Scratchy's diary: dozy Little Boss
March 6th 2010 23:13
Absolutely no stamina, that hooman.
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Absolutely no stamina, that hooman.
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Scratchy's diary: My February 14 treat
February 13th 2010 22:11
The Big Boss was particularly affectionate to the Little Boss this morning, as if February 14 is some special day. He called her "Valentine". That's a new one — how many names can one person have?
Anyway, he finally stopped with the affection and asked Little Boss if she would like some breakfast in bed.
"I would," she said.
"I would too," I said, but I don't think he heard me.
However, as the old saying goes, it's the persistent dog which catches the leatherwood honey on soy and linseed light rye (although I'd accept margarine on cheap white), and so I followed Big Boss to the food room.
"Can I have a piece of toast?" I asked, with just that right mix of politeness and respect which I have found, from long experience, lets hoomans think they are pack leaders.
"You've already had breakfast," he said.
Drats. I was hoping he'd forgotten.
"Oh, I know that," I said, with a self-deprecating smile, "but just this once, couldn't you show how much you love me with a little extra something?"
And, amazingly, he gave me an extra bit of toast.
Maybe there is something special about February 14.
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Scratchy's diary: Colour-coded comfort activity
February 9th 2010 11:02
One of the biggest problems in the known universe is the inability of human beings to rise at first light and give dogs their breakfast. It's shocking and sad how many humans fail to understand this.
Especially my Big Boss.
Can you believe that he gets up every day at the same time — which can be defined for the purposes of this blog post as approximately 17 seconds after I whine outside his bedroom door at 6.31am — and, emerging into the Greater Dog World, exhibits the following priorities:
1. He disappears into the small room with the slippery floor.
2. He goes to the other small room with the whirring machine and the bright screen and the clackety board.
3. He goes (finally!) to the food room and — get this — makes food for himself before me.
4. Oh, yeah, and before Daisy.
So, this morning, in desperation, I found a new way of amusing myself while waiting for breakfast. I really enjoyed myself, and I thoroughly recommend this to all of you. I promise your Humans won't be troubled by this. Well, Big Boss wasn't — all he did was grab a camera.
By the way, it's not essential to be colour-coordinated to do this. But it helps if you want to look irresistibly gorgeous in the pictures.
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Scratchy’s Diary: Australia Day
January 31st 2010 03:16
I don’t know what it’s called. Noise juice, perhaps.
I wish I could eat as much as I want just once in my life, let alone every Australia Day.
Not only did the Bosses stay home, a lot of their friends came to visit, including the family of Prilly. She’s a Maltese Terrier. Prilly is short for Priscilla. I said to her, "Hey Prill, if you were addicted to ice-cream, would that make you ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert’?”
But she didn’t laugh.
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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Greyhound, Maltese terrier, Dog Diaries, Scratchy, Pet interaction
Scratchy's diary: raw and sore
January 4th 2010 05:28
The thing is, I woke up sore. All my muscles were stiff, like I'd been running 40 kilometres instead of 400 metres. And I had raw, sore patches on my front legs, like I'd been banging them on something.
The green and white people talked about epilepsy whenever they were near me. I'm not sure what that is. Maybe it's like being hit by a car. The people put lots of ointments and bandages on my legs, which was stupid because it made them hard to lick better. But the bandages are gone now and the legs are healing quickly.
They are a lot better than they they look in these pictures taken yesterday. I'm not sure why Big Boss got the camera out. He said something about being in a funny position around the cushion. I don't see what's so funny about it. I was just giving it a fluff before having a nap.
Anyway, I want to wish you all a speedy and waggy new year. Oh, and watch your knees. Or you might end up in a strange place surrounded by cats and strangers.
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Scratchy's diary: dog tired
October 22nd 2009 00:25
I'm exhausted! The Little Boss must have slept really, really well last night because instead of going for the usual walk to the park and back this morning, she took us on a guided tour of the suburb.
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A little ray of sunshine
July 28th 2009 01:27
The thing is, I don't think it's the beds that make the bedroom warmer. I think it's something to do with the light that comes through the window at that end of the house
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Scratchy's Diary: taking care of Little Boss
June 19th 2009 21:20
Little Boss wasn't feeling too well and stayed home from work in an effort to get better. Daisy and I were surprised to find out that the process of getting better when a human feels unwell is to pretend you're a greyhound. That's right, Little Boss climbed onto the sofa and stayed there all day!
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Dog definitions
May 24th 2009 06:15
Greyhound greeting protocol
My human's a nice enough fella but his language skills are a bit of a laugh. For one thing, he gets the meaning of things all muddled up. For example, you should see what he calls a run!
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Scratchy's diary: Plugging plonk
April 27th 2009 06:56
You won't believe this, but the Big Boss has just launched a blog about wine.
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