Spanky, where are you?

Pearl here:

Knock, knock, Spanky are you home? It's your cousin Pearl and I want you to come out and play with me. C'mom Spanky, get your butt off that couch and get out here and play with me. Oh well I guess Spanky doesn't want to come out. Maybe he's getting to old to play with me.

This post may get kind of long but if you get bored you can skip ahead. But I have to give you a history of me, Spanky and my Boston cousins.

You see my humans have this club where you have to have an rv and you have to have a Boston. The club got started in 1992 when Ed & Sue (some friends of my humans) brought Cookie home. Cookie was the first one of us Bostons. My humans fell in love with Cookie and tried to borrow her sometimes. But Ed & Sue told them to get their own Boston. So they did.

In 1995 my humans brought Lucy home. I didn't know Lucy or Cookie but I heard plenty about them. Lucy & Cookie played together on camping trips. But when Lucy had no one to play with my humans thought she needed a playmate. So they brought Ricky home. I didn't know him but I also heard about him. Ricky wasn't your normal colored Boston. My mommy says Ricky wasn't normal in any way. But Ricky was mostly different shades of brown & white.

Ricky & Lucy didn't like each other but they tolerated each other. Then Fred came along. Clifton & Charlotte brought Fred camping. Fred is really a girl but she has a boy name. Then Kane came along. Roy & Susan brought him into the club. Then my humans decided they wanted to breed Ricky since Lucy was fixed. So they brought Betsy home.

My mommy told me a funny story about Kane & Ricky. They were both unfixed males. And sometimes Roy and Susan would come over with Kane and the humans would sit in the hot tub while the dogs played in the yard. Betsy was a trouble maker and she liked to pit Ricky & Kane against each other. They had to fight and the winner got Betsy's love. So while the humans are in the hot tub they hear all this barking and growling. They run out into the yard to find Ricky and Kane fighting it out with Lucy & Betsy standing on the side watching them.

My mommy also told me that Betsy would start fights between Lucy & Ricky too. Well Betsy & Ricky has 6 puppies. One of them was Yogi. He was a brown & white too. One time Kane was running after his mommy and he got his by a car. So Susan wanted another dog. So my humans gave Yogi to her.

Then I guess Ed & Sue got jealous of them having extra dogs, so they brought Max home. My mommy says Max is the biggest Boston you've ever seen. Max loved Cookie but she couldn't keep up with him. Cookie passed away and so Ed & Sue just have Max now.

Yogi was running with his mother and he got hit by a car. So Susan brought Spanky home. I first met Spanky in summer of 2006 when my humans were moving to California. We stopped to see Spanky and his humans. Spanky stays in a trailer like me but it is a lot bigger than ours and my humans call it a 5th wheel.

My humans had to give Betsy away to some people who drove all the way from Wyoming to get her. They were moving and couldn't bring 3 dogs with them. So they moved Ricky & Lucy with them.

When they got to Wisconsin they thought they would tried to breed Ricky one more time so they got Gyps. But she was so hyper that Ricky couldn't catch her. And she barked so much that the neighbors got mad. So this grandma lady who wanted her real bad came and took her home.

In 2005 Lucy died of cancer. I hope they didn't bury her in the trash can like they did Stinkey. My humans worried that Ricky (who had never been alone) would be sad, so they drove to Oklahoma to rescue a breeder dog named Little Girl. Little Girl is the only one I knew. Little Girl was scared of people but she liked Ricky. Ricky taught her everything. But Ricky was to old for more puppies so they had Little Girl fixed.

Ricky died later in 2005 of a brain tumor. I hope they didn't bury him in the trash can like they did Stinkey. Ricky was Albert's dog and he was very sad when Ricky died. So it was just Little Girl. She mostly hid under the furniture and would only come out if it was just my mommy and daddy in the room. Of course I was scared of Albert to when I first met him. But now we like each other. I just had to teach him who was boss. So I tore up his contact lenses and his underwear and he got the message.

Anyways my humans thought Little Girl needed a playmate and that's where I came in. My former humans had 4 little boys and me and my 6 month old son. I was an unwed underaged mother. I was going into heat soon. So they said they had to get rid of one of us. So my new humans came to see me and I jumped in their arms when they came through the door. That was all it took. I don't know where my son is. You know how it is with mothers, we spend all that time with them growing in our body, then we give birth to them and teach them everything they need to know. Then they grow up and they leave and we hardly if ever see them again. I never even get a mother's day card from my boy.

Little Girl was older than me and she was like my big sister. She taught me how to go through the doggie door. She also taught me how to kill birds, carry them through the doggie door and leave them at the back door for my humans. I just watched. But if I wanted too, I know how to do that. She was also my big chew toy. But she had one bad fault. She always wanted to sleep in my bed with me. We couldn't both fit in there. So I'd either have to kick her out or go sleep in her bed.

When my humans decided to move, they knew Little Girl wouldn't travel cause she's afraid of cars and the rv. So they gave her to some people who lived on a lake and had other cousins for her to play with. She also gets to sleep in their bed. I've been trying to do that with my humans too. My mommy would let me but the big guy says "no way." I'm going keep working on them though.

So now you know how it got to be just me, Spanky, Max & Fred in the rv & bostons club.

Oh my humans did let some other humans in. One has cats but he owns the land we are staying on. And the others have those springer spaniel dogs. But they have rvs so they're allowed. I don't get to play with those 3 dogs nor the cats. I don't think they like me.

This is a cool place we are staying at. Gary & Brenda (the cat people) have a couple hundred acres east of Oklahoma City. They put in a few rv sites for friends. Their kids grew up with my brothers.

UPDATE: We were just talking to Roy & Susan and asking where Spanky was. Spanky was dog-napped awhile ago. So they have Bugsy now. Bugsy and Pearl sniffed each others and growled at each other. Bugsy is almost 3 now. He's a big Boston. So I think Pearl will want to see more of him.