They usually just roll if there’s something rank to roll in! Ha-ha!
I do their grooming myself, so we keep it pretty short and clean for in the house on the bed living. Have a great weekend and soak up some sun for us, too!
The girls and Whisky love their bandanas and they all love rolling in the scratchy dead grass… it feels so good to them! Unfortunately, they bring it all into the house. Don and I call it “accessorizing.” 🙂 It just gives us another reason to look forward to spring and green grass. 🙂
I thought of you when I took these pictures and posted them last night. I remember you did a post about this at your house last year and was happy to know that we weren’t alone. 😀 The floors in our house are also covered with dead grass… that’s part of the beauty of having a doggie door.
Justina, I have lessened the grass situation to a degree. I actually got out there with a bagging mower and cut the dead grass very low. It seems to have helped in the dog yard, anyway. Out in open spaces, I’m all out of luck.
If you saw Kassie right now, you’d think she was a donkey. All of the dogs are dusty, but you can see it on her because her hair is white. It’s too funny. 🙂
I can laugh, since it isn’t MY dog or MY house!
Oh, he looks like he is really enjoying himself. He’s getting all the right spots scritched by that lovely, dry brittle grass!
Whisky surely knows signs of SPRING coming around the corner. I wish that I could roll around in the dirt for I can’t reach my back to itch!!! I certainly envy him… 😉
Too cute! Our corgi mix is a canine snow scoop. She pushes through the snow with her nose. I just love watching her. Glad somebody here still likes the snow. Personally, I’d rather have some warm soil to roll on – like your Whisky! He is just adorable 🙂
With the dead grass in the winter and the horrid stickers in the summer here in southern New Mexico, we have to keep our pups clipped down all the time. However, as your photos show, even short hair can bring quite a load inside–usually right after I finish vacuuming.
I love these photos–wonderful captures, especially the next-to-last one!
February 25, 2011 at 4:10 am
That looks like it feels REALLY good!
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February 25, 2011 at 7:09 am
C,
Do the schnauzer boyz get to do the same, or is there typically too much snow up there for them to get the opportunity?
We hope you have a great weekend. 🙂
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February 26, 2011 at 5:30 am
They usually just roll if there’s something rank to roll in! Ha-ha!
I do their grooming myself, so we keep it pretty short and clean for in the house on the bed living. Have a great weekend and soak up some sun for us, too!
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February 25, 2011 at 4:27 am
I bet it felt so GOOOOOOD!
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February 25, 2011 at 7:08 am
Sandra,
It diiiiiid! 🙂
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February 25, 2011 at 5:15 am
Wow, the doggie bandana ist still fitting! What did you sprinkle there on the floor Justina?? The photos are so funny!
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February 25, 2011 at 7:07 am
Pia,
The girls and Whisky love their bandanas and they all love rolling in the scratchy dead grass… it feels so good to them! Unfortunately, they bring it all into the house. Don and I call it “accessorizing.” 🙂 It just gives us another reason to look forward to spring and green grass. 🙂
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February 25, 2011 at 5:32 am
Oh BOY, that felt good!
For the one day that we had good weather and a lot of the snow melted, the dogs brought in 20% of the newly-exposed lawn’s dead grass…
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February 25, 2011 at 7:06 am
June,
And for that, you must have been so happy… 😉 At least the dogs were happy, right?! 😀
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February 25, 2011 at 5:41 am
Looks like there may have been an itch that couldn’t quite get scratched.
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February 25, 2011 at 7:05 am
Auntie Sharon,
You bet!
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February 25, 2011 at 5:47 am
Oh my goodness Whisky! What a happy dog!
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February 25, 2011 at 7:05 am
Deb,
He does enjoy long rolls in scratchy dead grass. He’s always quite pleased with himself afterwards.
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February 25, 2011 at 6:46 am
Time for new training: “Shake it off!”
(I’m quite lucky; if Rosie shakes good and hard, most everything slides off her silky coat.)
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February 25, 2011 at 7:04 am
Flartus,
Lucky, lucky you. 🙂 In the second to last picture, Whisky was “Shaking it off!” and he still had all kinds of grass stuck to him. 😀
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February 25, 2011 at 6:48 am
I have seen this show!! 🙂
Better they should roll in the dead grass than the dead worms, I always say.
🙂
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February 25, 2011 at 7:02 am
Vicki,
Or other miscellaneous dead things. Enzi is a big fan of rolling in good and smelly dead things. Go figure, since she’s the diva of the place. 🙂
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February 25, 2011 at 6:51 am
Hi Whisky!
How are you?
Justina, I don’t “meet” Whisky till now. It’s your new dog?
Looks very smart!
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February 25, 2011 at 6:57 am
Sonia,
No, Whisky has been with Don for almost ten years now (and with us at Morning Bray Farm since the beginning). Here’s Whisky’s original blog post: https://morningbrayfarm.com/2010/02/05/the-water-boy/
Whisky is a good boy! 😀
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February 25, 2011 at 6:54 am
Aaacckkk! We have that same problem at our house. I brush the dogs a half dozen times a day and still my house is littered with dead grass.
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February 25, 2011 at 7:01 am
CeeCee,
I thought of you when I took these pictures and posted them last night. I remember you did a post about this at your house last year and was happy to know that we weren’t alone. 😀 The floors in our house are also covered with dead grass… that’s part of the beauty of having a doggie door.
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February 25, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Justina, I have lessened the grass situation to a degree. I actually got out there with a bagging mower and cut the dead grass very low. It seems to have helped in the dog yard, anyway. Out in open spaces, I’m all out of luck.
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February 25, 2011 at 7:29 am
With my luck, this would have happened right after bath time!
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February 25, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Nancy,
That used to happen with my beagle mix. She’d get a bath and run right out and roll in poo of one sort or another. C’est la vie, I suppose! 🙂
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February 25, 2011 at 7:41 am
Wait!?! Have your dogs been rolling in my yard? 🙂
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February 25, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Lilla,
You have the same thing going on up there, do you? 😉
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February 25, 2011 at 8:03 am
Great pictures! Velcro pup!
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February 25, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Rae,
Thanks! He is a velcro pup!
Thank you so much for visiting.
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February 25, 2011 at 8:08 am
Somebody has been watching the burro boys rolling in the dirt! 🙂
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February 25, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Rosanne,
If you saw Kassie right now, you’d think she was a donkey. All of the dogs are dusty, but you can see it on her because her hair is white. It’s too funny. 🙂
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February 25, 2011 at 9:08 am
Ah, pure bliss.
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February 25, 2011 at 6:54 pm
Carolynn,
And you didn’t even get to hear the vocalizations that went along with that lovely roll. It was definitely pure bliss. 🙂
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February 25, 2011 at 9:51 am
I can laugh, since it isn’t MY dog or MY house!
Oh, he looks like he is really enjoying himself. He’s getting all the right spots scritched by that lovely, dry brittle grass!
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February 25, 2011 at 9:52 am
Oh, and I can think of worse things…. our guys used to go roll in fish and shrimp guts that had been sitting in the sun for a day or so. Lovely!
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February 25, 2011 at 10:43 am
Cyndi, you win–hands down. I’d rather brush my dogs 20 times a day then deal with dead fish smell on their coats. Eeewww.
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February 25, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Cyndi,
Yowza! Now, that sounds like something that Enzi would L-O-V-E!!!!!! The “fishier” and “rottener” the better for the fish lovin’ diva. 😉
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February 25, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Whisky surely knows signs of SPRING coming around the corner. I wish that I could roll around in the dirt for I can’t reach my back to itch!!! I certainly envy him… 😉
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February 25, 2011 at 6:46 pm
MeeMaw,
I can’t imagine you rolling around on your back in the dirt!!! LOL. 😉
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February 26, 2011 at 8:39 am
LOL
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February 25, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Too cute! Our corgi mix is a canine snow scoop. She pushes through the snow with her nose. I just love watching her. Glad somebody here still likes the snow. Personally, I’d rather have some warm soil to roll on – like your Whisky! He is just adorable 🙂
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February 25, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Tammy,
Thanks. He really is such a sweet, sweet boy. 🙂 Whisky used to LOVE the snow, but we don’t usually get more than a dusting here.
I bet your girl is adorable pushing through the snow with her nose.
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February 25, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Emma the Calico Queen likes to kick litter out of her box then roll around in it as if she were at the beach!!!
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February 25, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Nancy,
Really?! You totally have me laughing out loud! 😀
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February 26, 2011 at 8:40 pm
Not kidding! I have to keep a broom and dustpan in my bathroom, where her litter box is!!!
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February 25, 2011 at 9:01 pm
With the dead grass in the winter and the horrid stickers in the summer here in southern New Mexico, we have to keep our pups clipped down all the time. However, as your photos show, even short hair can bring quite a load inside–usually right after I finish vacuuming.
I love these photos–wonderful captures, especially the next-to-last one!
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February 27, 2011 at 3:00 am
Hahahaha – I love it!
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February 27, 2011 at 6:07 pm
At least it’s not manure.
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