Hunter extraordinaire

As you might recall, I like squirrels. For chasing.

As you also might recall, I am not allowed to chase squirrels, and instead I have squirrel toys to play with inside.

I am very good at catching the toy squirrels, and I am very thorough about killing them and ripping them limb from limb.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. Rawwrrrrgh. 

I make sure every single piece of squirrel inside is out of its skin. And that none of those squirrel insides have anything inside them either. 

Call me a reverse-taxidermist.

What's that? Fluff you say?

And, since I am such a mighty hunter, I will go rampaging about the house with entrails dripping from my mouth.

Let this be a warning to all squirrels, toy or otherwise who might invade my territory!


---Muon

Squirrels and toys

I really like squirrels. They are fluffy and speedy and bouncy. Unfortunately, they often run up trees where I can't get them. I can only get my front paws on a tree. Someday I'll catch a squirrel.

In the meantime, I have some squirrel-like toys.

Caught this one!

It's fun to play with my humans with the squirrel toys. I can catch them and pretend they are real squirrels. And eat them.

Mmm. Fake squirrel guts.

Well, I don't really eat them. But I can pretend to kill them and rip them apart. Then I can play tug with the fake squirrel skin!

I hope you have some toys you like!

---Muon

P.S. I noticed that many people were looking at information about Japan or rocks and came over here to check out my blog. And a few stayed.

Hi everybody! Yes, I'm a dog. I'm glad some of you are both humanitarians and dog lovers.

Tug

My friend Pika was over the other day, and we had lots of fun. One thing we did was play tug.

This is Pika's bear.

Pika is good for playing tug with. She doesn't get tired and bored like my humans.

This is my dolly.

Sometimes I like to hold out a toy to make her remember that we're supposed to be playing tug.

Lots of toys!

Now we switched from the dolly to the round squirrel. This is a great toy. And look at Pika's ears! She's jumping around a bunch to make her ears fly all over.

Never surrender.

Never surrender the toy! (Unless the humans say to, and really mean it.) It might get ripped, but then we have the chance to take all the stuffing out.'

---Muon

Puppy friends

Do you notice anything unusual about my picture below?

This is also a good profile shot.

Yes! I have a puppy friend over to play today. Her name is Pika. She is part golden retriever, part labrador retriever, and part who knows what. She is a little smaller than me right now, but my human says she's going to get a lot bigger.

Simply angelic.

We have been getting along well. I have been teaching her about playing tug, how to wrestle, how to stop wrestling, and what is mine (everything).

It's nice to have a puppy friend around. Human friends tire so easily.

---Muon

Xmas presents!

Well, it's been a long time.

I'm going to blame my humans, they've been hogging the internet.

So, I got presents when I was visiting with family and molly. Here is a video of me opening one of my presents.

I liked my present very much. There were also treats inside, and after I ate them all I went into the kitchen to see if I could have more treats. I played with the toy after the treats were all gone, so later in the day. It's all crocheted and pretty and good for carrying around and chewing on and playing fetch.

Molly also got presents. Here is here with her favorite Xmas present.

Ropes are the best!

Molly is very good at chewing on ropes. But she doesn't like to play tug with me. She likes to have her own rope.

And here is another toy I got.

Assume spherical squirrel....

This toy is pretty great. I'll have to show you more about it later. It also had treats inside that I got to find and eat.

Am I eating, or being eaten?

It's basically sort of like a big fake squirrel, except as a ball. So I like catching it chasing it and chewing on it. I like presents!

Did you get good presents for Xmas?

--Muon

Family for Holidays

As I said before, my humans and myself traveled a long way to visit family for the holidays. There are some four-legged family members too. There is a cat, named Kitty, and a dog named Molly.

Molly in front of all the presents.

Molly does not like to play with me very much. She prefers ropes to fuzzy toys. We both run around the house together, just not playing tug together or anything like that. This is a pretty great house. There is carpet so it is easy to run, and it is bigger than my normal house.

Kitty is sticking her tongue out.

Kitty is a very cranky cat. She won't play either. I run up to her and she doesn't run away, just sits there not moving. Sometimes she sticks her tongue out like in the picture above, but I am not sure you can see it.

It is fun to be here with family. Everybody pets me. (There are 4 extra humans.) Even if Molly and Kitty just play near me instead of with me, it is fun to have company. I think this was worth the drive.


---Muon

Pink toy

When my humans came home today, they brought me another toy. When they brought it home, it was round and pink. It looked a little bit like a poodle.

I played with it a lot, and got it open. It was great!

But then my humans took my toy away, and when they gave it back it was flat. I still play with it, but it is flat now.

Pink Toy next to pink blanket

It is a good toy for killing, over and over. Also good for playing tug--I always win. It seems hard to throw for fetch, it doesn't go far now that it is flat, but I go get it anyway.

Aren't I sneaky? My humans didn't know I could open my toys.

--Muon

Toys are for hiding!

I have a toy that I like to hide sometime. Actually, I have two, one for work and one for home.

At home, I decided the closet was a good place for it.

That's my tail sticking out of the closet there.

My human #1 thought this was hilarious.

I don't think this is quite so funny.

What's so funny anyway? She's being strange. And taking lots of pictures, which is overall a good thing because I have more to show you.

Look how well my eyes came out in this one!

My toy is still in the closet, and there it will stay, until I'm good and ready for it to come out.

--Muon

New toy!

Hi.

No pictures today. Human #1 had to take an online ethics course. She passed! But now she's too tired to load pictures.

But I did want to tell you what I did today. We went to the doggy stuff store. I love how it smells in there. I got a new toy. It's green and squeaky. Much easier to squeak than my other toys. Also the shopkeeper gave me treats. Healthy & Tasty too!

Also I got to say hi to 2 dogs today. One was in the doggy stuff store. She was littler than me! Its hard to know what to do with little dogs but we figured it out. She was quite the little ruffian. Not mean though, we just played. But we had to go from the store because it was closed.

A little while later I met another dog. He was a border collie mix. He looked kinda like me, but bigger, and grayish, rather than brownish black. He was fun to play with. I wanted him to play chase with me but his humans were slow and held him back.

I saw a big dog on a bench too. But I didn't get to go meet him, I needed to get back home to play with my new toy and eat my new treats.

'Til the next time! -Muon.