99 degrees, time to check on Daisy

[Faulkner]

The mercury hit 99 degrees this afternoon so I decided to go check on Daisy. She's usually in the garage laying on her cooling elevated go bed in front of the shop fan, but no, she wasn't there.

She also has a cool spot in the shade under a Japanese maple tree in yard she likes to hang out in when it's hot, but no, she wasn't there either.

Well, maybe she's laying on the front porch. There is usually the benefit of a breeze there but at 99 degrees I'm not sure how cool that would be. I walked around the corner of the house to look on the front porch and I found her alright! She had dug up Mrs. Faulkner's flower bed and dislodged a number of the landscape blocks. Apparently she was in hot pursuit of a 3 inch lizard that had so far evaded her efforts.

 

[old bear]

Great story, best to you and Daisy!!

 

[ameridaddy]

Well, you know that herding instinct - lizards must be supervised.
PS - is that black dirt on her tongue? Yuk!

 

[Bro. Dave]

...meanwhile I've been hiding in the air-conditioned house like the lizard trying to hide under the rock! I'm glad Daisy isn't on my trail, that's for sure!

 

[Puller]

Uh oh!

 

[Warren Sear]

Poor Daisy. You should let her into the house.

 

[oldbrownhat]

...She had dug up Mrs. Faulkner's flower bed and dislodged a number of the landscape blocks. Apparently she was in hot pursuit of a 3 inch lizard that had so far evaded her efforts.

There's an old song by Noel Coward, "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun." That's a heck of a lot of work to indulge in at 99º! (Maybe the lizard ended up in the shop in front of the fan?)

 

[SAFireman]

Mattie has brief excursions outside, but spends most of her indoor time on the cool tile floor in front of a box fan on high

 

[whitestang]

Maybe she just wanted to play with the lizard,not herd it..

 

[IndianaDave]

That little dickens ! My Cairn terriers like to lay on the cement of the back patio and bake in the sun until you could almost see steam coming off them. Then they come in through the doggie door and lay on the cool tile floor with their tongues hanging out.
These are the same guys who go swimming in Lake Michigan in January and look at me like they're wondering why i don't join them. The terrier brain is incomprehensible. Here Freya is learning how to steer a sailboat.

 

[Rule3]

Like my dog, not matter what, if the see a lizard they will not give up!
And we have a lot them!

 

[Muddyboot]

Thank her for protecting your home from that dangerous lizard. Good training for when the Lizard people
Show up ( could have been a scout).