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The Box

I don’t know what Scratchy is thinking – but he does this every year. As soon as the Christmas tree comes out and my people put it up he jumps into the empty box. I wonder what he thinks he’s going to find in there.

It’s just a big old empty cardboard box – and pretty beat up too. I’d help finish it off by chewing on it, but I know I would get in trouble if I did. But Scratchy has to get in there every time. Maybe he thinks there’s a catnip garden inside – or some fun kitty toys. Maybe he thinks he’ll find a nice soft bed that he can fluff up with his paws and then curl up into. Maybe he knows that box is empty and he’s just got to check it out to make sure. You know, like box patrol. He’s got to make sure everything is okay with the box.

Once he’s gotten in the box and checked it out he doesn’t stay long. He jumps right back out of that box, like everything’s okay with the box for another year. I wonder what he’d do if that box appeared in the middle of the summer?

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Posted by Bongo on December 21, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Cat, Christmas, Pets, Scratchy

Working Hard

20 Dec

My person is messy in the kitchen and this time of year she really makes a mess. Little bits of things sprinkling down to the floor. She’s making cookies. She always does that this time of year, but it means I have to work extra hard to keep the kitchen clean.

You see, my job is to clean up the floor. I’m not sure why, but I’ve been assigned to that job ever since I’ve lived here. Lots of times there’s not much to clean up, but lately it’s been almost every night.

You’d think my person would give me a cookie or two for doing such a good job of cleaning. But no. Not only does she not give me a cookie, she threatens to brush my teeth after I’ve been working hard for her. I mean, I’m so good that I’m right in there while she’s still working – cleaning up around her feet.

I’ve got to go now. There’s some more cleaning to do. Oh yeah, don’t tell my person that I really like this floor cleaning job. I’m afraid if she knew that she’d take the job away from me and give it to Scratchy.

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Posted by Bongo on December 20, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Christmas, cookies, Pets, Scratchy

Under the Tree

19 Dec

Around Christmastime my person receives large cardboard boxes in the mail from her sister and brother. The boxes are filled with smaller boxes wrapped in brightly colored paper – mostly red and green. My person used to put the smaller boxes under the Christmas tree and leave them there until Christmas Day.

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Sometimes my people would visit their family when it wasn’t Christmas. On the way between my person’s parent’s house and her sister’s house is a candy store and my person would stop there and buy malt balls for her sister. Then my person’s sister discovered that a grocery store near her house had very good malt balls, so when my people visited her she would have malt balls for my younger person.

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It was my first Christmas at my house, there were presents under the tree, and Scratchy and I were the only ones home – and something under the tree smelled very good. So I sniffed around and found which package that smell came from.

It didn’t take much to tear into that package and the contents tasted extra special. Don’t worry younger person, I left you the malt ball wrapper.

I’m not sure why, but my person never leaves brightly colored boxes under the Christmas tree anymore.

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Posted by Bongo on December 19, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Christmas, Christmas tree, Pets

To Bethlehem

18 Dec

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from old, from ancient times.” Micah 5:2

My person promised. She said today’s Bible story will have animals in it – so I’m waiting. She’d better be right or I’m going to erase those words she put on my blog that I didn’t write.

My person says that Joseph eventually got married to Mary – that sounds funny, married to Mary. Okay person. I’ll try to listen, but I’m still waiting for those animals.

Caesar Augustus – he was the head guy of the Roman Empire that ruled over Israel at the time – decided he wanted to have a census. A what? Everyone had to go to his own town to register. My person said that since Joseph was from the line of David – hey I remember David. He started out as a shepherd boy and had lots of animals around him – Joseph had to go to David’s hometown of Bethlehem, and he took Mary with him.

Bethlehem was about eighty miles from Nazareth where Joseph and Mary lived. Mary was about to have a baby so it would have been hard for her to walk that far. My person says she probably rode a donkey.

A donkey! Finally, there’s an animal in the story.

Okay person, I’m listening now. When Joseph and Mary – and the donkey – finally made it to Bethlehem there was no room for them at the inn.

Mary was about to have her baby so she needed someplace to stay. You know what my person said they did? They went and hung out where the animals lived. Mary had her baby and she laid him in a manger. My person said a manger is the thing that the animals eat from.

I hope those animals don’t try to eat that baby by mistake.

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Posted by Bongo on December 18, 2011 in Bongo, Dogology, humor

Tags: Bethlehem, Bible, Cats and Dogs, Christianity, faith, Joseph, Mary, Nazareth, Pets

It’s at the Mall!

17 Dec

My people left me again today. They both took off and left me alone in the house – well, alone with Scratchy, if you can call him company.

They were gone for awhile and then they came back and my person showed me something. I couldn’t believe what they showed me. It was amazing!

My person said they went to a mall to go Christmas shopping. I didn’t know what a mall was so my person told me it was a place where you can buy lots of things. I asked her if you can buy dog things there and if they went Christmas shopping for me. My person wouldn’t tell me. No fair!

Well, my person said when they went into one store in the mall they saw it. They saw my name on big signs all over the place. I’m so excited! That means that my blog has gotten so famous that people are advertising it in the malls. I hope my people will take me with them to that mall. I think I might have to make some public appearances.

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Posted by Bongo on December 17, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Christmas, Pets, Shopping mall

Suds

16 Dec

Today I was walking along on my trails minding my own business when suddenly I saw it. It couldn’t have been snow – the rain from the last couple days washed away the little traces that were left. It was something more unusual that that.

My puddle, which had been getting pretty scungy, now had water flowing into and out of it and it was much cleaner. But then, when I passed by my puddle and followed the little stream running away from it – I found it.

At the bottom of a rock, sitting there in all its white foaminess, I found a pile of suds. At first I thought it was snow, but it was much too frothy for that.

So maybe it wasn’t the water running through it that cleaned up my puddle. Maybe, just maybe, someone gave my puddle a bath. I never heard of giving a puddle a bath, but here you have it. First class evidence.

Or maybe someone thinks I need a bath, and they put those suds there so I would scrub myself before heading back home. No, that can’t possibly be. It’s got to be the puddle they were cleaning. I wish I had a camera hanging on a nearby tree. I want to know who that person was that gave my puddle a bath.

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Posted by Bongo on December 16, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Hiking, Pets, Puddle, Trail

Famous

15 Dec

I think my person is famous and she didn’t even tell me. When we go on the trails near our house we see lots of people and dogs. Most of them come to the trailhead in their cars and we don’t know them, but my person says hi and I sniff them as they pass.

Some people and dogs live in the neighborhood so we see them on the trail all the time. I recognize the dogs, and my person recognizes the people because we share the same trails a lot.

Well today we were walking along and we passed two people. We stopped and said “Hi” and I got some loves. I always like that. Then the man asked my person if she worked at the post office. Well, my person used to work at the post office and that man had been her customer.

I know all the trail people that my person knows, so if someone that I don’t know on the trail recognizes her, doesn’t that make her famous?

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Posted by Bongo on December 15, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Post office, Trail

Chasing Robins

14 Dec

For the last couple of days the large puddle on my trail has been occupied when we walk toward it. By the time we get there everyone has scattered. Flown up into the trees to get away from us. My person was disappointed because she wanted to get pictures of those birds hanging out around my puddle. I just wanted to chase a few.

Those birds have red breasts and I don’t see them around here very often. My person said the birds are robins and she used to see a lot more of them when she lived in Seattle. She thought it was strange that birds were migrating this late in the year, so she looked online and found out why. She says robins stay wherever they can find food – so some don’t migrate at all, but many have to leave their breeding grounds in winter since there’s not as much food around.

Okay, so much for Bongo facts. When we came back home today we found more robins in a neighbor’s yard. My person got a picture of one but it wouldn’t let us get very close. My person says she’ll Photoshop the robin into the puddle for me.

I don’t think that’s quite the same. I haven’t figured out how to chase a Photoshopped robin.

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Posted by Bongo on December 14, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Bird, Pets, Photoshop, Puddle, Robin

The Christmas Elf

13 Dec

Ever since my younger person was little my family had a Christmas tradition. As soon as the tree went up a special visitor came to their house every night. That visitor was the Christmas Elf. The elf would leave candy for my younger person in special containers under the Christmas tree. A couple days before Christmas the elf would even leave some small gifts.

My younger person used to look forward to getting up in the morning and checking to see what the Christmas Elf had brought him. It was kind of like a mini Christmas.

That all changed when I came to live here. I’d been here for several months before Christmas finally came around so I was pretty much part of the family by then. Well, they put the tree up and that night the Christmas Elf showed up. There were chocolates here and there under the tree. They smelled so good and since they were left where I could reach them I figured they must be for me – so I ate them. Mmmmm delicious!

The next day I didn’t feel so good and my person noticed that all the candy was missing. I didn’t get in much trouble because my person figured the natural consequences of my actions were punishment enough (What did I just say? I was sick and that was bad enough.)

I was never tempted by chocolate again so I guess you could say I learned my lesson. Actually, I’d probably gobble it right up if I ever found any chocolate, but that was the last time the Christmas Elf ever came to our house. I’m not sure where he went, but it isn’t here.

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Posted by Bongo on December 13, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Christmas, Christmas Elf, Pets

Unwelcome Visitors

12 Dec

I don’t bark very often – unless someone I don’t know comes into my yard. Then I’m going to give that trespasser what for and let him know he doesn’t belong there.

Last night was one of those times. I heard someone out in the yard and I gave a warning bark. I don’t know much about time, but my person says it was around 4:00 in the morning. Well that warning bark didn’t work. Whoever it was out there didn’t leave – so I barked some more. And I barked again.

I guess I woke my person up because she came out to see what I was barking at. She opened the blinds to see who was out in the yard and said she didn’t see anything. That changed quickly. We both saw them at the same time. Not one, but two of them nonchalantly walking around the yard.

I got really excited and started jumping at the window blinds so my person raised them for me. She didn’t even yell at me when I got up on the back of the couch.

They had elliptical bodies, short stubby legs, and big snouts. My person says they’re called javelinas. They look kind of like pigs, but they’re not.

I finally barked enough to scare those javelinas away. My yard seemed to be popular though. Awhile later I had to get up and bark at a howling cat. I’m sure glad I don’t have to get up early like my person does. She’ll be okay though. She wasn’t the one doing all the work.