SNOW!!!!

It doesn't take much snow around here to make us Southerners go White Stuff Crazy. Dogs included. So, when it snowed last week and then again this week, we went snow crazy. I went photo crazy. Nothing makes photographing black dogs more fun than a pristine white background. Even if I took the first batch with the settings all wrong because I'm not used to so much white. (Rookie....)

Corvus, for all of his heat seeking, blanket thieving, teeth chattering hatred of the cold, turns into the Abominable Snow Dog when there is snow. I literally have to trick him or physically drag him back inside if it is snowing. His tiny little chicklets can be chattering and his body shivering, and he will STILL insist that I leave him to play in his Winter Wonderland. HE WAS EVEN PANTING AT ONE POINT from the excitement of playing. 

Ditto..well, she's not as amused. Sure, she gets that same little jitterbug thing going on where when she first goes out and feels the cool, fluffy magic, it makes her boing-boing around like a newborn foal that has discovered it's legs. But the magic wears off quickly and she's just as happy to go back inside where the ground isn't some odd, frozen monster and her blankies are nearby for cuddles. Her shortened span of loving the snow may also be in part because of her aversion to wearing a coat outside when it is colder than balls. She will wear one, but she will make me pay for it, so we just typically skip that unless we're going for a long walk or it's single digits out.

I'm not sure what I would do in the snow if I didn't have dogs. I love snow days, but I think that's mostly because of how much fun I have in the snow with them. Otherwise the wet feet, frozen toes and fingers, and slush just seem like a hassle instead of a side effect of having fun.

The moral of the story: Dogs make everything better!