The Terror

Barley, a dog, is very unsure of her footing on a sidewalk topped by a sheet of ice.

This is a photo from a while ago, but I can’t resist sharing it before too much more time has passed. When things iced over here, Barley was not having it. Scrabbling hither and thither, she kept trying to find a surface where she had traction, only to discover that every surface was just as icy as every other. As scrabbly as she was, she still had better traction than me, and in her urgency, she basically pulled me along as I slid flat-footed along behind her. She found this terrain so unpleasant to walk on that she refused to go to the bathroom when we first went out, trying instead to drag me back home!