Can I use any more exclamation points in this comment?

Thank you again for your business!

I don’t have any real good animals stories for now. We just celebrated Akira’s (Siberian Husky) 1st birthday on Sunday with doggie cake and party hats! Yes, I got ‘that look’ from a lot of people at work when I showed them some pictures of Akira and Beethoven (Husky/Shepherd mix) chowing down on a bone shaped birthday cake wearing party hats with paws on them. Sigh. lol.

We took him camping to Cuyamaca Rancho this weeend and there was this very pesky squirrel bothering our campsite. Now, my Pudgy loves animals and will lick their noses and snuggle on the couch with them. He’s been known to snuggle under a Christmas tree with a cat a time or two. This time, though, the squirrel got a little too close for comfort and Pudgy decided to rid of him for good. He flared his beared and did his little hiss noise-more like a half sneeze-and the squirrel ran into the wheel well of one of our cars and began squealing. I’ve never heard a squirrel make such a god-awful sound, but it went on for quite some time.

The squirrel never came back.

Glad to see we’re back in action here

Story about my animal:
When my cat, Stewie, was a few months old, I was upstairs and he was downstairs playing with another cat. All of a sudden I hear some weird noises coming from downstairs (rustling paper bag sound) and run downstairs to see what the ruckus is. He had the bag stuck to his leg and was freaking out. Ever since then, the sound of a plastic bag or similar sound sends him running. So if i ever find him doing something bad, i can just rustle a plastic bag.

I think you’ve heard all my Blade stories although Cookie has learned a lot of his quirks. This time of year is brutal for Cookie. She’s not scared of fireworks but she wants to attack and eat them. And since we’re on the border of states that allow the illegal fireworks, many rednecks make the 2 hour trek to pick up the big ones. Now I’m guilty of that too BUT I do it on the actual holiday at a decent hour vs all hours of the night during the few weeks leading up to the 4th. Anytime Cookie hears a pop she runs to the windows or back door, leans back on her back paws and howls. Then she breaks into her “grrrr-I’m a Rottie” bark until the noise stops. Then she’ll sit back down and do the closed mouth growl. Well last night was no different. About 10:00 pm the fireworks in the neighborhood started and she went nuts. About a minute later a furniture commercial came on television that has fireworks (noise and graphics) in the background for their latest holiday sale. I’ll be damned if she didn’t leap up, run to the front door, lean back on her legs and let one huge howl up. And she kept going until the commercial was over. At the next commercial break, that same commercial came on again and she was sprawled out on the floor in front of me and luckily she just turned around and watched the tv with the low growl in her throat.