This week was not nearly as exciting as last week. Homer still leaves a slight wake of skunk smell. You would think that after having him run around outside for a bit, the smell would just dissipate and get covered up by his own dogstink. This is not the case. He now smells like a combination of the two. There is nothing better than waking up to a big smelly skunky Homer head, 3mins before the alarm goes off. This is becoming a regular event. Homer rests his head on the bed, 3 in away from my face, makes some groaning noices and wakes me up just before the alarm goes off. Let me tell you, if you need to send my blood pressure higher than the clouds in the sky, wake me up within 5 minutes of my alarm... However, on Monday morning I was not woken up by Homer's head. I woken up to Homer throwing up everywhere, but mainly right in front of the bathroom. I spent nearly 20 mins. and a half roll of toilet paper trying to remove puke stain. Our carpet was pretty much dyed yellow. It was like Homer pee'd from his mouth. Similar topics have been touched upon by South Park. Eventually it took Ellen's and my team effort to get the stain up. We're not really sure what caused the vomitsode, but this happens to both dogs consistently on a monthly basis.

This Saturday was Ellen's birthday. But of course Homer and Mervin made the day all about them. They are selfish like that. Mervin seemed to want to help Ellen unwrap gifts more than anyone. This conflicted with Ellen's need for space when opening gifts. I had to separate the two for fear that they would start wrestling, and biting and sniffing each others butts. And no one wants to see that... Homer took a more spectator roll next to me. He also made sure we knew when the new neighbor dogs were outside. All in all, it was a fun time. Ellen got everything she could ever want and the dogs got to sniff it all out.

A couple hours later, Mollie showed up on our door step. Clearly this is a situation for Homer to freak out. He eventually loosened up... until Mollie left the room and came back. Then Homer acted like he had 10 min. amnetia. Something that neither dog got over were the balloons that Ellen received from Linda. We kept the balloons in the dining room where we thought they would be out of the way. No no no. The dogs were fully aware of the presence of balloons. Homer would not go near the kitchen or stairs to the second floor. Though Mervin seems to have a little more gumption, he could not even bring himself to eat the bowl of food we had laid out for him. Yes, it takes a lot to scare Merv out of eating. Don't want Mervin to eat? Bring balloons. And of course, Ellen in fine form, thought it would be great to terrorize Merv with balloons AND video tape it. See video below.



We quickly realized that keeping the balloons in the house was causing to much commotion. And Mervin would starve to death. And Homer would wear a hole in the carpet from not leaving the living room... ever. So the balloons have been removed from the interior house structure.

Mervin was an incredibly bad puppy this week. He made the decision that he wanted to eat Homer's food, no matter the cost. Ellen had to drag Merv away from Homer's bowl and the resulting angry fights. The multiple times El had to do this, Mervin would leave trails of mouth fulls of food on the way to his kennel. I mean its not like we do not feed Mervin enough. He gets an allotted amount for his weight. No more, no less. And yet, he is still convinced that he needs Homer's food as well. Clearly Mervin has an addiction and may some day need an intervention.

This week was riddled with bad weather, so Homer and I did not make it out much. This week looks to be pretty good so I am hopeful that we will get out a bunch. On a final note, Homer has developed a small soar on the top of his nose. We noticed this at the beginning of the week in the aftermath of the skunking. By the end of the week, it looked like his nose was scabbed over and healing. If it gets any worse, we will have to take him in to the vet.

Until next time... B-dubs OUT!!