Here I am!!
I know you guys have probably been wondering where I am..
Hope you weren’t too worried, I was a little sick for a little while but it was nothing serious. Of course my paranoid parents made a big deal out of it, but I think I just found out that the drawbacks of a big back yard is you might end up eating something you shouldn’t!
Things are fine now, back to normal, back to busy. I even went to a cookout at Echo & Wile E’s house.
Yumm.. turkey burger!
I’m sure that some of you have been wondering.. who’s that little brat pup in the pictures with me??
Min got a little sister! Poor Min.. {that’s an inside joke.}
This is Suki.
This is me schooling Suki in my backyard!
I think she’ll get it.
You can see more pics of Min with Suki if you click here.
Just another perk of having my own big backyard..
which I’m enjoying thoroughly!
I know people were wondering about the pictures that appeared recently of me with some funky lookin’ cars and with some funky lookin’ people, like this gentleman with the very colorful hair..
We took a break from our moving debacle a couple weeks ago to get out and see a completely unique slice of life at Hearse Con 08!
Who knew?! We also got to take in Speed Racer & Iron Man at the drive in. It was pretty cool!
CLICK HERE to see more pictures.
No.. we didn’t move to another planet, just across town actually, but it’s been NUTS! Sorry my mom sucks so much and hasn’t posted anything in my blog! I hope nobody formed a search party!
Basically I spent my birthday living it up - shopping (got a seriously sassy collar), eating cake, and hanging out with Min in her new back yard.
Then there was the move.. what a pain in the tail!
We’re just now finally starting to get back to normal around here, but now “normal” includes a big backyard for me!
I even have backyard toys (and LOTS of weeds, but we’re working on that)!
I go in and out through my new doggie door (which Min just can’t seem to figure out),
and in and out, and in and out.. I sniff around and poke around, investigate, sniff some more, it’s great!!
So, sorry if you all were worried, but now you know where I’ll be!
Since tomorrow is my birthday I thought it was a good time to FINALLY report how my DNA re-test went..
If you’ll recall my test results came back indicating that I was primarily Shih Tzu!! With trace amounts of: Australian Shepherd, Dachshund, Kerry Blue Terrier, and NEWFOUNDLAND! Huh?! I don’t know WHAT that dog would look like, but I’m not it! So we talked to the head science guy and told him we demand a recount and we got one and we got much more plausible results (see below).
What? You can’t read that?
Well allow me to translate.. It says that I am primarily a Parson Russell Terrier. No surprise there! The Newfoundland came back as a false positive (head science guy says they are working on that issue). No surprise there. But the Shih Tzu stayed along with a little Silky Terrier. Ok, that’s a surprise! But the Australian Shepherd stayed too and I guess that’s ok, afterall “Kylie” is an Australian name - it means boomerang!!
So in the end, it turns out I’m a mostly Jack Russell mixed terrier… which is pretty much what we knew before the test! But the bottom line is, I’m one of a kind!
And I’ll be 15 tomorrow!!
** editors note, what the chart actually says is that there is a strong match to “Hedge” breed and that combined with the Kerry Blue and Parson Russell makes a likely match to the Jack Russell Pet population. You have to remember that Kylie came along a LONG time before the AKC recognized the breed and changed the name from Jack Russell to Parson Russell. So with a little human intervention and a more deep analysis, a print out said that if the computer HAD to pick a single breed for Kylie it would be Parson Russell. So what we suspected all along was the case and we got confirmation about a few more breeds that were combined to make the wonder that is Kylie. It’s all very fascinating and we were even invited to submit for a new analysis in the future, after they have added more genetic samples from the JRT pet population and possibly some dogs from Hawaii that might make Kylie’s results even more clear. **
I sincerely apologize for my lengthy absence and I assure you its not my fault. My family has just been very busy and very stressed out lately. They’ve been putting me in the car several times a week so I think we’re going somewhere fun but we have just been driving all over town going to empty houses. They told me they were looking for a nice back yard for me.
I didn’t know what they were talking about until the cardboard boxes came out..
Good grief we’re moving!!
Now I’m stressed out! But they say I’m getting a back yard for a slightly belated birthday present..
I say, it’s about time!
Hello, this is a message from Kylie’s mom and blog editor. I just want to apologize for not keeping you all current on Kylie’s comings and goings, things have just been pretty hectic here. But I wanted to share a story about Kylie to keep you entertained.
I cook chicken to add to Kylie’s healthy dog food, I usually cook enough for three or four days at a time and I add 8 pieces to each meal. The size of the pieces vary, some are really small, none are terribly big - so it’s not like she gets the exact same quantity of chicken each time but there are always 8 chunks. Well, the other night I was making her dinner and I noticed I was low on chicken and I knew I wouldn’t have time to cook more that night. I counted and there were 14 or 15 pieces left, so instead of 8 I gave her 7 pieces of chicken.
Normally after she eats Kylie comes to see what the rest of us are having for dinner to see if she can score a little more, then she often takes what we call her evening “dirt bath”, where she rolls around and thrashes on the floor for a few minutes, then she usually settles in for a long, after dinner nap. That night however, Kylie remained very alert, and attentive, and whiny. She would just stare at me and cry a little bit, and anytime I stood up she got excited and tried luring me to the kitchen - the kind of behavior we get when dinner is late for some reason. I kept trying to convince her that she had already had dinner, but it didn’t help. After this went on for hours I started to wonder if this was due to the chicken shortage; so I went to the fridge and took one of the larger of the 7 or 8 pieces that remained for breakfast the next day and tore it in half. I gave it to Kylie and said, “fine, here you go.”
Five minutes later, Kylie was asleep!
I was amazed! But then, even though she’s almost 15, Kylie amazes me almost every day. And for breakfast the next day of course I had to break up another piece of the chicken to make sure there were exactly 8 pieces. I didn’t want to go through that again!
Again, sorry I have been slow with the Kylie news lately, I’ll try to get back on track. In the meantime I did upload some new pictures of her romping in her snow suit that I hope you’ll enjoy.
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