Taking a short breather after having trimmed down the height of his boxwood plant, Sander knelt slowly down until he was down on his knees on the ground. He was now about eye level with the plant. Taking out the parchment with the topiary sketched on it, Sander studied his design first to decide where he was to work on first.

He had the head, the torso, the tail and all four feet...all of which weren't easy feats to accomplish, no pun intended. For one not really well versed in pruning his own topiary, Sander hoped he didn't mess up on his very first attempt. Picking up his shears, he began planning out a rough outline of his topiary.

As he looked at the plant, he visualized the body of the dog to be the middle of the plant. The head would branch out to the left of that and the tail off to the right. The dog's legs would in turn branch out from the base at least a feet off the ground.

With that plan in mind, Sander began trimming his plant into shape.