You'll be pleased to know that my pretty coat is starting to grow back in. Mom thinks that it will be short for the rest of the summer, but I don't think that's a bad thing. Now that the warm summer sun is coming out more, I'm spending more time outside. After all, someone has to keep watch over the yard. That grass may move without my keen attention!
Mom also got a futon to set-up her “reading room.” Well, she likes to call it a reading room. I'm pretty sure that she wanted me to have another cushy place to nap. I mean, not nap. Guard. Protect. Heroically protect, in fact. Yes, I'm heroically protecting the futon from, well, from the unseen forces of evil. Remember, I've got great guarding skills. That futon has not once gotten up and walked away! That's all because of me!
I do keep a good eye on my foster parents though. They're safe every night because of me. I sleep right outside their bedroom so that nothing can come to them. And if anyone tries, they have to trip over me to get to the door!
Mom and dad have been bringing me around their nieces and nephews more. In addition to my 8-year-old girl, I have a 5-year-old as well! The love just goes on and on.
Mom's been brushing my teeth lots lately and giving me big teeth cleaning treats, and I think it might be helping. She's also been doing what she calls “modified obedience training” so that I learn to be the most perfect gentleman. I don't sit because it can be hard on my hips and she's careful about that, but I'm learning really well and she's so proud of how hard I try and how good I am. Dad's been taking me out for walks lots too. He thinks that it's so great that an older fellow like myself has so much boogey.
Mom says that she's going to take new pictures of me after a bath this weekend. She's been really nice and worked really hard to make sure that when my coat is all back, I look like a show dog. Bath time is overdue and it means EXTRA brushing which I like as much as cookies.
Yeah, mom and dad take good care of me, but I'm looking forward to being someone's forever friend. With all of my many talents and the way I devote myself to making the people around me happy I know that I would be the best friend you could ever have.