Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network
Faces of Rescue 2004
Stevie & Tommy - July 2004
Tommy and Stevie arrive - 3 months old
Stevie here. Well foster Mom has my ear infection almost gone. I hate it when she tries to clean my ears and put medicine in them. I don't mind being wrapped in a towel and cuddled afterwards, though. I sleep all night in my crate. I go out to potty sometimes, and sometimes I just go where I am. Mom keeps trying to put paper down and I tear it to pieces and run with the pieces. What fun it is!!! I'm very cute, and I expect to be treated like visiting royalty. I weigh in at 6.5 lbs. and I keep it moving all the time. Unless of course I'm sleeping.
Foster Mom here. Stevie bullies his big brother. He is very dominate even though he is small. When I pick him up he often hits me in the face with his nose,to keep me in line. He has gotten very vocal. He's the first to bark, and the first to try to talk. The sounds he comes up with are a riot.
Tommy Jumping for Joy!
Tommy telling off his foster sis!
Please say a prayer for her return to health.
They are still in Michigan, and his new foster mom felt a BIT guilty to be taking them.. but also thrilled to have a couple of cutie pies.
Stevie's Favorite Toy
Stevie thinks there are never enough toys.
I assured Kathy that Stevie and Tommy are doing great! I didn't tell her that Tommy chewed through his harness and now has a big boy harness. I didn't tell her that both of them jump up on the dishwasher door when it is down and try to clean the dishes. I didn't tell her that Stevie stole a bar of soap out of the shower, nor did I tell her that Tommy attacked my vacuum cleaner! Anyone doubt these boys are cairns
Tommy sez "Do you eat dese?"
Stevie anna me kannot bleeb dat nobuddy wants us!!!!! Our fostur mudder saw dat "no appikashuns" list anna almost had a hardytack anna told us dat not eben one fambly wants one ob us kute liddle boyz. Ob korse, we iz just a liddle cornfuzed acuz it kinda looked like our mudder wuz happy dancin? Kood dis be trew? Iz our fostur mudder reely not feelin dat bad bout nobuddy wantin us????
Aneewayz, we fink we are berry cute liddle boyz eben if we r da furst puppeez in da hiztory ob CPCRN dat nobuddy wants. Ummmm, iz dis acuz suntymes we hab assidents in da stupid ol krates????? Peepuls, pleez tuff it out anna just wipe da pee up. Geesh, wimps. We iz ashually kettin much bedder wif dis stuff, howebbers, dere r so manny rules anna it takes a liddle tyme to lern all ob dem. I meen, okay, we kannot pee unner da tabul, but ummm, maybee we kan pee unner da chair or onna dis rug ober dere???? Geesh, akkordin to da look onna fostur mudders face, appariently not (sigh).
We iz kuddly, we lubs toyz, we lubs to gib kisses anna we lubs to hab our tummies rubbed. We lubs ofver dogs, howebbers we dunnot lubs kats. We dunnot chew da rugs, or da chairs, or da tabuls akuz we preefurr to chew our toyz. Fostur mudder finks dat aside from Stevie's krate isshoes, we are purrfeck (SO DERE!!!).
We feel sorry for all ob youz dat dunnot wants us, acuz you r missin out on a cupple of wunnerful boyz.
Dis message wuz endorsed anna approved by,
Thomas and Stephen a/k/a as Tommie anna Stevie, a/k/a mummies liddle
cudie patuddiez, hunnie bunniez, liddle punkins, bestest puppeez
eber, anna #&*^@@#! (kannot reely say dat one, itz da lub term mudder
uses weneber Stevie peez inna krate
9/30/2004 I never got the chance to get this pic out there. It was so cute, they fought bravely to protect us from Demon Deck Dogs with glowing eyes. I bet their new foster Mom doesn't even know how brave they really are, unless of course she has them on her deck,too.
Thomas and Stephen (MI)
NOPE - ya fosser mam must beez fallin in LOB wif you - she is debinitely NOT makin funz ob you here. You is two berry bootiful guys (if its okay to kall boyz bootiful).
Tell dat ladee to takes MORE pitchers like dis one - sumbuddy out there is gonna sees em an takes you guys outta the colonels program berry soonest!
Love from Diva, Maxx and Annie in Wesbirginya
PeeYes: We is hopin that witch is a faker - she looks preddy scary - did ya eat her?
It iz trew, our fostur mudder iz in lob wif us. Alwayz scoopin us up anna gibben us hugs anna kisses anna kallin us her cutee patootiez (blech).
Ashually, we did kill da witch. Mudder haz to hot glue dat witches hair back on. Stoopid witch wuz scarin Gracie Lou Freebush anna we had to proteck her.
Thomas and Stephen, takin kare ob biznuss in Mishygan
Fank you eberybuddies for da compleemints. It iz trew, dere are nobuddies out dere dat wants a cupple ob cute liddle corn dogs whut libs in Mishygan. Ummm, not totully trew, bof ob our fostur mudders wish dey kood keep us. I gess, to nose us is to lubs us. Howebberz, r fostur mudder sayz dat da good Lord haz a plan an we will hab forebber homez wen da peepul whut needs us finably finds us. Meenwyle, we iz bein lubbed to peeceez in our fostur home.
Fanks again for finkin we iz cute!
Thomas anna Stephen
Todaze my fostur mudder spent a liddle too much tyme on line chitty chattin wif anofver membur on dis list whose name I will not menshun acuz it wood be rude to imply dat Anti Corinne haz a durty hous acuz she spenz all her tyme on line. Oops, sorry, did I menshuned a name?
Aneewayz, mudder bin late wif our sekond potty break of da daze. We surprized mudder by not stickin wif da skedshual eeffer anna we did not peez inna our krates! Dis makes her berry happeez. So, fostur mudder takes Stevie and me outside to do all ob our bizness, which we do, so we get all kindz ob treets anna den we get to hab playtime. Playtime iz a berry good fing.
Howebberz, todaze it sems maybe I dinnot fully complete my outside mission. I fot I did, but I dinnot. Anna so, I found a lubly spot onna rug where Seamus likes to nap, I assumed da possishun, just about to let it drop anna I heer my fostur mudder skreem, "NO NO NO!!!" Just like dat! "NO NO NO!!!" Well Geesh any planz I hab of a leeshurly poop iz ober. I fot maybe da sky bin fallin anna so I stopped whut I wuz doin, dropped to da floor and krawled onna my belly to take cubber unner da coffee tabul. My mudder bin running to da coffee tabul too, anna I'm berry sorry fostur mudder but find your own coffee tabul, dere izn't enuff room for da two ob us. Onablies instead ob krawlin unner wif me, she grabs my harness and pullz me out, runz to da door anna out we go, wif da sky fallin an everyfing! I must say, I queshun her parenting skills. Really, I do.
So we iz outside anna I dunnot see anyfing fallin from da sky, so wen fostur mudder said dis mite be a good time to poop, I figgered what da heck, anna I did. Ob korse dis makes my mudder berry happy anna she been singing anna dancing anna gibben me treets anna tellin me whut a good boy I bin. She completely forgot dat jus a few sekonds ago, da sky had bin fallin in. I reely do make my mudder berry happy. Ob korse, wen we got bak inna house, Seamus bin in da spot where I wuz gonna poop afore I bin so roodly inneruppted. I dunnot nose why he is lookin at me wif dat ebil look. Hmmmph!!!! Oh well, maybee da sky will fall on him.
Thomas, still alibe and well inna Mishygin10/13/04 Rantings of a Volunteer Cairn Mudder
I try not to complane, reely I do, but I hab hab a berry bizzee mornin anna I jus hab to vent. Da fing iz, dis raizin puppeez is reely hard work. I am azausted. Thomas anna Steben want up like afore aneebudee in da world wantz to git up, anne dey iz alwayz gittin into my toyz anna runnin all ober da place anna I hab to chaze dem aroun anna teech dem to behabe. Seamus iz no help, not eben a liddle bit. In fack, Seamus gets dem all riled up anna den he goez anna takes a nap and leebs me to do all da work. Anna dese puppeez hab to pee anna poop all ob da time. Dat seems to be all dey do asides eet anna play. Anna ebery time dese puppeez go out to peez anna poops, well den I hab to go out too anna check to see whut dey did. Duz it look okay? Duz it smell alright? Well, you nose how we mudders are bout dese fings. Fankfully, my mudder duz krate dem for nap times anna den I hab to get a nap in too acuz if I dinnot nap wen da kidz nap, I'd neber get any rest. Seamus bin complaining dat I'm not helpin wif da household chores, like guardin our house from da new kat nes door, but I'm just too tired. Anna dese kidz say fings whut I wood neber hab said to my mudder. I'd a bin knocked to kingdumm kum if I'd say sum of da fings whut kums out of dere moufs. Anna dey is spoiled. Dey git anyfing dey want anna dey hab not lerned da valyou ob hard work. Dese are da fings nobuddy eber tells you about wen you are gettin your furst babeez. Dey just say how luckee you iz anna how dey lubs babeez anna how much fun dey iz. Whut dey should tell aspeckin mudderz is, "So you fink you want da truff? Well let me tell you dis Miss Aspeckin Mudder, YOU CAN'T HANNEL DA TRUFF!"Gracie Lou Freebush, CPCRN Volunteer anna temprary cairn mudder to Thomas anna Steben (MI)
Now hang in dere just a liddle bitz Mz Gracie Lou Freebush. I'm afraid dat I'm not seein da same fings you iz. Since you hab so rudelee cornplaned bout me in your post, let me tell you whut I fink. Furst ob all, just acuz dere are a cupple of babeez in da house, dat duz not meen dat you kan shirk all ob your household responsabillys. Dis house still needs to be proteked from katz, skwerls, chippymunks, birdz anna dat boy whut libs across da street anna skatebords all ob da time. We still hab three teenkids and fifty- eleben of dere frenz whut needz greetin and cuddlin seberal tymes a day too. Since deez puppeez cum to lib wif us,I hab taken ober all dese chores wif liddle hep from you. Rememburr, I am da onably guy in dis house anna I hab to be da role model for dese two boyz. I am teechin dem a good work ethick. Secondably, yez, I do sumtymes get da boyz riled up anna den I go take a nap. Notice, dey onablies bofver me once. One show up my berry sharp teef and dey nose dat is iz nap time for Seamus and dey find sumpin else to do. You dunnot hab to watch dem acuz I am nappin, you can nap too. I am teeching dem a good nap ethick. Your problum iz dat you iz alwayz playin wif dem. For hebbens sake Gracie, gib da boyz a break an let dem play on dere own for a liddle wile. You iz smufferin dem. Dey need room to asplore and play wiffout constint supervishun. Looks to me like you iz habin fun all ob da time and da onably dog workin in dis house iz me. You are teeching dem a bad party ethick. Anna one more fing, since dese boyz showed up, you hab not bin payin attenshun to me anna I dunnot like dat eben a liddle bit. Wen da boyz do finably take dere naps anna I want to play, you take a nap too anna pretend dat you hab a headaike. I dunnot nose whut kind of ethick dat iz, but I dunnot like it.
Dat, Mz Freebush, iz a guyz point of view.
Seamus (trainin dose younguns to be reel men)Itz trew, Stebie anna I did go visitin todaze! Furst ob all, fostur mudder brot da krate up from da basement (yep, she keeps us inna basement, finks itz okay acuz it is sumpin kalled finushed, howebberz we wood raffer be up dem down stares). Den, acuz we nose dat if da krate is up we iz goin for a kar ride, we bof hopped rite in anna sure enuff, off to da kar we went. Now dere were seberal places we kood ob gone. Suntymes to da barn wif da big horsies whut make poops dat is bigger den a corn terrorist. Suntymes we go to da vet dat pokes and prods anna tells our fostur mudder dat we'll probablee be sleepy for da rest ob da day onablees we neber iz. Who new dat todaze we wuz goin to see our berry furst foster mudder, Kaffy? Ob korse we did not forgit our berry furst foster mudder whut lubbed us anna took kare ob us wen we had da diaryeeaa, anna took kare ob our eers anna made dat meen ol infeckshun go awayz. We kood neber, eber forgit a ladee as lubly as her. Fostur mudder Kaffy still had all ob our toyz anna bleeb me, we did a cornpleet inbentorie. Fostur Mudder Kaffy still keeps da treets where dey wuz wen we libbed dere, anna bleeb me, we at all da treets dat she had wen we libbed dere (poor liddle Skeeter mus not git treets!). Fostur mudder still haz da bestest lap in da whole wurld and bleeb me, we did take abantige anna took a nap! Oh, anna fostur mudder Kaffy still had dat bootiful wyte carpitin anna yep, Stebie did pee on it. We just lub wen fostur mudder Jan skreems, blushes anna blots.
We lub you Fostur Mudder Kaffy anna we kood neber, eber forgit you,
Thomas and Stephen (anna it iz trew, we iz berry hansome)(MI)
Well, it habs happuned agin, anofver orfun haz disapeered. I new dere wuz trubbul rite here in Mishygun acuz my mudder wuz pakin a small bag ob Chickun Soop for da Puppy Lubberz Sole, Tommeez fabrite toy, bunch ob pappurz dat bin stappelled togeffer, anna da fing whut alwayz meens sumbuddy is gonna disappeer, DA BANANADANNA! Shure enuf, up cums da krate anna mudder skoops up Tommee anna hedz for da door. Stupid Gracie Lou Freebush bin runnin to da door wantin to go too, but not me, I nose wen dis happunz, da dog whut be leebin neber eber cums bak. I ran to da bedroom anna krawled unner da bed. I herd mudder yell for sumbuddeez to pleeze grab Gracie so dey kood get out da door anna den I herd dat door shut. I krawled out ob my bed anna did a chek to see how manee dogz were still here anna fank goodness, Gracie wuz here. We still hab dat silly liddle Stebie who bin lookin aroun for Tommee witch bin a waste ob tyme acuz I knew Tommee bin gone fer good. Ob korse, mudder forgot da kamra anna kame runnin bak inna house anna I hi tailed it bak to the bedroom anna skooted bak unner da bed. She tol me I'm a sillee boy. I dunnot fink I'm sillee at all. Affer all I'm still here an hab lastest da longust ob all da dogz dat hab bin in dis house anna I'm onablies four yeers old!
I wuz rite, my mudder kame home wiffout Tommee. Stebie haz bin lookin all ober da house for him anna iz a liddle freeked by da whole fing. Mudder told da kidz dat a lady named Patty now haz Tommee anna he iz gonna lib a happee life with hiz new fambly whut haz two one anna haf yeer old aussie terrorists anna a goldun retreeber.
Seamus (libin in Mishygun anna lickin up my muddurz teerz)You guyz hab to rememburr dat dis is onably my furst year on dis erth anna I'm still lernin lotz of fings. First ob all, my fostur mudder haz put a tree inna house. Whutz up wif dat???? I fink it mus bee normull acuz fostur brudder Seamus is all axcited about dis. He sitz unner da tree, takes all his toyz dere to play wif, and he also dresses up like sum silly red fing kalled Santy Klaws. Now Seamus finks he looks priddy good all dressed in red, howebbers Gracie Lou Freebush duz not fink so anna tries to rip dat red fing off ob him anna he gits mad at her. I dunnot do dat acuz I dunnot want to fite wif Seamus. I hab lerned dat you DON'T WANNA FITE WIF SEAMUS UNLESS YOU IZ GRACIE LOU FREEBUSH. I do howebburz, bark at dem from a safe distunce.
Da fing wif da tree iz dat I am not allowed neer it! Seamus can hang dere all da day long. My fostur mudder haz her nikkers inna knot acuz I chewed a couple of dem wood beeds dat iz strung around da tree. Okay, I wood hab prefurred poppycorn, but you take whut you can git. Ummm, da ofver reeson I'm not allowed neer dat tree is acuz I peed onna fostur mudderz brand new tree skirt. Scuze me, but it wuz a tree anna it iz my furst tree whut beez in da house anna I fot it wuz okay to pee unner treez anna treez shood not wear skirts anneewayz. Appariently, my fostur mudder duz not unnerstand da purpuss ob a tree.
Next fing, da sekond new fing dat haz happuned lately, is sumpin kalled SNOW. I new rite away dat it wuz a good fing acuz my fostur boy, David, gits reely happy wen it iz snowin anna starts waxin sumpin kalled skeez (dese are annofver fing dat I'm not sposed to chew, geesh enuf alreddy). Aneewayz, I agree wif David, da snow iz a reely good fing onably it cums anna it goez. Wen da snow iz here, you hab to make da best ob it. Personably, I like to eet it. Again, fun fing for me to do, but foster mudder finks itz not so fun. Sumpin about her gittin cold standin outside waitin for me to pee while I eet snow. Pee seems to be a berry big isshoe in dis house. Should be sort ob a nashural fing, but here it iz a big, big deel. It seems dat my fostur mudder is obsessed wif dis anna we work on where I'm sposed to pee ebery single day. Berry ho hum. I'm afraid I'm just too bored wif da subjeck to ashually stay on task.
So heres whut I fink. I fink dat wen I git my new forebber fambly (wenebber dat mite happen) it wood be nice to hab a mudder whut wood share da tree inna house wif her puppy. Anna dat iz my Christmus wish.
Stephen (still hanging here wif da crazee lady in Mishygan)