June 28, 2005
hot dogs
I took the dogs for a walk today. I was actually taking myself for a walk today and thought that the dogs might like to come along.
It's hot. The mid 80s and a million percent humidity. It feels hotter than mid 80s. It did, anyway. It felt that way. Now the weather.com website says it's 77. That's still warm, but it's very sleepable. The humidity is 64%, though. So I won't need a blanket--I'll feel all covered up already!
So the dogs...I walked them along a path that was fairly shady, but to get to the path, we had to walk along the sunny pavement for maybe two blocks.
Spring and Sprocket were panting a bit, which they often do, as they're dogs, still I was a little surprised that, once I let them off their leashes, they didn't go racing along with their ears flapping in the breeze. They kind of loped along until I decided they were too pokey to go any farther. So we turned around. I think they were too hot to have fun.
Sprocket came right along, although quite slowly. Spring trekked ahead, unwilling to stop and wait once we reached the road. She just wanted to go home.
After Sprocket caught up with me and got Spring roped up, we started for home. Sprocket's energy level was dipping toward empty. Still, I thought, "Hey, we're all troupers! Let's make it home!'
And we did make it home. Spring gulped down water and then paced around and around looking up at me and wanting me to pet her. Sprocket had to wait her turn for the water, but then she gulped and slurped and lapped and drank water water water. Then she flopped down on the floor and her bug-eyes bugged out even more buggily than usual.
I felt bad for making them too hot. I apologized lots and lots although they didn't seem angry with me. Spring just needed to pace. I tried to get them to eat ice cubes, but they weren't interested.
I thought, perhaps for the first time in my life really meaning this though, that sweating is a lucky thing. Kind of gross, damp, and highly scented, but it works a lot faster than panting, and it doesn't make your eyes bug out so much.
Posted by dotty at June 28, 2005 10:43 PM