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Tuesday, April 13, 2004
12:04 PM

Visitors
On Saturday we had visitors. Dad & Barb had to have the house fumigated and had to stay out for at least 4 hours. Which left the family homeless for the afternoon. Pooooor family. Luckily, we had no plans so after making them beg, plead and cry, we agreed that they could come pass the time at our house. But only if they agreed to be our slaves for the afternoon (rich fantasy life I have isn't it?). Actually, there was no real begging or slavery, but visit they did.

So there we were, all prepared to host when the phone rang. It was Barb in a slight panic. She was originally told that she could just leave the animals in the backyard, but when the actual exterminator showed up he said no, animals had to be gone. Period. So then the actual begging did start because we hadn't bargained for cats and dogs. But what could we do? So up they came. Dad, Barb, Grandma, Alex, Connor, Pepper, Spice, Sasha and Chester. Luckily the birds stayed in the yard covered in their cages. And the fish were absolutely out of the question. In any event, it was quite a car full (I still can't comprehend how they got both cats into one not very large animal carrier).

Chester and Sasha were stashed in the garage. Chester proceeded to yowl virtually non-stop the entire time. Sasha spent the entire time in the carrier. She just decided to wait it out (or she was just trying to shield herself from Chester's yowls).

The dogs were in the back yard which was working out great until . . . . Pepper fell into the pool. (This was about 20 seconds after Mark asked Barb " He won't fall in the pool will he", to which she replied "Of course not!") Allow me to point out that we haven't been in our pool but now my parents' dog has. Barb had to fish Pepper out, dry him off, etc. All was well. Until Pepper fell into the pool again. Seriously. Like 2 minutes later. Actually, he didn't really fall in, he sort of walked in. Barb was on the other side of the pool and Pepper wanted to go to her so he just started walking - right off the edge into the pool. This time Pepper swam to the shallow end and climbed out himself. I would praise the dog's intelligence for finding his own way out, but he did after all, fall in not once, but twice, so intelligence might be too strong a word.

I didn't get any pictures of the Great Pepper Pool Fiasco, but I did take a few of my cats' interaction with the dogs. Eventually we leashed the dogs to the table outside and they hung out outside of the living room. Petey spent most of the afternoon staring out at them. No hissing or growling, just fascination.

Here's Petey waving at Spice.

I think I heard Petey say "You stupid dogs, stuck out there while we are in here! Ha!"

I'm not sure if this was Petey or LB, but again, mocking Spice:

One more with both dogs:

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