My Odd Labrador

Susie is scared to walk on smooth surfaces. In a house with hardwood floors, this means lots of hopping from rug to rug, crawling under the bed to avoid the stretch of floor at the foot of it, watching wistfully from rug territory as the rest of the family congregates a bare expanse of floor away, and infrequent wild scrambles across the wood. When we had a thick layer of ice over snow some weeks ago, she wouldn't go out back and I had to lay towels down to make a "runway" out to the front yard.