It’s the fourth day of April. Spring has been here for over two weeks. And in as north-central North Carolina as you can get, it is currently snowing and sleeting…
And it’s confusing Tammy something fierce. I let her out to do her “doggie business”, she took one good look at the weather and promptly turned back to the doorsteps.
“Global warming”? My a$$ there is!...
Whenever anyone goes down the basement stairs, Tammy has to come to the door and look down. I think it’s in the hopes that we might bring something yummy up from the freezer (which she might or might not get a tasty morsel of)…
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I’ve had Tammy for ten months now. That’s plenty of time to chronicle a lot of her but one thing that keeps eluding me is a perfect shot of this baby’s teeth. She had those needle-like daggers that pups always have at first but ever since she lost her puppy teeth she’s grown in some positivalutely gnarly chompers.
Well, it’s not ideal by far, but this really is the best pic I’ve been able to take of not just her teeth but that psycho look in her eye when she’s showing them off 🙂
Want more wiener dog?!? Tammy is a more fortunate pup than many. Ya see, my cousin nearby wound up with Tammy’s litter-mate Sassy. And because of that they’ve had plenty of occasion to romp and play together.
So here is Tammy (with the red collar) and her sister Sassy, along with my cousin’s two children. Hey, it’s two cute dachshunds and two cute kids: what could possibly be cute-sier? 🙂
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The very first thing I did when I brought Tammy home last May was to give her a bath, ‘cuz the poor girl had sooooo many fleas! Then I had to give her another one the next day. It was just a rotten flea season all around ‘cuz of the warm weather the preceding winter.
Anyhoo, ever since she’s had something of an aversion to water. She doesn’t even enjoy going out in the rain to “do her doggie business”. But she’s starting to take a liking to the warm water from the shower whenever she needs to get clean ‘n shiny.
Here’s Tammy about to get some puppy pamperin’:
Has this puppy no shame?! This week’s Tammy Tuesday has my mini dachshund Tammy enjoying a rope toy while flashing her pooch privates…
Despite a regular and healthy regimen of doggie treats, pieces of ham (leftover from my breakfast every morning) and the occasional flake of popcorn that falls to the floor, Tammy is bound and determined to sniff out more yummy bites!
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Beginning today, look forward to a weekly (meaning: as often as I can remember to do it) photo of Tammy: my miniature dachshund! These won’t necessarily be a just-taken pic of her. It’ll be whatever is in the Tammy-file that I think might bring a smile to y’all’s faces. But since she’s still just ten months old, there aren’t that many photos of her that I could have made anyway.
Here she is from last week, looking content in the “nest” she’s made with a blanket in the recliner…
Don’t ever let it be said that anybody in this wacky family lacks for gifts on Christmas!
This pic is actually a few days old, but I wanted her to go ahead and start enjoying it. Here is Tammy – now a very psycho eight-months old – with her new doggie bed 🙂
She’s come a long way from the bed she made on her first day with us…
It is seriously foggy this morning. Like, the kind of fog that Arthur Conan Doyle used to vividly describe as covering the moors of Britain in his Sherlock Holmes stories.
So after letting Tammy out to do her “doggie business”, the notion struck that there might be a photo opportunity.
And here she is, bounding out of the mists like a ferocious creature in murderous pursuit of prey…
Okay, granted: a four-month old miniature dachshund puppy is not that ferocious. But please don’t tell her that 🙂...