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I love your Pet Trouble books. Are you going to make another? If you are, can you make one with a Chihuahua named Lucky? I would be so happy if you email me back. Thank you very much from your number 1 fan.
Patrick


Hi, hi, hi!
   I'm Buddy! A Yorkie/Fox Terrier! Ya know, I've had a tough life. First, somehow an INSANE person ABANDONED ME at an animal shelter. I thought I was a pretty good puppy. I only barked my head off when someone was knocking on the door. But anyway, then things got better: I got adopted! Fun and playtime! Right? Sure it was fun for awhile, nice, warm fires in the fireplace at night. Then one out of two owners died. Sad again. And my other owner is giving me up! The good news is, now I'm going to a really nice family with lots and lots of people and snuggling and fun!
   But there's a problem too...there are THREE other pets! Two cats and a dog! So I'm trying to get the message through to them...I AM THE NEW KING OF THE HOUSE!  Although it's very humiliating to be SMALLER THAN BOTH OF THE CATS! Much smaller! So I'm turning to you. Surely there must be an answer!
   Buddy, the Humiliated Puppy
   Thanks!

Dear Sunshine,

I am 10 years old and my family is renting a house for a year.  The only problem is that they don't allow cats and we have two!!!!!!  I want to be able to see them every day when I get home from school, but I won't because they won't be there.  Please help and answer soon!

Completely Cat-Deprived

Hello lovely readers!

I'm sorry I couldn't post a blog last week; as usual, it was Tui's fault, for dragging me off to a faraway place with no Internet access and lots of unexpected, hilarious furry madness:



These are my new friends, Muffin and Tootsie!  Yes, that's right: neither of the dogs in this picture are me!  I have shiny new tiny fluffy lookalike friends!

This, however, is me:



Looking befuddled by the new fluffy excitement of it all.  :-)

Dear Sunshine,

I have a Yorkie and she likes to run.  But she uses her ability to run faster than anyone to run away.  I'd like to train her to stay in our property so she can run around freely - but she is already 3 years old.  I'd just do the squirt bottle but I don't want to take the chance of her running off and we can't catch her.  She is a sweet dog and a lovable dog as well and we just can't lose her like that!

Thanks,
Meghan

Dear Sunshine,
   Yup, another question from me.  One of my big sisters got to go to Vienna a little while ago!  Not fair!  I was all like, "Take me with you!!"  But no, she said!  Then just to top it off, she went to see a Broadway play!  So totally UNFAIR!
   So I've been thinking of ways to get her back.  Any ideas????  By the way I've read all the Pet Trouble books so far and I love them.  <3  (:  <3  (:
   Little Sister Tired of Being the Littlest


Hi Sunshine!
   It's Annoyed Little Sister again! Listen, I came up with some ways to make big brothers go away and LEAVE LITTLE SISTERS ALONE! You could a) Talk in chat speak (like OMG! and BRB and...well, you get the point).  b) Eat all of the big cookies! Then go hide.  c) Take a bite of HIS favorite food (for my brother, it's CHOCOLATE PIE).  d) PUT A RED SOCK IN HIS WHITE LAUNDRY! (You might want to watch from a distance. I speak from experience.)
   I have a question too: are there any other dogs or cats living in your house? ALL THE TIME I mean, not like Maui or Oliver.
   Not Quite Annoyed Little Sister :D ;) :>

Dear Sunshine,

Hi! It's your friend Simon! I can't wait to see you the next time your mom brings you back. I don't care that your butt is shaved, I still think you are beautiful!

But that's my problem. I'm a lover, not a fighter, and girls realllllly like me. I have so many girlfriends, and I love them all, but how will I know when I find my true love? It gets really stressful -- I love the one I'm with, but then she will go home, and another will come in, or sometimes I'm juggling three or four lady friends at a time in daycare -- and the space isn't that big! I don't want to start lady dog fights over my handsomeness!



How will I find my one true love? And don't tell me it's that new puppy that my moms brought home, Calypso. She is beautiful, but she's a brat and she bites my ears. Though she does cuddle me at night...

Help!
Simon

Dear Sunshine,

I think I am a very good dog. I barely even chew on anything anymore. But my person insists on writing all day and only takes me on ONE walk a day and barely even plays tug-of-war with me anymore. I was thinking that maybe if she got to meet an author who could help her write (and learn how to balance writing time with playing-with-ME time) then she could write faster and have more time left over for a certain someone. But there's no authors in our neck of the woods! Because it's well, woods, and while there are other dogs for me to play with and grass to roll around in, there are no authors for her.

But YOU have a person who writes, Sunshine! Could you ask your "Tui" person to pass along some tips on how to make a career out of writing? I figure that if she's a writer she'll at least be at home more often than if she went to a boring office and got a NORMAL job or something. Ick.

Please help me get time with my person back (and don't encourage her TOO much, or she might actually start to write MORE),

Wookiee

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Dearest Readers,

I am sorry there was no blog last week, which incidentally was TUI'S FAULT for ABANDONING ME, and I am also sorry that I am FAR TOO TRAUMATIZED to write a proper advice column this week, which is also TUI'S FAULT, because this weekend she subjected me to THIS!:


BOY DOGS!  TWO of them!  Noisy, scruffy, rambunctious, messy BOY DOGS! 

Hi there!

I am begging my mum to get me a dog but she said that dogs smell. :( I really want a yorkie or a poodle. Which ones are cheap and don't smell? I have all 3 of your Pet Trouble books and I think they're really good.

Please reply,

Tobie

Featuring the Official Introduction of Cousin Oliver!
 

Hi, Sunshine,
I'm one of your biggest fans, xD!  But I have a question on how to train a dog not to be scared of something.  My dog is scared of lightning, and that reflects onto a fear of cameras, so now, I haven't taken a picture of her since the year we got her.  How do I help her overcome this problem?
Brightsky


Hey Sunshine,
My older brother annoys me constantly, I don't even know what to do anymore!!  I've tried ignoring him, but then it gives him a reason to be even MORE irritating.  The only thing that's sure to work is bacon, but it's not like I have an endless supply of it!!  What should I do?
Annoyed Little Sister