Hard Rain

Yesterday we chanced it again and headed out into the rain. This time Halo was a little more cheerful as it was not a heavy sprinkle like the day before - it was more of a on/off rain. She still looks unhappy but at least she's not tucking her tail like usual.

Raimi nevers seems to notice the rain unless it's really pouring down or Halo is making a particular show about how bad it is and then he follows with ' Oh, we're being sad now'. Otherwise the occassional shake to get the excess water off is about as much notice as he takes.

There is an area off the beaten path at the park that we go to since it's quiet and very pretty and offers the dogs some new smells and bush to run through. After some construction last year the city has defined some slope recovery areas which I can't really understand as it looks the same as before except now there's fabric fences and mesh on the ground.

Halo discovered a family of squirrels who live in the area there off to the left - it has become her life's mission to get one of those squirrels. See how Raimi is also looking, he's looking because she is ... he has no idea what they're looking for or at.

From where they were standing they have a pretty level view of squirrel territory - you can see them looking up into the trees. Yes, the tree rat is 30 feet from the ground but to the dogs they are oh so close.

Once Halo determined there was the possibility of squirrel activity she shot into the bushes. Rain and wet be damned a squirrel was going to get it's just desserts today.

Instead she ended up empty handed and returned to me with a gouge in her leg caused by who knows what. Considering the speed she was moving through the bush I'm not surprised she got caught on something. It's no more than a superficial cut and she didn't seem to notice it - rather she wanted to return to her hunting.

However it started to rain a little harder and I decided it was time to head for home. Halo took out her squirrel frustration on Raimi on the way to the truck.

During the last few hundreds yards it was was really coming down and they both spent most of the time shaking. I was marvelously dry under my umbrella.

They always know when we're leaving and sometimes they'll start playing to delay the trip home but since it was pretty well pouring they made a beeline for the truck - the back of which you can see just on the other side of the bushes. It's raining again today but I'm sure we'll head out again just the same.