Friday, February 05, 2021

Sunrise - January 5

The following post has scatological content so if you are eating breakfast you might want to skip reading it until later.

Whip defecates once a day.  When I first got her she discharged prodigious amounts twice a day but once I got her switched over to Science Diet she doesn't poop as much.  I'm not sure if that's necessarily a good thing but it's the way it is.   Her excretion location of preference is the middle field.   I try to either go through or at least skim that field on the morning walk.  I suppose she feels it is the right distance from the house to signal other animals "beware you are coming into my purview" or maybe it's far enough from home to 'not mess in your own backyard' so to speak.  Today the temps dropped into the single digits and the winds were creating little tornados of snow that raced across open fields.   Between wind chill and the extra snow it was too hard to walk out to her desired lavatory spot.  Every two hours I would take Whip out to the stockade for a short time of exercise.  She was always anxious to get out and anxious to get back inside.  I took little treats w/ me and tossed them out into the snow for her to chase and find.  That sort of got her mind off the cold and, after the third trip out, helped produce the requisite #2 for the day.

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