Shark Week

Silly daddy!  He’s so out of tune.  Shark Week starts 07/22 – not in a couple of weeks.  Where would daddy be if I didn’t keep him in touch of these things?  And I just want to know… in the video – who is going to get the shark?

 

Shivers – Shark Week

Oh shivers!  This week it has been Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.  We have watched a lot of the shows.  Shows that highlighted when sharks attack.  Shows that highlight guys/gals going down in the ocean in shark cages feeding sharks by hand.  Shows that highlighted HUGE sharks.  Shows that highlight sharks that bit people and showed the bites – shivers.

Then if that wasn’t bad enough, mom got a wild hair over the long weekend and decided to watch ALL of the Jaws movies.  Really mom?  Not just the original Jaws with “We’re going to need a bigger boat”, but all of them – Jaws 2, Jaws 3 and then Jaws Revenge.  Shakes piggy head.  Snorts – but us anipals stood by her side and watched with her.  Double evil snorts – I even called Houdini Shark Bait.  Now *that* was funny.

After this week of watching all of these shows, I had a dream about surfing.  It was a nightmare!   There is no way this little oinker is going anywhere near the beach.  Heck, I may even rethink getting in my piggy pool or the bathtub for that matter!

Have you watched any of these shows on television?  Any favorites? Any experiences of seeing sharks in real life?  Have you seen them at the beach?

 

Shark Week

Guess what started Sunday night my friends.  You guessed it – Shark Week!  It started Sunday on the Discovery Channel.  We at the Hotel Thompson look forward to this every single year.  It’s so much fun to see sharks – on television of course.  Now when mom/dad go to the beach, they will think twice about putting their piggies in the ocean.

And never fear, Discovery Channel has promised not to make the mistake they did back in 2013 when they ticked everyone off during Shark Week.  Do you remember what they did?  They showed  “Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives”.  Everyone watched it including us here and then learned that was two hours we couldn’t get back.  The show was about the possibility  that the giant megalodon shark was still alive. After the show, it was revealed that the “scientists” in the show were really actors and the events in the documentary were scripted.  The Discovery Channel got so much backlash for that it wasn’t even funny.  And then can you believed that even after all that bad publicity, the Discovery Channel showed the sequel in 2014, “Megalodon: The New Evidence.”  Of course, by then we were all like, “Really Discovery Channel?”

We *almost* didn’t watch last year because of their stupid melodrama but for some reasons the sharks kept calling our names.

Even Houdini is getting into Shark Week this year.  Mom put his costume on and he was running around the Hotel Thompson.  I kept calling him Shark Bait – it was really funny to watch.

So my friends – will you be watching Shark Week?

 

Paw Time with Houdini

Welcome my friends to another great week of Paw Time with Houdini.  This week has been awesome – isn’t every week?  Of course, it’s been busy too.  Last weekend, we had a family meeting and Bacon was advised that he is going to summer camp.  Now I thought it would be cool but Bacon is so against it.  That oinker really doesn’t like nature does he?  He has tried every excuse and had one-on-one meetings with mom and dad trying to wiggle himself out of the situation.  But it’s not going to work.  Mom is insisting on him going to Summer Camp – seven entire days in nature.

This week also ended Shark Week.  And you knew it was coming, didn’t you.  Mom was going to dress me up like Shark Bait.  I knew it.  So finally, she got my costume out and put it on me.  Rolls doggy eyes.  I let her get one somewhat potential photograph.  I just wasn’t feeling it.  That outfit was H.O.T.  Did I mention we are in the south here and it is H.O.T.?  It is.  So she got a quicky picture.

There is a hat that actually comes up over my head and it has little slits for my ears to poke through.  She had me all fixed up for like five seconds when she put me down in the ‘waters’ of the hardwood floor – Barks!

But anyway, she got a little picture to submit to Discover for Shark Week.  Don’t I look mean and ready to eat you up?!  Okay maybe not.

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I also had Doggy Daycare this week and got to go up to Nana’s house.  Bacon tried really hard and persuaded me to talk to Nana about his situation.   He doesn’t believe me but even Nana said that it would be good for him to be away from mom/dad and be with others for Summer Camp.  They are really pushing this.  I’ll be honest with you.  I kind of feel sorry for the guy a bit.

But back to doggy daycare.  This was the day that I go to Nana’s.  Me and the other pooches at Nana’s get the works.  Danielle the groomers comes out to the house and gives us all special time in her R.V.  We get baths, massages, blow drys, cuts, nails – the entire works!  Then I get to hang out with Nana, Tinkerbelle and Dingo until mom picks me up when she gets off of the worky place.  Also me being at doggy daycare, this gives daddy his day to get the big stuff done at the Hotel Thompson.  You know, washing the bed sheets, changing the beds, getting dinner ready, mopping.  Things he supposedly can’t do with me under his feet.  I don’t know what he means by that.  I’m just there helping.. right?

Well that’s all for me my friends – yawns – I hope you had a wonderful week as well.  Happy weekend!

 

 

Shivers – Shark Week

Oh shivers!  This week it has been Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.  We have watched a lot of the shows.  Shows that highlighted when sharks attack.  Shows that highlight guys/gals going down in the ocean in shark cages feeding sharks by hand.  Shows that highlighted HUGE sharks.  Shows that highlight sharks that bit people and showed the bites – shivers.

Then if that wasn’t bad enough, mom got a wild hair over the long weekend and decided to watch ALL of the Jaws movies.  Really mom?  Not just the original Jaws with “We’re going to need a bigger boat”, but all of them – Jaws 2, Jaws 3 and then Jaws Revenge.  Shakes piggy head.  Snorts – but us anipals stood by her side and watched with her.  Double evil snorts – I even called Houdini Shark Bait.  Now *that* was funny.

After this week of watching all of these shows, I had a dream about surfing.  It was a nightmare!   There is no way this little oinker is going anywhere near the beach.  Heck, I may even rethink getting in my piggy pool or the bathtub for that matter!

Have you watched any of these shows on television?  Any favorites? Any experiences of seeing sharks in real life?  Have you seen them at the beach?

Mom and dad said they saw one at Tybee Island, Georgia a couple of  years ago.  Shivers – I’m glad it was them and not me.  I don’t wanna be shark bait.

 

Shark Week – Snuffy the Seal

Have you seen the commercial for Shark Week for Discovery channel.  You do know the one I’m talking about – with Snuffy the Seal?  Snuffy has been in rehabilitation for an injury and is being released back into the wild and then OH NO!?!

I admit it.  The first time I saw this commercial I didn’t realize that it was for the beginning of Shark Week.  I was in my bedroom watching my television, behaving for a change.  The commercial came on and I was all YAY for the recovery of the cute little seal.  And then BAM!  I made water run down my leg right there on my wee wee pad in my bedroom.  Afterwards, I squealed, ran into the front room and snuggled with mommy shaking.  She didn’t know what happened.  She held me tight and soothed me down.

That’s when it happened again – the commercial came on the television in the front room.  I started shaking again… until mom/dad started talking about Shark Week.  Mommy explained to me it was just a commercial – I had nothing to fear.  But I’m going to tell you – it does take you back.

I’m attaching the video.  BE WARNED.  If you are that strong to watch, what do you think?  Shivers