Christmas Eve

Hi All,

I just wanted to let you know I hosted my first, official HUGE family Christmas Eve. It didn't go as I had hoped.

Mommy and Daddy (and Auntie Brighit and Cousins Jzero and Vienna) set up these big tables and chairs, and I watched Mommy set them with fancy Christmas dishes and cups and pretties. It was so exciting. I could hardly wait to find out which seat was mine.

Well, guess what.

NONE were for me.

Smudgie and I got a LONG pre Christmas Eve walk and I was so happy....but it was a trap. Right after that we ate, peed, and got CRATED.

How unfair is that?

We heard all the people having fun but we were upstairs, and Mommy and Daddy put us in the middle bedroom instead of our usual room, and that made Smudgie really mad so he barked all night.

I was sooooo embarrassed.

At the end of the evening I got taken out for a pee and then brought back in to meet people. I tried so hard to be good, but no one remembered the Cesar rules. They all squealed and jumped around and paid all kinds of attention to me. So, what else could I do? I responded in kind. I jumped and made all kinds of noises, and then Mommy said I was being bad. Why can they do it and I can't?

I'm glad I peed first, because with all those people leaning over me I would have let her rip on the floor. Mommy and Daddy are pretty smart about some things.

Then I went back to my crate and it was Smudgie's turn. I hear he was worse than I was. Then we were back in our crates.

So we both barked.

Mommy kept shaking her head and apologizing to everyone. Finally Daddy came and put us both, loose, in the bedroom. So then we settled down. I don't know why they didn't just do that in the first place!

So, on behalf of Smudgie and me I would like to apologize to all for we did to make their Christmas Eve a little louder than it needed to be.

But we were both trying to be good hosts, that's all.

Anyway, I hope all my online friends had a peaceful and dog filled Christmas Eve, and now my brother and I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all:

A SAFE AND DOG FILLED NEW YEAR!!!

Take care all,

Rudy, the Canine Baby New Year

Just sneaking on for a minute to say MERRY CHRISTMAS

I'm so sorry I don't get to blog very often anymore, but I did want to sneak in and wish all my friends all over the world a very Merry Christmas.

Take care all, and I'll blog just as soon as I can.

Ho Ho Ho.

Merry Christmas,

Rudy the Elf

Wow, it has been a long time.

I'm so sorry. It's all Mommy's fault.

I love her and all, but she has been really busy....which is tough on us, because even though we spend lots of time with Daddy, he just doesn't do it right.

I wish she'd stay home more often.

Lots has happened in the last while. The tree is up and presents are being wrapped. Mommy says I can't poke about in the presents, which seems unfair, as I'm sure there are some there that say Rudy on them.

Smudgie's naked. And cold...and that means GRUMPY. Now he thinks it's okay to sleep ON me at all times. And if I wiggle at all he growls at me. HOW RUDE is that?

I still have my beautiful fur, but Mommy says that this weekend it will all be gone. She says someone named Karla is coming here to the house to make my hair go away. I don't think I believe her, but Smudgie's already grumbling. He says that once my hair goes away I will be cold too, and that will make me useless to him.

Nice, friendly, Christmas sentiment there pal!

We had to pose by the tree again, but Smudgie and I won. They took almost a hundred thousand pictures of us, but none worked out. I really like this one:

I think Daddy looks great, fighting with us in his long red underwear. Mommy wanted to put it on the Christmas card, but Daddy said NO WAY.

I know that he'll forgive me for putting this up here (and he doesn't actually stop in and read my blog) so I thought I would share it.

This is the pose that we all wanted on our annual Christmas card.

Well, I have to go. Mommy is home today (she took her personal day to hang with us) and I hear things happening in the kitchen. She probably needs my help.

Take care all, and ho ho ho!

Rudy with the red underweared Daddy!