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Pussy scandal!

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Still one of my fave Photochop jobs Tom’s done. Worth a revisit!

Wild Bunny 024

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Even though we live in the city there is a lot of country here, at least in the wildlife. We have skunks that like to nest around here (pew!), ducks living in the pond and a few bunnies that have apparently made more bunnies (how unlike them!) This whole area not that many years ago I suppose was farmland and very rural. People bitch about these little critters but really, who is living on whose land? I say let em be.

I happened to catch one of the offspring chewing on some tasty green grass by the edge of the garden on the side street by our building and though he kept a very careful eye on me, he/she (?) let me take some pictures. There are some funky bunnies out there, one looks like it had some domestic bunny in the lineage somewhere. I’ve yet to get a picture of him.

I’m a lot more conscious of driving out of the parking garage now, I don’t want to be responsible for squishing any of these cuties. They melt me!

Had a puppy fix tonight visiting the local store. I snapped a couple of pictures of the chi-hooey-hooey puppies in the window before the employees told me I wasn’t allowed to take pictures. Um why? Hardly a matter of national security. Ah well. Bygones.

The funny part was the dark puppy was fascinated by my camera much to the amusement of the others watching the window puppies with me. Every time it would appear he would leap backwards and then come bounding towards me all playful like. If it was just me up against the window he could come up and try to lick the glass.

Sigh, I want a puppy.

I’m really leaning towards a Jack Russell when I finally get to have my puppy, but I do have a soft spot for Chihuahuas (though only the non-nervous ones), just from how goofy they look. One way or another, whatever breed I do end up picking, I will end up with some kind of high maintenance critter cos that is what I naturally attract. No point in fighting it. It is my destiny.

I love how animals who are up to no good will not look you in the eye. They are no different than people in that respect but they do differ (other than my kids when they were small) with the conviction that if they don’t look directly at you they are rendered invisible.

Cinny also believe that she is extra invisible if she avoids direct eye contact AND moves with with glacier speed. She hears the word NOOOO and poof the magic happens, her little wedge head slinks down low she stares at a spot somewhere directly where she wants go to and a paw will ever so slowly tap outwards. Another NOOOOO will cause her pause slightly, adjust her cloaking device and proceed once again.

Once her concentration is broken she will look all exasperated and then chew you out in no uncertain terms about how she totally would have gotten away with it had you just shut the hell up. What she doesn’t get is that is the entire point.

She also believes that ever single open door hides the entrance to a magical place. This is particularly the case for oh.. say the walk in closet where cats have been known to disappear for hours stressing our their people or you know, the main condo hallway. In this case she kicks into hyper-drive and watches as all the doorways blur out behind her and she streaks by. What is particularly funny in this case is watching Tom run after her.

I’ve always had a cat that liked to pull a Houdini, I’m kind of cursed that way. Cinny, if she can’t hide anywhere good like a closet or under the mound of crap the Boys have will use our laundry hamper. The thing that is usually surrounded by laundry rather than actually in it. Yeah.

A few times we’ve done the “Oh no did Cinny escape through our legs when walking in the front door” search and came wise to this hiding place. Now it is one of the first places we look when she mysteriously vanishes. I’ve probably posted this video before, but it remains one of my favourites.

Today I went out for my daily umm walk and while I was standing minding my own business on the sidewalk a CROW came at me from behind, swooped, twisted it’s little talons in my hair and YANK pulled a few strands loose and flew up to the lamp post across the street.  My hair was in a pony tail so not only did it hurt from the roots but also cos he/she pulled hair that was trapped in a elastic.

To make it even worse he/she decided that the hair they got wasn’t enough and came in for another pass. I started hollering waving my hand and capering about and it did a full circle and landed back on the lamp post screaming at me. Man that freaked me out!

I double timed it back to the safety of my condo and not until I got back in did I think about what I must have looked like to any casual observer and started to laugh HARD. I’m telling ya as I’m typing this I’m still laughing. Oh to have a camera on you at all times, how many things one could post to have people laugh at their own expense!