Juniper Friday! Reluctant Beach Baby

Juniper, a tiny puppy, crouches nervously in the wet sand of a beach in a somewhat oversized harness.

We had a sense of Juniper’s nervous sensibility early on. With the first month or so of adopting her as a puppy, we took a trip out to the ocean to see what she would make of it all, and she was not having it. In fairness, the surf was pretty strong that day, but even walking along the beach at some distance, Juniper seemed very unnerved by the rumbling crash of each arriving wave. We have since concluded that she likes water just fine, so long as it’s perfectly still and about ankle-deep.