Lately, we Scotties have scored big time, because Wen has been going through a phase of bringing home lots of dog toys.  In her search to find toys that we can’t quickly destroy, she has brought us a variety of hard rubber toys, squeaky toys, “Chuckit!” balls, toys with ropes, and treat dispensing toys.

The three of us have checked out each toy and so far, we have chewed up and torn up every toy that we haven’t decided to ignore, so only a giggle ball and a large kick ball remain with no injuries.  Everything else went into the trash after we destroyed them down to parts and pieces that we started to eat.

I guess the search for suitable toys that we toy terminators won’t destroy will have to continue.

This week has been Shark Week on the Discovery channel and I’ve been hanging out with my shark buddies.

Today, I’m going incognito with my friend.  Do you think anyone will recognize us?

This week is a special week of the summer, as it’s Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  The annual event features professional rodeos, concerts, a carnival, vendors, and all kinds of things celebrating Western heritage and it’s a fun time for all!  Yee-haw!!!

Hey, pickleball fans!  Today, I’m dinking and I dink it’s my serve!

What’s that good smell?  Do we smell pizza baking?  I know that we Scotties just ate, but whenever Wen is preparing food in the kitchen, we just have to check it out.  Maybe if we do the line up thing, she will think we look cute and give us a little snack.

Yeah, that probably won’t happen no matter how cute we look, because people food is pretty much off limits for us, but hey, we have to give it a try!

Last month, I had a photo shoot up on Lookout Mountain with Kris Phillips of Furever Photography, now located in Post Falls, Idaho.  Kris  formerly lived in Denver and she did my first photo shoot for the Up Country catalog back in 2022.  Now, she comes back to Denver every June to photograph the winners of the Colorado Pet Pantry calendar contest (that she sponsors and for which I was a winner in 2023) plus some regular dog photo shoots, so Wen contacted Kris once again to reserve a spot for me in her busy schedule.

Since an extremely cold and snowy Lookout Mountain in December was the site of my first photo shoot, Wen thought that it would be fun to go back there in the summer when it was warm and the gorgeous scenery and panoramic views were totally different.

Kris photographed me at different locations for an hour and here are the favorites from my photo shoot.  It was incredible working with such a talented professional dog photographer again and Wen was very grateful to have found Kris and have had the opportunity for us to work with her for the fourth time!

(These are plain paper printouts of the photos and not the finished products).

It seems that our house has become overrun with porch geese.  The fad of the 80’s and 90’s is back sweeping the country and naturally, Wen, who had porch geese back then, has gotten caught up in the latest wave of goose fever.

Yes, we have several porch geese, currently dressed in summery-themed outfits at our house, as well as some little collectible geese statues.  We Scotties are way outnumbered by the geese, since Wen seems to keep bringing them home and the only good thing is that they’re not live geese running around chasing us, honking, hissing, and biting.

Every time though that a new goose appears, we Scotties think “another goose?” but I suppose that since they’re not bothering us, we won’t mess with them (for now).

“Another goose?”

Swim tubes come in all shapes and sizes from plain colored rings to giant flamingos.  The newest one we have this summer looks like a festively decorated donut with sprinkles and a big bite out of it.  (No, I did not take that big bite out of it!)   Now….all we need is to do is get our doggie pool out of the box, set it up in the backyard, and fill it with water!

There were four years when there were four of us Scotties, instead of the usual three.  In 2015, the three of us (Sunny, Molly, and I) were surprised when Wen came home with a little black Scottie puppy (Sadie) who was so cute that she couldn’t resist.

Sunny had endured losing Kirby, her wheaten brother she had lived with her whole life and Frosty, the rescue wheatie within a period of three months, but I had showed up as a puppy, as well as puppy Molly, so Sunny was never an only dog.  She did, however, have to act as if she was our doggie mother to show us pups the ropes.

Then, a couple of years later when Sadie showed up, there were four of us Scotties running around and Sunny had another puppy to raise, but we were a happy little band of four for the next four years.

Sadly, we lost Sunny in 2019 and our foursome became the threesome we are today, but when we were four, the three of us were really fortunate to have our fearless leader, Sunny, to watch over us and keep us in line!

Sadie, Sunny, Molly, and Riley