3 Dogs 2 Cats

I'm house sitting looking after these guys:


Jake and Shilo



Louie or Gucci experiencing the containing joy of my travel bag



Gucci or Louie



Molly

Louie and Gucci are probably Colour-point Longhairs/ Himilayans, the lighter of the two is quite vocal but the darker one is happy just to sit about anywhere, and is pretty chilled out. They are beautiful and have very sweet natures, I like cats like these, they enjoy company. They love to get in the way and if they can place themselves underneath my feet when I'm walking then that's primo.

Molly is a Chihuahua of course, buts she's not a silly little dog, she probably has the most brains out of the dogs and she generally follows me around like a shadow with the optimism that whatever I'm doing may result in some kibble somehow for her. Sometimes it does, for example cooking processes often yield some crumbs on the floor that she helpfully cleans up.  Except when I'm feeding everyone else, Molly races round getting the in way. Sometimes if she hears Jake or Shilo barking, which isn't often, she will start barking, and I'm not sure if she knows it's just the outside dogs but they chatter like this for a bit.
Molly and the cats get on well.

Jake is a Mastiff, he's massive and has a huge head. He's quite dim and likes to dribble and lean on people. I think Shilo is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Shilo is attentive and will look quizzically and quite cute, but sometimes she beats Jake up even though he's more than twice her size, he just seems to put up with it.

For Christmas day I had been invited to Lorraine's - Dolf's sister in law, to join them in Hamilton for Christmas. It's not too far to go in a day from Auckland, I took a box of Cherries for Lorraine I had bought from a farm shop on the way to Auckland and my swimming togs for a dip in the pool after lunch.

Apres Christmas lunch activity!

After a delicious Christmas dinner most of the party had a nap, or read a book. I read my book and had a swim. I couldn't stay too late as I had the animals to feed and they are used to eating between certain times, but a little bit late was ok. Kylie said they has Netflicks so after feeding time I thought I'd watch a film but the only films available on their accounts were namby pamby teen films which I wasn't interested in, but they did have some decent films in their household DVD collection amongst all the kiddy stuff.


Ellerslie Race Track

On Boxing Day I had a walk around the locality, which is just suburbia with some local parks which are mainly playing fields and not the sort of leafy tranquil parks I wanted to walk around, but there is a horse racing track nearby and there were some races on, so I walked over and watched some horses run around in circles and then went back to find where the dogs leads and toys were hidden. Again, these dogs don't seem to get regular walks, which is disappointing, I wanted to give the dogs some fun activities to do. I did find an old harness for Molly so I took her out at least. Some more films from the collection that evening, a relaxing day.

Well it's feeding time at the zoo again, so I'd better leave it there.