Category: dog

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.

Ornery Old Man

On By CarynIn dog

Griffin the dog has become quite crotchety in his old age (he’s 10). In his younger years he respected fences and didn’t dig or escape, even when the gate was left open. Now, however, he pushes boundaries more, literally. I was on hold on the phone when I went outside to find him, so “snuck” up on him trying to dig under the fence behind our propane tank. Stinker. I’m not sure whether there is something living in the wood pallets, or if he is trying to get to the neighbor’s cats, but there were definite signs that he had been pushing out the bottom of the wire fence and reaching through with his paws. I stacked some rock across the bottom of the fence to curtail his landscaping attempts.

Photo description: no-climb wire fence with blocks of sandstone against the bottom edge. Behind the fence a black dog looks forlornly out as he stands between the fence and large white propane tank.

Playtime

On By CarynIn Cats, dog
Photo description: In the foreground, a calico cat reaching for the thin blue ribbon dangling mid-ground with a gray tabby watching the ribbon sitting next to a green holey roller ball watched by a shaggy black dog.

Thor comes and asks to play and everyone else joins in. The thin ribbon is favorite, but I have to keep close watch for tears and loose bits. Missy doesn’t care for the ribbon, but could I please throw/kick/move her ball? (She has an obsession.)

Not a liquid

On By CarynIn dog

I have a cat basket in my computer closet, and Missy the dog gave it a try. Poor puppy. She is the size of a large cat, but when she was put together she didn’t get the “is liquid” property. Points for effort, though.

Photo description: 20 pound shaggy black dog with white on her face, with her back end in a cat basket.

The look on her face is because I’m taking her picture.