Hello!!!
I have so much to write here, but mom wants to go to sleep early so I might have to finish tomorrow. I can't believe it's bean so long since I wrote in here. Mom didn't want to help me tonight (she is verrrrry tired) but I told her that she couldn't go to sleep until she helped me. Because she's bean a big meanie and hasn't helped me write in over a month! Can you believe it? What a mean mom I have.
Anyhowl, my biggest news: I'm on the cover of a magazine! That's right, I've made it into the big leagues. I am now a top model! You can see my pretty face in all the pet shops and vet clinics across Toronto! *tail wags* Not bad for a dog who's several pounds overweight, huh? (I'm looking out for us big grrrls.) Actually mom has put me back onto a diet again. :( What can I say, I like my food.. and my treats even more!
If you would like one, please peemail me your address to: couchpuptato at yahoo dot ca
Hopefully they will give mom a bunch of copies soon (they forgot last time!) then i can send some out to my friends! *tail wags*
Let's see, what else? Oh! Mom has a car (but she can't drive it yet, so gramma does the driving) and she's making it into a Mutt-Mobile for me and Hamish! She got shiny metal things in the mail that she is going to stick on the front and bum of the Mutt Mobile. She says they're called "plates" but they don't look like plates to me- there's no food on them! (I know this for a fact, I've tried licking them and they don't taste good at all.) Anyway someone wrote all over mom's new plates. They wrote "MY MUTTS" on them. I think she should send them back because someone wrote all over them, but she says they sent exactly what she asked them to send. I will post a piccachewer of me and Hamish by the Mutt-Mobile soon!
Hamish wants to write in my journal too. I have to teach him how to furst. I don't think I have to share it (I share all my toys and treats with him already!) but I'll be a good big sister and share it anyway.
Barking of Hamish, he has been here for three months now. Sometimes it's great having a bruffer to play with, but other times it's really annoying. What makes me sad is that I think mom doesn't love me too much anymore. So I do bad dog things at the park to make her see me, and then I get in trubble and i have to go on my leash (and then I can't run and play so I get chubby). Hamish is a very good dog, he is very clever and mom is taking him to obedience classes (just like me!) and she says he's doing very well. But he is also a very needy dog. He wants to be by my mom all the time, and he will push between us so he gets more attention than me. He also makes mom upset and sad sometimes. Because mom feels guilty that she doesn't spend as much time with me anymore. And gramma tells her this too, that she is furgetting about me, and this makes mom even sadder. Because my mom loves me very very much, and she still tells me (when Hamish isn't listening) that she still loves me the mostest in the whole world. I made mom cry today. :( She put Hamish in his bed out of the way, then she called me. And I walked the other way. I know she wanted to hug me and tell me I'm a good girl, so I don't know why I walked away. Then I made her cry, and now I don't know what to think anymore. Because I still love my mom and I know she loves me, but I don't think we have our invisible leash connected to our hearts anymore. I want that to come back. Sometimes I wish Hamish would go away. Sometimes mom wishes that too, but she'd never say it. She doesn't want to feel like she's failed with him, and after all the work and money to get him where he is, she's not about to give up now. She says that things should get better. Gillian at Who's Walking Who says that everyone has this problem when they get a new dog- and it always seems to hit at the 3-4 month mark. She says it gets better, and I hope she's right. I miss going everywhere with my mom. I miss walking the other dogs all day with mom. I miss a lot of things. I have to stay home with Hamish all the time because he gets very upset when he's left alone. I wish it wasn't so hard. I'm going to go curl up with my mom now because I've made her sad again, writing about all this. I'll write more tomorrow, maybe when mom goes out...
Rosie