Sooooo Sorry.....

Josie and I have been missing my computer. It took a nose dive right after my last posting on Josie. It will not be with me for at least two weeks.
Josie is just as adorable as ever and in very good spirits. She hates it when I leave her, even if it is just going to the car for a minute!
We walk two times a day....even in the rain. We sing at least once a day. I make her dance and give her one of her new cookies! She is doing very well, but I know she will love it when her family comes home.

Pawsitively Perfect Pooch.....

Okay, so the subject line is a little hokey...but, that is exactly what our little Miss Josie is. She is spoiled too. She is loving that I have had a lot of time to spend with her. I don't have another dog during the day until Thursday, so she has been spoiled by all the attention I have been giving her. Even when I have another dog, she still gets lots of attention. She is a good little cuddler.

Today, the rain let up for a short time. They keep promising some sunshine in the next few days, but we will believe it when we see it. This picture was taken during one of our drier moments and Josie got out to smell the flowers. She has been getting soaked on our daily walks and it was nice not to get her back wet.

We have been trying the harness during our walks. Josie has a tendency to pull on her lead. When you use a harness to walk or any time you use a lead to control your dog, the harness is the best restraint there is. As soon as I put it on, you can see a change in the demeanor. She realized that the harness was in control and she didn't pull once during our walk. Now we walk every time with the harness on. Since my Otis is not alive to enjoy his harness, I will pass it down to Josie. She actually reminds me a lot of my little Otis, so she has stolen my heart and I am sure Otis would want her to have it. :-)

We have had no more incidents with food since the first day. Of course, I have learned MY boundaries and kept food off the table. So, all is good.

Hopefully, we will get some sunshine in the next few days. Josie and I want to walk down to the park and the rain has not let us do that. I expect we will be able to do that soon.

Josie is great and I am sure she will have puppy kisses for her mommy and daddy when they get home!

Rain, Rain and more Rain!

It has been raining here for several days. Josie and I don't care, we still go on our two walks a day. Ever since Josie taught me to take the trail, that is where we go. She heads to the trail like she can't wait to get there. We walked this morning and she was soaked by the time we got back. We have a towel by the door and this must be something close to her routine as she is more than willing to be towel dried!

She showed one of her talents today. A siren went by and she lifted her head and howled like she was singing. I cracked up! When I realized she was a singer, I lifted my head and sang like her.....we howled together and I laughed like crazy! I think I will video tape her and maybe her mommy and daddy will split the prize money if she makes America's Funniest Videos.

We are doing superbly. She is a joy to be with and she really has taken a liking to me. She sleeps under the covers, on my lap and generally stays by my side. I think I have fallen in love!

Perfectly Fine

Josie had an uneventful night. The donut incident didn't seem to bother her in the least. She slept under the covers all night and is now laying in my lap. She taught me a valuable lesson....never understimate a Schnauzer on a mission!

We are low key today. I do not have to go anywhere, so I will spend a lot of time with Josie today. We had a morning walk and will probably get in two more walks before the day is over. She really enjoys walking.

Tomorrow she will have to be alone a little bit. A friend is having her birthday tomorrow and I am taking her out to lunch. I ordered her a birthday cake yesterday with her picture on it. I a certainly glad it wasn't on the table yesterday too! Whew!

Not much to report as Josie is doing so well and we have been relaxing. Will write again in a couple of days!

National DogNut, er, uh 'Donut' Day!

Josie and I began our first morning having tea and watching the bird in the back garden. Of course, this wasn't until AFTER our morning walk. She took me to the trail at the end of the street near her house. She was determined to get there and kept pulling me along on the leash. It is a myth that we walk our dogs.....they usually walk YOU. She was a Schnauz on a mission and there was no holding her back. She sniffed and walked and did her business and then turned around as if to say 'Ok, now we can go home'. So, back to the house we went and then she allowed me to have my morning tea.

While sipping my tea and talking to Josie, I surfed the internet for a few things I needed to investigate. I found an article that said 'National Donut Day'. Yes, today was National Donut Day and if anyone knows me, I have never met a donut I didn't like. So, I got permission from Josie to take a little shopping trip with my friend and I promised to return in two hours. I noticed she didn't have any cookies and put it down on my list for her. After all, if she couldn't have a donut, she surely could have a cookie and pretend it was a donut!

My friend picked me up and we went off to check out a few new stores in our town. I told her about National Donut Day and we vowed to get us each a donut (or two). We happened upon this little bakery in Black Diamond. From the looks of the building it had been there since World War II and we were sure it wasn't in business anymore as there were no cars! But, we stopped to check it out anyway. WOW.....we were like kids in a candy store. We began looking at all the pastries and told the clerk we wanted a big box because we were going to buy one of everything. My favorite sweet is flaky pastry. They had Raspberry Turnovers that were right up my alley. Took 3 of them. Then I spotted Canoles! Took 2 of them. We spotted a Cocunut Cream Donut and knew we had to get that one in honor of National Donut Day. We also threw in a Raspberry Cream Cheese muffin for good measure. We had our box of goodies and decided to return later to order a birthday cake for a friend. AFter all....WE came first!

We had been gone close to two hours, so I suggested we stop by and drop off the donuts and pastries and let Josie out one more time. I bought her some little natural cookies and I wanted to give her a treat as well. She ate two of them. When I stopped, I separated my sweets from her sweets. This left the Coconut Cream Donut and one Canole in the box. I set it on the table to put my jacket on and walked out forgetting to bring her sweets. We laughed and said I did it on purpose and promised to grab it later.

Can you guess what I am going to tell you next? When I returned, I didn't notice anything until it was time to find the donuts for my friend. I looked at the table and there on the floor at the leg of a chair was an EMPTY box. Little Ms. Josie had a Donut party all her own. And, she didn't just eat ANY donut....she ate the rich, expensive ones! There wasn't a lick of cream anywhere. Not a piece of coconut to be seen. Not one trace of those donuts were found. All I could say to her was "I bet you are going to have to go outside a LOT tonight". Hopefully, she can handle her sweets!

So, lesson learned. If I were confuscious, I would say "Do not underestimate small dog only one foot high.....can climb mountains for bite of sweet"!