my grate find

do you member yesterday dat I telled you dat I finded sumpting oh so cool? well here it is!!

my own liddle doggy house!  I ruvved it so much!  I asked mommy if we cud bring it home!.

she sed no.

but she sed I cud go inside.

so I did

that is me in side the window.  I tended that it wuzzed my own liddle house.

thin I heared my mommy say Percy its time to go home now.

so I looked out my window and I sed but mommy dis is my home.

do you not know that mommy?  this is percys home sweet liddle home!.  she jest sed lets go.

I has to figure out a way to make this liddle home my own!  I goed home and tinked real hard.

lets come up with sum ideas togedder.  I really has to have this liddle house! so tink tink tink.

tree farm

I went with my mommy today and visited what boy doggies might tink is heaven on earth--a tree farm!  oh boy I wunted to peepee everywhere, but mommy sed no no Percy someone mite wunt to buy these trees. it is not a park. 

so I runned and runned and thin found these cool climbing mounds.

I tended I wuzzed a mountain goat and I climbed up the big giant mountains.

thin I goed back to the trees but mommy sed percy come back now.  so I did. 

after this I finded the most coolest ting ever...I will share my findings with you tomorrow.!!

just me and mommy

                                          I ruv my mommy and all we do togedder! 

                                         canz you tell dat I ruv her???  I give her big kisses!

my cool award

me and mommy got dis super cool award after the doggy show yesterday.  it is a sellibration of our titles over the past year.  there are 5 wards dat me and mommy earned so there are 5 special placks. 

do you see them all hanging down?  I getted the most awards of innyone else in the whole club!!

yay me, Percy!  I gitted my RATN, RATO, CGC, CGCA and my  CGCU !! whut a great year.

      I canz not wait for our next year.  by way- I already has 2 trick dog titles for next year placks!

show day!

well, guess whut?!  I goed to the doggy show today and I did my performance with this map.

                                                                here I em doing the map

it wuzzed so fun.  thin when we getted done with the map, the judge gived me a big ole hug and kiss

he sed good job Percy, you doned such good job.

and do you see whut he gived me mommy?  yup, that's right--2 giant ribbons!!

that's cuzzed I getted a qualifying score in rally novice and I gitted my furst leg towards my title

yay us!  that one sign wuz sumpting I had to know how to do--call front, finish right, forward.

I knowed how to do it all today, and dat is how come I getted a leg.  my mommy wuzzed so happy

thin I getted to see my sidder Charlie Girl!!  we played and played and I made silly faces.

and of course me and mommy and Charlie girl and Carole taked our special pitcher togedder.

oh we has both growned up so much.  I sure wish we cud see each udder more often.  I miss my sister

I also gotted to meet sum new special frinds at the show today.  and I jest layed around sum too.

I has such good day.

tornado in Atlanta

well dog gone it all.  there wuzzed a wind storm and my florida Debbie and Florida Mike and my frind Cecilia (who has my papa), can not come to my doggy show on tomorrow.  I will miss seeing dem so much. the news has me so sad.  I jest moped around all day.

I wunted to make everyone so proud of my furst time in the rally ring.  I jest layed around sum more.

but I knowed I still gitted to go to the show tomorrow so I cheerd up and practiced my rally moves.

                                        now I em cited again.  plus, I git to see my sidder Charlie girl!!!

nosey work

I gitted to go to my nose work class tonight and train on how to sniff out a van for odors!
whut I really smelt was bolony on the van!  it sure wuz a treat to find a car covered in food!
lookit me running becuzzed I alreddy smell the lunch meat!  wow, this is funnest ting ever.

I tink I em looking preddy cool too, don't you?

now lookit me sniffing for odors everywhere one could be hiding!  I has great nose

do you also like my all professional looking harness?  it means I em working when I wear it!

                  I like nose work a lot.  I mite evin try to earn sum titles for it!

barn hunt day

evin tho it came a lot of snow...

...me and mommy still drove to get sum ratties today.

I tried reely hard but I em having trubble in the barn agin.  I wud radder eat tings off the ground and jump on everyone in the barn to say well, hello.  thin after a few minites mommy sez well cmon Percy, its time to go out of the barn now.  and thin she shows me a rat and everyone claps and sez good boy.  I always do has fun. and whin I get home, I em so tired out.

I dreamt of our big show coming on Friday and seeing my sidder and Florida Debbie and Mike!!

                                                                   I so cited I canz wait.

rally trial praktise

I goed to Petco today to work on sum rally mooves.  I did lots of gud praktise.  I had good time-I smile when mommy stops and I has to sit.  I hope I canz do so good for the show on Friday.  keep your paws crossed for us. 

do you see those flea medicine boxes on the shelf behind me?  I member hasing fleas.  I hated it.

whiney me

i jest hate it win my mommy is busy on her puter and wont look at me.  i try so hard to git her tension
                                         if i did this to you wud you give me your tension?

  mommy sez it is a pityful display and she sez ok liddle buddy, let's go and do sumpting fun.
                                                         so we gitted to go do this!!!!! 

my whining worked!

my cookie twin

does this cookie remind you of somebuddy special?  yes!  it's me, Percy!!  my mommy and sum of her frinds made lots of basit hownd cookies for our special doggy show coming up on Friday.  it is gunna be such good week gitting ready and practicing rally and seeing my Florida ppl and being cited.  oh yeah, innyway, here is the Percy cookie.  mommy sez it luks jest like me and dat it evin has lots of naughty spots, jest like all mine.  I jest tink I wunt to eat it.  nom.  do you like it?

fools Day

today I em a jester cuz I em sposed to act like a fool.  it is April furst.   I ruv acting like a fool.  and not jest for today, but everyday!  I tink I luk more like my sidster Poppy than a jester tho.

 

my  mommy played a prank on me, Percy, for today.   she sayed we were goink somewhere special. so I followed her.  we went in to the bathroom and she sayed April Fools Percy!!  then she trimmed my toenails off.  whut a sneeky Aprils fools day joke mommy.

Percy Snout

my mommy commed home frum the mailbox today and she wuzzed happy!  she sayed oh Percy, I tink I gotted my necklace in the mailbox!  so we opined the box up and jest lookit whut wuzzed   inside::

sure enough it is my Percy snout!!!!

isn't it so neato?  it is really my nose print. 

and on the back it evin says my name.  Percy. 

don't you tink it is so cool too?  let us compare it to my snout on my face.

yes siree, dat is my nose alright. 

do you member whut it lukked like when I gotted molded?

I tink I wunt a mold of mommys snout for me to wear on my collar!  I'm gonna ask my mommy now.

she sed dat sounds like a grate idea!!!   but thin she it wud be weird, so, no. 

scaryness

I had a fritening dream last nite.  I dreamt I turnt in to a zombie.  it started out as a fun dream and I wuz playing chase with mommy agin.  thin it happened.  jest like that I wuz a zombie. 

and not jest playink with my new headband.  I dreamt I wuz workink on my bog, thin I wuzzed zombie doink that too. 

oh I jest hated my slumber last night.  I wuzzed so glad to wake up.  I barked and barked and barked frum inside my kennel.  but I knowed it wuz jest a scary, cuzzed win mommy let me out of my kennel she did not screem, she jest hugged me and kissed me like normal. 

                                                        I hate zombies so much. 

                                                         I never wunt to be one.

crazy headband

I has a new goofy hat.  but I dent wear it yet.  instead I sneeked it off of the counter and runned all around with it in my mouth.  mommy had to chase me thru the house.  she wuz saying Percy, stop right now, Percy drop, Percy bring that back,, Percy leave it, Percy, Percy, Percy.  but I dent drop it out of my mouth....mommy had to pry it out.  she wuz not laughing.  but I know she will win I wear it

                                   I know you will laugh and smile too win I wear it.

                                                           ps  it evin lites up!!!!!

                                          I hope I dent wreck it win I wuzzed chewing on it.

my yummy chew

I jest ruv my chew so much that evin tho I tinked I heared a boogeyman and I shud has gone and growled at the frunt door, instead I jest kept chewing and growled at the same time-jest where I was
                                                       member to turn up your noise

                                                I tink I steel sound preddy mean and scary
                                                        no boodgeymans comed inside.

apollo play

the snow all melted so me an mommy goed out agin for our walk and I meted a brand new frind-his name was appolo and he wuzzed so nice!  he jest had a bath and his mommy woodnt let him roll around in the grass with me becuz it would make him durty agin.  too bad cuz we cud has had so much fun togedder.  we steel did has fun jest sniffing each other and playing chase! 

                                                      well, I chased and appolo runned!.

lookit  appolos silly ear!  I tink he wuzzed tending he was a hippity or sumptink.  that's why I liked him so much-I like to tend too, and I ruv hippities!!!

all konked out

I spended the last 3 days at barn hunt and my mommy sez I em all tuckered out...I barely evin waked up to go get in my kennel for the night.  here is me, Percy snoring up a storm.  turn up your noise.

did you notice my liddle paw twitching?  I tink I wuzzed dreeming uf finding dem bad ratties! 

this makes me happy

I getted evin more kisses and hugs than normal on happy puppy day.  jest lookit my happy face.

what???

                             where did the springtime go?  I lukked everywhere for it today...

I could not find it innywhere...

I miss it already.

breathing fire

I always like to pretend I em sumtink other than a doggie.  so today I em a giant magik dragon who can breathe super cool blue colort firy smoke!!!  aren't you scart by me, Percy in my bog today??

my roar is much frighteninger thin my liddle doggie bark.    

I jest translated my name, Percy Basset, in to a dragon name.  here is my dragon name--

Llom Vivid-Eyes The Flaming Sea

wowie!!

  it means "He bathes in oceans of flame!  He has vivid scales of blinding brightness.  He sees the things that others do not.  This one is knowing, wise, and well-read.

I tink dat scribes me, Percy, perfeckly.  dunt you agree??

but reely:

I like to roll in stinky stuff, I has ginger-colored markings that spell PMS, I see zombies, and the only ting I read is my bog. 

but lookit--I can evin change the color of the fire I  breathe!!!!!!!  jest call me Llom!!!!!!!

a home for toads

do you remember my Debbie mommy frum florida?  she is the one who bringed me in to this world.  well there is something I em so cited about....she is coming to be a judge at our Basset Hound show soon!  I canz wait to see her.  I hope she steel smellz like the purple drink.  and my buddy Mike florida frind is coming with her too!  here is me and them.  this wuzzed us saying so long.  but not goodbye.

so, innywayz Debbie asked my mommy to make a toad house for her Florida yard becuzzed my doggy mommy Ava catches toads and plays ruff with thim, so toads need safe place to hide frum her.  and also my brudder Alan duz it too.  here is whut my mommy made for florida toads.

I tink it iz reely cool.  I hope Debbie mommy ruvs it!  I wunted to has my pitcher taken with it cuz I always jest ruv having my pitcher taken.  lookit, I em smiling.

I lukked inside to see if there wuz iny toads hiding inside.....there wuz not iny.

        

I tink I wunt a pet toad frind!!  I will ask my mommy if I canz have one.

roooaaaarrrr

well I em still sellibrating springtime.  I heard mommy sayink that sumptimes springtime comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.  so I cided I wud be a lion for the coming in of springtime!.

I em the king of the jungle park!!  dat bratty ole jazzbar better watch out..

theres a new big cat in town.  me--Percy!!!