Halloween Trick -- Roll Over

Here's what we did on Benji's 1st Gotcha Day Anniversary - we came up with a  Halloween Trick.   So, in case we run out of Candy for the kids Trick or Treating on Halloween -- this is our back-up plan, a trick.

For those of you with 2 dogs, you probably know how hard it is to train us both to do something.  Mommy wanted to make a Halloween trick out of it.  She doesn't know if there is a trick like this out there -- who knows, there probably is.  Butt, Mommy thought hard about it and came up with this by herself.

Hope you enjoy the video.

http://youtu.be/xbm_svqDzUg

Happy Halloween!

Lassiter Chase and Benjamin Gilligan the Shelties (Lassie and Benji)


P.S.  In case you missed my (Lassie's) Card Trick from Halloween last year, here is the link to the blog post.   We got Benji a day or so after my Card Trick last year. So, that's why we wanted to do a Trick together on his Anniversary.

http://www.lassiterchase.blogspot.com/2011/10/trick-or-treat-card-trick.html

Thankful on a Tuesday

We are super behind in reading blog posts.   Mommy promises to help us get caught up ASAP.

We are very thankful for a bunch of stuff lately -- it was all made possible from blogging.


1.  We wanted to say a big Thank You to Oreo and Chewy's mom.  Mommy's niece had a super important assignment for school.  It had to do with picking a career, researching information about that career, and interviewing someone with that career.  (Oreo and Chewy's mom helped with the interview!) Thanks so much for your help!  Mommy's niece got a perfect score on the report and even had 2 extra bonus points because the teacher really liked her report!   Thanks again for your help!

2.  We received our BarkBox in the mail, we signed up for it last month. Thanks Finn, for telling us about BarkBox and for your help in us getting one.  We were so excited to open it up over the weekend.  It was full of fabulous stuff.  Our favorites are the liver dog treats and a pink snake stuffy toy!    Grandma isn't a fan of snakes -- but at least it's pink and not brown or black, so she is giving it a chance.   Grandma says that once our snake gets a hole in it -- she isn't going to fix it.    It's a good thing our snake is made out of some sort of industrial strength stuffing or something like that.  We have been playing with that thing with all our force (tug 'o war and everything) -- and it hasn't gotten a hole yet.   Sorry, Grandma, looks like our snake toy will be around for a while!  All jokes aside about the snake,  we really like our BarkBox gift and we appreciate it, Finn and her Mommy!  Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Sorry the picture is sideways.  That's our pink snake toy.  Benji was working on pulling off one of the eyes of the snake when the picture was taken.   I had already pulled off the other eye before the picture was taken!

Mommy is also excited about the box that the BarkBox came in.   Mommy has been looking for the perfect box to keep some of our important stuff in.  (Like the taco holder I used last year in a blog taco contest.   A special note that Finn wrote us.  Benji and my first collars. etc...)  This box is perfect for us to store stuff in.  Mommy loves it and she doesn't have to worry about labeling it, or it getting lost with other boxes. 

3.  Another big Thank You goes out to Oskar his mom Pam!  We entered a contest at Pet Blogs United to win a cool canine hipster bag.  We were in shock to find out we won the contest! 

Mommy's current black pocket book that she uses faithfully everyday is in bad shape -- she has had that pocketbook for YEARS.  Grandma even sewed the strap of the handle back onto her bag after it fell off years ago! At one point Mommy was holding the strap of the pocketbook onto a zipper of one of the compartments with a keychain loop before Grandma fixed it.  Mommy was about to use duct-tape to re-fix the handle of the bag! I can't believe Mommy used to walk around in public with her pathetic looking old pocketbook.  We thought about posting a picture of Mommy's faithful old pocket book -- butt we were afraid everyone would laugh hysterically at it!

Anyway, now Mommy is so happy because she has a BRAND NEW POCKETBOOK and plans to use her new The Tiniest Tiger Canine Cool Hipster Bag everyday!  It has so much room in it.  It is very stylish!  The pattern on the purse has dogs on it!   Last week, Mommy was really worried about stuff like expenses from taking down trees and getting her car repaired, etc... -- that's why we kinda weren't on the blog last week.  Butt now, the new pocketbook came in  -- and it really made her day and brightened her spirits.  

Photo of Benji and I, Lassie, with the brand new Canine Hipster bag we won for Mommy.  It came with a bunch of stuff in the bag including a hat, pens, an Iams bandana (I am wearing), a coloring book, and more.   Our Jerky treats are kinda camouflage with the pattern on the sofa - not sure if you can see them -- they are pawsome! 

The bag was filled with stuff in it, including an Iams bandana, pens, bookmarks, and much more. (It was the swag from the Red Carpet Lounge from a Blog Tour.)  We even got some Jerky dog treats in the package too!   Mommy's brother-in-law was eying up our jerky -- butt we told him to keep his paws off our jerky!   Thanks so much Oskar, the makers of the Canine Cool Hipster bag, and everyone else who made this gift possible!  We are so overwhelmed and thankful for your generosity!   If anyone wants to see a better picture of the hipster bag or find out more info on the bag, you can look on Oskar's blogpost for more information. http://petblogsunited.blogspot.com/2012/09/tiniest-tiger-canine-cool-hipster.html


4.  Another Award!  Thanks Cocco, for the "Super Sweet Award."   Cocco is a mini pig -- we just got to know Cocco thru the blog a few short weeks ago.  He is Pawsome!  Well, that is, do pigs have paws?  I think they are called hoofs.  In any case -- Cocco, since "Hoofsome" doesn't sound right, we hope you don't find any offense in us saying you are a Pawsome Piggy!

This is a fun award with some questions we had to answer.

1. Cookies or cake? If we had to choose just one, we say we like Christmas Sugar Cookies the best!  Besides presents from Santa Paws – Sugar Cookies are our second favorite thing about Christmas.  
2. Chocolate or vanilla? Vanilla (Mommy never lets us have chocolate.)
3. Favorite sweet treat?  Vanilla Ice Cream in the bottom of an Ice Cream Cone.
4. When do you crave sweet things the most? I know we are boys.  Butt, we love Mommy giving us hugs and kisses.  She is sweet.  So, we crave sweet things all the time from Mommy!
5. If you had a sweet nickname, what would it be?  Our newest nicknames are Babykins (for me, Lassie), and Huff ‘n Puff (for Benji).   They kinda sound sweet.  Benji’s nickname sounds like some sort of pastry.

We never know who to choose to send the award to, so if you want to play along, just say I gave the Super Sweet Award to you.


5.  And a great big Thank You to all our blog friends!  Really, not a day goes by that we aren't thankful to have great blog friends like you.   Your comments mean the world to us!  We appreciate all your positive and wonderful comments each and every day!  We can't thank you enough!

Thank you,
Lassiter Chase and Benjamin Gilligan the Shelties (Lass-C and Ben-G)


P.S.  Tomorrow is Benji's 1st Gotcha Day Anniversary!  Happy Anniversary Benji! 

Our award - Lovely Blog

Ben and Lily the French Bulldogs gave us an award.  How pawsome of them to nominate us for an award! Thank you so much! 

It's so fitting that the award has a tree on it -- we've been thinking hard about whether or not we will plant another tree in our front yard since we had to cut down our oak trees.  We like the tree in the award.  It looks like there are butterflies on the tree -- maybe we should just plant a butterfly bush out front instead of a tree.  :)

Now, back to the award...

We are suppose to share 7 things about ourselves....

S-E-C-R-E-T-S

1.  Benji sounds like a girl whenever we play fight!  He has a high pitched voice sometimes.

2. Mommy yells -- No Dirty Dancing -- whenever she catches me and Benji doing (you know what).  She often explains to us that we are both boy dogs -- and that is inappropriate behavior.

3. I (Lassie) like to pull down the covers off Grandma's bed, and I sleep on her pillows during the day when she isn't looking.   Whenever Grandma goes to bed at night and sees the covers all messed up on the bed -- she yells, "Who's been sleeping on my bed!"

4.  I (Lassie) don't like to let Mommy go to the bathroom by herself.  A lot of times, I  sit and wait in the bathroom with Mommy to keep her company.  I will scratch and bark at the door if Mommy locks me out of the bathroom.


5. We eat table food leftovers sometimes -- my (Lassie's) most favorite table scrap is -- Mashed Potatoes!  (Benji will eat anything -- every food is Benji's favorite!) 

6.  I (Lassie) don't trust women sometimes.   I had a little spaghetti sauce on the white area around my nose this week.   Mommy tried to wipe it off -- and I wouldn't let her.   Mommy's sister tried to wipe it off -- and I wouldn't let her.    Mommy's brother-in-law tried to wipe it off -- AND I LET HIM.   He even spit on the napkin (to wet it), and wiped the sauce off my nose.

7. I (Lassie) like to jump on Mommy's lap when she is sitting on a chair.  Benji likes to jump on Mommy lap whenever Mommy is laying down on the sofa.   However, if Mommy is reclining in Grandma's Lift Chair (a combination of sitting/laying down)-- then, both Benji and I like to jump on Mommy's lap.  It's a very complicated formula, I know.   (Note: we only jump on Mommy's lap -- we don't jump on anyone else's lap if they are sitting or laying down.)


Hope you enjoyed reading our little "secrets".  Not sure if anyone else wants to play along and list secrets about themselves.  Feel free to just say I gave you the award if you want to.


Have a great night everyone!  Thanks again Ben and Lily for the award.


P.S.  Here's a photo of us that has nothing to do with this blog post about the award...

Mommy's oldest niece took this picture of us today.  Mommy calls this picture "Heads or Tails".  Benji is the one at the top of the picture, and I am the one at the bottom of the picture.    Guess I just wanted to... Put my head on Benji's shoulder.