Gussy received this stuffed sheep from my sister’s friends on Thanksgiving.  He absolutely loves it and by the next day he had chewed part of the face off  (covered by his ear in this photo) which I sewed up last night as we sat in bed and watched Xena: Warrior Princess.  Also, you can’t see it but he’s also eaten off several of the white tendrils.  He has yet to make it squeak on his own, which is going to keep him busy for many, many hours.  He just bites …

Integration with Household Pets and Other Animals

For those of you with feline friends, you should know that puppies are ridiculously uncoordinated and wiggly, but still manage to make cats believe they can and will murder them. We have three (very bad) cats, as I have mentioned before. Gus loves them and he looks forward to one day curling up with them to sleep and cuddle and talk about the best places to sit to block our view of the television when we are trying to watch who just …

Since I’ve been laid up, there hasn’t been a whole lot to do other than to make Janie angry by threatening to clean out her nightstand drawer where she hoards things like medication, nuts and writing implements.  I dug around in there and found our Flip camcorder and we spent several minutes Thursday night watching old videos of Gus when he was just a tiny guy, way back before we had to chase him down the hall to extract that giant piece of cat shit from his mouth.  Here’s one …

Gussy loves the beach ball we bought him last weekend. He chases it around the house, pounces on it and when it gets stuck in a corner, bites at it until he gets a good grip and carries it back into the living room where it deflates. This beach ball now has roughly 14 duct tape patches.