12/22/97
Wow! This is so cool! Mom gave us a whole page to tell you what we've been up to this week. She says our house is a circus now that the fuzzies have joined.
Hey, Kody here! You want a good laugh? You should've seen the big fat baby, Kirby, on Saturday. He went to get a 'doo. He came back about 3 hours later and had this gold and green Christmas bow in his fur right beside his ear. Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha! I laughed so hard when he walked in the door, he looked like a girl! What a sissy! Mom made him wear it for about an hour 'til she showed some of the neighbors. "Way to go Mom!"
Yeah, you think you're so smart you old Rescue Rag, Kody! You didn't get any ham on Christmas Eve though, did ya? It's because of your own big mouth, you tattletale! When are you ever gonna learn? Just because your older doesn't mean you know it all. I was here 2 years before you were. When she walks out of the kitchen and there's food on the counter, you jump up and get it before she comes back in. You don't stand there and bark at me, you idiot! You could've had some too, until you opened your big mouth. You're not so smart are you? 'Cause you didn't get any ham, I got it all. Na, Na, Na, Na, Na!
3/1/98
Hello, Kirby here again. Today we had thunderstorms! I used to be afraid of them, but not anymore. Now, Kody, that's another story. Mr. Big Man, Mr. He Thinks He's The Boss, is afraid of thunderstorms! He's seven years old! I'm only two! He was jumpin' on Mom all day long. Every time there was a big boom, he'd run and jump on her. And of course she would hold him, and pet him, and sooth him. What a big baby. Guess that really shows who's the man around here. ME!
4/29/98
I've got a secret that I have to share with you. Today's my Birthday! Yeah! I'll get presents and some goodies! Guess what? Today is also Morgan's (my human sister) birthday. Morgan is 11 years old today. I'm 3 years old today. Don't tell Kody though. He thinks today is his Birthday too.
I already know your secret! And it is too my Birthday today. Mom brought me home really late at night on April 28, 1997, and we went to the Vet's office the next morning and he said I was 6-8 years old and I needed a birthday. So Morgan, my human sister also, asked if we could please make it that day, April 29, the same as her Birthday, and we did. It's official, the Vet even wrote it down in my records. Date of Birth: April 29, 1990. It was the best Birthday ever! We got little cups of ice cream, new Hedgies, and biscuits. Kirby wasn't satisfied with these presents so he tried to take Morgan's and open them. Boy some dogs are so selfish!
7/18/98 Hey! It's Kody's turn to talk. Guess what? My mom gave me a new job today. I get to be the Garbage Police. It's lots of fun. I just wait for Fat Boy Kirby to go try and get into the garbage. When he does I come running and bark and growl and jump on him. Then I run and get my mom and then run back and bark and growl and jump on him again. It's such fun! Kirby hates me for it because now he can't get anything out of the garbage. Who cares what he thinks!
9/3/98 My mom brought me home a new toy! It's a Roll-A-Treat! It has food in it! She said I need the extra excersize because I'm still a little over weight. Geez, what does she want? I already lost 5 pounds. As soon as she gave me the new toy, Kody had to come over and try to hog it all to himself. He really, really is an idiot. He thinks this toy is all his so he rolls it and rolls it and does all the work and I just follow behind him and eat all the food that comes out. I give up, you really can't teach an old dog new tricks. I tried being his friend and showing him how to do everything but he thinks he knows best. Although, he did learn how to get mom to give him food out of the big white box. (You just go down to the kitchen a few minutes after she goes to bed and start barking. She comes down to let you outside and when she opens the door, you go out the dog door, turn around and sit there looking at her through the door. You absolutely do not go back in until she opens up the big white box and gives you a piece of meat.) Boy, she really gets mad when you do this. So now I let Kody do it, and she gets mad at him instead.