I, Digby, am the most un-cracker creature on this earth. So I really do not know what the humans were thinking when they presented me with Delta Cracker Dog Extraordinaire.

I try to say “Look here Delta! You are not a cocker spaniel, you are not a German Shorthaired Pointer, You are a giant breed… and a Great Dane no less! I want to see you lazing, being dopey, exercising your three brain cells and drooling!”
Delta has the hide to go and have a million brain cells that think up a million different ways to be naughty!
Here she stole flour from the closed pantry and emptied it all over the house. As you can see I, Digby, am most remorseful  for eating a bit – Delta on the other paw, the main perpetrator of this devlish activity, feels only wild amusement!

Delta doesn’t reserve her cracker behaviour for at home. Delta is cracker at the river, cracker at club, cracker everywhere!

Then there was the time that she gave Mumma the concussion when her zoomies went into over-drive.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a collage is like a textbook. So I do believe I have presented a case equivalent to four textbooks on the inappropriate Cracker-ness of Delta!

Well paint me green and call me Gumby!
Our blog has been given an award from a very special friend of ours who is actually a genuine Princess who goes by the elegant name of Sasha.

Sasha is one of the most elegant Danes out there; and has excellent self-esteem. Both Delta and I could learn a lot from her. Although maybe her healthy self-esteem and elgance come from her royal blood. In that case there’s not much hope for Delta and I! Thankyou Princess Sasha for thinking of us, especially as the blog is thick with dust and choked with cobwebs from being most terribly neglected.

Now for the formalities. The Liebster Blog Award has rules that must be abided by:

(1) Thank the blogger that gave you the award and then add a link to their blog.
(2) Reveal your top five picks (with less than 200 readers) and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.
(3) Copy and Paste the Award to Your Blog.
(4) Hope that the people you’ve sent the award to forward it to their five favorite up-and-coming bloggers, and keep it going!

Now rule number two caused me some confusion as I’m not so sure what 200 is. But paws crossed I’ve got it right. My top five picks are:

Zola the Rhodesian Ridgeback Girl - Zola is a most beautiful doggie who lives in the beautiful French Riviera with a very kind and fun human.

Beagle Diary – Welcome to Cinnamon’s and Mint’s world! These two are the sportiest Beagles around!

Ok Jerry Sweet doesn’t Suck – Pam, Bobo & Meja. This is one gorgeously sincere blogs out there.

Evolution of Darwin - Darwin is beautiful blue Great Dane witht the heart of an explorer. She goes to amazing places inbetween her active social life.

Lexi and Jasper the Great Danes – and their adventures - Lexi and jasper live in New Zealand. Their humans takes the most equisite photos of them!

We love these blogs and wholeheartedly reccommend them. If you’re not already familiar with them then check them out

your pal

Digby

Firstly I want to wish all my doggiebloggie pals all the best for the New Year. We fervantly hope that 2012 is as delicious as chicken liver; as mentally stimulating as a Nina Ottoson toy; and as packed full of goodness as a Kangaroo steak (which by the way is an excellent source of conjugated linoleic acid).

Now its time for a brief update of some of the things we’ve been up to, and hope to actually blog about!
Delta started training school this year. I guess you could say that she is mature-age student.
We played host to a member of our extended family, Meg the Staffy cross.
Delta had her first experience at being ‘puppy-sat’ while I got to go with the humans on a visit to Grandma’s!
I, Digby got diagnosed with Depression that is an ongoing legacy from my old owners.
We became friends with two new Kelpie foster pups named Minka and Lizzy.

And just before the end of 2011, we went on a holiday to New Castle! I got to swim in the sea and play in the sand. Delta got to be bitten by a dog while in the sea. That doesn’t happen every day!

2012 is going to be a special year for me. I have been doing exercises to help my depression and I am already feeling a lot better. this year I am going to be all the Digby I can be.

We haven’t blogged in such a long time (as you all know).
Have you ever seen your human trying to fit all your breakfast into your Kong, but there is too much of it? So they try to pack it in really firm, but the moment they stop applying pressure it just falls out anyway. Eventually they learn that they just aren’t going to fit that last bit in – they have to let it go.
Well sadly that’s what has happened to our blog
Mumma had been trying hard to fit it in – but it just kept on popping out.
We are not so sad about our personal blog. What we feel very sad about is not visiting our blog friends; and keeping up with everything going on. Mumma is feeling that awful guilty feeling about it, that female humans seem so prone to feeling.

It has been a lot of work for Mumma since Little Miss got Type 1 diabetes. But that’s only really the latest thing. Because Mumma has always had a lot to do because Little Man has a disability and other medical conditions too. Soon Little Man is going for his second eye operation; and that is making Mumma stressed too. Now we hope that our blog friends understand why we are having trouble fitting blogging in.

Still, while we are here. We might as well put up a few new photos since last time

we have been doing stump training. Now Delta can pivot using the stump.
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Daddee made us a special jump. Which I use to great effect.

our beloved backpack.

Beautiful Delta.

thanks for reading!
your pal,
Digby

you see
Sometimes a parcel will arrive for me
I don’t want for toys
and I don’t want for treats
I want doggie apparel
that’s for what my heart beats!

so here I reveal 7 stylish thing about me!

1. My pastal pyjamas prove that my body’s been fed
and I’m ready for snuggling and sleeping in bed

2. My rosey coloured raincoat complete with collar
means that wet weather won’t be a big bother

3. winter woes won’t make me weary
when I wear my floral coat I can’t but be cheery

4. my fourth coat is decorated with inuit children
when in it I won’t need to do igloo buildin

5. This coat lets me be sharp like Sherlock Holmes
when in it I can discover where Delta buried our bones

6. This coat of tartan makes many heads turn
then they know I’m a nice dog, that’s what they learn

7. here is my collar covered in pandas as one last point of proof
that I deserve the stylish blogger award because I am no goof

your pal,
Digby

He’s feeling poorly and has had to postpone all his fitness plans. Between you and I readers, I can already see his muscles returning to their previously flabby state. But shhhhh! we won’t tell him that because he is already in a depressive state.

With Digby out of action, and the Little Miss back at school I’ve had more time to focus on self improvement.
I experimented with a new look (see my ears, quite modern/contemporary aren’t they?)

I also took up gardening

and lastly I took up baking. I thought I could cheer Digby up nicely with a cake.

Actually baking turned out to be harder than either gardening or self-grooming!
I learnt several important lessons.
1. if you are going to bake a cake do it when the humans will be gone for a long time so they don’t come home and ruin it.
2. choose pleanty of ingredients because some of them will taste so good that you will eat them straight away.
3. use a bed with sides; this holds all the ingreditents together making it easier to mix than on a flat bed.

Sadly as I was mixing all ingredients together into a smooth consistency, the human came home.
That was it…. my chance was gone; Instead of a cake, all I ended up with was this:

Which didn’t cheer Digby up at all.

I’m never doing that again. All the effort I went too; only to have my cake cleaned up and put in the rubbish bin!
However if you believe you will have more luck than me I have included a list of my Ingredients for a delicious cake free of charge below.

your pal,
Delta

1 kg of almond meal
1.5 kg of brown sugar
6 small containers of raspberry juice
5 packets of beef noodles
and a sweet potato

it made even my eyes go green thereby turning me into the Green eyed monster which I have heard about before.

After taking over my body and turning my eyeballs green, the cone proceeded to make me walk into each of my family with force and regularity.
I tried to say “My family, it is not I Digby who am ramming you hard in the legs! It is the cone!” but all that came out was “boohoo”.

The cone had me get stuck in all tight areas of the house and I needed constant rescuing by less possessed members of the family.

Then I had an idea!

If I could regain control of my body enough to lick my toe then maybe curse of the cone would be lifted from me!
it was true!

The humans upon seeing me lick my toe even with the cone on; released me from its powers. It did not then take me long to recover myself and resume normal activities.

And I shall never again lick my toe!

We’ve had a few dawgies say that they hope little Miss is all better now. Thank you for such nice comments
Well Little Miss has Type Won Dire Bettys; and Type Won Dire Bettys, once you get it, you have it all your life.
Little Miss is not sick like she was at first and she can do all the things she used to do.
But she also has to do extra things to help her be healthy.
She checks her own blood glucose levels and she has four injections of insulin everyday. Some of them she does herself too.
And she eats seven times a day!
Yes that is right! Seven. times. a. day! I guess that is something good right?

Delta can tell when she has not enough sugar in her blood because she is clever and a kind of dogter I guess.

Dire Bettys isn’t too bad, you just have to look after it carefully or you get very bad sickies.

Now its time to tell you about the new me!
You will all be so fascinated to know that I have given up my idle ways.

I have thrown myself into an extreme fitness regime.

I am now a bikey.

and soon I will be taught and toned with muscles that will make you weep.

love,
Digby

Poor Fred, he had a basket for a bed.

we sunabthed together in the evenings.

Delta shared her bed with Fred! (A scandalous manouvre I was unprepared for).

And we endured endless intrusions of the flashy beast together.

see ya next time Fred!
your pal…
Digby