Hi everyone, my name is Cooper, I am a 1.5 year old Portuguese Water Dog (please don’t say "I’m just like the obama’s dog, I’m NOTHING like the First Dog, I actually Like the AR-15!)
I came to live with MacTech’s family on Saturday the 5th of October, and I’m very happy here, this is Doggie Heaven, not only do I have 50 acres of land to explore leading MacTech around the field (he tells me that he needs to lose some weight and that I’m helping him by making walking not boring), and a one acre bass pond to swim in, but I also have lots of NEW FREINDS!!! (Sorry, got excited, I do that sometimes)
Let me try this thing MacTech calls a “list” or something…
Boy is it hard for me to type on an iPad (whatever that is, I call it Shiny magic glass platey thing), apple needs to make a paw-compatible keyboard
Here’s my new freinds;
MacTech
MomTech
SisTech
NieceTech
NephewTech
Nutmeg, a shorthair rabbit, I could spend hours sitting on all fours, watching her, she’s neat, I don’t know about that hay stuff she eats, seems flavorless to me, but she likes it…
Blue and Nemo, two domestic shorthair cats, I want to be freinds, but they are scared of me, it hurts my feelings, I just wanna be freinds, I’m freinds with Harold, the Maine coon cat that lives at SisTech’s house, where I go for “doggie daycare”, heck, even the two dogs there, Quincy, a dwarf dachshund (funny looking dog, looks like a fuzzy kielbasa with legs…) heck, even heir neurotic, yappy little longhair chihuahua, Lazarus, likes me, as do their barn cats
The horses I don’t care about, too big and stompy, the chickens, I don’t know what to make of them, they look quite fun to chase though, and the goats? Don’t get me started on those snobs, totally ignore me, as do NieceTech’s Vietnamese pot bellied pigs…
Anyway, I don’t mean to brag, but I’m very smart, if I do say so myself, smart enough to hang with the Dopers? I hope so, I know I’m furrier than any of you dopers, and that counts for something, right?
Here’s what I already know for trick commands;
Sit
Stay
Wait
Come
Down
Roll over
Dance (up on my hind legs, front paws held out like arms, dance around on my hind feet)
And here’s what I’ve learned in my new Forever Home
It took me 3 hours to learn the sound of my family’s footsteps on the porch when I come in
I know that I can sit on the couch in the kitchen, and can lay on MacTech’s bed, but all other furniture is a no no
I figured out how to open the upstairs hallway door after watching MacTech do it once this morning! inside door has a push down thumb latch! that works for paws too
I think I figured out how to open Nutmeg’s cage, the latches at the bottom, so I can let her out so we can play but my humans stopped me before I could test out that theory
I’m not fooled by MacTech’s green laser pointer, I know it’s just a dot of light
I love to ride in MacTech’s car, I jump in, lay down on the front passenger seat and relax, I only look out the window when we come to intersections, to see what new direction we are going in
That monster they have on the kitchen counter that makes fizzy water really scares me, why don’t they kill it instead of drinking it’s…juices, humans are gross sometimes
I need to evolve opposable thumbs so I can get into the Magic Cold Box Of Mystery that holds Tasty Treats like cheese…
Okay, MacTech is telling me I’ve been talking too long, later I’ll tell you my short sad story of my life before MomTech rescued me and brought to my Forever Home here…