Sniffy-sniffy

Here's a photo of Suki doing what she does best on a walk in Reedsburg, which is sniff. We have so many dogs in the neighborhood, and there are so many interesting places to sniff, a walk with Suki takes forever - no matter what the weather. Yesterday I was off work, so Suki got the luxury of five walks during the day. Despite that, someone left me a puddle on the floor in front of the fireplace. I'm not sure who that someone might have been, but I suspect Big White. Little White is also a possibility.

We had pulled up the wool rug which was in front of the fireplace, after the first time. Also, someone left a yellow spot on the dining room carpet, which is bigger and harder to clean. Also not the first time. It's possible it was Darwin at fault, although I've seen him head down to the basement to use the catboxes there. Or it could be one of our own cats, fearing to enter the basement while Big Scary Darwin is nearby. Who knows. Fortunately, we had just gotten our Bissell steam cleaner back from the hardware store (it was sent there to have a broken part fixed on Sep 12 of 2006) (!) (and cost $150 to have it fixed - cost $170 new!). I was able to shampoo the carpet after mopping the hardwood floors. The carpet steamer is a godsend for cleaning smelly puddles in a rug.

On one of our many walks, Suki and I went to the hardware store down the street. Although the temperature was hovering around 0 F (-17 C for all of you Celcius-o-philes) I tied her to a post outside since I was just going in briefly to buy a handful of washers. While I was in the store, someone (probably one of the staff) brought Suki a little green bone-shaped doggie biscuit. Naturally, she ignored the snack, as she always does.

When we returned home - I brought the biscuit with me, in case she changed her mind - the mail had arrived and I had received three samples of Canine Greenies dog treats. Since they are breath freshening, made with green ingredients such as alfalfa, Suki naturally turned them down. Suki had breakfasted royally on some disgusting breakfast sausages I had obtained free with a coupon - I couldn't stomach them - and she had declined dog food. I left her with one of the Greenies, and after a while I returned to find her all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and the Greenie had disappeared. I fed her the remaining Greenie and the green doggy-biscuit and she ate them all.

So Suki's tally for the day:
"lite" breakfast sausages - 8
dog biscuits -3
milk, Rowena's - 2 small bowls
burned bagel - none
dog food - none
dosa - none


We went for another walk in the afternoon. One of the music students I am accompanying stopped along the street to drop off her accompaniment music, and she thought Suki was just beautiful. She was shocked at how calm and mellow Suki is - she has a Boxer puppy. I told her that her dog would also be very mellow in 10 years. ;)

In the evening, we made dosai and watched Ice Harvest on DVD. None of our cats would cooperate in helping keep our laps warm, so Avinash pulled Darwin up onto our laps to enjoy an entire evening of laptime.