Silly Saturday

Some dogs have spring fever! 

Happy Thanksgiving to our American Friends and Happy Hanukkah

Lady is too challenged to embed this wonderful video made by My Three Moggies. Please click on it to view to view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4-GNkVwHAE

To all our friends in the USA, Happy Thanksgiving.
To all our friends who celebrate Hanukkah, Happy Hanukkah.

[Note: We celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas in our house!]

Mischief Monday - Busy Day

Yesterday there was so much mischief in our house!

First one of the visitors to our party for Aunt C was an almost 10 month old. Hailey hates the babies. She would just bark and bark at him. She had to go on her leash because she would run toward him and bark in his face. He thought this was funny, but Lady did not. Even after he went to bed at 7, she would sneak down to the guest room and bark outside the door.  Lee was very stressed inspite of the fact some of her favourite people were here, she was very stressed.

Then in the afternoon, Lady and Man slept for like 4 hours. Lady didn't let us catch up on blogs. She was too tired. All that night mischief caught up with her and Man.

At 6 pm, Man took Lee on leash and Zaphod off leash out for a bathroom break. What Man didn't think about was it was 6, prime deer time. Phody spotted a deer and chased it and was MIA for one hour before Man found him in the bush at the end of the road. Man and Lady were happy he was home but not happy he had run away for so long.

Then later in the evening when the peeps were watching TV, Phody jumped off the couch to go sniff Baggy and knocked a bowl on the floor with his big tail. It shattered. It was a huge mess we were not allowed to help clean up.

Lots of mischief yesterday. Lady hopes today is a quiet day!

Phod's Toy and World Autism Day

First, our Lady would like us to take a minute to tell everyone that today is World Autism Day. This is a cause that is near and dear to her heart cause she works with people with autism.  If you know someone with autism, give them an extra big hug from us. If you don't and want to learn more, here is a good place to start: http://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism/world-autism-awareness-day.

Second - the fun for us stuff. As many of you may remember a couple weeks we got our Mollie Box. (FYI, it is Mollie's birthday today, so a special happy birthday to her!). Our Lady has been mean and has only been giving us things slowly from the box. She says she got the box for Phod's birthday and we were lucky to get things early. 

So far we have gotten the toy squirrel which is in 3 pieces because that is what happens when 3 dogs play tug at the same time but it was so great and we loved it; A toy pig, which our Man has had to fix a number of times which we also loved; raw hide cigars, that took Phod a long time to figure out it was too chew, he just sat guarding it.

Yesterday cause it was Phod's birthday we got to try these really yummy treats with berries in them that once Phod figured out were food, we both love and Phod got this new toy. Here he is playing with it.

It Snowed!

In case you missed it, we have had a lot of snow, and Lady got a fancy video camera (and by fancy she means one that is not in her phone) and she wants to learn how to do some video editing. So here is her first attempt (don't worry it is under a minute!)

Want a bath?

Lee does not like grooming. We have worked hard to get her to tolerate getting her nails cut, being brushed and brushing her teeth. Our next step, getting her to like a bath. In a year and a half we have never given her a bath (to be honest she hasn't really needed one). This is what happens when we suggest one:

 Let's hope she never needs a bath!

Hailey and Emma meet - videos

Here are some videos of Emma meeting Lee, Baggy and Nin. 

After Emma left, all the furry friends had a big sleep!

Day 2 - That little one just won't sleep

After a restless night, the dogs had a very busy day.

After a 4 km walk to the lighthouse, the dogs:

Ran in the front yard (aka the beach)

Took a dip in Lake Huron (yes they were swimming on Nov.25)

Played in the house (Max, facing camera is saying "throw the ball")

And played and played. This is a video of Lee and Tendra

The dogs also had a an almost 2 km walk in the evening. My little muffin was so over stimulated that she had less than an hour sleep all day. Everyone else was exhausted but the energizer bunny kept going and going and going, and finally after dinner crashed.  We had a much better sleep and are now ready to take on today!

The bad "cookie" game

This is a game Gemi use to play when we gave her a cookie she did not like. Hailey has started playing it, but she seems to do it with things she loves. I spend a lot of time watching this!

Walk Time

What do you think she is saying?

Watching Caesar

A tour of the backyard

I am not going to pretend that we ever had a great backyard. Yard work is not something we enjoy. The only reason we haven't paved it is for the dog(s). Today when sweeping, I realize we live a reverse Shawshank Redemption, the dirt is slowly being brought into the house instead of out.  While her digging can be annoying (the destroyed yard, dirt everywhere, dirt prints everywhere),  the joy it brings her, priceless. Dig on my pup!

New Trick

This is a new trick we are trying to teach. Our ultimate goal is that she will go directly to the toy we show her (and she is doing that about 50% of the time, the issues occur for her when we switch toys).

Desperate for a play mate

Lee and Nin