When It's Too Cold for a Corgi...
...it's C-O-O-L-D!!!
Cassie is not among the some who like it hot. And where we live, it gets mighty hot -- 118 is not uncommon. So when we go for a walk during the late spring, summer, and early fall, it's after dark or before dawn, and even then when it's very warm, she pooples out after a block or two.
But once the weather cools into the 60s and low 70s...ahhhh! Dog joy. Then she can go and go and go.
I have to walk a mile a day -- preferably two -- to keep chronic back pain under control, and I have to go at a fast pace. So it's inconvenient when she can't keep up with me and totally wonderful when she can.
Lately, though, even the Valley of the We-Do-Mean Sun has been enjoying the icy weather that's slid down out of the arctic and afflicted most of the country. Everyone's plants are swaddled in heavy old drapes and sheets or covered with expensive "frost cloths" ($25 for ONE!), and if you don't have enough to cover everything, then some of your landscaping is toast. Or...uhm...iced lettuce. I've lost a spectacular bougainvillea and all the lantana (they'll grow back) and probably will lose about a third of the lime tree's canopy (it won't grow back).
And interestingly, Cassie, for the first time since she came to live at my house, does not especially want to go outside, and once she's there to do her business, she ain't a-goin' far from the door. Twice she's defiled the pool decking, and yesterday she attacked the floor of the family room, her favorite substitute loo. What a mess! :-D
I can go :-D because the entire house is tiled. It is, mercifully, easy to clean up.
Oh well. I should have dragged her outside against her will instead of busying myself with trying to vacuum, dust, scrub, and scour the Funny Farm from stem to stern. Baaaad human!
Sun Dog
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Comment by Jane Christensen on December 8, 2013 at 7:31pm
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HaHa...that's true but then I's miss the 4 seasons! I could visit my brother and sister in law for a month or 2...they are snowbirds!
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Comment by Vicky Hay on December 8, 2013 at 7:23pm
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@ Jane (& Griffin): poor puppy!!!!
You know...it's never too late to move to Arizona. ;-)
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LOL! I wonder if it's a Corgisim?
In my (seemingly endless) experience with German shepherds, I observed that those particular herding dogs abhorred water unless it was mixed with dirt to form mud. :-D Greta the Wonderdog, the most superior GerShep that ever lived, would flee clean water as though it were sulfuric acid, but would cheerfully jump into a pond of slimy, algae-ridden muddy water.
If aversion to water is a function of the herding instinct, what possible use could it serve? Dogs are strange.
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Comment by Jane T. (& Griffin) on December 8, 2013 at 7:17pm
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We live in Ohio and got 6" of snow on Friday. Griffin wasn't thrilled. My husband had to stamp down an area with a path so Griffin could pee and poop without snow up his butt.
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Comment by Linda on December 8, 2013 at 7:11pm
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Vicky....that's funny! Max hates baths, the hose and rain. But if he sees a body of water..lake, large pond, even the Hudson River...he is in it. I have pictures of him in the Hudson River trying to drag my daughter into the water. Good thing I keep him leashed or he would have ended up in NYC.
Katie will go out in the rain but does not like water in any other form..baths, lakes, hoses.
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oh my goodness! Makes 118 sound kinda balmy, doesn't it?
Cassie the Corgi hates loathes and despises water, and she's especially abhorred when the stuff is falling out of the sky. Getting her to go outside to do her business in the rain (which fortunately -- from the doggie point of view -- is pretty rare here) is quite a challenge. She has to be about to bust before she'll go out in falling rain to do the Job.
Hilariously, if she sees a lawn sprinkler showering a sidewalk ahead, she actually will try to cross the street!
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I am very grateful that my area of NYS has not had that nasty cold...so far....but the teens are more than my 2 like for any length of time. What they hate is snow or any kind of frozen stuff on the grass. I have to do the hurry up and get behind them quick when I open the door or they both back up if they see white on the deck. I also have their coats at the ready...not so much for the temp unless it is really bitter but for when it's actively snowing. Those broad backs can sure bring in a pile of snow that ends up on the kitchen floor. I forgive them if they never make if off the deck to do their business...it gets cleaned off and hey, I sure as hell wouldn't want to have to poop with my butt hanging in that cold white stuff.
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Comment by Anna Morelli on December 8, 2013 at 5:40pm
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Not as cold here as where Jane is, but still cold enough I cannot let the dogs out in the normal way High of 2 F. or 3 F. plus snowing the last several days. Under the circumstances I put up pet gates so they are basically in just one area, until night time when they are confined in my bedroom, rather than giving the freedom of the house as usual. Mowgli would sneak and poop in the living room and I certainly don't want that habit to get established. . Better safe than sorry until we can get back to our normal routine.
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LOL! Very thankful that I don't. Having never lived where it snows, I'd probably not survive MN!!
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Luckily you don't live in MN! It's been below for several days and warnings for the cold. -25 is not good for corgis more than a few minutes...Mine love 20-80 degrees.
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