Lady Bug....the Circus Dog!

Lady has a new nickname at our house....Circus Dog!! She is truly the smartest dog we have ever encountered (sorry Choo Choo & Shadow) and she loves to learn....so like all good gypsies we are teaching her new tricks every week. She has mastered laying on her back to show her belly for a "belly rub" but her 2 newest tricks are cuter. She is great at sitting, so we start every trick with that command and build from that. When we say "up" she will stand on her hind legs and balance. Sometimes she walks and other times she will just stand. She LOVES ice cubes as treats and will do just about anything for a piece of ice. Lucky us! Cheap dog treats! So, after she mastered UP we turned that into TWIRL...and now she will twirl for ice. :) I tried it earlier today, just to be sure it stuck and she did it without the promise of ice. She is awesome!! (Sorry about the blurry videos.) The first video is from a couple days ago when we first taught it to her. The second video is her first experience with Snow on Tuesday. Since she seems to be an ICE dog...she LOVES the snow and asks to go outside all the time. When she gets outside she runs and glides like a gazelle and then races back inside to her bed to warm up. She is a funny dog.