my howliday party

there wuz a big Christmas party at my house today    everyone that commed also had basset hounds in their lives.  it wuz a lot of fun, but soon it got a lot loud and I wuzzed tired becuz you know whut?  I goed to my furst rally class this morning!  yep I is learning sumting brand new and I loved it!  I git to go evry Saturday for a while!  but inyways, happy howlidays to my group of frinz knowed as Timberline Basset Hound Club!  it wuz a fun day and I tink everyone ruvved me Percy. 

my 1st RATO leg

oh, I has so much fun today.  I gotted to go to barn hunt in  open class and I finded 2 rats in the barn, I climbed up on sum hay bales and I wented thru a tunnel, all in one minute and 8 seconds!.  I doned so good that I getted a ribbin for 1st place in my height group and also winned 1st place in my entire open class!!!! I wuz the best in all doggies in open today!  me, percy  winned a big rosette and 2 udder ribbons and also a cute white rat toy!  I wuz so cited--so wuz my mommy.  she even tap danced on the hay bales when I qualified!!  I did find them ratties and I ridded the barn of them vermits.  I done my good doggie job.  I has one leg now towards my next barn hunt title!!  I has only 2 to go.   I canz wait for next hunt trial!!!

this top pitcher is me waiting to get my turn in dat barn to find them ratties.  the bottom pitcher is me smiling after I did get them vermints out of that barn!!  I is smiling happy.

don't you tink I look so serious bout getting them ratties out of dat barn?  I em serious bout it. 

mommy sez I such good boy.  I em good boy.

i is all crazy

since my mommy got us all new beds she sez I has to be careful on her couch.  she sed I has to try to stay off it but if I cant thin she will protect it with a couch cover.  well guess whut?  I dent knowed that I cudnt go under it, I tinked it wuz a big blankie.  oops.  mommy sez Percy, no, do not go under there.  oops

my new bed and number 1

do you remember my new bed?  I like it so much that I bring my number 1 rock in to it. 

cutie dog bed

my mommy got us anudder new doggie bed.  isnit is nice?  I like it cuz it is cushiny.  we all like beds like this that has sides cuz it makes us feel like we are being snuggled up.  and who doesn't like to feel snuggled up?  plus I tink I look so cute in it.  do not worry-it is not too small.  it is jest right.

ratties

I am practicing finding those nasty rats that hide in the hay bales inside of barns.  mommy sez I has another test coming up soon and I has to learn to concentrate and not go peepee in the barns.  dat is so hard for me not to do.  but mommy sez she knows I canz find those bad rats and rid the barn of them.  here is me up on top of the hay sniffing out dem vermits.

do you see dat hay on my snout?  I did find dem ratties!  mommy iz so proud up.

i all locked up

I wuzzed being a pest and wanting to beg evrybuddys dinner so I got  sent to anudder room and had to stay behind this gate.  it wuzzed so horrible.  I cud smell it and still watch my people eating what I tink I wunted so much. I cried and stared the whole dinnertime.  my people jest dent feel sorry for me at all.

me and my buddy Asa were not happy at all

Christmas celebrating

 I jest learnt that people celebrate Christmastime with special decoerations.  that's all good, but thin this crazy ting showed up in my kitchen.  I dent knowed whut it wuz so I sniffed at it then it lit all up!  I tink it liked me! 

I tink like it too!  I tink Christmastime is gonna be fun

morning sunnyshine

I ruv how my sunny warmth comes in thru the frunt door in the mornings.  I may not look like I am comfy but I lay like this for hours. 

ahhh I so lazy sumtimes.

happy Percy birday munth!

I canz not believe that I em almost one years old already.  can you?  I wuzzed borned out in December munth-the same as my mommy!  I was borned out 2 days before her birday, and she sez that iz why we ruv each udder so much, cuzzed we are borned out so close to each udder.  it is also sumtink called Christmas munth.  so my mommy sez we need to start celebrading this too.  ok, so I haz to pretend I is a rain dear.  I like it so much and tink I is so dorble

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anudder neato pitcher

here is anudder cool looking filter over a pitcher of me.  I tink I look lots more like a puppy steel in dis one.  I sure em so cutie.

tell me which pitcher you like bedder.    you can vote rite here on this page at the bottom!  I like both

im sketchy

this iz me with a cool drawing looking tingy I look so growed up, but I rilly jest steel a liddle puppy

my nose finded sumping

I know my snout is so good at smelling cuzzed I canz find them same rocks.  today I sniffed and sniffed and licked and licked trying to git a very small piece of potato chip that had falled down in a crack.  I wuz scratching and digging and licking for long time.  mommy finly haz to come out and see whut I wuz after.  she was sprized at how small of a crum I could smell, but wuz more sprized that I wouldn't give up trying to git it.  here I em and here iz the chip.

you canz barly see it huh?

but I canz surly smell it

and I really wunts it

number 3

so here I am with my rock number 3.  I is so cited win I bring them in from the backyard.  I run thru the doggie door so fast and happy.  then I toss down number 3 today!. 

1,2,3

I still ruv to play the game where I canz find the same 3 rocks in my backyard.  it mazes my famly cuzzed there are a million different rocks, but I always bring in the same 3.  evin win they hide them frum me.  here I am with number 1!

i had good Thanksgiving

my very first Thanksgiving was great!  I spended my day at my mommys feet helping her make yummy tings.  I getted to eat a turkeys liver yum yum.  I also eated a little bit of turkey meat.

I tink that I wuzzed so tired after dinner that I snuggled my new football turkey toy in my bed and watched some football between naps.  I ruvved yesterday!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

this iz my furst Thanksgiving and I m tankful for so much.  I has such a good life and loving famly and frinz.  I taked a pitcher of me at the top of a heart in the leafs cuzzed I is so tankful

I hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families, friends and animul buddies!

love, Percy

my hiding spot

I tink I has the best hiding spot ever for my chews.  so win I git dun tewing them I bury them right here in between my couch cushins!.  I knowed you cant see it, and neither can inyone else - that's why its the best hiding spot ever!

I do such good hiding job

me n lammy

I taked Asa's favorite toy--lambchop and I snuggled him in Asa's bed!!  mommy sez I am pushing the envelope.....I dunt knowed whut that meaned but I like to have things that belong to Asa.  hehehe

my giant buddy

sumtimes win I go to barn hunt practice this beauty is there too!  I tinked I wuz big til I sat next to her!

she is as tall as a building

i mite git boots

well since that white stuff callt snow is coming for winter I gotted my paw measured for a shoe size.
mommy sez I mite need to has covers on my fragile lol paws win I goes out in snow for walking.  I tellz my mommy I does not has fragile feet-I is big mitey rat hunter and hippity hinter and canine good citizen.  I not need baby shoes.  pppffffttt.  I tink that idea is ridicilus.  whut do you tink?

I did see enjoy looking at myself in the mirror tho.  I pretty cutie!

i has new friends

today me and my mommy goed to a special place and I meeted sum new friends.  I has to be very gentle and use my good Percy manners with my new friends.  I wuz so good and my mommy sez she is so proud of me cuzed I wuz such a gentleman.  everyone ruved me and I canz wait to go back agin. I is hoping to be a therapy dog and make sum people happy win I visit them.  it sure makes me happy. my mommy too. she had sum wet stuff in her eyes.  she sed she wuz happy, not sad. 

The Star gits lit

tonight the castle rock star where I live got all lighted up.  and there were some firewurks too!!

ratties

well, since it iz cold and snowy my mommy sez that ratties will stat coming inside to barns and I has to hunt them and keep evryones barns clear of rats.  I am practicing with my special rat toy!  git em me!!

white stuff is coming agin

it has bin so nice weather out, but I know that it is gitting colder today and that sumptink callt snow is goink to come down frum the sky agin.... boo.  but for now I do enjoy this sunny stuff and fall leafs

my new bed

well mommy commed home with a new bed for me, but I got on it and said on no, its not big enough for me!  I jest cant stop growing!!  neither can my pile of toys hehehe--see it behind my bed?!!

I is so ruvved

high 5, wave

I am learnig lots of trix with mommy to git my  novice trick doggie title.  lookit how smarty I am!!

bye bye

supermoon

well, this is the supermom behind me...not very impressive, but my mommy sez it is the last supermoon we will ever see togedder.  so we goed for a walk and injoyed it with each other.

roots

I meted my first roots today--It smelt yucky and looked like worms, but I taked a bite inyway.  it wuz so yucky, I shaked my head and spit.  then mommy throwed it all in the garbage so I cant get it agin

duznt it look like a rag or sum fabric?  it not-it plant roots.  YUCK bitter

neato pitcher

I tink dis pitcher is so cool.  it looks like I iz walking on the top of the world

I gotted another title!

i is now offishally a Canine Good Citizen!  Today I passed 10 steps to get my title.  Mommy sez I is so good boy.  I sez tink you mommy, I really is just only Percy. 

i picked that i iz more angel than devil