Basenji Blogging Friday - The Sun is Warm Edition

Friday, August 22, 2014
What? I'm vitamin D deficient.
I've known a lot of dogs in my life. And of all those dogs, I've never met a dog who took such pleasure in being outside in the sunshine.

Jax asks to go outside often. But 4 out of 5 times it's not because she needs to potty - unlike Boogie the Giant Schnauzer, Jax's kidneys work just fine, thank you very much, and she doesn't need to pee every couple of hours.

No, she asks to go outside because she adores laying in the sun, and rolling around on the grass, and playing with rocks. Yes, I realize that last part is odd. She's an odd dog. And since she doesn't actually chew on them, we take it as just one more idiosyncrasy of a dog who already has an abundance.

Since Jax cannot yet be trusted to be outside by herself, each of these sojourns must be accompanied by a human. In a way that's good, as it gets me away from desk periodically and out of the vortex of misery that is Visio. But left to her own devices, she'd hang out on the lawn all day long. And this is not conducive to me being able to pay the mortgage.

We'll see much she wants to hang outside once it gets colder.

1 comments:

Phiala said...

Are you SURE she's not part boxer, because she and the lawn-basking, rock-playing goofus who lives in my house could be her brother.

You obviously need a laptop so you can work outside while she basks.