Life has changed but life is good!! My family has moved to a new house! Not too far from our old house but a lot closer to the dog park! Woot woot! Sadly, not all of us made the move. My brother Dot, if you have read my previous blog posts you know who he is, didn't make the move with us. He was killed. By a coyote. No we do not live in the country, we live in a city but we had coyotes in our old neighborhood a lot. We were close to the riverbed and an ecological reserve. The coyotes come up from those areas into the neighborhoods looking for food. Most cats and some SMALL DOGS! Yikes! I didn't wander around alone at night so I was pretty safe. But our Dottie was not so lucky : ( We all miss him so much! Everyone tried to keep him in at night. I talked to him about it and so did Lincoln! But he wouldn't listen. He loved the outdoors and loved to go roaming around at night catching treats. He would regularly drag home his prey, rats, mice, birds and lizards for everyone to come out and OOOhh and AAhh over. If he couldn't get out he would make ungodly noises so no one could sleep and usually got his way. He was such a warrior, everyone just hoped he would be safe. He was fast and muscular. But I guess he used up his 9 lives. ( Did you know cats have 9 lives? What about us dogs? Who can I talk to about that? ) Anyway, Dot got out and well, you know what happened. We only found out about it because his jaw bone and one leg and a lot of white fur were left behind and Dottie never came back so we knew it was him. The house felt very lonely without him for a good while and we all still miss him a lot. Especially Moose. He had a little bit of a breakdown and stopped using the litter box for awhile he was so upset!!! Well our new house it not so close to where the coyotes hang out and we haven't seen any and there are a lot of cats in this neighborhood so it is a good sign : )
We just added a new family member a few weeks ago. Mom and Dad said they didn't want to get another cat but well, another cat kind of just happened. Dad and Little Boy were out one night kind of late getting their Del Taco on when this tiny kitten ran in front of their car and into the bushes outside of a business. They came home and told Middle Boy and Mom and they went out to try and find it even though it was late. Middle Boy has a huge heart and couldn't bear to leave the kitten out there alone. So he talked Mom into helping him and they managed to get the kitty out, it took them about an hour and a 1/2 and they got rousted by the cops but they got the kitten. Poor little thing was starving and full of fleas but pretty sweet. He has funny eyes. Oh I mean she!!!!! Mom is the only girl in the house out of 7 of us boys but not anymore. Now we have a little girl. She is fun and runs all around. Sometimes we scare her and she stands all funny and her hair on her tail stands straight out. She really isn't scary when she does that but I have learned the hard way that she has very sharp claws. She scratched me once and I growled at her. I think I won't scare her anymore because Mom and everyone sided with the kitty!!
Our cousin Monty, an English Bulldog who lives in Oceanside with Mom's Sister, passed away too. He died a couple of years ago. I will never forget it. Mom's Sister called her on the phone to tell her and Mom just cried and cried. We all did when we found out. But Mom did the most. I think she cried for Monty and for her sister because she was so, so sad. Monty was a peculiar guy but we all loved him. He hated to go on walks, can you imagine???!! But it's true! Mom's Sister said she would get the leash out and Monty would run and hide. Crazy! But if there was going to be a ride in the car he was all in. Loved to ride around in the car! Mom's Sister had portraits taken of Monty too, lots of them. He had his own calendar even, I saw it myself! Monty drowned in his own pool. I won't go into the details but he slipped in and couldn't get out and his Momma had gone out. She found him when she got home. Bulldogs cannot swim I found out, because their legs are too short and their heads are too big : ( I can swim and so can Lincoln. I don't like it but I can. Lincoln doesn't like it either. The cats can swim too but they don't like to either!
Well I think this is enough for today but I will try to get back soon as there is more to tell about my life. Stay tuned!
