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About Bongo

I am a dog who has lots of mini adventures that I love to share. I live with a cat named Scratchy who sometimes steals my blog, and with two people. When my adventures don't turn out so well I get my person to laugh while she helps me write my blog and then I don't get into as much trouble.

Sunshine Be Gone

18 Jan

There it goes! I kept it around longer than I really wanted to, but I was running short on squeaky toys so what could I do? It was dirty, stinky, and yucky – even more than I want to put up with – but I kept it. I made it last. I even stashed it for awhile so I didn’t have to think about it. Because it just didn’t have that zip anymore. That bright, shiny, sunshine cheer that I loved to squeeze until the squeaks came out.

But guess what sunshine? I don’t need you anymore. I’ve got more toys with squeakers now, and you know what? I’m going to reach right inside of you and yank your little squeaker right out. I’ve wanted to do this for a long time and now I’m good and ready. You won’t even have time to think about the pain, ‘cause here I go.

Riiiiiiiiip! Out comes your stuffing.

Let’s see how clean I can make this surgery. I’ll even let you keep most of your stuffing. But I’m gonna get it. I’m gonna get what I want. The center of you – that thing that keeps you alive – makes you squeak when I squeeze.

Got it now. All mine! Oh, and I lied about keeping most of your stuffing inside.

Okay person, do what you’ve gotta do.

On to my next squeaky toy.

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Posted by Bongo on January 18, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Squeak, Toy

Shivering

17 Jan

Nobody told me this would happen. Why am I so cold? Are you supposed to get cold after you go swimming? I’m shivering. And dripping.

Oh, let me shake this off. That was cool. Now I’m not dripping so much, but my people are.

How did you guys get wet? You didn’t go in the water. Are you shivering too?

Oh, no. What’s that funny sound? It sounds kind of like a woodpecker but it’s not coming from one of the trees. It sounds much closer than that. Very, very close. Is that sound coming from my teeth? They’re making a tune in rhythm to my shivering and I can’t stop them. What’s happening to me?

Whew! That’s better. Now that we’re back on the trail I’m not shivering any more. Person, why was I so cold? Why was my body shaking and my teeth making that funny noise?

What? Getting wet from swimming made me cold? But I can’t give up swimming. It’s too much fun. I know how we can fix it. Next time we come here, can you bring a blow dryer?

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Posted by Bongo on January 17, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets

Where Are We Going?

16 Jan

Today my people put my leash on and took me out to the 4Runner. They got it not too long ago and I’ve never been in it before. This is really strange.

So where were we going? The vet, or the dog hotel? I don’t see any suitcases, so I don’t think it’s the dog hotel. But my younger person never goes to the vet with us. I’m really confused.

It doesn’t take this long to get to the vet. Where are we going? We’ve been in the car a very long time.

It’s getting very bumpy now. Come on people. Where are we going?

What? Is this it? There’s a trail here. It’s not part of my usual trails. I didn’t know there were more trails. Wow! New smells and all! Where are we?

Okay people, you can look at the scenery. I’m checking out the smells. Sycamore Canyon, huh?

Come on, it’s downhill. Do I have to drag you, or are you going to start running?

Hey, there’s water here. This is fun!

No, I don’t want to get out. There’s more trail? I like the water.

A swimming hole!!!??? No way! You’ve never taken me to a swimming hole before.

Come on, throw the stick again.

This is the most fun day I’ve had ever! Can we come back here tomorrow?

Click here to find more mischievous pets.

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Posted by Bongo on January 16, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Recreation, Sycamore Canyon, Toyota 4Runner, Trail

Escape to Egypt

15 Jan

“…out of Egypt I called my son.” Hosea 11:1

Hey person, whose son is in Egypt? Are there animals in this story?

They worshipped what in Egypt? No way! They worshipped cats!? It’s a good thing that son was called out of Egypt. Who was that son anyway?

He was? How did he get there? I thought he was in…?

Okay person, I’ll let you tell the story.

My person says Jesus had his first big adventure when he was still very little. I like adventures. I’m listening person.

Okay, I’m quiet now.

My person says that after those Magi she talked about in the last Bible story gave Jesus his gifts, you know, that gold, frankincense, myrrh, and those chew toys, they were warned in a dream not to go back to that sneaky King Herod, so they went home another way.

After the Magi left, an angel came to Joseph in a dream and told him to take Jesus and Mary to Egypt because King Herod was going to look for Jesus to kill him. Sure enough when that sneaky evil King Herod realized he’d been outwitted by the Magi he got really mad and wanted to find and kill Jesus. But Jesus had already left for Egypt.

It wasn’t too long before sneaky evil King Herod died and an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream again, and told him they could go back to Israel. I hope they didn’t bring any of those cats back with them.

When they got back to Israel, without any cats, they found out that King Herod’s evil son Archelaus was ruling in Judea – the area they had been in before they went to Egypt – and they decided to go to a town called Nazareth in the district of Galilee instead. My person says that Nazareth is where Jesus grew up.

That was a pretty exciting adventure for a little kid – running away from an evil king, all the way from Israel to Egypt. I’m sure glad it ended okay. But person, I think there’s something wrong with my ears. I keep hearing this meowing sound.

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Posted by Bongo on January 15, 2012 in Bongo, Dogology, humor

Tags: Christianity, Egypt, faith, Israel, Jesus, Nazareth, Pets

Who’s Your Co-Pilot?

14 Jan

My person and I were walking along as usual, heading for my trails and almost there when we saw it. Right out there plain and bold on a vehicle parked at the trailhead. Dog is my co-pilot. Wow! How cool is that?

I can see myself now, sitting in the passenger seat of my person’s car barking out orders – okay person, yeah, yeah – helping my person navigate, and maybe even getting to drive a little.

Or maybe, just maybe… Pilots fly airplanes don’t they? Maybe I could sit in the right seat next to the captain of an airplane and help fly it. That would be so cool. I could fly all over the world visiting all my blogging buddies and all the different branches of the Bongo Fan Club.

Okay person, maybe there aren’t a lot of branches of the Bongo Fan Club, but I could still visit my blogging buddies.

Well, my person was curious and when we got home she checked out the website that was on that sticker. The website is for a dog magazine called The Bark. My person had never heard of this magazine before.

But then, a couple days ago we heard about that magazine again.

Andrea, my blogging buddy from Iowa Dog Blog has an article published in the current issue of The Bark. You can see Andrea’s post about it here. I think this makes Andrea famous. And that means I have a famous friend. I might have to start an Andrea Fan Club.

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Posted by Bongo on January 14, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets

Toss the Ball

13 Jan

Outside I love to play Frisbee, but my Frisbee isn’t allowed inside the house. I don’t know why. My person says it might break something, but how much damage can a piece of plastic make?

At least my person lets me have some toys in the house. I have some soft balls and sometimes when I bring them to someone they’ll toss them so I can catch them. Usually I bring them to whoever is closest. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn’t.

Well, the other day Scratchy was closest so I brought him my ball and dropped it at his feet. He just looked at it. He didn’t toss it for me. He didn’t even bat it back to me. He could have at least done that.

Come on, Scratchy. Pick that ball up in your little paws and throw it to me. I know you can do it.

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Posted by Bongo on January 13, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Balls, Frisbee, Pets, Scratchy

Let Me at Him

12 Jan

My person and I were walking along our trails today when all of a sudden around a bend comes another person with a big white dog. That other person pulled her dog to the side of the trail so us dogs wouldn’t meet. Kind of like my person usually does to me.

Well, that white dog and I must have had the same thing in mind. We both wanted to get to each other. I was pulling hard toward that dog, but my person held me too tight. That dog was pulling to get to me too, but his person held him even tighter.

My person made me go past that other dog and I wasn’t very happy about it. I really wanted to check him out. But no – people spoil all the fun sometimes.

So we continued on our walk and I forgot about that other dog. There were so many good smells and things to think about. As we headed back to the trailhead I began to think about dinner – until I saw him. I found that same white dog hanging around at the trailhead. Of course we both tried to get to each other again – yanking and pulling – and of course our people wouldn’t cooperate.

Then something really strange happened. Our people decided to let us get together. This is too easy. They let us sniff noses and —-other things.

And now I have a new friend named Bentley.

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Posted by Bongo on January 12, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Trail

Stuck in the Valley

11 Jan

There’s a little valley on my trails that goes down, and then it goes right back up. At the bottom, if it’s been raining there’s a little tiny stream that flows into a wash. If there’s water there its fun to get my feet wet, but my person usually steps over it. She just doesn’t know how to have fun.

What I really like to do is run down that trail building up speed, and then run right back up the other side. I should be able to get all the way to the top that way without any effort at all.

There’s a problem though. A really serious problem. And it’s called My Person. She won’t run. She just keeps plugging along at her same old usual pace. So what happens to me?

I’m running up that hill and I hit the wall. Except the wall is behind me. It’s called “the end of my leash.” All that wasted energy. I’ve still got to go the rest of the way up the hill and all I can do is plod along at my person’s speed. All because she won’t step up the pace and run along with me.

Maybe I should put her on a leash and see how she likes it.

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Posted by Bongo on January 11, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Hiking, Outdoors, Pets, Trail, Walking

Friends

10 Jan

My person says that the other day someone found my blog by doing an image search for “bongo dog.” My person thought that it made sense to find my blog through that search, but she was curious what she would find so she checked it out.

She found several pictures of me and lots of other dogs too. Most of them probably had one of the best names I can think of – Bongo.

But then my person saw something really strange. It was a picture that looked like Chelsea, a dog friend of ours. When my person moused –(Aren’t those mouses the little creatures the coyotes eat?) – over the picture, sure enough, it was Chelsea. Chelsea can be found at www.loveofmydogs.com. She is a very special pup who was rescued and taken in as a foster dog by her person. Her person fell in love with her and decided to keep her, but Chelsea had injuries before she came to her forever home, that are requiring expensive surgery. You can learn more about Chelsea and how you can help her here.

Recently my person did the same search and couldn’t find Chelsea anywhere. She still found lots of pictures of me – and guess who else:

She found Alfie, the Collies, Uptown Dog, Lola, Henry, and a photo of a Spotted Dog taken by our dog photographer friend Laurie.

How cool is that? I went searching for myself and found my friends.

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Posted by Bongo on January 10, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: friend, Pets

Where Are They?

09 Jan

Hey person. Can you help me look for something? I can’t seem to find them anywhere. I’ve been looking all over and I don’t know where they are.

It’s been awfully windy lately. I’m thinking maybe the wind blew them away.

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Or maybe those bluebirds took them. You know, the ones that invaded my puddle.

That one in the tree looked like he was ready to swoop down and take whatever he wanted.

Oh here they are! They were here all along. You had them stashed on your computer, person. I think you were hiding them from me. My new awards!

In the past few days I’ve been nominated for three new awards.

Two Versatile Blogger Awards

and a Liebster Blog Award

The Versatile Blogger awards came from:

For the Love of My Dogs at http://loveofmydogs.com. Harley, Scarlet, Chelsea and a cat named Roory are featured on this blog. You can find useful information about and for dogs here and then there’s my favorite part – recipes for nutritious and yummy dog treats.

Dogdaz at http://dogdaz.wordpress.com. Dogdaz is a fairly new blog and definitely worth visiting. Louise, Sofie Bear, and the cats are featured on this blog. In addition to the stories there is some extremely creative pet photography.

The Liebster Blog came from Jimmie Chew at http://jimmiechew.wordpress.com/. If you haven’t stopped by Jimmie Chew’s blog you definitely need to do it. You have to be a very special cat for me to say anything good (being that I’m a dog and all) but Jimmie Chew makes the grade. He’s studying to be a model and there are lots of photos of him on his blog. Words won’t do him justice. You’ve just got to see for yourself.

I think my person hid these awards from me because she was afraid they would go to my head. She says that since I’ve received these awards in the past, and I have so many great blogging friends, many who have already received these awards as well, I should follow in the footsteps of my friend Sweet Kitten at http://cosytravels.wordpress.com and put up a blog roll instead of passing these awards on again.

My person says it might take her awhile to get the blog roll together though. She promised me a Facebook page when I got 100 Followers, and she owes me.