Holiday Time! Elf on the Shelf? No, that's Miss Mini!

The holidays are here and Mini is helping to spread cheer.  What is more cheerful than a rat terrier dressed up as one of Santa's elves?  Combining Mini the dog elf with a choir and a showing of A Christmas Carol, that's what!

Mini enjoys the music along with the rest of us.  She needs her dog ears to listen!  Nothing says, Christmas, than the classic Baptist Christmas hymns.

Mini visits her friends.  Everyone is on their best behavior in case the elf reports back to Santa Claus!

After a few hours of spreading cheer at the nursing home, Mini is tuckered out!  She's lucky to have a friend who is willing to lend her a bed!  Christmas is a time of giving and sharing.  Happy holidays, everyone.

And if you need something fun to read this holiday season, or a wonderful gift for the reader in your life, order the paperback or download the e-book  How Not to Kiss Your Dog, the guide to how clean are dog's mouths really are.  Most proceeds go to keeping up Miss Mini's wardrobe! 

Keeping warm!

I came home from work last week and found Shoebert's bed on the heat vent.  After putting it back, I found it on the vent the next day, too.  Shoebert is getting frail at age 14, so I thought that he had knocked it off while trying to get into the window sill.

That's assumption was proved wrong, when I saw Shoeby pull the bed down and place it near the heat vent.  He's old, he's lost much of his fur and he's gotten very thin from his repeated kidney infections.  It's no surprise that he likes snoozing on the heat vent when it's freezing outside.

Hilbert Illustrated Math Jokes on Kindle

The Rat Dog Pack has published a collection of 23 Hilbert math jokes.  Please, give us your feedback.  Which jokes do you like, which do you think are stupid, which do you think fall flat.

To give you the opportunity to download and read the book for free, I am running a promotion on November 16.  The book can be downloaded from here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PKW2I62

Some of the jokes below are in the book, along with several others. 

 

Why did Hilbert and his friends line up to take a nap?

Because they are rest-queue dogs!

 

Update:  I checked in on the promotion.  Look where Hilbert ranks in most popular math books!

 
Feel free to leave your critique in the comment or email us directly.


Two for the price of one!

This year Mini added a sailor dress to her collection of costumes.  She wore it to one nursing home for Halloween and then to another for Veterans' Day.  She was a big hit both days, but it was clear that it was the veterans' celebration that her friends enjoyed the most.

I am blessed to be an American and blessed to have found Miss Mini.

Corny Dogs!

Normal Cornfest time and the rat dogs were out in style.

 

Here is Shoebert in his "I'm so Corny" shirt.

 

 

 

Here is Minibert dressed like an ear of corn.
Mini, your tongue is as long as your ears!

 

And just in time for the Normal Zombie Walk, Hilbert's Zombie Day is on sale at Amazon for the Kindle and Kindle reading apps.

 

And while you are out on Amazon, please buy How Not to Kiss Your Dog, and learn if dogs' mouths are really cleaner than humans.  More books bought equals more kibble for the rat terriers.

 

 



Nude celebrity pics leaked!

By now, everyone has heard the news about celebrity nude pics being hacked from Apple's iCloud.  Well, just like her favorite "Big Bang Theory" actress, Kelly Cuoco, Miss Mini has decided to bare all publicly - in a PG fashion.

Last week in the heat, Mini stripped down to just a plain collar and harness as she went on one of her visits.  She looked so different being nearly naked, that her friend asked me, "Is she the same dog?"  No, of course not.  As we all know, how we dress has a lot to do  how we act and feel.  And Miss Mini was feeling wild and free!

She was feeling so wild, in fact, that she decided to bare all and then post the nude pictures right here!

Way to go, Miss Mini!  Nude, but not crude!

Celebrating the Fourth of July Rat Terrier Style!

In the United States of America, the fourth of July is a day of celebration.  This day marks the anniversery of the date that the USA declaired independence from the British.  It is also the traditional day to celebrate freedom in general.  What better way to celebrate than a ride in the convertible to the dog park!

Shoebert enjoys his ride!

Mini Enjoys hanging with the big dogs

Knee high corn?  Knee high to whom, Marmaduke?

Uh, Mini, I think you've got on the wrong shirt!

Hilbert's Happy Day on youtube

Matthew Williams has a video reading Hilbert's Happy Day, the Spanish translation.  Not the greatest reading, but it's Hilbert.  Check it out here on youtube.

And download a Hilbert book for free between Thursday, June 5 and Saturday June 7.

And on Friday, grab a copy of How Not to Kiss Your Dog as a free download!

Miss Mini and the mystery of the moving bed

Miss Mini was on her usual Saturday afternoon nursing home visit this week showing off her new pink satin dress. While there, she snuggled up in bed with her friend Jack. As Jack and I chatted, the was a humming noise followed by a suprised "OH!" from Jack.  I asked what was wrong and Jack said the bed had moved. It looked the same, so we ignored it. A few minutes later, the same thing happened. Huhmmm, just what was this mystery hum?  After some detective work, we realized that Mini was lying on top of the control for Jack's adjustable bed!

If you look closely, you can see the control.  

Jack is using his hand as a pillow so Mini's chin won't have to touch the cold rail!

Miss Mini in her new pink satin doggie dress.

Mini loves it when I dress her, because it means a trip to visit Jack and her other friends!

Spring is back to Normal

Finally the long winter is over (maybe, we hope).

How clean are Dog's Mouths? Are dogs' mouths cleaner than humans'?

Is it really ok to let your 10 day old baby kiss your dog?  Simon Cowell thinks so!

What a pair of cuties!

Learn the truth here about how to kiss your dog.

Ratters at Westminster, Free Kindle Book - can this week get any better?

Westminster is allowing rat terriers to compete for Best in Show for the first time.  Let's all celebrate by downloading, reading and reviewing How (Not) to Kiss Your Dog!  It's free February 7th (maybe longer if enough people download it).  And here is this year's winner of Best in Snow!

Cute dog pictures of Miss Mini in her Christmas outfits

 Mini in her reindeer coat

 Doggie dress

 Doggie dress

Christmas elf (or is she a leprechaun?)