Animal Update!

Here's yet another summer animal update (if you remember, I did a few of those last summer).

Starting with Buddy. He was sick last week, but now he's fine. It took me a long time to get this picture of him because he kept moving or blinking right before I took the photo. I think my camera was blocking his view of Coale, who was watching behind me. He kept moving his head so he could glare at Coale, but he eventually got annoyed with me for blocking his view, so he just gave grumpy looks to the camera. So yeah, Buddy's good.

The brothers. They look identical in this picture. Well, not quite. Coale got whatever kitty flu bug Buddy had last week on Thursday. Coale recovered in a day and Nono hasn't shown any signs of it himself, so hopefully we won't have any more sick kitties for a while.

The horses are all okay. Last Wednesday, there was a fire at the stables, but no one (horses

or people) were hurt. But 4 acres were burned. Kona was very upset during the fire because it was so close to her pasture. The picture above is pretty recent. It was taken on Monday, or yesterday.  We round pinned Sedona and Kona at the same time. The Sedona was trying to bite Kona for most of it though. Wings moved away in January, and I still need to arrange a day to go visit her.

I haven't seen Teddy for a while now. I know Teddy has a new home with a student from his class (he was a class pet).  It was nice to have been able to pet-sit a class pet who could (and was willing enough too) play with our cats. Hey mom, can we get a hamster?

Handsome Buddy

The collar I wanted to get for Buddy finally was available. I got him a different color than the one I posted earlier though.

He has actually been very tolerant about wearing it. He doesn't mind collars at all. But if you put a harness on him...

"Take this thing off of me this instant or you will suffer the consequences."

Note how he is laying down in this picture. Apparently, he can't walk with the harness on or he will collapse.

Every morning, he yowls at my parent's bedroom door at seven am until they get out of bed. We are trying a new method. We put the harness on him when he starts screaming every morning. If the harness really is his kryptonite, we will get some sleep. If not, we will have successfully trained him to wear a harness.