Alayne took these photos of Widget cruising through the snow in the front yard yesterday. Despite her ground-hugging clearance, Widget loves being a little snowplow, as we've highlighted before. The other dogs stay close to the house in the area we've shoveled out, but Widget will dive into the snow and be the only one out there blazing trails:
Still, she wonders what it would be like to be powering a snowmobile through it rather than four short, stubby legs.
New Shelter Challenge Contest -- Please Vote for the Farm!
The latest Shelter Challenge starts Monday, January 7 and ends on April 28. Grand prize in this round is $10,000, $3,000 for second place and $1,000 for third place, plus $1,000 for weekly winners and $1,000 for state winners. There are also other categories ... please see the Shelter Challenge website for details.
*** You will find us listed as Rolling Dog Farm. The state is NH for New Hampshire. ***
Please remember, you can vote every day ... consider bookmarking the voting page to make it easy.
We just won $1,000 as a weekly winner in the last contest, and thousands more in the previous contests. The Shelter Challenge really does bring in a lot of money for the animals here!
You can vote in the Shelter Challenge here.
Thank you for your votes!
Great picture! I love to watch dogs playing in the snow. Even older dogs perk up and frisk around in it. And the short-legged snowplows are always entertaining! Good job Widget!
Posted by: Tonya Allen | January 11, 2013 at 05:13 PM
That's too funny. Widget must love the water as well!
Posted by: Adrian Meli | January 11, 2013 at 12:55 PM
I have a dachshund, GenieBee, who is very Widgetesque. Altho I blow trails in the yard for the dogs, she sometimes decides they are not up to her standards and will blaze her own trail. It's the dachshund in Widget. Girls will be girls! :) :)
Posted by: Kathleen Rivard | January 11, 2013 at 09:51 AM
Our fearless Widget...nothing will stop her, not rain, nor snow, nor gloom of night! She should get a job at the postal service :)
I submitted a photo to the flash photo contest on the Animal Rescue Site. I hope my photo gets picked so I can ask everyone to vote!
Posted by: Ann | January 11, 2013 at 12:29 AM
Widget's hard at work developing a new Olympic sport for the 2014 Winter games.
Folks, we can vote in the Shelter Challenge more than once per day if we close our browsers, then reopen them.
Posted by: Philippa | January 10, 2013 at 11:14 PM
Go Widget Go!
Posted by: Pennyheinrich | January 10, 2013 at 10:09 PM
Any tech person out there know why the image I'm supposed to copy never loads on the shelter challenge site when I visit it? This is the only site I visit that has this problem.
Would love to vote, but cannot.
Posted by: Bev Kolins | January 10, 2013 at 06:59 PM
Timmy and Levi loved to do the same thing.
Posted by: Laura, Levi & Timmy | January 10, 2013 at 06:00 PM
So cute! I voted and will continue to vote. Keep reminding us!
Posted by: Shirley * James/Portland, OR | January 10, 2013 at 05:31 PM
Always love dogs in snow :)
Hoping we get a chance in Seattle area today. Widget- you are something else (of course!)
Posted by: Margaret | January 10, 2013 at 01:13 PM
Widget is a trailblazer indeed! I hope everyone is voting everyday!!! Happy Snow!
Posted by: Linda Murphy | January 10, 2013 at 12:07 PM
Okay people! Just went to vote on the Shelter Challenge and our favorite rescue group is waaaay down there - start exercising that voting finger!
Posted by: Leximou | January 10, 2013 at 11:53 AM
Widget thinks one of gang might have left a cookie here last September and I'm going to find it!
Posted by: Bob | January 10, 2013 at 11:06 AM