The joy of having two houses

One of the first things I do when I get dropped at Mia's house in the morning is to run upstairs and finish my morning snooze on her Rogz bed. Sometimes we sleep together but more often than not, my little sister wants to play. She will jump around, on top of me, show me her toys and bark, all in an attempt to interest me in something other than sleep.

These two photos were taken this morning. You can see that I just wasn't going to co-operate and play with her! The raggedy loooking toy is 'Beertjie', Mia's favourite toy ever.

Cappello Restaurant, Eden On The Bay.

UPDATE: Apparently the angry or disappointed humans that commented here have been in the majority, as this place is now closed. Even our humans stopped going there due to the bad service for humans. Was fine for us dogs though!

Last Saturday, during our regular beach walk in the afternoon, it started to really pour down. This isn't the first time we've been caught in the rain. As we have nice thick coats that are pretty water resistant, Mia and I really don't mind it when it rains but our human pack don't seem to fare so well for some reason.

Before we really got soaked, we made it to Eden On The Bay, the new shopping centre and apartments that have been built in Bloubergstrand's Big Bay. We walked around a bit and finally stopped near an open door watching the pouring rain. After a minute or two, we were asked to come and sit inside Cappello Big Bay, an Italian style restaurant. The nice gentleman that offered us a seat in the warmth said that they are dog friendly!

How lucky for us Poodles and our human pack! In the future, we'll make sure we visit the nice man and his pet-friendly establishment in the future.

The photo is of Eden On The Bay taken as you come off the beach. Cappello is at the very left side, ground floor (with amazing views of Cape Town and Table Mountain).

Reality Poodle TV

This is me eating a boiled egg. I get one most mornings. In fact, I'm so used to getting one just before the human pack leave home for work and drop me off at Mia's that I'll walk upstairs and let everyone know that there is still one morning task unfinished - and that's the ritual of the egg!

Humans always over react.

Mia and I were taken by our human pack for our afternoon walk to the beach. I made them think I wanted to poo so that I could be let off leash for some privacy but as soon as I was free - DASH! - away I zipped. Needless to say my little sister was in hot pursuit of me, so we chased each other a bit and did some Poodle boxing.

The the icing on the cake... We ran behind a dune and found something the human pack were going to have a hernia about when they found us eating it. Without naming the substance in public, suffice to say we upset them enough for them to drag us into the surf to wash our mouths and all the places we had managed to get it in our fur.

Of course, neither Mia or I were particularly happy about being washed in the winter surf but the human pack got absolutely soaked. If we were going in the freezing water, they were too! The walk was cut short and the four of us traipsed home all wet and sandy.

A quick bath and blow dry later, I'm now sitting on my couch at home with the fan heater blowing away the last of the damp. I think Mia will be doing the same at her home. Attached picture of a nice clean Poodle ready to impress at the shopping mall (less a few flea friends found during the blow dry).

Poodle One and Poodle Two

My sister and I get along like a house on fire. When I get dropped off at Mia's house in the morning we sleep together on her lovely Rogz bed (which is HUGE!). When we get bored of sleeping, we normally play together in the lounge, jumping from chair to chair, playing tug of war with sticks or cuddly toys and having a fun old time.

Tabby, the poor old girl really gets it from the two of us. She's so use to being harassed that she'll take a swipe at either of us when we walk past her and once that happens... boy oh boy... we chase her and bark at her like only two naughty poodles can.

Then there is Charlie, the grumpy old sausage dog. We really leave him alone mostly but every now and then Mia, who loves to jump and nip, will nip him on his back or the back of his head. The poor old boy is so unfit and overweight that there is no way he can catch the hyperactive Mia. I think we need some video footage of us harassing Tabby and Charlie!

Check this photo! We poodles just love to pose!

Camera clip: Poodles love attention

As dogs accustomed to being adored and told how cute we are, we just can not resist any form of camera. We'll gladly stop whatever it is we're doing to get some time in front of the lens - even licking it. We are Poodles.

Things that go 'pop' in the night!

My human pack eat a lot eggs. A lot. they eat them raw for exercise and boiled in sandwiches which they take with them when they do whatever they do while I'm playing with Mia at her house. So last night, Tuesday the eggs were put on to boil while they did their bathies thing.

We were all woken up by Daisy at 1 a.m. Daisy is my 'sister' cockatiel. She was flapping around the bottom of her cage like she does when she gets a fright. It seems the eggs were left on the stove and boiled dry and exploded! that explains why Daisy got a fright alright! My oh my! The place was filled with smoke and stank really badly of burned hair. Made my Poodle nose all twitchy it did!

Some open windows later and a Poodle cuddle later to reassure me, we all went back to sleep but are all a bit jaded this evening. No eggs being boiled though...

This photo is me pointing at my breakfast boiled egg that I get every morning.

Babette has something Mia wants

My little sister Mia is so cute. Her thing is to bring something whenever someone enters the house. It's either Beertjie (her favourite cuddly toy), a stick we play with or her bone of the moment. We get bought Ostrich bones. Don't ask which bones. I mean, who cares? They're huge, tasty and we love chewing them!

My thing is to muscle in on Mia's thing. I am her older sister after all!

Melkbosstrand

I live in a suburb of Cape Town called Melkbosstrand and this photo is me on it's beach. I walk here every morning and evening for my weepoo. It's a nice long beach to walk on but we I normally get my long walk together with my sister at the beach near her house. Perhaps one day I should walk here with Mia. It's been a while since she was in my part of town.

I'll take and post some photos of the dogs that shout at me from their homes as we walk past and some other photos round Melkbos.

This past weekend, My human pack and I stayed over at Mia's house Saturday night to keep her company while her human pack were away. Needless to say, my sister and I were not interested in sleeping Saturday night. We did the whole 'OK, we're lying on the dog bed at bed time thing' but as the human pack dozed off, Mia and I would pad around the bed... 'tiptiptip' that way then 'tiptiptip' this way.

We know that humans hate being woken up but when two playful Poodles want to play, who cares what time it is? We were ejected from the bedroom around 3 am but even that didn't stop us. At 5 am we pushed the door open and did some bed-bouncing and hand licking. It was great fun.

The picture shows the two of us playing before bed time. We milk it for everything we can because we know it's impossible to be angry at a Poodle!