Howdy, partner!  It’s me, Riley and I’m in the mood for huntin’ varmints!

Wen is pretty strict about us Scotties barking when we’re outside in the yard.  Evidently she doesn’t want us bothering the neighbors, because there used to be two really noisy dogs next door that were very loud and annoying.

Now there is just a cat where those dogs used to live and on the other side of us there is a big dog that never barks.   Behind us though is a big dog that can bark loudly and incessantly if unsupervised and next door to him is another big dog that barks incessantly even louder and faster while jumping up and down at their fence.

Some days, the two of those dogs really carry on a conversation, barking back and forth and my sister, Sadie will listen and then join in for a few seconds until Wen quiets her. Sadie probably can only stand it for so long until she wants to get in on the neighborhood gossip.

One of Wen’s Scottie club friends found two cute Halloween standup decorations when she was shopping that she thought might be fun for the club’s Halloween party that they are reinstating next year.  The decorations have a hole in them for a child to stick their head through and look as if they are a Halloween character.

Wen’s friend wanted to know if she thought that Scotties would stick their heads through the holes in the decorations for photo ops and if she should buy them for the party.  They agreed that the decorations were a cute idea and that she should definitely buy them, but would Scotties really stick their heads through the holes?

Wen said that she would cut a hole in a piece of cardboard and see if she could coax us Scotties to stick our heads through the hole by offering us a treat.  Of course the girls were too squirrelly to cooperate, but when I saw the treat offered to me, I stuck my head right through that hole and grabbed it.

Wen and her friend had discussed WILL THEY or WON’T THEY? and they decided that if anyone would, it would be me and I proved them right!

 

First thing every morning, we sniffers converge in our backyard.  Yes, we Scotties like to cruise around, explore the yard, and do our early morning routine, which consists of watching for squirrels that run across the top of our fence and sniffing out interesting spots to tear up the grass and dig holes.

Since we are quite proficient at destroying spots in the grass, we Scotties have a designated area where we run zoomies and do our sniffing so that a portion of the yard always looks nice and untouched by Scottie destruction.  Wen wishes that we wouldn’t tear up the yard, but we’re terriers and we’re just following our instinct.  All three of us used to be obsessed with chewing and eating landscaping mulch, but once Wen fenced off the mulched flower beds from us, we had to find a new hobby, so we began tearing up the grass and digging holes.  Dogs will be dogs and we like to keep ourselves busy by doing our own kind of doggie landscaping.

 

 

 

Ever since my sister, Sadie chewed up and ate the fabric cover off a squeaky ball, there has been a serious lack of toys for us Scotties.  Normally there are toys around our living room for us to grab and play with, but right now it’s slim pickings as I can see only one partially chewed rope toy.

I guess that Wen has become tired of Sadie destroying toys and eating parts of them, so there is currently a moratorium on new toys.  The only new toy I saw recently was a plush elk head with plastic antlers, which is one of my favorites, but Sadie got ahold of it and ate off part of its ears, so the toy disappeared along with the others.

Hopefully the serious lack of toys will come to and end, because I want my elk toy back and how is it fair that Molly and I lose toys thanks to Sadie?  We like to chew on them too, but we sure don’t eat them!

We Scotties recently got some new toys—three braided rope toys to chew on.  All three of us gnawed on the toys, but Sadie went all out and one by one, she chewed them apart until there were pieces of string all over the living room floor.

It was kind of unusual to actually see Molly chewing on a rope, because she normally doesn’t show much interest in toys.  Sadie, however, is the toy terminator and just as she destroys everything, she destroyed the ropes one by one, so Wen threw them in the trash.

It was disappointing for Molly and me to lose our new toys, but maybe Wen will feel sorry for us and buy us some more.  It’s not looking particularly good though, because Sadie ate the fabric cover off a squeaky ball prior to chewing up the rope toys.  She truly is the toy terminator and it doesn’t matter whether a toy is made of rubber, fabric, or rope.  She will destroy them all!

We have nice rose bushes in our yard that produce really pretty roses.  While all the bushes are colorful, only two of them have roses that are really fragrant and those are the ones that Wen likes to cut and bring inside to enjoy.

Whenever there’s a rose in a vase on our kitchen counter, that old saying, “Take time to smell the roses.” comes to mind.  Just one sniff of a sweet-smelling rose can brighten your day.

There’s one thing that for sure makes us Scotties lick our lips and that’s when we hear any mention of food.  Our favorite words in our vocabulary just happen to be eat, treat, and who’s hungry?  It’s quite obvious that we are very much food-motivated.  Yep, we do love our food!

For example, here’s what happened when Wen asked Sadie if she wanted a treat….

I guess that’s a yes!

So it was bonus day the other day when I got two new dog toys that looked like cans of soda.  Decisions, decisions…. which one to attack and chew up first—Dr. Pupper or Mtn Chew?

It was National Dog Day yesterday, a day to celebrate us canines.  Actually, it kind of seemed like any other day, but I suppose it was nice for us to have a special day.

Yesterday’s National Dog Day was mentioned on TV throughout the day though and because of it being our day, we did get a new squeaky toy and treats, so bring on any day that celebrates us!  (We are kind of exceptional if you ask me!)