Evolution of a "friendship"

Alice and Liberty have never been good friends...in fact, Liberty is scared enough of Alice that one of my fun games is to pick up Alice and wave her at Liberty to watch Liberty freak out.  Usually if Alice is by the back door, Liberty will refuse to go out and if she is by the fireplace, well...Liberty is usually found in the other room. Enter several days of cold, coinciding with all of us home on Winter Break and a nice cozy fire...and watch what happens...

Hmmm....They must be really cold to put up with each other....but wait...

 Has Liberty overcome her fear enough to stretch out a paw?!!

Oh, my goodness!  They are not only sharing the fireplace, but touching!  Crazy...But wait...

 Awww...look...it's like Liberty is hugging her...and wait for it...

Alice is ok with it....I missed the three licks Alice gave Liberty's ear because I was waiting for all you-know-what to break loose when Liberty discovered she was being touched by the cat...Stay tuned...if it stays cold, I might have adorable pictures of them actually cuddling...or a video of a 9 lb cat beating up a 110 lb dog...either way, it should be interesting!

Happy New Year!

Our pets are weird

A couple of weekends ago we had a little snow, which just supported our pets' collective weirdness.  Here is Liberty on one of her approximately five million trips out and in and out and in...

 Alice spent the day plotting everyone's deaths--see that look in her face?

 Then she took up stalking Indy and plotting how to get out of the house.

 I mean, look at these photos...does she scare all of you as much as she scares me?

 


 Indy could care less, of course...

 Today my favorite pet is this bunny...it just sits there and looks cute.

 Scary, just scary.

 Notice that Indy moved up to the couch, in a vain attempt to protect herself from that cat.








Scariest photo ever...Indy and Alice snuggling.....eeeeek!

Jealous much?

One thing we've noticed about Liberty Dog is that she doesn't tolerate attention given to others very well.  She is never mean, but she does become quite needy when the children or other pets are receiving attention...classic youngest child?  Here she is trying to climb under the blankie with Mr Ranch and the Girl...

 She just looks pathetic, doesn't she?

 The stare....








The creep...









 and in she goes...









 Cozy, right?

I don't think she would have done well when the kids were babies--although the pose above, where she is wrapped around The Girl, is very similar to how the cats used to sleep above her when she was a baby, so maybe she would have done ok after all...she probably wouldn't fit in the crib though. Or under it, either, I guess...