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Arrr! Listen up ye land lubbers. Today is the International Talk Like a Pirate Day and we dogs want to tell all you humans out there that we know how to speak like a pirate. Just take a look at this video. It shows that we dogs know how to speak like a pirate! Arrr! Where’s me bone?
Woof!
Boudreaux
What a girl! A scaredy cat girl. That’s how I describe my sister on her first encounter with the beach.
Mom & dad took a day off to take us on an a new adventure. THE BEACH! We have never been to the beach, seen the ocean, or anything to do with wet sand. I think we were just so excited to be going on an adventure that we really didn’t know what to expect.
It takes about an hour and a half to get to the Surfside Beach where we decided to go. Galveston was pretty messed up from Hurricane Ike so we went west. Since we didn’t want to be on the beach at the height of the day, we left early. Like 6:15 am early! Well actually that was OK we me and my sister. I think mom & dad would have liked to sleep in.
So we leave at the crack of dawn and hit the road. Traffic was quite good on Friday. We think maybe a lot of people took off to go shopping. Some tax free thing. There were no tax free dog treats so, frankly, we didn’t care! When we reached the beach, mom woke us up to get us ready for our first experience with the beach. What? Of course we were sleeping. It is one of our top 5 favorite things to do!
Leashes on. Beach here we come… and this is where my sister became a big baby! Yeah, you heard me. She definitely did not like the beach, sand, ocean…. I don’t get it. It was a little different but hey, mom & dad drove us all the way to the beach and she wanted to get back in the car. What up with that?? Dad even captured a few pictures of our “hour” on the beach!
Here’s mom walking us on the beach.
Looks like Roux want to get away from the water, huh?
Yep, I was right. Scaredy cat she is.
A boy enjoying the surf.
All this walking makes me thirsty.
There you have it. My side of the beach story. You can bet Roux tells the story differently. Woof!
Yes, it’s wash day. But not clothes though, it’s Roux & me! Most unfortunate but this happens every so often. Mom & Dad get a whiff of something rank and say something crazy like “Whew! Boudreaux you smell, it’s time for a bath.”
Well, it typically starts with mom clipping our nails (she’s pretty good at it and rarely clips the quick–I usually only wince when she does that and then she gives me kisses; Roux–well she turns into Cujo and cries; Mom calms her down then kisses her). Next, the collection of our snuggle balls, crate beds, etc is all dumped into the utility room for washing. Then we hear the call from the bathroom, “who wants a treat?” And not just any treat, a kitty treat! They know we are just goo goo over kitty treats and just can’t resist them. Yum!
And of course, we are too curious to just run in the other direction. It’s a Pavlov thing, I think? Anyway, once we round the corner and se the bath set ups in the shower…. Well let me tell you, the message is VERY clear. Wash day! We start wimpering and whining and trying to baroo our way out of the bath. You know, it never works!
There is just no escape at this point because dad is behind me and Roux and won’t let us escape. Then the whimpering really begins! Yep, we can’t help it afterall. We are Basenjis and the Basenji mortal enemy is water. We don’t even like stepping in the grass when it is wet. Baths just are’t on our top 5 list. Heck, they’re not on our top 500 list. Eating cat treats, walking around the neighborhood, and naps, NOW THAT is on our top 5 BUT not baths. Although it doesn’t take very long it seems like days that we are in the shower. Dad even cruelly took a picture of us getting our bath.
And to make matters worse, when we’re done mom & dad won’t let us go outside! We’re all clean and they won’t let us go outside and rub off this clean smell in the stinky grass. Life is so unfair!
Oh well, I guess we will take advantage of one of our top 5 things to do…. take a nap and sleep off the stress of this bath!
Boudreaux
Whew! It’s hot out there. This Basenji has a love-hate relationship with the heat. I LOVE the outdoors and I love heat but I HATE the Texas summer heat this year…a whole month of temps above 97 degrees and some up to 104! I do LOVE the heat during the winter but then again I can regulate how close I get to the heat source.
So on this wonderful birthday of the USA, I wanted to say hi and show you an image that pretty much describes the way my sister, Roux, and I feel about this hots days of summer. I got my dad (really he’s my human) to capture this picture of Roux. She looks as if she is in prison and that IS kind of the way we feel when it’s too dang hot to run and play outside.
Here’s to 4th of July! Hope you have a COOL day enjoying something really good to eat. And then go take a nap, a really long nap in a cool place. That’s what I’m gonna do. Are you gonna eat that hotdog? Woof.
Boudreaux
Woof Woof!
Boudreaux & Roux wanted to get their paws out there on the web. They will be posting some stuff soon. Currently sniffing around for something interesting to bark about.
