) so I know that I'm moving too fast for him. I appreciate that.

He's showing me all sorts of new games, not to mention where all of the fun stuff is hidden - moms shoes, furry fake mice, balls with bells in them, and of course almost-empty boxes that still have something in them that mom wanted to hide from all of us.

But at the end of a long, hard day, the best thing about Behemoth is that he is equal-opportunity - he doesn't mind being a feline who curls up with a canine to stay toasty warm.

Love,
Bogart

Bogart Vs. The Vacuum Cleaner

Ok, so I've just had my first experience with the vacuum cleaner.

At first I thought to myself, it looks harmless, even though in the annals of dog history there are many entries about the wickedness of this particular machine. How horrible it sounds, and how one must quickly run far, far away whenever it is plugged in.

So I sat down and gave it a good, hard look. How bad could it be? How noisy? How offensive?

Well, lets just say that I found out and I'm not proud of my reaction. Running and hiding with my tail between my legs isn't a good look for me. I'm gonna have to work on my oops-the-vacuum-cleaner-is-out-must-hide-now-and-run-away-quickly moves.

Love,
Bogart

21 Pounds!

As of today I officially weigh 21 pounds - just about 3x the amount I weighed when I first came to Los Angeles.

And I'm looking good....

Love,
Bogart

Cats, They're Just Weird

Today is a rainy day here in Los Angeles - I really hate going out in the rain to have to pee and poop. I try my best to look at mom for sympathy, but she keeps dragging me outside.

Grrrrrrrr.

I'm with mom at work today and dad just sent me the funniest pictures by email of two of our kitties - Kafka and Behemoth (I've already introduced you to Kafka, I'll post more about Behemoth soon) sleeping in my crate!!!! Now while I'll admit that my crate isn't my favorite place in the world at this point, it's just weird to have kitties sleeping in there. And sleeping all curled up together! They're never that nice to each other when I'm around... they're usually swatting me in the nose or doing that hissing thing when they see me.

Cats. They're just weird.

Love,
Bogart

A full day

Ok, I know I change my personal favorite dog almost every week, but hey, give me a break I'm a puppy!

I got to play in the park today again with Sophie, one of the weiner dogs that I played with a week or so ago. She's so adorable! I'm much taller now than I was the last time we played (and as of today, I officially weigh 18 pounds) but it's still a lot of fun. We took a long walk in the park, there's always a lot to see when we do a long walk and lots of rolling in the grass (one of my very favorite things). I like to follow Sophie around because she's older than me, and knows all of the fun stuff.

Just at the end of the fun Sophie found a big pile of something stinky (I'll spare you all the gory details here, but you can imagine...) and had the brilliant idea to roll in it so she was covered in it! I watched her for a few moments, waited for my dad and Sophie's dad to get really excited (they seemed to be upset by this but I thought it was great) and then ran over and started to eat some.... dad didn't like this one bit, so I changed tactic and jumped on Sophie's back.

Now we were two very dirty dogs! Our dads brought us back to the house and brought out the hose... Sophie really hated being hosed down, and this was my first time ever. I can't say that I liked it but it wasn't that terrible if you try to make it into a game... which I did.... by biting dad and trying to bite the hose. When we came inside and mom saw two soaking wet doggies she asked what happened and we both shook the water off of us at the same time!

All I wanted to do at that point was sleep, and luckily mom and dad curled me up in my warm red blanket so they could go out. They were originally going to take me with them (they went to a party in West Hollywood) but because I was so good at looking tired they let me stay home. It's a little bit of a shame that I was so tired because I could have played with the doggie at the party named Sid - he was a Chihuahua and I haven't met any of those kind of dogs yet - but maybe next time.

It was a very full day.

Love,
Bogart

Taking the Stairs - Down

I think I already mentioned that I stopped pretending that I couldn't climb stairs a week or two ago - to make mom happy - well today I decided it was time to stop pretending that I couldn't climb down the stairs.

I pretended to be so tentative at first - barking, running around in little circles, putting my front paws over the first step as though I was deathly afraid of going down - and then I just ver naturally descended the stairs in my adorable, goofy kind of airedale way. Mom and dad were thrilled of course, and didn't have the camera to record this historic moment.

Oh well, I don't do encores...

Love,
Bogart

Today is Mom's Birthday!!!!

Today was my mom's birthday - I had no idea until I woke up this morning! I'm still surprised that the sun doesn't rise especially for me, and that the world doesn't turn on my command... My present to her is, of course, myself and my incredible cuteness. That should be enough.


We went to another one of her favorite restaurants, Cafe Angelique, in the downtown Fashion District. I got to sit under the table while she snuck me pieces of fresh mozzarella, which I'm really developing a taste for. She still hogs too much of her sandwiches for my taste, I'm gonna have to bust out the cute airedale look more often.

But mostly I'm just grateful for the chance to SLEEP! Mom and dad take me with them everywhere, and sometimes I have to remind them that I'm still a baby and REALLY LIKE TO SLEEP A LOT.


In the morning I met my new favorite dog in the whole world - he's a Jack Russell named Bosley, and I met him while we were walking this morning in the park. He's so cute!!! He can jump straight up in the air over and over like he's on springs. We played for a long time while our moms were talking, it was really the most fun I've had with another dog. I'm just mad that mom didn't have her camera with her so I could post his picture here! I really hope I see him again soon, right now we're about the same size and he was really friendly.

Love,
Bogart