My first post ever!

Hello all!!!  I am so excited that I can blog about anything I want to.  It's tough to keep everything locked up inside and have no way to shout it to the world.  Today is truely a milestone for me.  Not only is this my first blog, but it is the first day that Murdock (my brother ~ some of you have heard stories on my Mom's Facebook page so you know exactly what I mean!) has really left me alone since he came home in February.  Yesterday, my Mom and Dad had a visitor named Rich.  He was carrying this black case and at first I was like "What is THAT??"  Rich took out this collar and he was explaining how it worked and when to touch this button.  I remember thinking "Is that for me?" because there is this big box on the collar that looked kind of freaky.  When Dad put the collar on Murdock I breathed a sigh of relief that it was not for me.  For about an hour and a half Rich was showing Mom and Dad how to get Murdock to "go in his home" (aka his crate) and he actually stayed!  They all thought I was sleeping but I had one eye open, which I always do with that crazy brother of mine, and witnessed it all.  Mom and Dad left to watch the Notre Dame game (well, they didn't tell me that's where they were going but HELLO! it WAS a Saturday and they both had ND shirts on!) so Murdock and I stayed home.  Murdock was talking to me and asked if he did anything wrong ~ why would Mom and Dad give him this "zap".  I told him that he is only doing what he knows to do, but that Mom and Dad didn't want him to do it.  Since he was not listening to them, they had to get him that collar.  I told him that Mom had taken me to a trainer as well and that I had this metal collar that she snapped whenever I did anything.  I told Murdock that Mom and Dad still love him no matter what.  With that, he fell asleep and I went and layed down on the couch to listen to some tunes.