Trial treats book

Mommy went to the library and they had a book sale.  Mommy found two Benji books, they were a dollar each.  She was so happy because the only book she had with Benji's name was spelled differently. So now she has an actual Lassie and Benji book.

Here is our book collection, the top 2 we had. (I think my Lassie book, top right is the best.) The 2 new ones are at the bottom.

Earlier this week we had our trial at the court of common fleas.  Benji and I won the trial and mommy needs to thank us and give us extra treats fur protecting her like that from the possum. Look what Mommy gave us.  

Speaking of treats we found out that we won a contest at the Idaho Pugs blog and we r gonna get some treats.  The pugs are pawsome!  Thank u!

Gotta go,  

Mommy keeps writing typos because it is past her bedtime.  

Lassie and Benji

Soccer practice & Court

We joined the Blogville Soccer team and have been practicing. How do we look in our uniforms -- pawsome! The furst practice is on Cinco de Mayo (May 5th) on the Mayorz blog.


And on Monday we are having our Day in Court in Blogville's Court of Common Fleas.  We felt we unjustly got a talking to when that Possum was in our yard and our Mommy gave us a talkin to and said we were in Trouble with a capital "T fur making all that noise so early in the morning.  So, Ernie the Atty is gonna represent us in the "trial" on Frankie and Ernie's blog.

Busy Busy Busy.

Have a great day.

Lassie and Benji

Benji and the Bush

 

 

 

 

 

A Tale of

Benji and the Bush

 

by: Lassiter Chase the Sheltie

 

 

 

Once upon a time in the cold season of winter,

there was a dog named Benji who would scratch his face around a bush and linger.

 

Mommy would yell at Benji to stop scratching,

but Benji was stubborn and kept scratching and made his eye look raw and chapping.

 

Benji from winter time.

 

 

Mommy told the vet of this evergreen bush that Benji's face would rub up,

The vet said the bush might contain oils that Benji was allergic to, so block it off fur the pup.

 

 

Mommy put up a fence as horrible in sight,

To try to block off the bush to make Benji alright.

 

Benji was determined and snuck his nose thru the fence,

To scratch his face against the bush when not in Mommy's presence!

 

A week ago, in Springtime, Benji's itchy allergies started getting bad,

That's when we determined the bushes must go, to help the poor little lad.

 

We hope eliminating these bushes will help Benji get better.

So he will be better from allergies in all sorts of weather.

 

Mommy's brother-in-law came over and chopped down the bush.

Boy was that a project to do, Mommy said the clean up was big pain in the tush!

 

 

 

 

No more beating around the bush!  Flower pots cover up what's left of the bushes.

 

The End!

 

 

Have a itch-free day,

Lassie and Benji


P.S. Hopefully taking down these bushes will help make Benji's allergies a little better.  Oak pollen could also play a role in Benji's allergies.  The bushes are right under 2 oak trees.  And any oak pollen that lands in the bush would be right at Benji's eye level if he rubbed against it.  (Tree pollen is bad in our neck of the woods right now.)

Research also showed male Spreading Yew bushes could cause allergies in dogs and could be poisonous to dogs if they eat it. 

So, for a number of reasons, we decided to get rid of these 2 bushes to make our yard safer fur us pets.

Orange Bouncy Basketball

April is Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month! 

 

 

Our Blog friend OZ encouraged everyone to "Go Orange For Animals." 

 

Here we are with our new Orange colored Bouncy Ball that looks like a Basket Ball.  (It's not hard like a basketball, its a soft bouncy ball.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We love to chase and play with our new orange bouncy ball.  Here is a quick video of us BARKING and playing with our Orange Bouncy Basketball. 

https://youtu.be/4VHDgXLO9AE

 

 

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Go Orange For Animals!

 

 

Lassie and Benji 

Lions and Tigers and Shelties oh my

A jungle mural at a school. It was pawsome.

Mommy keeps singing...Shel, shel, shelties of the jungle. 

Mayorz Marathon oh yeah!

We are excited about tomorrow's Mayorz Marathon. 

Make sure to catch all the action starting on Stanley and Murphy's blog tomorrow morning at http://murphyandstanley.blogspot.com/



We have been busy preparing fur our run.

Lassie is #17.
Benji is #18.


This kinda reminds of us the "Sound of Music" Song... 16 going on 17 ...when the Rolf sings the guy part about him being older 17 going on 18.


I, Lassiter, am older than Benji, and totally taking the song out of context ....


Lassie (#17) says to Benji some words of advice to help him train fur the Marathon

"You need someone older and wiser

Telling you what to do

I am seventeen going on eighteen

I'll take care of you"

Lassiter (Lassie)

 

Benjamin (Benji)

 

Trouble with a capital T

 

Yesterday morning, bright and early, we woke up Mommy nice and sweetly with licks and cuddles and asked her nicely if she could let us out so we could go potty in the yard!

 

SIKE!  (Mommy is so gullible!)

 

We knew full well there was an ENEMY lurking around our territory.

 

Mommy opened the back door - and we took off barking and running like mad. 

 

 

Do you see it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mommy was yelling our names and saying "leave it" and trying everything in her power (treats) to get us to stop barking and get us back in the house. Mommy didn't know what it was at the time, but knew we were barking at something, and she was afraid the neighbors were gonna start complaining about the noise we were making so early in the morning.

 

It's not the best picture -- butt do you know what that is....

 

It's a possum!

 

Right there between our fence and our neighbors fence.

 

It looked like it was stuck.  The head (a light gray color) was too the left of the vertical pole in the fence and the body was to the right of the pole.  Turns out the possum wasn't stuck after all.  In about 10-15 minutes he left.    

 

Mommy's brother-in-law drove over in the morning and checked the yard to make sure it was safe before they let us out again.

 

 

 

 

Mommy and Grandma were SOOO mad at us. They said we were in Trouble with a capital T.

 

They said, when we hear them calling our names -- we are supposed to obey and listen to them and come to them.    (I gave them sympathetic doggie eyes and tried giving my (wet muddy) paw to them to apologize when they were giving us a talkin to!)

 

 

 

I'm sorry, correct me if I'm wrong -- butt is there a law written somewhere that says Dogs are supposed to obey their peeps 100% of the time?

 

Do humans obey all the stuff us Dogs tell them to do 187% of the time?   NO!    I can tell you for a fact that when my Mommy is watching a TV show, and I have to go to the potty, and I bother her to let me out -- she NEVER listens to me and continues to watch her show until a commercial break or whenever the show is finished.

 

 

I think us dogs had the right to bark at the wee hours of the morning if there is an intruder lurking about our property.  Ok technically he was on the border line of our property.  Butt that was close enough to being on our property.

 

 

Do you think us dogs wrongfully "got a talkin to" about obeying them.  We were defending our land!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank u

The phone charger!  Yay!

Thank u everyone fur the reminder comments about Mommys phone charger.   Blogville's got our back! We cant thank u enough.

So when we woke up our Mommy this morning for work, she didnt have a clue about remembering the phone charger.

It figures, I know my mommy like I know the back of my paw--i KNEW she would forget where she put the charger.

So i kept bothering her and bothering her, then she said lets see if u got any comments during the night (she totally furgot she even posted about the phone charger.) 

We saw everyones comments and Mommy ran outside in her pajamas and got the charger from the car and hurried up and plugged it in furst thing in the morning. (Do u see the looks on our faces, Mommy is standing outside in her pajamas taking a picture of us. Silly mommy.)

Thanks again.

Grandma was impressed so many bloggers all over the world would help Mommy remember where she left the charger.  

Wheres the phone charger?

Can someone please write us a comment tomorrow (monday) telling our mommy that she left the cell phone charger in Smurfette the car (in the hidden compartment thingy.)

I think she might need like 87 reminder comments.

Mommy is too lazy to go get it right now, and she will probably forget in the morning that she left it in the car. She like never puts it in the car-so she will most likely forget she took it in the car today.

 

Thanks.  I know I can count on you bloggers to help our Mommy remember where she put the charger.

Easter Bread

We were all so busy with Easter preparations.  

The picture above is us laying butt to butt after the Easter company left.

Mommy helped bake the Easter Bread (paska) with Grandma and Mommy's sister.  Can u tell which special shapes Mommy made- thats right- she made dog shapes out of the dough.  Silly Mommy. 

 Oh, and silly Mommy also made snowflakes on some of the bread - one of them is pictured above the dog breads.  Because the theme of her niece's birthday party on Easter was the movie "Frozen." (She added blue and white Easter Sprinkles to the Snowflake breads- the blue sprinkles are chicks and the white sprinkles are bunnies.)

The breads have raisens in it, so us dogs have to be careful not to eat the raisens.

Happy 87787

Happy 87,787 mile anniversary to Smurfette the car. 

Mommy was lucky to look down at the odometer at a red light and see all those eighty sevens.