Raising Dexter - A Rottweiler’s Life

One of my jobs is to fetch the newspaper every morning from outside and bring it inside. I love my job - I get paid every day (in biscuits!).

… and here is Hercules doing his job … sleeping all day!

Woofs & Hugs
Dexter

According to various sorces, dogs can learn up to 200 words. So my Mom and I decided to write down all the words I know to see if we get to 200 …

These are all the words I know:

tennis
play
ball
sock
leave
sit
go see
Mommy
go
paw
lie down
bed
nap
tyre
go play with …
no
ok
alley
mommys room
newspaper
fetch the …
look
clean it up
dinner
breakfast
snack
treat
pool
drink some water
walk
lead
paw
where is …
car
bakkie
treat
biscuit
touch
inside
outside
bed
off
dog
kitty
bicycle
winnie (for wee)
pee
dig
come here
what is this
toy
collar
loves
stop licking
scratch
assume a position
move over
stand
go round
crossing
bath
stop
bottle
give it to …
bad dog
good dog
no jumping
wait
swim
forest
run
yay
huh
naughty
birds
back up
tuna
chicken
vet
off you go
kong
collar

and I know 11 people’s and 1 cat’s names!

Thats not quite 200 … so Mom says we have to learn more.

Loves & woofs
Dexter

Some new photos of my older but littler brother …

PS: He doesn’t hate me anymore! We kinda get along

Love
Dex

Things I love …

Playing ball
Swimming
Getting my back scratched
Vienna sausages
Pigs ears
Chasing the cat
My Mom
Ian
Sleeping on my Moms bed
Sharing a yoghurt with my Mom
Going for a walk
Going in the car
Playing ball
Playing with my tire
Empty plastic bottles
Playing ball
Dinner time
Tuna
Playing with Alfred
Spending the day with Ox and Madgey
Playing ball
My ball collection
My funky chicken
The beach
Long walks in the forest

… oh and playing ball!

This is my Mom’s Grand Dad’s new pup, Sherrie. Grand Dad rescued her and she now lives with him at his home in Missouri, USA. I’m not sure how she is related to me, just that she is. She loves toys as much as I do so we sent her a bunch of toys as a “welcome to your new home” gift. Sherrie is 4 years old and she is a Cairn Terrier.

Woofs & Wags from Dexter

I’m 11 months old today!
Here is a photo of me with Ox (my Rottie friend). You can see how I’ve grown since I was 6 weeks old.

6 weeks old with Ox at Muizenberg Beach.

A few weeks ago at Ox’s pool (almost as big as him now).

Woofles & Licks from Dex

Here is a new photo of me!

I’ve been going on walks nearly every day with my friend Helen (the marathon girl)! We walk for about 40 minutes and its far!! I’ve also been for walks in the evening - Mom takes me to a field where we meet up with her friends Claire & Ryan and I get to play with their dogs, Jack & Maggie. I really enjoy that especially when Ryan throws the ball for me - he’s a great ball thrower - I get to run really far to catch it and bring it back, up and down hills. Thats a lot of fun for me. The ball games are my absolute favourite.

I had to go to the bet on Monday - they say I’m overweight
Now Mom is cutting down on my treats. Sigh … I do love my treats so much.

Love & woofs
Dex

Today my friend Helen took me for a walk - Helen did the Comrades Marathon last month so she trained very hard for that and is super fit. So it was a really great walk and I was very tired when we got back and slept for hours! Helen says she will take me for more walks now that I am so good on my walks.

Here is a photograph of my “brother” the Cat in one of the places he goes to hide away from me!

Dexter
wooooffffles
xxxx

My Mom says I’m such a great dog to take on walks that we often go for 2 walks a day now. (I walk, Mom tries to keep up!). I’ve stopped barking back at the yappity dogs down the road. I’ve learnt to put my nose in the air and walk right past them. Sometimes I sneak a peek at them and man would I love to bark back and tell them what I think of them, but if I don’t, I get to go for more walks and Mom is alwys very happy and proud of me when I just walk past them. Then the two huge dogs that were really mean and ferocious further down the road seem to have calmed down a lot (or maybe now that I am so big they are a bit intimidated by me - a dog can dream can’t he?). Whatever their story is, we now walk right past those two as well. Not so much nose in air, I’d love to give those two a piece of my mind, but really, Mom is sooo happy when I don’t bark at them that its worth ignoring them for all the special attention I get afterwards.

I have a new favourite fun thing to do …. we have some slippery floors and a very long passage. One of my cool Rogz beds lives at one end of the passage. Charging from the other end of the passage and diving onto my bed makes the bed go ski-ing for the rest of the way… lots of fun! I do it every time they move my bed back to its “place”. Other fun things to do are chasing the cat when noone is looking, fetching pillows from the bedrooms and taking them to the living room …. you know, all the things dogs are not supposed to do!

Lots of licks
Dexter

Happy Friday - Me with my favourite ball - it squeaks! It the best of all my balls.