Gosh, this year has gone by so fast but me and my sister have had an absolutely brilliant time and I can't believe how much fun we've had. You can tell we've been good because me and my sister are more chubby than we were and our new coats that Santa brought for us last winter have had to be adjusted a bit - actually, in my sister's case, A LOT! She has this thing for rawhide chews and if she had her way she would eat them none stop forever - she even tries to pinch mine off me so I have to growl at her to back off. I don't actually like rawhide chews - do they even taste of anything? - but I would rather guard them in my bed and not eat them than let my sister guzzle them when they aren't even hers.
We've done lots this year and mum has taken me on lots of runs with her, and even my sister has joined us sometimes when it hasn't been too far. We got to meet some new human friends called Glady and Michelle and we love running with them as they are such nice people and so friendly. They even asked Santa to bring us some new toys this year because they knew we were good dogs.
I've been up some mountains again this year and in the summer I went up a really good one called Jasper Mountain with mum. We did walk up rather than cheating and going in the cable car thing, and we got to meet lots of people on the top although we both said we would have preferred things if it had been quieter. I saw lots of little critters up there too and of course I wanted to chase them but mum wasn't too impressed with me dragging her all over the place!
We've been really outdoorsy this year which has been ace as we have got to act like proper dogs. We've been camping in a tent lots and lots and although I was scared about the bears and other big things out in the woods, my sister is so big that I knew she could protect me if needed - see, I'm only a little dog and my sister always looks after me when I feel frightened - even at the dog park. We did see some bears early in the year and we did try to bark at them to get them to go away, but thankfully they weren't too close and didn't come any closer so we didn't need to bark very loud at all really.
Mum and dad also introduced us to this game thing where we chase a plastic bag around a field and it moves really really fast and you have to sprint for ages to try and catch it. Everybody kept shouting "get the bunny" but it didn't look like a bunny. I got really really excited anyway, and barked all the way around and even though I am not really a pure whippet, I got top marks for being the "cleanest" dog there. I'm pretty certain they didn't mean clean clean because I was covered in dust and dried mud when all the others had had a bath and smelt like pretty flowers, but even so, I felt really proud to be told I was cleanest. My sister had a go at chasing the bunny too and even though she is a big girl, she did really well and she made me and mum and dad really proud. It was so much fun and really hope we get to go again next year.
With chasing bunnies around a field, we thought it would be ok to chase the bunnies around the Mahogany Wetland thing but mum and dad keep telling us off when we try to go after them, so we just eat their poo instead as it's the closest we can get to them - the bunny poo that is, not mum and dad's - that would be weird and quite frankly pretty disgusting.
Both mum and dad have started new jobs this year, and mum especially now comes home with the smell of about 20 dogs on her everyday. Me and my sister are not amused, as mum is turning in to a right trollop with all these other dogs she's mixing with. The good thing though is that mum says that she still loves us more than anything else in the world, so me and my sister feel much more comfortable with things. Because mum started the new job, me and my sister had to do some doggy training. We were really nervous about it as it meant we would have to meet with other dogs and humans that we didn't know and it took us out of our comfort thing. It was really snowy and cold too so we wore our coats and we felt a bit self conscious that the others would laugh at us. We had to do lots of sitting and walking and things, and then one day I got dragged to the front of the class with a complete stranger and had to demonstrate the sit stay. I was so nervous, I was shaking, I was licking my lips and sending out all these signals but nobody came to rescue me, and then when I didn't understand the down word, I felt really stupid and embarrassed and felt that I had let mum and dad down. Both me and Brandy were also sent to the naughty step at our first lesson so I think they were just picking on us because they saw us as trouble makers when really we didn't know what we had to do because it was all new and stressful.
There have been big changes at home too. We used to have the run of the whole neighbourhood and had tons of space to run around in when mum and dad let us outside as we used to knock down the fence so we could go further. For some reason, mum and dad decided to put some wooden stuff up and now we can get under or over it and even when we try to body barge it, it is solid and won't budge. It means we now have to just run around in circles in the back garden instead, and because we can't see the neighbours dogs anymore we can only hear them, we have to jump at the fence and bark lots just to let them know we are still here and it is still our turf. Talking of turf, mum and dad put lots of lovely green grass down in the summer and it was ace going outside and having a tumble in it. They even put some trees in so I now have 2 piddle posts to choose from. My sister thought it would be funny to dig some holes, so she got told off by mum and dad and she went all sulky because she'd got dirt under her claws, even though it was her own fault.
Gosh, I hadn't realised we had done so much and there are lots of other things that we have done this year like swimming, rolling in mud, digging in the snow and things. Ah well, maybe another time I can tell you all about it.
I've gone really tired again now because mum's been at home today and we've been out walking with her and not had much sleep so now I'm going to bed because she has promised me a run with her and Michelle tomorrow and maybe my sister will be able to come too because it's only a little run and it won't be fast.
Night night everybody. I will post again soon I think :-)
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