Well, Mr Hobbs has picked! And this works out for all of us!
TLC, Boo Berry, and Mr. Hobbs
Meet Mr. Hobbs! Someone dumped him off around Christmas.
He is a much older cat than TLC.
It took me a spell to get him, but we have him now.
No, TLC does NOT like him! Although they don’t fight. TLC has his nose out of joint and is very mad at me. I have to work to share my time between all three of them.
It was because of Boo Berry (Mr. Hobbes loves Dogs!) that I got Mr. Hobbes. But once Mr. Hobbes came into the house, then the Green Jellybean came out in Boo Berry.
Any advice or help you can offer to make this work for all of us would be greatly appreciated.
Our granddaughter in Alaska says she is taking Mr. Hobbs back with her in May. She adores him. (Maybe he will become an Alaska Air Force Cat!)
Until then, he is ours.
Advice please.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Mom has been having adventures without Boo and me.
I can’t say I really wanted to be with her on those treks.
First, two of the cows on the place figured out how to jump into the dry canal, and scrabble out onto the other side—which happens to belong to someone else.
Then they ran here and there and everywhere.
The Rancher’s Wife came down to help—horse and three cow dogs. In about 20 minutes, the cows were up, the gates secure, the horse and dogs loaded up and headed up the road to home.
Mom says Cow Horses and Cow Dogs are amazing to watch. And the rancher, herself.
Then the next morning, one of the horses that lives with us. Decided she needed a boyfriend and jumped clear over the fence into the cows.
Guess what —No Boyfriend there.
That took Mom to walk T’Atat and LaVerne into the barn/corral and Dad to come behind with Glory.
Of course, nothing is ever E.A.S.Y, but still everyone got in and fed and watered—whew!
I heard Mom and Dad talking about everything when they came into the house.
I told Boo Berry what they said. Boo Berry…our fearsome, Austrian Shepherd sighed with relief, “I’m so glad, I’m not a cow dog.”
I just stared at her. Really, I thought. Your breed IS cow dog.
Oh, well.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLF!
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!
Mom and I were outside. It was the dark time.
No Moon.
I had to pee….Yes, I did.
Suddenly, Mom and I heard
They are back! (Click on the blue link to hear how they sound)
I sang back to them a little tiny bit, then they sounded closer.
Mom told me, “Boo, Stop That! You aren’t big enough or strong enough to hold your own!”
Then she swooped down, grabbed me up, and took me into the house.
Shish!
Boo Berry Betty
P.S. That is short for postscript. Meaning I’m adding something else on to this: TLC was already in the house. Mom says he is no fool.
I wonder what she means by that?!
MOM!!!!! TLC yelled.
MOM!!! Boo Berry yelled.
“I’m here! I’m here!” Mom replied.
“Let’s go for a walk!!” We pranced and danced around her.
“Walk? You want to go on a walk?” Mom asked us.
“Oh, yes!”
Boo Berry zoomed ahead. TLC dashed right in behind her.
“Okay! We are off!”
We exploded onto
the farm with Mom.
“Home again, Home again….whew! I need a nap!” TLC puffed
“Me too,” Boo Berry confirmed.
“Come in, kids, it is time to take a nap. Come in, Boo Berry”, Mom invited.
So in we went.
Happy, content. Satisfied!
TLC and Boo Berry
MOM!!! I yelled.
“I’m here! I’m here!” Mom replied, bending down to pet us.
We were all staring at the sky.
That big, beautiful, amazing sky.
The Northern Lights!! (aurora borealis). I have only seen these once in my life, and I was probably around 10 when I saw them. Mom told us.
WOW!
We are so lucky, Boo Berry and TLC. WOW!
The frost is heavy now.
Boy, do I like it! No more heavy heat that makes me pant, and Boo pant.
Mom and Dad get hot, too. Boo Berry chimed in.
Oh, well, I suppose so, but they don’t have fur! I snapped.
HEY! Boo Berry, I hollered—CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!
So off we went.
Playing hide and seek.
And catch me if you can!
TLC and
Boo Berry
Chapter Ten
“Hey, Boo,” I meowed at Boo Berry. “Let’s go outside. I heard something out the bedroom window last night while everyone was sleeping.”
“Outside?!?!” Boo Berry questioned.
“Yes, outside. Come on, Dad is heading outside, and we can go with him.” I bolted to the kitchen door.
“Okay, if Dad is going, I will go.” Boo Berry jumped up and headed toward the kitchen door just as Dad made it there.
We dashed out. Whew. Made it. Dad didn’t like how we tangled into him and each other, but, oh well, what the heck, we got out!
“Head over to the west side of the yard, Boo. That’s where I heard ‘stuff’.” I dashed over to the west side of the yard.
“YES!” I stopped and smelled. “YES!”
“I can smell it too!” Boo exclaimed. “DEER! Wow! BABY DEER!
Too bad Mom and Dad can’t see these little creatures. I’ll bet they would like to see them.”
“Well, actually, I WOULD like to see them!” Boo Berry muttered to herself.
“What would you do if you did see them?” I asked Boo, Would you bark at them?”
“Ah, hum, aaaaahhhhhhhh, well, probably not.” Boo looked at me rather sheepishly.
“BUT I might, er, maybe, possibly could growl.”
“That would work. I think I would hide.”
“HIDE! I could hide! YES! I could hide…INSIDE!! Boo Berry made a dash for the back door.
Lucky Boo, Mom was just coming out.
Boo dashed right in behind Mom, and off they went to do whatever.
Me. Well, I have things to do and stuff to see.
Thanks for reading. See Ya around sometime.
TLC