Our sun worshipper

We have had Ella about a year and a half now and one thing we have learned about Vizsla's in that time is that they love to bake in the sun. Probably something to do with that thin coat and being cold easily. This morning I found her wedged into a patch of sun on the stairs.

The other thing with the thin coat/getting cold easily stuff is that in winter, during the night she often gets cold. Our first winter with her, she would wake up during the night, crying and sometimes suggestively nosing the edge of our down comforter. Realizing she was cold, we got her a doggy heating pad for her dog bed.

Still waking up in the night crying.

Then we bought a blanket and put her to bed every night with her doggy heating pad AND a blanket covering her.

Still waking up crying.

I was complaining to my mother about the having to get up in the night and cover our crying baby with a blanket and she, being a seamstress extraordinaire, came over with a tape measure and whipped up this little number for Ella to sleep in.

Does the trick on the cold nights and provides entertainment for Kevin and me because she looks completely dorky in it. Like the other dogs at the dog park would beat her up if they saw her in it. I think it looks a bit like a Snuggie and that thought had me briefly, and I mean briefly, considering setting her up with her bed jacket on, a bowl of popcorn and a remote on the couch and using that photo for this post but then the logistics of keeping her face out of the popcorn long enough to take a picture stopped me.