Week at Grandma's

Dear distinguished followers,

Apologies for the delay in posting. You cannot imagine how difficult it is to pin down Mommy following a week's vacation! One would think she has priorities other than the Sheriff and I and well, that is just unacceptable.

Anyway, as explained to me, Mommy and Daddy needed a little vacation and therefore, we pups got shipped off to the Academy, a.k.a Grandma and Granpas. Let me just tell you, the Academy is loads of FUN! Acres and acres of smells, nasty stuff to roll in, noises to bark at, wildlife to chase, you name it, we do it! Captain Half-Pint in his role as senior doggy patrol keeps us in line with daily inspections, scheduled play time, marches, the works. Now I know where the Sheriff gets his time management skills-everything is on a routine.

4AM-Fox hunting-everyone barks in unison and out we go to catch us some sneaky foxes (in theory of course otherwise what we would do tomorrow?)

4:30AM-Curl up for more sleep now that the entire house is awake

7AM-Morning walk with Grandpa down the driveway (also double check the fox has not returned)

7:30AM-Breakfast

8:00AM-Start following Grandma around until she gives in and takes us for a very long walk

9:00AM-Grandma caves and we get to go a-walking

11:00AM-5:00PM-Follow Grandma around because it's entertaining (and drives her a little nuts)

5:30PM-Greet Grandpa and proceed to follow him around (he is notorious for sharing his dinner if you stare at him long enough)

6:00PM-8:00PM-Requisite play time. This consists of Grandpa throwing a ball, the Captain running to fetch it and the Sheriff and I trying to body block him. Note: the Captain growls and barks but means no harm. You should make sure that whoever you body block has the same temperament or bad ouchies may be coming.

8:30PM-Curl up for sleep

See, aren't you jealous we had a week of this? Now keep in mind, Grandma is all for training throughout the day so there were many, many practices of COME, STAY, NO BARK, WAIT, SIT, etc. I got pretty good by the end if I do say so myself.

Although we love our sojourns to the Academy, nothing quite compares to coming home to Mommy and Daddy!

Loves and Licks and thanks to the Grandparents (and promises for more updates in a timely fashion)

Deputy Dougal