How to Make a Collie Snow Angel

Today Lassie is going to show you all— Collies and NonCollies alike— how to make a Collie Snow Angel in just five easy steps!
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Step 1: Pick a good spot in the snow, lay down, and commence rubbing your snout around in it.

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Step 2: When ready, begin kicking legs around in the snow while still rubbing your snout around in it.

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Step 3: Begin rolling your whole body around in the snow.

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Step 4: Keep rolling! You may have to lick a little snow off of your face and, if you have any, you may also have to ignore your doggy sibling/s if they try to distract you and get you to play with them instead. You mustn’t get distracted, this Collie Snow Angel making is serious business.

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Step 5: Once you’re satisfied with your snow angel, get up and shake off all that snow!

And that is how you make a Collie Snow Angel! ;]

Quick little note: I updated my Q-tip Review with a little note about the Precision Tips. The smaller, Purse Pack of the Precision Tips are not available for sale, see the post for more details. Thanks!

Fun with the Kong Flyer

As you may know, for Petal’s second birthday I got her the KONG Flyer.
And she is in love with it.
Which makes me so happy. I was worried she would rather play with the collapsable bowl, haha.
But she loves this frisbee so much more than that bowl!
She loves to carry it around in her mouth. She’ll even carry it out into the yard for me.
She runs like a crazy little Collie and even tries to jump up and snatch it out of the air.
She hasn’t succeeded yet, but it’s still cool to watch.
I’ve been using treats and the clicker to teach her to bring it back to me so I won’t have to chase her down for it, haha. So far so good! We’ve only worked on it twice with the clicker and she’s catching on really quickly.
Gotta love clicker training.
And a bright Collie. ;]
Anyway, on to the pictures!

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Chasing it down.

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Bringing it back like a good little Collie.

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Posing with it.

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Throw it again! Throw it again!

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I know, I know. There are hardly any action shots.
Turns out holding a clicker, treats, camera and throwing a frisbee all at the same time is rather difficult!
So I got distracted with having her pose with it instead and by the time I decided to try and get a few more action shots in, the camera battery died, haha. Oh well. Next time. ;]

Also, just thought I would share this because I find it pretty funny: I fell down the stairs today.
Well, okay, that’s a little dramatic. I slipped off the last step and landed on my butt in the snow and hit my back against the steps. Yeah, it hurt, but mostly it was just really funny because Petal turned around and looked at me like “Why are you on the ground?” Then she play bowed and started hopping around in the snow. “Is this a game?! It’s a game, isn’t it?! I wanna play! Let’s play!” Silly dog. And while she was doing this Lassie was sniffing me and making sure I was okay, then he stood nice and still so I could use him to pick myself back up.

And now my back is sore.
But Petal’s reaction still makes me laugh.

7 Years

Yesterday, December 8th 2011, marked seven years with my Lassie.

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Seven years with this boy!
It’s been amazing and sometimes difficult.
But mostly amazing. He’s the best dog.
This dog makes me smile and laugh.
He makes me feel loved and wanted and needed.
Though I need him a lot more than he needs me.
He’s my best friend.

Sleepover!

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On Thursday Petal’s little friend, Pepper (a Cocker Spaniel/Poodle mix), came over and is staying with us until Sunday. Petal and Pepper have been playing nonstop and wearing each other out, it’s so nice! Haha.

These girls get along so well together and are about a year apart in age. They love to wrestle each other the most and sometimes they like to chase each other, too. But Pepper has a habit of biting at Petal’s ankles, which Petal doesn’t really like, so she ends up running with her butt tucked underneath herself and then she quickly sits down. It’s too funny.

They’ve been having a blast playing in the snow and wrestling in the kitchen. They’re so cute!

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“Look Pepper! I’m an Ostrich!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

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Yay! More snow!

Yesterday, at midnight, we finally received a generous amount of snow, just in time for December!
Ella acts pretty excited about it, but that doesn’t mean she wants to be out there any longer than it takes to do her business. ;] So she stayed in the nice warm house while I took the Collies out to play in the snow! And now I have pictures and a video to share with you all.

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Petal zooms!


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Petal & Lassie. Note that in the last picture Petal is showing Lassie the yellow snow (that she created) and explaining to him that we don’t eat the yellow snow. ;]

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Pretty little snow angel.

It was really windy when I recorded this and the sound was super obnoxious, so I threw in a Christmas song instead. Enjoy!

Is anyone else enjoying some snow? What do your dogs like to do in the snow?

Winter Wonderland!

This morning we woke up to a lovely winter wonderland!
My dogs LOVE the snow and so do I, so we went outside to play.
Well, okay, so the girls played while I took pictures and Lassie explored.
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I’ll get you, Ella!

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Snow bunny.

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Hey Mom, wanna hear a great story?!

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Covered in snooow!

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I WILL get you, Ella!

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You should know that he ran right smack! into the camera after this picture.

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Really, Mom, it’s a great story. It doesn’t matter if you’ve heard it before! Let me tell it again!
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WhatEVER, Mom! I’ll just tell someone else my story then!


Now I wish I had some hot chocolate.
Is anyone else enjoying some snow? 😀
Or do you and your dogs hide inside?

First snow of the year.

This morning we woke up to the power being out (it’s back on now) and snow on the ground! Our first snow of the year, that stuck anyway. A few weeks ago it snowed a bit, but didn’t actually stick to the ground.
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Lassie looking out the window at the snow.

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Out the back door.

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In the snowy dog run to do their morning business.

Of course this bit of snow is already melting away as I type, but it’s still fun.. and cold!

So I’m keeping warm with my three little furry space heaters.

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To my left.

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And to my right.

Yay for warm, snuggling dogs!