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The niece is back to her usual form.

She’d eat the arm of you.

Yesterday already she tried to devour a remnant of a dead animal.

It looked like a squirrels tail but we didn’t studied it in depth.

Poor Ma had to pull it out of her mouth.

I nearly puked. The bro was warned she might too but she didn’t.

Today she downloaded about a kilo of kibble!

She also got her first taste of soda bread.

Ma was sending cards to our nears and dears in Northern Ireland and she got a hankering for home.

It’s sticks to your ribs that soda especially if it’s stuffed with ham and fried eggs.

It didn’t quite fill up the bro though.

He is nom noming away on Frosties as we write. Since he’s generous he’s sharing with us canines.

As they say the apple didn’t fall far from the tree with his daughter.

Blessing #1162-Brunch Crunch

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Nala here your poor Pitty Pups.

I have been subjected to such unimaginable trauma.

I was taken to this place and they knocked me out.

When I woke up I was definitely no longer my former self. Part of me had been extracted and it wasn’t a tooth!

I’m improving and firing again on two cylinders but I’m certainly not the same girl I use to be.

I’m not sure I can trust these humans again.

The pain meds aren’t bad, taste a bit like a treat, though they make you feel real woozy.

See my uncle Scooby though he’s been great.

Looked after me like a gardien Angel.

I think we may have come to a different understanding and deeper respect for each other at least until such times as I can grab him by the scruff of the neck again.

Blessing#1161-Convalescing

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Well I know you are all waiting for the latest on yesterday’s adventures so I’m getting this out before dawn.

The bro returned without the niece at 7:30 am.

My heart leapt with delight. She had indeed been returned to sender.

Ma took me out with Auntie Denise for a good trot and it was just like old times. No leashes crossing or flossy in my face. I was in heaven.

Soon Ma left for work and then the bro left for work and I was left with Dad.

Man the days go slow when you have no one to chase or complain about. There is really only so much CNN and My 600lb Life that I can take. So I snuck off to the kitchen to mope and watch the door.

No one came until 5:30 pm when in walks Ma.

She says to me “now Scooby you’re a good boy and I want you on your very best behavior because Nala is spaced out”

She gives me food, disappears and after a few minutes in she comes again with the niece.

I took one look at her and realized she was high as a kite. The niece that is not Ma!

Her eyes were kind of rolling backwards and here’s the best bit. She mooches over to the food and water bowls and then turns her back on them without so much as a munch or a sip.

Now I was worried. Ma said I had to be super soft with her as she has stitches in her belly. Seems a bit young and skinny to me for a tummy tuck but maybe they did a gastric bypass to economize on kibble!

Having missed her after that initial period alone I felt I must administer intensive care.

She snuggled up by Dad and at one point I was considering giving her a whiff of his oxygen but decided instead on mouth to mouth.

She eventually came round and sipped a smidgen of water but not a morsel passed her muzzle.

Off to bed she went at 9:00 pm without so much as a single snarl.

Wonder how she’ll be today.

Blessing #1160-Snipped

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There is something very odd going on at our place this morning.

All runs normal for a few moments.

Ma gives me my brekkie and water which I know now I should eat and drink before you know who gets up or she’ll nosh it.

I’m just half way through my kibble when the bro gets up!

It’s only 6:45.

What the heck that’s closer to his usual bedtime than his time of rising.

Next thing you know my food and water are pulled from in front of me and put on the counter.

Next the dragon is let loose.

She searches for my leftovers.

Discovers they are out of reach and starts crying.

In comes the bro again and puts her leash on and they disappear!

I begged to go too because he took his car keys and I always want to go car.

But no, I was left with the aged Ps.

Have my wishes been granted? Is the monster being returned from whence she came.

Where else could they be going at this time of day.

Tune in tomorrow for an update!

Blessing #1159-Peace

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Nala your favorite Pitty Pups here!

Yesterday I celebrated by six month birthday.

Granny says that makes me three in human years which explains a lot!

What progress I have made. Just compare these shots of me in Grandpa’s arms.

On arrival I was nothing much larger than a worm but the worm has turned!

Since then I have sharpened my teeth on quite a few different materials.

I have increased the weekly grocery bill significantly by eating enough kibble to kill a tiger. At one time the bowls were as big as myself but like David I conquered the giant.

All this has resulted in me growing taller

Getting stronger

Of course I also have grown more beautiful by the day at least in the eyes of my humans.

I’m still working on my uncle!

Blessing#1158-Toddling Along

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We usually fill our two red recycling bins each week and only have one small trash bag for the landfill.

Nala obviously has observed and learned that this is important for the environment. She watches absolutely everything.

Yesterday Ma was working all afternoon and so was the bro so the tike was secured in her kennel in the brother’s bedroom.

When Ma got home after tending to us and eating a quick dinner she had to rush to a meeting.

The niece was nicely chilling and quiet after having had her kibble and a quick outing so Ma decided to leave her with me and Dad. Ma just hadn’t the heart to lock her up again.

BIG mistake.

When she got back two hours later the first thing that greeted her was a big empty soda bottle in the middle of the floor.

No sign of Nala.

Up the stairs she went only to find more empty bottles on the landing.

Where was the niece? Had she started cleaning too!

She was uncovered deep in the recesses of the brothers bedroom literally buried in rubbish.

She’d got into his laundry basket and demolished underpants and socks and then got into the hidden stash of snacks he keeps under his desk!

She was swollen like a balloon.

A full extra large pack of popcorn gone not to mention a family size bag of potato chips and of all things a bag of candy floss.

Such was the extent of the two hours of work that we dared not take a photo of it lest it might cause the weaker among you to pass out.

If she continues like this we will have no need for rubbish bags at all. She is a living incinerator.

Only she can transform trash into fertilizer in less than twelve hours!

Blessing#1157-Green Goddess

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Mega Mouth so far this morning has destroyed my Mum’s favorite flip flop and my bro’s favorite hat. She has currently taken off to the top of the stairs for some quiet time to demolish a baseball.

We are excusing her on the grounds that she must have teething problems.

I gazed into her cavernous cruncher and could see she still has some ways to go to have her complete set.

Poor Ma is also having a chopper crisis. She was chewing her nails last night while watching Call the Midwife. It was very tense and sad.

It was even sadder when she chipped her front tooth.

Poor woman never gets a break. Talk about bringing new meaning to the old saying “hard as nails”

Blessing #1156-DentalWorks

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See this menace I’ve been forced to exist with, well she’s criminal.

She steals and shreds everything.

It can range from cardboard boxes to antique mirrors. just zoom in to see her handwork.

Regardless what it is she gets her noshers into it.

When I point out her activities the bro always takes her side.

He tries to endear himself to Ma by making her laugh.

Like last night, after her latest destruction, he put on Ma’s coat to take us out for our business and pretended to be a superhero.

Oh well I suppose he’s not that bad.

The tike though is still a monster.

Blessing #1155-Comic Defuser

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Sometimes if Ma needs a good relax she likes to watch a movie with her WINE! This is especially true on Friday when it’s Fizzy!!

Bores me stupid and Dad too because most of the time they are soppy girls things.

Fortunately the niece is here now to distract me.

Last night we had to watch a movie she’d heard of many times but never seen.

She was drooling like a demented dog other this dude called Brad.

I just cannot escape flipping Pitts no matter how hard I try!

Blessing 1154-Namesakes

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If you are into mysteries here is a good one.

Due to the increase in customer traffic at the Tearoom this week more baking was called for this morning.

We kids never object as Dad is always good for a share.

Here’s the funny thing though. The pumpkin muffins look orange instead of brown.

Being a Food Scientist Ma should know why but she is perplexed.

The only differences were the brand of pumpkin, she used Aldi rather than Libby, and the fact that she ran out of all spice so had to improvise.

She used cinnamon and ginger instead.

Maybe the lack of clove caused the difference.

What do you all think?

Could such a minor change impact color so much?

We don’t mind either way they taste yummy Mummy

Blessing# 1153-Puzzles