All in a days work

Days at the office should always be this easy!

While my momma ties up loose ends in the office, we decided to take a snooze. It's true we barely fit on the bed in the office but we make it work. In case you were wondering what that white ball was in the chair, it's Bella.


Where is Linus, you ask?

He has the couch all to himself!

I think he's on to something...hmmmm?

There is a hug, then there is a BISON hug

My uncle Chris came to visit me and Lindsay with their new pup. I'll talk about Jackson later. For now, I want to show you how to hug family.

First, you need to ask me to give you a hug. Make sure to get in position to accept my hug. Jackson, watch and learn...I'm only going to show you once!

Ready? Here I come!

C R A S H!!

I land on your chest! Make sure to stay upright and not fall over. I am quite powerful!

Hug complete!
You complete the hug by patting me on my head.
See.... easy!

Sorry if I almost dropped you uncle Chris, I still love you!

Look out Cesar....

Say H E L L O to Kristaki, the new and improved dog whisperer.

When it rains...

...we get silly indoors!
It's just as fun to run up and down the hall, through my parents bedroom, jump up on their bed (while my dad is still asleep) and back down the hall again.
Hee hee...
We find plenty of ways to amuse ourselves when it's raining outside.

We want the doggie blog world to know that we haven't fallen off the blog wagon just yet. We'll be back with lots to say. We are so happy the Green Cats post sparked your interest in going green, too. We have more green ideas that we'd like to explore, stay tuned.

~Bison and Lindsay

Family Portraits

My cousins came over to my house for a play date. It was a fantastic surprise!! My momma and Auntie Mary had an idea to get us all in a picture together. It's never been done before so why not? Right? Getting one dog to pose and look at the camera can be a challenge much less 6 dogs! At the same time, even!! Auntie Mary took the physical challenge.

My Auntie Mary put her training skills to the test! She rounded us all up on the couch for our doggie portrait. One of the small dogs kept ruining our picture by jumping off. Figures!! Me and Bruno were good boys and did everything Auntie Mary said. Typical angels!

"Lindsay! We're waiting for you!"

There were some malfunctions.

"Eeewwww.....someone scooted on the couch!"
Bruno: I swear it wasn't me!

Almost there but Gino blended in with the couch. He's totally camouflaged! If you still don't see him, he's to the left of Bruno.




Finally...our family portrait!

Bruno: Took long enough!
Bison: Wake me up when it's over.
This is the first but I'm sure it won't be the last.

As I stand here...

I think, How long is this going to take?!

My pee is starting to turn into icicles!!

Naps are important!

Have you ever been awaken from a nice nap? Then had your mom take pictures of you when you're not at your best?

Well it happened to us! Me and Bison were taking a lovely nap on the couch when...


...my momma woke us up for a bathroom trip. Can you believe it?! As if I want to go outside when it's below freezing temps to use the bathroom! When I'm in dream land, don't bother me. Seriously, does it look like I have to go? The bags underneath my eyes should be indicator that I'm pretty sleepy.

C'mon mom, I'm going back to bed!

Even Bison is too tired go.
Bison: Come back in a few hours and ask us if we want to go then.

Alright, I'll go!

Naw, changed my mind...I'm too sleepy!

We did have a nice Christmas

Christmas was fun, my grandpawents came to visit us. They brought my cousins, Lucy and Max. I need to start by saying WTF is Max wearing?

My grandma: Why that's his diaper!

Why does a dog need a diaper? Isn't that what potty training is for?
Can you tell he is beyond embarrassment?


Anyhow, there was no way I was going to let Max live this one down. After all, he did annoy me! So, I did what any cousin needing a good laugh would do.

I teased him till he begged me to stop.

Max: Cousin Bison, it's not my fault that my momma puts this silly denim pamper on me! I really have no say. Please don't post about this on your blog. Please!!

Sorry buddy, I couldn't keep this one to myself.

On with the story...

The new family tradition is to make my momma's grandmothers secret tamale recipe around Christmas time. This recipe is complicated, tedious, and extremely time consuming! That's why my grandpawents came to our house.

Lindsay: Ok....me ready. What you need me to do?!


Momma: Thanks Lindsay but we don't think it's a good idea. Thumbs are an important qualification to be a tamale maker.

Anyways....

Two tables were set up in our romper room for the assembly process. My momma's station was across from my dad. Hey...someone had to take the picture for memories sake. Her important job was tying the tamales with string after my grandpa and grandma wrapped them up.


Some of the yummy ingredients that go into these delicious wonders are
turkey, special homemade red sauce, bell pepper, olives, almonds, garbanzo beans, and of course masa.


All ready to wrap.


The finished pile wrapped and stringed up.


Then...steamed on the stove for a few hours.
These few hours felt like a lifetime! We could not wait to have a taste.


Afterward, we were all tuckered out. My pawents and grandpawents from preparing the tamales for hours and us for watching. Exhausting!!




Lindsay: I wasn't sleeping. I was just resting my jaws waiting to try the tamales. Are they ready yet?


Yeah, are they ready yet?! It's been like FOREVER!


Lucy: I think I deserve to be the first to try the tamales.


Max: I don't think so!!

Momma: Relax you guys! No dog will have any tamales! Understood?!

What?!?! We've waited this long and we can't have any tamales?! Mom, you're just saying that to the little dogs, right?

New Beginnings

It's been a long while since I've posted to my blog. I wish I could say that I was vacationing at the beach eating meat pies but I wasn't. Darn! That would have been nice! I guess I just had the lazy bug?

This new year I've decided to *share* more. I'm starting by sharing this blog with my sista, Lindsay. She has lots to say and I think you will find her entertaining.

I have lots of things to catch you up on but for now I leave you with the image of me and my sista sharing a moment.



Happy New Year...here is to a great 2009!!!

Recreation time

A dog and his bone is a beautiful thing.
I enjoy a good knuckle bone every now and then. Which reminds me, I haven't worked on one of these in a while. It's about time I have another!

Happy Friday!

Told you...

...I always finish first!

What's velcro got to do with it?

We have 2 dreaded baby gates in our home. They probably exist because of Lindsay! I'm the angel around here so, it's the only logical explanation!

Below is a video of another Rhodesian Ridgeback outsmarting his momma and opening the baby gate. We are a bunch of smarties, you know?

I just want you to know that we have the exact same baby gate and I learned how to open it soon after my parents put it up. That's right!

How did my parents prevent me from opening it when they're not home, you ask?

Velcro.

Yup, they outsmarted me and put velcro around the latch so I could not lift it with my nose.

It's just not fair!!

You call this Thanksgiving?

It's Thanksgiving today and I want to know why we aren't having any turkey? Isn't that like a given!?! Me, Lindsay and my dad are bummed. Thanksgiving is not the same without yummy turkey in our tummies. I'll even spare my momma the work, she can give it to me raw.

OK OK......enough whining! We're going to visit my momma's parents and have a turkey feast tomorrow with our uncle Chris. Haha...pretty good pitty trip, huh?

Today we spent the day relaxing and we went to a new park that had livestock. My dad had control of my mom's camera for a while, so there are actually pictures of my momma in this blog post. He's sneaky like that.

When we first got out of the car we heard loud laughs and lots of them. I asked my momma who was telling so many funny jokes and she got this puzzled look on her face. Ooops, the sounds weren't laughs they were these funny ducks. Duh!


This park was HUGE! There was even a pier in the middle of the pond. My dad took a picture of us. Me and Lindsay were focused on cyclists zooming by us.


Lindsay: "Why must we always pose for a damn picture together?"
Bison: "I know! It's getting old!"


Pretty trees and leaves everywhere! My dad doesn't care too much for the zoom function.


Finally, my momma got control of her camera.

She got a shot of the most handsome boy in the park.
Yep, I'm talking about me! If you look hard you can spot Lindsay behind some green/yellow foliage.


And us running with my dad.


Then we saw these funny looking animals. This guy was itching to have my dad pet him. He was practically sticking his head out of the gate.



I had to get a closer look to see what it was. It had two big horns coming out of it's head. That's weird!


This big guy was giving this guy kisses.


My momma thought he was cute. Hmmm....I don't see anything cute in that mug. You be the judge.


So, this is what a horse looks like! I always hear people comparing me to a horse. I really don't see the resemblance being that this things head is about as big as me. He was nice though.

Horse: "Did you bring the stuff?"
Bison: "What stuff?"
Horse: "Dude! You're supposed to bring me carrots! Newbies!!"

He liked massages on his nose. My momma said his nose was as soft as Bella's fur. Now that's soft!


Wow, this place was fun and beautiful! I guess it's good to take a detour from the normal Thanksgiving plans every once in a while? I can't wait till we have our turkey feast tomorrow though!

Happy Thanksgiving!!