Collared Up - Review

I can't believe I haven't done this yet! 

About a month or so ago, I received a collar from Collared Up. I have come to know the owner, Holly, from a FB group for the collar obsessed, and when I was first made aware of Collared Up and Holly's awesomeness, she wasn't accepting orders. Color me sad! Well, when she opened back up for a few orders, I knew I had to get a collar from her. I had seen photos, heard all the ravings, and knew I wanted my very own Collared Up for Ditto.

SHE DID NOT DISAPPOINT. 

To say the collar is amazing would be an understatement. To say I love it would be an understatement. To put it simply, It's Amazeballs. 

Not only is the collar impeccably made (seriously, how does she get all those stones and spots SO freakin' straight and symmetrical??), but Holly is an absolute sweetheart to work with. I admit, I am a moderate (to severe..shut up) pain in the ass when I am placing an order for a collar. I am indecisive...I second guess my decisions...I ask a million questions...you get the picture. Holly tolerated me with nary a complaint. She is an angel! 

The icing on the cake? She has something for everyone. Don't want to spend $100 on a collar? She's got something for you! If you don't mind spending $100+ on a collar, she's got something for you, too. But don't take my word for it, see for yourself! She's just opened her shop back up on Etsy, so head over there and check it out: Collared Up

Seriously...isn't it magical?

Fit for a princess!

Amazing!!

SNOW!!!!

It doesn't take much snow around here to make us Southerners go White Stuff Crazy. Dogs included. So, when it snowed last week and then again this week, we went snow crazy. I went photo crazy. Nothing makes photographing black dogs more fun than a pristine white background. Even if I took the first batch with the settings all wrong because I'm not used to so much white. (Rookie....)

Corvus, for all of his heat seeking, blanket thieving, teeth chattering hatred of the cold, turns into the Abominable Snow Dog when there is snow. I literally have to trick him or physically drag him back inside if it is snowing. His tiny little chicklets can be chattering and his body shivering, and he will STILL insist that I leave him to play in his Winter Wonderland. HE WAS EVEN PANTING AT ONE POINT from the excitement of playing. 

Ditto..well, she's not as amused. Sure, she gets that same little jitterbug thing going on where when she first goes out and feels the cool, fluffy magic, it makes her boing-boing around like a newborn foal that has discovered it's legs. But the magic wears off quickly and she's just as happy to go back inside where the ground isn't some odd, frozen monster and her blankies are nearby for cuddles. Her shortened span of loving the snow may also be in part because of her aversion to wearing a coat outside when it is colder than balls. She will wear one, but she will make me pay for it, so we just typically skip that unless we're going for a long walk or it's single digits out.

I'm not sure what I would do in the snow if I didn't have dogs. I love snow days, but I think that's mostly because of how much fun I have in the snow with them. Otherwise the wet feet, frozen toes and fingers, and slush just seem like a hassle instead of a side effect of having fun.

The moral of the story: Dogs make everything better!

 

Meme Monday

It's Meme Monday!

What the hell is Meme Monday, you ask? Well, it's a new thing I'll be doing to try to get myself in the habit of posting more regularly, even when time is scarce. As it turns out, I have about 150+ memes of Corvus collected from the internet from one single photo alone. See, I was a member of a dog forum way back when posting photos of your dog seemed harmless. Little did I know, someone would steal a photo of Corvus that was posted, upload it to Cheezburger.com, and my darling little Stinkface would become an internet sensation and the inspiration behind hundreds of memes. 

So, as homage to my boy, he will be getting his own weekly entry. Drumroll please..... Meme Monday!

Let's break the seal on this package by posting our first entry. I like to call it Slingblade Stinkface. Mmmm hmmmm.

Want to submit your own Corvus meme for consideration? You can choose any photos from the blog. In the spirit of fairness, let's say Ditto is fair game too. If you can come up with something clever that fits one of my photos, feel free to email your submission to me at Paws Jaws and Wrecking Balls at gmail dot com. (You'll have to do a little decoding there so that the bots don't pick up my email address and send me icky spam.)

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day. Or.....is it?

I've Been Slack

The new year has been full of chaos and work stuff. I've had little time to do much in the way of blogging and photography. Plus, our weather has been remarkably CRAPPY. So much rain. And mud. YUCK. 

I have loads of entry ideas, but I don't have the time right now to follow up on those, so for the time being I will just post some photos of the dogs and apologize for my slackery.

We're sorry for slacking!

And to prove that my absence from Blog Land is not all because of Netflix marathons and mindless self indulgence, here is a photo of my completed and hung collar racks. 

Til we meet again!