Let he who is without Sin(jin)...

No, wait. That won't work!

Okay, well, Sinjin has a dogster page now. But for loyal readers of this blog, it's all stuff you've seen already. Or will see here in a tiny bit.

Speaking of loyal readers. Loyal readers who speak back ... "Good dog, Tucker!" "Please be nice, Tucker!" "You're doing a good thing, Tucker!"

Sheesh!

This little place already had two more dogs than it needed. There's Gremlin lying around....

By the way, she thanks you for your concern. She's doing better. She can get up by herself whenever she wants, now. The dokker gave the Human Assistant pain pills for her. Cram-it-all. They seem to help.

And then there's Lucy. More about her in a minute.

So with a lying-around dog and a wag-waggy dog, it's not like there was lots of room to take on another big furball.

So like I said last time, I'm making sure the H.A. sees what a problem Sinjin is. (And making sure the dog has plenty of opportunities to be a problem!)

Aww, go ahead ... surf!	Look inside the fridge!
Sinjin:  Woo, what's this‽‽‽	Sinjin:  Supper!

I couldn't get him to stove surf or counter surf, darnit. Or open the fridge or the oven or the microwave. Not yet, anyway. I'll keep working on him.

H.A. left a food bin open while he was dishing out supper. Now I would never have stuck my head in it! But Sinjin did. And ate out of it!

And the human didn't care!

He said the rest of us should just go back to our bowls. Sinjin was a little confused about which bowl he should eat out of. (Not mine!) So H.A. just let him chow down out of the bin!

But I think I have him on this other deal. Remember when Lucy walked through a puddle of black stuff? And tracked it into the house? Get a load of this!

Sinjin:  No, my bladder's healthy.	Sinjin:  Why do you ask?
Lucy:   I didn't do it!	Lucy:  My conscience is clean.

The H.A. hasn't quite got around to cleaning up the oil. Lucy walked through it ... Sinjin musta laid in it or something! Woooo-ee!

H.A. has sent email to the people who adopted Sequoia. They had said they'd be interested in more Sibes.  Heh heh heh!  It won't be long now!

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Okay, yes I would go after food in a bin. I mean, he left it open...!

Alien invaders

And this time I don't mean Mystique!

The Human Assistant just caught up reading his SIBERNET email and learned that poor Shelby and Maddox have wormies. Eeew, stay away from them!  ::big Husky smile::  Just kidding, gang!

The vet thinks I had some kind of parasite when I got here. He never saw it. I got it at the rescue, probably. It was a strange-sounding explanation. But he said it was the right pattern of symptoms leading up to my new monia.

On SIBERNET they're also talking about giardia. Well, I've never mentioned Timber before. She was here before my time. But she must have lived on her own in the mountains for months. And when she was rescued she had two kinds of parasites. Giardia and some other creepy slithery thing. But she got treated for them before she came here to live with Gremlin and the H.A.

So parasites happen.

Time for a more fun topic!

My other posts haven't had links to Gremlin's dogster page. This is H.A.'s fault. It has to be because he does the typing. So he will go back and add links as he adds tags to the posts. (Only Blogger calls them labels.)

If you look at my dogster page you'll see H.A. finally put a bunch of photos on it. Some of them have been in the blog before because he had already cropped and tweaked them.

(I thought it was ears that got cropped. And tweaking sounds like something you do to tweaky toys. But that's what H.A. said.)

He says he has lots more pictures of me he can put on dogster. But they have to be cropped and tweaked first. And it looks like a ton of them show Mystique trying to play with me.  ::scowl::  They're from when she lived with H.A.'s buddy and we would go visit her.

I didn't mind her so much then. I played with her a little because it was just for a while and then we would go home. But H.A. took a gazillion pictures. I look pretty good in lots of them. But Mystique is also in them! And she looks just a little too darned cute! So the pictures shouldn't be on my dogster page!

(Okay, so Mystique really is an alien invader!)

Our dogster pages have links to each other. Like to Mutzger, who was here before anybody else but Gremlin. H.A. got puppy Mutzger and puppy Gremlin at the same time more than 13 years ago.

But anyway. All the other doggies that have lived with H.A. can be seen from my dogster page. There have been nine of us in just four years! I mentioned five in yesterday's blog. They were the guest doggies.

Plus Mutzger and Timber, and Gremlin and me. The H.A. was really surprised when he counted us all up. But now he's made sure that each of us has at least a few pictures on a page all our own.

Everydoggie should have a dogster page, I think!

Adopted! Adopted!

HOORAY !!!

The family that had Mystique on trial adoption from MaxFund finished adopting her yesterday!  YAAAAYYY !

I was very worried that she would come back here! The trial was supposed to be for two weeks. ("More or less," says the Human Assistant.) Today is three weeks. And H.A. emailed them a few days ago to ask how things were going, and he never heard back from them.

H.A. and the shelter people say the family is very nice. The one thing was that they don't have another dog for Mystique to play with. And she loves to play! H.A. put 16 pictures on her dogster page. In 14 she's with another dog. In 12 she's trying to play with that dog!

This is my favorite picture of Mystique. It looks like Jaeger is being fierce and the puppy is scared. Heh! But she loved for him to chase her. She would bug him and then run. Again and again.

Anyway, the family said that they know lots of people with dogs, and Mystique will be able to play with them.

And now it's all official and everything!

Also, a few days ago the lady that trial-adopted der Jägermeister made his adoption final too!  YAAAAYYY !

(H.A. says he'll put more pictures of Jaeger on his dogster page, but it's too late tonight. He also better work on my dogster page! He has pictures of me now besides that one my foster mom took. And I've been here nearly a whole year!)

Jaeger is the dog that H.A. thought might come back. He's giving his new mom trouble about escaping from her back yard. H.A. thought Jaeger didn't escape from our yard except right at the last. Two days in a row Jaeger jumped the fence and ran around front when H.A. left the house. Jaeger wanted to go for a ride!

But a couple of days ago the next-door neighbor said he had seen Jaeger get out, too. I don't know how many times he did this. But neighbor said Jaeger jumped our fence to go from our back yard to the side yard between our houses. Then he jumped their fence to get in their back yard.

(There are lots of bushes in the way, so he didn't just go over the fence between our yards.)

Neighbor said then Jaeger ran laps around their back yard. Ran and ran and ran. They watched him. H.A. was very embarrassed! But neighbor said it was okay. They liked watching him. Then they told Jaeger to go home. And back he came! Over one fence. Over a second fence. Back in the back yard, with H.A. none the wiser!

Heh. He could almost have qualified as a Siberian Husky with that trick! Except for the obedience thing. I would have had to work with him on that. Labs!

But anyway. Jaeger's new mom wanted a friend for her dog Lila. She (the dog) is mostly a Treeing Walker Coonhound. I never heard of it either.

And I haven't met her. But H.A. says she's a pretty good size match for Jaeger. He's very tall! Taller than me.

H.A. says Jaeger stands 26" at the withers (at the base of his neck). Lila isn't as tall, he says. But not a shrimp. Which is good. Who wants shrimpy dogs?

(Just kidding, Princess Minky!  ::big Husky grin::)

Early on the mom said Lila adored Jaeger and followed him around. But Jaeger just wanted to explore and stuff.  [Sounds like an average guy and gal.  -- mr_ed]  After some time passed, the mom said she found them snuggling on the couch, snuggling on the bed.... Ish!

(Kat, I forgot to answer your question. No, I don't snuggle with H.A. Not even when he's feeling icky. Especially not when he's feeling icky! Who wants to be around people who feel icky?)

So now the alpha girl dog (according to her mom) has an alpha boy dog to keep her company while the mom's at work. That's much better than him being here and acting like he's afraid of me and not walk past me to get outside to do his business. And then standing next to me when we're all outside and getting me annoyed and stuff when I'm not feeling good.

So that's five doggies I've gotten out of the house:

• an Aussie Cattle Dog mix (H.A.'s daughter's dog);
• a Mini Poodle H.A. felt bad for and pulled from a county pound;
• a yellow Lab/Retriever that wandered down our street;
• Jaeger; and now
• Mystique.

One every other month or so? Not bad work, I'd say! But the Human Assistant better not bring home any more!

-- photo of Treeing Walker Coonhound from Wikipedia