MaggieMoose And Her Adventure Subbie

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face."

Katherine Mansfield

  Rain doesn't stop Maggie from going anywhere. Rain or shine she's ready to go out for an adventure whether out for a walk or in her Subbie car (2011 Subaru Forester). It gets her excited! Adventure girl rocks! Like yesterday, the rainy weather came back. I needed to do some last minute running around. It's almost dark. Maggie's piercing eyes spoke volumes to me. I read her mind and it tells me I wanna go too. OK girl. Rain drops on our faces. Pronto! I snatch a blurred photo of Maggie in front of our Subbie car. Drum roll ... this is where the infomercial comes in. I have never driven a safer car in the rain (inches of pounding rain) than in our Subaru Forester. It literally hugs the road like Velcro. It's an amazing feeling to feel so safe in stormy weather. As Maggie is my prize love bug I want to know that I can keep her safe & happy. The backseat is where she goes with Dora the Explorer. (Yes, the Stanford students got a kick out of riding with Dora too. LOL) 

Maggie rides many ways; harnessed in, laying down with some zzz's, upright or to the back of the Subbie in her crate. The crate is kept in the car if she needs to be confined for any reason. A good example of how she used her crate was when Maggie needed to wait her turn when she did human scent tracking training. 

Back to the rain and darkness.... We took our walk, it rained on our faces and nightime was upon us. Together we smiled with our wet faces. Maggie's lip kinda curled up with her antsy let's go look and we drove away in the Subbie to do our errand. It's happy trails for us rain or shine. We know we'll get back home safe & sound.

till the next adventure....

WOOF WOOF

Wet Ground Mysteries

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."

Eleanor Roosevelt 

Maggie sniffing the wet ground

  Yesterday the wet ground from the rain peaked Maggie's curiosity. Any water on the ground sets her nose off. As a mother, I couldn't resist Maggie's pleasure in sniffing. I relaxed the leash and let her go ahead. Her head automatically went down. She sniffed and sniffed and sniffed with Sherlockian tenacity. I credit this sniffing to her gift of curiosity, but with an added enhancement. This enhanced gift was reinforced through her early "human scent tracking" training as a puppy. The first element used in Maggie's training was water. Simply put; a water trail was laid down with sprayed water in different line configurations. As the water trail was placed the person who laid the trail walked on the water line to leave their human scent. Maggie then "tracked" the trail with her nose to the ground with a long leash line behind her and me on the end. Eventually, I gave up her tracking training to concentrate on her dog obedience skills. Perhaps the fairy godmother's endowment of the gift of curiosity continues onward? Any water on the ground gets Maggie excited, and the game's afoot.