MAX AND ME!

MEET MAX!!
You can see that he is a
RED SOX FAN.
I met him at the
LAMSON FARM DAY
just last Saturday.

He reminded me so much of Stoney Wall.
For
JUST A MOMENT
I THOUGHT IT WAS HIM.
But I digress.

Let me start over.

Mama lived in Germany decades,
I MEAN DECADES AGO,
(ha, that tells you how old she is, don't tell her I told you).


Anyway,
when she was living in Augsburg, Germany
she had her
VERY FIRST DOXIE!

Now Mama had never
SEEN,
I MEAN SEEN IN PERSON
a dachshund before.

She had only seen pictures of them in books.

But then, she was living

IN THE LAND OF DOXIES!

This is where she learned
ALL ABOUT THEM.

Did you know that doxies
are known as BADGER DOGS?
This is because they will
 dig into the ground  with their very strong front legs
and pull the dirt out with their very strong back legs
as they are digging in a hole

TRYING TO GRAB A BADGER.

Once they catch up to that wiggly creature
they would grab it and drag it out by

BACKING UP.

CAN YOU JUST IMAGINE?

Here is a doxie
grabbing the badger,
dirt flying everywhere,
and you can only see the doxie's but, 
YES I MEAN DEIRIERE
hanging out of the hole
and those back legs, well they are working hard.

Anyway, you can just hear it,
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP
as the
DOXIE BACKS UP.

So Mama learned about doxies
after flying across that
big blue ocean,
landing in Frankfurt Germany,
taking a drive south,
where she eventually ending up in Augsburg.

And this is where she saw her first
VERY FIRST
WIRE HAIRED  STANDARD SIZED DAUSHUNDS.

IT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.

THEY WERE SO CUTE,

AND SO
OF COURSE
SHE HAD TO GET ONE.

MAMAS FIRST DOXIE
WAS A WIREHAIRED STANDARD SIZED
NAMED
TINA PUP.

After Tina Pup
Mama had no doxies in her life
for a very long time.

CAN YOU IMAGINE?
I MEAN LIKE,
HOW IS THAT EVEN RIGHT?

But one day after visiting a friend she met a couple who was holding one

RIGHT IN THEIR ARMS.

Which totally amazed MAMA because of course
standard sized doxies are not little dogs.

That is when she found out about
MINIATURE DOXIES
and of course

THIS IS HOW THEY CAME TO HAVE

 Stoney and Me.

Back to Max.
Here are his folks from Florida with the
BIG BOY.

I had spent
Lamson Farm Day
day barking at every dog that came by.
Bark Bark!
Who are you?
Get away from my
MAMA AND PAPA.

You know the drill.
I am still in
SOCIALIZATION SCHOOL
because of course
AFTER MY YEARS OF BEING A COUCH POTATO
I really do not know how to do the

MEET AND GREET.

So I am barking here and barking there and
Mama she is telling me "no bark, no bark",
and gently holding my nose.

But when MAX skipped over, I was like
AMAZED,
CONFOUNDED,
CONFUSED?
Who is this
MASKED MAN
I thought?

Oh sorry,
I am getting my
SUPERHEROES
mixed up.
I mean he did have a mask
but it was all
dapple grey.

Any way this doxie was the
same size and coloring
of my old brother
STONEY WALL.

Except of course
Max
had that very dramatic,
handsome,
dapple head.

I MEAN
I could not stop
KISSING HIM,
SMELLING HIM,
MUGGING HIS FACE
ALL OVER.
Wow, for a moment I thought he
WAS
STONEY WALL.

My little heart
TWISTED
JUST FOR A MOMENT
and then I realized,
no he was not my brother.

But that was okay
BECAUSE
HE WAS THE NEXT BEST THING.

And so his folks
Terry and Paul from Florida,
came by with Max to visit
TWICE.
I MEAN TWICE.
AND WASN'T THAT SPECIAL?
I DID HATE TO SEE HIM LEAVE.
Before they left they promised to
check us out on
FACEBOOK
once they get back home.

WHICH IS JUST GRAND TO ME.

And so, thanks for checking in!
Dharma Hugs!
Dharma Dharma

ME AND MAX
MUGGING ON EACH OTHER.