Towels everywhere

Ok, maybe no one has shared this with you before. I didn't fully understand it until we had Jenny for about 30 minutes. Golden Retrievers are messy.

When she takes a drink, you can see little drips on the floor all around her bowl. Apparently Goldens don't feel a need to finish swallowing once they raise up from the bowl. We have a towel right next to her bowl. That catches some drips, but there are always more, as if she hastily retreats from drinking and needs a trail to find her bowl again. So there is a secondary towel, on Ready 5, to clean up the drips.

It's against her innermost being to stay inside when it's raining or recently rained. And she is compelled to run and fetch and slide in the mud that is now everywhere. So there are towels outside. One is always on the back porch, along the path to the doggie door, in hopes she will get at least one paw dry from walking on it. But there is another towel on Ready 5 we use to wipe her feet and legs as thoroughly as possible. Sometimes she is patient and allows us to clean/dry her legs before going in the house. Other times she pulls away and resists all efforts to clean the mud out of her fur. Perhaps there should be another towel inside the house to catch more water or mud. Something to consider for the future.

I love you, Jenny! One day we will teach you to wipe your paws before going inside. Or you'll teach us to put down more towels.