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Will she, or won't she?

12/14/2016

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Maeve does not like rain. So much so that she will hold her business until the drops stop falling from the sky. She will ask to go out and stand by the door wagging her tail, but once the door is open and she takes a few steps out, she will stop, turn around and head to "her couch," giving us a look like, "Are you crazy? Water is falling from the sky..."

So, on our first snowy day--really snowy, and really cold, we wondered...will she go out? Or will she hold it? Until spring???

Well, no worries! She loves the snow, and the cold. She pretty much treats it like a warm spring day...
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Maggie...well...she likes some snow, but the bitter cold brings her running back inside pretty fast.
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The only problem with Maeve liking the snow is finding her when she's out in it.
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Judy
12/18/2016 01:03:30 pm

Great photos! I see the problem with finding sweet Maeve amidst the snow. Methinks a bright green reflective collar should be in Santa's bag for her. :) Happy Holidays!

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Dana
12/19/2016 09:06:58 pm

Well...the problem with a collar is that her fur pretty much covers it. She's wearing two collars right now, but you can't see them. Our solution is to bring Sophie's little blinky light from Nite Ize out of retirement. We had a similar issue with our little Soph--she would head off at night to the far reaches of the back yard and go under the evergreens to search for bunnies, and she was impossible to see because she was gray. (Teddy was very helpful at finding her for us.) So now, Maeve will have a glowing red light hanging from her collar at night when she goes outside. We may choose the "disco" option, which causes the color to change constantly from red to green to purple to white and back again. We will not choose the blinking red option right now, however, because the blinking light frightens Maeve. I can't explain it, but she is our quirky little princess. She may fight a wolf to the death, but she will run away from a blinking red light the size of a quarter, which is what happened when I was showing her the options. Everything was fine until the blinking started. As with Sophie when she wore the light on her backyard excursions, I like to imagine a sleepless neighbor looking out their window in the middle of a snowy night to see a mysterious multi-colored disco light hovering over the ground, weaving in and out of the row of evergreen trees...

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Judy
12/22/2016 08:44:08 pm

Hahaha about the blinking red light. Who knows what goes on in the mind of a dog? I had one of those collars for my most recent now-deceased dog. The day after the first night he wore it (disco option), one of the neighbors asked me why the police car had been in my driveway!

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