Rufflesblogs: My First BarkPost! How to Train Your Human

...*Stretches*...Oh, hey there. N told me our blog is up and runnin'. She's been naggin' me to come introduce myself (again), so here I am. For my first BarkPost, I thought I'd do one for all my doggy peeps out there. See, there are lots of places for humans to talk with each other and exchange the 411 on everything dawg. But theres nowhere for us canine folks to have a pow-wow about hoomans. So after many hours of hard work, sweat, blood and tears (I accept payment in treaties N #notkidding), I present to you...

How to Train Your Human

1. Look at Me

Okay guys this is an important one to start with. Hungry for dinner? Bored silly at home? Want a treatie? If you wanna get your human to do what you want, first you gotta get them to look at ya. To do this, use The Stare. No half assed looks here! The stare has gotta be strong, and you wanna make sure you are near and sittin' up so your human knows you mean bizniz. Now humans can be a lil slow. So you need to keep staring until it works. If that doesn't work, you my friend might be stuck with a really slow human. Aright, aright, so if that happens, don't sweat. Use The Paw. One paw on your human's leg should get their attention. Mix it up with The Stare, or A Whine, and you should be set. 

2. Get Me Food/Play With Me/Let's Go Out

Once your human looks at ya, he should know you want something. So get up and walk over to what you want 'em to get. If its food, plop yourself in front of the fridge. If you wanna play, go ahead and get your toy. If you are going catshit crazy in the house, go to where your harness is. If you wanna level up, use The Point; look at whatcha want, then look at your human, and look bac'addit again.

3. Gimme That, Now!

Look, sometimes a dog don't got the time to do all that. If theres a new meaty treatie, or a new ball ball, I NEED IT NOW!! (Ops, got carried away heh). So whine away. The louder the better. If your human is annoying you by carrying you; whine, struggle, put your head in your human's armpit. Ehfurrything goes. 

5. I Don't Like This, Stahppp it!

One word. Sigh, groan, walk away. Ok so, I hate it when N brushes my teefies (don't get me started). And she's sneaky so she usually does it when I'm half asleep. So I let her do it, but I don't make it easy. I sigh, I give a big groan, and since I can't walk away, I move my mouth and tongue around as much as I can. Don't make it easy for them pawchamps. I'm pretty darn sure I've saved myself long teef brushin' time because of this.

So thats it for my first barkpost. Fellow canines, I hoped its helped you in training your hoomans. If you have any questions or human behaviors you can't solve, drop me a line- I'll be happy to dish out advice! (Donations to the Ruffie Fund are accepted in treaties).

Movin' Out,
Capt'n Ruff

Old Blog Flashback- 22 April 2013

Note from N: This is the second post from our old 2013 blog recap. 

What's up peeps!

Well its been almost a week since the family returned from Japan. I've been trying to get N to update my blog but she's just been sooooo lazy and groggy all the time. I think she soaked too long in the hot spring waters there hehe.

Anyway I'm real happy everyone is home! 9 days without 'em was pretty boring. N showed me some pictures of the pink trees and tall mountains she saw; 'parently  the family decided to go to Japan because you can only see pink trees this time of the year.

Here's another reason they went to Japan! Nice fresh beef with lots of fat in it *slurps*. N stuffed her face silly with these! She had Waygu beef sukiyaki, Waygu beef shabu shabu, grilled  Hida beef, grilled Hida sukiyaki beef, braised Hida beef..."sigh".

I was feeling pretty down after hearing about the beef. Why do I always miss out on the good stuff?? N told me to cheer up because she got me a surprise pressie!

Oh oh oh, what could it be? Its chunky...it's brown....its soft....it....smells like a toy?

"..............."

N says she missed me so much in Japan she bought herself a toy doggy to remind her of me. Okay...I guess that's kinda sweet...

WAIT is that a pink bow I see?? Excuse me I am not a girl!!

Sheesh. Humans. "rolls eyes".

Sniff youse later,
Ruff

Old Blog Flashback- 14 May 2013

Note from N: This is actually our second attempt at blogging, the first being when Ruffles was just over a year old in 2013. I've managed to find some of our old posts and thought it would be fun to include them here. 

Hi Guys!

I'm back! Sorry for not saying hi for so long. N had some sad stuff happen around her so she hasn't been in the mood to help me blog for a long time. She's feeling better now though and promised she'd help me out more! 

The weather in Singapore has been real hot the past few weeks. If you know anything about me, I'm an ice-cream-not-warm-milk, winter-not-summer, tile-not-carpet kinda dog. I can't stand the heat! So on Saturday N took me to Mr Groomers to get my hair cut short. I've been hearin' some meanie comments like I look like a rodent *glares at Brother Teo* but as long as I'm no longer hot n stuffy, everything's cool with me =).

Before

After

Psst I got this nasty burn after my trip to the groomers. N was real upset when she found it. It was so ouchie but after N put some medicine on it I felt much better :). 

My ouchie. Looks gross! 

This arvo an exciting package came for N. Guess what was inside?! A brand new Monkey toy! Oh I love him already! He's so soft and his legs are sooo long, and he loves to do squeakies too! 

Later on N brought down my other toy, Mr Elephantie for playtime. She said I was ignoring him.

Duh! I am not ignoring Mr Elephantie! It's just I am busy playing with my new toy and it would be rude to walk away. 

N decided to test me. She put Mr Elephantie and Maurey (think that's what I will call him from now on) side by side...

...then she made me do a stay far away

... And then she let me go! So of course I went for....

...Maurey! What? We haven't finished playing! 

N did it again and I went n got...

Maurey again hehe. Hey it's not that I don't love Mr Elephantie, I just need more time to *ahem* get acquainted with Maurey! 

Til next time!

3 Happy Wuffs,

Ruff