I would just like to start my blog today by saying that one of my lovely girlfriends is off to Australia today and I'm so jealous I could kill her. No not really, well kind of. Anyways I think it will be an amazing journey and an incredible learning experience for her! Not to mention a great vacation! She is my reason for wanting to learn to skype because I can't wait to hear from her and hear about how amazing it is there. I hope she travels safely and I hope that this is everything she hoped it would be and more!
This morning has been quite a morning in our house and Adam joked that I should blog about how difficult our pets are, so I'm going to take him up on that. First things first, I love my pets.... all my pets. They are beautiful, hilarious, and definitely a big part of my life right now. With that, there are multiple occasions per day that I consider throwing them right out the window! (we live on the second floor of an old school on a busy highway... I hope they read this and it makes them smarten the hell up).
I will talk about them in order of their age which is also the order in which we got them conveniently. If you refer to my 'my story' page, the header includes a picture of each of them so you can put a face to the little terrorists!
Milo- Milo is a large, male, orange and white tabby cat. Enough said really. I had a client once tell me (just a few days after getting him) that 'all orange tabbys are cute and bad' ... wow was she right! Anyways we adopted Milo from the OSPCA in July and he moved into our first apartment with us in Goderich. He was the cutest little kitten and just adored to be snuggled. And he doesn't meow, he coos... which used to be cute... Anyways so as you know Goderich was hit by a tornado in August and my poor little Milo was home ALL ALONE. So we will always feel bad about making him live through that by himself (even though he has no idea what happened and slept through the entire thing!). Milos most extremely annoying behaviour is his obsession with water. Yes, water. Yes he IS a cat. Whenever there is water in the water dishes, he finds it necessary to move the dish around, step into it, play in it, and move the water around with his paws. AND he always makes sure that he gets EVERY single drop of water from the dish onto the floor. So when you come to our house bring a few extra pairs of socks because this is a daily occurance. Not to mention the fact that Milo is significantly larger than our other cat and always just moves him out of the way of the dish so poor Rozzy never gets a drink!
Roz- Aka Rozzy. He is our tiny little grey/brown/black tabby. We're pretty sure he is a girl with testicles. We don't think he was weaned from his mother because he likes to suck on blankets all the time, which is actually cute until you go to snuggle up with the blanket and its soaking wet. Anyways, Rozzy doesn't meow, he growls... he looks like he's meowing but this small pathetic little growly noise comes out of him. Hilarious, unless its in your ear at night!. Roz is a very hard headed snuggler.. literally.. he comes at you and BAM he's in your face growling and wants to be snuggled. Pretty cute I must say. So my pet peeve.. (ha ha ha)... about Roz is that he is by far the biggest instigator in the whole world! He constantly provokes the dog when its time to sleep, or gets up on the counter when you're trying to cook something (which then of course provokes the dog), gets into the dog crate when she's out, (you get the picture...). Roz is also THE WORST food begger in the whole world. And to make it worse he eats with his paws (bizarre, you should see it), so when you're eating no matter how fast you are or how well you're paying attention, those little paws get in and grab whatever they can! Poor company! Roz also really enjoys making as much noise as he can while you are trying to sleep! He knocks whatever he can off the dressers or the counter... climbs on whatever pieces of furniture he can to 'see the shadows going by'...gets under the blanket that covers the dog crate to try and wake the dog up.. just ridiculous!
Ava- Ava is a 20lb rottweiler puppy (1/4 lab). She is just over 10 weeks and I`d say the bad is more than the good so far... but we love her. She barks at the cats if they are up higher than her... she grabs the cats by their scruff and runs around with them.. she CHEWS everything! Yesterday she managed to get a huge pile of stuffing out of our boxspring. She will sneak up to my ugg boots, look around, and then grab one and run like hell. She chewed my laptop cord which almost made me not be able to blog! Thank the lord for Adams computer! She won`t walk on the leash, she eats whatever she can find outside (stones, salt, leaves). She chews on the couch. She bites your ankles or your calves as you try and walk. If she doesn`t feel like going to the bathroom outside she just lays down and won`t budge... so you carry her to her normal spots, still nothing. So finally you give in because you`re freezing and people are staring. And 5 minutes later she poops on the floor! How exhausting. Oh and of course she tries to eat the cat litter! But she is doing extremely well at the housetraining thing, she doesn`t seem to mind being in her crate and she usually sleeps for about 8 hours at night so I`m a pretty happy parent. Definitely looking forward to puppy peer group on monday.
In the end, I love my pets. A couple nights after we got Ava and Milo was still hiding under the bed and ignoring us, I decided that after a bottle of wine I would have a heart to heart with him telling him that we loved him and he would always be our first born blah blah blah.. I actually ended up in tears (he fell asleep). Needless to say I haven`t had any wine since... but he has come out of hiding and become his affectionate old self again so I`m going to believe he understood me! Adam thinks I`m crazy....
there goes my boots! gotta run!
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