A Cold and Sunny Day
Feb. 3rd, 2011 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluesgardenThe pups have been very excited to learn it's the Year of the Rabbit. Jack's eager to find out if metaphorical rabbits smell different than the regular kind.
They've been pretty game about the snow situation, even though they both break through the top crust regularly and they've both done more than one header face first into the snow when both front paws go through at once. (Hilarious, by the way.) They're almost used to it at this point - it slows them down, but they yank their legs back up or climb up out of the hole and go right on with what they were doing. One of those times when I wish I had a video camera. :P
Here's Jack running towards me, or trying to, as his back leg goes in. He does halfway decent when he's walking, but running increases the impact being made by a single paw, making it a lot more likely for him to break through. I don't have any good pictures of River (it's too cold to be floundering around out there for long), but I did rediscover some I took in November that I'll have to share tomorrow.
The birds and rabbits are sticking to the plowed driveway a good bit and D felt sorry enough for them this morning that he announced his intention to stop at Big Box Store for bird food on the way home as we are out. I spread the last little bit this morning, added suet cakes to the empty suet feeders, and threw a couple of extra out on the snow to tide them over. The rabbits were out last night, picking over any leftover sunflower seeds and 'decorating' the driveway, as D put it.
(Rabbits have a unique digestion system, but of reference here is the hard fecal pellets that they excrete outside the burrow. They are composed almost entirely of roughage that they've ingested. The pellets are small, about the size of a pencil eraser.)
River thought this was fantastic.
River (outside): "WOW, these are awesome snacks!"
Blue (looking out the door): "Um, River, those aren't actually snacks."
River: *munchmunch* "Really? They taste good - they're rabbit snacks!"
Blue: "Well, yes, they are rabbit flavored. I would imagine."
River: *noms*
Blue: *facepalm*
Jack: "THEY WENT THIS WAY."
River: "JUST FOLLOW THE SNACK TRAIL."
I suppose it's somewhat hilarious that she doesn't bother any other kind of feces that I know of (the litter box, her own or Jack's), just the rabbits. Only a beagle.
They've been pretty game about the snow situation, even though they both break through the top crust regularly and they've both done more than one header face first into the snow when both front paws go through at once. (Hilarious, by the way.) They're almost used to it at this point - it slows them down, but they yank their legs back up or climb up out of the hole and go right on with what they were doing. One of those times when I wish I had a video camera. :P
Here's Jack running towards me, or trying to, as his back leg goes in. He does halfway decent when he's walking, but running increases the impact being made by a single paw, making it a lot more likely for him to break through. I don't have any good pictures of River (it's too cold to be floundering around out there for long), but I did rediscover some I took in November that I'll have to share tomorrow.
The birds and rabbits are sticking to the plowed driveway a good bit and D felt sorry enough for them this morning that he announced his intention to stop at Big Box Store for bird food on the way home as we are out. I spread the last little bit this morning, added suet cakes to the empty suet feeders, and threw a couple of extra out on the snow to tide them over. The rabbits were out last night, picking over any leftover sunflower seeds and 'decorating' the driveway, as D put it.
(Rabbits have a unique digestion system, but of reference here is the hard fecal pellets that they excrete outside the burrow. They are composed almost entirely of roughage that they've ingested. The pellets are small, about the size of a pencil eraser.)
River thought this was fantastic.
River (outside): "WOW, these are awesome snacks!"
Blue (looking out the door): "Um, River, those aren't actually snacks."
River: *munchmunch* "Really? They taste good - they're rabbit snacks!"
Blue: "Well, yes, they are rabbit flavored. I would imagine."
River: *noms*
Blue: *facepalm*
Jack: "THEY WENT THIS WAY."
River: "JUST FOLLOW THE SNACK TRAIL."
I suppose it's somewhat hilarious that she doesn't bother any other kind of feces that I know of (the litter box, her own or Jack's), just the rabbits. Only a beagle.
