Backyard Romp in Da Snow

My hooman brudder finally got his present in Japan, exactly one month after Mom sent it. He said it went to Sydney, Australia first for some reason before showing up in Japan. Now that is some well traveled Goodie bars!

Well, anyway, we were bored today so Mom took us outside to play. She shot the video and we romped. We love the snow. Yeah, we are black labs. Yeah, we are water dogs, but we were born in Minnesota! We do not know that there's no duck hunting in the snow. We just like it! It is fun to run and roll in the snow with brudder,,, crazy brudder! ps, we got a little carried away at the end and Mom had to tell us to behave! We just boy dogs for goodnes sake!

Lost in Da Mail!

...My hooman brudder lives in Japan. He is a teacher at a high school in Osaka, Japan, employed by the JET (Japanese English Teaching Program). Last month, Mom sent him a package Priority Mail (USPS) on November 26. In da package were several items that he had asked for that he misses from the US: toothpaste, deoderant, undies, a face mask for his hockey helmet, and ten Nut Goodies that he was craving!

The package never arrived! It usually only takes one week for a Priority Mail package to travel from Northern Minnesota to Osaka, but not this time! Mom was not really intending for this to be his Christmas present. She was going to send something else, but now she is wondering if she should send another package. Where did the Nut Goodie package go? Should she use the USPS again?

She called the post office and registered that the package was lost. They said it will take at least three weeks to trace the package and they had no info in their database except that she had dropped it off on November 26!

Poor brudder! Not only is he not home for Christmas, but his package is lost in da mail. Send him a Twitter greeting at @bennyjpn and wish the poor guy a Merry Christmas. Hopefully it will cheer him up!

Poo Gun Store for Serious Shoppers



We were thinking, why not put poo guns up for sale for the serious poo gun player that likes to #pawpawty all day and night? So, here is da store! If you need one, just click on da link below and make a donation. Your new weapon will pack a wallop for da animals!

The Citrus Shooter: Orange you glad this ain't pointed at you?



Eco Friendly Flinger: Made of all natural materials for shooting all natural materials

Doody Dart Gun: Accurate and powerful, for farty fun or fast blasting

 



High Powered Shooter: For shooting sloshy stuff a long ways!



The Little Lady: For packing heat under that pretty outfit



Make My Day: For the serious player that needs rapid fire and lots of ammo

Serious Doody Shooter:  For Wild Pawpawties only!!! Don't use this at home!

The Slosher: Small but accurate, for watery shots dat sting with odiferous ammo

Snub Nosed Shooter:  for the James Cagney personalities

Space Aged Shooter: for the 21st century ammo that is out of this world!

Zig Zag Zinger: for the player that has papers (if you know what we mean!)

Zippy Zonker: for the player that likes to put a spin on their sin!

Long Time No Write

Wow, it has been a long time since we wrote on our blog, but our friend, BearBearD, inspired us.  Mom went to England to Shannon and Rob's wedding in October, and it has been hectic here ever since.  We wanted to share a picture that Mom took of our brudder, Chase, on Thanksgiving.  It was a beautiful sunny day. We went outside snuffling snow mice while Mom took pictures.

SUKA WAKIYA HOTOPI!

Well, it has been a very long time since we have posted an entry in our blog, so it is about time.

We were looking at our friend, @BearBearD's blog http://lovealwaysbear.blogspot.com/ where he was wearing a beautiful Indian headdress, and it got us thinking, "What would my name DogThunder be in Cherokee, or Lakota, or Chippewa?" Well, mom has a friend at work, (Dr. Fred Ness) who speaks Lakota, so she asked him! Dr. Ness said that many Native Americans have names with 'dog' in it, like 'Red Dog'.

As a people, the Lakota prefer the term, "Lakota Natives."
Lakota is a dialect of the Siouan Languages. "Lakota" means "Alliance of friends." We found a really terrific website as a reference, http://language.nativeweb.org/ and we downloaded the dictionary.

Dog / SUKA/ shue - kah

Thunder(clap)/WAKIYA HOTOPI/wah-kee-yahn hoh-dohn-pee

So, DogThunder would be SUKA WAKIYA HOTOPI!

We also found brudder's name, Lightning!

Thunder(lightning)/WAKIYA TUWAPI/wah-kee-yahn duen-wahn-pee

Wow, that is so cool!

Thank you to http://thegreasygrass.com/ for the beautiful graphic!

Dis Week's Pawty Announcement

APRIL THIRD NYC LOFT PAWTY!

We's were supposed to wear black to da NYC Loft Pawty, but when we's put on da black tux, you couldn't see us. We's might of well been in our birfday suit, so mom bought us a white suit.