Happy New Year and New Year's Resolutions. . .

Welcome to the New Year of 2010 and I'm joining everybody who's decided to indulge in resolutions, new hobbies and expanding my horizons.

That said, here's my first resolution - I'm expanding my horizons! Aud's big into birdwatching, has feeders and birdhouses all over the yard. She even has made Max and Lucy indoor cats to protect her beloved cardinals, bluejays, junkos, sparrows, etc.

And I like watching them, oh, I surely do. . . Very, very much. .

But, I'm only 3 1/2 months old - who in their right mind expects me to be able to stick to a resolution?

Those birds were meant to be chased and I'm a bird dog, dagnabit!

Just think of it as me training them to take flight - QUICKLY! I will SO be the momma and poppa bird's friend in the spring when they need to motivate those chicks to fly, fly away! Ok, ok, so these dark eyed junkos were so impressed with my charging prowess that they took to those spindly branches to laugh and chatter at me. Wait, that's not good, is it?

Stupid birds - I'll show them. I'll just chew up these bushes so they finally have to fall to the ground.

I like to chew. I'm good at chewing. I can SO do this, those sarcastic birds who keep chirping that I'm much slower than the neighbor's cats will pay. YES, they'll pay. . . Sometime in my lifetime but I will press my bark park pals into service. . .

As far as indoor resolutions? I've decided that I don't like Aud and Bob's television viewing and have launched a campaign to change their program choices. First, and foremost - the Animal Planet must GO. I don't like the lions and that Cesar guy (the one who's fooled all the humans into thinking he's some kind of dog-whisperer?) HAVE TO GO!

Here I'm voicing my displeasure with one of Bob's war flicks. Yeah, the history channel has got to go too. I was calm and happy, chewing my blue sheep with the beepy thing, next thing I know I'm freakin' out and barkin' at the TV.

Sometimes Guy Fieri on the Food Network Channel freaks me out, too. But I'm working on getting over that. I do like Anthony Bourdain on the Travel Channel and Mike Rowe with Dirty Jobs is OK.

We're working on an acceptable cable channel lineup. I'll keep you posted on our progress!

CHOW BABY!!