An open letter to Facebook on behalf of me, Ajax the Greyhound:

 Dear Facebook,

You recently disabled and removed my facebook account citing a violation of the Facebook terms of use. I read over these terms of use in between walks, dinner, and learning to turn on the fireplace. I found that basically, a facebook account must:

• Represent an individual
• Not be a misrepresentation
• Not be an advertisement
• Cannot be fabricated material

After review, you have disabled my account in error. I am not making an account for someone else, I am an individual, and I'm certainly not advertising anything. Everything I've written in my profile is truthful. This leads me to believe that you have made this mistake because of any / all of the following:

• Facebook has the intelligence of a cat
• Facebook is run by dog-haters and abusers
• Facebook is, in fact, breaking their own terms of use and misrepresenting their terms of use whereby I actually AM violating the terms of use.
• Facebook doesn't believe I am an individual (this leads back to the intelligence of a cat)
• Facebook was built on a foundation of pure concentrated evil.

In conclusion, I hate you Facebook.

-Jaxie

...GET OFF MY COUCH!

 Shane and Cassandra have been telling me I could come sit with them on the downstairs couch for a while now. I never had the confidence to get up there on my own until yesterday, though. Once I tried it I loved it. It's great. So soft and comfy, and the best part is, I get to cuddle with the people:

But, you know how it goes when you get into a deep sleep. Eventually you just have to stretch out, and if you don't have enough room to make yourself comfortable...

After a few practice runs when Shane and Cassandra make short trips, I'm spending my first full day hanging out in the basement today. I really like it down here so far. The carpet is extra soft and I have enough room to play around a little bit or do some walking / stretching. Fortunately for the people, I don't really have any interest on chewing anything up (at least not right now). Here I am, asleep and comfortable:

So after spending a little while sleeping on my bed, as you saw in the picture, I woke up and got a little uncomfortable with my surroundings. I paced back and forth for a while, and eventually settled down and laid on the floor, but hanging out down there away from my crate was bothering me. Fortunately, Angela visited around noon and let me go spend the rest of the day in the crate after we went on our walk together. I might try the basement again sometime, but for now I think I just want to spend an hour or two at a time there.

Shane brought me some new bling for my collar today, making me the first greyhound ever (probably) to wear a world championship ring.

Welcome to election day everyone. Again, I got passed over for official US citizenship, so I am still ineligible to vote. Since I can't cast an offical ballot for the state of Massachusetts this year, I give you my unofficial greyhound ballot.

ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT

Baldwin and Castle
Barr and Root
McCain and Palin
McKinney and Clementa
Nader and Gonzalez
Obama and Biden

I get really excited every night when I hear "Nader! Nader! Nader! Nader! Nader! Nader! Nader! Nader! Nader! Nader! Nader! Nader!" so I have to vote for him!

SENATOR IN CONGRESS

John F. Kerry
Jefferey K. Beatty
Robert J. Underwood

I just can't vote for someone named "Beatty." I got "Beatty'd" enough on the track!

REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS

John F. Tierney
Richard A. Baker

I can't turn down a good baker.

OTHER SELECTIONS

Chicken Treats
Beef Treats
Cheese Treats
Vegetables

Prancing
Running
Walking

Sit
Lay Down
Hide
Touch

Dog Park Day
Football Day

Anything Else
Sleeping

QUESTION ONE: ELIMINATE STATE INCOME TAX

I vote "NO" on question 1 because, well, I don't really care. My income doesn't qualify for taxes anyway, so I don't mind having a state income tax!

QUESTION TWO: DECRIMINALIZE MARAJUANA

I vote "NO" because as we stated before, I have no income, therefore I cannot buy Marajuana. If I can't have any, nobody else should have any either!

QUESTION THREE: PHASE OUT GREYHOUND RACING

I vote "YES"! I didn't realize it at the time, but living in a home is soooo much better than living on the track. I really like being a pet instead of a racing dog. I know the racing people are probably just going to move to other states and keep racing greyhounds, but it's a start. And as for people losing their "jobs"... Most of them have skills that can be used elsewhere, like selling concessions. The few others have well over a year to find another job. Not a big problem at all.