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BFFs

It’s great watching our kids make friends and socialize…especially when they are big toothed, furry kids. I can never get enough watching dogs interact and form bonds. Makes me wonder how they pick their favourite playmates, and why they love certain dogs and couldn’t care less for other…Rocco gets along …

Surviving the Heat Wave

The past couple of weeks have been unusually  HOT and dry on the West Coast. We expected Rocco to be the most miserable out of the bunch, but surprisingly Vasco was the most affected. He did not like the heat one little bit. We tried to keep the furry guys …

Brotherly Love

On most days Vasco annoys the living daylights out of Ilyich, as do all younger sibling in the world. Vasco is full of energy, wants attention, and above all else wants everything that his older brother has. It’s just the way things are…no use fighting it. On most days Ilyich …

The Great Escape

It happens at every zoo, at some more than once. If it hasn’t happened yet, just wait: it WILL. A tiger here a snake there….an octopus somewhere else. At the urban zoo it was Theodore. He made a failed attempt a couple of months ago, but after some minor revisions …

Litter Baths?

Now here’s an interesting behaviour Miss Lilly has been exhibiting lately: each time after she’s put back into her house, she runs to the litter box and takes a…litter bath…just like a sand bath only in her litter. Her litter is kept clean so it’s not an overly disturbing behaviour, …

The Constant Gardener

Since kittenhood Vasco has shown great interest, and skill, in gardening. He started on a small scale re-potting and digging up weeds…er…plants, but ssh, no need to discourage him. Now that he’s older and more experienced he took on the task of maintaining the balcony garden. If it were up …