Winter Fun - Outdoors and Inside

it was very cold out today but mom made me go outside sometimes but i didn't want to. she gave me a stick that bit my tongue and it was hard to keep in my mouth cause it was slippery mom said it was called a icicle. when we went back inside mom blocked of the hall way and i got to be loose in the living room and kitchen and i had fun! i found the dog cookie jar and pawed at it and got a cookie! i crawled under the chairs at the table and ran around and around the little table in the living room and then ran from the living room to the kitchen over and over and then i learned to jump on the couch! mom said oh yay and then put me back in my little kennel i dont think she liked that part.


The temperature was brutally cold today and Cowboy did not want to go outside! But he cannot learn to eliminate in the house so, sorry little guy - life it tough sometimes. There were icicles hanging off the roof of the dog kennels so I broke one off and gave it to him.  What a grand new toy!  Kizzy wandered over to him and he took off with the icicle dangling out of his mouth like a fat cigar. No way was he going to relinquish that to her. 

I've started stretching an old baby gate across the bottom of the back steps - not necessarily to keep him from getting up onto the porch, but to keep him from jumping off...  He tried once already and thankfully he landed in the pile of snow I'd shoveled off of it a couple of days ago and was not injured.  But the little stinker knows that it's only a temporary gate because today he wanted up on the porch and grabbed one of the bars on the gate and tried to pull it away!  That's pretty abstract thinking for an eleven week old pup!    

I blocked off the hallway and let him loose in the living room and kitchen. He actually did very well!  He's discovered that he can run around the coffee table and does so - over and over an over, and at one point kept on running - right onto the couch!  Nice...  I snatched him up right away and he went back into his kennel. At first he protested but as he had pretty much run himself out he soon curled up and crashed.