Getting Ready for Thanksgiving

Hi everybody.
It's me. Elvis.
Did you know Sue made a mistake and got the wrong day for my appointment at the beauty shop? She did. It was to get me ready for Thanksgiving. We were going to Pittsburgh to John and Christi's and I was going to meet all of Christi's family from Texas.
I was a mess. So was Sue. So she called Brian and Scott to help.
Brian told us to come down and he would give me a haircut.
Soooooooo that is what we did! Meg and I went to their house and Brian cut my hair.

At first I was not sure that Brian knew how to cut hair, but then Sue told me that he cuts their dogs' hair and they are my friends so I let him cut MY hair. See?
















This is Brian cutting my ear. Well, he is not cutting my EAR. He is trimming by my ear. I had to have a lot of trust in him.










Meg helped me to stay calm. I was glad she was there because I was nervous at first.













After my haircut Sue said I needed a bath, so the next day we picked up Scott and the three of us drove to a DOG WASH. Do you know what a DOG WASH is? It is next to a car wash and you just put your dog in it and wash him. See?
Scott is washing me. I was thinking that I was mad at Sue for putting me in a DOG WASH. I did not like it.
Scott kept saying, "Hey, Big Bird!!" because he calls me "Big Bird" and he knew I was unhappy.
I do not think I look like a bird, but Scott must think so.


Then the NEXT day we went to Pittsburgh!! Here is me with Madea. She and I wrestled ALL THE TIME and we made people annoyed.
Here we are playing with Rabbit. Yes! He came to Pittsburgh with us!
Sometimes I had to get in my crate because we tore through the house and there were about 20 people there and no one seemed to like me very much because I kept running into people and they would yell ELLLLLVIS!! and well, it hurt my feelings. Plus Corrie was there so THREE dogs were in the house.


This is Christi and Meg trying to hold all of us down. You can see Corrie in the background. She was pretty much scared the whole time.










This is me with John and Christi's girls; Aieasha and Correa. They liked me a lot. and they also liked to get me wound up so we were friends right away. But as soon as I got in trouble they were no where to be found. I did not know where they would go.

I think that is all I know, but I would like to thank Scott and Brian for getting me ready for Thanksgiving.

Love,
Elvis.

Fixing Up the House, Shopping and my Buddies

Hi everybody. It's me. Elvis.
Did you know I am handy? Yes. I am. Sue has had painters and other guys at her house for a couple weeks, and on Friday I decided I wanted to help too! So I picked up Edmo's hammer and carried it into the kitchen. I did not know what to do with it, but everyone made such a fuss and said I was soooooooo cute that I knew I had done the right thing.

I also want to tell you that I go shopping with Sue.

The only problem is that she leaves me in the car when we get to the store.

So, when she has locked the doors I hop up into the back window and press my face against the glass. When I do this I always think she will change her mind and say, "OK, Elvis, I guess you can come in the grocery store." But she never does.

So I just watch until she is out of sight. I keep barking but she does not turn around. A few times I have seen her peek out the store windows to see if I have "settled down" and I always do. Then I just look and look out the windows at all the people that go by. Sooner or later Sue comes out of the store and sometimes I am in the driver's seat waiting for her.

Sue and I are friends with Brian and Scott who live in our neighborhood. They have four show dogs; three English Pointers and a Terrier. We go to their house once a week and I "run with the dogs." Scott and Brian and Sue stand around and talk while we play games.

In this game I think I am a pointer. See? We are actually watching Ava who is going to start a fight with Martin and Stewart. I did not know they were going to fight. I just thought we were pointing. But no one gets hurts in the fight.

This is me and Stewart playing with the braid.

Brian and Scott LOOOOVE me!! Some of their dogs are national champions! Do you know what a "national champion" is? Sue said it is something very important, but Scott and Brian think I am very important, so I think I must be a national champion, too.

They always like it when we come over.

This is Stewart, Ava, Martin and Timber. I took the picture. (Just kidding. Brian took the picture. My paws are too big for the button.)

Guess who else visited this week??? If you are having trouble guessing you can look at the next picture.

Yes. It is Patrick. He let me kiss him after he told me what a good dog I was.

Now I am tired from telling you all of my news.

Love,

Elvis