Beddytimes away !!! (Billy the Venturin e.c.spanYELL)

Dang, can't get on the computer fur the dog hair!! I HAVE to clean when I get back.  errr ... Billy's beat me to it.  We're going to Tampa to Busch Gardens for Thanksgiving -- this is our annual "getaway" ... I'll be back Friday.  Ahhh -- REST!!! 

AH !!!  what time are you leaving Friday ??? you're in my neck of the woods (concrete woods LOL) --- I want to give Billy a hug IN PERSON !!!

Billy, duz ur mum take ur own bed wif u?  I kint sleep wifout my own bed.  Wen we go way fur sleep ovurs mum takes my litul bed cuz she sez I dun need my big wun.  Shhh dun tell er tho, but sheez rite.  I kurl up in da cornur anywaze.

Onyx 

Have the bestest time on you bakashion with your mum, dad and your furblings, Billy. Enjoy the rest and the adventure. Ya'll are the nicest dogs, doze peeeple at the dex better know dat.

I need to read this to Emma. In January, she'll have her first big trip where we don't stay at a friend's house. We're going to a dog show far, far away (ok, not really, but far enough to stay at a hotel;).  

WE HADDA BLAST!!!

Well, Luna had some *issues*.  (rolling my e.c.sYELL eyes)  They were doin "fixit up" at this place.  We wuz ALL tired when we gotted there (whatever "2 a.m". is -- it's what Mom kep sayin but for ME it wuz just TIME fur beddie).  By the time Mom gets home an does all her stuff (and man she didn't have NUFFIN done early this time) an then DAD gets home (an grumbles about all the stuff an then HE packs more), then we gotta all load inta the car an Mom 'n Dad gotta stop fur food (silly peepul -- THEY gots ta eat 2 but it was a 'go in an sit' place).

then the looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong drive -- Mom n Dad ... well, no DAD gotted us lost so it wuz REEL late.  But heck -- time fur BED.

yep ... we each got beddies in Petey (We gots a Petey Cruzer car ya no).  So we ALWAYS got r beddies wif us.  Mom brings blankies fur us from home.  So we wuz pretty crashed out ... and DANG -- somebuddy OUTSIDE starts runnin this BIG MACHINE thingy early early. 

Now ... you gotta unnerstand -- **R MOM** is not a early person.  Up late?  yep.  up early?  NOPE.  (an if you like keepin on her good side you DO NOT wake her up early -- Luner had ta learn that the hard way an that includes NOT whinin in Mom's ear.  she's gotta wicked rite hook when she's asleep so ya do NOT wake Mom up!!)

Mom 'n Dad were both soooooooooooooooooooooooo ticked.  Of course, u stand 3 dogs on 4 feets and we ALL gotta go potty NOW.  Dad wuz grumblin about "thot this was THANKsgivn ... does it start at 7??"

It wuz a noisy place -- an man, you gotta no Mom 'n Dad bof were NOT happy campers. 

But LUNER was MEGA unhappy. 

See, these guys were OUTside -- so the Peepuls In Charge musta not knowed about it!!!  So she worried and she whined and she aroooooooooooooooooooooooed a bit (an Mom got mad and told her not ta bark ANYWAYs an that didn't make sense ta Luner and she whined some MORE).

but mom watched that parade thingy -- (Luna sez anybuddy named "scooby dooby rooooooooooo" HAS ta have his own baloon!!)

So .... THIS time the Peepul in Charge weren't in charge very good -- an Luner wanted ta set them strate!!  They waked us up AGIN this morning and DAD got mad so when he went ta the Peepul in Charge ta "check out" he did that Briddish steely eye'd "DON'T MESS WITH ME" thing.  Dunno what he said but he an Mom only paid for ONE beddybye time an we were there fur 2.

Now Mom's bad enuf when she gets ticked.  But maaaaaaaaaaaan you do NOT wanna tick off the Dad.  He's got eyebrows that wiggle an he can look SO fierce. 

Wif us dogs if we do sumthin bad we get the "5 Briddish names". 

lun-AAAAAAA ... McKenzie ... McKinley .... MAC PHER-SON ... Stassinopu-ussssssss ..... KEN ... NE ... DYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

Now -- when he does it ta me (an I think I only been bad like that 1 time) -- he only needs ta get ta McKinley .;.. an I'm ON MY BELLY lookin up.  He usually only needs ta do it a couple of times in yur life and TRUST ME ... you behave. 

He doesn't yell.  He just says it sooooooooooooooooooooo serry-us.  And gruff.  It's like all the gruff and growly mommy dogs in the universe in 1 voice. 

I don't no how many names he got to wif this guy this morning but man, I bet he never does THAT agin!!!  The guy telled Dad that the work guys weren't s'posed ta paint til 10 -- an Dad tole him he oughta be more in control!!

sooooooooooooo Dad hadda tell the "Peepul in Charge" HOW ta be in charge I guess.  Luna won't have to worry -- they'll do bedder next time.

But we're HOME finaleeeee -- phew.  Now I wanna sleep.  We hadda good time an it wus fun. 

Billy the I LOVE ADVENTURIN english cocker span ***YELL***

Mom note:

I'm not surprised Billy thot David was gonna do the "5 names" on the motel manager!!  I think all it took was the wiggle of the David eyebrows tho -- *grin*. 

SERIOUS NOTE:

For anyone who wants to take their dog to a motel this works SOOOO well:

Make sure you go and either sit IN the reception area with your dog on leash, or sit in front of the motel for a while in your car.

I'm so serious this works.  you simply want to have the dog see that everyone who comes in to the motel has to go to the front desk and 'check in'.  over and over I point out "see -- there they go to see the people in charge behind that desk". 

Now yeah, I do talk to my dogs -- but they 'get this'.  Dogs aren't stupid and they KNOW we purchase things with money.  They don't understand the concept fully but they KNOW we humans go and hand people money to "do" things.  We give them money at the McDonalds drive thru and we get food.  We give money to get groceries.  They understand, on some really elementary level the idea that there is some sort of "transaction" taking place MUCH LIKE two dogs checking each other out at the dog park. 

And because the people go TO the desk and then proceed to their rooms it's really not a difficult concept for them.  They also see that the desk hands them their 'key' and EVERYONE gets one.  So, this way you can actually get across the idea pretty easily that no one is 'there' unless the front desk "alpha" LETS them.

This is truly how I got it thru to the dogs not to bark.  particularly when a motel has an interior corridor there are SO many smells and you often don't get to park in front of your door.  Traffic back and forth in front of your room can be tough to overcome.

But once they get the idea that the People in Charge have said "ok" then the dogs relax.  Because I say about other people "they're supposed to be there". 

Luna only objected to the external nose this morning and yesterday morning.  And there was a dog a couple of doors down who barked ALL THE TIME. 

we got near our door and that dog began to bark and I immediatley praised ours for being quiet.

It never fails -- we've taught ours to be quiet and it pays off.  yesterday when we came back to the pet kennel it was major cacophany in there. 

But our three were NOT barking.  And the attendant told us they hadn't been.  They'd been happy and content with all of that going on around them.  And of course they were thrilled to be told what 'good dogs' they were. 

We take 3 dogs SO easily.  I lug a ton of crap -- all 3 beds come in from the car, and I brought each one a blanket to cuddle.  I bring their dishes, and everything to make them comfy. 

They think "beddytimes away" are the best thing on the planet!!  I admit -- so do I! LOL

 Wow Billy... ur dad sowns like the grampa.  Oney he dusn't no longer names fur us.  He jess sez,"Oooooonnnyx, git off that wudpile!"  an I did.... reel fast.  I jus wanned to me taller den Crusher for a minit...

Glad ur hoem safe an sownd.  Hope ur chrip is bedder nex time. 

I went to Lincoln City (OR) with Mom and my boys several years ago.  We stayed in a place that had a big red SIX outside. They let me go in the room and even get on the bed with my boys! I never get to do this at home. I slept in my crate and was very, very quiet except when this big roly thing with wheel came by.  I thought it was going to eat Mom and protected her! Mom told me it was just filled wiht dirty sheets and that it was OK.  I still gave it the fishy eye when it came by. It KNEW better than to bother MY mom--it never came near her after I told it who was boss!

Mom always makes us make nice wif the ladies who make the room all preddy agin.  Mom sez she usta clean motel rooms millyuns of years ago when she was a kid so she always tries ta make it EZ fur them.

Now we aren't 'lowed on the beds at beddytimes away places -- but most of the beds 'r so high it wood give ya a nosebleed anywayz!!  sheesh.  It's just nice cos we'z all together.  Dad's not gone all days workin an Mom's not gone workin .. we's ALL tagether!!!

Mom always give me a BATH before we go so I don't get anything dirty.  ME--dirty?  I am OFFENDED! Mom always makes my boys pick up everything and put it away at the sleep away place so it's easier for the cleaner people to do their job.  Mom worked cleaning houses a loooong time ago and she is always nice to the cleaner people.  She even leaves that funny green stuff (it has numbers on it like ones and fives) for them in an envelope with the cleaner people's names on it!  WHY does she do that?  I always try to take all my toys with me.  Should I leave them a treat? I will share my treats, but NOT my pig ears!

Yah my mom 2.  An mosta the timez the ladies cleanin up R scaredy of dogs.  Mom always makes us sit an meet on our bestest sits.  sometimz there is 1 who reelyl likes dogs.  but it's alwayz good fur some great pettings