I would like to thank those of you who’ve visited and are reading this!

First, let me apologize to my readers for being unable to answer messages for quite some time.  The problem is Tax has monopolized our time searching for his Christmas present.  He asked Santa Claws for a cow.  Since last Christmas, all I’ve heard about is that stupid cow that Santa was bringing him this year.   We went to look at cows: milk cows, steak cows, Longhorns, Angus, black cows, brown cows, spotted cows, striped cows (I’m not sure those were cows…).  Needless to say, we saw a lot of cows.

Christmas morning arrived and Tax did indeed get a cow.  But Tax isn’t as good at written communication as I am.  The cow he got was small and stuffed, which was a great disappointment to him.  He’s complained constantly since and we have spent many hours working to craft his letter to Santa next year.  We decided that perhaps he was too vague in his previous letter.   He just licked the stamp for this year’s Christmas List.  This time he was more specific.

Dear Santa Claws,
It’s me, Tax.  About that cow that you brought to me.  I think there was a big misunderstanding.  I do not want a stuffed cow.  I want a large cow that will live in my backyard.  The cow should moo and make huge piles of business all over.  I suspect that Mom altered my letter and told you not to bring me a real cow.  Mom says that there is no more room in our yard for business, cows or dogs.  If you could see your way to getting me the cow that I asked for next year, you may take Molly away and that will cut down on some of the business in our yard.

Your biggest fan,
Tax

I don’t think that letter will work, but at least it will shut Tax up.

No matter how much he begs, or how famous he gets, DO NOT let Spike shop for, design, or hang the stockings.  This year, he thought he was funny, and he did this:

The big day is getting closer and everyone is thrilled about Santa, especially Tax. He has been on Santa Watch since December 26th of last year.  Today, I want to talk about a proper Christmas gift.  As you know, I have been tracking gift ideas for your pet over on the right from my Twitter friends.  I am happy to suggest to you some very nice gifts that you may buy for your friends, as well.  An electric pencil sharpener, a gift card to their favorite restaurant, movie tickets, money, Elvis’ Christmas Album, a toaster, some perfume, a clock, a nice picture frame, socks…  I could go on and on.  But, most importantly, I want to tell people about one thing that should never be considered as a gift, a dog or a cat!  We are not gifts, we are family. Continue Reading

I am building an online shopping list to assist new dog owners with their gift-giving this holiday season for their four-legged friends.  If you Twitter, you can add what you have bought, or are buying, for your dog by sending out a tweet and ending it with the hashtag #dogxmas to be published to my front page on the right side of the page.  If you don’t use Twitter yet, you can also e-mail me.

As we often do, Mom and I were playing on the Internet box and we came across this story.  Mom said I should ask Santa for it, but that when I make it big, maybe I can buy one for myself, because even Santa is struggling in these “hard economic times.”  Tax, Molly, and I put it on our lists that we included in our letter to Santa.  Tax has been so bad this year, he’s gonna be lucky if Santa doesn’t dump a whole dump truck of coal on him.  That would be funny, because he would change from a golden Lab to a black Lab if that happened.

Counting today, there are only 53 more days until Christmas.  I like large bones, rawhide, and money!