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A Few Slow Days at Home in April

·San Marcos, California·#spring#home#dogs#daily-life
A tan dog and a black and white dog curled up asleep in a wire crate with blankets.

A few slow days at home in San Marcos, mostly spent watching the dogs figure each other out. They started the morning packed into the same crate, the tan one curled up with her chin resting right on top of the other's back, both dead asleep. Whatever truce that was, it didn't survive the move to the bed.

Up there it turned into wrestling — the black-and-white one standing over her, the tan one going for the collar, back and forth across the blankets until they wore themselves out. The teal ball made it up onto the bed at some point and never left.

By afternoon the tan one had it wedged under her chin, half chewing it, half using it as a pillow, eyeing me over the top of it.

A light brown dog lies on a white blanket, looking at the camera, with a bright window and an open doorway in the background.Two dogs on a white bed, one black and white standing, the other tan lying down, under a ceiling fan.Two dogs interact on a white bed, one black and white standing over a tan one, with a bedroom visible in the background.A light brown dog with a purple collar lies on a white bed, resting its head on a blue toy, with a TV in the background.A light brown dog lies on a white bed, chewing a blue toy, with a blurry background.A light brown dog lies on a white bed with a blue toy ball near its nose, looking directly at the camera.

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