Winter showed up one day and my mom spent a day trying on my "clothes", the ultimate embarrassment in the dog world. Then, to add to the indignity out came the booties...UGH. So I did my dog gone best to subvert this. I simply collapsed in the doggie water bowl, knowing full well that I would not be forced to wear wet clothes. When that didn't work, when we got to Cedar Lake, I immediately ran into the marshes and fallen trees which enabled me to strip the clothes from my body, thus allowing me to hunt and sniff for things in the naked state I am supposed to! When I lost the double wool lined hand made Santa outfit (which Quincy found the next day in the reeds) Mom conceded. We wouldn't stay out too long in the cold weather, I would keep running while outside and she wouldn't take me out for long walks on days that were below zero or windchills below -10. It has been a good compromise, mostly. I did get really cold a few times, but my Mom would always get me back to the car where I could curl up in my wool blanket on my cushion bed in the back seat!
Everywhere we go people want to hold me and pet me. Sometimes they take my picture too. My mom says when she wins the lottery she'll figure out my exact DNA, for now everyone agrees that I am part rat terrier, chihuahua, a touch of weiner dog and maybe a fox. Who cares? I am just a happy, perfectly spoiled lab dog who can also hunt with the best of 'em! But I like when all those folks ooo and aaahh over me. It gives me a chance to take a little nap.
Had a good time over the holidays, lots of lap time as it was really cold and everyone wanted me to sit on their laps! I got into my presents a bit early, Quincy, my always starving beagle brother seen next to not one but two empty bowls, found them and I helped him dismember the stuffed animals we were supposed to get on Christmas. We had fun, but of course we got caught! Mom and dad laughed a lot, then we got doggie massages. Life is good here. After all the decorations were put away, life sort of returned to normal, my brothers and I like to nap together on the couch while we wait for the next doggie adventure! Stay tuned for more, they happen every day!
