The Wet Dog
Zamba is a consummate water lover! She likes it any way she can get it: drinking, slobbering, falling from the sky, or in her swimming pool. The first thing she did when she got home and found the water bowl, after taking thirty enormous gulps, was to stick her feet in the bowl and chill. Now she’s to the point where, unless it’s super cool like this evening, she’ll just go to the bowl and dig out a half gallon of water onto the floor. Then she lays in the puddle and falls asleep.
Kathy got her a shallow kiddie pool on day one and filled it with about three inches of water, but a heavy series of rains came and topped it off to the full 5 or 6 inches. She tried to “sleep” in the pool, but it was too slippery for her and she’s not tall enough to keep her head out of that much water while lying down.
She discovered in under 48 hours that the tops of my stacked-two-high pails of aquarium salt, standing out on the front porch, have indentations that gather small amounts of (dirty) water. Witness:
It’s been a pain to try to keep her tummy dry, and the wise Newf Masters on the forums say that it may be a futile struggle in the summertime. Apparently, 80F is about the warmest weather they can stand… and we’ve had quite the summertime conditions here in the last week, regularly reaching into the high 80’s. In this un-air-conditioned house, that makes for some toasty conditions! Needless to say, even more trips to the river and the lake are most certainly in order.