In the five months that our little beagle sisters, Liza and Lorna, have lived with us, we’ve taken them on a number of short trips, either for the day or overnight, with varying degrees of success.
They’ve stayed on the 14th floor of a nice hotel in Minneapolis, and they’ve spent the night in my aunt’s third-floor apartment in Rhinelander. They’ve attended an outdoor wedding in Wisconsin Dells. They’ve almost been to Copper Falls. And they’ve been paddle boarding.
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