Look who's back!

Rin (AKA Rinny)

     It's our (actually Freedom Service Dogs') big goofball gorgeous adoptable dog, Rin.  She was so glad to see me.  She really hates being at the kennel with all the noise and uproar.  She was only there a day after her other foster family brought her back after the holidays, but that was still much too long for her. 
     First thing out the back door she treed a squirrel.  How will I ever get her to "leave it" with squirrels when they always run right under her nose.  So tempting.
     We got a nice walk done today because cold and snow return tonight and tomorrow.  She'll get a moderate walk, maybe, but that's it, in the snowstorm.  Tomorrow we'll see how it works hooking her out front on a long lead while I try scooping snow.  It could be entertaining in a Laurel and Hardy slapstick kind of way.

     I read an interesting health article in Medical News Today.  Research shows that regular exercise changes the workings and structure of our brains.  Physical exercise increases connections in grey matter and in the prefrontal cortex, and improves the brain's executive functions, which includes inhibitory control.  This helps us resist the many temptations found in a society where hypercaloric food is more and more omnipresent.  Exercise also makes the brain more sensitive to fullness.  In the short term, physical exercise affects metabolism, in the long term it affects behavior. 
     http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238191.php
     I'll keep this in mind for the next holiday trip.  Maybe instead of planning to exercise once in 4 days, I will exercise every other day at a minimum.  The temptations were really getting to me by the time the holiday ended.
     This is actually really good news.  I am currently reading a book about weight and health that makes it sound hopeless.  I will write about it later after I complete it.  Maybe there will be an uplifting ending?