Friday, January 04, 2008
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Floofyhead Friday - Hibbing Husky
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This is Hibbing Husky with my treat box...
With the Cold we have been have experiencing, Hibbing has been doing duty as a draft dodger. That is, he lays down in a drafty place and stops the cold draft from coming in. He is good at this as Huskies like cold weather and he likes to lay down. But now he thinks he deserves a treat for being such a good Floofyhead.
Hibbing is named for Hibbing, Minnesota, the hometown of Eli Niphead. Bean was trying to think of a "cold" name for him, since Huskies, even floofyhead ones, like cold weather. Eli say it never unfreeze in Hibbing, which is in the Iron Range in Northeastern Minnesota. Bean said that she has since heard that it does unfreeze for about a month in the half in the summer, but as you can see in their website, it's a great place for winter sports.
When he is not working as a draft dodger, Hibbing usually hangs out with a pack of plush brothers on one of my old beds that they have taken over.
He was adopted from the St. Andrews Greenwall Shelter probably just under a year ago. Bean says she was pretty sure it was after the start of Spring Training, because she almost never goes to that Greenwall, but she couldn't pick up the prints she'd ordered at her usual Greenwall because the photograph machine wasn't working. So she had to go to the St. Andrews one instead.
Furr those of you who left comments about getting space heaters, we have several although they are called Cat Heaters because they heat Cat, not space. We can usually get the bedroom pretty warm with them, but the rest of the house is too big to adequately heat that way. So when I get up in the morning, it was furry cold in the icy kitchen. Happily today was not as cold as yesterday, although Bean still bundles herself up like Nanook of the North before she heads out hunting.
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Comments (6)
He's a handsome floofy! And how generous of him to serve in the war against cold drafts.
I hope the house warms up for you soon. It should be warmer here this weekend (paws crossed).
Hibbing is such a nice woofie! How sweet of him to keep you warm. We could use that here!
Burrito cat refers to being wrapped tightly in a towel, like a burrito, so the bean can shove a pill down your throat. Not much fun....
Tara
Hibbing is a good woofie to help keep da cold outside, where it belongs. Mom's family is in a place called Vulcan, MI and Norway, MI and Iron Mountain, MI and it's cold der too. Dey call it iron country and da Grategrampa bean worked in da iron mine der too.
It is cold in our house too and we do not like it! This is Georgia, its supposed to be warm not freezing! We are seriosuly thinking of boarding the Black Furrball and sailing back to the Carribean - Mommy loves that idea a little too much we think...
Thank you for your good wishes yesterday.
As for your comment about the cold, well, we don't have central heating either. We just have radiators in all the major rooms, and we don't turn those on until it's at least -10C. In the +8C weather you were mentioned the other day, our windows are open, and our humans are running outside in shorts and short-sleeved tops. Even today, when it's below freezing (-2C) all our windows are open (we have warm fleece blankets to cuddle under, but we don't find it particularly cold). But I guess it all depends on what you are used to.
That's way too cold for inside your house. I hope it starts to warm up down there.