Tuesday, June 06, 2006 , early evening

Blockhead

The cats have two vinyl “cubes” they like to play in.  The cubes are sort of like square tents, with holes in the sides to allow cats to run and hide and pounce.  The cubes also make fun “rustling” noises, which cats seem to approve of.  The other benefit of the cubes is that they’re roomy enough to allow me to hide cat toys inside them at night.  Eli the German shepherd just loves to ingest cat toys (it makes her poop festive!), so every evening I go around the house and pick up all the little balls and furry things I can find, and hide them inside a cube.

A couple of weeks ago I guess I hid the toys, but then failed to put the cubes away in a little corner the dog couldn’t reach.  I was downstairs and I heard a loud thumping sound from upstairs, and I worried for a minute that Eli had stumbled on the stairs and I went to check on her.  Well, she hadn’t stumbled, per se, but she’d stuck her head in a cube in an effort to steal toys, and she became stuck.  The noise I heard was her trying to walk down the stairs with the cube on her head, as the cube banged against the metal railing the entire way.  I’ll have to be extra-diligent about hiding the trash, as I’m sure she could become the first German shepherd to get her head stuck in a yogurt container.

Here’s a photo of Eli and Dante, taken today while they were outside helping me take pictures of the kestrel.  Dante is still losing his winter coat and it’s constantly snowing in the house (no matter how often I brush him):

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Posted by Leigh-Ann on 06/06 at 06:33 PM
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