How a Sheltie GETS EVEN! 101

Welcome to my class "How a Sheltie GETS EVEN! 101"

I am your teacher for this class, Mr. Lassiter Chase the Sheltie (aka Lassie).

Lassie laying in his bed.

As you know, humans make mistakes.  "To err is human" that's what they say.

My Mommy is no exception to that rule.  GASP!

Yes, Mommy made a mistake earlier this week and it really ticked me off!  Butt don't worry, I will teach you the fine art of How a Sheltie GETS EVEN!

So, everyone grab a snack and take some mental notes if you will....

It all started earlier this week.  Mommy was in a hurry to get to work butt she forgot to get something out of the bedroom end table she "needed".  So, she moved my dog bed aside and she went to grab something out of the end table by her bed, wished us a nice day, and rushed off to Smurfette the Car and headed to work.

I provide you with Exhibit A. 

EXHIBIT A - Dog Bed turned the wrong way! It's supposed to be directly in front of the end table with the mirror on it.

Please note, Mommy moved my bed at what an 87 degree angle or something like that!  And she did NOT put it back into it's proper place when she left for work.

I made do the best I could all day with my bed turned sideways like that! It bugged me A LOT.  (I can't for the life of me think of that saying -- fung shway or something -- where everything needs to have a balance and be in its place.)

Anyway, it was the longest day ever, butt finally Mommy came home from work, we ate, played, read blogs, watched TV and called it a day.


Came night time, I (Lassie) was the first one in the bedroom.  A Sheltie needs optimum hours of sleep so that he/she can be "On Call" and protect the Mommy during all hours of the night...and I needed to do surveillance of the bedroom to give it the "All Clear" before Mommy entered it... so, that's why I go to bed first.  (Mommy is single, so, I (Lassie) am a little over-protective of her at times!  Those dust-bunnies better not mess with MY Mommy at night -- or they will have ME to deal with!)

Anyway, since  my bed was still turned the wrong way here is a list of things a Sheltie can do to rectify the situation by GETTING EVEN!

1.  Lay in the human's bed!


I decided to lay on Mommy's bed, because I was SURE that the Mommy would notice me laying in her spot and then she would remember that she forgot to turn my dog bed in it's right place and that she would fix it!

WRONG!

Mommy was so tired butt was able to notice me in her spot on her bed.  So, she decided to crawl up her bed from the foot of the bed and then she fell asleep!


2.  Pretend you are an alien life form in hopes the human will sense something and jump out of bed!

I was giving her the MOST EVIL EYES -- butt she couldn't see me in the dark. She also didn't hear or sense me breathing rather LOUDLY as well.

How was I going to communicate to Mommy that SHE FORGOT to move my bed back.


3. Make some noise!

I jumped off the bed and paced back and forth --- Nothing!  Mommy didn't wake up!

I did a round of house checks to make sure everything was in order -- made sure the floor creeked a couple of times -- stepped on a squeeky toy -- did the Mommy wake up - NO!

I was really ticked off by now. However, I wasn't gonna give up GETTING EVEN!

See, I like to sleep with my bed facing that direction in the room because (A) I can keep an eye on the Mommy (there is a mirror behind me in the end table so I got "eyes behind the back of my head" so to speak)   (B) I can keep an eye on the door   and  (C) I can keep an eye on Benji.

See Benji sleeps in his dog bed at the foot of the bed.  Since I am HEAD OF HOUSE, I sleep with my dog bed  at the head of the bed.   

Benji is tricky sometimes, and tries to get an extra cuddle out of Mommy -- so, I usually have to jump on the bed and outsmart him -- because if any Sheltie is getting any extra cuddles out of the Mommy, it is going to be ME -- because I have seniority!

Anyway, back to the story...

It was getting late and the Mommy was still sound asleep.

4. Give an Inch and take an entire Sheltie!

Enough of Mr. Nice Sheltie!  It was time to get Mommy to wake up and move my bed in the right direction.  It was about 2 am and I felt as though Mommy had enough sleep - so I jumped up on the bed. Squeezed on the edge of the bed.  Then I flopped my butt down on Mommy's face.  She blew the dog hair off her face and rolled over a bit.  

I didn't stop there, then I wiggled my butt even further by Mommy's face. 

She rolled over even more.

Next I decided to lay sideways on the bed instead of laying up and down. I kept kicking out my Sheltie foot at her, so she had to keep moving over to make more room for me!

Before you knew it, Mommy was completely on the edge of the bed.

5.  Hog the Covers!

Butt wait -- I strategically positioned myself so that I was hogging all the blankets! Mommy was trying to pull the blanket out from under me with all her might (she is a whimp) it was pathetic.

Finally Mommy said, "Lassie move over -- my foot is cold."

I kept kicking my foot at her side and wouldn't budge.  Besides I saw she had socks on -- so how cold could she be.

Mommy finally wiggled herself into a Candy Cane position so she could cover her foot with what little blanket she had, and hunched the rest of herself in a curved position -- but then, her right shoulder wasn't covered by the blanket.

I thought in my head -- I WIN -- she's gotta get up now.

WRONG!

6.  The Cold Nose - The Ultimate Weapon!

Mommy thought she had me outsmarted and used the extra pillow on the bed to cover her right shoulder that wasn't covered.    I said -- Enough is Enough!  And I went over to her face and I put my cold nose right on her cheek. So she squirmed her head right off the pillow.

Finally, Mommy was awake enough that she got up.  And that's when she noticed my bed was facing the wrong way!  She mumbled an apology and she fixed my bed at like 4 AM.  Which left her about an hour more to sleep before work.

EXHIBIT B - Catching up on my shut-eye while Benji takes watch on the day shift!

So class, I hope you have all taken some good notes in case your human's mess up your sleeping schedule!

In summary, a cold dog's nose comes in really handy sometimes! Oh and don't mess with a Sheltie!

Have a great night!

Lassie and Benji the Shelties.

Guess who is 4?

Can you guess who is 4? 

It's not me, Benji, Mommy or Grandma...

I will give you some hints.

 

She takes us places. (Note, this picture is a mirror image -- a rear view mirror image.)

 

Bugs seem to like her -- in particular a Praying Mantis. (That's a picture of the butt end of the Praying Mantis climbing on the Birthday Girl.)

A week ago on Halloween, Mommy's brother took some of Mommy's Easter music out of the Birthday Girl's Trunk and scooped up the Praying Mantis and put the Praying Mantis on a nearby bush.  (How appropriate to use Church Music to relocate a Praying Mantis!)

BTW, Do you see the shirt Mommy's brother was wearing for Halloween?

 

This is who Mommy's Brother dressed up like for Halloween -- Charlie Brown! 

 

Here is the last hint on the Birthday Girl... this is a picture of me (Lassie) with the Birthday Girl's Party Hat this morning.

Yep, you guessed it!  It's Smurfette the Car's 4th Birthday today.  (She loves that Pawty hat!)



Smurfette Key Chain

 

Happy 4th Birthday Smurfette the Car!


Lassie & Benji

Halloween Golf Post

Mommy went Miniature Golfing with some co-workers in Center City Philadelphia.

The Golf Course was decorated all spooky for Halloween.

Now since Mommy was with co-workers, she didn't take any pictures of Flat Lassie and Benji in the golf course.  Butt, Mommy has been practicing Photoshop and has been trying to learn how to do stuff. So, here is our Flat Lassie and Benji Photoshop version of it....

The first thing we saw was the spooky cobwebs all over the replica of the Liberty Bell.  

The next thing we noticed was a SQUIRREL on the golf course.  Needless to say, we chased that Squirrel out of there!

This was an interesting hole.  It is a replica of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.  (Benji kinda thinks the Bridge is named after him.)    The object of this hole is to stand on top of the platform that leads up to the bridge (where I am standing) , you have to hit the golf ball across the bridge and it lands on the green area at the other side of the bridge.    Benji decided to stand in the "Delaware River" in the picture under the bridge to make sure Mommy's Golf Ball didn't end up in the water.

Everyone got their golf ball across the bridge ok, so Benji got out of the water and stood on the green area.

Mommy's ball is the RED ball.  How in the world is Mommy supposed to make this shot after it came off the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.   Luckily the person who had the purple ball was golfing right before her, so, she made "PAR" on that hole only taking 2 turns to knock the ball in.

Here is a view of some of the other holes on the Golf Course.  The one closest to us is the replica of the "Chinese Friendship Gate" in Chinatown.  The one after that is "LOVE Sculpture" replica.  The one after that was the miniature version of the  "Philadelphia Museum of Art".

Now Mommy insisted on shooting the red golf ball straight thru the middle of the course between the gap in the "LOVE" sculpture.  Butt that was an EPIC FAIL.   She kept trying and trying and trying.  So, she ended up just hitting the ball around it!   We gave her a score of 87 on that hole.  (Butt I think she took more turns than that!)

Mommy redeemed herself on the hole that was after the "Philadelphia Museum of Art."  She actually got a "Hole in One".  This is a picture of us celebrating on the golf course.   Woot Woot!  

A close-up photo of her red ball in the Hole on One!  (Mommy even did a little celebration dance on the course -- thank dog there is no video of that!)

Us in our Halloween Pumpkin Costumes.  

Guess that's it for the Halloween Blog Post!

Happy Halloween

From Lassie and Benji in their Pumpkin costumes!