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 with all dogs that come […]
BFFs
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 cool with a fan, ice […]
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 accepts this fact of life…and […]
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 and adjustments to the plan […]
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, but it does seem peculiar. […]