Been Caught Stealin' Tag!

My new friend Fred tagged me for a very special award.


Here's what is says:

When accepting this award, you must blog about the food you have stolen when your humans were not watching...If you have never stolen any food, you must be a really good pup!! You can accept this yummy tray of cookies as your reward! Next add the logo of this award to your Blog (optional), then nominate at least 5 other furry blogs and let them know by leaving a message on their Blogs...

We will go in reverse order from worst to best:

1. Oscar Bean, Super Teen: Oscar is not much of a food thief in part because he is crated when the apes are gone (known as Optimum Stealing Time.) He sometimes tries to steal things from me or my sissy but otherwise he is not a thief. Not because he's good, though, just because he is too dumb to get away with it. The main thing he eats that he's not supposed to is p-o-o-p, EW GROSS, OBST!

2. Ethel Jean, Thievin' Queen: OK, I exaggerate. She doesn't steal that often. Since she can reach the counter with relative ease she has done some thievin', mostly on days when we are left alone for a long time. She has stolen dog biscuits, bully sticks, and trash. Her worst habit is eating things from the trash can, the grossest being the little pads that soak up blood in the bottom of meat packages. EW GROSS EJ!

3. Wally Tamale, the Bonnie AND Clyde of Thievin': While I am now a relatively well-behaved beastie I have had a prolific career in thievery, mostly while my apes are gone and due in part to the fact that I am deceptively nimble. I used to be able to get onto the counter, climb shelves, open drawers, and basically get what I want (never figured out the fridge like my friend Peanut). Some of my greatest hits include: tins of sardines (which I opened myself), part of a bag of sugar, a granola bar from the bottom of my granNE's luggage, a container of cream of corn soup, half a candy bar in an ape pocket (ate through the pocket, too), uncooked spaghetti noodles, numerous bags of dog snacks and food, and half a dozen freshly baked muffins.

In my old age I have mellowed with the thievin' and I've learned that I can mostly get what I want with much less effort anyway just by doing sad eyes. This is me last month when I found a bag of jerky in a grocery bag on the floor and I brought it to my ma ape to open for me.

Now I have to go out and tag some friends! I'm also nostalgic for my thievin' days so maybe I'll stop by the kitchen on my way...

Swine and Cheese!

I am a bit down in the dumps. It has been busy around here. I've had to blog about the first 100 days (speaking of which, did you see me on the cover of the New Yorker?)

And then there was a SWINE FLU outbreak where my ma ape works and she didn't even get off work! I had to be alone all day! Well, with the peppy sheppys. But they're worse than swine flu.


I'm doing my part to help by eating the pig ears. I will eat the virus, I will eat it up!

I've been feeling a bit poorly, heart-wise, so this is a picture to summarize my week:

BUT! There is one bright ray of light. My bud Mango--who shares my affinity for ape stuffies and has to tolerate an obnoxious labradude brudder just like me--gave me an award! Thanks Mango Man!

Here's what it sez!

“This award is presented to those dog bloggers out there who know the meaning of GREATNESS. Their blogs are consistently interesting, funny, or informative. Their KINDNESS is extended to others without expectation of it’s return, and their FRIENDSHIP inspires others to do EXTRAORDINARY things. These are the blogs you can’t wait to read everyday. In short, they are AWE-INSPIRING, full of wonder, and simply PAWsome!Pass this award on to 4 others who you feel exemplify a “Paw”some Blog, and leave a note saying why you think they deserve the Pawsome Award!”

Here are my four friends!

Moose! He's an awesome lab who sometimes fosters labby friends--even when they eat all his toys-- and always has AWESOME pictures and good stories to tell. ETA: Moose's foster brudder TeddyNo! got adopted this week! Ha-roooo!

Marvin! Marvin is one of my oldest blogging friends and he and Jeanne always have great adventures and deep thoughts. And great tunes! And pomes! Marvin is a renaissance man! Also, he looks like my sissy.

Ike! Another oldie but goodie friend. He and his mom have really big hearts and just adopted and then lost a very sick cat. Ike, in addition to being really nice, is SUPER DUPER funny and always has new fart stories.

StanMan! Stan's an old friend too. I have a lot of old friends. While i am giving him the award he might as well share it with Stella too (hi Stellanator!). And Merv. And his GoobMaster mom who is TOTES COOL and always tells me how cute I am.

Picking just four friends is hard. Thanks for the award, Mango! You saved my week.

Tag, We're It!

Wally's friend Mango's labradude brudder (can you follow all that!) tagged US THE PEPPY SHEPPYS! We have to tell you TEN THINGS about US. Not about WALLY and not just ONE THING! TEN THINGS! PEPPY SHEPPYS! NO WALLYS! PEPPY SHEPPYS!

See Wally--LEFT BEHIND!

Now here's ETHEL PEPPY SHEPPY! FIVE THINGS!

1. My name used to be DALLAS! They could have named Oscar FORT WORTH but they changed my name instead!
2. I got spayed TWICE! At my shelter they opened me up and MY BITS WERE ALREADY GONE.
3. I like to break up fights so when my brudders bark at the neighbor dog I will get between them in the fence. If they start to PLAY I also break it UP because I don't want them to fight. OR I MIGHT JUST BE JELLY!
4. I fought Narra and Narra won!
5. I TACKLED A DEERS!

OSCAR BEAN, SUPER TEEN, FIVE THINGS!

1. I have fantastic car manners! I always get in and lie down and don't try to get in the front like certain GIRL SHEPPYS.
2. I am actually the GIRLY sheppy even though Ethel is the GIRL SHEPPY. I scream all the time and I'm a total mama's boy who needs constant reassurance.
3. I have CORPOPHAGIA which sounds like a fancy disease but really I just EAT POOP.
4. I got NEUTERED and SPAYED! I was CRYPTO-ORCHID which means I couldn't go any of those teabagging parties yesterday!
5. I like food EVEN MORE than WALLY! I mean even more than Wally likes food. I think I like Wally more than I like food which is a lot because I LOVE FOOD. And two of my favorites are BANANERS and MAPPLES! I like them whole and I eat them with my mouth WIDE OPEN so I can chew real loud!

THESE ARE TEN THINGS! Don't you wish Wally didn't hog the BLOGGY SO WE COULD SHOUT AT YOU MORE!

Wally says we need to stop blogging like Kanye West in all caps and nonsequitors. WHAAAAAAT? OUTTIE 5000, Gs!

--OSCAR BEAN & ETHEL JEAN, PEPPY SHEPPYS, ESQ.

7 Things, 4 Dogs (ha!)

It is HOT and we are BORED so we decided to do this tag that has been going around. 7 questions! And I let Ethel, Oscar and even the ma ape play.

1. What were you doing 10 years ago?
Wally: Top secret government stuff. Ok, Ok, I was an intern in the White House. Let us never speak of it again.
Ethel: 10 years? Who's that old? Oh right, WALLY!
Oscar: I'm barely 10 MONTHS!
Ma Ape: I did have an internship in D.C. Nothing illicit

2. What are 5 things on your to-do list today?
Wally: Monkey sticking, napping, work on my new blog (Oh!), snacking, check on my garden, watching FRANCE vs. ROMANIA in soccer--viva la France! Les Bleus!
Ethel: Chase some tennis balls, harass Oscar in his crate, show the junk in my trunk to Oscar, eat some chicken backs, turn my nose up at vegetables and fruitables
Oscar: Veeeeeettttt visit. Screaming! Playing! Escaping this crate! More walkies!
Ma Ape: Water the garden, take Oscar to the Vet, finish reading Bios, work on T&E paper, walk the dogs. Again

3. Which snacks do you enjoy?
Wally: Everything. Sushi, Wallymelon and Pineapples, wizzlers, buff-a-lo,
Ethel: All meatables but especially venison and rabbit, sweets, boneables, chicken backs
Oscar: Kongs with meaties! Wizzlers! Evo kibbles! I haven't gotten to try much yet!
Ma Ape: Avocado sushi, pineapple, berries, asparagus, coconut

4. What would you do if you became a billionaire?
Wally: Open a retirement home for old doggies with my Grammie on the West Coast and live large and in charge
Ethel: Buy the French Open and the U.S. Open and Wimbledon and make myself the official ball girl, make Wally and Oscar tennis ball suits and chase them
Oscar: Spring myself from this crate! Buy snacks! Chase Ethel!
Ma Ape: See Wally's answer.
5. What are three of your bad habits?
Wally: Barking at passersby, fence fighting with Robbie the cockapoo next door, sometimes being cranky with dogs and peoples
Ethel: Being cranky with other dogs, getting overly excited, being picky with my foodies
Oscar: Screeeeeeaming, knocking over the ma ape, lusting after Ethel
Ma Ape: Procrastination. I'll finish this list later.

6. Where are 5 places you have lived?
Wally: Seattle (the 98105!), Dela-where (two houses), Three Rivers Rescue in Snoqualmie, WA, I guess I lived on the road with my ma ape while we were moving across the country, and I stayed a few nights at my granNE's house so it is totally my house now
Ethel: Somewhere in Maryland, at the Queen Anne County Shelter, Delaware (two houses)
Oscar: at some dude's apartment, my crate, the SPCA, my Delaware house
Ma Ape: Nebraska, Iowa, Seattle, Belfast, Delaware

7. What are 5 jobs you have?
Wally: Guard Dog, Sweetest Sweet Pea in the Sweet Pea Patch, Professional Football Fan, the Rally Wally, Ma Ape Bodyguard, Professional Speed Eater
Ethel: Tennis Ball Retriever, Wally Bodyguard, Greyhound Impersonator, Oscar exerciser, Jezebel
Oscar: What? Aren't there child labor laws? I'm just a baby.
Ma Ape: Professional Professor, Clumsy Waitress, Unofficial Children's Librarian, Intrepid Journalist, Country Western DJ (for real!)

Drinks and Tags

I was over having drinks at the ole Corgi Lounge and have you ever seen a sight as lovely as THIS?

First Randi, now the Corgi Girls! Wallymelon is the new craze sweeping the nation! Now, I highly recommend the Corgi Lounge's Corgipolitans but not after you have the Corgaritas. Whew. It took me awhile to sleep that one off. So my girls suggested we play a funny name game using this code:

A - ka, B - tu, C - mi, D -te, E - ku, F - lu, G - ji, H - ri, I - ki, J - zu, K - me, L - ta, M - rin, N - to, O - mo, P - no, Q - ke, R - shi, S - ari, T - chi, U - do, V - ru, W - mei, X - na, Y - fu, Z - zi.

I introduce to you:

Kuchirikuta:
And Meikatatafu:


Moarimikashi:

Mine is best, don't you think?

The Third Degree

My good pal Gooberstan (can you tell which set of luscious AireLips belong to StanMan?) and his sissy Stella have tagged us to answer some questions that inquiring minds want answered! This is like that show where they hook people up to lie detectors so you humiliate yourself in front of your spouse/parent/friend AND a studio audience. Do you apes never tire of embarassing one another for fun and profit? OK, here we go:

1. If I could be a different kind of animal I would be

Ethel: CORGADOOOOOOOR!

Wally: Hippo. Look how big their mouths are! I could fit so many meaty bones in there. Or maybe a cow. I hear they have like four stomachs.


2. My favorite song is.

Ethel: Um, maybe "Legs" by ZZ Top.

Wally "Wallyloo" by ABBA. It's about Napolean. And me. And maybe my resemblance to Napolean (We are both short and believe that we could rule the world. I, however, am not delusional in this belief.)

3. If I could live anywhere in the world

Ethel: I would live at Wimbeldon! So many tennis balls to chase all day!

Wally: I would live in Twin Peaks (I used to live in Snoqualmie which is the real world Twin Peaks) because they have abundant cherry pie, dancing midgets AND a fish in the percolator!

4. If I were a famous movie star or personality I would be

Ethel: Venus Williams. Amelie Mauresmo. Martina Hingis. Serena Williams. You see where I'm going with this!

Wally: Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. (If you read the Wikipedia description of his physical disfigurement I think you will find it describes me quite well! Hehehehe). Babe, Pig in the City. Napolean. Winston Churchill.

5. I would like to be a spokesperson for

Ethel: TENNIS BALLS. National Association for Sissies with Exploding Butts (NAMBLA)

Wally: I am currently seeking employment as a mascot for the Chicago Cubs/Chicago Bears as the RallyWally. Call me, Chi-Town!



Gooberstan, I hope this answers all of your burning questions. Now I will tag the BRAT PACK! Behold the Eyes of Truth!

Exclusive Interview! by Tad!

I thought that maybe this interview would probably be bought by Vanity Fair but they haven't called yet. Here is an EXCLUSIVE--a big interview by TADPOLE:

1) ETHEL, what do you think about all day long? Clue us in on what goes on in that frantic little mind of yours!


Ethel: Look at me thinkerating! Here is what I'm thinking: tennis balls, tennis balls, things covered in tennis ball fuzz, tennis balls, wally, tennis balls, wally covered in tennis ball fuzz, tennis balls, bunnies, tennis balls, deers, wally, tennis balls

Wally: Tad, I see you are wise emphasizing the little mind.

2) WALLY, are you lobbying to get "Corgador" accepted by the AKC? Describe what the breed standard would be.

Excellent question, Tad. I have mixed feelings about the AKC. On the one hand, they are biased and refuse to let me compete because a) they are breedist b) I am sans some important bits and c) I would win every time. On the other hand, I do like shiny trophies and I'd love to be a pageant girl, especially if I could be like Miss USA and wind up in rehab.

But here's the potential breed standard:
Height: 19 inches.
Length: 29 inches stem to stern (not counting tail).
Weight: Should be around 150, actual around 43 pounds.
Head: Enormous (to fit a constantly expanding brainable)
Walk: Jaunty
Speed: Superfast, possibly supersonic when running to the kitchen when the fridge door is opened
Coat: Lovely silky black with some salt n' pepper in the tail and headable area. White patch on chest preferred.
Teeth: Some.
Unique features: Fluffy and pert bum, beautiful howlin' voice, must roach regularly.

3) WALLY, you coin many terms that we lesser dogs adopt into our everyday language (meatables, wallymelon, etc). What's it like to be such an important DWB cultural leader?

First, I'd like to say that there are no lesser dogs. Only naked apes and cats. Tad, I'd like to think that I've introduced many dogs to new foodables and languageables, though as with any great artist I am inspired by my audience.

4) WALLY, we all know how much you love your foodables. What's the worst foodable your Ma Ape could make you eat? (hypothetically, of course - we know she could never MAKE you do anything....)

Oh jeez. This is a HARD question. Not only because my ma ape could never make me do anything but I can't really imagine food that I don't like! I have eaten wasabi peas and sheets of nori and grapefruitables and spinachables, you name it, I've probably eaten it.

So I will have to say--NOTHING. If my ma ape fed me nothing, that would be the worst thing EVER.
5) WALLY, your sissy Ethel occasionally has a slightly manic aura about her in pictures. Are you ever frightened of her unpredictability and slightly bizarre behaviors?

Afraid of this Tad? I could see where you might think this. She is crazy. But the truth is--she is afraid of everything, including herself sometimes. (Maybe not afraid of tennis balls or deers). And, frankly, I rule the roost. I decide when, where, and how we're going to play. I get to clean the dinner bowls. And if she ever doesn't do what I want I just tattle on her cuz I'm totally a mama's boy and she'll take my side because who could say no to this face?

Thanks for the great questions, Tad! Have you ever considered doing this professionally? Interviewing me, I mean.

If YOU'D like to be interviewed, let me know! Here are the rules:

1. If you are interested in being interviewed, leave me a comment saying, 'interview me' along with your pee-mail address.

2. I will respond by posting five questions for you. I get to pick the questions.

3. You will update your blog with a post containing your answers to the questions.

4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.

5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

A Tag: What I love about DWB

I got tagged by the girls of The Corgi Lounge to share my five favorite things about Dogs With Blogs. I've been having a hard time with this tag because how do you pick just five?????? But I will try.

1. Red Hot Ladies!

Where else can you go where all the bitches are beautiful, smart and fun???

Including but not limited to The Divine Samantha:



Sophina La Flirtador, she'll steal your heart and your tennis ball:

And the awesome Corgi Lounge girls! It's their world, we're just living in it:




2. Totally Studly Dudes

Oh MAN do I love my Bussie kisses.



And, of course, the Goober Smooches.


And Look! Naked Ike!

3. The Recipe Box!

I love to read about my friends' foodables and then sometimes my ma ape sees recipes and she decides to try 'em out and I get tasty tasty new foodables! Like Nanook (Frosty) Paws, the many foodables of The Dogs of Jackman Ave, the raw stylings of Miss Sunshade and the mad good cookery of Suki's ma.



4. Having vast influence on the English Language.

Thanks to DWB I have learned about roaching. And I, in turn, have led unsuspecting apes to refer to "Wallymelon" in public and have taught dogs the wonders of foodables.


5. Guilt trippin' the ma ape.

I love to hear about how all my friends are being spoiled so that I can show my granny that I am NOT in fact spoiled. I don't get fancy duds like Lorenza.

I am not the only stuffy slayer:



And I don't even get to go to pug playdates like Suki! (I think that one with the tongue is related to my sissy.)



6. This as an extra special bonus reason. In a world where the naked apes have bungled their power and opposable thumbs, it's nice to know that some of them out there are a-ok.

Who should I tag? Hmmm...maybe Bussie, he of the chat organizing, Suki Sumo of the foodables, My Girl Friday Samantha, and my gal up north (of me) Maggie!

Finn-AGAIN's Tag

See what I did there with the title? I let Ethel play name-scattergories but now it is The Wally's turn. Scattergories, the W Remix! (Note it is W and not Dubya! I'm taking back my letter!)

My name: WALLY

1. Famous Singer: Will i am.
2. Four letter word: Work
3. Street: Wall Street
4. Colour: white, wisteria
5. Gifts/Presents: Walkman (oooh, that's old!), wallymelon, wizzle sticks
6. Vehicle: wagon
7. Things in a Souvenir Shop: wish you were here postcards
8. Boy Name: Winston Churchill, Walter, Willie, Wallace
9. Girl Name: Wanda
10. Movie Title: Wild at Heart
11. Drink: Waterables (my fave), White Russian
12. Occupation: Whale Watcher
13. Celebrity: Walt Whitman (too old?), Willie Wonka (too fictional?), Woody Allen (too, um, married to his daughter?), Willie Nelson (just right!)
14. Magazine: Weekly World News (RIP)
15. U.S. City: Weeping Water, Nebraska!
16. Pro Sport: Wallyball!, wet t-shirt contest
17. Fruit: Wallymelon (duh)
18. Reason for Being Late for Work: Wet my pants, Wally whining, What work?
19. Something You Throw Away: worn out wellies
20. Things You Shout: Whaaaaa? (tm Jon Stewart), Workers of the world, unite! (tm, Karl Marx)
21. Cartoon Character: Waldo (of Where's Waldo)

Ethel's SCATTERGORIES!

Wally's big tall pall Finnegan tagged us to play SCATTERGORIES! And I get to go first because I am TALL just like FINNY.

I am SHORT here because I am LYING DOWN (but maybe still taller than WALLY). And I am snugging with a GREEN WEENIE because Wally WON'T SNUGGLE just because I MOOSH him.

HERE'S my TAGGAME! I love GAMES.

My Name: ETHEL

1. Famous Singer: Englebert Humperdink!
2. Four letter word: EEEK!
3. Street: East Main Street
4. Colour: Eagles Green!
5. Gifts/Presents: Eatables!
6. Vehicle: Electric Car
7. Things in a Souvenir Shop: Eagles JERSEY
8. Boy Name: ERIC, ONKEL
9. Girl Name: Erma or Elaine
10. Movie Title: ERASERHEAD
11. Drink: Ethel Duffy Cocktail
12. Occupation: Escort!
13. Celebrity: Eminemineminem
14. Magazine: Elle
15. U.S. City: East St. Louis! (wally says i'm cheating, i say SHUT IT wally!)
16. Pro Sport: EAGLES FOOTBALL
17. Fruit: EWWWW.
18. Reason for Being Late for Work: ERNEST!
19. Something You Throw Away: E-MAILS and especially if you work for ALBERTO GONZOLES (wally told me that)
20. Things You Shout: EAT MEAT!
21. Cartoon Character: Elmer FUdd--he hunts WABBITS like ME

Pippa said he wanted to see my BUM so HERE YOU GO:

Suki tagged me a long time ago for this so here we go:

1. Where is your favorite place to sleep?

Wally: This may come as a surprise but I will sleep anywhere so long as my ape is nearby but I do have different favorites that sometimes change. I currently sleep in the corner of the bedroom, at the top of the stairs, and on the couch. But then peeps wake me up to take my picture like this:


Ethel: MY BOXY that Wally calls ABU GHRAIB.
Wally: This is the sofa bed with both like lots:


2. Is there a specific trick your humans make you do to get food?

Wally: I humor her and will sit or lie down but really it's how I have her trained. I use my handsomest face to make her give me food. Like this:


Ethel: She makes us SIT. Ohmygod it's so hard to wait!

3. If you could spend an entire day doing anything at all with anyone you want, what would it be and who would it be with?

Wally: I would spend all day with Samantha and my ma ape and I would clean Samantha's ears while the ma ape fed us meat tubes. And then maybe we would go to the pretty park and go strolling. There would be definitely be lots of eating of meatables. Look at this sultry siren (there would be no baths!):


Ethel: I would PLAY FETCH ALL DAY with Chuck It. AND I would chase RABBITS.

4. What is your favorite toy?

Wally: Big Ass.
Ethel: Tennis balls that SQUEAK.

5. If you could change one thing in your life what would it be?

Wally: I would not have a heart problem. And maybe I would have found my ma ape when I was a puppy and before my previous owner was a jerkazoid to me.
Ethel: My brother would not be SO OLD so he could play longer.

BONUS EXTRA QUESTION:


6. Why do you look so much bigger than your sissy when she is 20 pounds heavier AND you can stand under her belly?

Wally: I will answer by way of a multiple choice quiz. Please choose the answer that you like the best:
a) We have a camera with a setting called "Reality as seen by Wally"
b) We stumbled into Alice's Wonderland and I took the pill that makes you bigger and sissy took the pill that makes you small.
c) The flax seed oil my ma ape sometimes gives me is the same kind Barry Bonds takes.
d) Our camera has a setting that adjusts the size of images by brain power.

If I were a Rock Star

OK, I have like a million tags to respond to but one of them is from my pal Suki who asked: if you were a rock star, who would you be?

After some consideration of Keith Richards (and the Spice Girls), I settled on this guy--Tom Waits. We are both kind of old but ageless dudes. And we have lovely gravelly voices. And we both howl like dogs. Me, beause I am one. Him because he's singing a song called Rain Dogs.

Boooooks!

Maggie tagged me like a MILLION years ago to tell you about my five favorite books. I've been so slow because I am a bookish lad and I needed to think long and hard about what bookables I love to read. So I've made a list and to show my commitment to language I've decided to throw aside mathematical conventions of counting and will list some of my favoritest books. Not five. SOME. And if it bores you just scroll down 'til you get to the pictures of me as cow.

Here are some of my favorites:




This book is what it says it is! It is a HISTORY of PETS in AMERICA. It is awesome and talks about things like the evolution of dog food and our changing relationship with the naked apes and how that relates to historical trends. A little too focused on naked apes and talks about pets other than dogs (ewwww-goddamn cats!)



This book is by a feminist theorist and biologist named Donna Haraway who is so famous she gets to write books about hanging out with her dogs and reading listservs about dogs. That's what my ma ape does all day (or wants to) and she doesn't even get paid for it! She wants to get in on this gig. And also I like how it talks how apes form their selves through their relationships with US, the dogables. She has also written a book called Primate Visions that my ma ape is fond of. Because she's narcissistic and likes books about apes because she is one. Yeesh. Now back to dogs.



Ok, I'll admit I was a bit disappointed in this. I AM a philosopher's dog and so I thought this book was about me or, failing that, that looks like my pal BUSTER on the cover and that's got to be an awesome book, right? It's ok as light reading.



I admit I haven't read this book but I found it when I was looking for Donna Haraway on Amazon.com. I was curious because I thought philosophers WERE the dumb beasts (haha ma ape!).



This is Human, All too Human. by Friedrich Nietzsche. I like him because I am the ueberhund! And the title suggests being human stinks. Which it does!



This is a book called Zoontologies. That's a made up wordable! Awesome! I like the cover. And the editor's name is Cary Wolfe. Wolves are relatives of us.

Now, lest you think I am a non-fiction nerd I thought I'd share some of the fictionables that I like to read.



Ooooh. This novel has DOGS in it. Um, they don't always have a happy ending but it's still pretty awesome. It won the Booker Prize which is not nearly as prestigious as being a Wally Winner which this really is. It has some great things about ethics and animalables.

And now some less deep choices for light reading.



This book is about the Queen's corgis and how they are so awesome and the royal family (especially Charles) is kind of lame.



Paddington is a very smart little bear (from Darkest Peru) who is chub, loveable, and an eater of marmalade. He's a bit of a role model for me. My ma ape was a big Paddington Bear fan as a wee lass. She even had a Paddington costume that my granny made for her. Whoa. Sadly, she does not wear it anymore.



And Curious George! I picked this one because it's the one where he eats the puzzle piece and sometimes I have to see the doctor when I eat things I'm not supposed to (like bottles of Rimadyl). And then George huffs a bunch of ether--awesome! All I got was charcoal. And sometimes my ma ape says when I get into stuff around the house: "Wally was a good little dog. There was only one problem. He was tooooooooooooo curious."

Those are my bookables! I need to find some dogs to tag now!