Lassie’s Day – Horses

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Marquie

Just remembering that time we briefly had horses as neighbors. They always came up to the fence to say hello.

Should’ve posted this a week ago

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Marquie

I had these pictures all ready to go for a blog post days ago (nearly a week ago, heh) and… well, it just never happened.
But before we get to the pictures, let me give you all a little update on our temporary neighbors.

April 1

Our temporary horse neighbors have moved back to their home across the street.
They moved back about a week ago and since they’re no longer living in the yard that backs up to a portion of our yard (we have two separate fenced-in areas to our huge yard, the area pictured above is to the side of the house and is the largest and the most fun. The other area is directly behind the house and is smaller, but it’s the best pen to use when there are too many distracting things going on on our street or when there are horses living right beside the larger pen and your dog (Ella) is afraid of horses), Ella can come out and play in the big pen again, yay! She hadn’t been out there since March!
(Yeah, all those action shots featured here and here were taken in March)

So, a week ago, the dogs celebrated like this…

“C’mon, Ella! Let’s play soccer!”

Wordless Wednesday: If my dogs were horses.

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Marquie

But first, I must interrupt this Wordless Wednesday program to bring you…
WORDS!
In the form of promoting and letting you all know about a wonderful fundraiser that’s been brought to my attention.

The Barkers Dozen (an organic and eco-friendly dog treat company based in Chicopee, Massachusetts) has launched a fundraiser for a beautiful rescue dog in need, Daffy. Daffy is currently suffering from a mysterious, undiagnosed disease and The Barkers Dozen has put together a fundraiser to help Daffy get the care she needs.

Through the month of April, 50% of profits made from treat sales at The Barkers Dozen will go to Daffy and her owner Ingrid.
Plus, if you use the promo code “DAFFY” at checkout, you’ll get a special thank you gift!

You can read more about the fundraiser here: “Dollars for Daffy” Fundraiser Launched
You can read more about Daffy here: Barkers Buddy: Daffy
And you can purchase some treats from The Barkers Dozen here: The Barkers Dozen

Now is a great time to get some goodies for your dogs! ;]

Now back to being wordless.

New neighbors

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Marquie

Yesterday the dogs noticed something peculiar going on next door and they made sure everyone in our house, and anyone near by, knew about it. We all went to the window to see what all the fuss was about.

Our neighbors across the street were moving their four gorgeous horses across the street and into our next door neighbors’ yard; the yard that backs up against the side of our yard.

We think the horses are going to be living in that yard temporarily while (it looks like) their owners re-fence their own yard.

So, for now, the dogs have some horses on the other side of the fence to bark at and sniff!

Thank goodness these horses normally live with two border collie mixes and they seem to be fairly use to the barking. They don’t seem to mind it too much. They also don’t mind nosey little Petal Collies sticking their slender little heads through the fence to get a good sniff of them.

Ella didn’t join us for this meeting. She gets a little crazy around horses. Okay, a LOT crazy. I think she might be afraid of them. And with Ella going crazy and being nervous and stressed + Petal being crazy excited and crazy curious + Lassie trying to herd them, it would have made for many hysterical dogs.

It was also windy and freezing cold yesterday (you’ll see the lovely storm clouds that brought us some snow and power-outage in the photos) and Ella was not happy with the weather. I didn’t think it would be very nice of me to combine her least favorite things. So she stayed inside the warm, horse-free, house.

Anyway, on to the pictures!

“What’s this? When did those horses get there?!”
“Time to investigate!”