the chicken

Paw Guns and Dancing Kitties

The feline equivalent of Handguns and Dancing Girls. This is what I will come home to. Chicken is running wild. There are no dogs in the house. Not even one.

Sadly there is not me either.

Cooch had to go back to the kennels. Patch is staying with Brookes mum and her 2 staffys and greyhound Louise. I am staying at my mums.

I would have taken Patch with me but mum doesn't have a fenced yard. I would also have liked to take Chicken, but as you can see, he has taken over the dogs beds and is quite happy...

I am still adopting Patch, I am just having a meltdown and needed to get away for a few days. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Now all I want is to go home and have Chicken and Patch there to make me feel better. They are the best therapy in the world, and right when I need them most I haven't got them. Life sux sometimes.

No doubt Patch is having a ball, when I dropped her off Louise was so excited to see her, they ran like idiots up and down the back yard before settling down to collect toys. I know she is being really well looked after and I can't thank Chris enough for taking her at such short notice. Really couldn't face putting her in kennels. I'd like to think she is missing me.... I certainly miss her. Will go and visit her and maybe that will make things look brighter.

The Fairie Princess

My little Patch Princess. It's hard work being so cute... I thought her tail was going to drop off today, she wagged it so much. Today's the day the greyhounds have their pic-nic... It was the GAP Christmas Party. So many greys in one place!

We had a lovely day, got to catch up with a few of our previous fosters. Jeb, who was our first ever foster dog, such a lovely boy. Peaches, Chicken arch nemesis... CeeJay, was cool to see Mr Waggy Tail settled into a loving new forever home. I was impressed that he got excited to see me too. He was slightly less impressed to see Patch again. Patch just loves everyone, including the Dachshund that Peach is residing with.

It wasn't just the dogs who dressed for the occasion. Tamale and Katy turned out for the look alike competition in fine style

"Look, the rest of the cows have found their way home!"

Beautiful sunny Queensland weather made for a spectacular day out, for both dogs and owners. It was a tiring day for my two, they flopped in the car on the way home and practically had to be carried to bed when they got home.

I imagine they will stay right about there for quite some time!

While I spent the day with the dogs, Chicken felt a bit left out. He slept on the clown costume I had considered putting Cooch in, possibly in the hope he could wear it and go with us.

That cat is itching for a fight with these dogs, he has lost the plot since Norm barked at him. The gloves are off, the claws are out. He even sleeps with one eye open and claws at the ready..

Evil Cat!

Cooch is on a good behaviour bond. If he doesn't stop attempting the chase The Chicken he will have to go back to the kennels. I don't want to have to send him back, we are working on getting him to leave well enough alone. Will see how he goes in the next few days, with any luck he will be too tired to get up and we can issue some saturation therapy while he is partly comatose!

Chicken: Really smart or incredibly stupid?

Chicken may have put two and two together. Dog behaves badly toward cat, dog gets removed.

When Coochie arrived he totally ignored Chicken. Chicken jumped off the couch in front of his face and he ignored him.

Today Chicken had a swipe at Coochie in the kitchen. Again, Cooch walked away. Then The Stupid Chicken ventured into the lounge and randomly attacked poor Patch girl. All good, she turned the other paw. This incident must have changed the cat/dog dynamic. Chicken walked out of the kitchen and Cooch's ears went up and he chased Chicken down the hall. Didn't fare too well as when the carpet ended he assed up. Just as well or Chicken would have been toast.

Not an expected reaction from Cooch. He had shown no interest....well, not in The Chicken anyway, now Patch is another story.

He isn't even vaguely discreet about his admiration of her lovely behind....

She just happens to be a tart though. Sad to say as someone once told me dogs are a bit like their owners. Patch is gorgeous, obsessive compulsive, slightly insane, has a sweked sense of humour and is a tart. Hmmm, does sound a bit like me, only I am not a tart, well, not anymore anyway!

I'm somewhat glad Patch is so accepting of other dogs, will make fostering easier. She has no loyalty, pining is not her thing. Norm is out of sight and out of mind, she has a new boy to admire her. Ah well, if I was as cute as her I'd use it to my advantage too!

Amoeba Dogs...

Greyhounds at our house seem to divide and multiply.... We have a new addition.

Patch, meet Coochie.

Coochie, meet Patch.

Norm, having already met Coochie, is off to pee all over the yard, as dominant males do.

The three of them only spent a little time together as I had to take Norm to a new foster home. Turns out he wasn't Chicken safe. He is a lovely dog, some can live happily with a cat, he is just not one of them.

So I went for a drive to Walloon to get Coochie. Sadly enough I am familiar with Walloon as I have on occasion been known to go to the Walloon Saloon. Thats about all there is in Walloon, oh, and White Rose Boarding Kennels.

We had a group outing to the dog park before Norm went. Excuse the over exposure of the photo..

Patch and Cooch chasing Pete. Norm was off somewhere, peeing, just for a change!

What a day. All my agonizing over Patch v Norm was totally in vain. Should have just trusted my instincts. So we are keeping Patch and continuing to foster.

Coochie waltzed into the kitchen, straight into Chicken. Oops, Chicken had a hiss, Cooch continued sniffing as there were good food smells and totally ignored a slightly miffed Chicken.

Poor Chicken. Yesterday he got barked and snarled at, today he has no effect whatsoever. This is a good thing. Am now looking forward to the GAP Christmas Party on Sunday. Patch will be sporting her lovely clown costume and I am off to dream something up for Cooch....