Today Is Rollos Eight Birthday

Today is our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo’s eight birthday. Rollo grew up with his big brother the Leonberger Bronco and his sister Daisy the Pug. Now a day he is an only dog. We celebrated his birthday today by singing Happy Birthday and he ate a hot dog.

Photos from Rollo’s Birthday Today

Our mini-Australian Shepherd is sitting on a chair by the kitchen table. On the table there is hot dog with two candles. He is looking into the camera.
Rollo with his hot dog with two candles. It is his 8th birthday.
The photo shows Rollo sitting on a chair but without his blue party hat.
Rollo is looking into the camera, but he has just used his paw to remove his blue party hat.
The photo shows Our mini-Australian Shepherd wearing his blue party hat again.
The blue party hat is back on. We are singing Happy Birthday to Rollo.
The photo shows Our mini-Australian Shepherd and two red brightly shining candles in the hotdog.
We continued singing to Rollo. Happy 8th birthday Rollo.

Older Photos of Rollo

Our mini-Australian Shepherd is lying on the grass in our backyard.
Rollo as our new puppy. He had just arrived at our home.
Our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo is lying on a black spotted blanket. He is looking into the camera.
Rollo is lying on a blanket on our sofa.
Our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo lying in front the gate to the kitchen and our Leonberger Bronco is standing behind him.
Rollo with his big brother the Leonberger Bronco.
Our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo is behind our Leonberger Bronco. He is biting and pulling Bronco’s tail.
Rollo is terrorizing his big brother the Leonberger Bronco.
Our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo is wearing a blue party hat and is staring at his pupcake.
This photo is from Rollo’s fifth birthday. He ate a pupcake, which is a cupcake for dogs. Unfortunately, the pupcake store has closed.

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Author: thomasstigwikman

My name is Thomas Wikman. I am a software/robotics engineer with a background in physics. I am currently retired. I took early retirement. I am a dog lover, and especially a Leonberger lover, a home brewer, craft beer enthusiast, I’m learning French, and I am an avid reader. I live in Dallas, Texas, but I am originally from Sweden. I am married to Claudia, and we have three children. I have two blogs. The first feature the crazy adventures of our Leonberger Le Bronco von der Löwenhöhle as well as information on Leonbergers. The second blog, superfactful, feature information and facts I think are very interesting. With this blog I would like to create a list of facts that are accepted as true among the experts of the field and yet disputed amongst the public or highly surprising. These facts are special and in lieu of a better word I call them super-facts.

70 thoughts on “Today Is Rollos Eight Birthday”

    1. Ha ha Rollo takes off his hat after three seconds so you’ve got to be quick with the camera. However, our Pug Daisy was different. She let the hat stay on. Our Leonberger Bronco was somewhere in between. Thank you so much Pete.

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  9. Happy Happy Birthday, Rollo, from your friends Dot and Lia in Spain!! Rollo was such a cute puppy and is a real sweetheart now. I love the hot dog as a birthday cake. I may borrow that idea.

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    1. Thank you so much Darlene and Dot and Lia. That is a long distance greeting. Normally we would buy him a pupcake, but the pupcake store closed. I don’t know why. Maybe they did not have enough business. However, a hot dog with candles worked as well.

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        1. Yes the hot dog was good too but I wish the pupcake store still existed. He loved the pupcakes. It was a cute little store that looked an old time pastry store and it had pupcakes and pastries for dogs. But it didn’t last.

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    1. Thank you so much Pooja. Yes we will certainly give him lots of pats from you. He was not entirely good today though. He rushed/attacked towards a labrador on the evening walk and the labrador got really scared even though Rollo is much smaller. He has a problem with other dogs. He thinks he is the king of the neighborhood and that other dogs should obey him.

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                1. It is a good observation. That is quite often the case. Daisy, our Pug was calm for a small dog but small dogs tend to get more anxious and stressed out more easily and behave accordingly. It is also more important that you train your big dog better so people do. I should say Leonberger dogs tend to be more calm by nature also. There are some big dogs that are not so calm and nice by nature.

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    1. Thank you so much Outrageous Monk. Yes Rollo loved Bronco and Bronco was very patient with Rollo as he climbed all over him, bit his tail, and swung in his tail, and sat on his back. We tried to keep Rollo from bothering Bronco but it was not always possible without putting him in his playpen, which we referred to as baby jail. Yes he did not like the hat, but we were able to get a few photos of him with it on. It is funny, our Pug Daisy did not mind the part hats. She could wear it all day long. No problem. But Rollo, it comes off in three seconds.

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