Little Missy needs a buddy. All the time, poor wee thing. When I’m busy and the kids are at school, she will even sidle up to the cats, as close as they will allow! Today is a good day for cute puppy pictures. If you haven’t voted, today’s the day! If you have voted, well done! Now look at puppy pictures, and be kind to one another.

Missy the puppy has reached 11.6 pounds. This makes her officially heavier than Izzy the cat. Not longer, just with more weight. They take up my whole lap. The cat still rules the house, though, which is as it should be.

Our little Missy is really developing quite the personality. She is totally attached to Izzy the cat, as well as her boy Griffin. Izzy is her nap partner! When I can’t provide a lap for the two of them, she curls up as close as she can get to her buddy.

Missy has been shadowing me in the kitchen because she discovered that sometimes I drop things. I dropped a bit of canned mushroom, and she decided that it was better to play with than eat! Here is the video.

Her foot is all healed from her sprain, and she is rip tearing around the yard again. Silly puppy.

We have picked up a routine since we adopted a puppy. Once or twice a day we let Izzy out of the catio to roam the yard with the dogs. She rather demanded it, and seems to think that if the puppy is out, she can be too. (She doesn’t get that the puppy can’t climb trees.) Missy will follow Izzy all over the yard (yeah, probably should have changed the little one’s name, it is rather hard to tell these apart when spoken). The cat is part of the pack. Our other cat, who adopted us, and has territory outside the fence that she defends from the rest of the neighborhood, was there too. See if you can find her in the picture below!