Fearless and hairless!

Two things we noted about Penny this past weekend...

1) I've never seen a dog that hasn't been afraid of the vaccuum and the lawnmower... Until I met Penny, that is. This girl is not scared of anything! This weekend my fiance and I finally had a chance to catch up on some yard work but Penny was not having it... While I was picking up pine cones and sticks, Tom began mowing. Penny, however, had other ideas. She loves to play with her soccer ball, but if you make the mistake of throwing it once, she'll keep bringing it back and begging for more! So she spent her afternoon trotting back and forth between us across the yard, dropping the ball in our paths and waiting for us to throw it. It took forever to finally finish the yard but we didn't mind - she was having a blast!

2) All dogs shed - it's a fact of life. But some dogs shed more than others. We happen to have one of those in our dog Nina. Because of this I keep lint rollers in strategic places in my house, car, and office for the occasional white hair that always seems to cling to my black pants. Sometimes Nina will shake and you can see a cloud of white hair flying off of her - our vaccuum cleaner is always filled with white hair. But something we curiously noted this weekend is that we haven't seen any black hairs... Not on the lint roller and not in the vaccuum... Penny doesn't even seem to shed when we pet her and even her dog bed only has a few hairs on it. So not only is she soft and great to snuggle with, but she keeps all of her hair to herself! Could she be any more wonderful??!! I wish she could teach our own dog to do that! ;)