This picture of Pepper really shows her "blue-black" color, with tan eyebrow and beard accents. And few distinguished gray hairs creeping in around the muzzle. Her eyes, nose and ears are so incredibly sharp. She lives in a world that I can only imagine!

When she gets a good fix on a mousie, she "points" with a front paw... I think she does that to communicate to other dogs, and to me, what's going on - so I don't come bumbling over and ruin her stalking?

She loves to stalk out in the dry leaves. I could have never let her enjoy this when we lived in rattlesnake country! No poisonous snakes here, thankfully.