One week in!

I've been in my new home for one week. I am happy, warm, and well fed! Mommy even thinks I may have gained a half pound or so, we will see! The vet said it was okays if I gained a pound or so, but not a lot. Mommy has me on a careful diet because she doesn't want me to gobble too much food at once!

Mommy has taken me to tons of new places! We went to PetSmart and the parks

and to Daddy's work and to Auntie's house and so many other places. I get along well with my human cousins, I love them! I am still getting used to Daisy, my Auntie's big doggy. She likes to sniff me, maybe when the muds dries up outside, we will run together and play!

I love going to PetSmart because I get to meet new doggies and sometimes mommy buys me new toys. At first, in this new home, I was scared to play with toys, but now I love it! Mommy and Daddy got me a kong like Sidka's, except mine is small and red. (Sid's is black and HUGE!). I like having some peanut butter in it and mommy takes it out of the freezer all cold--mmmm, yummy!
As you can see in this picture, Mommy has made me a few different bandannas. I like wearing them when we go places--people notice me more and I get lots of compliments!

Yesterday I met Jove, boy, is he nice! He even helped me get over my fear of peeing in public! He showed me were to pee and I copied him! Our moms were so proud! Here we are reading this memorial stone in the state park. Jove is another rat terrier like me, except his is a little bigger and he's got grey colors instead of tri-colors like me. I like Jove a lot. He doesn't bark much and even though he can't hear me, I know we're going to be best of friends!

By for now every doggy! I hope your homes are great!

One small step for dog...

One giant leap for dog kind...that's what they say, right? I mean, that Meal Arm Long guy, he knows what he's talking about!


I have been home for 3 1/2 days. I think I'm fitting in really well! The hardest part about being the new girl is the accent! I mean, c'mon y'all. What is all this "cah", "rud", "fahm" stuff?! Here's a good zample of this: Mommy has been telling me to go "pawty" outside. Well, every dog knows what that means--there's a pawty coming up! So every time we'd go out on that leash (that's a whole nother blog!) I'd get x'cited for a pawty. Well, come to find out, she wasn't saying "pawty" (well, I still think she was), she was trying to say "pot-tea". I'm not sure what your pawents call it, but my foster mom called it "pot-tea" and I knew what it meant.
This whole "pawty" thing is just plain fuzzen!

Here I am thinking "C'mon mom, I'm in my jacket, I'm out in this cold,
where is the pawty!!"

After the first coupla times of not getting a pawty, I realized what she was trying to get me to do. Once I did it, she clapped and danced and gave me a treat. She also talked in this high voice....I liked the treat part! So, now I go pot-tea outside in the grass. Before, I was holding it all ins. I only made one poppy mistake my first night home. The rest, I just helds in. But, the vet said my blad-ah (what's that every dog?) wasn't too full, so my mommy felt better. The vet also said some doggies don't go poopy as much as Sidka--and darn...that boy goes poopy a whollllee lot!

Oh, I almost forgot! I went to the vets yesterday and I met Dr. Penny Bennington and some other nice girls. It was a regular ol' girls day in! She did my nails and she combed my hairs. But then, she got all weirds on me and she pinched my back a little, man that hurt. Then, she tried looking into my brain through my ears--with a flashlight. I thought vets were smart--why was she trying to light up my brains?! There's a picture of mommy looking up flash lights, brains and vets on google. I couldn't make much sense of it, so I felled asleep on her shoulders.


Mommy says I'm making real "progdress". I'm not sure what that means. But, dresses reminds me of pawties and pawties reminds me I gotta gooo!!!!

Rides

This is me before I got on the transport for the rides up north! (This was yesterday, with my foster mom Judy). In this picture I was really busy looking at all the other doggies! I can't believe how many doggies are lucky like me to
find their furever homes!
Tomorrow my mommy and daddy will pick me up and take lots of pictures!!

Omd!

Omidogness! It is only four more days until I can meet and go home with my new mommy and daddy! I wonder if Sidka is excited! And I wonder if those kitties will like me! Oh, I'm so anxious!

Here is some more infos on this long rides ahead of me...
My foster Mommy Judy is going to bring me to this place called Little Rock (I wonders where big rock is?) and then she's going to put me with another rat terrier called Gidget and we'll ride together. Here is what the schedule looks like:

TN & AR Pick-ups

• Little Rock Arkansas at 9:00am CST every Thursday morning at PetSmart, 11400 Financial Centre Pkwy
• Memphis Thursday afternoon at 1:00pm CST, at the Cloverleaf Animal Clinic
• Jackson Thursday afternoon at 3 pm CST exit 79, Citgo gas station
• Camden Thursday afternoon at 4:15 pm CST exit 126, Phillips 66 gas station
• Dickson Thursday afternoon at 5:15 pm CST exit 172, Cracker Barrel
• Chattanooga Thursday afternoon at 5:30 pm EST exit 180B, route 27 south, off I-24 at the Exxon gas station on your Right
• Nashville at 6:00pm CST Thursday afternoon at the 100 Oaks PetSmart off I-65, Armory Dr. exit
• Lenoir City at 2:00 pm EST Friday afternoon exit #81 off I-75, route 321 behind BP gas station
• Knoxville at 3:00 pm EST Friday afternoon Broadway exit #6, off I-640, turn Left at Old Broadway--1st light, at the Food City on your Left
• Kingsport at 5:00 pm EST on Friday afternoon exit #63 off I-81 at the Shell gas station
• Can do VA pickups along I-81 on Friday evenings, such as Wytheville or Staunton VA
• We overnight the dogs at our house in Cookeville, east of Nashville, and the transport leaves out Friday, mid morning, and they drive through the night to arrive on Saturday. There are 3 drivers, one being Kyle, so they take turns sleeping.
  

Pick-up Locations for Adopters

*Note* - You will receive a call Friday evening to let you know if we are ahead or behind schedule. These times are not always exact! 'You can also call Kyle at anytime Saturday to see how he is doing on time, before you leave to meet him. Delivery times are all EST.

• Hagerstown, MD 2:30 am Sat morning
• Allentown, PA 5 am Sat morning
• Pluckemin, NJ 6:30 am Sat morning
• Spring Valley/Nanuet, NY 7:30 am Sat morning
• Glastonbury, CT 9:30 am Sat morning
• Plainfield, CT 11:30 am Sat afternoon
• Windham, NH 1:30 - 2 pm Sat afternoon
  

My new mommy and daddy are picking me up in New Hampsters and we're going to take a walk and go to a park and I'll get to meet my mommy's cousin. Then I'll get into my new crate, with my comfy pillow and we'll drive north to home. Mommy says the place in New Hampsters is about 2 hours, but Dad says about 2 hours and 30 minutes...but Mommy says Dad drives real sloowww....so I guess we'll see! I'm excited to see Maine and all the trees and my new dog brother and my new cat sisters!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm just not excited about all this car rides...

Until then, I can't wait to get more pictures on this bloggie!

Hello From Arkansas!

My foster mom told me I am bein' 'dopted!
I have been

lQQking

and looking

for those people 'dopting me, but I can't find them! THEN, my foster mom said silly Josie (that's my name, Josie) and she told me how I will take a ride to meet them next week and I will stay in my new home furever!

I guess I have a brother, Sid...

Some of you may know him. I hear he's a little bigger than me, but I'd older. So I don't know who will be the little one and who will be the big one!

I'm a little shy, but I guess my new moms and dads are ready to help get me to be the best dog I can be!