Featured Pet of the Week - Saffron

Okay, I am hoping to get up one blog per week showcasing one of my pets (or my daughter's pets that live with us - she has a few that live at her boyfriend's parents house, and a horse that is now in Maine).

This is Saffron. She is an 8 1/2 year-old Great Pyrenees. When she stands next to our kitchen table, her shoulders are just a bit higher than it. She weighs around 85 lbs, mostly fur. Her long fur is just MADE for winter, and that is when she enjoys being out the most.

As you can see in this pic, she is very comfortable in snow.

Great Pyrenees were bred to be guardians of sheep flocks, so they mostly like to lie around until they sense "trouble". "Trouble", to her, may be a neighbor's cat crossing their yard within her sight, a dog barking a block away, people walking by on the road. They let you know, and let "the intruder know, that they will use force, if necessary.

Anyway, they were not bred for long distance hiking, but I still like to go for walks with her. We both love the woods, and on occasion I have even brought my hammock and Saffron and I will hang out for a bit. She's my buddy.

Cold and snow brings out the puppy in Saffron.

Frolicking in the field.

Lover of the small and defenseless, Saffron adores kids, and our cats. One in particular, Momma Moonbeam, seems to have "adopted" Saffron as one of her kittens.