Send My Human Back to Work!  

Have you no mercy for helpless animals who love to spend their days lounging around the house, sleeping and eating?   My entire routine is a wreck!  My human wants me go outside, wants me to go for a walk, and worst of all -- wants me to smell good!

So today, I was subjected to the dreaded bath.  In additional to soaping up all my parts and hosing me down, I also had my ears cleaned.

Thank goodness she doesn't know how to express my glands or she would have stuck her hand up nether regions in the name of good doggie hygiene!

Send her back to work before she thinks of some other disastrous disruption to my otherwise cushy life!

Hiking on Grandfather Mountain!

Finally, I was not banished to Doggy Prison when Linda and Don went on vacation!  I got to go visit Eric and Maeve in Boone, NC, and visit Grandfather Mountain and the North Carolina Arboretum, as well as visit my soul mate -- Linda's sister Amy!

Here I am at the swinging bridge!  I zoomed across it, but they wouldn't let me go with them out on the rocks.  Don said that I clearly was not a Billy Goat after I almost slid off the mountain.  Harumph!  Really?  Does it take a rocket scientist to tell the difference between a Cocker Spaniel and a Billy Goat?  I think not!

I had a great time looking over at the mountains and greeting all of my adoring fans as they came across the bridge!

Then we went for a hike.  I loved that!  We passed lots of people with dogs, but apparently Cocker Spaniels are a rare hiking dog.  I got lots of double takes, and I heard lots of people ask what I was, or if I was a Cocker Spaniel.  What did they think I was -- a Billy Goat?


I think I look like a rather sporting little spaniel! But apparently Eric was confused and thought I was a suitcase as he grabbed my by my harness and tried to hoist me up a ladder.  As you can see, I was not thrilled with that idea!





















And since they all agreed that I was not a Billy Goat, I was left at the bottom of the ladder and the giant rock with Linda!



It was a fun trip!  There were load of things to climb over and around and jump on and jump over and sniff and pee on!  It was great!

And when Eric wasn't hauling me around like a suitcase, he was lots of fun to play with.  I like Maeve too!  I like them sooo much that I didn't pee in the their house at all!

In fact, I was so good on vacation, I think Linda and Don will probably take me again!