A Long Break

I thought it was about time that I updated this old blog of mine.  My human says I have plenty to tell you about and for once she's right so, here goes.

Way back in November my human went away to visit her parents and because it's such a long way I got to go on my very own holiday.  I stayed with lots of other superior beings in a place called a "boarding kennel".  I made some new friends and had a nice comfy bed to sleep in with meals, water and walks all thrown in.  To be honest I did miss my human a bit and I was very pleased to see her when she came to collect me.  I was even more pleased when we got home and I got to play with my own toys.

After all that excitement I managed to catch a thing called "kennel cough".  I'm not sure what it is but I got taken to see the vet and I was feeling really awful.  The vet was very nice, my human was all worried about me and she had that water all over her face again.  I've had to keep nice and quiet indoors for two whole weeks but I have been very good.  My human said she is really proud of me.  I'm starting to feel better now but I am so tired.

Tonight my human took me to the park for the first time since I got ill and I enjoyed it.  She even let me play with my ball for a couple of minutes but I was so tired that I didn't want to play for long.  Now we're back home and I'm going to lie next to a radiator and have a snooze.

Missed Me?

I haven't had a moment to myself this week so I decided that an otherwise boring Saturday evening would suit to try and catch up with this thing.

So, I've been out this week with the Superior Human three times, he's great but I keep trying to make him take me away with him for more adventures and he never does.  One day I'll smuggle myself into his car and go off on a little Superior tour.  Yes, that sounds grand.

Then another new human came to my house to meet me and said I'm gorgeous and very clever.  Well, while I already know this it's nice to be reminded.  Anyway, this new human appears to be another Superior one and is going to take me out next week to see how I get on with her and the Superior Beings that she also takes out.  I'm very much looking forward to that, more friends for me!

I was out on Thursday with a superior being sitter person.  It didn't go very well, I'm not going to be going back to her again.  She is brilliant but she has two of her own Superior Beings and one of them really didn't like me.  I tried hard to be nice and friendly but it didn't work.  My human and me think that it's not very fair if me being around will upset the other Superior Being so I might just go with that human if its an emergency walk.

My human had to go to the vet yesterday so I stayed at home with one of my favourite visitor humans.  He was doing something called Work so I was very good and didn't bother him too much.  I'm not too sure what work is but it seems to consist of talking on his noisy metal contraption a lot.  My human does that, I think its like a bone because most humans seem to carry them around and wont let other humans touch them.  Yes, I think that they are human bones.

When my human got home yesterday she was very tired again, the vets seem to make her more tired than she usually is but I'm not sure why.  Anyway, she went to have a sleep and I went with her to make sure she was ok.  I had to wake her up to give me my dinner but she didn't mind and then later I woke her up again to let me out in my garden.  My human is really kind, she doesn't get annoyed at all and gives me loads of cuddles.

Today I've been making my human play with me and my toys and we went to my park for a little while too.  She says that tonight there might be some loud noises called Bangs and some pretty lights in the sky.  Apparently humans do this deliberately today I'm not sure what the point of it all is but so long as it doesn't wake me up I don't care.  I'm not scared of loud noises* or lights so I'll just tell her she shouldn't be either.

Now I need my dinner.




*note from Danté's human: he certainly doesn't mind loud noises having been in the city this week when the One O'Clock Gun went off.  I jumped a mile, he just looked over his shoulder and carried on walking.

Very Naughty Day

My human and I had a grand adventure today.  First she went to a shop called a post office, I got tied up outside it and I was very unhappy about that.  I made sure that everyone walking past and inside the post office knew it by jumping around and barking very loudly and sharply.  My human told me I'm an embarrassment and that she can't take me anywhere.  Pah.

Then we went on a Bus Contraption to the city where we had a very nice walk through a place called Prince's St Gardens.  I was more interested in the squirrels and pigeons than anything else but when I tried to pull her along to chase a crow she said I shouldn't even think about it.  She's such a spoilsport!

After all of that we met a new human but I just ignored him.  I'm good at ignoring people, right now I'm ignoring my human.

My human let me off my lead for a run and then I wouldn't go back to her.  I pretended I couldn't hear her and when she and the new human got too close I knew they wanted to catch me so I kept running away.

Yes, a very very naughty and enjoyable day.

Tired

My human took me out yesterday.  I thought we were just going to my park because she took my ball with her but we ended up going for a really long run in among trees and loads of mud.  She told me that we'd been out for something called 3 hours but I told her we'd just been out for really good fun.  I met some other superior beings and their humans, one of them was going to be in big trouble with her human because she was rolling around in a big muddy puddle and her black fur was all sticky and horrible.  I was laughing at her all filthy but I never went in to try it out, I think my human was pleased about that.

When we got home I had a huge drink of water and then decided to go and sleep on my human's bed.  She made a cup of that hot stuff she drinks and then came to keep me company.  She fell asleep too and I had to wake her up to give me my dinner.  Honestly, what would she do without me?


Today has been very quiet, I'm not feeling very well.  I was sick all over the livingroom rug and the hall.  My human doesn't get annoyed she just gives me cuddles and makes sure I'm alright.  She says I must of been eating something that disagreed with me but my human disagrees with me all the time and I don't eat her!*  So I've been sleeping today and now I'm feeling a whole lot better, my human gave me a little bit of dinner and a drink of water and now I'm going to go back to sleep.

Goodnight.


*Note from Danté's human: he's doing fine, I think he must of eaten something in the undergrowth yesterday that's made him a bit sick.   I'm keeping a good eye on him but he's eating/drinking and his nose is cold & wet so I'm not at all worried.

Uh Oh, I'm In Trouble

Let me explain, I'm not in trouble today because I've mostly* been very good.  Last night though I was in a lot of bother because I decided to go out for a walk.  Without my human.  I ran as fast as I could and my human came running** after me saying to come back.  To be honest I thought it was all rather funny but for some reason she did not.  Anyway, she eventually blackmailed me to come home by coming all the way up our road with one of my toys and by then I was fed up of playing*** and decided to go along with her ideas and come back home.  But, what I didn't realise was that my human was really upset.  She had water coming out of her eyes and going all over her face and I think she sounded a bit scared.  I gave her cuddles and licked her face clean and I will try never to do something like that again.

Today has been nice, my human has been having to sleep a lot so I've been keeping her company by snoozing on**** her bed, and occasionally getting down to get a toy to bring back and play with on her bed.  This evening she was feeling a bit better so she took me to my park to run around.  The postie human brought me a special thing that goes on my collar and at night it flashes different colours so that my human can see me in the dark.  She told me that because I'm a black dog and my park isn't bright enough this will help her a lot.  I like it too because it flashes and my ball glows.  Perfect but she wasn't amused at me trying to chase the Bat creatures...

Now it is time for more snoozing.


Note from Danté's human:
* except when he ran upstairs and tried to get in an open door to a neighbours flat.
** the term "running" is relative, i wasn't exactly sprinting. you might say "fast walking".
*** he wasn't fed up of playing, he just knew i'd have food on me.
**** when Danté says on my bed, he actually means in my bed. under the duvet.

Busy Days

My human had to go and see the vet yesterday, she was gone for hours and I did wonder if she was going to ever come home.  I wasn't on my own though.  The superior human took me out for a long run with my new superior being friend and when he took me home one of my visitor humans was here to spend all afternoon keeping me company.  I tried hard to be very well behaved and I think I managed that quite well.  My visitor human gave me loads of attention and she spent ages playing with me and then gave me my treat ball and a bone!  I've got her figured out already, all I need to do is look gorgeous and drop little hints and I get anything I want, it's like magic.

When my human got home I knew she was feeling tired because of how her face looked so I didn't jump around too much.  She and my visitor human had a drink of that hot stuff that humans like and then my visitor human had to go away to do other things.  I thought me and my human would have a rest but instead we went to my park to play for a while.  My human said she felt good after so I was very pleased about that.  She told me that she had to think about what her vet had been saying and the best place to do that was with me in my park.

Today has been very quiet, no-one has knocked at the door and my human hasn't been fiddling with that noisy metal bone she carries around with her.  She's been sleeping and I've been playing with my toys, chewing my bone and snoozing a bit too.  This evening she took me to my park again, I love going there and I'm learning that I can trust her all the time.


My new home and my new human aren't new any more, they're just mine.

Chuck, Ball, Glo

There is just one thing I want to tell you all about today.  My human bought me a present and I have to say it's really great.  It's a ball but it shows up in the dark.  How amazing is that?  In my park it gets pitch dark and I can't see my usual tennis balls but this one shines a bit like a moon or something.  I chased it all over the place and ran around.  My human seemed to be very happy that I was enjoying myself so much.

I'm going to tell all the superior beings about it and I'll make my human tell all the other humans about it too.

Park In The Dark

My human has been acting even more strangely than usual today.  She was getting boxes and bags then emptying them out and going through all the things that was in them but then she was putting all that stuff back into different boxes.  She seemed to think this was a good thing?  I don't see any point in that at all.  I was very patient while all this was going on and she did give me a bone to chew on so to reward her I tried to pretend that I thought it was all a really good thing too.

We just came in from a very long run in the park.  It's dark outside but I don't care, not sure if my human is so relaxed about it though.  I heard her telling my girlfriend's human that she's going to get me a ball that shows up in the dark so that will be great fun!  Also I heard her say that I might be getting another new collar but one that I only get to wear at night, it's got lights in it or something and that will mean she can see me wherever I go.  I'm not sure I like that idea as much as the ball one, I rather like being totally black and able to disappear in the garden at night.  I will figure out a plan to outsmart her on this one, I don't want her thinking I'm not superior enough to win this.

I keep moving around and changing where I'm lying because I can't make my mind up if I want to be in the same room as my human and the ridiculous racket that comes from the lit up box thing which I believe is known as a Television.  I don't care what it's called when it's disturbing my peace!  But I like lying on the bed so I can watch things out of the window and snooze away in comfort that means leaving my human alone in the other room and I'm not sure she can be trusted, yet.

Human Kind Humans

I had a visitor today and I loved every minute of it.  I got loads of attention, a bone, a run in the park and my tennis ball thrown for me.  I've been sleeping all afternoon and have just had my dinner.  I need more sleep.  Being such a spoilt superior being is really quite tiring.

Adventures

My human had to go to the vet yesterday so one of my visitor humans came to let me look after him.  He took me to the park and I did my best to behave but just couldn't resist playing with some other superior beings in the park, I think visitor human thought I might never go back to him but I did in the end.  When my human came home she had some sort of patches on both her arms, she says the vet had to do some tests but I don't understand why that needed patches, I don't get patches when I see the vet.  I really don't understand humans and their strange ways.

Anyway, my human was so tired when she got home my visitor human had to go to do whatever it is he does in the daytime and then she and me went for a sleep.  I was worried about her and so I went to go and sleep beside her so I could keep watch over her.


Today we went on a Bus Contraption but I quite liked it this time.  I'm learning that if I lie down quietly it's really not so bad and if I pop my nose up every so often I get a little scratch under the chin to show I'm being good.  This was all my idea, the inferior humans would never think of such a clever thing.  When we got off the Bus Contraption I knew exactly where we were going and so I showed my human the way, just in case she'd forgotten.  So I took her across the road and led her all the way to Maggie's so we could meet our usual human there.  I do get very spoilt when I'm there - lots of cuddles and fuss.

When we came home my human picked up some sort of thing that had come through the door flap and started ranting about it.  It seems that she's not very happy about a "courier" whatever one of those might be.  All I know is that yesterday a parcel was supposed to get here and it didn't.  Then she talked on the noisy metal contraption she carries around with her (i think she calls it her bone but it doesn't smell like a bone) and was quite annoyed after that.  Then, this morning, a parcel did arrive and she was happy I think but still ranting about it.  She said the thing through the door after coming home from Maggie's was "the last straw".

I don't totally know what's going on because she never tells me anything but I am glad that the parcel isn't for me this time.  In fact, I don't approve of the parcel at all because it appears to have a Hoover Contraption in it and I don't like those at all.


*sigh* bedtime.


PS, Danté was indeed very good on the bus today but on the way home he sat cuddled up to the wall and shaking a little bit.  He mistook a tiny dog sitting on a ladies knee as being a cat.  He's terrified of cats.  Shh, don't tell him I told you.  Danté's Human

On Danté's Behalf

Hi everyone, Danté asked me to update you all about his day today, he requested that I take him to the park and then spent over an hour chasing his ball and running around like a wild thing.  He's getting really good at understanding not to pull on his lead but he still needs a good bit of work on that.  I think he also needs to learn some dog-manners and try to curb his enthusiasm for playing with every dog he sees.  Thankfully he's not at all aggressive but he is incredibly bouncy, jumpy and overbearing.  He hasn't met a dog who stands up to him yet it seems all the others so far have been quite submissive.  I know he's young so he's got learning to do.

I can't quite believe that I've had him for two weeks already, I feel like he's been here for months.  He's reasonably good but definately the lab in him has that "dustbin dog" trait because if there's a tiny crumb to be found then you can guarantee Danté will hoover it up.  This morning I caught him trying to eat a whole box of chocolate biscuits, I'm not sure if he swallowed any but he's been totally fine so I reckon I stopped him before he could eat any.

As is customary in my life I've picked a birthday for Danté out of a hat, it came out as 12th November so that's going to be his special day, his adoption day is 24th September.  I like to have special dates to look forward to and plan something special for.  I need a good recipe for doggy birthday cake...

So, as Danté came home, had a drink and flopped out asleep it gives me some time to do other things.  I hope he's pleased with this update from what he calls an Inferior Being but I'm sure he'll let you all know.

Two Day

I have to catch up with yesterday before I tell you about today so here goes.

Yesterday me and my human went on a Bus Contraption to visit all the other humans at Maggie's Centre.  I like going there because I get spoilt with cuddles and everyone tells me how wonderful I am.  Well, wonderful unless I go sniffing around in things that aren't any of my business...like the bees nest I dug up yesterday afternoon.  I got in a load of trouble for that.  But I didn't behave at all and when I was getting called back I ignored that and ran around instead.  I'm not naughty just high spirited.  Anyway, I was well behaved apart from that and got treats of these lovely little cakes and some other bits and pieces.  I'm such a cool superior being.

My human wasn't feeling well at all yesterday, I think that she needs to try and take things a bit easy so that she starts to feel better.  She has to go to the human vet soon so I'm getting looked after by a visitor human while mine is away.  On the Bus Contraption my human was snoozing so I sat very nice and quiet under the seat, to be honest I was snoozing too but I don't think anyone noticed.


Today it has been very wet and rainy.  I don't like going into my garden in the rain but I do love going to my park and getting as soaked as I possibly can.  My human took a ball for me to play with today so I went chasing back and forth with that but I made sure I rolled around on the grass to make sure I got covered in as much mud and water as I could.  The walk humans who took me out during the week have borrowed my human a lead and collar to help teach me not to pull.  On the way to my park today I only tried pulling once and on the way back I pulled to let my human know we were at our door.

Then when we got back inside I had the indignity of being dried off with a towel.  A towel! I'm a superior being, I should be dried with a hairdryer then wrapped in two fleece blankets.  But sadly my inferior human doesn't realise this.  Not only that but she has told me I'm to be given a shower.  That's pushing it more than a bit.  The nerve.

Also, she said that it was raining cats and dogs when we were at my park.  I looked as hard as I could but I never saw any other superior beings in my park and as for those cat thingies well, none of those either.

I'm going to go to sleep now and pretend to be asleep every time my human mentions the shower from now on.

Not Just A Walk In The Park

Well yesterday was a bit strange really.  My human took me out to play in the park as usual but there was something wrong with her and after she'd thrown my ball for me a few times she had to sit down on the bench because she was feeling all wobbly.  I don't know much about how humans operate but I knew something in her circuitry must have gone wonky.  Two new humans stopped to ask if my human was alright and then the next thing I know is a thing like a Bus Contraption had come into my park and two very strange new humans got out.  They put my human in a chair and took her into their Bus Contraption and to be honest I wasn't too happy about that but I wasn't allowed to go with her.  Then, the Bus Contraption drove off with my human still inside it.  So I was left behind in the park with the new humans.

After a little while our visitor human came and got me, I was very pleased to see him!  He took me back to my house and kept me company.  He's a kind human and made sure I was alright.  I got taken out by him for a walk and a play in the garden but I was missing my human a lot and wondered where she was.

Visitor human said that my human would probably be home soon but it was ages before she came back.  I was jumping around and jumping on her to say hello and tell her I was very glad that she came back.  I get a bit anxious when I get left on my own or don't know where my human is.  Visitor human told her I'd been very good and no trouble, I sort of ignored him when she got here but I really did like him looking after me because I know him.

My human has been talking about me to people today.  She is hoping that I'll be able to get looked after by dog humans who spend all day looking after superior beings such as myself if their humans have to be somewhere else.  I like the sound of that because I'll have superior company and my human won't need to worry about me.


I've made a friend of the superior being who lives next door.  She's lovely, my human says she's too old for me but I don't think that matters.  I gave her a good sniff the other night and saw her with her human yesterday on the way to my park.  I might have been a little bit too keen to show I like her because she did tell me off after a while.  All day today I've been trying to listen for her and her human going out so I might see her again, I've also been sniffing her front door.  My human says I'm on a highway to nowhere and I need to give up.  We'll see.

Only A Week

I've been living with my human for a whole week now and I really like it here.  We've been on loads of adventures already and I think that there might be more adventures to come and I hope I'm right because I love adventures.

Today has been nice and quiet.  We had a visit from that human who was round the other day but he didn't bring me a toy this time.  My human says I shouldn't be expecting toys from everyone who we see but I don't agree with that.  I think everyone should bring me toys and pour out affection on me, especially the postman who wasn't very happy when I took the post out of his hand when he pushed it through the letter box.  I didn't bite him or anything and I wouldn't do such a thing but I did scare him by pulling the letters in.  My human told me off for that but I was only trying to help.

After the visitor human left I had an afternoon snooze and then made my human take me out to the park.  We met another superior being and her human while we were there but I wasn't allowed to play with her because she's hurt her leg.  She was talking to me very loudly in our superior language and her human kept saying for her to be quiet.  I was laughing but I didn't talk back.  The grass was lovely and wet in the park so I made the most of it by rolling around and crawling along on my belly.  I was soaked when it was hometime but I don't mind - I like water.  My human was wet all up to her knees and I don't think she was very happy about the mud, she says I made it worse by jumping on her when she had my ball but she didn't sound cross and she was smiling.

Tonight I plan to sleep, eat and sleep.  Then sleep a bit more.  It's hard work being this brilliant.