early father's day

my name spartacus. today i gave my daddy an early father's day gift. i hung out with him while he worked in the front yard. he hooked my leash to a thing that screws into the ground for to hook leashes on and then he set my water bowl next to me in the shade.

he cut the grass and junk and made himself useful, but when he fixed the new door i made in the fence he covered up my window too! uuhhhh!

while he piddled away, some suspicious looking guys showed up and worked on the neighbor's yard. they were little guys and looked like my daddy, but they smelled different and were way more efficient. i growled at them, but my daddy said, "Spartacus!" in the tone that means "Knock it off!"

after a pleasant morning helping him we finished and went inside. he took a bath, which is dumb, and that was my early gift for father's day; keeping him company. happy father's day, daddy!

off the leash!

my name spartacus. today was glorious then not so hot cause it was so hot. first i got locked outta my own house! i'm not sure who locked me out, but i'll admit i was a bit irritated. so i scratched and knocked and dug and scratched and then i heard a car door. "what?! who could be visiting this early?" i ran to my window (a hole in the fence) and saw not someone coming, but my fambly leaving!

i'm not sure if i barked or not. i was in such a panic. i turned my window into a door and ran into the front of my house then when i was in front of the house, i realized i was in front of the house! yippee! i was thrilled by my freedom so i ran and peed like crazy. it was awesome until the pee ran out and i got tired and hot. i was panting so bad i looked like some kind of dog pervert and, plus, it was making me more thirsty than i already was.

being free in this heat was not all that it was cracked up to be. the thrill was gone; it melted under the rising sun and the street was getting too hot to walk on so i wandered back home desperate for a drink of water and a cool wood floor. i went back into the backyard and found some shade and waited and did some deep thinking... just kidding, i only waited.

although i did have an dog epiphany - inside: air conditioning, water, food, bed. outside: nope. this made me realize sumpin about myself. i discovered that i love to go outside, but i need an inside to go back into.

soon i heard another car and i went through my new door and saw the van pull up. i ran around to the side my daddy sits in and when he opened the door i greeted him. needless to say, he was surprised to see me. "Hi Spartacus! Hey! What are you doing out here?!" having a heat stroke! lemme in and pet me later! i went straight to the water bowl.

i guess daddy felt bad so he took me with him and my sisters for a snow cone. he let me walk to the van without a leash cause he figured i was too beaten down to run and he figured right. i went straight to the van door.

at the snow cone place Honey got cherry, Cookie got rainbow, daddy got strawberry and i got a water flavored snow cone. deelish! i made a new friend. a nice grandpa who was there with his little granddaughter. he said he loved dogs and fed me my snow cone. he was nice.

an eventful day for me, but now i'm back where i belong - in a nice temperature controlled house on my bed.... just as nature intended.