Now that the nights have warmed up, our blind-and-deaf Great Dane Blanca prefers to sleep outside much of the time. There are cots on the Widget’s House porch with West Paw beds on top, and as soon as she’s had dinner, she’s ready to head back outside and stay there.
So when I went over to Widget’s House early one day recently to let the dogs out, I found Blanca asleep in the morning sunshine. She had pulled a West Paw bed off the cot and dragged it out to the gravel, and was now sleeping on it. I walked into the building, picked up a digital camera we have stashed over there for moments like this, and came back out to get the photo. Because she’s blind and deaf, she didn’t even realize I was present.
It does look like she just wanted to take advantage of the early rays, and she took the bed out there so she could soak in some warmth. Right? I’d like to give her credit for that, except she does this in winter, too — pulls the bedding off the cots and drags it out into the snowy yard. Some afternoons we’d come over and find every one of the West Paw beds strewn across the snow. On occasion we’d find a bed all the way down by the gate, which is probably 50 yards from the porch. (I have never managed to capture the bed heists on camera.)
Thus I am not exactly sure she pulled that bed over on purpose so she could soak in the sunshine while she slept … or whether she had already dragged it off a cot during the night and somehow found it again. For whatever reason, though, this was clearly the place she wanted to be that morning!
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