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[Juniper]

I was minding my own business, and as you know all of these things get started that way. I heard my daughter yell: "Mom! Maya's on the ROOF!"

No way, I thought. Then again, I thought, she was pretty handy with the agility ramps at the shelter we got her from. I dashed upstairs to see.

Hubby dear was on the roof himself, cleaning out the gutters. He heard footsteps and turned around to see a certain mid-size curly-tailed dog scampering about on the shingles, grinning her doggy grin.

She'd gone right up the ladder.

Unfortunately, dogs are not as good at going *down* ladders as they are at going up. She trotted back and forth for a few minutes, assessing whether or not she could afford to jump off the roof of the solarium.



It was a bit too far up, though. So she walked over to hubby, who was on the ladder and trying to figure out how to get her to walk back down.



Fortunately she is only 35 pounds, so he was able to grab her and carry her down, much as a fireman would rescue a child from a burning building. My HERO!

After she was set down on the ground, our 100-pound German Shepherd proceeded to tell her off - growling and baring his teeth, chasing her, as if to say: HEY, you gave us quite a scare, you little nitwit! Don't you ever do that again!