Welcome to the Sparkler Birthday Week!
On December 20, the J Litter (aka The Sparklers) will be four years young; parents of this litter are Major and Sparkle — and both are now Veterans, which is awesome to be able to report.
We will spend a week or so catching up with all of the Sparklers, beginning with Ruthie…
Baby Ruthie
Hi there family and friends! Ruthie here, aka Lil'Bitty (I'm not really but my mom has trouble breaking habits).
I thought I'd update all of you on my fabulous life as my 4th birthday approaches. So, this year has been kinda weird with this awful virus thing going on. It seems it has made people cranky and vicious so they need to wear muzzles so they don't hurt anybody. It's OK with me and my mom makes sure to keep me safe by not going near anyone not wearing a muzzle.
I started a fun new game last winter called tracking and when mom stopped going to work in the spring, we got to play tracking a lot and it was great!
Then, when the hot weather came and mom was working again, we ran away to Maine every other weekend.
I have lots of friends in Maine, 2 legged and 4. I never really need to be on leash when we're there and I get to swim in the lake whenever I want.
We also returned to obedience school where mom learns how to do all the exercises so I can get my CD diploma. A couple of weeks ago we tried something new called rally and apparently, I'm very good at it because I got a perfect score on both tests that we took.
Now that it's colder weather the beach is open to dogs and their people and we meet our Berner friends there every weekend. It's so much fun going in the water and playing chase with my friends and the muzzled people can be far enough away from each other so it isn't dangerous.
I'm hoping to spend part of my birthday there this Sunday. I hope you are all staying safe and I wish all my brothers and sisters a birthday as spectacular as mine is going to be. Love to all of you!
Thank you so much, Team Ruthie, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUTHIE.