Bookish Meme - Part II

Cookie: "Okay, what is next on the list?"

Jackie: "It's: 'One book you have read more than once.'"

Cookie: "Oh, that would be the 'Hank the Cowdog' series by John R. Erickson.

Jackie: "I love Hank the Cowdog! He makes me laugh too. Hank is the head of ranch security on a real Texas ranch just like we take care of the security in the yard here!"

Annie: "Hank's cowboys don't understand that Hank has the best of intentions and he sure does get into trouble. I laughed and laughed when he went into the house and ate the frozen steaks off the table."

Jackie: "I like to get on the table and eat too!"

Cookie: "Yeah, and you sure get into trouble when you do that!"

Jackie: "Sometimes the people in this house don't understand that I have the best of intentions, just like Hank."

Cookie: "I am not sure how eating food off the table is the best of an intention."

Annie: "I don't get that either."

Jackie: "Well, I like to help out when I can and I am great a clearing a table."

Cookie: "And that, Pup, is why you have to go to your crate when the family is eating their dinner."

Jackie: "Just like I said, they don't understand me sometimes......Cookie, what is the next book?"

Cookie: "The next one is easy....'One book you would want on a desert island.'

Jackie: "That is a very easy one! James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small." I would want the whole series. He sure can tell a funny stories and he likes dogs. His dog Sam got to go in the car with him on all of his rounds--that is a lucky dog."

Cookie: "He tells sad stories in his books too. He is a veterinarian and some of the animals he tries to help die, even though he tries very hard."

Jackie: "I like people who admit that they aren't perfect....even we dogs are not perfect."

Annie: "What! Dogs are almost perfect!"

Jackie: "That's not what Mama said when you peed on the rug yesterday."

Annie: "Oh yeah, Mama was a little mad about that..."

Bookish Meme: One Book that has Changed Our Life

Jackie: "Squirrely Jedi we accept your bookish meme tag!"

Cookie: "The first one is so easy, 'One book that has changed your life.'"

Jackie: "That would be Dog Tales: How to Solve the Most Troublesome Behaviour Problems of Man's Best Friend."

Annie: "You know, the title is a little insulting. What do they mean by 'behaviour problems'? The three of us have always behaved perfectly."
Jackie: "Annie, you have forgotten, when you first came here James, Valerie, and Mama worked with you and for awhile you didn't even know what they were talking about. Dog Tales is a communication book. People do such ridiculous things sometimes, the book helped us understand them better."

Cookie: "That's right, people like dogs to know how to sit, down, heel, stay, and come. What they don't know is that we like for them to sit, down, heel, stay, and come too. Because of the book, the family does a pretty good job of following these commands and we don't have any behaviour problems with them anymore." Jackie: "James heels pretty well, but we need to give Mama and Valerie a refresher. They sometimes forget and pull on the leash. James could use a little work on sitting and staying. "

Cookie: "I guess we will have to read the book again."

Jackie: "Well, in any case the book has changed our life because all the people and dogs in this house understand each other better......I just wish the people would understand how much I like hamburger."
Cookie: "I am pretty sure that ALL of the people in this house know you like hamburger."

Sprung from Jail

Jackie: "I have to say, it is SO nice to be home. I don't like the kennel."

Cookie: "I don't like the kennel either, but we had to go because the family went to Sea World for a vacation."

Jackie: "Well, I don't know why they couldn't take us to Sea World. I LOVE fish and it would have been better than the kennel."

Cookie: "Dogs aren't allowed at Sea World....I don't know if you have noticed, but dogs aren't allowed in lots of places."

Jackie: "Well I can't imagine why. Dogs are very nice....nicer than some people even."

Cookie: "That's true. It is good to be home, isn't it?

Jackie: "It makes me appreciate my very own yard and my very own ball." Cookie: "It makes me appreciate how good it feels to roll in the grass in my own yard."Jackie: "Yeah, hot grass smells good.....especially when you have a nice tennis ball to tear up."Cookie: "I don't usually tear up tennis balls."
Jackie: "Well, you should give it a try sometime, because it really is a pleasure."Cookie: "Not as much a pleasure as sunning in my own yard with you, my little pal."
Jackie: "It is so good to be home!"

The Jackie Trap

James: "I think I will play a trick on Jackie."James: "A little bait for the trap."Later.....

Jackie: "Hey! What's this?" Jackie: "Wow! A trail of treats....I wonder where it leads."
Jackie: "This is very nice!"

Jackie: "I wonder how these things got here...."Jackie: "Hey! Wait a minute!"

Old and Tired

Jackie: "Cookie, what is the matter? You don't seem like yourself today."

Cookie: "My ears are really hurting me again and I feel tired. Mama made me sit still for a long time while she cleaned them and put medicine in them."

Jackie: "I know that wears you out, and it is hot too."

Cookie: "Yeah, it is hot too....but I feel old, Jackie.
Jackie: "Twelve is not so old, Cookie."

Cookie: "Some days it doesn't seem so old, but today it does."
Jackie: "I think you need to rest and you will feel better in the morning after you have your breakfast. You need to let Mama cuddle you."
Cookie: "My ears hurt too much to be cuddled. I just want to be here on this cool linoleum.....maybe I will feel better in the morning."

Jackie: "Just rest, Cookie. I am right here with you. We'll rest together."

Annie, You Stink Too

James: "Sniff.....sniff....Annie! You stink too!"

Annie: "What!? I don't stink and I don't need to be wet."

James: "Annie, you need to be more than wet. You need a bath too."

Annie: "I don't like to get wet." Jackie: "It will be okay, Annie. I am right here."

Annie: "Well, why don't you stop him then?"

Jackie: "I can't. Besides, you do smell a little weener-dogish."

James: "Here comes the shampoo, Annie."

Annie: "Oh, no. Not the shampoo! I HATE the shampoo!"

James: "This is special 'Lassie' shampoo. You will smell like Lassie."

Annie: "I thought I smelled all right before."

James: "Now for the rinse."

Jackie: "I'm still right here with you, Annie!"

James: "My dog care book says that you rinse until you think the shampoo is out, and then you rinse some more."

Annie: "I would like to sink my teeth into the author of your dog care book."

James: "Be nice, Little Anne....Okay, all done."

Jackie: "Wow, Annie, you smell like Lassie."

Annie: "Am I ever glad that is over. I shouldn't need another bath for about three or four years. "

James: "I wouldn't count on that, Annie."

A Tragedy...I mean A Bath for Jackie

James: "Sniff....sniff....what is that smell? It smells like.....Jackie! You stink!"

Jackie: "What are you talking about!? I smell fine!"

James: "You smell like a stinky dachshund. It has been a long time since you had a bath."

Jackie: "Weener Dogs don't ever need baths. We have nice short hair and we don't need baths."

James: "Everything needs a bath once and awhile. I am going to get Mama to help me."

Jackie: "James! you are making a mistake. Oooooh don't squirt that water on me."
Jackie: "I DON'T like to be wet!"
Jackie: "Oh no, water is enough, not soap too!"
James: "Jackie, I have to soap you up or you won't get clean. I have to get the stink off you."
Jackie: "Oh, this SOAP stinks! I liked the way I smelled before."

James: "Now for the rinse."

Jackie: "I want out of here. I would make a run for it if you weren't holding me so tight, James."
James: "That's why I am holding you so tight, Jackie. I know you."

Jackie: "Oh this is sooooo terrible. Getting clean is the worse thing that can EVER happen to a dog."

James: "Come on now Jackie. You know it feels good to be clean."

James: "Now for the rub and dry."

Jackie: "I have to admit I do like the rub and dry part."

Jackie: "Oh, that was terrible."

Cookie: "I was here with you the whole time, Pup. It is all over now."

Jackie: "Thanks for sticking with me, Cookie." James: "Sniff.....sniff......where's Annie?"