Now that the weather is cold, Maple loves to go for a walk. And she loves even more to go on a walk through the forest. We take her on a 3.5 mile forest walk once or twice a week and she gets so excited about it. She starts tracking the minute we get out of the car, and being a stubborn girl, it is very hard to get her to move on when she has found herself an interesting scent. When she is really serious about a scent, she does this thing where she’ll stand on three legs, but kind of leans down on her folded right front elbow – it makes her nose closer to the scent.
She thinks she should be allowed to drink from the creek whenever she is thirsty, and if that isn’t allowed, any muddy puddle will do. Once after a big rain storm there was a spring burbling up from the ground where she got a fresh drink, and now she finds and checks out that spot each time we pass it by, although it has long gone dry.
She loves to say hello to any dog we pass, and loves even more to say hello to people. She’ll immediately show her belly to any person who looks her way. And what she likes even more is if someone we pass has met her before and says, “Hello, Maple!” She’s an extrovert in a family of introverts.
She is a mostly very sweet and funny girl, who doesn’t so much want to please us, as she wants us to be pleased with what she has already decided to do. Perhaps that’s a hound dog trait?
She IS a friend of mine.
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How fun to find another post with more about Maple.
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