I am a Graduate!

It was a big week for me... i graduated from Basic Obedience! FosterMomma and BestFriend already taught me how to do mosts of the stuffs so my Mom just had to pick up where they left off.  Mom's training skills are pretty rusty so it was good for her to go to obedience classes as well.

So this is my "Down"...it means that i flops on my belly real fasts...

 Pretty good huh?!

This is my "kiss". For some reason, Mom wants me to kiss her more than I already do?... 

Pretty good huh?!

We also had to learn a "trick" for class. Me and mom picked "roll over"... 

Pretty good huh?!

So all in all it was a good week, except last night got a little crazy. Mom was drinkings the red stuffs from the Hippo bottle. She tooks her iPad and decided to take all kinds of pictures of me. i'm used to this...but when she showed me the pictures we laughed and laughed and decided to give them funny names!! Lookits!!
 

Chubby Hippo

Big Lips Hippo

Square Head Hippo

Big Tongue Hippo

Seeing Double Hippos

Not a Hippo

Hot Hippo

X-Ray Hippo

Starburst Hippo!

This morning, Mom said no more "drinking and ipading", but i still think the pictures are pretty funny :) 

Dr. TakeCareofMe!

So i've been waiting for mom and dad to realize that it's a good idea to take me to work because everyone loves me where ever i go!  one morning this week i thought I was finally going to work with mom and dad!  i was really excited when we got there because it was a great place to work - there were dogs everywhere!  Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy!!!  the only problem was that trying to say hello to all the dogs was all very tiring....

There was even a cat!  he walked around real cool.  i tried to sniff him but he jumped up real high and i couldn't reach him.  he looked down at me from his perch and told me i was a silly boy and off he went!! 

There were also cookies everywhere and i was getting LOTS of them!   lots of people came up to me and gave me good ear scratches and bum scratches.  they all told me that i was a very good dog.  they must have been confused - i had to tell them i was a Hippo!  anyway, we just hung out and i did lots of good sits and downs.

All of a sudden i heard someone call my name and we went into a smaller room.  there was a man in there who gave me a cookie just for being a Hippo!!  he wanted to look at my teeths and my eyes and my ears.  i said no problem!  he took this thing and listened to my heart and said it was a good strong Hippo heart.  i thought no wonder mom and dad like to go to work every day - this is fun - but still very tiring...

After that we went back out into the big room where all the other dogs were.  mom stood at a counter and i watched her take the plastic money card out of her wallet and give it to the pretty girl behind the counter.  i thought it was very strange that mom was paying to be at work??  anyway, just at this moment i noticed the cat again - he was sitting on the counter.  i thought i would try and introduce myself again so i jumped up at him to say hi.  i couldn't believe what happened next!  he took out his paw and whacked me super duper fast on my nose and said that's no way to meet a cat silly Hippo!  so of course i tried again!  the cat whacked me like the speed of light right on my nose again and told me to be more polite!  so i decided that i would try to win the cat over again later - but watch him closely just the same...

Everyone started to say goodbye and that they looked forward to seeing the Hippo again.  i thought that was a pretty short day at work.  we went home and mom and dad said it was time to go in my house and they gave me my tasty peanut butter kong!  i was really confused when they said they had to go to work? we were just at work?!?  mom said that was the vet office silly Hippo and the nice man i met was Dr. TakeCareof Hippo!!  then mom said they work in a boring office with no dogs and cats and that i wouldn't like it much there.  what!?  no dogs or cats!!!  forget it then - i'll stay home with my peanut butter kong and take a nice long nap...with one eye open...just in case that cat decided to come home with us!

Play Date!

This week I made a new friend!

As usual, Mom and Dad came home from work and as usual i was really happy to see them, and as usual it was going to be a great night!  but then they told me that it was going to be an extra special night because i was going to make a new friend and her name is Stelladog!  so mom said that i would have to be a really good boy and listen to her while Stelladog was here.  i knew that would be hard but i was really going to try!

before i knew it, there was a new car in the driveway and out popped a giant dog!  i got super duper excited and yelled for her to come over and play!  she was super cool and listened to all the things her fostermomma said. 

so we decided to go for a nice walk, but i was just so excited that i pulled and dragged my Mom around.  i totally forgots Mom had my favorite cookies with her.  besides that, Stelladog's fostermomma had super tasty cookies that i discovered were better than mine!  so me and Stelladog made a plan. we decided to trade mommas and do our best sits so we could get each others cookies!

 

then we wrestled and played and had a great time.  we had to take lots of breaks and do good sits to get each others tasty cookies.  our plan worked out great!

we gots a little tired and decided to go on my deck for some refreshments and a little sun.  while we relaxed, i heard my Mom asking Stelladog's fostermomma about Stelladog's pretty red necklace.  

then, before i knew it, Stelladog and her fostermomma went back to their car.  it all happened so fast that she was gone before i knew it!  i decided to rest on my deck and looks down my driveway just in case she came back. she didn't, but the good news is that Mom said she would come back next week!  Yay!!

a few days later we went to the post office.  i was pretty excited because i loves everything that comes from there.  we gots home, opened the package, and out came a necklace just like Stelladogs!  Mom tried to put it on me and i wiggled a bit because i thought only girls wore necklaces.  Mom said nope, it's not a necklace, all the cool dogs wear this thing!  turns out i like it lots because it helps my mom not to flop around at the end of my leash!

see you next week Stelladog!

Happy Rescu-versary BestFriend Quinn!!!

BestFriend! BestFriend!  I heard it's your rescu-versary today!

I couldn't think of anything to give you so Mom said how about a nice video of my deck jump!!  I told Mom that BestFriend Quinn would love to see this HouseHippo jump - so let's do it!  I practiced really hard to do my bestest, biggest, longest jump ever.  Here is what it looks like!

I hope you are impressed BestFriend!  I really miss you and wish you were here to jump and play bitey face with me!

I'm the King of my Park!!!

yesterday we woke up and it was Hippo weather outside!!  mom and dad said it was a perfect day to takes me to my park!  Yay, i loves my park!!

so here is what i do at my park...

i walks at my park....lookits my cute bum...

the sun shines on me at my park....lookits my cute bum...

i crosses bridges with my dad at my park....lookits my cute bum...

i poses on a giant tree stump at my park...lookits how handsome i am...

i runs after my ball at my park...lookits how fast i am...

i flops on the ground after i runs after my ball at my park...lookits how cute and tireds i am...

then we leaves my park, i goes back to my house and i rests in the sun on my deck and dreams about my perfect Hippo day...

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East Hants Rocks!!!

The East Hants Newsletter came this week and Mom said there was good news!!

First of all, it said "SPRING" which is great news because that's what i likes to do with my Hippo legs!!  Mom said that Spring also means that my Hippo feets won't be so cold when i go outside!  Yay Spring!!

Most importantly came the news about the dog by-law.  Mom said that means rules for Hippos.  My first thought was "oh no, not more rules, i'm already a good Hippo!".  Mom said that's true, but there is something even more important in the news.  Could it be about free treats??

Mom said no, it's about "BSL".  So of course i said "what's BSL"?  Then mom reminded me that it was the reason i had to move away from FosterMomma and BestFriend Quinn.  She said East Hants is not like Onscario, that they like Hippos here!

Mom says put your reading glasses on and pay particular attention to the last sentence...

So i find this quite boooring, but mom said everyone will be happy for me and all of the dogs in East Hants!!

In other more interesting news this week, Mom discovered my new extra special gift while i was helping to empty the peanut butter jar.  She says i have a giraffe tongue!!  Lookits!

So i decided to use my new extra special gift and help out in the kitchen!  The opportunity just presented itself in front of me!  i am the new pre-wash cycle for the dishwasher!! Watch me at work!

Mom said i was a little too helpful when i tried to get in the dishwasher.  My exuberance and hard work at my new job made me very tireds!!  Nap time!!

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