Monday, December 27, 2010

SNOW weather is COLD weather.

So it was a White (Day After) Christmas in Charleston.

Philadelphia and Boston wished they had a "snow" like ours.

The winter storm that slammed into the upper East Coast caused delays for Santa, drivers, airlines and even the NFL.

Charleston was at the bottom of that wintery misery scale. Thank goodness.

We had our "heavy" snow back in February. The polite one that fell at night and was gone by noon.

My cat Wally is very definitely an Inside/Outside kind of pet.

Usually he is on the wrong side of the door and wants to be "over there" instead.

In..he wants out. Out.. he wants to be in.

He was really thinking "Inside is better" as he stared through the patio door.

It wasn't the snow so much as it was the low temps.

That orange striped fur coat looks pretty warm.

Of course I let him in, picked him up and shivered when I felt the cold, cold pads of his feet.

More Kibble for kitty. Maybe a treat too.

Brrr. Purr.


(Click on the pictures for more detail. The cat was outside more than my Canon S90 was. Remember: a camera lens can fog up when you go out in the cold. Thanks for pausing to read this.)

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Thursday, June 24, 2010

PETS: Weather or not....

C'mon. You've thought about it.

The dog would LOVE to strip off that hot, furry coat in summer.

That just makes sense.

Not sure that a vet would agree but I took scissors in hand one year in San Diego and did a "little trim.".

Fido stayed in the house for a long, long time.

He really didn't seem to want to go out at all.

It started one day when I used a clothespin on this lovely sheepdog and "pinned"his hair out of his eyes.

"Wow/Woof," he said as he raced around the back yard, barking at the sun he had never seen before.

My cat is orange striped and sheds a lot.

That tells me he wants to have less hair. Do cats sweat?

I remember he liked our surprise snow last February.

Wallaby wished his legs were longer of course.

Cats don't like water but he didn't seem to make that connection whenever I put him out in the snow. That was often because I liked taking pictures of him. As he adjusted.

Oh yes, he quickly adapted to global cooling.

There was evidence of yellow snow.

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