Kit Donner

I know it's been awhile since you've read about my kids, so I thought you needed an update. 

Merlin is getting old. Hard to face, but true.  He has now twice fallen off the bed.  The first time, he rolled over on his back, settled there for a bit, then rolled again- right off the bed. Stunned him because he was asleep.  The second time, he was walking all over the king bed sniffing, scratching looking for the perfect place to thump down.  Every few seconds, he'd get up, still not right.  Until he walked right off the bed!  My poor little guy!

Scout, Scout, Scout, Scooter, Scouter, Little Girl, Sister Golden-Hair, she answers to almost anything.  She makes  me laugh! The other day (I've mentioned before how she loves pillows), I was watching as she pushed a pillow off the bed, then growled and jumped on it, then jumped back on the bed, then jumped back down on the pillow, I was laughing so hard.  Another time, she was growling and wrangling with the pillow, and I came out of the bathroom and she looked up at me like, hey, I'm not doing anything I shouldn't.  Like I can believe that-- she's always up to no good!  Anything on the floor is fair game.  Do you have a dog like this?  She's a lot of trouble, but they don't come any sweeter or funnier.

I was taking the dogs for a walk the other day, and we came upon a scarecrow.  The dogs wouldn't go near it.  Merlin did go a little closer but Scout sat on her behind and refused to move.  They were both afraid of the scarecrow and I couldn't convince them it wasn't a real person!

I'm packing up the Christmas dishes and my collection of pitchers while Scout sits on my lap.  Yes, it does slow the process down, quite a bit.  I pushed her off my lap, and she butt-backed back on in no time.  She's like glue!  But she's sweet and soft and loveable.  Darn, I wish she was completely house-trained.

Have you ever tried to drive with two dogs sitting on your lap? Yeah, probably not safe.  Actually I can't, but they can sit on my lap when I'm parked. Let me explain further. They both love to take car rides; however, Merlin is only happy if he is sitting on my lap. If he isn't on my lap, he begins panting heavily and annoyingly until I let him crawl over.  So, he's a happy camper, looking out the window, giving me the "it's time to pet me" look, and looking for people or other dogs to bark at.  Then there's Scout, the smaller dog, who can be loud when needed or give me soft pitable woofs, as in, why does he get to sit on your lap and not me? 

The other day I had to get out of the house with the dogs, and we drove to McD's.  When we arrived at the order window, Merlin got off my lap and went to sit in the passenger's seat.  On comes Scout on my lap.  We parked to eat my lunch and Scout couldn't understand why she couldn't still sit on my lap.  There they are both sitting practically on top of each other watching me eat lunch.  Afterwards, Scout being a bit more sly than Merlin, slipped onto my lap and sat there contentedly looking out the window.  When she tired of that view, she turned around to look out the other direction.

OK, now it was time to drive home.  As soon as I started up the car, Merlin tried to get on my lap with Scout still sitting there.  Since he's the old man and wouldn't take no for an answer, I had to put Scout in the passenger seat and allow Merlin to sit on my lap. Luckily the drive home wasn't too long because here was "little girl" next to me, trying very hard to see out the window (she's too short) and sort of whimpering about how unfair it is that she doesn't get to sit on my lap too.

It's a dilemma but what can a mother do?

Scout thwarted me. She wasn't trying to get those chaise lounge pillows off the deck after all. She only wanted to destroy them.  She was gone for quite awhile the other morning- I figured she was having fun playing in the yard.  She was - chewing through the plastic covers to the white filler inside.

Scout - 2

Chaise Lounge Pillows - 0

When I was checking out dogs on Pefinder.com to adopt, I found this cute little white dog named Buttons, listed as a poodle terrier mix.  Well, as soon as I saw terrier in the description I wrote off asking about her.   Luckily they approved us and she's (now Scout) been a part of our home for several months.  But I have just learned she's actually a cockapoo.  But with the way she's been eating (she has to sit down) and getting into the cat food, I'd say she's more like a chubbypoo.