A sleepy birthday girl

A sleepy birthday girl, originally uploaded by Poodlematic.

Mia's mom just sent me this picture of my little sister. She is still sleeping! I am up and awake and it's not my birthday. She must have stayed up late to open presents.

Babette

The walk of a thousand dogs

Yesterday (Saturday 13 February) our humans let us go in the back of the big car which is exciting because it means we are going somewhere and even more exciting when they drive with the small picture box that speaks because that means we are going somewhere new. Anyway we drove and we drove and Babette and I looked out the windows as everything went by and the back seats were down so we had lots of space to move around and see stuff and then all of a sudden we were somewhere and there were LOTS of dogs and their humans and then I went beserk and blaffed and blaffed like mad and so did Babette.

We were at something called the Purina Woefie Wandel - which our humans had seen advertised during the week and there was just so much going on to see and smell and bark at. We had to stay in one place and bark until that got boring and then we pulled our humans into the crowd of canines and people.

WOW! Babette and I have never seen so many dogs, dog-dogs and doglets in one place all at the same time - it was like going for a beach walk multiplied by infinity and we wanted to be everywhere at the same time.

AND - we got a prize - we're not sure what for but we are very grateful to the Woefie Wandel organisers Purina and the Cape SPCA for our prize. The humans told us it's because we looked so cute and adorable and we really did stand out from all the others - two fluffy white Poodle sisters that got SOOOO much attention from EVERYONE!

Then we went on our walk with all the other dogs and humans and we saw lots of things and there was lots of water to drink and I had a big poo and Babette had a peepee and then we got our prize and then we went home and were very tired. We had a great day and we know our humans are proud of us for being so well behaved.

Mia

The day my bed/couch was taken away

Regular visitors to the Poodlematic blog may recall that my sleeping couch was carted away the other evening without so much as a hint of consultation with me, it's primary user. Two humans do share this home with me but lets get one thing straight, they share with me.

In my home, there is a spare bedroom that gets used as a laundry room, and the humans dump all the clean laundry pre-ironing onto the sleeper couch there. I made it well known that I was not amused with the fact that there were coat hangars and bags and other things all over the sleeper couch by just sitting there and staring intently at a human. This does tend to get their attention quickly (handy tip for any canines reading this) and within minutes the couch was cleared and my sleeping blanket laid down.

Better. Much better.

Blaf! Blaf! It's a dog's life!

Babette

Spring time flowers

Spring is officially here, although with the mild winter we had many of the wild flowers have been out for a while. Here is a large patch of Osteospermum that I have to pass on my beach walks in Melkbosstrand. I call this colour Poodle white.