Meet PorkChop ~ featured pet friend

Meet PorkChop.    No...PorkChop isn't made of pork!    PorkChop  is an Olde English Bulldogge.  Olde English Bulldogge's are courageous, strong and loving.  This loving Bulldogge lives in the Lone Star state with his humans.    Though PorkChop is very special to each one of his humans, he's greatly important to one of his little humans.   PorkChop is her service dog.   If she is having a rough moment....PorkChop knows exactly what to do as a service dog. It takes a lot of work to become a certified service dog, and we are all so proud of PorkChop!    PorkChop is one pretty amazing dog!  Not to mention very handsome!      

Isn't this just the sweetest?!

It's obvious PorkChop has a silly side too!   Oh, PorkChop!

When PorkChop has free time,  he enjoys chewing his Himalayan chews, playing fetch, and go on work trips.   PorkChop celebrated his birthday at a cool place called Buc-ee's!  He even got a beaver stuffie!     His momma human tells me that his favorite stuffies are super small stuffed animals.   And that PorkChop takes very good care not to destroy his stuffies.    That makes me feel bad because I decapitate all my stuffies heads.   Good boy PorkChop!   Pack Leader is really impressed!

PorkChop and his little humans.   Not only is PorkChop's family beautiful, they are a perfect fit together.    PorkChop has his humans - and they have him to love unconditionally.  Isn't wonderful to have that kind of bond with your furfriend?!

I never met PorkChop....yet.  Forever Human and PorkChop's little humans are pen-pals!  So that makes me PorkChop's furfriend too!          Maybe one of these days I may need to make a trip to Texas and get a big kiss from PorkChop!    BOL!    Keep up the good work PorkChop!!    

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What's with sassy cats?

This is Sassy Cat.   But her real name is September Moon.   She was adopted by my humans nine years ago from a Maine Coon Cat rescue in Pennsylvania.   Sassy Cat, as I like to call her was very sick when my humans brought her to their new home.    She wasn't taken care of by the other humans who owned her.   But it didn't take long for September Sassy Cat to become a very healthy, happy and sassy feline! 

September Moon is a Maine Coon who is very sassy.

I've learned cats like to sleep a lot during the day.   I'm still trying to figure that out.   Why would you waste all that perfect time not playing outside retrieving tennis balls or swimming?    I try to share my tennis ball with her.   But she turns her nose up in the air or looks for the humans.   I think she's telling on me for something I didn't do!

And since this sassy feline I just happen to share my humans and house with likes to stay awake at night......she sometimes wakes Pack Leader up by making this annoying meow that sounds more like "moooom".    Pack Leader tells Sassy Cat "not now"....and then Sassy Cat will plop down on my humans bed and swat her tail back and forth with pure satisfaction.   

A cat doesn't even sleep normal.   They twist their heads under their legs or tail.  They sometimes hide their faces so you can't tell which end is which.   And just when I go in for the sniff.....wap!

Sassy Cat doesn't have play dates like we dogs do.    When I come home from playing at the dog park she walks passed me and curls her back up.   Sometimes I can hear the humans asking her "does Murphy smell like a dog?"    Of course I do!   I AM a DOG!

Cat's have these private moments in this odd looking box with a lid.   Sassy Cat sneaks very slowly into the laundry room like James Bond.   The only way I know she goes into this "off limits" room is because I can hear her scratching after she is finished doing whatever it is she is doing.    I just know there is something I am NOT permitted to eat and that is Kitty Crunchies.    Never ever am I to try these morsels that other dogs have told me about.    I'm feeling cheated because I can't open the laundry room door.     And I can't fit through a cat door.   

My humans prefer it that way.  

Today, Sassy Cat was sleeping in the dryer.   How I know this is because Pack Leader was standing in the forbidden room where the odd box is located.   I heard Pack Leader ask Sassy Cat if she was warm and that she could stay there for a few more minutes.   What?!   First of all....those towels are MINE.   Second of all....if I curled up in the dryer I would not be permitted to stay on the warm cozy towels THAT ARE MINE to take a nap.   And I would probably get stuck in the dryer because I'm not exactly cat size.   

Sassy Cat had about a fifteen minute cat nap before my human lovingly scooped her up and kissed Miss Sassy on the head and put her down on the floor.   Sassy Cat did her yoga stretch and then sashayed up the stairs to take over a big pink pillow which just happens to be on my favorite humans bed!   Forever Human!!

Cats have sharp nails.

Sassy Cat likes to announce when it's dinner time for both of us.   I like that.   We get fed at the exact same time so I always like Sassy Cats timing.   We have breakfast, lunch and dinner.   And if Sassy Cat remembers.....she will chirp at bedtime for her "nighttime hunting food" and I get an extra organic peanut butter treat!     Sassy's nighttime hunting food is her kibble that is hidden around the house in special cat toys so she can go on a nighttime hunt.   Apparently, cats like to hunt at night.   Again...a total waste of perfect daylight.   

We both like when the UPS man delivers our Chewy.com goodies!   And I like when Sassy Cat jumps in the box.  If only I could find the packaging tape and ship her out!  

I think I would miss September my Sassy Cat.  

Before I was even born, Sassy Cat lived with other dogs.  She lived with two German Shepherds and one Golden Retriever.  She must have missed them when they went over the Rainbow Bridge.  When I was eight weeks old, I came to live with my humans.   And one very Sassy Cat.   But I'm glad she is my Sassy Cat.  She's very smart.  Her favorite thing to do is curl up on our humans laps or their shoulders.   She also likes to chase her laser light.       Sassy Cat likes to look out the window with me in the morning after our breakfast.   And when Love Giver leaves for work, we both look out the window while watching him roll away on the black metal thing with circles. 

And then....when she least expects it.....I jump up to pounce!    I hear a hiss and a very loud MEOW and by the time I can pounce.....Pack Leader firmly tells me to "LEAVE IT!".

I'm always getting caught!   One of these days.....I'm going to get Sassy Cat to pounce on me and then Pack Leader will yell "no, no, naughty cat!".   

I'll certainly try because I've never heard those words - yet!

Until next time,
Woofs,
Murphy!