Hi everybody, my name is Hope. The hoomans that Neeko calls the moms rescued me from the local animal shelter after all of us were taken from there. The lady I used to live with kept me in a barn with all my sisters in cages. The only time we were allowed out was when there was a boy dog there. I am really liking being able to run up and down the hall and sleep on the bed with Uncle Bob. He is real nice to me. He gives me lots of Nom-noms and snuggles. Lady is very nice to me. She lets me sleep right next to her on the couch where it's nice and warm. I like having a friend I can sleep next to. I don't like to go outside to potty cause it is REALLY cold and I like to be in the house where it's warm. Mom Laura takes me out a lot but I get scared and cold so I can't make peepee and then when I come back in I get all warm and do it on the floor. I think Mom Patty gets upset but she just says "not sposed to potty on the floor" and sprays some stuff on it and cleans it up. They put some strange looking paper on the floor( I think Mom Laura called them potty pads) but they're kinda wierd...they crinkle a little when I step on them and it makes me nervous. It is nice in my new home. I hope all of Neekos friends like me too cause I like having lots of friends that might be able to help me not be so afraid...

 The moms brought home a new dog. She's OK but I've been on medicine so I've been grumpy and not wanting to play.(I went to a HORRIBLE place where they cut my "stuff" off, the moms said I was neutered)  They tell me her name is Hope. She came from a really bad home and the moms are working really hard trying to house train her. They don't know much about her but she really has no manners. When I got my birthday cake she gobbled hers and came after my piece!!! That was just not right at all. Lady and I know better than to steal from someone elses plate. The moms got upset but I didn't get in trouble for growling and she didn't get into trouble for trying to gobble my cake. Hope seems ok but I don't think she knows shes a dog. She acts afraid a lot and the moms keep telling me that Lady and I should be nice to her till she is used to being free. They said she lived in a box all her life!!! I'm glad I never had to live in a box!!! I'm trying real hard to be nice to her. She doesn't even know how to play!!! I will teach her. 

  The snow is here...Mom Laura calls me the Snowplow cause I stick my nose down in it while I am walking...I still smell things on the ground under it...I really don't like it much...my toes get wet and cold from it but I gotta go make peepee and the Moms get REALLY MAD when I make in the house...they keep saying something about taking my nads...I don't know what they are or if I've ever had one...maybe it's one of my nom-noms...

  The weather is changing. The leaves are all falling off the trees. I like that cause there are lots of smells in them on the ground. I roll around on them when I take my hoomans for walks. They laugh and tell me I'm a good boy. I like it when they say that. Mom Laura is trying to make me understand that I am a dog and that she is the boss. Mom Patty says she should be nice to me cause I'm just the baby. Mom Laura just shakes her head and keeps teaching me to behave. I love them both and I like learning because then Mom Laura is really happy and gives me lots and lots of petting and scritches behind my ears plus she gives me nom-noms. I love nom-noms!!

  I sleep with them sometimes and the others, Dude Misty and Brock. Dude even curls up with me when it is cold so we all stay warmer. I think he is ok now. He still hits me sometimes though. I just back up and look at him. I think I am winning him  over. Mom Laura says when we get our own house again I am going to have to get used to them being out with me all the time. They have to stay in the other room now though cause Lady doesn't like them very much and Mom Patty is afraid they will hurt each other. Maybe someday we can all be out together and be friends. I hope so!!

  My family moved...we live in the mountains now and there are lots of really nice smells here. I don't have a big yard right now but my moms or the boy Dustin takes me for several walks everyday...I own the park where we live

   I have a couple of new friends...Ciara and Lady, Ciara is a fuzzy little cat she is lots friendlier to me than the others and Lady is a really fun Pug dog that belongs to the man we are staying with until we get a new house to live in with a big yard for me to play in.

   The trip to Pennsylvania was really long but we stopped along the way for me to play and so the cats got some fresh air and my hoomans could stretgh their legs, Dustin was very cramped in the back seat and Brock kept falling on top of him in his carrier. The moms laughed everytime it happened, Dustin just glared at them...I think he learned his look from the cats.

   Anyway it was an adventure and I am glad it is over.