This girl is our dog, cat, person retrieving taker carer pup.

She has the ability to silently communicate with others and they obey her. (It’s mine this time, Bessie, all mine!) She understands when I ask her to go get whomever I need and again they obey her.

She taught Linus Kitty all he knows about being a golden retriever.

She was squeaker challenged but has proudly mastered the art of tennis ball squeaking…loudly and repeatedly!

While she’s gentle and doesn’t get pushy she doesn’t hesitate to come and let me know what she wants. Whether it be playing fetch with her tennis ball. Three throws and fetches then she tucks it in close by her side. Or asking for a massage complete with tummy rubs. Or letting you know she has a couple of drops of water on her fur and needs to be dried off NOW. She lets you know.

She is unique this Belle Pup of ours.

~this is Belle Pup’s My Margret for the pups and kitties.

Yes the picture is from Christmas but we told our My Margret that it shows perfectly how excited we are that….

Our My Greg is home every day with us. We don’t quite understand why although Linus Kitty says it has something to do with the balloons and the sign with streamers that says Happy Retirement! Linus notices things like that.

All I know is that after I get up early with My Margret I can go back upstairs to see My Greg and get some extra cuddles ~Bessie Pup

All I know is that My Greg cooks really good smelling things and if I turn up the cute and sit on his foot I sometimes (not often) get a nibble. . ~Bonnie Pup

All I know is besides the extra love and cuddles we get to be inside more which means I can play with my tennis ball much more. ~Belle Pup

Bottom line we are so excited that we get to spend even more time with our My Greg!

~this is Bonnie, Belle and Bessie “the we’re so excited” Pups for the pups and kitties.

My Margret and My Greg’s big and little people all came for a visit this past weekend. Because of COVID-19 they hadn’t all been together since last Christmas, which for this group was a long time to not be together.

Katie, my new treat giver…I mean trainer gave me a refresher course in sit.

My pesky brother Linus Kitty got to visit too. He loves attention and would let us know loudly that he wanted to be with everyone when My Margret decided he needed to have some quiet time with Lucy Kitty.

~this is Bonnie “I love extra treats, cuddles, attention…” Pup for the pups and kitties.

My Sister Pup Belle is a snitch!

So what if I like to hide beneath this table so the family won’t see me at bedtime and then I can sleep upstairs with them. I mean who wants to watch over the house for them at night anyway!

So what if I didn’t answer yesterday when My Margret came home from work and called me a million billion trillion times and was worried.

Is that any reason why Belle Pup without being asked ran up the stairs to the landing and poked her head under the tablecloth then ran back down the stairs to My Margret looked at her. Then ran back up the stairs and did it again so My Margret would follow her!

So what if My Margret lifted the table cloth and when she saw me said “Linus! I was worried why didn’t you come when I called you?” (The dog part of me does do that.)

Then she was all over Belle telling her over and over again that she was such a good girl to find me. She was excited that Belle understood that I was lost and My Margret was worried. Buh humbug I wasn’t lost! I knew right where I was and Belle shouldn’t have told her!

~this is Linus “the my sister pup is a snitch” Kitty for the rest of the pups and kitties

I saw Dr. Bols today and guess what! I get my own cheese now like Belle does. Dr. B thinks I have some arthritis in my lower spine which is causing me to plop down all of a sudden and have trouble climbing up the stairs, up on the couch things like that. So I get my own cheese for the next few weeks and if I don’t feel better then the next step is to check my spinal discs whatever they are. It doesn’t matter because I get cheese!!!!

~this is Bonnie “the I get my own cheese now” Pup for the pups and kitties.

So awhile ago My Margret got something new for us. 

They are called LickiMats and we really liked them.

Bonnie Pup supervised the spreading of the peanut butter then we got to try them out.

(Make sure that your volume is turned up) My Margret said the living room was alive with the sound of slurping.

As you can see we really like them.

In fact long after my sisters were done with theirs I was making sure not even a small bit was left.

Can I have more?

~ this is Bessie Pup “the more please” Pup for the pups and kitties.

My Margret told me today that she and I were going to have daily “us time” and it started today.

She told me that because I’m a couch potato I’ve lost my tummy tuck and we need to find it again so we are going to go on “us time” walks!

I will admit that I like laying on the couch but I’m certainly not a potato!

Anyway she put on my harness and off we went on our walk.

After awhile I decided that I wanted to go back in the house so I took her right up the steps and waited for her to open the door.

After we went in My Margret took my harness off, ruffled my ears and then she headed back outside. I decided that I wanted to go back out and trotted right along behind her. My Margret laughed and went to get my harness again and off we went …again.

I can’t wait for tomorrow’s walk!

~this is Bonnie “the us time” Pup for the pups and kitties

My Margret just doesn’t understand.

Every morning I have friends that I check in with, you know to see how they’re doing.

My bird friends wake up a little before 5:00am and I need to go out and see them before our day gets busy.

I still haven’t figured out how to open doors and need someone to open them for me. That’s where My Margret comes in.

When my friends tell me they’re awake I go and sit on My Margret and lick her face to wake her up.

She usually tells me “Bess it’s still night night time” and pulls the covers over her head.

So then I have to go to plan B which is to stand at the top of the stairs, gaze off at the hallway wall and bark….loudly….insistently to let my friends know that I’m on my out to see them….as soon as I can get My Margret to get out of bed.

~ this is Bess ” the I’ve got friends to see” Pup for the pups and kitties.

I have an important job that I bet you didn’t know about. I’m the “storm progress let’em knower”.

First I tell My Margret and Linus Kitty ( he thinks he has to know everything.) that there is a storm coming.

Next I lay in a straight line and even tell my tail to hold still to tell them that the storm is here.

Then when the storm is starting to go away I tilt my head just a little. Oh and my tail starts to fluff just a bit.

Finally when the storm is over I lay over on my side. Notice my tail is back to its fluffy self.

My Margret says I’m amazing, when she checks the storm progress on the weather thingy on her phone she says I’m always right.

If I’m always right I don’t know why she needs that when she has me. Hmmm, I’ll have to ask her about that.

~ this is Bessie “the storm progress let’em knower” Pup for the pups and kitties.