Dog bonding

It's such a unique and Colorado experience to spend ALL your time with your dog. She sleeps in Wee's room in the basement guarding him from monsters that we've told him live in the weird little subterranean nook outside his window. In the morning, I often steal Rory away for a long walk before Wee wakes up. As soon as Wee gains any level of consciousness his first utterance is always "Where's Rory?". Well she's with me at work on a call. Instead of walking with a person on a one-on-one or reviving my solo walking commute call with AppLabs I am walking up the mountain behind my house with the dog. There's very little pointer in her, but enough to generally guide my view to the nearest deer, bird, or prairie dog. In some ways not so different from our old habit, but with fewer squirrels, foxes, and trees and significantly more time. But then things get really different. Instead of locking Rory in the house we bring her with us everywhere. Rory and Wee are reunited as she joins the delivery of her boy to camp. Even though it's only for a short time I miss her while they're gone. While Alex and I work, Rory gets a little time to chill; after all this is much more activity than she's used to. At the lunch break of course we bring her with us wherever we go - running one day, tennis the next. In fact we bring her with us everywhere we go all the time. Yesterday we were shopping store to store and she just came right into all of the stores making friends never enemies. Thankfully it is not so hot here yet that we can't leave Rory in the car as needed, but it seems a rare occasion that we even have to resort to that. And forget about dog food. When your dog is with you all the time she gets so much more real food! Is it healthier? Hard to say, but it certainly seems more appetizing and healthy to me. The whole day is just more appetizing and healthy. Rory agrees that Colorado is awesome.