Bonding with Twister

Twister has been great with the addition of Agnes. He's been patient and sharing of his space and stuff. Agnes is not such a big fan of sharing her food though, which as many of you know from experience, Twister doesn't do so well. She has set him straight a couple of times about that. It has also taken them all of the last week to share the couch. If one of them was up there, the other got a little growl if they tried to join us. This is passing though, and they are becoming friends. Yesterday we took Agnes over to Trinity's mom's for much of the day, and they seemed happy to see each other when we got home.

Twister has seemed a little jealous over all though, and not so sure if he likes sharing the attention. We did find a new game to play though that Agnes doesn't like as much, so Twister gets lots of attention, and it might be the funnest thing I've done in a long time. You know how much Twister likes to play catch/fetch with a ball? Just imagine that - with SNOWBALLS!!! He opens his mouth to catch it and it smashes all over his face. And then he thinks he's lost the ball, so he goes searching and digging all around the snow to figure out where the ball went! I probably through fifty snowballs at him the other night because it was so funny to watch, and he loves the snow!

New Addition to the Honse Zoo

We have officially reached the limit for domestic animals in one household (4). Her name is Agnes after the street a couple of blocks away. She is really sweet and a little calmer than Twister.

She was outside of the neighbor's house so we knocked on the door to see if she belonged to them. They said that she had broken out of their fence but that it was too late to fix it and that we could have her because they had too many. We weren't sure what to do but decided that we would try to bring her back to our apartment. However, she was so scared that she wouldn't come in. We decided to let her go back home and try to ease her into it over the next couple of days. But after a couple of days they had fixed their fence so we gave up keeping her.

Then this past Monday, she showed up and we knew we weren't going to lose her again. We gave her some food and she came into our apartment. She has stayed with us ever since. Twister and she went through an adjustment period but now everyone is living peacefully. She wouldn't walk up the stairs to our apartment the first couple of days but now she goes out on the leash and comes right back in. She is the perfect addition to our family.

I hope y'all can meet her very soon!

Agnes is very sweet and...

a little mischievous too!