Mouse Envy

Squeaker - King of the Wheel

Ok, the novelty is wearing off. Mummy and Daddy have been giving the mice too much attention and for some reason they always shut us out of the room while they play. It isn’t fair.

Tippy - King of the Castle

We made our feelings known by sneaking into their bedroom and emptying the bin – one of us likes shredding tissues and made a big mess….

Somedoggy has been peeing around the house too. We’re not owning up to anything, although it’s true that we both like to mark our territory now and then (it’s just a boy thing). Mummy is blaming the Phantom Piddler – we don’t know who that is.

This is so boring

We’ll show them who’s higher up in the peeing pecking order.

Charlie

Ocean views

Another walk along the coast.



Another great view



Sometimes the waves come up so high that I get scared they will sweep me away.

As soon as I smell the ocean I start howling with excitement. 

Charlie, the Sea Dog

The dog ate what??

For the record, it wasn’t this week’s homework so I’m not really in trouble.

Our big brother made it into a paper aeroplane, which I couldn’t resist chasing.  Since I shredded that one, he’s going to make me another J

Bye for now

Taco

Wordless Wednesday

We're watching the Mouse Channel

The best part of our big brother’s birthday was his present to us. We could not believe our ears and noses when a cage appeared with 2 delicious smelling little mice.

Since the cage was installed in the bathroom, we have been glued to the “Mouse Channel” – it’s better than reality TV as it comes in 4D.

There are noises, smells and the occasional glimpse of a whisker or tail. If we’re lucky, Mummy will lift us up to get a better view. It’s amazing that those tiny guys are not in the least afraid of us. Little do they know that we are skilful hunters of small prey (though we’ve never actually caught a mouse).

We'll be back with the next instalment of Big Brother Mouse...

Taco

Camping

We have just been on a real camping adventure.

This was our second time camping (Mum and Dad have been plenty of times without us) but the first trip doesn’t really count because it rained so much that we left after only 12 hours. Anyway, enough of that, this trip was heaps better, although it did rain a lot too!

We have our own tent – it’s supposed to be a “2-man” tent - "2-dog" more like. There's just room for our portable crate to fit inside with a mat and bowl.

 

Our “2-man” tent





Our “1-dog” crate

 







 



Cosy inside both









Riverwood Downs positively welcomes dogs – there is even a café with a menu for us. It was like a sleepover at the dog park.

With our fellow camp-dog Cody, we watched over the humans and greeted other dogs visiting our camp. We also did a bit of peeing on their tents and car tyres in return.








Cody





 



Hmmm, Cody’s crate is empty – I wonder if anyone would notice…



Ah, perfect for a nap.

The first night was so windy that Mummy kept waking Daddy up, worrying that our tent would be blown away. Eventually our portable crate was brought into the family tent (yay!) but they zipped up the door and we were both crammed inside it. Now, that’s really a “1 – dog” crate but we can both fit inside with a bit of a squash. In any case, we were so scared by the howling wind outside that we didn’t even whine.

Next day the rain arrived. Oh no, not again! Luckily Mummy had packed our raincoats or we would have been even wetter.




 

I’m not coming out until the rain stops





Thank goodness we got some nice warm sunshine after all that.

 



Hooray. Time to get wet again!



We were absolutely pooped after that big weekend and slept all the way home.





We can't wait to go camping again

Taco & Charlie























Wordless Wednesday (well, nearly)



Ahhh… beach