Who let the dogs out?

Freckles and Lucy were invited to a birthday party today--complete with homemade invitations, games, prizes, gift bags and even cake.....

Who was the birthday girl?

The neighbor dog, of course!

The birthday girl (who I shall call PARTY POOCH), all of one year old, was naive enough to invite Freckles, crabby patty and dog hater of the world for the festivities. If you look closely at the party photos you will notice a few things:

(1) the little Westie--hiding behind her mama and airborne safe in the mama's arms--is terrified of Freckles (as Freckles tried to remove her face not one but several times);
(2) Freckles isn't in very many of the photos (because I was hanging on to her with the death grip);
(3) Lucy is a giant pig who LOVED the cake (PARTY POOCH's 12 year old mama made a homemade cake for the party participants).

Games included going thru the tunnel (of which Freckles had NOTHING to do with), chasing a Frisbee (where Cheeseball Neighbor's dog crashed the party) and jumping thru a hoola hoop (which Freckles miraculously was able to do). Prizes for game participants were rawhide bones. Birthday Cake was made from fresh ingredients such as eggs, cranberries, bananas and peanut butter, while the party bags contained everything from treats to squeakies......
Are these great neighbors or what?

Lucy doesn't really like other dogs but she sure loves people and she certainly did not try to bite the birthday dog. She just kind of hung out under the kitchen table and snarfed down cake. Freckles, who has decided she is a "Canine Bad Citizen"--all that money and training down the tube!-- was very rude and displayed her obvious attitude of HATING all known dogs besides Lucy. Apologies to Westie Grrrl.

They are NOT the best four-legged guests to invite to a dog party. They do, however, bring great gifts, so if you deal with the snarling, growling, biting, lip curling, snapping, it's all good.

Good news is that everyone survived the party and now our dogs are dog-tired. That means we can go out and watch the NCAA games with Cheeseball neighbor and know Freckles and Lucy will be too unconscious to notice we are even gone.

It's hard being party dogs, especially when you are just about 8 and 6 years old and the guest of honor is only one year old. That's like a 50 year old and a 40 year old trying to keep out with a seven year old. Forget it. No wonder Freckles was trying to bite Westie Grrrl and Party Pooch.

We give the party four paws up. Woof!