Water baby.

Stella is a water baby, she loves getting wet.  She first got introduced to water by her new best friend Tia, and Tia's foster brother Jake.  They went on a walk together and it started off by Tia and Jake launching themselves into the water off the cliff like lemmings.  A two foot high cliff, they're not stupid. Stella finally walked into the water, went after a stick, fell over and realised she could swim.  Straight up the river after the ducks...

When we go out to play football, we go over to what we call the field.  It's actually a quagmire.  Even the puddles have puddles. Stella loves the feeling of running over grass and being able to splash at the same time.  The other day she did really well avoiding all the large puddles. Until I said 'time to go home'...  She deliberately paddled into the middle of the biggest puddle. And stood there grinning at me.

When we last went to the woods, she tried going home with a family of 5 dogs, only to be told no.  She wasn't happy with that so she launched herself into the pond as a protest.  The pond is stagnant.  Well it was until she'd paddled through every square inch of it with a smirk on her face!

So, I now know that wherever I go, if water is nearby Stella will be chomping at the bit to be in it.  

So why then, if it's raining, does Stella refuse to go out for a wee because she's going to get wet??!!