Still Not Dead!

But we're STILL moving into our new home.  It is ridiculous!  And it means our Mama doesn't have any time to spend writing down our very important thoughts.  

However, we feel so badly for you guys who must be missing us, that we are going to share with you our very special secret.

We have submitted our photos to a calendar!  It is a very special calendar, called Newfs Gone Bad, and every year they make up a calendar with pictures and limericks, and sell it for charity - all the profit goes to the Newf Health Challenge!  All of you Newf-crazy folks should totally order four each! They are very cool, and make great gifts at Christmas time. Hint, hint. And if you're VERY lucky, then WE might be in it! We hope we make the cut.

Here are our submissions...tell us what you think?

Pooka's limerick reads:

"Look, I dug this fabulous hole!
To reach China was likely my goal.
But when Mom started yelling,
from inside the dwelling,
I placed all of the blame on a mole.

Love, Pooka"



Nanook's limerick reads:

"I hope you won't think I'm a slouch
You see, I'm not ALLOWED on this couch!
If I look really cozy
My mom won't be nosy,
She'll take a picture instead, I will vouch!

Love, Nanook"



"I raise my eyes to the sky
'Lord heal this pig' is what I cry
I played just a little too rough,
and the pig wasn't tough,
Now she's missing some legs and may die.

Love, Pooka"

Sorry!

We are moving to a new house!  And so we do not have access to the computer very much right now.  We will try and get this move over with quickly though - see you all soon!

Presents!

Look guys!  We got a gift in the mail.  Now, you may remember those two classes that Nanook visited a while ago, and then right afterwards Nanook got a package in the mail, that I totally tried to steal...well, we got another one, from the same class, and check it out, this time it had BOTH our names on the package, instead of just Nanook's!  This is because, guys, I WENT TOO!

That's right!  I had my very first Therapy Dog visit, with my big brother Nanook, my Mama, and my Papa who is my handler, and I did AWESOME.  I was so super polite and gave kisses and only tried to escape like, three times.  The Mama says that for me, that is nothing short of miraculous - especially since we had to walk through the entire school and the floor was the slippery kind which can be scary for a really big dog with bad hips like me, but I was VERY BRAVE and walked the whole way to the classroom and back on that floor, even down a scary slippery ramp!  

I couldn't let Nanook make me look bad, after all.

And so we visited two whole classrooms which was cool because at first I was only supposed to visit one - my people didn't want to overwhelm me.  But I was so relaxed and happy in the first classroom they figured I could maybe handle the second one, and I DID!  

And now the first classroom has sent us a present in the mail, with my name on it too, and the Mama let me carry it back to the house because it was my very first actual present with my name on it.  I AM AWESOME!

Do you guys see how excited I am and the way my tail is wagging?  

The Mama said I had to share it with Nanook because he had shared HIS with me before.  And because he had gone on the visit too.  I said, "okay."

See?  I am TOTALLY sharing.  That is the present, between us, and I am NOT hogging it.  (Yet.)

But you guys then he took it and started opening it!  MY present!  UNCOOL!  

So I took it back.  I was determined to open it myself, because it was my very first present from my very first Therapy Dog visit.

Um.  Opening presents is hard.  The Mama had to help me.  But then check out what was inside!  A whole bunch of notes, all addressed to either Nanook or me from our friends Chris, Lori Anne, Alex, Heidi, Frank, Jessica, Jake, Meghan, Ricky, Robert, and Jessica.  They all wrote to say thank you for visiting, and to tell us that they loved us! 

I am looking at the neat cat stickies on the letter from Robert...

A bunch of the letters were addressed to Nanook specifically.  I let him have those.  For now.

He thought Ricky's lay out particularly tasty...

and was surprised and pleased by Meghan's use of paw prints!

He really liked Chris, Lori Anne, Jessica and Alex's notes...

I confess, the notes that I got from Robert, Frank, Jessica, Jake, and Heidi made me just a little silly from happiness...I gave them LOTS of kisses...

Hah!

Then the Mama said, "guys there's something else in the envelope!"  MORE???  They sent us even MORE presents?

And it was our FAVORITE present ever - pictures of us with our kids!

Nanook looks sad because he knows he won't see the kids again until NEXT fall...and he misses them already.

But I was too happy about my presents to be sad.  I gave them kisses again, instead.

We love you guys too!  

Lotsa Licks,  Nanook and Pooka

It's Nonsense!

Once again, you guys, Nanook gets to do all the cool stuff, and I have to stay home!  Un.  Fair.  

On Monday, I had my very first Therapy Dog visit, with the kids at Middletown High School South.  Hey kids from Middletown High School South!  We miss you!  Anyway, I was a perfect gentleman and I gave gentle kisses and I listened to my Papa and I did everything right!  

And then what do you suppose happened?  On Thursday all of a sudden the Mama and Nanook just LEFT ME!  At home, all by myself!  I heard the Mama tell Nanook that they were going to some place called Canada, and that he was going to see Bojie and Bojie's Mama Meg and MY very own brother Marcus, and his step-brother Max, and a billion other Newfs, but I was not invited!  Nanook got to go and see MY brother Marcus, but I didn't!  I call Shenanigans on the whole thing!  Some reward for being such a good dog, I oh-so-very-much-don't-think!

It's enough to make a good dog growl.

And then what do you think?  They swanned back in here on Sunday afternoon like they owned the place, when I had been guarding it ALL BY MYSELF, all weekend long.  They smelled of Tim Horton's breakfast sandwiches and donuts.  Nanook had had some kind of maple syrup cookie.  Seriously you guys, I wanted to bite someone.  And the Mama only SORT of made up for it by bringing me a new jumbo flossie.  

Anyway, I'm sure Nanook is going to be all over this here blog with his "pictures" and his "stories" about HIS friends and what a good time THEY all had and with nary a thought for poor me, guarding the house alone and watching out for the Papa who they left here too.  I mean they EVEN left the PAPA!  I just wanted you to know what REALLY went on.

Those two are unbelievable.  

OMG WE ARE TOTALLY FAMOUS!!

Guys!  GUYS!!!!  Our portraits were featured on Charlotte Moss' website!  

She's a very famous, very stylish, very modish New York City interior designer, and guys we're totally on her website!  Us!  She wrote, "I can't resist a good puppy portrait."  

SHE WAS TOTALLY TALKING ABOUT US!!!

Auuuuuuugh so cool!

Nanook is in the News again!

Nanook in the News!

My big brother ROCKS out.  And guys, guess what???  I'm going on my first Therapy Dog visit next week!  Holy cow, wish me luck!!!  Of course my pictures will be mui mucho guapo because that's how I roll.

They got the Mama's last name wrong, but they spelled Nanook's name right so we count that as a win.

The Artist!

We've had a couple of requests for the name and contact information of the artist that did the pastel portraits of us...here's her info!

Her name is Mary Connell Gaynor

Her website is: http://portraitartist.com/gaynor/

Her email is: MCG815@aol.com

Best,

Nanook and Pooka

Models

My God We Are Handsome

And immortalized by Art!

It Almost Touches The Second Step!

The other day, the Mama and I were hanging out in the kitchen while she worked on a blog post about that Africa place, and Pooka was up at the top of the stairs moofing because he wanted her to come up and turn on the tub faucet for him so he could get a drink.

Primadonna.

Anyway, the Mama ignored him for a bit because she wanted to finish her train of thought, and then she went to go help him out.  I stayed in the kitchen because I know where the food is at, and it isn't upstairs. 

A few seconds later, she tiptoed back into the kitchen, tiptoed back OUT of the kitchen with her camera, and tiptoed into the stair hall.  I heard her giggling.

These are the photographs she took.  Pooka had evidently gotten tired of waiting for her, and then just tired in general, and finally he passed out cold and let it all hang out.

His tongue is a Force of Nature, ladies and gentlemen.

We're Back!

Although it is more accurate to say that the Mama and the Papa are back, and therefore able to type for us.  

We have been here in NJ the whole time!  Bet you were nervous, right?  Don't worry!  We're still your Celebrity Newfs...

Speaking of celebrities, check out the painting of Pooka!  A friend did it for a project our people are involved in, and we think it is AWESOME.  

So here's what happened - our people left us again.  FOR TWO WEEKS!!!  That's just not cool.  And they said they went to someplace really far away across the ocean by the beach that we swim in, called Africa, but we think they just went to the beach without us.  We're pretty sure they're lying about this Africa place, because they said they saw a cat bigger than Pooka!!!  That has got to be a lie.  

Either way, two weeks without the Mama and the Papa is uncool.  Our pet sitter is really nice, but still.  We're Newfs, for pete's sake.  We are well known for our firm bond and loyalty to our families!

Anyway, they came home yesterday early morning, and Pooka did his tea-kettle impression with the whining and the hopping and the desperate cleaning of ears and necks, and I did my best impression of a fuzzy shag rug that just wants to get rubbings, and it took like 30 minutes for them to get actually INSIDE the front door.  That's what they get, for going to the beach without us!

I'm not taking any chances with the Mama now.  I slept in bed with her last night, and I followed her into the bathroom when she showered, and I even held my poops ALL MORNING until she took me for a walk, because she let me out to go potty and then she went back inside this morning and I peed REALLY quick and then came running back into the house to make sure she wasn't leaving again.  Pooping can take TOO LONG, in my opinion.  Anything could happen to her then!  

Pooka is way mellower than I am when it comes to that sort of thing.  Frankly I don't even think he noticed they were gone.  As long as someone is telling him he's a handsome boy he doesn't care what's happening around him.  

Doofus.

Today the Mama opened her suitcase and took out lots of things for us to sniff.  Elephant hair bracelets and her hiking shoes, which were covered in exotic dusts and smells!  Some shirts she hadn't laundered yet that smelled of wild sage and hot red soil...So we're thinking maybe she went to a different beach than the one we usually go to...because really - a cat bigger than POOKA?  How dumb do they think we are??

Pooka got really excited about the elephant hair bracelet, and tried to eat it.  The Mama said no, because it is a gift.  Pooka was depressed, but he got over it when she let him smell her hiking boots.

That's what's been going on here, lately.  We'll be back in full swing before you know it!

Lotsa Licks,

Nanook and Pooka

Going Radio Silent

We'll be out of touch for a few weeks y'all...but this is just to say...

I'm still watching you...