His buddy Heidi the Boxer – you may know her as his pawsonal trainer – was diagnosed with aggressive, incurable cancer this past week.  It’s made her mama and dad incredibly sad, and I’ve been sad as well.  She had been up and down with a mystery illness for the last month or two, and it wasn’t until this week when she went to a real doggie specialist and the diagnosis was made.

I was the one who got Heidi to her new parents a little more than two years ago – one of my past co-workers had puppies, and Heidi was impossible to resist.  She was a little brown wiggly kiwi, and she still makes me giggle every time I see her pretty smile.

Heidi and Bogart are only a few months apart in age.  I simply could not imagine losing my best buddy at such a young age, and my heart aches for both Heidi and her mom and dad.  They’ve decided to keep Heidi happy until she’s ready to cross – every day will be Christmas, as they’ve said – and yesterday Heidi’s dad went out and got not one, but two new baby boxers (in the picture above) so that Heidi would be able to impart some of her special “Heidi-ness” to them.  Heidi LOVES her new playmates, she’s busy teaching them all about her house, her cool yard, and which toys are HERS, and watching them all play together is warming their mom and dad’s heart.

Soon we’ll bring Bogart over to meet the little ones, and to spend more time with his special Boxer-babe, Miss Heidi.   I’m sure he’ll be excited to meet them, and lots of Airedale-Boxer hilarity will ensue.

Sorry for hijacking your blog Bogart, you may of course bite me on the thigh now (which you KNOW that I hate).

Love,

Lulu & Bogart

BookmAIREk Me!

Geez, I haven’t blogged for a week.  That’s NEVER happened to me before.  Mom is incredibly frustrated at our lack of battery-power for the camera but lets face it – SHE GOT LAZY.

Any suggestions for motivating my lazy mom?

Love,

Bogart

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Ah, another fun and exciting Sunday at Mareike’s, spending the afternoon with my Dale buddies…

We all had a great time, but of course most of my interest always seems to go to Kermit – the one-eyed Dale – who lets me hump my frustrations away. Thanks again man.

This time there was a guest dog – her name is Bree – she’s the pretty striped girl and she has a very “special talent” with the hose.

All in all, a SUPER FUN day!!!

Love,

Bogart

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Nope, the title is not a typo.

I’ve started two new “lenses” on Squidoo – one about the Dog Blogging phenomenon, and one on the even more phenomenal Airedale Terrier Blogging phenomenon.

If you’re a member of Dogs With Blogs I’d LOVE to include your blog on the Dog Blogging lens… mom just got started on it so it’s still a little bare, so do let me know if I should put your blog up on there.  And if you have galleries on FlickR or videos on YouTube let me know that too – I’d like to populate the site with ALL DWB material!  Just leave me a comment here or on my Chatterbox or drop me an email – bogarthandsomedevildog@yahoo.com and I’ll put yours up asap!  Also for anyone already listed, I mostly pulled description info from your blog, if you want to write something special for your description let me know that too!

Check ‘em out!

Love,

Bogart

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First we’ve gotta gas up – this is Los Angeles after all – so I help guard the Bogie-beetle while mom pumps gas.

I check the receipt carefully, and then we’re ready to roll!

We went to the Hollyridge trail in Hollywood…

Gotta be careful of those rattlesnakes and mountain lions…

But basically it’s just a place to have fun!

There were lots of people on horses, but mom’s camera was being persnickety (again) so no cool horse pictures.

I did get to meet lots of cool doggies – ALL GIRLS TODAY – always fun.  We walked for a few hours, then it was time to go home.  Definitely a fun, easygoing afternoon.

Love,

Bogart

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I’ve just received this from my best Goober-buddy Stanley:

He wrote an incredibly cool post on his blog talking about how how his mama saw my blog and Sunshade‘s blog, and we inspired her to get back on the Airedale-horse and get herself another Dale after losing her beloved Rosie. Which was, of course, Stanley and so all is now right in the world…

I LOVE YA MAN… thanks for making me an honorary member of Gooberstan – Bogartoober it is

I LOVE YA MAN…

Love,

Bogart

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Other than the current Bogie-mobile (black VW New Beetle) which gets lots of people to smile as I drive by (much like I do), I’d have to say that this gets a bit of the Bogie-mystique right:

It’s a Ural Retro sidecar motorcycle.  Yup, it’s the one that mom wants to get (I will supposedly be subjected to riding in the sidecar at some point if I like it).  Riding free with ears flapping in the wind,  (like Mitch would be if he was allowed to ride on his dad’s new Indian) and certainly unique (I don’t see a lot of them even here in Los Angeles which has plenty of unique vehicles) with a lot of personality – well, that’s me and that’s the Ural.

I have NO idea of who to tag since I haven’t seen many other dogs posting this one, so I’m gonna go with:  Stanley,  Butchy & Snickers, & Noah and his gals!

Love,

Bogart

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So mom heard that there was going to be a winter storm today here in Los Angeles. Ok… we could certainly use some rain (we haven’t had any since April and even then, it wasn’t much), and maybe we’d even get some thunder, lightning, or gosh maybe even SNOW. She got REALLY excited because she misses “real” weather. Yes it’s September in the desert, but it was in the newspaper and on the news…

I spent my first big Winter Storm day in Pasadena. You can judge for yourself how winter-y and storm-y it was…

Notice all of the snow on the streets and the silly humans – unprepared – wearing shorts and flip flops.

I stopped for a cold drink at the outdoor “ice” fountain…

A little game of hide-and-go-seek (mom kept the leash on so she would be able to find me in a snow drift or through the violent hail in case we got separated)…

Traditional winter foliage…

Ok how wrong is this… a giant Drinkwell fountain like the one I use at home, outdoors, just where I’d like a big drink, and it even has a kind of FIRE HYDRANT in the middle of it, I ask HOW MUCH MORE PERFECT COULD IT BE FOR A DOGGIE DRINKING FOUNTAIN… and it’s got metal chain surrounding it, a big Keep Out sign. Bastards.

Me and Dad outside of  Gordon Biersch – another place that won’t allow well-behaved dogs to eat al fresco, but will allow screaming, pooping human babies.  Go figure.

I couldn’t figure out why this little guy didn’t want to play – he looks just like the coyotes that run down my street every night (and that I LOVE to chase) but he didn’t run even when I barked.  I lost interest quickly.

On such a winter-y day, I considered taking up a hobby.  At the pawn shop I saw lots of cool guitars… maybe I could be a rock star… I’ve got a nice long tongue, I’ve heard that this could make me a STAR…

Well it appears that we weathered the storm rather well – all 80 degrees of it – and the ride home in the Bogie-mobile went well (no skating on any ice or reduced visibility because of wind and rain).  Whew… I guess I can remove my tongue from my cheek now…

Love,

Bogart

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So unbeknownst to me, mom sent an email to the lovely folks at Pegetables to let them know just how much I love these things.  Also because she couldn’t find them at our local Petco or little pet stores.

Well this weekend a special package arrived – for MOI – with a nice, big packet of Pegetables. WOO-HOO!  The first one I wanted was my favorite one, a CELERY.  Now I have no idea if I like real celery or not but I LOVE the Pegetables celery!

I’ve also indulged in a CARROT and a CORN and can say that they’re all pretty darned yummy.

After indulging I needed a little rest.  We’ve been out hiking a lot lately too – later in the day, that is, to avoid the evil heat – so after the physical exertion and the excitement of the Pegetables, I had to rest.

On MY sofa.

Yes, it’s MY sofa.

Ah, life is good.  Get yourself some yummy Pegetables, I think they’re great for big and little dogs who like to chew!

Love,

Bogart

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I just got tagged by my Aire-bud Hercules… there’s a new game in town, the Middle Name Game:

Here’s how it goes:

1. Post the rules before you give the facts. (Listen up Pups, these are the Rules!!)

2. List one fact that is somehow relevant to you and your life for each letter of your middle name. If you don’t have a middle name, use the middle name you would have liked to have had.

3. When you are tagged you need to write your post using your middle name and facts about it.

4. At the end of your post choose one dog to tag for each letter of your middle name. Be sure to let each puppy know she/he has been tagged. (It’s ok if you don’t do this, just tag who you want to tag!).

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So, many of you know that my official AKC name is BOGART HANDSOME DEVIL. So I guess I have a little more work to do coming up with all of the letters in my middle name…

H is for Handsome, as in Handsome Devil

A is for Airedale Terrierist, ahem, Terrier

N is for Naughty, of which I am on a daily basis

D is for Dog Food, in which I have no interest

S is for Stinker, as in Little Stinker (one of mom’s favorite pet names for me)

O is for the Only canine in a household full of cats!

M is for Meeeeeeeee, and that’s what it’s all about

E is for Everyday of sunshine that I bring to my family

What does it spell? HANDSOME, of course. Mom came up with the Handsome Devil part, and dad originally thought of the Bogart part. I kinda like my name, I think it suits me…

So I’m gonna tag

Maggie & Mitch

Putter

Sunshade

Jaffa

Mojo

Lillie

GooberStan

Faya

Allegra

(forgive me if any of you guys have already been tagged, yes I threw in one extra just in case! – it’s an all-Airedale game for me this time

Love,

Bogart

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First things first – I had a refreshing shower with Dad.  As much as I’m not really into getting wet, I do have to say that after the shower is over I feel mighty fresh and good.  Runnin’ around the apartment, aire-drying, rubbing up against everything.  Now I’m READY…

The first stop was a little drive away – we went to Larchmont Village, one of the few walking streets in Los Angeles.

Lots of little shops, restaurants, cafes, etc.  Lots of people too because they apparently have a farmers market there on Sundays (and no dogs allowed inside – barbarians!) so we had to do a lot of walking “around” it.  No worries for me, lots of people had dogs with them (they must have had the same idea we did and were big fans of Oscar too).  Oddly, most of the doggies weren’t that friendly to me and had to be pulled back by their owners.  But I maintained calm and didn’t get into any arguments… I wanted to see everything!

Looking at properties – thinking about getting my own backyard sometime…

Mom thought it would be funny to get me a real haircut at the Barber Shop but haha mom – they’re CLOSED on Sunday!!!  So just a little posing and an inside joke.

Then I started sniffing around this shop… thought maybe I’d pick up a little something for some of my Aire-girl friends (was thinkin’ of Miss Maggie, Sunshade, Putter, the Airechicks, Allegra, Maggie 2, & Faya and maybe a little somethin’ for Snickers…).

It gave me a *special* twitter so I happily posed for the photo.

We wanted to eat some lunch but every cafe was pretty crowded… so we headed to Old Town Pasadena and a place where they always give me great treatment, Malagueta!

I had my own area to lay down, and a nice, cold bowl of water.  Even a few pieces of mozzarella cheese fell down magically from mom’s plate.  Mmm mmm mmm.

I thought we’d be heading home after that, but instead we went over to dad’s friend Stephen’s house nearby… I haven’t been there in AGES and got really excited.  Now mom says that she was a little wary about us going over there because the last time we were there I got into a little doggie argument with one of their doggies (they have 3).  So she wasn’t sure if this was going to work…

But she had nothing to worry about, the one doggie that I don’t get along with was in the backyard and we got to run around in the front yard.  Yay!  Running in grass, playing with doggies, this is great fun for an apartment-dog like me.

Sitting by the pool with the humans was fun too – although sometimes their conversation gets a little bit boring.  But they had doggie cookies and they were sitting in the shade, so I was happy to join their little party.

Very relaxing, then a nice, easy drive home.

Mom and dad were relaxed too and didn’t feel like cooking dinner (well, they cooked MINE so basically all is well with the world) so off we went AGAIN, this time to our local Mexican place, the Rodeo Grill.  Mom and I sat outside, watching all of the hipsters slump by, while dad went in to get their burritos.  One guy came up to me and was talking to mom – he’s one of the waiters from Good Microbrew, the place we always go for lunch!  He recognized me before he recognized mom… yes, I’m pretty memorable indeed.

So as you can see it was a BUSY day, and a fun one.  Didn’t make me forget about my buddy Oscar, I’ll never forget about him!  But I hope that he’s watching, reading my blog from the Rainbow Bridge, and having a good laugh at my Aire-ventures.

Love,

Bogart

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3. What color is the collar you’re wearing right now?

As I write this, I have on my bright green nylon “adventure harness”, but I do have a nice little collection of collars for different activities and occasions.

4. Who is your favorite person other than the people you live with?

Oh that’s easy. My mom’s friend Mareike who has my 3 favorite Airedales in the entire world! Whenever I visit, I pretend that I have no interest in her at all while I spend all of my time trying to hump the lovely Jupie, but the truth is that she’s pretty darned cool and I love her doggies!

5. How much do you weigh?

In the mid 60s – my weight fluctuates depending on how lazy mom and dad are (not MY fault, of course…)

6. Most expensive thing you’ve ever chewed up?

Ahem, it was a pair of shoes that belonged to mom that she’d just bought… and she had to try to explain to me that it wasn’t possible to return them for a full refund if they have a CHUNK bitten out of them. Hey, I was young, I didn’t understand such concepts at the time (and they were tasty).

7. Do you like other Dogs?

Well… sometimes. Girls are generally always ok (they appreciate an intact man with a potent manly-musk) unless they don’t like me, but boys can be more of an issue. I usually want to be the “top dog” and sometimes I start a little somethin’, sometimes the other boy dog starts a little somethin’ – luckily I’ve never hurt anyone and I’ve never been hurt, just a lot of barking and holding the other dog down with my big, right paw…

8. Who is your best non-human friend?

Behemoth the kitty. My grey and white spotted buddy. But that’s mostly because he is a cat who LOVES dogs.

9. Squeaky toys or tennis balls?

Mostly tennis balls, but squeaky toys do have their allure…

10. Do you like to be brushed?

Hell, yeah!

11. Peanut Butter or Cheese?

Cheez pleez!

12. Do your people cut your toenails?

Nope, never needed it. Apparently I scratch ‘em off running around during my daily walkies so no cutting has been necessary so far.

13. Any formal education?

Well, the cats have given me quite an education, and I’ve learned a lot from the school of life… but no official college for me.

14. Couch potato or Energizer Bunny?

Energizer bunny – I’m always ready to go!

15. Five nicknames your people call you.

Bogovatch, Bogster, Bogleroni, Boginski, and Bugaboo (those are the ones that don’t have the “adult” words in ‘em, for when I’m on my best behavior…)

16. What is your best trick?

I’m a high-fiver, I’ll also shake paw based on whetehr you say “Guten Tag” or Auf Wiedersehn” to me (guten tag is for my left paw, auf weidersehn is for my right paw).

17. Do you like kitties?

Oh yes, I’ve grown up with 4 kitties and they’re my buddies. I do still chase them around, but once they stop running or we run into a corner then the game is over.

18. What did you have for breakfast?

I get some Natural Balance deli roll… it’s easy and I like it. I never ate breakfast for the longest time (I was never hungry in the morning), but lately I’ve been indulging.

19. Can you hunt (aka have you ever killed anything living)? If so, what?

I’ve done a little stalking (of ducks in the park) but in general I’m a lover, not a fighter.

20. When & why was the last time you went to the V.E.T.?

Oh grrrr, the vet. I had to have a foxtail removed from my paw that hurt like crazy – they put me under and had to remove it with a knife. I was supposed to wear the stupid elizabethan collar but mom and dad figured that if they slipped a sock over my paw that I wouldn’t bit it so they wouldn’t have to deal with the collar themselves (I love it when they’re selfish – sometimes). It healed nicely and now my fuzz has grown back.

21. Where do you sleep at night?

I tuck in the humans by sleeping at their feet for awhile, then I have my own blanket in the living room that I sometimes share with my cat buddies.

22. Do you like to swim?

Nope, so far I hate it. Imagine that, I’m supposed to be a water dog, and I hate puddles!!!

23. Can you make puppies?

Yes, ma’am! I’m always lookin’ for love, and now that I’m a full-grown stud the idea seems pretty darned cool…

24. Do you give kisses?

Yes, everyday! Mom gets woken up with kisses until she drags her butt out of bed to take me outside. But other people? Nah.

25. Can you potty on command?

Nah… why should I? The humans carry bags to pick it up and they can always use a little extra exercise… (mom says that she has me on something called a “schedule” where she feeds me and I poop at about the same time every day…).

26. To Cuz or not to Cuz?

Ya know, I jumped on the Cuz bandwagon a long time ago and I’ve just NEVER liked the darn thing. I have a big, red Cuz and I put it on the bottom of my toybox and whenever mom takes it out I completely ignore it. Cannot tell you why – I love my squeaky carrot, my squeaky Sniffers bar, my new plush toy from Charlie & Opy, my stuffed rat… but that Cuz just bores me to tears. Go figure.

Love,

Bogart

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As always, I can take absolutely no responsibility for not updating the blog for a few days. We all know who’s fault that is. Yes she’s typing now, but I really feel that if she thinks it’s important enough to drag her butt out to work that surely it must be equally as – if not more – important to sit down to take my fuzzy dictation and update the blog. She flaunts the fact that she has those silly opposable thumbs so often, you’d think that she’d actually want to USE them occasionally…

But I digress.

This has been a fun week indeed, with dad back at home and the walks nice and long. It’s getting hot here tho, which means that I generally sleep in the middle of the day rather than frolic outside (I tell you, that asphalt gets damn hot and the humans with their shoes on really cannot appreciate how hot it can get…). So here’s a quick update – in photos:

This is my cat brother Behemoth. He’s wise beyond his years. He teaches me many things.

For instance, we mediate together…

Sometimes I do it wrong and require some remedial education… luckily he generally keeps the claws sheathed so I just get her verbal cues (and facial expressions) and I get the point.

I spent LOTS of time in the park this week, running and hiking with mom and dad. It’s pretty hot so instead of noontime in the park it’s usually 3pm-ish.

This is just behind our building, the area that we walk in all the time… it’s less smoggy than usual so you can see the hills in the background (most days you can’t)…

YOU ARE HERE

I love ya dad…

Love,

Bogart

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Normally I’m not a big fan of Mondays… Mom is always cranky and it seems like things never really go the way they should. Lots of the humans seem to think that Mondays aren’t all that much fun so I just kind of went along with that until…

Today.

We started out the day by doing my “duck check” (to make sure that the ducks are still there) at the Echo Park lake.

I saw lots of turtles today – more than usual – but of course mom couldn’t capture that golden moment on camera.

Then it was errand-time. My least favorite. When I do get to come along (when it’s not too hot or sunny) I have to sit in the car to “guard” it for mom. She’s not fooling me for a minute. I don’t “guard” the car I just sit there in the copilot seat and w-a-i-t. I generally show my discontent by barking loudly just as she enters the store/post office/wherever she’s going. You know, just when lots of other people can see just how poorly she treats me and get a good look at her as she quickly runs into the store/post office/wherever.

I must have been uncharacteristically off of my game this morning because mom thought I was really good during the errands, so since we were in the neighborhood she thought a quick run to Rally’s might be in order. Mmmmm. Tasty burger for me, well worth it for being (relatively) quiet in the car.

Then since we needed to do a bit of walking mom thought we’d check out how Griffith Park was doing since the big fire, you know, see if our old hiking ground might be open (or if we could sneak in). No dice, they’ve got the whole thing fenced! That’s a lotta fence let me tell you, the fire area was huge! So we walked around it for awhile – admittedly mostly to see if there were any holes we could sneak through) and checked out just how close the fire had come to the beautiful old merry-go-round and picnic areas. Very scary stuff, it was literally just a few feet away.

So while mom was taking in the magnitude of the fire damage, I took in something myself… this spiffy soccer ball! Yes it’s deflated and kind of mushy but for me it’s PERFECTION. I can get my full mouth around it and carry it with me wherever I go which makes me HAPPY.

It thuds comfortingly when I drop it in front of me, and when mom tries to kick it out of my mighty paws it is easy for even those without those opposable thumbs to grasp. Ha! Score one for the four-leggers…

Ok so normally this would be a GREAT day. End of blog. Time to sleep. But noooooo….

When we got home and after my refreshing drink from my water fountain there was a big thud at the door. So I put on my “big boy voice” and started barking at the evil door. Mom looked through the peephole and didn’t see anyone so I thought, “Job done”, and retired back to my fountain. Mom opened the door and there it was – a package.

She wasn’t expecting anything and looked at it… it was addressed to BOGART HANDSOME DEVIL – gimme gimme gimme!!!

It was from my pals Opy & Charlie all the way in Australia!!!!! I know that my manners in this arena may need a little sharpening but darn it GIMME THAT PACKAGE!!!

I made very quick work of the outer packaging to get to my NEW SOFT FURRY TOY!!!!! I LOVE THIS!!!! I don’t know if I’ve told everyone, but soft toys are my absolute favorite and I do not have nearly enough of them… this guy has a surfboard and cool board shorts on, did I mention how much I LOVE HIM???

Check out the cool photo they sent along too – you guys really are the COOLEST dogs!!!!!

Thank you SO MUCH Opy & Charlie (and of course, to your humans too), I LOVE MY NEW SOFT FURRY TOY!!!

Love,

Bogart

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I’ve had pretty funky diarrhea, which is always fun.  Mom shaved my butt yesterday to help out with this situation (actually it looks and feels pretty good) and yesterday was gravy, today is pudding.  So it’s progress.

But the weirdest part is when I’m inside our apartment… I stare off into space and don’t want to lie down.  For the whole day.  Sometimes I stand still and just zone out, other times I walk back and forth between the front door and the terrace door.  And just stare.  Mom kept thinking that I would lay down and fall asleep since I wasn’t feeling well, but I don’t.  I STAND UP.  When I’m outside, I run and play like normal, so it seems like I’m feeling fine…. yes I know, it’s WEIRD.

Since today I got a little better mom said we’ll wait to see if I really need to go to the vet.  If I cannot relax, then we’ll go tomorrow.  Ok, gotta bug mom now – I want to go outside every 15 minutes or so and this 15 minutes is up!

Love,

Bogart

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Well the day started out plainly enough…

For my midday walk mom thought we’d go to Griffith Park near the Old Zoo, which I REALLY LIKE.  First we made a pit stop to Rally’s for a burger (drive-thru today).  I could smell the burger-y goodness in the bag, but mom wouldn’t let me near it in the car.  Grrrrr.

But we were heading to the park for a picnic so I did my best to distract myself (an Airedale specialty) until we got there.  Mom had a great plan to film my Rally-burger-destruction but alas, twas not to be.  She managed to get the first part committed to film, but then somehow pressed the off button and the actual burger massacre wasn’t recorded.  Ah well.  I look cute anyway.

Then we had our post-burger digestion walk through the park.  We didn’t see a single other person on the entire trail (which is odd) but I was having a blast!  Off the leash, running up and down hills, doing my best to amuse myself while mom walked along.

We went through the old zoo area and up the hiking trail – it was pretty warm today but there’s actually lots of shade on the trails so it wasn’t too bad.  Mom is also kinda smart – by getting a drink for herself at Rally’s with extra ice, she had both a drink for her and some ice for me so we both stayed hydrated!

As we were about half way through the hike, we looked up and saw this:

It looked like a fire on the other side of the hill.  It looked scary.  Mom and I picked up the pace since we still had a long way to walk and we would actually be walking closer to where the fire was in order to get out of the park.

As we got closer, the fire got bigger and scarier so we hot-footed it the rest of the way and headed toward the safety of the Bogie-mobile.  I made sure that the back seat was safe.

Then we got home, drove up the hill into our building and saw this:

So it’s a BIG SCARY fire near the Hollywood sign (you can kind of see it in the last picture).  Whew!  Glad we got out of there (and of course, glad I got my Rally burger…).  Mom says that there is no danger of our place burning, but that the Bogie-mobile is gonna be covered in crap tomorrow.  I guess relatively speaking, that’s not so bad…

Love,

Bogart

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How wrong I was!

Mom shuffled me into the car without explanation, and we went over to MAREIKE’S HOUSE!!!

There is no greater place in the world than here because I get to run around with my 3 Aire-buddies, Robin, Kermit & Jupie!!!

I immediately (and repeatedly) broke my New Years resolution about humping. Sorry but I just couldn’t help myself…

Jupie is the only girl so she bore the brunt of my masculinity, but when she would register her displeasure I’d try out my moves on the boys as well.

While no one seemed really interested I persisted.

It just doesn’t get any better than this (well ok, maybe if Jupie would really let me have a go at her) thanks so much Mareike for letting me come over and play!!!!! Nothing like getting together with a bunch of Dales to make this boy smile!

Love,

Bogart

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Wow, almost a WHOLE WEEK with no one taking pictures of me… that was surreal.

Believe it or not, mom finally found the camera card and guess where it was? It had fallen behind the overflowing laundry basket (I told you mom…. if you’d just let me get those extra panties and socks out of the way sooner you would have found it!!!). So I’m back in business…

First order of the day – taking care of the yard at Kehoe Mountain. Heidi and her humans are back in Florida for awhile, so dad and I are in charge of taking care of the yard while they’re gone.

Dad does most of the watering, I do most of the toy relocation.

Today we had a nice lunch walking around The Grove – that’s an outdoor mall here in Los Angeles – and it was the first time that dad experienced the frenzy that develops every time I go out in public wearing my Doggles. I think even he was impressed. We walked through the street and of course everyone was either smiling, taking a cell phone picture, giggling, or pointing at ME. I’m used to it by now, but it was new for dad. Mom has already seen it all and so she just helped to direct our little party over toward Johnny Rockets for some lunch.

Lunch was yummy but then it was time to walk through the street again which of course was even more fun… by now I was pretty sick of the Doggles and I’ve found that a very effective method of removing them from my eyes (but not from my head, damnit) is to wiggle my head between mom’s knees – works pretty well except once she caught onto me. So I tried it with random strangers – with conflicting results.

After all that fun we had to refill the gas tank on the Bogie-mobile, so I allowed mom to take care of that while I got into the drivers seat, ready to drive us home.

Mom thought that was pretty funny but hey, I was SERIOUS.

Mom also finally got around to snapping some photos of me in the Bogie-Beetle with my new Airedale Taxi sign (from my dreamgirl, Sunshade) – I think it’s appropriate!

It’s good to be back…

Love,

Bogart

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Mom just found this cool site called WikiFido – and she put up a page for me!  It was a little difficult for her at first (I could see the smoke coming out of her ears and heard those “special” words she uses when she’s angry) but it looks pretty good.

Check me out on my own WikiFido page HERE, and don’t forget to add your own to your own breeds!  I saw the page of my dreamgirl Sunshade, which made my heart go pitter-patter…

Love,

Bogart

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No, not the Three Stooges, it’s the Three Airedales! And this is a serious story, not a funny one.

I just found out about these three gorgeous boys, and it’s a very sad story. Mom and I were crying reading about them! They’re in pretty bad shape and they need our help… You can read their story here.

The great folks at ARANT in North Texas have come up with an incredibly cool way for us all to help out… they’re raffling off a fantastic quilt! Check out the Denim & Dales page for pictures and a direct link to their Paypal account for raffle tickets. We just made a donation and entered! Good luck to everyone, but especially to Moe, Larry & Curly… I’m thinkin’ about you guys, and hope you get better soon and find some fantastic forever homes!!!

Love,

Bogart

Download this banner and spread the word and the AIREDALE LOVE:

(link to: http://www.arant.rescuegroups.com)

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