New kitten - best puppy toy ever

Jenny and Clara - BFFs

To add to the crazy mix at our house, and because of the time share situation with our middle cat, Lister, who has left home and now lives up the road, I finally allowed Darling Daughter to talk me into getting another cat.  So we trotted up to the Animal Welfare League and came home with little Clara, a 16 week old dark tortoiseshell, with a massive purr and beautiful markings.  Jenny is absolutely smitten, Clara is extremely tolerant, and they spend a lot of time chasing each other around the garden and wrestling.

Growing Clara in a basket

In a nerdy moment I decided to name her after Clara Oswin Oswald, the new Dr Who assistant (or companion, as they call them these days), who made a great impression in the 2012 Christmas special.  Geek attack!

Dog-shaming

Exhibit A - brand new box of  tissues

Exhibit B - She's a harsh critic of modern fiction

Naughty Jenny-pup likes to chew things.  A lot.  Her go-to item is clothes pegs, as they're often to be found around the back garden.  She also likes eating Lego, Bionicles parts, iPhone cable and/or headphones, a guest's slippers, DD's Crocs (2 pairs), the eyes from many many soft toys, the underside of the wooden kitchen chairs, my friend's tiled front porch, and boxes of tissues.

Oh, and she ate a hole in my favourite red Skechers,
and has chewed up a copy of Mary Poppins (the book, not the DVD), several uni textbooks, a crime novel (Anne Perry), and a copy of a Terry Pratchett that I haven't even finished reading yet ;-(

She eats chicken poop, and wees on the back porch when it's cold so she doesn't get her ickle wickle feet cold when it's winter...  She was even accused of being a penguin killer when we were on Kangaroo Island recently - NOT GUILTY, although she did refuse to get back in the car after a pit stop, causing us to delay the KI ferry as we boarded late.

Bad girl!  She's gonna end up on dog-shaming.com

Exhibit C - Skechers

Cave canem - beware of the dog

Thanks to SA Dog Rescue for this

A useful tool for us all, especially my 4 year old DD who just doesn't seem to get it about not getting in the puppy's face all the time *sigh*.  This 'owning a dog' lark is certainly proving to be a learning experience for all of us, including Jenny the puppy!

And puppy makes 16!

What do you do when your friends think you are a Crazy Cat Lady?

You head into Mad Animal Woman territory by getting a puppy, of course!



This is Jenny, she's 5 months old, and she came through SA Dog Rescue, a local not-for-profit dog rescue group.  Her mum came to the rescue from an animal hoarder, and was already pregnant, so we don't know what the dad was - mum is a Fox Terrier / Italian Greyhound, with the same massive bat-wing ears!

Darling Daughter (age 4) keeps telling people Jenny is a Fox Terrorist, which given her propensity for chasing the chickens and chewing on pretty much everything (lego, tiles, shoes, iphone cables, fingers, plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, bones, etc etc) it's pretty appropriate.  I seem to spend half my time picking up poo (she's ALMOST house trained) and the other half saying 'that's not a puppy toy!'.

Isn't she boootiful???