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Over the past few weeks, things have been so crazy busy, I didn’t have time to keep up with my blog! As things slow down a bit in my garden, it’s time to get back on track about my blog.

Oreo not only look cute, but what makes him special is his personality, words can’t describe it, and thank goodness I capture a lot of Oreo’s life in video. This is one of the reason I’m so behind to update my blog. Going through lots and lots of video clips just take time, choosing the best clips to show is even harder! Once I decided on the clips, then I need to spend time to process them…. long story short, there are still a lot more to come.

For now, I just finished process all Oreo’s video from Winter time, which is just a couple months after he move into my home and became my family.

Most moms would say: “Don’t play with your food!”. Well, when come to pet, I encourage them to keep themselves as occupied as possible, and look what I got?

Sometimes I think Oreo has identity crisis, is he a dog, a cat, a panda or a human baby?

Watching Oreo glide on the hardwood floor is like watching people on ice skating ring, you never know what pose they will find themselves in. Adding a laser pointer just kick up the fun to next level!

Trying to find interesting things to multitask in front of TV could be challenging, especially I can’t reach for a bag of potato chips. Oreo eventually became my TV commercial break distraction tool. As I play with him during those break, I start to learn what he’s capable of.

I wonder what Oreo do at home when I go to work, would he get bored from sleeping too much and then can’t sleep any more? So I try to play with him a bit in the morning, hopefully he can get some stimulation and exercise, and could sleep well during the day.

In the winter when the ground was too cold for me to do any gardening work, weekend TV time mean sit in front of TV and play with Oreo. That’s the only time I could be really patient to focus on Oreo and be his playmate.

With some encouragement, Oreo learned his signature trick that I don’t find any of my friends’ dogs would do!

Practice make perfect, but you have to add some treats to sweeten up the pot and make it more fun!

I didn’t know dog sleep “acting”?!

Oreo’s personality is really unpredictable, in a good way!

A wet dog is not a calm dog, for Oreo, you better not stand  in his way!

I always like to see dog first got out of shower as they do the very unusual stuff! I think Oreo try to protest for me making him wet, I can guess from the way he looked at me.

Over time, Oreo has familiarized himself with the sit up routine, and the key is to put my arm around his neck area.

I don’t always get down the floor to play with Oreo, but that doesn’t stop him from being close to me.

Oreo really learn by routine, he has his own way of learning, as long as I’m being consistent, he follow along quite easily.

I begin to think that I have spoiled Oreo by giving him too much attention, because if I start to ignore him, he gets fuzzy, kind of remind me of a baby!

Oreo’s nail could be sharp and hurt when play rough. Since I had my winter gear around the house, I can play with Oreo with proper protection, and looks like he enjoys it too! I don’t know who burn the most calories, him or me?

Ever since my New Orleans trip, I have been on a quest to try to understand my dSLR to its full capability, at least all the feature available that will help me to take better pictures. Without much cooking project lately, I ran out of material to photograph, until Oreo decided not to leave me alone most of the time, and giving me some different looks when I try to mess with him.

Over the past few weeks, I have accumulated photos that I snapped  here and there when I think Oreo look the most adorable.

Oreo either sleep on his belly, or sleep on his back, but for some reason, one time he decided to lay on his side while watching me cook in the kitchen. Instead of grab my camera and run toward his bed, I had to make slow and quiet step to approach him, otherwise he will get too excited and get up. While I was making sneaky step approaching him, he lazily look at me, observe what’s going on before he spend more effort to get up, I have no idea why he lift his leg! I swear he looks like some one get caught with his pant down!

When I work in my home office, I kicked Oreo out as he would bother me on the keyboard. These days he knows to leave me alone once I get into my office, but he still wait at my office door, look frustrated and sad because I don’t play with him

I haven’t done much close up shot of Oreo as he always want to play and lick all over the place. I decided to take up the challenge, to test my high speed photography skill.

Oreo also learn to press my buttons, he knows I would not ignore him if he sits up, like a panda bear.

His big head, short leg and long body just make him look uniquely cute.

Sometimes I think he knows how to work the camera!

When he get excited, he just lay his paws on my lap, and look at me with a doodlely eyes.

As Oreo started to sit up more often, I notice that he likes to stick his tough out, still don’t know why.

I swear, sometimes he looks like a miniature panda bear, especially with that furry paw!

I also has to watch out for Oreo’s nail, there were time they get too long and sharp, they scratch my hand, and leave a scar on my left hand which take a long time to heal.

Once he gets your hand in front of him, it didn’t take long for him to start nibble at your finger, like kid with pacifier.

The nibbling soon turn into gentle bite, which I really think Oreo has oral fixation issue.

He looks almost irresistible with the sad/guilty look.

The waiting look is somewhat serious.

Once he started to get your attention, he looks more awake.

Oreo and milk!  Well, that’s Chip, his play date, and is a male dog! It turns out it’s the way dog show who’s dominant.

Oreo is capable of sit up on his own, especially with treat dangling above him, but with out treat, he always need a helping hand.

As Oero’s hair get long, you almost can’t see his neck, and he’s like a giant fur ball sitting up.

Trying to photography him taking a nap really need gentle footstep as he get alert easily.

But once you stand there long enough, he will give up looking at you eventually.

He also has the habit of waiting in the middle of the stair when I walk up the stair, as if he’s waiting for me to chase him.

One day after he got his hair cut, which they didn’t cut very much, I decided to stop at the middle of the stair instead of go all the way up. Oreo thought I don’t want to play with him and give me that “Oh come on, you leave me alone again” look.

Oreo looks really goofy when he has long hair, the problem is he shed like crazy as the season transition. He now has a much shorter hair, but that will be another post in the future.