So in order to grow, i have decided to supplement my diet with some extra minerals. especially copper wire, the kind you find in cords that go to lamps and computer printers and clock radios and the speakers for the stereo. course, i don’t chew them if they’re plugged in, coz they taste different, but the speaker wires were the best! for fiber, i like to chew the doormat we have, but i haven’t figured out how to unravel it like Dylan and Guinness yet. i also needed something hard to clean my teeth, so i went into mommy’s briefcase and took her calculator - the metal was kind of hard to gnaw on, but i did manage to punch a few holes with my teeth. the plastic buttons were the best tho - they were little and soft and i got to eat six of them. i also like plastic soda bottles when i can steal them from the recycling bin. i tried to chew the corner on mommy’s lapp-topp when she wasn’t looking (she was chasing Gus when he ate the checkbook, hee hee :) !), but it didn’t taste as good. toilet paper is fun too, coz you get to pull on it and it all comes rolling off, then you can drag around what you don’t eat. i’m not as good a decorator as some of you guys, but i have made some very pretty streamers. TeeJay and i sometime eat stuff that comes in the mail - he likes the gloo on the envelopes, but i like the crackly stuff that the bill shows thru best. we usually have to have somebody help us get the mail off the table, but i just learned that if i climb up on the very top of the sofa, the table is right behind it and i can help myself to whatever i want. one time i found this big basket upstairs, and Gus helped me turn it over and knock the lid off. jackpot! it was full of mommy’s clothes and i especially liked her undies - i even brought some downstairs to show her friends what a prize they were.

mommy says she’s gonna send our pictures in today so’s everyone at BDC can see how pretty we are. i hafta tell you that my picture doesn’t do me justice - it makes my head look too big and you can’t tell that my eyes are a beautiful green or that i’m really chocolate brown and white, not black and white. but i don’t wanna sit still long enuff to get a group photo done, not when i just found a big green cord outside to chew! i just hafta figure out how to get it down from the top of the fence. maybe Taz can teach me how to climb the tree again?

(note from Tia - we have been telling all of our English cocker friends about your website, and I just had mommy put your URL in our local club’s newletter. so don’t be surprised if you get a sudden burst in BDC stories about us Engies - we may be cute and lovable, but we’re all bad dogs at heart! how about it, Bud Lite (or better yet, Winston !) - will you share some of your baddest moments with the gang?