When we brought home Missy as a puppy a year and a half ago, my eldest picked out a stuffed animal for her to cuddle in her crate so she would miss her litter mates less. While other toys have come and gone, this stuffed jaguar has been a consistent companion.
The jaguar doesn’t stay in the crate anymore, but she still regularly brings it out for a tussle on the living room rug.
When you bark like a dog, but identify with cats.
Sophie the cat is quite put out when Griffin the dog cuddles on her favorite couch.
So Sophie, out of spite maybe, takes Missy’s bed, much to Missy’s confusion (although honestly, Sophie looks quite perplexed as well).
Eventually, it all worked out the way it is supposed to, and at least Sophie and Missy are content.
Don’t worry about Griffin, his favorite place is in his crate where he can have some quiet time.
We had some extra EVA foam and foam clay, so I thought the dogs needed bat wings. Just one set, just to see how sculpting with the clay goes. It was good I only made one; Griffin thought it was cool and pranced about, Missy looked like I was attempting homicide. The black foam clay dried to gray, which defeated the point of black wings on black dogs, but I suppose I could spray paint it, if I wish. I cut the wing shape from the sheet foam, then laid on the finger bones with thin snakes of clay. The clay and sheet foam didn’t have the same color, so I rolled out thin sheets between layers of wax paper and applied that between the finger bones. I attempted to imprint stretch marks like the skin of bat wings, but the foam clay self leveled somewhat and the lines all but disappeared. Interesting. I hot glued a wide elastic strap underneath so it would stay on the dog.
I may need to give an official apology to the neighborhood cats and racoons. I maligned them, accusing one or the other of bringing down an unripe aspire melon awhile back. My eldest caught our dog Griffin in the act of eating an almost ripe melon that he had torn from the netting on the fence this week. Are you kidding me, dog?!?
We gave it a good wash, cut off the parts that had teeth marks, and ate it anyway. Not quite fully ripe, but still very good.
Critters and Craft 