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Get the Frisbee

It’s October now and the weather is finally getting a little cooler. You know what that means? That means I have more energy to catch more Frisbees. In the summer it’s just too hot. I’ll catch it once or twice and then I’ve had it. I’m ready to go back into the nice, air-conditioned house. I might pick up a soft ball inside and ask my person to throw that for me, but usually I just want to take a nap. A nap on the nice, cool tiles in the bathroom.

But now, I feel like catching a few more Frisbees when I’m outside. Not a lot yet. It’s not quite that cool. But when it does cool off enough I like to wear my person out. She keeps my Frisbee up high where I can’t reach it. She says she doesn’t want me to chew it up, which is a bummer because I love the feeling of chewing on plastic. When I get her to let me out, if she doesn’t grab that Frisbee I remind her by a tilt of my head in the right direction. She knows what I’m talking about.

Pretty soon now it’ll be cool enough and my person will quit before I’m ready to. I don’t know why she gets worn out so easily. After all, in the cool weather we should be able to play Frisbee all day.

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Posted by Bongo on October 7, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Frisbee, Pets

Hijacked!

06 Oct

Hi there. This is Scratchy here. You know, the cat that Bongo lives with. While he’s not looking I thought I’d take over his blog. He took over my house a few years ago so the least I can do is take over his blog. I have a lot to say about Bongo but there’s one good thing. When my person works on her computer I like to sit on the counter top next to her. She doesn’t like me sitting there, but as soon as she starts to chase me off Bongo comes out and starts jumping up and down and trying to get in the middle of things. This drives my person crazy, so she usually lets me stay on the counter.

Scratchy! What are you doing on my blog? Get off! This is my blog! Do I have to start jumping up and down to get you off my blog? Okay, here goes. Yes!!! You’re going to have a hard time getting on my blog from the top of the kitchen cabinets.

Okay it’s me – Bongo. Don’t pay any attention to what that darn cat Scratchy said. I hope he didn’t mess things up for me. Tomorrow I promise it will be me on this blog. I’ll make sure Scratchy stays put.

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Posted by Bongo on October 6, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Cat, Pets, Scratchy

Water Blockage

05 Oct

My younger person was not very nice to me. He knows how much I like the water spraying out of the garden hose. I love to get in front of the hose and drink that water. It’s so much fun! You know what he did to me?

I was in the house and he was in the back yard. The door was open but the screen door was closed – well, it used to be a screen door. I kind of trashed the screen a long time ago. Anyway, the ex-screen door was closed. It has glass in it so you can see outside. I was looking outside through that glass, wishing I could be out there when my younger person took the hose and sprayed it right at me.

The water came right toward me, but the glass stopped it and I couldn’t get to it. I couldn’t drink it or anything. I don’t know what my younger person was thinking. Did he think maybe the water would go through the glass? Why didn’t he open the door and let me out to get the water? He must have seen that I couldn’t get to it. All he did was laugh. Sometimes I don’t think my people are very smart.

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Posted by Bongo on October 5, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets

This is a Shower?

04 Oct

I love water coming out of the garden hose. My favorite thing to do is get my mouth right in front of the nozzle and drink. Something about that water spraying out really excites me. My person gets kind of upset with me when she is watering the garden because I come over and get all the water before the plants do.

Since I like water coming out of the hose so much, my person decided that she could give me showers instead of baths. More water goes in me than on me and I think it’s great fun. It feels good when my person rubs me all over, but then she does something really strange. She grabs the skin on the back of my neck so I can’t move much and then she sprays water on my body. What gives here? I want that water coming at my mouth. I can’t drink it when it’s aimed back there. My person just doesn’t know how to do it right sometimes.

Thirst Quencher (bongodogblog.wordpress.com)

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Posted by Bongo on October 4, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Garden hose, Pets

Exploring Sugarloaf

03 Oct

Ever since my blogging friend Bassa climbed up a mountain awhile back I’ve been wanting to climb a mountain. My person finally said it had gotten cool enough today so we could go. The mountain we climbed isn’t really a mountain – it’s a big rock called Sugarloaf.

My person got a little upset with me when she had to drag me away from the stuff I was sniffing. She said she was hoping I would pull her up the mountain. When we went back down I did try to pull her, but she wouldn’t go for it and kept walking at the same pace. A dog just can’t win.

At first I had fun sniffing all the new dog smells and didn’t care much about the scenery.

But I finally started looking around.

Coffee Pot Rock - Sedona, AZ

Airport Mesa - Sedona, AZ

Mogollon Rim

Coffee Pot Rock - Sedona, AZ

On the way back I had to cross a slippery slope.

Here are some pictures of Sugarloaf – the big rock we climbed.

When we got back home I was concerned for a bit. Scratchy didn’t want to climb the rock with us and he was hanging out at home. I was thirsty. What if he drank all the water in my water dish?

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Posted by Bongo on October 3, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Photography, Sedona, Sedona Arizona

Vacuuming Bongo

02 Oct

You’d never know it because my hair doesn’t seem that long, but I shed a lot. This doesn’t seem to bother me, but my people are always complaining about it. It seems they’re always vacuuming the carpet and sweeping the floor and they tell me it’s all my hair that they’re picking up. That might be right because I pick up all the food they drop. They shouldn’t complain about picking up my hair. Just think of all the extra work they’d have if I didn’t pick up the food on the floor.

My shedding started early this year – way back in January. It first starts with little clumps of hair coming loose from my rear. My person starts picking them out so they won’t get all over the house. Imagine having someone pick at your butt. Actually I don’t mind it nearly as much as she minds it when I stick my nose in hers.

My younger person decided to do something different. It felt kind of weird. He vacuumed me! At least he used the little vacuum cleaner that isn’t so noisy. I would have been very upset if he had used that big, noisy one. I don’t know if that little vacuum cleaner did any good, but if I need to get rid of some hair I can always roll around on the carpet.

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Posted by Bongo on October 2, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Vacuum cleaner

Hanging Out

01 Oct

I’ve got my person trained pretty well. She won’t leave me alone in the yard by myself. It’s kind of a bummer on nice days. Sometimes I’d like to hang out outside, but my person is afraid I’ll jump the fence. I don’t know why. It’s not like I do it all the time. Besides, it’s a lot of work to get over that fence. I think I deserve to run free after all that work.

Anyway, back to training my person – since she won’t leave me in the yard by myself she has to have a way to get me back into the house. Most of the time I’m nice to her and I go back in on my own. Sometimes though, I really don’t feel like going in. Sometimes I want to run around the yard, sometimes I want to eat a few weeds, and sometimes I want a treat.

When I wouldn’t come in my person started coaxing me in with treats. Whoopie! I love treats. I’m never coming in again until I hear the sound of that treat ringing in my bowl. This worked for a day or two and then my person got smart. Now I get treats when I come in on my own, but if she has to make me come in I don’t get a treat. I guess I’d better head on in that door.

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Posted by Bongo on October 1, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Treats

Summer Sleeping Spot

30 Sep

In the summer, when it’s hot, my favorite place to sleep is the bathroom floor. It has nice, cool tiles and they feel good. I don’t usually sleep right on the tiles. My person has a bath mat on the floor and I usually sleep on that. It’s still much cooler than the carpet in the rest of the house and it’s kind of like my own little secluded place.

At least most of the time it’s my own little place. Sometimes my person comes in there. And sometimes she wants to use that toilet thing that happens to be right next to where I’m laying. Well, good luck to her. I’m not moving out of her way. If she wants to get in here she’s going to have to squeeze. Sometimes she tries to push me out of the way, but I pretend I don’t know what she wants and stay right where I am. Seems like she’d just give up and go away, but she doesn’t. Maybe one day she’ll get the idea that I’m not budging and give up on using that toilet thing.

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Posted by Bongo on September 30, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Bathroom, Pets, Tile

Thirst Quencher

29 Sep

I really like to drink water. Especially in the summer, I drink lots of it. My person says she is always having to fill up my water dish. I’m not quiet about my drinking. I’m not very neat either. When I drink water I lap it up fast and make as much noise as possible while I’m doing it. When I’m finished there is usually a good size puddle around my water dish.

Scratchy has his own water dish, but he likes mine better because it has fresher water in it. I guess he doesn’t mind putting up with a little dog slobber mixed in. He probably thinks it gives the water a little better flavor.

My favorite time to drink water is when my people are watching a movie. I usually get yelled at and told to stop, but I don’t until I’m good and ready. Usually the volume on the movie gets noticeably louder, but I can get louder too. Once I’m done though, the best thing to do is pick up a ball because I can get it really wet with all the water in my mouth, and drop it in someone’s lap. They don’t need to watch a movie.

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Posted by Bongo on September 29, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor, pets

Tags: Drinking water, Water

Weed Eater

28 Sep

We had lots of rain this summer and it created some special treats for me out in the yard. My person calls them weeds. When my person let me outside I would start munching. Some of those weeds weren’t the best tasting, but I’ll eat anything – except olives. My person must not have liked me munching on weeds because sometimes she’d grab me by the collar and make me go back in the house.

Sometimes my stomach would get all grumbly and rumbly and I wouldn’t feel very good. My person said it was probably from all the weeds I ate. I’m not sure why. I eat lettuce and don’t have any problems. Isn’t that kind of like weeds?

I guess my person got tired of me eating those weeds because one day she went outside and pulled them all. She didn’t even save any for me. She threw all of them in the garbage. Do you believe it? What a waste of good weeds.

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Posted by Bongo on September 28, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor, pets

Tags: Weed