floyderdog blog: Breaking the Law at White Sands National Monument

On our way home from our poorly-understood/poorly appreciated expedition to Juárez last weekend, we stopped by White Sands National Monument for a couple of hours on Sunday morning. It was cold, there was snow on the north-facing slopes, and the sand was frozen in places. There were a few visitors, but the place was not packed. We were traveling with the dogs, including one very energetic Brittany pup, Lucy The Lunatic. She had spent much of the previous day being puppy-sat by our niece, Devin, in Las Cruces. Devin was hoping for a cute, adorable puppy. She got all that, of course, but she also got the burgeoning wildness of a Brittany pup who has just realized that she needs to run/play/eat kleenex/jump on sofas/etc. And she needs to do all those things now! White Sands does not allow dogs off leash or out of control. Even on leash, Lucy is tough to control these days. She's started getting some discipline this week.

Anyway, the place wasn't packed. We took off into our own section of the park and promptly turned the maniac loose. We walked maybe two miles. In that same time, Lucy surely covered 20 miles. It was amazing. First she's 200 yards to the left then 30 seconds later, she's 200 yards to the right. She chased a raven at one point and disappeared behind a line of dunes several hundred yards distant. I ran after her for a couple of minutes off towards her last known location. Then, suddenly, out of the blue, a Brittany pup came running at full speed from behind. I'm still not sure how it was possible for her to loop all the way around, unseen, and charge up behind me, but she did it. Or her evil twin did it. She and her twin are both evil. Her core essence is made of black goop.

She slept all the way home.

Here are a few nice pix of White Sands NM and one video of us breaking the law at White Sands. Click on the pix to see full-sized.

Lisa and the dogs.