Welcome chkndaddy, just north of the border from you.My Welsummer "George" came after me once. I was working on the water and saw him jump at me through the corner of my eye and reached and grabbed him by the neck. We had a talk, he never did it again.
Been cold here in Siskiyou county.
I hear ya on the cold. Pipe had burst in the greenhouse this morning when I went out to feed the chickens in it. Yet another project.
I could only think of egg bound when you described it. 