I just can't seem to stop. I try to be good for Mom & Dad

 and they think I am very smart. At 5 months of age I know lots of things like: sit, stay, come,

 on the rug, move, no, box, go to bed, gotta go, get in, get out, heel, I bark and chase my tail

 to go out,  I say "oww, oww", I lay down and put my feet up when someone says "Belly

 rub". And I am still growing fast too. I weigh about 50 pounds now and am taller than Pepper

 so I can't run under his belly any more. I have a hard time chasing Kitty behind

Sultan's cage too. Kitty is starting to get mad at me a lot. I think I am

 being too ruff on her   now that I am so big.  It's just so hard

    growing up!  

In Over My Head

Yesterday I saw things floating on the water    and they had people in them with

 fishing poles and long sticks with big ends.   I protected my beach by barking at

 them and they did not come any closer,  but there were a lot of them all day long and I had

never seen anything on my water before. Dad said it was opening day of fishing season...

Then today, my dad did something strange...When we went out to the water, he turned over

the big silver thing that had always been there,  that I run around when I am

 teasing Pepper  with a toy.  When he turned it over, it made it look like some of

those boats out on my water.  Then out came a slithering  black and yellow snake. 

  with a red tongue. Dad put the boat in the water and got in it with fishing poles
 and

 then he started moving out in the water like the other boats. He called to me,  but I did not

 want to go to him. So I ran to Mom. He disappeared out of my sight. and

 I kept  watching for him to come back.  Then finally, there he was. 

I could see him again. Little did I know that he was coming in to get me.  I had to get in that

 scary, floating silver boat.   I did not want to ride in it and I looked for a way to get

 out as he went farther away from Mom on shore.   Then I decided to jump out... 

  But I sank way down in the water over my head where there was no light.

I made myself go up to the light and then I dog paddled  all the way to shore

 where Mom was waiting for me.  Dad came back to land and put

 me back in the boat again. I stayed very close to his feet this time as he took me away from

 the ground into the deep water, but he only made me stay for a couple of minutes and

 then let me get back on the ground.

 When I went in the house I went right to bed. I was

 soooooo tired!  Boy was that ever an adventure!

Woof

Wooof

Wooooooof !

As Sophie Bear Grows