PlatoonOfFour&Mongrel Cat

Celebritity Look Alikes...

2008-12-24T09:57:00.000-08:00

Speedy, Chewbacca

Sandy, Nicole Kidman

Jasper Belle, Garfield

Duke, Arnold Schwarzenegger

The truth about Sadie...

2008-12-12T09:47:00.001-08:00

Last week I learned from the Willardson's(previous owners) that Sadie had puppies with her brother. Remember her black puppies? Them. The Willardson's during that time also had a black lab also her brother and they had puppies together. Now that is bad. Maybe not that bad for animals...but still...it is really bad.

Platoon of Four update.

2008-10-12T18:12:00.000-07:00

Everybody in the Platoon of Four is alive except Sadie. Sadie died in July of congenital heart failure. Duke is all alone in the labrador kennel and is doing all right. Winter is coming in a month and he is getting ready for it. Since Sadie died, Duke has been more obedient than ever, he would come to me when I call him instead of following Sadie around. He would stay in the yard. Sadie did what she liked to do during the last hour of her life, walking. She walked then couldn't walk anymore and nose started bleeding. She was very skinny also so that means she didn't eat very good. I was wondering why she was getting skinny during the last month of her life. So we put her asleep to end her suffering. It was for the best. Sadie was a very good lovable dog. Speedy is still doing his job as a hearing dog for my sister, Becky. He's doing better though. He also went on a big trip to North Carolina in July to see his aunt Karen and cousin Foster. I wasn't there but I heard that he constantly played with Foster during the whole visit. Speedy also went to the beach, I saw pictures of him and he had sand all over him. He did not like to get wet though. Speedy also flew in a big plane on Becky's lap and they tell me he would bark every time the seatbelt ring rang. Sandy, good old Sandy, has lost a little bit of weight and feels a lot healthier. She is the joy in the house. She likes to play with Duke but not Speedy, she would run with Duke in the backyard. Then at last, the mongrel cat, Jasper Belle, is still meowing like crazy. Found a place to sleep, out on the field by my neighbor's house right against the fence and under the apple tree. He goes out at night to catch mice and grasshoppers. He loves his job. He then come and visits once a while when Duke and Speedy are not around. Well, that's the update for The Platoon of Four. (It's been since April!)

(sighs), I don't know what to do with them...

2008-04-03T09:48:00.000-07:00

Sadie and Duke killing a deer.

This is Duke's first deer and Sadie's tenth(Sadie has been clean for 6 years). One and a half week ago we were at Black Hill hiking around and I didn't think there would be deer there. I guess the whole thing is my fault because I took them there. Yep, they killed an innocent deer and we left the deer all knawed off and still alive lieing there. We got out of there soon as possible just in case no one saw us. I came home so sad and upset. I felt bad for the deer and upset with Sadie and Duke. Maybe it's just a natural thing for them, that's way dogs are I guess. Sadie and Duke are not alone, one time I talked to Niki Christiansen(Niki Gordon) and she said her neighborhood dogs had killed some deer before too around that area(by the Canyon Road). It's a sad thing but it's just what dogs do and you can get in real big trouble about it. I got in trouble with some farmers and residents their back in the Sadie days and I haven't took her up there ever since. I took them to Black Hill all summer last year so I guess I learned that I shouldn't take them there in the spring time. Just wait until the deer are in the deep mountains this year then I will take them there.

Tour de Dog

2008-03-09T15:26:00.000-07:00

Sadie and Duke a runnin'.

Bad Cat Day Holiday today...

2008-02-27T18:28:00.000-08:00

Jasper Belle doesn't want to talk about his nightmare today so I will speak for him. Jasper got in another cat fight not too long ago and his wound was just getting all pussy and worst so I took him to the vet this morning. It was so bad that I had to leave the cat there to get knocked out and have a little operation. So the vet drained the wound out AND neutered the cat. Yes, neutered him! It's true. So, the cat is not a boy anymore, poor Jasper Belle. Hedilous said to come back a week or two to neuter him after the wound is healed. But he did it today anyways while the cat was there because he wasn't sick or anything. So everything is done and overwith. I hope the neuter thing is guaranteed to keep the cat from getting into fights. Gee I hope so. This is the second time it's happened this winter and I saw Jasper Belle fighting with another cat before work once. The cat wasn't too happy today because he has no balls. Poor Jasper Belle. There was another cat there was already knocked out because she just got spayed. Then a lady came in with her cat in a kennel and just had the same thing as Jasper Belle and has been in a fight too but the wound was on the tummy. I am sure that cat got neutered today too. Then I went to work and the first thing my boss told me when I got there, the cat in our shop today.....is sick. There was throw up and diarrea all over the shop. Then I told my boss about this morning then I told him, "today is a really bad day for all the cats". Just remember February 27th is Cat Bad Day Holiday.

SANPETE STORY

2008-02-23T16:28:00.000-08:00

I ASKED WAYNE PETERSEN if he were a kinykinnick dane or a kelso dane and he said he was a friday dane.......and then he told me the story. his grandfather was going over the mountain for some coal and a kelso olsen asked him where he was headed.....for some coal he said, but on a sunday????and the petersen said"oh is this a sunday?, i thought today was fridayand from that moment on he was known as a friday dane

Sanpete Stupidity

2008-02-22T15:10:00.000-08:00

Message from the Putz,
for those lucky enough not to live in Sanpete:

1. You don't have to worry about the devil dancing around your head like Kerry Steck says.

2. You don't have to worry about working continually solid days and nights not worrying about grace because "you done it all".

3. You don't have to shovel water for the neighbors like what Becky Fore does.

p.s. I can't wait to move into my stainless steel, hardwood floor, 26 floors above the ground condo. AND leave Sanpete for good and be around normal people who work normal hours and rely on the Savior for some help.

p.p.s. I don't have to worry about dogs at large anymore!

p.p.p.s. I am tired of Sanpeters doing it "their way".

The Putz has had it all. They expect 80 year old widows earn their own welfare money.

Jasper's kind of winter....

2008-01-27T18:10:00.000-08:00

Snow fun!

2008-01-26T21:35:00.000-08:00

I had so much fun snowshoeing with Dan today and lastweek! Dan likes to take us snowshoeing with him up in the mountains every time he goes and we love it!

Boy, I am tired!

-Duke

I am more tired!

-Sadie

I can't believe what I just did!

2008-01-26T21:22:00.000-08:00

Yes, you see it all right! I slept with Speedy! Oh no! Maybe deep in my heart, I love him but I really hate playing with him. He bothers me so much that I try to fight him all the time. You know how I react when Speedy is around. But I slept with him? What was I thinking?

All well.

-Sandy

"Cabinet Cat"

2008-01-18T19:44:00.000-08:00

Hi, they call me Kitty, that is my name so. I live in a cabinet shop where Dan works. I never go outside because it is so cold out there so I sit my the wood stove all day. I just sleep and sleep and sleep. My boss wants me to catch mice for them but I said, "Screw you, I am going to take a nap." Yes, I can sleep with all the machine noises, I get used to it. In the summer, I do go outside and go cat around. I am a great great grandmother.

They build new boxes for me(what I call them but they call them cabinets) and I like to play in them and sleep in them. Here's me waiting for the next box to be built. One time I heard Dan say, "That is one dusty cat!" I hope they ever don't put me a bath tub, I like to be dusty. So, that is me, "Kitty The Cabinet Cat".

I LIED CATS DO NOT LIKE DOGS

2008-01-10T09:43:00.000-08:00

and dogs do not like cats......we have had some reports of chased cats on dogs with blogs and our readership would indicated that some of youse really have seen some bitchy cats

DOGS LIKE CATS, CATS LIKE DOGS

2007-12-22T14:10:00.000-08:00

IT IS GENERALLY THOUGHT THAT CATS AND DOGS FIGHT NATURALLY,,,,NOT TRUE......ACCORDING TO DOGS WITH BLOGS, MOST DOGS AND CATS ARE FRIENDS....they will play with each other, affectionite, in some instances date each other.....YES IT IS TRUE...........date each other.......they will eat together much like a human couple would in goiing to APPLEBEES, for a steak on a date...........beccky barlow on barlow bark

Went snowshoeing with master Dan...

2007-12-15T17:59:00.000-08:00

Dan took Duke and I up the mountains because he wanted to go snowshoeing. I had soooo much fun up there, there wasn't any deer to chase but I still had fun. Duke got lost at the bottom so he went back to the car and waited for us. Dan figured he would do that so he did! He is a very patient dog. I feel bad Duke didn't come with us during the whole trip. The snow was deep, fun, and white! We went up to Willow Creek Trail, yes I have been there before, but Duke hasn't. Daniel flat wore me out! He had snowshoes and I didn't! I still had fun to be out in the hills. -Sadie

Willow Creek....beautiful place

The trail we hiked on

My hometown below

Jasper Belle: Mongrel Cat...

2007-12-11T11:47:00.000-08:00

Jasper Belle is his name: Jasper(a pretty quartz rock), and Belle(French word for beautiful). He is a beautiful cat and that is why we call him Jasper Belle. He is a great member of the family.

I love Jasper Belle, we like to sleep together on the couch sometimes. Jasper is freindly to other people and other dogs.

Jasper is an outdoor cat and comes inside sometimes. During the winter, he has a cathouse with a heating pad inside to keep him warm.

Sadie and Duke doesn't like Jasper Belle, they chase the heck out of him when they are loose. Jasper told me that he is glad Sadie and Duke are inside of their kennel most of the time. Jasper is a lovable cat.

-Sandy

Christmas time.....we opened our presents already!

2007-11-30T17:45:00.000-08:00

Great news for Sadie and I!:

Barlow Putz put our Christmas lights around our good ol' "Dog Majal" kennel. We love it! Looks like Christmas time for us and Santa Claus came to our kennel lastnight, yes, already!

Santa thought we should open our presents right away because he said it is something we need right now. They are Lectro-Kennel heating pads. Master Dan opened them for us and put it in our large dog house for the two of us, he dug all the straw out of the way and put them on bare ground and put 6 inches of straw on top of them so we can dig our own beds over it. It is nice and toasty. The box said it is heated up to 102 degrees. Santa even brought the mongrel cat we hate, Jasper Belle a heating pad too. It seems like Jasper Belle likes it more than we do.

In our stockings, we got a heated 1.5 gallon dog bowl so we wouldn't have frozen water in our water bowl. It works well and our masters don't have to come and pour hot water in it and break it or whatever they do with it.

-Duke

Christmas Tree Hunting....Not Squirrels

2007-11-25T09:43:00.000-08:00

All of my master uncles, aunt, cousins, my master, and cousin Jeri went Christmas tree hunting in the mountains yesterday. I love the mountains, my favorite place. Lot's of squirrels to chase. My master uncle's family got a tree for them and my master's family got 2 trees for them also.

-Speedy

I can't chase sqirrels this time, it is Christmas tree hunting!

My cousin Jeri waits for everybody.

Found a tree!

And the second!

Oooh, pretty! I love Christmas. Bones, and more bones!

2007-11-22T15:49:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving meal? No fair!

2007-11-22T14:37:00.000-08:00

I was wandering around the table begging for food all Thanksgiving day and I haven't gotten one thing! My masters put me on diet since who knows when? During the meal, I can smell that delicous turkey, potatoes, and candied yam. I hope I will eat that stuff in doggy heaven. I love to eat!

Sandy

Welcome to the Platoon Of Four blog!

2007-11-22T12:00:00.000-08:00

Hi! I am Sadie, the leader of the Platoon of Four. I am a chocolate labrador retriever. My master is Daniel. I am always behind bars but Daniel takes Duke and I running in the hills and on the fields every day. I am 77 in dog years. I am lovable, sweet, friendly dog but sometimes I get in trouble. I am also obedient.
Hi! I am Speedy. I am a terrier mix, I am 7 years old in dog years. I am a service hearing dog, I am not blind, I my eyes are covered with hair. My master is deaf and her name is Becky. I like to play with other dogs and I love people. I move very, very fast, that is why my name is Speedy.
I am queen of the window! I am Sandy, I am a cocker spaniel and I am 85 years old. I love my masters, I have 4 masters, Daniel, Becky, David, and Karma. I am the queen of The Platoon Of Four. I love to sleep, play with my red ball, look out the window, and eat. I am a lovable, cuddlely dog. I am a cancer survivor. Twice!

My name is Duke. I am a yellow labrador retriever and I am 12 dog years old. I love my companion, Sadie and my master, Daniel. I love to run and play. My master is the best because he takes me on car rides and lets me run in the hills every day with Sadie. I follow Sadies orders every where we go, I am not much of a leader.