Wild Doxies

TO: GOD
FROM: THE DOXIE

Dear God: Why do humans smell the flowers, but seldom, if ever, smell one another?
Dear God: When we get to heaven, can we sit on your couch? Or is it still the same old story?
Dear God: Why are there cars named after the jaguar, the cougar, the mustang, the colt, the stingray, and the rabbit, but not ONE named for a dog? How often do you see a cougar riding around? We do love a nice ride! Would it be so hard to rename the “Chrysler Eagle” the Chrysler Beagle”?
Dear God: If a dog barks his head off in the forest and no human hears him, is he still a bad dog?
Dear God: We dogs can understand human verbal instructions, hand signals, whistles, horns, clickers, beepers, scent ID’s, electromagnetic energy fields, and Frisbee flight paths.  What do humans understand?
Dear God: More meatballs, less spaghetti, please.
Dear God: Are there mailmen in Heaven? If there are, will I have to apologize?
Dear God: And, finally, my last question…

When I get to Heaven may I have my testicles back?

Beautiful left yesterday for a two day work trip which has caused a chain reaction in the household. One less person to offer attention to Mikkey means that everyone must offer him more attention from his perspective. Mikkey has tried to achieve this attention nirvana by whining more than usual trying to attract anyone (and everyone’s) attention. Weasel sighs.

Stud-boy Harley came to visit last night and he will be staying with Mikkey and Abbie for the next few days. Harley has never been around other dachshunds for more than a few hours at a time and he is quite enamoured with having playmates.  He is particularly excited about having a male buddy and has been following Mikkey around playing (or trying to play) most of the day.  Being very relaxed in nature Mikkey has not seemed to mind too much that he has a “stalker” though there have been a couple of incidents including when Harley tried to take over a blanket that Mikkey felt was rightfully his.  Everything was back to normal in a matter of moments.

It was an average day. Nothing special happening for weasel - just the typical - staring at the computer screen for hours on end. With the back door open a bit to let the wild doxies enjoy the out of doors Abbie spiced up the day a bit by inviting a visitor in.

Glancing down to see if the doxies were enjoying a morning nap weasel was surprised to see something fowl. Abbie seemed quite pleased with her visitor and agreed to be photographed with a minimum of complaining. After “caring” for the visitor Weasel did have a lengthy discussion with Abbie about “uninvited guests” and all are hopeful that there will be no more surprises anytime soon.

Can’t Abbie “hunt’ inanimate obects like Mikkey?

Mikkey is quite disturbed. He caught site of a small seal figurine in Phoenix’s room and has decided that it is either A) a live animal that must be hunted or B) a chew toy of his that we’ve been callously hiding from him.  He tried to reach it to wrestle into submission when Phoenix was home so the seal had to be placed on a high shelf much to his dismay.  (Oh the unfairness of being short!)

Since Phoenix left the house Mikkey is forced to negotiate the issue with Weasel.  By negotiate I mean Mikkey continues to run towards the seal anytime he thinks Weasel is following and to whine whenever Weasel is not following.

It’s gonna be a long day.

Sorry folks - our site has been experiencing some technical issues.  WordPress is not allowing long posts to go through and Weasel hasn’t had time to sort out the issue.  Rest assured Mikkey and Abbie are still being delightful dachshunds - we just can’t update you right now.  The Doxie News is still running correctly so be sure and drop by there.

Got a notice from one a breeder the other day and thought we would share that they have puppies available right now.  The sisters “hugs and kisses” are adorable, take a look.   Key City Doxies

As reported by Phoenixtail Weasel was gone on a work-related trip for most of a week.  Beautiful complained upon his return that Mikkey and Abbie sat by the door every morning waiting for him to return.  Apparently this made Beautiful feel not fully appreciated.

Within days of his return Phoenixtail came down with a cold and lovingly shared it with Weasel.  What began as a cold eventually resulted in a bronchial infection. Ugh!  Luckily this did allow Mikkey and Abbie a great deal of catch-up time with Weasel while they tried boosting his immune system with licks to the face.  Weasel has no idea why getting licked in the face is supposed to help cure a cold but both doxies seemed convinced it was the appropriate remedy.  Because of (or perhaps in spite of) their tireless efforts Weasel is well on his way to being healthy again.  Unfortunately, Beautiful now believes that he smells of dog breath and refuses to be anywhere near him.

Guest editor PhoenixTail

Mikkey and Abbie were shocked when Weasel left the house Sunday, April 16-21. Both of them thought that Weasel was going to leave them forever! Mikkey tried to make Weasel stay, but Weasel is much bigger. Phoenixtail told both of them that Weasel would be back before you could say ‘Weasel’, that made Mikkey and Abbie feel a little bit better. That night Mikkey decided to go to sleep with me and once he went up on the bed and layed down Abbie came walking in to sleep with me because she had no Weasel to sleep with. So I had two Doxies to sleep with that week. Abbie started to look out the window to see if Weasel was back yet, but Weasel wasn’t back yet. This happened every day of the week untill Friday, when Phoenixtail went to sleep-over with her friend, Fujy *Thats not her real name thats her nickname*. Then after a few hours  Ferret-Boy came home with Weasel, Knock Knock Knock. Abbie ran to the door and started Scratching on it.Weasel came into the house and started giving love to Mikkey and Abbie, who started licking him all over to make sure that this was the Weasel that both of them knew. The next day Phoenixtail came home from Fujy’s house to see Weasel so everyone was home again.

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Weasel and Beautiful joined a co-ed soccer city league a few weeks ago. Practice happens twice a week with a game on most Sundays for a few months - all just for fun and exercise. On Tuesday Weasel was getting prepared to leave the house for practice when he noticed a stow-a-way in the bag which held his soccer gear. Abbie had sniffed at the bag for a bit and then decided to climb in.

Unfortunately, she was not allowed to join practice so we’ll have to wait a little longer for Air Abbie to show up at the theater.