You know animals/things seems to show up at our house.  Maybe the toad showed up because of this thing.  Mom named her Charlotte.  Isn't her web cool??   She spun the web by the porch and the way the light was hitting it, the web looked pretty cool.  I have to thank Katie for taking the beautiful picture.  That is Charlotte in the middle.  Mom and Dad were watching Charlotte spin the web, which they seemed to think was totally amazing.  I was on the sofa watching tv, I didn't bother to get up to watch!  Oh well. 
Have a great weekend.
your friend,
Leonard

Greetings Friends,
So many of you voiced concerns about my leg/hip. I am feeling better, mom is giving me my medicine and it seems to be helping. I'm still not jumping on the bed or sofa but I can run up and down the steps with no pain.  I appreciate everyone's concern.

I'd like to introduce to you a new friend that seems to be living at our house.  Here is "Edward" the toad.

Funny thing about Eddie here, he's been outside near or in our flower bed almost every night when mom take us out to do our "nightly duty".   Twice we saw him on the porch.  Katie thought mom put him there but he must hop up himself.  I'm not sure why. 

For some reason mom said he must be living on the porch. There is a wooden box that mom's uncle Joe made years ago for Sam.  It is in case Sam gets caught outside in bad weather.   Sam could hide in this box and be protected from any kind of weather.  Mom said maybe Eddie lives there and she looked in the box and there he was!  So, I guess Eddie is living in Sam's box on our porch. Sam doesn't really use it, when the weather is bad, she sleeps on mom and dad's bed.  (Spoiled cat).  But little Eddie,  he must stay in the box during the day and at night, he ventures out to do whatever toads do.  Imagine that, a new animal at our house.  Who would ever imagine that could happen! 

Mom says he can stay there as long as he wants and we're all gonna have to look when we go out on the porch so we don't step on the little guy. 

Mom said Katie's moving back to college soon, I asked for her room, but mom has no clue what I'm trying to tell her!  Oh well.  I'll hang out there when I want too, I don't think mom or Katie will mind very much.
So, that's the latest from our household. Hope you have a good week.

The weekend is coming soon!
Leonard

So here's what's up today.  Let me tell you, I am so humiliated!   I'll explain.  Mom had an appointment for the cats to go to the vet for the normal crap these humans think us animals need.  Do the humans go for rabies shots every year and all those other things?? Anyway, I couldn't go up the steps to bed last night  so mom had to carry me upstairs and put me on the bed.  Then this morning I didn't want to get up, my leg just really hurt, so mom picked me up, I screamed, and she almost dropped me.  She said, "That's it, Leonard is going to the vet today!".  I heard her call the vet and ask if they could add me to the cats appointment. She told them if it was a problem, she'd just switch me out with a cat.  "What you do mean?  Switch me out with a cat?"  I'm not a cat!  Anyway the lovely vet's office said they could squeeze me in.  I don't want them to squeeze me, that would hurt!!! 

Anyway, mom piled us in the car and took us to the vet.  She had Frankie in a cat carrier on the front seat and I had to sit right up against Frankie.  You know she's a CAT!  I hate being near them, they just freak me out!  Then Frankie is crying the whole way!  What a freaking baby she is!!  Sam is more grown up about a trip to the vet.  She was in a different carrier in the back seat and honestly I thought she had died or something,  I never heard her once.  Of course, I'm a big boy and I don't cry.  But it is humiliating having to go to the vet's office with cats and then in the office mom says stuff like, "Leonard, do you hear your sister Frankie crying?"  "HELLO MOM, she's a cat, I'm a dog, she is not my sister, she is the family's cat, she may be Sam's sister, but she's NOT my sister".

Finally when the vet comes into the office he checks me out first.  I should have bitten his hand!  He knows my leg hurts and he'll pulling on it and pushing on it.  I finally gave him one of those "If looks could kill" look and he stopped pulling on things.  He told mom that it's definitely my hip.  He said he is hoping it's just sore and I keep aggravating it.   He gave mom some pills to give me.  The vet said to keep me calm and don't let me play and run and be a boy like I like to be!   If it's not better in a week, the vet told mom to bring me back and they'll do x-rays.  What are x-rays?  Well, I'll worry about that next week.  I'm gonna try and listen. I'll try and rest and relax my hip but mom better keep that Penny under control.  Penny is usually the one who wants to play. 

Enough for now!   Have a great weekend!
Your friend,
Leonard

 So, Jaybo, Penny and I are hanging out at one of our favorite places.  We like it here cause we can see the driveway to know if someone is coming so we can bark and do all that stuff we do when people come down our driveway! 


I've had a rough week, I don't know what I did, but it hurts like all get out when I try to jump on the sofa or bed. Mom's been great, I just look at her and give her my sad Leonard Eyes and she gently lifts me up.  At least I can go up the steps now,  when I did whatever I did, I couldn't even walk up the steps from outside or to go up the steps to bed.  It was really weird, and I'm not sure what I did, but I'm getting better. It's just the high jumps that don't work for me right now.  I guess that eliminates me from the high jump at the next Olympic games. Oh well, I'll get over it! 

Today was release day for Honey Boo Boo (the mom) and clan #2. Mom said there is no way she's gonna keep Honey Boo Boo and this clan as long as she kept the other clan. She doesn't want clan #3. Mom had thought clan #2 included 4 babies, but when she let them free, there were 5 babies and the mom.  Mom said it was easier to set these free because she hadn't gotten as attached to them.  (How could she get attached to mice?  Oh my!)  Mom took them down to the woods below our house and set them free in a pile of brush.  She said good bye and hopes they will be okay in the real world.  Mom's big thing is she doesn't want Sam to eat them and she doesn't want them inviting themselves back into our house.

Today Mom and Katie left our first set of babies go free.  This is Katie saying "good bye" to one of them.  Mom keeps saying, "I wonder how the babies are doing?".  Oh mom, really they are mice, who cares?  I take that back, Sam (our cat) does care.  Mom and Katie left the mice go at the very bottom of our yard in the woods.  They are hoping if they left them lose down there, they would #1 not come back to our house and #2 Sam wouldn't not catch them.  Mom and Katie refused to let Sam out today to give them a chance. 

Oh well, Mom has a new set of babies to deal with. 

Keep cool folks! 

Leonard

So the baby mice that, just over a month ago, mom took out of dad's car (under the hood) seem to be all grown up.  Mom and Katie are going to release them into the field - below our house today. Mom's been talking about it all week, "Saturday we are gonna release Honey Boo Boo and the clan"  

Then last night mom goes out for her nightly visit with Honey and the clan (She loves to watch them cause at night they come out and run around and have fun).  Well, mom comes in the house and says "You aren't gonna believe this, but there is a new baby, I mean a pink little mini thing out there"   "WHAT?" Katie and Dad were so surprised and everyone went out to see and sure enough there were more of them.  Mom and everyone couldn't tell for sure how many, but they think at least 4 babies are out there!   The ma ma is the same ma ma.  I know what you are thinking and we were thinking the same thing.   

So, the baby mice, the now grown up baby mice, were put in a different aquarium and Honey Boo Boo and her new clan are in the old aquarium.  The grown up babies are leaving today. Mom says we will keep Honey Boo Boo and the new clan a few weeks, but not a full month, cause we don't want this to happen again!  

That's the story from here.  Just to let you know, I got my bed back, I got it last night before Frankie crawled in it and luckily mom had cleaned on Friday and got rid of most the Frankie hair and I'm hoping her germs too!  

Gotta run!  
your buddy,
 Leonard

Okay, wait just one dog gone minute here!  That's a cat, that cat named Frankie laying on my bed!  Who the heck does she think she is?  She is right next to MY tennis ball and my stuff toy!    The nerve of THAT cat!  OMG!!  I'm like beside myself over this. I lay in that bed almost every night and now, it has cat germs!  It is probably full of cat hairs too! What is a dog to do?  Oh my!    I think I need to file a complaint.  Where is that box for the complaints?
I hope your day is going better then my day!!
Sincerely, 
Your friend,

 Leonard