Two hours of dogsitting and I’m going to need to nap for a week.
pets
how to make your cat hate you even more than it already does
Seriously, that woman is dead the second she lets the cat out of that thing, right?
my first granddog
Anna’s adoption of this little girl went through yesterday. Look at those dark eyes! Look at that tiny nose! Look at those little bear paws! She is so adorable I can barely stand it.
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Introducing Glen:
After a couple days of brainstorming names and another couple days of debating them, the top two contenders were Graham and Nathan. And then I suggested Glen. Oh. Glen. We were all instantly sold, except Foster, who is still calling him Nathan. He’ll come around. Or he won’t and the poor dog will never really know what his name is.
Glen seems to be settling in well and is having a ball with Mia, who also seems happy to have someone to do dog-type things with (butt-sniffing, running in circles, pleading to stay indoors) and doesn’t smack her on the head for no reason, like Murray the bully cat. For his part, Murray seems pleased to sit back whenever Mia and Glen are horsing around and watch the show. It’s a good deal all around. Meanwhile, the sole surviving fish is thinking, uh, hello, still swimming all alone over here.
To give the young lovebirdsdogs a special place of their own, I bought a nice, plush cat bed yesterday and look:
Tandem snoozers.
our new addition
Please welcome _________________, our as yet unnamed addition to the family:
He came to live with us yesterday, which was also his six-month birthday, and quickly learned we take a lot of photos here.
I don’t think he minds, though. Especially since he is the mellowest dog ever. So far he has spent 90% of his time with us contentedly riding around in someone’s arms.
He’s spent the remaining 10% of his time romping around after Murray and Mia, who are at last united in their distrust of the cute new arrival.
He came with the name Ben, which we really liked at first and thought we’d go with, but by last night we were all wavering on whether he really seemed like a Ben, after all. The girls and I are partial to Graham (with the added benefit that his nickname could be graham cracker, natch) and the menfolk are partial to Nathan or Nate, for short. Other names in the running are Owen, Joel and Wes. It’s a tough call. Any votes? Any other recommendations?