Reality TV


You're probably aware that the country has become fascinated with "reality tv', whether it's people going fishing or people training animals or people putting smaller people in gowns and tiaras, it seems that the television public cannot get enough "reality" (which, of course, leads both of us to wonder what the life of a person who spends time watching reality instead of being part of reality must be like, but we digress).

We don't get to watch much television, and we watch none of it while we're alone because those remote controls that everyone else gets to use only work if you hold them with your silly old opposable thumb, and that is - as we've talked about many times - a problem for us. We do like to cuddle with our mama while she watches TV, except when there's a show about a puppy or a kitten or any furry baby animal, because mama says that she wants one and that would mean it would be even tougher to get the prime real estate in the bed (a/k/a next to mama). And, so we're not exactly sure about what makes a good "reality" TV show.

We know that there's some television show where people all live together in a house that has a lot of cameras, so that they are always on TV. At least, that's what it sounded like to us, which got us to thinking: wouldn't it be great if there was a way for us to have our own "reality" TV show? We could be stars and admired by two or three times the number of people who read our blogs (which would mean there would be 2 or 3 people, in total) admiring us. So, we did some research, by which we mean that whispered our idea into the purchasing agent's ear while he was sleeping, and - lo and behold - our television network was born!

We are debating whether to call it MalTVese or the Izzi & Rozi network (and as much as Rozi might want top billing, it has been pointed out to her clearly that Izzi gets top billing and if Rozi doesn't stop whining about it, Izzi will just keep licking her face [which she hates] until she stops). But, that's not important. What is important is that now we are on TV all the time! Or, maybe not all the time, since our stupid gofer got a television camera that doesn't follow us around the house, like we asked for, so if we're not on the couch, we're not seen by our many fan. We're working on that though.

So, now, when we get up and then have our breakfast (and our second breakfast, if we're Rozi), which is all backstage for us. We don't really want to be caught on camera eating, since it's not ladylike and it's possible that if the FCC sees how Rozi eats, they could just slap a TV-MA rating on us and shut us down.

Then, we find time in our busy day to look out our bay window and watch the world spin past us: walkers (we bark at them), bikers (we bark at them), people walking their dogs (we bark and growl and bark even more at them), delivery people (we bark really loud at them), and ice cream trucks (we whine at them). And, while we're doing this, the camera is catching our every move.

As you would expect, with the camera always "rolling", whatever we do in front of it is captured forever (or a few minutes; we're not sure about the difference). So, sometimes we move our head, or sometimes we switch position, or some times we roll on our backs. It's not easy trying to please a vast audience, but both of us are aware that we have a job to do, and we take it seriously.

Unfortunately, the TV broadcast isn't available to everyone (silly old "privacy" rules), but we do have a few clips of things that have happened recently, and we want to share them with you. This time, it's mostly Rozi, who is getting over a nasty case of being poisoned by the tick medicine, and so both of these are about her because she's had a tough few days.

Plus, she's a bit of a goof.

In this one, Rozi has decided that she doesn't like the way the pillows look on the couch, and she does something about it.

So, there you have it. We may post more movies here from time to time, and then again, we may not. The life of us reality TV stars is an exhausting one, since it's tough for us to tell what's really real and what's really just reality.

But, as long as we get treats, we really don't care.

Yip, Yip, Arf, Yip,
Izzi & Rozi

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