Fame for Pot Puppy

Emily has been to the vet for some stomach trouble, which turned out mostly to be alarmed-parentitis. Still, she has new vet prescribed food (which she loves) and pills. Shoving them down her throat is H.'s new specialty.
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Emily is the featured puppy on Daily Puppy for March/13th, US time. Hee!
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Lest the cuteness on Daily Puppy let you forget, remember Emily is a pooper and messy digger extraordinaire:

[Diggy Puppy Kills Plants and Empties out Pot]
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The Dutch Team is going to the next round of the World Baseball Classics. Who knew the Dutch were so good at honkball? Of course Korea's made it to the next round as #1 from Group A, but now the players are all whining and sluggish and talking of dropping out. With your shield or on it, LOSERS! We're playing Mexico next on 3/16.

Poo on a Plastic Fork

Emily's new specialty is pooing at the edge of the garden so her poo drops under the fence and rolls into our neighbor's patio (see here). H. has to pick it out with a plastic fork.

Puppy:4 - Human:0

So, M. brought home 4 more bricks and covered up the slot.

[Din't Do Nothing]

Yesterday's walk was mad+crazy+hangdog, but last night, despite a head cold, H. finished Cesar Milan's Cesar's Way. We were already fans of The Dog Whisperer, and the "calm assertive energy" bit about pack mentality. So, today's walk was no-nonsense and in-charge.

Mommy's greatest puppy ambition is to be a wandering homeless person with Emily. Yeah, according to Cesar Milan, they have the best behaved & happiest dogs.
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Have the Korean film version of Antique Bakery to watch. The manga was so-so (grows on you though), but the movie-trailer from last November was cute. It might be worth it for 김재욱 (from Coffee Prince), 'cause 주지훈 just looks like a rat to me.
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Last word of the day is brought to you by Eva Jinek: Boobies!

Human Failings

In non-Emily news,

- This week, Dutch Radio has been all about the Turkish Airlines crash (watching the press conference with the Black Box recordings now), and also how Twitter will change news media.

- This makes Twitter much more interesting that I'd ever considered it to be.

- Uncle Shaggy, in claiming he is "lazy," has identified himself with a ground squirrel.

- Oh and "outing" a fandom person's real name and info, or threatening to do so, and thinking it's perfectly OK. Nope, it's still despicable and nasty. No excuse.

Vet Visit: Sex Change Operation

WILL NOT BE NECESSARY!

[Rrrufff! I'm a Girl!]

To celebrate the end of Em's gender confusion, Mommy decked her out in her blue shirt. tee hee.

(In Holland, like most western countries, blue means boy and pink means girls. You get little dry biscuits with sprinkles in the respective colors when a baby's born. Beschuit met Muisjes)

Anyway, if your little girl puppy has a little hairy nub that looks like a penis between her hind legs, she's still not a boy. tee hee. (unless is farther up her stomach)

Emily also got her 3rd vac, deworming, general check, a green light to go walking in public areas, and her microchip injection. That hurt a bit. But now any vet or shelter in Western Europe can hold a scanner ring over her neck, and know who she is and where she lives.

(M. wonders when governments will start chipping citizens. H. says offer tax payback and drinkies+fuel rations.)

On that cheery note, H. leaves you with Em's first guard puppy duty against the ebil Monthly Window Washing Guy:

[Who's that guy in our yard? Is he stealing our windows?]

Anorexia or Pickiness?

Emily is being needy lap-puppy, refusing to eat her nice Orijen puppy food at meal time, and insisting she clamber up on me to have toast with apricot jam, too. Silly puppy!

I have to trick her into eating with the Kong. Wow, food slot machine! Gotta have that!

[mistake] So the Elfstedentocht wasn't on Jan/8. It must have been some other natural ice marathon, or other.

[good news] I keep tabs on dierenasiels, to see who's out there. Iggy Pudd, the Shiba mill rescue that I wasn't allowed to adopt, has finally found a suitable family. Yay!

Sleep Monster

Emily has three major modes: Cuddle, Frenzy, Sleep. Most of the day she sleeps. I wish she'd do it for a good 8 hours at night.

This winter's been cold in Holland, and today the Elfstedentocht was held (the 11 city race over canals, when it's cold enough to freeze over), first since 96-7. So, on the way home from errands, I bought Emily a baby's bib, lined with fleece. She "wore" it when she was asleep:

[More of a skirt]

To prevent Separation Anxiety (분리불안) when she grows up, we ignore her when we first come in, don't make a big fuss. I stepped out to get scent-free diaper wipes, and came back and called my Mom, all the while not paying attention to scrambly puppy. Where does the puppy go?[Same pose, different place]

She climbed up on the back of my legs and fell asleep while I was talking to Mom. Oi.

ps. She got a bath last night. I picked two nits off her. Evil Bastards.