Having a dog who blends in with the autumn's auburn scenery makes things interesting when I roll up in the yard every evening. She & the needles shed by the loblolly pines in our yard (commonly referred to around here as "pine straw") are roughly the same shade of orangey-red, so were it not for her barking, whining, & carrying of much darker pine cones in her mouth to greet me, it'd be challenging to find her in the yard. Fortunately, she's not foolish enough (usually!) to jump into the path of the car, so she's safe.
Now that nights here are getting down toward freezing, she wants to go out more often, whereas her buddy Taco the ten pound wonder chihuahua is happy to curl up in his kennel & hide in it until it gets hot outside. (Like THAT'S going to happen on our schedule!) She also likes the snow, which Taco will tentatively tiptoe out into just long enough to do what he has to, sort of like an awkward canine ballerina on pointe.
I can hardly wait to watch her greet the guys when they get here in two weeks...
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You should see my 15lbs of dog leap over what she thought was just an obstacle to follow my youngest daughter. Only on the other side of the easy 2 and 1/2 foot hurdle was the same amount of snow. As I watched from my window as even her ears disapeared in the snow. I prepared to go out and rescue said dog from sufocation by snow as she suddenly popped up, landed on the other side of her hurdle in her shoveled potty path and darted in the house. She then ran to the front door figuring that it must be better out that door.
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