I took these photos on Sunday of blind Madison rolling in the grass at the new sanctuary property in New Hampshire. Yes, I brought the old girl along for company on the trip back East, and she's been a wonderful companion. This next part I am not making up: We had spent Friday night in Elmira, New York, and then drove the 8 hours or so on Saturday through the rest of the Empire State, across Vermont (hey, that was quick!), and then up to Lancaster. What was the first thing Madison did when I let her out of the truck here at the property in New Hampshire? She rolled in the grass. Over and over again. No potty business first. Nope, first things first — rolling in the grass.
So on Sunday morning when I let her outside for her morning constitutional, I was ready with the camera. And she obliged with a couple of minutes of determined rolling, followed by some munching of grass. (Please note how bright and green that grass is! That's something we don't typically see at the ranch in Ovando until May.)
When I was working yesterday with the fence company guy, I had Madison out with us for a while, and at one point she laid down on the grass and rolled and rolled. I turned to the fence guy and said, "See, that's why we call it the Rolling Dog Ranch."
As our longtime friend and wonderful supporter of the ranch, Shirley L. of Portland, Oregon, said to me after we announced our move, "The Rolling Dog Ranch is wherever the animals are!" Or, as Madison would say, "I can be a rolling dog anywhere!"
Her shorthand version of that is, "Have grass, will roll."
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