Sun Heaven & Sun Hell

From something that felt more like fall (+10-12 C°) we suddenly jumped to very hot summer. My husband and Stanley enjoy the heat but Alisa and I do not, we are melting. It's almost 30C° in shade and quite humid. Most pictures of the dogs I take now (especially of Alisa) have those long tongues hanging out to one side.

Stanley is our approved sun maniac; clown boy keeps following all year round any available sun rays like a solar panel (indoors as well as outdoors). So these days are paradise for him. He keeps lying outside and sunbathing and every 30 minutes or so he moves to a shady place to cool down for 5-10 minutes and then back to the sun again, feels like you can almost fry an egg on him. No wonder he is so loony, his brain must have melted a long time ago. Maybe he is trying to compensate for his cold start of life in Moscow?



Alisa on the other hand is desperately trying to hide in every shade she can find, even inside bushes, or trying to stay indoors as much as possible and would happily hibernate inside the refrigerator if she could. But if Stanley and I are in a sunny area she of course wants to be with the crowd, so she joins us. And every time she does I'm worried she'll get a heat stroke as she within a few seconds starts to sound like a steam train. But the silly girl she is, she is not leaving until someone else will move. On the walks our "rabbit-girl" hasn't slow down and keep running and hopping in the grass fields like usual, though she is now "crawling" back to the car. On top of it she hasn't seriously started to blow her coat yet, hope it will happen soon or we will have one "very well cooked" Icelandic Sheepdog by the end of this summer.


Here is a picture of Alisa, no ears though, as usual she was too fast and I was too slow.