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Well it seems now that the craziness of the holidays is done and My husband, the birds, dogs and myself are slowly relaxing back into our normal routines. As I promised, I have gotten some pictures of my sisters critters. Well all but the lizard whom I totally forgot to take a picture of.


This is Rocky, my sisters Sheperd/Collie mix. He is a pretty quiet dog, doesn't cause a lot of trouble unless he is trying to push me off the bed, which he tried only once during my stay.

This is Angel, the younger of the two cats. (Under a year old I think) She was the cat my dog Gunnar was most interested in during our visit. She liked to run and has a bell on her collar with just seemed to encourage Gunnar into bouncing up behind her constantly. By the time we left he was very well acquainted with her needle sharp claws.

This is Raven, an older cat who is blind in one eye. She had a pretty bad upper respiratory infection last week. She should be seeing the vet sometime today or tomorrow. I am sure that she will be feeling better after a nice round of antibiotics. I felt so bad for her, she was sneezing and coughing quite a bit while I was there. Gunnar left her alone for the most part, though he was introduced to her "pointy ends" a few times.

This is my sisters Cockatiel. I have asked her and the kids the poor birds name and people just look at me funny so I have officially named her Sweetie. Sweetie is just that, a sweet and pretty chipper little tiel. She sang a lot to me, and we whistled to each other back and forth. She isn't hand tame and with two cats lurking around I didn't want to take her out of the cage so we just stuck to whistling and I think she had a pretty good time.

Gunnar and Rocky had a great time together. They loved running around outside together and chasing one another around the pool. It was nice to see Rocky let loose. I always worry about him, not having another dog to play with.

Here the two of them are watching the yard. A few squirrels were playing up in a tree and some twigs were dropping catching their attention.

The two boys had quite a bit of fun while we were all together. It was pretty neat to watch them.

Sister's Pets

My sister doesn't have as many critters as I do, she just has different critters mostly. For instance I don't have cats, my sister does, two of them in fact along with a dog, a cockatiel and some sort of lizard whose name sounds like something out of some post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller.

When I decided to come up and help take care of her critters for the week I brought one of my dogs with me. The reason for this is that I am a nervous person, being alone in an unfamiliar place tends to exacerbate that little personality flaw, so I bring the dog because he looks like he could eat any would be intruders. The fact that both her dog and mine are about as ferocious as a pair of guppies is besides the point.

Now being that I don't have cats, my dog is not used to them and pretty much has no clue what they are other then, they are fast, and have 5 pointy ends. He has been introduced to each pointy part of 2 cats very thoroughly and still goes back for another sniff.

So last night I am all curled up in bed, two dogs curled up on the floor "protecting" me and all is right and safe in the world. As I sleep I hear this noise that sounds almost like a growl. I shake it off, ignoring it being only half awake I figure it's my imagination and fall back asleep. Another growl, this one much louder wakes me up. I stare at the clock (4:12 am) wondering if I am hearing things or if someone has broken into the house. Another growl, louder and more urgent. I sit up and scan the room, it's dark but there is some light and I see my dog staring at the bed and growling.

Ooook, there is something on the bed...other then me...that he doesn't think is supposed to be there... I pull my feet up and start to scramble out of the bed, all the time thinking of things that could possibly be in the bed that would alert the dog. (Giant spider, rat, dismembered mutant zombie hand...) Then I here the "tinkle tinkle" of a cat bell and my sisters kitten, Angel, peeks her head out of the mound of blankets.

Apparently Gunnar thought I was going to be the next victim of the pointy ends of the kitty. :3

New Year

Hello again everyone. I hope your holidays were festive and you have come into this new year with a smile and all the hopes of making this year better then the last.

As you can probably tell, from my lack of posts, I took a little time off from blogging. I had so much going on and running around that I just had to cut something and this time it was the blog. But never fear, I am back now and will be blogging away about the critters in no time.

Right now I am at my sisters taking care of all her critters while she and her extended family are out searching for snow. ;) Being a resident of Florida we don't see much if any of that down here so if one is so inclined to find snow the must hunt for it. From the messages sent down from the great north, by carrier pigeon, it seems she has found some and has been promptly snowed into place. Makes me happy that I do not miss snow. ;)

I made the unfortunate mistake of leaving my camera in the car, so I will have to wait on pictures of my week long charges, but I will get some, and I will post them.