I got a new collar.
Guess what color it is. đŸ˜‰
Today we are participating in the Black and White Sunday blog hop hosted by You Did What With Your Weiner, Dachshund Nola and My Life In Blog Years.
Black and White Sunday: New Collar
Category Archives: rough collie
My Collie Can Fly
‘Cause she’s a superhero.
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Wordless Wednesday: Me and Petal




Fresh Snow!
It snowed here off and on (mostly on) from Sunday night to Monday evening.
Which has been absolutely wonderful because the rain we had over the weekend washed all our snow away and made everything dreadfully muddy. Not fun.
But now we have a fresh blanket of beautiful, clean snow!
Which has been absolutely wonderful because the rain we had over the weekend washed all our snow away and made everything dreadfully muddy. Not fun.
But now we have a fresh blanket of beautiful, clean snow!
We had lots of fun in it, too.
I got a video of these two romping in the snow yesterday, making the first tracks in the fresh snow.
I will warn you that the video is all over the place. It was snowing (you probably won’t be able to tell from the video, but it was lightly snowing the whole time we were out there) and even though there was this cloudy haze, it was bright and I couldn’t really tell what I was recording, haha.
Thank goodness YouTube can stabilize shaky videos, or else you’d probably feel like you’re spinning in circles on a boat in a storm.
Anyway. YouTube greatly improved it, but it’s still all over the place, I’m sorry about that.
But you do get to see how crazy Petal is in the snow! 
That barking that sounds like it’s coming from a distance is from our neighbor’s Border Collie cross from across the street.
And, of course, just minutes after I turned off the camera and stuck it back in my pocket, Lassie goes sniffing around under a tall bush and Petal whips by and knocks a ton of snow all over him. By the time I got the camera back out and ready to go, Lassie had shaken it all off.
It was so funny though. Lassie looked like he was made out of snow.
How has your weather been? Have you been enjoying snow? Rain? Sunshine?Â
Black and White Sunday: Her Sweet Little Face
“I’m cute and I know it.”
Today we are participating in the Black and White Sunday blog hop hosted by You Did What With Your Weiner, Dachshund Nola and My Life In Blog Years.
Lassie’s Birthday Video
Last week was Lassie’s 7th birthday!
As a birthday present he received a Bergan travel harness and a AirDog Squeakair tennis ball from Kong.
Here you can watch Lassie open his presents and listen to me and my family sing happy birthday to him (Lass was not a huge fan of the singing, haha).
We’re all kinds of crazy and ridiculous. ;]
Is she a short haired Collie?
I get this question a lot when I’m out walking the collies. People who are familiar with the breed know right away that Lassie is a collie, however not everyone realizes that Petal is too. They always seem surprised to hear it and they almost always ask “Is she a short haired collie?”
Uhhh. No.
First of all, her hair is already much longer than a “short haired” AKA smooth coated collie.
(image found on Google)
Smooth Collie.
Petal the Rough Collie.
Second of all, collies can take up to two years to grow out their full coat. Petal is a year and a half and you’d be surprised at how much a young dog can change in just six months!
Third, female collies tend to have thinner coats than the males. So it’s not likely that she’ll ever have a coat as full as Lassie’s.
Fourth, she actually did have have longer hair on her belly area, but when I had her spayed, she obviously had to be shaved.
Fifth, her mom’s hair is quite a bit shorter than my Lassie’s and her dad’s hair looks to be about the same as Lassie’s. This will have a lot to do with how long Petal’s will get.