Category: dog

Cat dog

On By CarynIn dog

This is what you get when a dog is raised around cats. Missy the dog is playing with a cat toy in a pile of gift bags.

Photo description: small black dog on a pile of non-woven cloth gift bags, with a stuffed fish toy in her mouth

I did try to get a video. As soon as Missy noticed my attention, she stopped playing. I’ll have to be more sly.

Buddies

On By CarynIn Cats, dog
Photo description: 15 pound gray tabby cat walking next to a 20 pound black dog

I’ve been trying to get a picture of Thor the cat next to Missy the dog for some time. They are buddies, but when they are near each other it is always on the move, so my pictures are blurry. They are opposites in morphology; Thor is sleek and liquid, and Missy is a solid mass under extreme tension. I think it is cute they are nearly the same size. I really get a giggle when Thor ambushes Missy on her way to bed.

Big boy

On By CarynIn Cats, dog
Photo description: gray tabby cat laying on the floor near a shaggy black dog.

This is a picture of a 15 pound cat and a 50 pound dog. Angles and perspective make it look like the cat is nearly the same size as the dog. Thor the cat is a big boy, but not that big. Griffin the dog is being quite tolerant of the cat. Thor is just now a year old; Griffin is ten, approaching eleven.

Casting on

On By CarynIn Cats, Craft, dog
Photo description: beginning of a knitted scarf with short rows lying on a calico cat with a small black dog in the background.

I have cast on the Helix scarf from Spin Off magazine! I did make a modification, casting on thirty seemed very narrow, so I ripped out (only a couple rows) and cast on 50 instead. I adjusted the short rows to alternating 20 and 10. It turns out that I really like short rows, and the wrap and turn method. Izzy the cat doesn’t mind being on my lap as I knit, but Thor the cat thinks the yarn smells really good and keeps trying to take off with it, or chew on my circular needle.

Perception

On By CarynIn Cats, dog
Photo description: white metal gate across the end of a hallway, with a small black dog and a large gray tabby staring through the bars. Empty cat dish on the near side.

The ironic thing about this photo is that I have seen both Missy the dog and Thor the cat jump higher than that gate in other situations. Our other two cats can jump over, but Thor doesn’t even try. The gate is there to keep our dogs out of the kitty litter and cat food. Now it also serves as a place for the female cats to have some time away from the playfully annoying young male cat.