Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Dog weights

The first, most impressive time (with O'Ryan), the scale must not have been correct. This week Odie weighed 118.3 and Stampy weighed 121.7.

More dog park photos by mom





Mom's Photos of Stampy at the Dog Park





Saturday, December 29, 2007

Christmas continued




Kappa loves dad. Everyone is having a good time.

Very merry Christmas




Here are some of the photo highlights:

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Unusual activities in the house

The cats have been playing a seires of increasingly unusual games. A few days ago, Poppy was sitting on the edge of the table, Stampy walked up to her, and Poppy started chewing on his eyebrow. Not licking, chewing.
The box that Judith sent us continues to be a source of many games.
Poppy has also started chasing her tail, and being that she's a cat, catching it and then proceeding to kill it. It gets all fuzzy on the end.
She has also continued the "leap onto the leg" game, which early in the morning and late at night can provide quite the adrenalin rush.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Games Stampy might play

Dave has been thinking of funny games that Stampy might be involved in. Here's two.


chirade questions (Stampy always has to be the actor) Stampy hungry, Stampy lonely, Stampy wants to play, Stampy wants to go for walk, Stampy not know what Stampy wants, repeat...


Stampoply would go something like this:
You just got away with sleeping on the bed: Bad Dog! Collect 10 Stampions
You got caught sleeping on the bed: Bad Dog! Pay 10 Stampions
You played nicely with Piani: Good Dog! Collect 10 Stampions
Go to Dog Park: collect 10 Stampions
You got chased by a chijuajua: Pay 20 Stampions

Last night we added:
You can't get comfortable on your dog bed: Pay 10 Stampions

Sunday, November 25, 2007

More photos




And ages:

Mercury - 13 (14 in January)

Odin - 8 (9 next June)

Willig - 6 (7 next April)

Kappa - 4 (5 next year)

Peony - <1

Poppy - <1

It's hard to see, but there's a cat face in the lower left circle, and a cat tail sticking out of the Cosmic Pet Shuttle.

Family Photos




Yesterday Stampy snuck into the bedroom and slept on the bed while I was sitting in front of the fire. He pretended to be in a coma.
The kittens are loving playing the "Cosmic Pet Shuttle" which I think is hilarious becuase it has a cat head riding in a spacecraft with its tail in a separate bubble - I think it's so hilarious I might take a picture of it. It's a little weird, since it is what took them to be spayed.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Worms B' Gone!

Today all three cats got wormed, with Dave's assistance. They all hated it, but only Kappa scratched me. That wormer must taste terrible.
The kittens are back to full-on playing. The vet said give them 7 days of rest, but there is no way they could rest. Kappa really missed them when they were out for the big (internal) snip. They really like to chew on things, carry things in their mouths, and tear stuff up - just like dogs.
Stampy is getting full of himself. Dave thinks it's because he's getting so much attention and is so much bigger than the other dogs at the dog park. The other day, I saw him sitting on the spare bed in the bedroom. Then tonight, when I was vacuuming, he faked being scared of the vacuum, jumped on my bed, and then nestled his head down and went to sleep, while I kept vacumming. I let him stay up there because it was so clever.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Bruiser is Stampy's new name



As well as Stampedeous. Odin is going by Odiferous.

We finally went to the unofficial dog park in Lacey today. The boys loved it, and I am so glad we found it because we'll be regulars. But Stampy got excited and ran into me and knocked me down. I think my leg is going to bruise. For a few seconds, he stood in the field and looked majestic. Then he started moving again and looked like himself.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Kappa is funny



He seems to be adapating pretty well to life in the house.

He has this funny way of sitting - this morning was the second time I've seen him do it.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Return of Kappa

I noticed I hadn't seen Kappa the past week or so, but didn't think much of it since he's a pretty solitary guy. But today I had a call from animal services. He actually showed up there on the 24th (almost two weeks ago), and they missed his microchip when they scanned him. Today he was about to be adopted out to a new home, and they found the microchip.
I went in and picked him up, and moved him into the old dog room. He can walk around the house, but the gate blocks the dogs out (theoretically). I hope he doesn't spray all over the house. I put the cat aromatherapy stuff in there. The kittens are pretty interested in him, but he is just interested in looking outside. He seems to pretty much hate dogs.
With good reason - today we went to the barn (to give Kappa some space, to get Stampy some exercise on non-paved ground, to visit Mercury who is neglected yet another week), and Stampy rolled in something disgusting, and now he reeks and I don't have time to bathe him until the weekend. Dogs are so gross.

Sunday, October 07, 2007

Stampy



I accidentally cut one of his toenails too short today, thus sparing him and Odin the agony of a bath. I felt horrible and it bled a lot, so here he is before, blissfully unaware of the horror about to befall him, and after, with a "sock" I made for him so he wouldn't bleed all over the house. (He bled all over me and two papertowels and himself and his ugly chair.)
He has forgiven me though, and is sitting either loyally or clingily (depending your point of view) by my side once again.

Peony and Poppy are curious


It is easy to misspell Poppy as Poopy.


I don't know how to make the pictures turn right way up.