Black and White Sunday

 

 

A New Style

Hello everyone! The fish tanks have been going well. The 29 gallon is halfway through cycling and I think the 10 gallon is now cycled. Not much other news with those.

Woody also went to the vet two days ago and Cherry goes Monday. The lump on Woody's leg is nothing to worry about right now. They want us to just watch it and bring him in when it's bigger so they can stick a needle in it and see what comes out. Cherry is just going in for a check up.

But today Woody's new collar came. I ordered it from Hilltop Leather. It is beautiful!

He thought I was asking him to do his 'stand' trick.

 

 Now in other news we've had some more kittens around. Yesterday I was looking out the window and saw a black thing at the bottom of the field. I figured I'd go check it out and turns out it was a kitten! That one ran off a little ways and a little tabby one came out. They were older kittens, but still kittens. I got within two feet of the tabby before it started walking off. I (stupidly) decided to run back inside to get some treats and the cat carrier and when I got back they were both gone. We searched until it got dark, but we couldn't find them. The area they were in is full of tangled trees, vines, and prickers. It was not fun looking in that. I'm hoping they'll be back around so I can catch them. I don't think they're anyone's pets and I think they were dumped. There's been quite a few older kittens roaming around, but these are the first to not bolt when they saw me (the black one ran initially, but stayed and watched).

Adventures and Tricks

Well, Woody and I have been off exploring quite a bit, but I only got pictures one of the days. I meant to get more pictures Saturday, but I was half way down the road when I realized I left the SD card in my laptop.

This is my favorite. I was trying to get a picture of the bridge and he had other ideas.

There have been some other new things though. I've been working on clicker training Woody for maybe a year or two now. It hasn't been regular training by any means, but he has picked up some new tricks. So far his list of tricks is:

• Sit (which he was learning before we got him)
• Down (I taught this)
• Stay 
• Come
• Back Up (he picked this up on his own)
• Stand (one of our employees has been teaching it for a while, so he picked up the hand signal quickly)
• Go inside/Go in the house (I drop the leash and he'll run up the steps and wait at the door)

A lot of these aren't totally foolproof. We've got a lot of work to do with training outside, but I'm really happy with this for now.

He was a bit excited about the cheese I was using for treats, so this isn't his best performance.

Right now we've started working on 'crawl'. He's also picking that up quickly. We also plan on teaching 'spin' and 'target'.

And last bit of news with him is that I ordered him a new collar. This one is a leather one from Hilltop Leather. It's going to have red padding. I can't wait till it comes!

I also figure I should update you on the fish situation. Bloo and Orange have died. I really don't know what happened, but I'm assuming the cycling process finally got to them. Yellow seems to be doing alright and I think the tank is just about cycled. Some days it seems perfect and other days it's not. I also had baby snails in my 29 gallon. They were in the plants and hatched a little while ago. So far I have moved 17 to the 10 gallon and I think there's a few more in the 29. At this point I am sick of transferring them, so those ones are on their own.

And I finally got pure ammonia for cycling the 29 gallon. I started that yesterday. Hopefully it goes well!