Lots of clickety-clack and hair

We are so happy that we brought Rosie with us because she really makes this place feel like home. However, she may not be as thrilled as we are. She is only doing so-so as her back legs are getting increasingly weak and she is often hot and usually tired. She is not crazy, particularly, about our hardwood floors. She slips and slides on them and sometimes falls. Basically, she moves from one of our four area carpets to the other. (Usually in the room where people are not! We bug her.)

We aren't crazy about the hardwood floors in terms of Rosie, as well. First, she is very loud when walking around. Please listen to this video if you would like to hear the sound:

Everybody always wakes up when she walks around at night. Luckily, she sleeps most of the time.

Also, she is shedding hair constantly. She always did that, of course, but it may be worse here because her undercoat is thinning due to the heat. In Santa Cruz, her hair is basically hidden on our carpet. But, it is impossible to miss it on the hardwood floor here. So, every morning I sweep up this amount of hair:


Now, I thought of collecting all her hair and turning it into an Abominable Snowman costume. I say this because years ago there was a Halloween costume contest in Santa Cruz in which a guy with that particular costume won. We went with Laura and Doug - who I thought should have won. Isn't their costume cool?

But, the guy had collected his dog's hair for over a year for the snowman. His costume looked ok and all - but I think he just won because it was just amusing that he did it. Laura and Doug did come in second. They were robbed, as far as I am concerned. Anyway, I haven't collected Rosie's hair but I always think of that contest.

Sorry, this is sort of a shaggy dog story.