Our first task every morning is to put all the dogs out, no small undertaking with thirty of them. To make it as efficient and quick as possible, I "double-up" on my loads with the smaller dogs. Alayne took these photos the other morning as I was carrying my charges outside. In the photo above, I have Dexter and Widget in hand, who are usually the first to go out. That's because they are the loudest ones, howling and barking from their room on the second floor of the dog wing. That's where the midnight revelers sleep … or not, as the case may be.
When we first moved here, there were three doors between our bedroom on the ground floor of the people wing and their room on the second floor of the adjoining wing — with a bathroom, laundry room, mudroom and flight of stairs in between. Alas, we could still hear them carrying on at 3 a.m. from our bedroom (Widget is a party Beagle who sleeps all day and likes to rock 'n roll in the middle of the night, and Dexter is her side-kick.) We finally installed a fourth door at the top of the stairs, and nighttime quiet at last returned. So the first trip in the morning is through all those doors and up to their room to get them, since they resume carnival festivities at dawn.
After I uploaded that photo on the computer I realized it looked like Widget was somehow slipping through my arm, but that wasn't the case — I had a firm grip on her!
Next up are blind Fuzzy and blind Sophie:
Their eyes are glowing brightly because the flash is bouncing off their retinas; they are blind from progressive retinal atrophy, or PRA, and their pupils are wide open to allow as much light in as possible. (Click on photo for larger image.)
Meanwhile, as you can see in this next photo, it was very foggy outside:
That's our blind-and-deaf pair, Spencer and his sister Katie.
Six down, twenty-four more to go!
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Another Shelter Challenge begins — and No. 3 again already!
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