Yep, it snowed again. We seem to be in a pattern of a few sunny days, a snow storm, and then a few more sunny days until the next snowstorm. Our backyard has been a Colorado winter wonderland playground for us Scotties and we’ve been having a blast!
Years ago, when Wen and her husband first moved to Denver, they had three dogs and a nice big backyard for them to run around. It was around Christmas when they arrived, so naturally, they got to experience a typical Colorado winter with plenty of snow. Since they had previously lived in Texas, the snow was quite a new experience for the dogs and they loved scampering round their backyard, plowing through the snow drifts and making trails.
One snowstorm left a particularly huge dumping of snow in the area–so much that the snow drifts were as high as the four foot fences in all the neighborhood yards. Wen didn’t realize that the dogs could walk over the drifts into their neighbor’s yard until she called the dogs to come back into the house one time and all three were missing! A little panic set in until she looked over the fence and spotted the dogs in the backyard next door. The neighbor’s house sat a bit downhill from theirs and the dogs could walk right over the fence into the next yard, but they couldn’t get back uphill over the fence into their own yard, so they were stuck!
Fortunately, Wen was able to rescue the dogs and then she set out to shovel the drifts by the fence that had provided their escape route. Soon the backyard was secure again and the dogs had to be content with exploring their own property, which was just fine with them. There was never another snowstorm of that magnitude while they lived there, but every time it snowed, Wen certainly kept an eye out for another doggie drift escape!
