Solar Pup in Fall

I've mentioned before that Lilah is solar powered, and so in a continuation of that thought: I think Lilah suffers from SAD or seasonal affective disorder.

As fall arrives and blankets the world in a layer of dead leaves in hues of orange, red and yellow, the sun all of a sudden gets lazy and doesn't shine nearly as bright or as long as it did during those wonderful days of summer. And this really messes up some people. Or dogs, like Lilah.

This is what Lilah does during a typical sunny morning:
Praying at the altar of the sun.

Then she's all charged for a full day of playing and naughtiness.

However when it's the slightest bit overcast (and not raining like last week's premature winter weather), she just lies around and sleeps. Like full on sleeping so deeply that i can put my face in her face and she won't even open her eyes. So lethargic. Almost like she's a poster dog for one of those Cymbalta commercials (really just the first 20 seconds).


I admit it's kind of nice, that peace. Except it's eerie and unfamiliar. Every time she does that, sleeps a lot, I start to worry that she's ill internally or seriously depressed or something. How sad that a quiet and resting dog is something so rare to me that I worry she's suffering from something.