We had our first heat wave of the summer in Edmonton this weekend. Miss Breton isn't especially fond of the heat. She is forever seeking shade in our backyard and will even try staying in the house if she can get away with it on a warm day, and so you can imagine when the thermometer went over 30 degrees Celsius this weekend how uncomfortable she was. I took Bentley and Breton to the park before 9am over the weekend to avoid the extreme heat of the day and on the first morning they made a new dog-friend named "Pepper" at their favorite swimming pond. Breton put up a hard chase in an effort to steal Pepper's stick, but she's still not fast enough yet to keep up with the bigger dogs; Pepper is a 10-month old black lab. Breton's favorite thing to do in the water is to retrieve sticks and I guess she thought Pepper had a better stick than hers. Before Breton, we used to load up on sticks to throw for Bentley because we knew once they were thrown, they'd be gone. Now, Bentley chases the sticks into the water and Breton will go in after him and bring them back to us. People are often amazed at how well Breton swims, because she seems so young, but I tell them she has lots of practice as we are at the park almost every day. It's too bad we humans can't swim in the ponds too, because it was so hot here!
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