THIS BE COOPER

This be Cooper. Since MP has a cold she said I cood write if I didint do dogspeek. I do not spell so good. And she say thats ok.
I dont like it when she not feeling good because she grumpy but mossly because she parta the flock. See I a herding dog. I herd things. I keep order. It is a touff job what with Basset hounds. They dont herd so good and they dont keep order. You should see! Allygator mouff with horrible sounds. Wrassling in the living room. Why they call it a living room if you canit live in it withouht a bunch of Bassets grrring and sliding aroun on the rugs?

I have three legs. Or maybe I should say I have one less than I did.
I had something in my leg that hurt and made me limp. There is a name for it but we are not allowt to say it out loud. They (the dog doctors) say the leg has to go. I did not reely unnderstand what they meant. Of course it goes, it's a leg and legs go. What they ment was they gone make it go away forever. I went to sleep and they magikcally disapeered it. IT kinda scary they do this so eesy they disapperd my ...my....an I still miss them.

See? Count them. One too three. No fore.

I usta be a show dog. I went to dog shows. I got all spiffied up. First Aunt Annette the groomer would groom me to peeces. She very good and no exzactly what to not touch wif sissors. (Anything.) She get me all clean and pretty. Den MP trim my back legs from da hock down an my feets. At the sshows she put me on a teble and spritz me with stunky stuff, brush and brush and brush and fluff and rearrange my fur an trim my feets and put on a speshal leesh an we go trot aroun a place an some stranger touch my.... to be sure there are two and then there were but thats before they made them disappeer. Sometimes I win and sometimes not and then won day in Wisconsin I gots to be whut they calls a champion, maeke no differments, I still da same dog.

Whut I like best of all is when da whole flock here togedder and I nose where dey all is. What I don't like is when one is missing, even Mp or DP or even Bassets. MP used to say da best part ob the day when everyone else in bed and she nose rite where they is. Yeah. I get that.

Well Ise just babblin here. I not feelin reel good these days sometimes. Nobody seem to know exactly why. I tell em, I'm eleben, I had dat word nobody say, prolly got it agin someplace secret inside. Sum days I no eet. Some days I frows up. Sometimes I gets the odder end going. I no gots the zippy in my step like I used to but it's ok because MP still haul me onna bed and cover me wif kisses an hugs and rub me all ober and sing our special song:
you is my sunshine
my only sunshine
you makes me heppy
when skies is grey
you never nose dear
how much I love you
please dont take
my
sunshine
away