Today is Valentine's Day and it is indeed a day of love! I have a new friend, setter puppy Maximus has joined our pack. He is still young, but already true to his breed - yesterday we went for a long walk across the snow clad fields, and Maximus kept up with us. Snow- and ice crystals coated his fur and clogged his feet, but he just curled up in the snow like a little fox and bit off the snowballs, then continued running with us. My human picked him up at one point to carry him, but Maximus wriggled and made it very clear that he wanted to run with us. That's the spirit!
Back home he collapsed and was dead to the world, but I know we'll have lots of fun. My human thinks of herself as a runner, and I'm far too polite to let on that I can outrun her without half trying (but then again she only has two legs where I have four). So Maximus' presence is welcome, and I'm sure he's going to grow into an amazing bird hunter, following my example.
