Adventure in the Rain

Today, Significant Other came home from work at 3 am.  Jory had not gotten his now ritual 11:45pm walk, so was all "take me out!"  yeah, right.  Sleep happened.

So, around 8, despite the rain, off we went before something regrettable happened.  I put on his goat coat to try and water resist a bit, grabbed my umbrella, and we meandered 98% off leash through the western neighborhood and into a little farm/commercial zone.  He had a LOVELY time sniffing the things and trotting at his own pace.

Near the field he found a... what are they... I should know this...

sandpiper!

And chased it down and back across the field.  He went down into a ditch, and hopped through alfalfa or something to get to it.  Didn't quite work out, naturally, and his back feet tripped over a wire in a dis-repaired fence.  I was worried, but he was happy and has not limped.

Then he explored a parking lot, and saw a cat!  More running, but it ducked under a fence gate, and all he could do was check the whole perimeter.  I'm pretty sure he could go under the gate too, so leashed him after his initial running.  Home we went.

He was pretty soaked, the coat helped a bit, but he'd been out for too long and run through too much water.

Thanks to his coat needing some adjustment, he had a poopy butt, so got a spot-bath.  I put his diluted Isle No. 50(?) shampoo in an empty foam hand soap dispenser, and that worked SO well!  Almost like applying shaving cream to him.  he was pretty unhappy to be in the bathroom, but with the easy soap all he had to do was sit in the tub and let me splash him a bit.  So not too bad!

Then he jumped on my bed to rub his face around, as is tradition, and we got him pretty well dried off.  I returned to bed, and Jory came up and dog-blocked me from snuggling my man.  So S.O. hugged him and rolled him to the other side.  It was funny, becuase it put Jory in a state of shock for 20 seconds.  But then he settled in, and we put a blanket on him, (he likes blankets when he is damp) and it was an incredibly touching show of man-and-dog snuggling.  I'm sure S.O., with his hot metabolism, just loved being sandwiched between us.

Jory jerked into REM, and started snoring a little.  stinkin' cute.