canadian hockey pride

(probably best viewed on you tube cuz i don't know how to make the player fit here without making it small)

dying of laughter

funniest thing i've seen all week:

clever dog

this dog is amazing (i love the other dogs watching)!

pet deprivation

while we were overseas we had to get our pet fix. fortunately for us everyone seemed to have a friendly pet for us. while we were in portland we got to play with timber-- brian's roommate's housebound 1 year old cat. i felt a little bad for timber. he was a lot like an attention craving dog. when anyone came home (there's about 20 wooden steps you have to walk up to get to the door and the cat could hear someone on them from anywhere in the house) he would fly across the wooden floors and jump on the couch to see out the window next to the door and this is what he would do:

he was pretty cute though (except his crying during the nite which he only did 1 of the nites we were there, the other nites he just curled up on the couch with me for the nite)

our next pet was my uncle's cute little scruff-ball dog simba:

since being around mostly big dogs the last few years i don't think too much of little dogs. they generally don't seem as smart and just seem to follow one person around constantly. simba was great (most of the time). he obeyed a few commands and he was pretty cuddly.

the other pet we got to play with lots was harvey-- the most photographed cat in the world (according to his people). we went to visit his people on our last evening in vancouver. stephanie told us when we came in that he pretty much keeps to himself and isn't that cuddly (especially when he's on is superman blanket). he let me pat him there for ages! then he fell asleep on the floor with his paw under his head:

we also patted every friendly dog that we saw around portland, vancouver and victoria. i'm glad to be back with our cuddly dog again.

new game

the other day zac and i were walking thru a field and we saw a small dog pushing a soccer ball around with its nose. the people were just standing there while their little dog wore itself out (and a second dog just kinda watched, only taking the ball once in a while). we though that would be a great game for wombat cuz she can do it with the muzzle on. later that afternoon i was in the park across the road and i found a madagascar bounceball along the back fence. i kicked it to see what wombat would do. she went nuts!! i don't know whether she really loves it or its torture cuz i'm pretty sure she's actually trying to get her teeth in the ball (which isn't gonna happen with the muzzle). i got zac to come over with the camera and get a video of it:

and here's the end result of the game:

(the frog look)
good way to tire her out.