Author: SammieRose

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snicker:  Here is our business card.  I don’t know why my name isn’t on it.

 

Sam: Thank you for the interview, Snicker! Thank you too for talking with us, Melissa!

Mom and I shop at Muddy Paws all the time.  We get our food from Snicker and Melissa because we know they only sell good quality food from quality distributors.  Mom has gotten food from online retailers before and it wasn’t the freshest it could be.  Sometimes you just don’t know how long the food sits in their warehouse or what the temperature of their warehouse is!  It can go bad.  Plus we like to buy local and support business in our town.

This is me shopping at my favorite store, MUDDY PAWS!

I picked that out myself!

Mom and I will be interviewing Snicker, the dog who owns the store!

Mom says Melissa owns the store but Snicker really owns it.  He told me so.  We will talk to him about what it’s like to be a working dog and we might even let Melissa tell us some stuff about eating healthy food.  Mom thinks she might know a few things Snicker doesn’t but I’m sure Snicker knows everything there is to know about the products they sell.

 

Music credit: L’amour existe LIVE Omadis by 11ème étage as found on http://freemusicarchive.org/music/11me_tage/Stepjump_Lifestyle/06_-_Lamour_existe_LIVE_Omadis

Mom says l’amour existe means love exists.

Raccoon photo credit:  Erwan Hesry on Unsplash

All other photo’s were taken by Mom and therefore the copyright is owned by Mom.  Which means it’s owned by me because Mom belongs to me and so does everything that belongs to her.  Even the first picture.

Mom took me to the vet.  I like the vet.  He’s a nice guy.  I didn’t see him on this trip though.  I waited!  We sat in the waiting room the same way we always do.

There is a cat waiting room on the other side of the doorway!  I like cats.  I have a lot of cats.  Yes, they are mine.  Especially Stirfry and Sushi.  But I digress.  While we were waiting at the vet, there were people with cats and Mom wouldn’t let me go visit them.

I really wanted to!

The nurse came out to get me and she weighed me.  I am down to 132 pounds!

I don’t know what this means but Mom is very proud of me.

After I got weighed, we went back to the room and 2 of the nurses came in.  Do you know what they did to me???  They CUT MY NAILS!!!

I hate getting my nails cut.  You see, I still have my back dew claws and they get very long.  It hurts when people mess with my back toesies and I don’t like it.  It took both nurses and Mom to hold me to cut my nails so she couldn’t take any pictures.  I was very mad at all three of them.

But then I got a treat so I wasn’t mad anymore.

Mom says I need a bath next to finish up my beauty routine so I can be an extra pretty girl.  That’s another CAR RIDE!!!!

I bet you sleep in a big bed.  You have a bed, don’t you?  The kind that is WAY up high off the floor?  The kind with room for the cats to sleep underneath?  There is a bed like that in my house too!  I used to sleep in it.  I really liked sleeping in the bed and cuddling with Mom.  I can’t get up there anymore and it makes me very sad.

I’ve thought about different ways to get up there.  As they say, there is more than one way to skin a cat.  I bet you’re tall when you stand up on two legs.  Are you tall enough that you can just sit down and swing your legs up into the bed?  I could never figure out how to get on the bed the way you humans do.  You are very strange creatures.

We doggies have to jump up on things, you know.  One day it began to be very hard for me to jump up onto the bed.  I don’t know why.  My back legs just couldn’t launch me up there anymore!

*pic of very high bed from dog perspective*

For a while, I climbed up.  It was hard but I figured out how to put my front legs up and then climb up using that hidden step.  Did you know there is a hidden step on your bed?  I don’t know why they don’t make it bigger.  It’s almost completely hidden under the big cushiony thing on top the bed.

Comment from Mom:  She’s talking about the mattress!

I had to wiggle my back toes under to use that step.  And I eventually slid that big cushiony thing over and made the step bigger.  But it helped me get up there for a while.

The only trouble was, when I did manage to get the whole way up there, I had to JUMP back down.  Head first!

*picture of bed looking down*

Would you get off the bed head first?  It’s a bit scary.  It’s very high!  Landing on my front legs hurt sometimes.  I think that bed was getting higher.  I’m sure that was it.  Mom moves the furniture around sometimes.

 

I bet she made the bed higher.

SHE could still get in it though so maybe it just didn’t like me and made itself higher when I tried to get up.

 

Eventually I stopped trying to get on the bed with Mom.  She said she missed me and would come sleep on the floor with me sometimes.  She gave me a big fluffy blankie that we used on the bed so I’m comfy.  And Mom’s friend gave me my very own Rick and Morty blankie

*pic of Sammie in her blankie*

featuring Snowball (a dog who acquired the technology to talk and tried to take over the world!)

So I am warm; but I miss being on the bed.  I used to sleep on it even when Mom wasn’t home.

Mom says that if we ever GO on this diet she keeps talking about, I will be able to get up on the bed again!  I don’t know how that will work but I hope so.  Maybe they lower beds there.  I don’t know how she will bring it with us though because I don’t think it will fit in my car.  I really hope I can get back on the bed someday.

Mom says I need to do something called “exercise” a lot more.  She says that’s what I’m doing when we go on walks.  I do like walks.  But there’s something I like more.  My favorite thing in the world, besides food, or pets, or kisses, or chasing groundhogs, or walks, or barking, is CAR RIDES!  I’m still waiting to GO on this diet; maybe it’ll be an even more fun ride than the car but for now I love my car.  I have my own, you know.

I didn’t always.  Years ago, when I moved in with mom, she only had one car.  I still liked to GO for rides and was determined to GO anytime she went but I didn’t have my own CAR.

Once I even hopped in the trunk while she was loading the car because I didn’t want her to forget me!

 

Eventually I got one!  My very own CAR!  Now that I have my very own CAR, that means anytime it goes anywhere, I GO with it!  No one else is allowed to use it but me.  It is MY car.               

Mom’s car, the white one, only has two doors so mine is better!  It has more.  Mine is the four door green one. The one with the cat under it.  Why is that cat under my car?  That’s MY car.  Not the cat car.  They can’t have it.  They don’t share their food with me unless I steal it; so they can’t share my car.  Mom better not try taking that cat for a ride.  I will be very mad.

I love my car.  The seats are very soft velvet.  It has four windows that I can open and stick my head out.  Mom usually makes me sit in the back seat, but there is a part in the center of the front seat that I can push down and squeeze through up to the front seat when Mom isn’t looking.  Shhhhhh.  Please don’t tell her how I get up there!  I don’t want her to fix it.  It’s the best CAR ever, just the way it is.

Mom keeps my car someplace where I can’t see it most of the time.  I think she hides it from me on purpose.  But when I want to go for a ride, she brings it up to our front door.  I know the sound of it.  I will barrel through the door to get to my CAR.  It’s mine!  I should get to go for a ride every time I walk past my CAR.  That’s probably why Mom hides it.  She’s mean.

When she brings it up, I wait by the back door for Mom to open it.  She is my chauffeur.  That means she opens the doors for me and drives.  I need to get her a little hat for when she is chauffeuring me around.  It would serve her right if I did because she once put a hat on me while I was riding in my CAR.  It was kind of embarrassing.

When we go for rides in my CAR,we go to lots of important places.  Sometimes we go for a bath, sometimes we go to the bank for Mom, sometimes we go to the vet, but I really like it when we go to my favorite store, Muddy Paws.  This is me getting a treat at the counter.  Mom was so proud of me when I was able to stand up at the counter one day.  She said it’s because of that diet but I don’t know how that’s possible because I still never got to GO there.

Mom says I don’t get any exercise when I ride in my CAR and that I need to walk places.  I like walks, but I love riding in my CAR.

4/29/2017

Mom is very worried.  One of my fat lumps burst yesterday and my vet wasn’t open.  They told her it might happen at my last appointment but she wanted me checked out just to make sure everything was ok.  She is busy researching and reading articles.  She’s grumbling about them not supposed to rupture.  It wasn’t my fault!  She washed it out with some stuff she got from the hospital when she hurt herself twice already today.  I didn’t like her putting the cold liquid on it.  The vet told her to use peroxide but she doesn’t like peroxide.  She said something about it not being good for my skin.  I’m oozing icky stuff all over my bed.  We still went for walks today.  Mom says I will be ok.

 

4/30/2017

Mom washed all my bed clothes yesterday.  They got all icky.  I believe I have stopped oozing.  We went for a  nice walk while my blankie was in the wash.  And now it smells better.  Sadly, the food situation has not changed.  I am bleeding and I still can’t get any food around here.  Although Mom did give me some beef last night.  She said it was extra protein because of me bleeding.  She said something about getting me some liver for a treat for the iron.  I like that idea!  Extra treats!  I certainly hope she gets some.

 

5/1/2017

Mom got me liver treats again!  I like these.  I stole the whole last bag of them.  Hopefully she leaves these unattended so I can steal them too.  My side is normal looking again.  There is no lump on it.  There is still one on my back right above my hip though.  That is the one the vet thought would pop first.  Mom wonders if the one on my side grew and burst because of the new vaccine I got this year.  She read something about that being possible.  She worries a lot when she reads articles.  Because she says there are so many different perspectives and no one knows anything.  She’s even worse when one of the cats gets sick.  She says it is because they are aliens and are nothing like us when it comes to body structure.  She says you can treat a doggie like a person but cats are completely different.  I sure wish she would feed me like a person.  She gets to eat whenever she wants and I have to eat at the same times every day.  It’s not fair.  I keep pushing my bowl around when I want it filled but Mom ignores me.  I know she hears me too.  I will have to try something different.

 

5/2/2017

I grabbed my food scoop and tried to chew on it yesterday!  Mom took it off of me.  I was hungry and she wouldn’t feed me.  It smelled like my food.  Therefore it is edible.  Mom says I am getting “out of hand”.  I don’t know what she means by this.  My paws are just fine.  I do have more energy!  I can’t imagine why.  I’m still very hungry and the woman doesn’t feed me enough.  I have no idea how I could possibly have more energy when I am wasting away.  Mom says we will be going to see if I lost any more weight next week.  I certainly hope not.  I do not like losing things.  But she said GO!  So that means a car ride!  Yay!

 

5/3/2017

We had a visitor last night.  I heard lots of growling on the porch.  Mom went outside and stayed out a very long time.  She came back in once and got cans of cat food.  She was out there feeding something when she starves me.  And I don’t even growl.  She said our porch cats, Zeus and Saki, had a friend over.  It didn’t sound very friendly to me.  But she gave away food.  And she didn’t give me any.  I like cat food too!

 

5/4/2017

Mom said it is going to freeze this weekend.  It has been raining ALL the time lately.  It poured last night.  For hours.  Rain seriously cuts into my walks because I do not like the rain.  I sometimes don’t even want to leave the porch when it is raining.  Mom has to push me off.  It is very mean of her because then I get wet.  She said it is going to rain for the next two weeks.  That’s almost 3 months in dog years!  I better get some walks in.  At least it isn’t very hot.  It is cold and I can come inside and snuggle up with Mom and purr at her.  I rumble a lot when Mom hugs me.  She says it’s burning extra calories.  I don’t know what calories are but Mom makes me rumble more than she used to.  She purrs back at me too!  We sing sometimes.  I bet the neighbors love our serenades.  We sound so pretty together.

 

5/5/2017

Rain again!  Rain rain rain.  I want to go out for more walks.  And it is wet.  I am bored.  And I want more food.  Big doggie sigh.  So sad because no big walks and no extra food.  I am going to have to formulate a plan on how to get something.  Mom keeps feeding those cats outside but she won’t feed me any more times a day.  That’s not fair.   We need to GO somewhere and do something.  Mom said I have to go for a bath soon.  She is waiting for my side to heal a bit before she takes me though.  I want to GO!  There are treats at the bath place!

4/22/2017

No extra food today.  I am so disappointed.  It was a one time thing.  I was really hoping Mom saw the error of her ways and decided to feed me right again.  But alas, no.   I must suffer with these small sad excuses for meals when I could eat so much more!

 

4/23/2017

We seem to be going for extra walks.  I think Mom is trying to be nice to me.  The extra food on Friday, and now extra walks all weekend….Hmmmmmm…wonder how I can remind her about what the vet said about GOing on a diet?  Maybe she would finally take me!  I still really want to GO on a diet.  She mentions it sometimes but we never GO!

 

4/24/2017

Last night I stole a plate of cat food!  Mom figured out that one of the cats helped me by pushing it out from under the bed.  She is learning my secrets.  Sometimes the kitties help me get extra food.  It is nice to have help!  Even if they don’t always mean to help me.  Kitties can be useful friends.

 

4/25/2017

Mom is outside.  She has not fed me yet this morning.  There is something going on out there.  I have been up all night because of that other dog out there.  I heard him.  And I smelled him.  I almost inhaled the front door smelling for him!  He was eating the cat food that is supposed to be left there for me to try to steal!  He was eating MY cat food!  Mine!  And Mom has been taking more out all night.  Traitor.  She won’t feed me extra but she will feed animals she doesn’t know!  Who aren’t supposed to be on MY porch.  How unfair is that?!  She thought it was a new hungry stray cat out there I’ve been upset about.  But it wasn’t.  It was this dog.  I don’t know where he came from but he’s eating on MY porch.  And Mom went out there with him now that she’s seen him.  She’s probably feeding him my breakfast while I’m trapped here inside the house.

 

4/26/2017

We really did have some serious excitement yesterday!  It turns out Mom did not fee the doggie visitor on the porch my breakfast.  And I got an extra rawhide roll and a STEAK!!  Mom said it is because I was a good girl and alerted her about the other doggie, Buddy.  She hugged me a lot when she came in.  She said I was such a good girl for barking and whining at the door so he had food all night and stayed around until she saw him so she could get him back to his home.  She is so happy I barked for him.  I don’t bark at all when people come to the door but I let her know something was going on out there!  In fairness, he was eating food that I couldn’t get to!  I certainly was going to have something to say about that.  But I am a good girl and I got STEAK!  Mom said it is ok to have a treat every now and then.

 

4/27/2017

No STEAK yesterday.  How sad.  I was hoping for another one.  Treats are ok sometimes according to Mom.  And it is always some time!  So I should always get treats.  Right?  I thought so.  But I did sleep a lot yesterday.  I was tired from all the excitement and being up all night the night before.

 

4/28/2017

Mom was out late last night.  I didn’t think I was ever going to get my dinner!  I thought she was going to only give me 2 meals again.  But I made it through the whole week with all my scheduled meals plus and extra bone and a STEAK!  We need more doggie visitors so I can get more STEAK.

4/15/2017

I smell ham.  I know I smell ham.  Mom smells like ham.  It’s one of those holiday things where she makes lots of meat food.  I smell bacon too.  She cooked.  She said she was just going over to Grandpa’s house yesterday, but I know she cooked!  Everything smells like ham.  And bacon.  I want what she’s been cooking!  After all, I am part of the family.  I should get to eat the same thing as everybody else.  Plus my food.  I’m cute too.  That gets me bonus points!  Somebody will feed me.

 

4/16/2017

It was all excitement yesterday.  Mom pulled out a big basket.  There was food in it.  It smelled like ham!  And bacon!  And eggs.  And cheese.  And bread.  Food.  Food food food!  All I smell is food!  I want food.  But did I get food yesterday?  No!  Mom wouldn’t let me have any.  In fact, she cheated me out of a meal again.  I have come to expect this on Fridays.  I thought I made it through this past week because Mom was so busy on Friday with HAM.  But she did it yesterday.  And everything smells like food.  I’m so hungry.

 

4/17/2017

Yesterday I got a little people food.  It wasn’t very much.  Just a little.  Not near enough for how cute I am!  But at least I got some.  Perhaps the starvation is over and this was my celebration meal.  Maybe Mom will continue to feed me people food.  I hope so.

 

4/18/2017

No people food yesterday!  None.  I was back to my regular food schedule.  Which is still not back to what it used to be.  We went for a walk later in the morning though.  And the neighbor lady gave me a ball!  I’m very cute and I get presents just for walking down the street!  I chased a bicycle too!  Well, I tried to and I pulled Mom down on the wet grass!  Haha.  Serves her right for trying to starve me.  The bicycle got away though.

 

4/19/2017

Yesterday was normal food.  Shorted normal but what passes for normal around here any more.  I know there is more ham around.  I catch whiffs of it every now and again.  But nobody thinks of the dog when they’re eating.  You can stare straight at them and they just act like they can’t hear you staring.  Even when you know they can hear you staring.  Nobody thinks of the poor hungry wasting away dog.  Sigh.  It’s such a sad life when people eat and won’t share any with you.  I’m cute and everything!

 

4/20/2017

I got her!  I outsmarted Mom and taught her a lesson!  HA!  She only gave me two meals yesterday.  I am supposed to get at least three.  Plus snacks.  I should get snacks.  and treats.  And shares.  But I digress.  She thought I wouldn’t notice.  But I got her!  At 2:30 in the morning, I came across a plate of the cats’ wet food and I stole it!  Mom heard me slurping and woke up to yell at me and took the plate off of me but it was too late!  I already ate the cat food that was on the plate!  Haha.  I got my three meals!  Mom still has no idea how I got that plate and I’ll never tell her.  I got my three meals!  Even if I did have to do it myself!  I am a very resourceful doggie.  I am so proud of me!  I not only got my three meals, one of the was cat food.  And I love cat food!

 

4/21/2017

Shhhhhhhh.  Mom screwed up yesterday.  I got extra dry food in my lunch!  I watched her.  She put two scoops in.  Just like she used to!  Just like she is supposed to before all this starving me nonsense started.  And I got a scoop for dinner too!  The famine may be coming to an end.  Mom is starting to feed me again!  YAY!  Maybe now we will GO on that diet.  Because I don’t know what ever happened to that but I know we never did GO!  And the vet said we were supposed to.

Saturday 4/8/2017

Mom was feeling a little better yesterday.  We went for a longer walk!  And know what else?  I think she finally gave up trying to make me CATholic!  She gave me all three meals!  They are still far too small but she gave me all three!  Perhaps the famine is over.  Mom says we are GOing  to the vet on Monday.  That is good because maybe he will tell her to feed me more!  And hopefully he will yell at her because I never got to GO on a diet!  Maybe he will make her take me.

 

Sunday 4/9/2017

She didn’t skip a meal yesterday either!  Yay!  No more of this CATholic nonsense!  I am a DOG and I need every single one of my meals!  I am back to my normal walking distance, the grass is growing so nice and high along the way and I can munch on some as we go!  Spring is here!

 

Monday 4/10/2017

I made it through the weekend without skipping a meal!  The whole weekend!  I even got to steal a plate of wet cat food yesterday!  One of the kitties didn’t cooperate with Mom so she had to feed her in a place where I can reach.  As soon as Mom turned her back after that kitty was done, I grabbed that plate and licked it clean.  Mom yelled at me for it.  But it doesn’t matter.  I got it anyway!  *sticks my tongue out*  Finders keepers.  Especially when it is already in my happy tummy.  We go to the vet later this morning.  Car ride!

 

Tuesday 4/11/2017

Wow.  Yesterday was something else.  I went to the vet and Mom got so excited; it was unbelievable!  She was so happy.  She said it was because I lost three pounds.  I got lots and lots of pets from the vet techs too.  They think I am beautiful.  I got a booster shot too.  That was a bit yucky.  But I got lots of pets!  After that, we went for a bath.  I like baths.  Well, I don’t like the actual bath so much, though the massage from the shower is nice.  I like that they give me treats!  I got treats!  And Mom bought me a bully braid.  I pick them up out of the bin by the counter and she buys them for me.  I don’t chew them until I get home but I usually carry it to the door of the store so Mom remembers to bring it with us.  Because it’s mine.  I came home and chewed it too.  It was a wonderful day!

 

Wednesday 4/12/2017

I had diarrhea yesterday.  Mom said it was probably from the shot.  I don’t like shots.  My tummy was upset.  We went outside a lot.  We walked too.  But Mom let me take it slow because of my upset tummy.

 

Thursday 4/13/2017

We walked extra yesterday.  I was feeling better and over my diarrhea so Mom said I had to walk off all those treats from Monday.  I don’t know what she means.  I am not giving them back!  I got them fair and square because I am beautiful!  Besides, I already ate them.  So there.  But we walked a lot more!  I like walks.  I’m so glad it’s so pretty outside and we get to go more often!

 

Friday 4/14/2017

Mom did it again.  She skipped one of my meals yesterday.  I’m growling at her this morning to get up early and feed me.  She’s not cooperating though.  It’s not right to skip my meals!  I’m a hungry girl.  I’ve gotten her up three times already and she won’t feed me.  I think she might know how to tell time because she keeps telling me that it is too early to feed me.  But I missed a meal yesterday!  So I should be allowed to make it up today by eating earlier and eating more!  That’s just how it should be!  Gggrrrrrrrrowl!  Mommy get up!  Get up!  And FEED ME!