About 99 percent of the ground was covered with snow when we took our walk this afternoon, but Birdie found an exposed grassy area and sniffed around a lot. When we got back to the house it was discovered that she had found a nasty dried up burdock bush and had picked up a prickly mat of burrs from her paws, up her chest and on to her chin. She was now licking furiously to no avail. All this mess was accomplished in a matter of seconds, under guise of finding a nice place to whiz. Kathleen got out the scissors and the darn dog is finally back to normal, ready to go out again, this time with a wiser handler.
