Blizzard!

[crysania4]

When I left work today I lamented having to walk Dahlia out in the weather we're having. This afternoon it was windy, about 40mph, blowing the recently fallen snow everywhere. My coworker said "She won't want to be out in this anyway."

I walked outside with Dahlia tonight to discover it was quite the blizzard. Near white-out conditions, snowing heavily, blowing still at around 30-40mph. Lovely. Just lovely. Dahlia ran out into it like this was the BEST STUFF EVAR OMG. I was hoping for a quick pee walk and I got a dog who looked up at me with this look of "wow mom how did you bring this awesome white stuff down!!"

So off we go, Dahlia with a spring in her step, me trudging after her, hoping she'll pee quickly.

She doesn't.

And then as we're coming back around the corner, out of the whiteness and darkness, comes a guy running with two dogs off leash. I can't really tell who it is. But he leashes up the dogs and moves out into the road with them. And as he comes closer I realize it's the guy with the Rottie from down the road and he's walking our neighbor's pit bull puppy. The dogs all know each other so he lets them back off and they come back over to Dahlia.

And play time ensues.

They run around and sniff and dance (and she finally pees!). And then we go see Callahan, a wonderful yellow lab who is sadly rarely walked and usually just tied to the back porch. He's a nice dog despite all of that. Bentley and Bailey are already up with Callahan when Dahlia and I head over. She freezes and I know her next move will be to fly to them. So I call to her and tell her slow and she walks slowly with me up to them, each time she forget herself and starts to rush forward I tell her to slow and she does so. Finally we reach them and the four of them run around (Callhan as best he can being tied to the porch while the others are free) Bentley (the Rottie) takes to humping Callahan, but his owner manages to stop it and Callahan calls him off. Dahlia, of course, plays her proper roll of "police dog" and when Bentley starts to hump, she barks to get his attention and distract him and then herds him away from Callahan. She really is brilliant with that. The people at the dog park love how she sort of seems to defend the dogs who are dealing with a somewhat ruder, more aggressive dog. Luckily Bentley has never tried to hump her or he might get a quick flash of the teeth. Girl knows how to handle herself and does it quite gracefully.

When we decide play time is done, I call Dahlia off and she's awesome as always, following me, though she does start to veer off to chase Bailey and Bentley who are running off in the other direction. I call her back and she's excited and it's play time!! So I toss my glove, which she promptly kills like the predator she is. And then I tell her to bring it inside to Daddy and she does. She brings it right into the house and drops the soaking wet, covered in snow, glove right on top of his dissertation papers.

I love my dog!

Comments

[angely78.livejournal.com]

Daddy! DADDY LOOK I KILLED A GLOVE!!!

now I get this mental image of her expecting David to eat it. LOL.

[crysania4.livejournal.com]

She kills gloves all the time. Shakes them around and breaks their...erm...neck. LOL It's hilarious how proud she is of her glove-killing ways!

[angely78.livejournal.com]

IT IS A DANGEROUS, DANGEROUS GLOVE AND MUST BE SUBDUED FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION.

/ends capslock.

They're funny that way.

[stubberella.livejournal.com]

So cute! Dahlia is awesome.

[crysania4.livejournal.com]

Dahlia rocks. She's brilliant at the dog park with separating off dogs that are being seriously rude to more timid dogs. There was once a dog trainer there who was really impressed with her and kept saying "you just have such an awesome dog."

[stubberella.livejournal.com]

I told Mike I wanted to create an alien species based on dogs that would be a major race in the third part of my story. He told me it would be campy (even though he knows I don't write cheesy shit). Their personalities are so inspiring.

I also want to have telepathic bumblebees and dolphin sentient species too. That stuff sounds cool, right? Not crazy?

[crysania4.livejournal.com]

It sounds awesomely cool to me! And not campy at all.

Of course, I'm a crazy dog/animal person so maybe I'm the wrong one to ask. lol

[stubberella.livejournal.com]

As I read other sci-fi, it's interesting to see the sorts of races authors come up with. I just think meeting a species of dogs (or anything else most people look down at) that are smarter than us would be a total mindtrip. And I'd want for them to be pretty realistic; you know, no six-foot-tall insects.

[crysania4.livejournal.com]

I would seriously love to read a book with smarter than us dogs who were the size of actual dogs. I think that would be a really interesting way to go.

[stubberella.livejournal.com]

I think I'd have so much fun with it. I'll have plenty of time to think of a rich history for them too. The hardest part is always coming up with a great racial name!

[crysania4.livejournal.com]

I can imagine that would be tough! It's like trying to decide what to name your children (or dogs!) for some people.

[jenandbronze.livejournal.com]

When it snows, Nixon goes crazy... but when it is all over, things melt or whatever, he hates it... esepcially when the temperatures drop and he needs to wear booties, which ehtolerates; however, when there is salt on the ground and it is above freezing temps, it will just make the booties wet, so his guidework is far slower, but still reliable, but I can sense is discomfort... poor guy.

[crysania4.livejournal.com]

Aww poor Nixon. So far we haven't put booties on Dahlia. I've considered it but she's SO much more uncomfortable in booties than she is with her feet on the frigid ground.

[yesididit.livejournal.com]

sounds like a great time was had!

[crysania4.livejournal.com]

It really was! By all involved. I'm so glad Dahlia has doggy friends in the area.