Dear Nelly and Phenny - An Update

 Dear Nelly and Phenny,

We hope this letter finds you well.

As you know, since we moved to this house, we have been slowly working on digging a tunnel from our place to your place.

Now that we have left Canada's season of winter and entered the season of construction, we have once again begun excavations. 

At the rate we are going we would this project to last several thousand years, so we are thinking we should ask Callie' Man for hints, given one of his companies is excavation. 

We will continue to dig and hope to gain a few inches this year.

Your digging pals,

Lee and Phod

Editor's Note: For those newer to the blog, in our old house, Hailey dug up the backyard. At this house, we let her have one hole at the edge of the yard. Since then, every year both dogs have spent time digging in this hole. 

ISO-lympics

Thanks to our pals Roxy, Bella and Dui for organizing the Blogville ISO-lympics.  Here we can show off our great skills while staying in isolation.

We have each decided to enter 2 competitions.

Phod is up first. 

The first event - yard angels. Whether it be snow or grass, Phod is a gold medalist at making yard angels!

Using the face first, he makes sure his whole body has contact with the ground

The rubbing of the back is the most important part

That smile shows he knows he nailed it!

Phod's second event and favourite competition is fetch! While Precious is his favourite, he thought he would enter using a disc to show off the diversity of his fetching abilities! 

Great job Phod! In spite of the obstacles, grass to snow, he was able to successfully capture the disc (not pictured due to camera person failure, not his!)!

Now on to Hailey's events. 

Up first, eating. Be it meal time or treat time, Hailey can eat and eat and eat. She is always willing to take extra food off the people's hands or plates!

Look at the concentration as she gently takes the treat

Hailey's second event is supervising. This has been of vital importance the past month as the people have been stuck at home. Without her great supervising, they may not have created such a schedule. We have seen reports that those who don't have a routine will suffer more during this time. Thanks to her gold medal work, her peeps are both happy, healthy and productive. 

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Congratulations to both Hailey and Phod for their excellent performances today.

We wish all the competitors the best at showing off their skills. 

Thankful Thursday - Thanks Speedy

We are delayed in sending our heartfelt thanks to our dear pal Speedy the Bunny. We entered his annual Christmas countdown and our entry was one of his favourites. We won a prize!

From all the way from the other side of the pond we got this!

We have been working very hard (especially Hailey) to make sure those tree rats get the fate they deserve!

Thanks Speedy!

Listening to a Mountain Lion

I am  a huge admirer of KB Bear's Blog. If you do not know it, I highly recommends you check it out. Not only is KB an amazing dog owner and trainer, she shares some of the most incredible wildlife footage from her trail cam's in the Rocky Mountains near Denver. 

On the weekend, I was listening to her video of a Mountain Lion calling. Lee wan't sure what to make of it!

Trick or Treat

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Today we join The LLB Gang for their annual No Tricks, Just Treats Blog Hop! Every year they ask us to share what we are doing to help animals in need. 

Ummm, I think at this moment I am an animal in need of rescue from a terrible costume.

We make cash donations when we make purchases at the pet store, when pals are fundraising or in memory of pals called to the bridge. In lieu of mailing holiday cards, we pick an animal charity to donate to.

I was a shelter dog. 

Lady supports some young adults who are volunteering at a local animal sanctuary, Big Sky Ranch, every week. 

This is as good as it gets when we are so angry about wearing a costume. We need to up our price for this!

Lady also loves to visit the Feline Cafe and our peeps attend the SafePet Ottawa fundraiser. These are some of the ways we help.

Want to help animals in need? Make sure to post a comment at the LLB Gang's blog. They are making a donation for each comment!

Wishing you all a Spooktacular Day!

Mischief Monday - Oh Where Oh Where Have Our People Been

We are finally back safe and sound and what adventures we have had. 87 million hours ago, our people, who clearly do not love us, left us at puppy prison, a very lovely kennel. They were gone for a long time seeing things like . . . . 

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After some time, we started to get really worried that they were not home. We were sure they were lost and never coming back. 

Using our excellent research skills, we deduced they may be in London, England. We thought to ourselves, who do we know who knows London and may be able to help us? Princess Leah of course! So we gave her  a call. She said as a London expert she would be thrilled to help us find our people.

After some searching, we found our peeps and Princess Leah and her peeps by this statue. 

We had a lovely puppacino with Princess Leah and her wonderful peeps. It was so nice to get to meet, mostly in the furs.

Princess Leah was a great hostess showing us around and making sure our puppacino needs were met. 

Princess Leah "Would you care for another?"

Princess Leah "Another round please."

We are grateful we found our peeps and got to meet our wonderful friends! It was a good way to end the trip. 

Thank you Princess Leah for your help.

Be sure to pop over to Princess Leah's blog HERE for her side of the story.

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Aside: The Man and Lady had a very eventful trip home. If you don't follow them on another social media, check out the news story about their flight home HERE. (Don't worry, other than a 22 hour delay home, the peeps were fine).

Nature Friday - Bryce Canyon

I am joining Rosy and the Boyz for Nature Friday.

When I started this blog 8 years ago, I had no idea that it would result in 4 trips to meet other bloggers and their dogs. There is so much negativity on the internet and so much hate - it is nice to have a little corner that has united us with wonderful, like minded people (aka huge animal lovers), who we have no business knowing any other way.

This year, the mini-BAR was in Bryce Canyon, Utah. Utah is now the 25th State I have visited. 

Today, I share pictures from Bryce Canyon itself. 

Me  at the top of the canyon before the first descent

Looking into the Canyon

The Hoodoos

More Hoodoos

The rule breaker . . . one of the trails was washed out (no we didn't go far on the closed path)

The pups that have brought us together - Mabel, Arty, Jakey, Rosy, Murphy and Stanley and of course the Lee and Phod flats

Even more Hoodoos

Me and Man and flat Lee and Phod at the top

Murphy and Stanley's peeps and the Man on our big hike

Making sure we don't get lost

I wonder how long before this Hoodoo falls over

Hiking in Bryce was fun but tough. First, we live around sea level (about 1000 feet above) and in the Bryce area it is 7-8000 feet about sea level. So we were starting with thinner air then we are use to. Second, when you decent into the canyon (which isn't too bad), you go down about 1000 feet. This means you have to come up about a 1000 feet. Third, it can be very steep in places (it is a canyon after all).  I did it twice, and I am going to say, both times that last 500 feet were very hard. I found the second time harder, I think because my legs were sore from the 2 full days of hiking on the previous days. 

I don't think the pictures do the magnificent canyon justice. It was stunning. I am so glad to have had this opportunity. 

Thankful Thursday - Thank You Mabel

Today we want to send a big thank you to the sweet Miss Mabel whom our peeps got to meet in the furs last week at the mini-BAR. Miss Mabel sent these wonderful chews for us because we couldn't be there. 

Look how big they were!

We took them gently,

and spent the next half an hour enjoying them. 

Thank you Mabel!

Thanks Phenny and Nelly

The post lady came to our crib . . . in the box was these two wonderful toys, from Phenny and Nelly.

Somehow Lady got this picture upside down and she is too lazy to flip it lol!

Here is how the ball did:

It lasted less than 10 minutes. Professor Lee did her best work on it. Little bits of ball were everywhere, and really smooshed into our bed. It was a great enjoyable mess.

The chicken has still survived, mainly because after supervised playtime it gets taken away (talk about ruining the fun), but it is one of the toys Lee has played with the most, so Lady and Man are trying to make it last. Soon the chicken will not have wings. The chicken is a lot of fun for both the dogs and the people. 

Then the post lady left a package pick up and Lady went to the corner store to pick up our parcel (cause that is where it was left). There was a huge box. 

Inside it was full of treats! Lady and Man said we are very, very spoiled dogs. We think we are just the right amount spoiled.

Thank you Phenny and Nelly for the wonderful gifts. We love them all!

Thankful Thursday -Thanks To Our Blogville Friends

We participated this year in the Blogville Christmas exchange and today would like to thank our pals. 

This year, Rosy got Hailey's name. Hailey was very excited when not one but 3 presents came from Rosy.

Here is a dramatic recreation to the arrival of the first gift. 

In case the recreation doesn't work, here it is:

A lovely new magnet for Lady's new car. She loves it and says it is words to live by! (wag more, bark less).

The other packages had to wait until Christmas, but worth the wait.

In the first on was a dragon. 

Hailey was so excited she was a blur when taking off with it!

Then there were a bag of treats for Lee and Rosy is so thoughtful she sent a bag for Phod.

Lady forgot to take a picture of the bags. We are ok with that cause she got pictures of the most important stuff, us getting said treats. 

Thank you Rosy! (And yes we shared with cousin Emma who is pictured above to the left of Phod). 

Ruby, another friend for California, got Phod's name, and she made him the happiest dog ever! She sent 2 new Precious' (the balls) that are clean so no reason they can't be in the house, a new disk and yummy treats. 

A new precious just for me! Lady and Man are letting me have one in the house at a time. 

Her note said it was in case he lost things in the snow. Just a bit ago, Phod did loose a disc and Lady bought a second saying that was it for the year . . . then it rained and the missing disc was found, so now Phod is set with 3 discs to get him through the long winter.

Thanks Ruby, it was very thoughtful of you.

We are very lucky pups to have such thoughtful friends!