Rainy days and Saturdays

It's raining today... just a nice, light, steady rain. Enough so even if it stopped right now the back 40 would not dry enough to mow today. So it's an inside, do laundry, housework and brush the dogs sort of day. It's also a fiddle with the computer and write on the blog day. We're still a little damp from the early morning trip to the vet with the 3 dogs for heartworm tests and bordetella vaccinations. We also picked up the monthly doses of heartworm and flea and tick protection meds. Yeah, times 3 that was a $200 trip to the vet. But we love our dogs and we try to be responsible dog owners. Yet where is the line between responsible and excessive behavior when it comes to our furry friends?

We try to walk our dogs twice each day because corgis require plenty of exercise. Used to be I'd be out there in my rain jacket trying to wrangle 3 dogs and pick up poop while trying to manage an umbrella. Now the dogs are older and can settle for a quick pee in the downpour and wait for a break in the weather for a real walk even if it means they only get one today. Now, if I try to walk them in the rain, they look up at me with their ears dropping around sad, sodden little faces and even pull back toward the house in attempt to get out of the mess.

So I've been getting up and going to the window every 20 minutes or so looking for the rain to have slacked up, but no luck so far. I am on the 2nd load of laundry and I should start vacuuming the great fluffs of dog hair that waft across our floors and accumulate in all the corners and under furniture in our home. But it's nice to sitting here on the couch with the daughter, each of us tapping away on our computers while the rain continues to drip outside.