Dog training and outdoor cats

Beautiful weather means Miss Jessie has been spending most of the day outside. On the nice days,  she is out there early morning through dinner time.

Cyrus is also happy to be out with Jessie, as long as I am too. So I am getting some garden prep done, hoping we are past the freezing temps.

Tom, our friend and local dog trainer, thinks Miss Jess needs more socializing. We promised to work on that, but it is hard not to stay here puttering around in the yard when it is so darn nice!

After losing Willie, Husband has been itching to bring in one of the outdoor cats. (He would bring them both in!)

I argue that they are good together out there, and one would be lonely without the other, and they are doing a good job keeping the rodent population down, AND, how do you keep them from trying to sneak out the door when that's where they think they live?

Still working on this.

Velcro Monkey and birds

MonkeyCat is still mourning the loss of his 2 best buddies, Woody and Willie. He was never much of a lap cat until now, at least not with me. Willie used to take up most of my lap time on the sofa.

I have noticed Monkey getting closer to Cyrus, grooming and head-butting him. He's trying to make Cyrus his new dog pal, but I'm not sure that Cyrus is interested. We'll see.

Husband would still like to bring in one of the outside cats, most likely Zelda, but I am little afraid that Cyrus is too interested in Zelda and Otis. We'll see.

I took down the bird cam/feeder and replaced it with a thistle seed feeder. The squirrel was far too busy with the BirdBuddy, and I take it down in the spring anyway.

Red and gold were the colors of the day! Mrs. Cardinal was out there too.

Hey Hey the First of May!

Look who Lisa brought to work today!