Tripawds Rule!

Its been two long, or two short years, depending on you you look at it, since my blood sister for life, Caira Sue, left me behind. Rez dog, ball obsessed, pawesometastic, founding member of the Tripawd Girldogs With 2 Names ROCK Club.

She came to me this morning in the form of not one, but SEVEN blacktailed jack rabbits……..Thanks for visiting grrrrlfriend!

xoxoxoxoxoxox,

Codie Rae

Where’s the Oaktown Pack +1? We love you tripawds one and all!!!!

Chapter 3: Homie-cide, Life on the Streets

Yo! We were gonna show Barney the town but dang, those Oaktown peeps done gone crazy. Three homicides in three hours last night! We decided to keep our heads down and hang tight in our crib. Meantime, Travis Ray been doin’ a little research on the web—Duuuuude, watcha think he found out? Floyd ain’t related to Barney! Nope, he sure isn’t! Little purple bear been takin’ us for a ride!

Nopawdy takes the Oaktown Pack for a fool, oh no they don’t. We decided to git ‘im. And to show Barney a thing or two as well—need to drive all thoughts of fluffy pink ears outta his brain…….

Let 'im have it!

Get outta here Barney

Watch this Barney!

Floyd must die!!

Floyd, disemboweled

Got 'im good!

Take that Floyd! NOpawdy messes with the Oaktown Pack!

Your turn Barneeeee!

You gonna die too 'lil dude!

Be afraid!

Be very afraid!

You in Oaktown dude!

He's miiiine! You ready to die now???

Just kidding Barneee!

…….OK, we think Barney is on the straight and narrow again. We gonna dust him off and send him on to his next stop. Hope his next host is handy with a needle—he had a head wound when he got here—his scalp is kind of disintegrating (maybe that accounts for his delusions of fluffy pinkness). Its a little worse for wear but Mom never took Home Ec so its totally beyond her capabilities!

Chapter 2  Road Trip!!

So, much as we hated to we had to leave Colorado—something about mom has a job and can’t just take off forever. Sigh, we were soooo sad to leave Wyatt Ray. What a baaaaad boy! I just love bossing him around and seeing him pin his ears back and roll his eyes in fear! Man, Wyatt and his pawrents sure got down and showed us the bestest time! We totally dug it!

Pops likes to just get on the road in the Tripawdmobile and put the pedal to the metal so we made it home in two days. But we took a little time along the way to show Barney and Floyd a good time…….Four states in one day! We’ll have to check fur sure but I don’t think Barney has been to Wyoming, Utah, or Nevada before. So here’s the proof!

Here’s Barney and Floyd at the Great Divide Basin in Wyoming. We wanted to stop at the Continental Divide but there wasn’t an exit. Whattup with that?!?

Here’s Barney and Floyd at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah!

Ooooh, don’t get left behind Barney! Where the heck did Foyd go???

Here’s Barney at the Gold Country Casino where we stayed in Elko, Nevada. What a great place—three dogs? No problem! We’re thinkin’ Barney has a little problem—he spent all his time in the casino!

Here’s a dead antelope on the wall at the casino-we saw lots of those on our trip through Colorado and Wyoming but they were all alive….

Yo! Whattup wit’ dose I-80 rest stops? The peeps get to play on the soft cool shady grass……

…….and us K9’s hafta pee in the hot sun and dodge nasty poky puncture vine! So. Not. Fair.

Dawg, were we tired when we got home…….

Stay tuned for the final chapter of Barney’s adventures with the Oaktown Pack……….

Chapter 1  Rocky Mountain High

So, me and the pack went to Colorado last week to visit our long lost homie—Wyatt Ray Dawg. In case you furgot, he escaped from a life where people tie dawgs outside and never let them in the house and abandon them when they get tangled up in their chains and hurt their legs so bad they need to be cut off. Wyatt spent the first few weeks of his new life with us, before Jim and Renee came to meet him and fell in love with his boyish good looks. Little did they know what they were getting into! Anyway, when we rolled into Jerry’s Acres on a warm Colorado evening, the Oaktown Pack was complete once again!

After dinner we got to open a package! It was addressed to Codie Rae and the Oaktown Pack and it was from Rio!!!! O.M.D.! Barneeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! At long last!!!! Thanks Rio!!!! You R.O.C.K!!! The really crazy thing was we had traveled all the way from Oaktown with this other purple dude named Floyd. He said he was Barney’s long lost cousin so we figured he would be the next best thing. But then we actually got Barney too! So we got to do a good deed by reuniting the two little purple dudes! Yo, were we excited! Mos’ def!

Pawty Time! The next day we took Barney and Floyd to the Third Annual Colorado Tripawds Pawty! I got to show off my new Hannibal Lecter look. Nothing can stop me from levitating but at least I couldn’t make anyone bleed. Barney and Floyd hung out and we met all the cool tripawds that were hangin’ in the Ft. Collins heat. Like Lily and Cotton! Smokey had to show off–hmmmph, guess 4 legs are good for somethin’….

Then we took Barney and Floyd to see the Rocky Mountain wildflowers. Floyd was whispering to Barney the whole time and we could never quite hear what he was saying. Kinda weird. Me ‘n Wyatt ‘n Travis ‘n Smokey were having such a great time playing and chasing rodents and deer and basically driving our pawrents crazy. We backed off from the purple guys and decided to just let Barney and Floyd hang out and get to know one another—we figured they had a lot to catch up on.

We finally got in a little play time with Barney—Floyd said the altitude was getting to him and he wanted to rest, whatev… We were kind of tired ourselves so we didn’t actually kill Barney (although that has always been my plan if I was ever lucky enuf to get him), we just roughed him up a little. We thought he knew it was all in good fun.

Went to get a drink and all of a sudden Barney was gone! We sniffed around and Yo! There he was! On top of a huge rockpile! Noooo Barney—Don’t jump little dude!

Goody 3-Paws Travis went all Rin Tin Tin and raced up to save him but…..

…….it was too late, Barney launched himself over the edge!

But wait, he only fell a couple feet and landed on a ledge! Duuuude, what a loser! We asked what made him jump….but he wouldn’t say, except that it had nothing to do with us……just mumbled something about fluffy pink ears……

 Stay tuned for Chapter 2, Road Trip!

What a ride the last few months have been! It started early in the morning of January 10 in East Oaktown. Papa got us up at 2:30 am! He dressed me and Travis Ray in our Paco Collars, and loaded us into the Tripawdmobile. We were rolling away from the house at 2:52 am! Never done that before and I decided to be quiet and take it all in. ‘Specially ’cause it was pitch black and I couldn’t see anything that needed regulating!! By the time it started getting light we were climbing the hill they call the Grapevine. We stopped in Gorman, a lovely little spot, for a pee break and some breakfast. Really cold and frosty, and it had snowed a couple days earlier. Further along we turned and headed towards Hollywood! Next thing you know we were on Mulholland Drive and we turned off and into a park.

When we arrived, Wyatt Ray Dawg was there with his pawrents, and I gave him my usual warm greeting. It was pawesome to see him and Jim and Rene. Wyatt has grown into such a handsome young dawg! Not like the days of Hammertime!  Oh no! We also got to meet Joe, the video dude, with two assistants and they had this big, really cool looking camera. Joe pulled out a jump made of PVC pipe, very much like the ones we have at home.  Those got built when Smokey, who can jump like the guy in the video on the pogo stick, was going to agility classes. When he practiced, I got to do it too and learned about how to go between the poles and over whatever was in the way.

We walked across the park, and there were a lot of dogs there that needed regulating, but we had other work to do. First Wyatt ran across the park while they recorded him. Then I did it too. We each did it a few times and then Joe set up the jump.  Wyatt and Travis never had practiced this kind of thing and did not know what to do. They asked me to jump, but I ran around the jump three times. Then somebody got smart and put the verticals on the ends of the jump so I had something to go between. One take and we were done. Joe and his crew reviewed it and acted like they had what they needed. Something about the camera was expensive to rent. Maybe it was by the second or minute or something–I know it costs a lot to do things in LA. Anyway, they were outta there. After a little while we left the park and got lost in the hills before we found our way back down and stopped for a coffee break. Travis and me had to stay in the truck. Once we hit the road I got back to regulating, especially those cattle along I5, just after the Grapevine. We drove right back to Oaktown and were home by 7:00. To Hollywood and back in one day! TR and I didn’t know which way was up!

It ends up we had gone to shoot a music video, but we had to be quiet about what we had done. We were not even sure who it was for.  February 28th we got a call from Tripawds headquarters that the video was out and I was the star! Patrick Stump’s “Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)” video was out on YouTube and I was featured doing my stuff!

Then on March 10 we went back to the Oakland Animal Shelter where I had been left for dead 5 years ago. Back then I was living in a yard in East Oakland and someone tied me to something with wire. With all the activity in the neighborhood, what was a young pup to do but bark and spin and bounce at the end of my tether. Well that damn wire wrapped around my leg and it hurt like heck! The stupid people I was staying with took me to Oakland Animal Services and “surrendered” me and said to have me “put to sleep” because I was in pain. The good people at OAS found a wonderful doctor that got rid of the pain by amputating my spare leg. Then German Shepherd Rescue of Northern California got me out of there and to where I am now, head of the Oaktown Pack.

At the shelter we met with GSRNC folk Mike W., and JJ. JJ was the person who got me out of the shelter back in ’06. We met with a reporter and photographer from the paper. The following week, on March 19, the Oakland Tribune ran the article titled “Dog abandoned in Oakland is featured in new music video.” It even had pictures of me! The Bay Area News Group that owns the Tribune owns many papers in the area, enough that they reach 2.7 million people per week (at least that is what the reporter said). When the article about me came out it was the number one most viewed article of the day on almost all the online editions in the News Group!!!!

Meanwhile, Patrick went out on tour and we learned he was coming to San Francisco on April 15. Try as we might we were unable to arrange to meet Patrick, so we decided to go hang out at the Hotel Utah and see if Patrick was as nice as all those peeps on YouTube have been saying. We had to wait a while on the street in front, and while we did we talked with some of the people working there, including Pat the manager. When she heard our story she said she would pass the word to Patrick. She then said Patrick would stop on his way to the stage. I waited and waited (mostly patiently I might add–NOT my forte)  And then……….he was there:

I got to go into the show but it HURT MY EARS so Papa took me back outside. When he introduced “Spotlight” during the show, Patrick mentioned…… Meeeeeeee! Codie Rae!!!!!…….and said people need to adopt special needs dogs, like tripawds! It was sooooooo koool!!!!! After his show Patrick came out on the sidewalk in front of the Utah and hung out with our fans. We gave him the Tripawds bandana  from around my neck and he put it around his! He kept it on while he was hanging out with our fans.  A bunch of them asked to take their picture with me! Some even got their pictures taken with Patrick!

What a pawesome night! I can’t wait to hang with Patrick again and now I understand why all the girls like him so much–he was soooo sweet! He scratched my ears and said I was wonderful!  Yesterday our Spotlight video passed 300,000 views on YouTube! When, oh when will Hollywood call again? I am so proud to be representing the Tripawds community and all you tripawd pups and your peeps out there. If just one person sees me and Patrick’s video and thinks to themselves…… Hey! I could give a home to a cool tripawd dog like that!……then……..the message has been delivered!!!! Woohoo! Tripawds Rule!!! And I love each and every one of you, yesh I do!!! And if you want my pawdograph just let me know–it really might be worth something someday now that I am finally on the road to stardom!

xoxoxox,

She doesn’t even have a name yet!

Wow, the ampuversaries have been coming fast and furious! Happy, Happy Everypawdy!

And then………Monday there was MINE! Yesh! The whole ‘hood was celebrating, in fact, everypawdy was so excited about my ‘Pawday‘* that they started celebrating a whole day early! I’ve never seen so many fireworks! And this ‘hood is known for its fireworks. And the noise was deafening. WooHoo! Mr. Goody Three Paws Travis was a scaredy cat. He didn’t like the M80′s at all! Whatever, they didn’t bother meeee!

So, Monday me ‘n the rest of the Oaktown Pack got a special treat to celebrate my Pawday. We had to wait around while pops got everything together. Seemed like it took furever……

………..But then finally,

A nice little bottle of vino and……..ANGUS!

With CANDLES!

And hand fed!!!

WooooooooooHooooooooooo! That’s my kinda celebration!

Geez, mom has totally forgotten how to put together a blog post! What a mess! But Hey everypawdy! Ima back!

xoxoxoxox,

Codie Rae

p.s. that’s Travis with the big teeth there

p.s.s mom may have forgotten how to construct a blog but she finally got signed up at YouTube

*Pawday n. synonym for ampuversary

Yeah!!! Me an’ Tom Petty! Check it out here……My.Best.Day.Ever! WoooooooooooooHoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

Live Your Dreams!