Learned helplessness?

So tell me my friends and faithful readers, what does learned helplessness mean? Mom said that as she put me on the bed tonight. I can't help it. I stared and stared and stared at the stairs (stares?) but couldn't get up enough nerve to get up them. She doesn't understand how long it takes me to work up the nerve when she's not in here. Oh well.

Ooh. A fly. Snap! Zooom I'm off. I snagged mom's phone and am now blogging from the kennel. I like the darkness in here.

Ooh. There goes Jingles. Zooooom. I'm off again. Now mom said I had ADD. What's that? Why can't she talk in words I understand? ~sigh~

When mom left yesterday morning, she said she'd be back this evening. Brother J and I got so excited about seeing her. As a present, we pulled allllllll the covers off her bed. Sweet, huh? Then we spent most of the evening wrestling on her. She says we are brats, annoying, and lots of those other words I don't understand. Oh well. She ends up letting us give her kisses so she must love us.

Ut oh. I think mom noticed I took her phone. Gotta go. Keep your fingers crossed that I can make it up the stairs WITH the phone.

Ciao,
Spence

Challenge Mastered

My family is so weird. Cousin Sarah was doing something in the hallway with this stick. It made a funky noise and was scary. I could hear mom calling me, but I couldn't get past the stick-monster.

Mom tried an experiment and put my special shirt on me. Woooosh, right past that stick-monster I went! She and Cousin Sarah just laughed and laughed. I can't wait to show Grand-Mama who is coming later today.

On another note, Cousin Sarah finally realized she had issues with apologizing too much when she came into the room and Sister Kiji said, "I'm sorry". Heh heh Kiji is a funny bird.

Peace out.

Crash-boom bye-bye

It has been confirmed! Proof positive that every time Momgoes out of town, the crash-booms come! Thunder, lightning and all of thathorrible stuff … it just makes me shake and whimper in fear. Cousin Sarah saysit won’t hurt me, but I’m still scared. Well mom took me to the goodie store(yay treats) and bought me a new, special, just-for-Spencer shirt. The last twotimes the crash-booms have come, Cousin Sarah has put my special shirt on me,and I have slept like a pup – right through the crash-booms. (I know thecrash-booms have come because when I get up in the morning, the grass outsideis wet and stuff is all blown around out back. So my fellow pooch brothers andsisters who are also scared of the crash-booms, or don’t like it when Mom/Dadleave, or don’t like rides in the car (rolls eyes), have your folks get you a thundershirt. They are awesome… just like having a Mom-hug all the time.

On another note, I found my foster mom’s address. I think I’mgoing to write her an e-mail to let her know how I’m doing and that I miss her.Yay Central Texas Dachshund Rescue! (Mom says it’s very possible that we mayget another brother or sister when we move to a larger house. I’m so excited Icould just pee!)

Don't I make a cute baby? (P.S. I hate being held like this.)

Licks and wiggles,

Spencer Mc Wiggles