after my morning walk

after my morning walk my mama and i watch the dog whisperer with cesar millan so mama can learn to be a good pack leader

she says daisy mae i can't believe we live in a culture where we will pay a "dog psychologist" to tell us that dogs aren't people

i'm like whatever lady i'm just over here updating my dogblog

one thing i've noticed

one thing i've noticed about peoples is that they like to gather outside when it is bright out

this morning my mama needed a sleep-in so papa took me to the farmers market and i met lots and lots of peoples and they all adored me

i tell you what though when we go places papa is all business cause sometimes i'm like this is a nice place to sit down for a while or this is a good spot to sniff or hey it's a stick! and he's always trying to walk

it's okay he's a new papa and we're still leash training him

also today we went back to the pet store because i'm eating us out of house and home and we went to something called springfest because the peoples need to gather

i like springfest because everybody says OOOOOOOH WHAT KIND OF PUPPY IS THAT and my mama says she's a boxer mix which is people for the bestest smartest puppy in the whole world and then i get my belly rubbed

we met a lady selling homemade dog treats and i got chicken treats and liver treats and lobster treats and water and my butt sniffed by a border collie and i ate something yummy off the ground and something sticky and another treat and something that fell out of mama's sandwich and sonic youth walked by

they are a famous rock band but no one rubbed their belly

i'm just sayin'

see there's this lobster

see there's this lobster that's been menacing my pack

he is everywhere he even followed us to the park like the other day i'm all ready for my close-up and there's that lobster sneaking up on the right



also sometimes he can fly



he is that sneaky but it's okay i got him



it's hard work being a puppy that's for sure with the lobster problem and then i defended my papa from this suspicious stick



sometimes i need a little nap



every day it's the same that lobster comes back and back and then i show him who's boss



course when he's quiet he's okay for cuddling which is how my mama says i am too

i have a new hobby

i have a new hobby it's called digging

digging is not as good as chewing but you know cowper says variety's the very spice of life

my favorite is a new take on chewing i like to call nipping it is you might say the very center of my ken and mama and i debate it all day long she says no no no and i say yes yes yes and she says no no no daisy you mustn't mustn't mustn't and i say but mama i must must must

i am a puppy

mama says i am raging with energy which means i get two walks a day i like walks yesterday i met a girl with bubbles and a landscaper with tattoos he said daisy mae you sure are pretty and it's true i am

big mama says

big mama says kitty loves me she just doesn't know it yet whatever that means

kitty comes downstairs to play more now we have a fun game where i go HEY! and she goes HSSSSS and i go HEY! and she goes HSSSSSSSSSS and i go HEY! HEY!! HEY!!! and she goes HSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS and swats me

soon i'll catch her tail and go to the next round

i went to the vet and he found a worm in my tummy so i got medicine that tastes like butterscotch and makes me smell like a puppy sundae mama says and last night i ran around and around and chewed and ran and chewed and ran and jumped around a bit and mama said i was on crack which is fun

she said daisy mae you drive me to drink and had another whisky

also papa put me in a puppy western which makes me that much more famous

this morning at 3:34

this morning at 3:34 inspiration struck i call it "o daisy mio" and it goes nnnnnn nnnng nnnnngggg ow oww OW oww OW OW OW AWOOOOOOOO AWOOOOOOOO OW OW AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO repeat

the key is in the fortissimo i really nailed it on the ninth go-round and papa rapped on my crate and cried QUIET QUIET which is italian for bravo so i gave encores

it's clever moments like this my mama tells me i'm lucky i'm too cute to shoot which is people for i love you daisy mae

last night was all

last night was all kitty food is not for puppy kitty food is not for puppy and i learned to sit which means i get treats

kitty is fluffy and goes HSSSSSSSS HSSSSSSSS HSSSSSSSSSSSSS her tail is twitchy i wonder if it's good for chewing

big mama says i have adoring fans and papa put me in a movie this is it starring me daisy mae



also i like lunch

i am daisy mae

i am daisy mae

i am a puppy

i was in a shelter with my sisters and sisters and brother and one was bitey but i was cute so i got to go to the pet store and i got a leash and a frog and a duck and a lobster and a bone and i met peoples! i love peoples

and some guinea pigs

when i got home i showed that frog who's in charge daisy mae that's who

life with peoples is pretty good i like eating and chewing and sleeping and chewing and chewing and big mama told me i was bitey and i got a bath

big mama and papa let me on the couch they say no a lot and also i chewed a duck and a bone and a stick and a lobster and that frog

i caught a shoe and they said no

i like peoples and also i like naptime on the couch i slept through two baseball games and the host which is a movie about a korean water puppy who is bitier than i am and i like naptime in my crate i listen to kcrw bookworm michael silverblatt makes me sleepy also i learned some things about michael ondaatje's views on the poetry of the novel but mostly i was chewing a duck and sleeping

i like eating paper which big mama says is trouble

books are not for chewing i don't know what that means but i also like pooping which is an outside game