Sugar Cookies

We made dog treats today thanks to Sugar the Golden Retriever's awesome recipe located here http://www.sugarthegoldenretriever.com/2010/08/tasty-weekend.html . Everyone in the family pitched in making the dough and then rolling out the cookies making them into fun christmas shapes.

Still waiting on them to cook, they are taking forever!

Fun with Christmas

Christmas at my house tends to be a whirl wind of events, normally we have lots of family over who often bring children and pets.

Koda loves all the attention he gets and the fun playmates. We have a big hill that all the kids go sliding down and Koda loves to chase their feet as they go down the hill. He acts like he is going to eat them all up, but at the bottom of the hill he is happy puppy again. Koda also has a harness so that he can pull little kids around on a sled in the snow. Of course he loves dressing up as their raindeer in the house too!

Last year Indy undecorated the christmas tree TWICE while he was home alone during the day. And Sophie thought it was okay to bite everyone who went near her bone that Santa brought her. I finally found a photo of Jack sleeping with the christmas tree, I'm really not sure why he likes to sleep under it so much. Blair just likes to play with the decorations.

Christmas is taking over

We dug our christmas decorations out of the closet this past weekend thinking we could get it all up in one afternoon if everyone helped. BOY WERE WE WRONG! We are beginning to be over taken by decorations already though.

Unlike Puddles's little snowman family, we have a HUGE, SINGING AND DANCING snowman,

We did manage to put up one christmas tree which Jack loves to sleep under I couldn't get a photo though so here is Koda modelling,

The dogs needed some christmas wear so tonight I found these at walmart, a pretty red sweater with red and green hearts and a pretty bow.

We hope you enjoy decorating your houses for christmas,

Silly Sophie

My little sister, Koda and I visited the pet stores yesterday. We have a really cool new pet store in town which allows you to bring your dog in bathe them yourself in their raised tubs and then dry them on a raised drying table. They supply shampoo, conditioner, towels, brushes, nair clippers, hair dryers, scissors, and clippers, everything you could possibly need to wash your dog. And the best part is you don't have to clean up the mess either. Koda was thrilled until he saw the tubs and realized what his visit to the pet store was all about.

Afterwards we let him pick out some bones and christmas presents which he enjoyeddoing until we got them home....

Yes it actually is the same length as she is!

Koda and the Horses

When I first got Koda, I also had horses. So he had to learn the proper way to be around them, luckily for me the horses made great teachers.

Momma helped to teach him to go out riding, she stayed semi-calm while he ran around doing loops learning to stay close. He also learned car safety and to this day will jump into a ditch when walking if a car comes on the road.

Momma also taught him that he was only allowed to enter the horse field with her approval and if he acted out she would chase him out.

Spirit taught him that friendship transcends all species, she and Koda used to run all over the horse field together. She would even lay down to see him.

Having the horses also helped him to learn many basic commands as well as fun ones for him such as go get the horses and bring them back for supper. Chasing them was great fun for him.

Now that the horses are gone I can tell that he misses them especially whenever I move around the horse equipment as he gets all excited thinking we are going riding.

Have any of your pets had some unlikely teachers?

Wordless Wednesday

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Florida

For those of you who follow me know that last week I went on vacation to Florida. My Dad's family and I drove to Disney World from Ontario. I was able to finally see the beautiful country of the US, it was amazing driving through Virginia and the Carolina's so those of you who live there I am coming to visit! I didn't see many dogs on my trip but there was one really cute chihuahua in a pink dress. I didn't get a chance to get a photo though. I also saw lots of these guys,

I joined in their parade. At the end of the week we had weather that was fit for ducks but we did get some nice warm days at the beginning. I hope everyone had a great week too, I am getting around to all the blogs, slowly but surely.